At the 66th Session of the WHO/IARC Governing Council, held on 15–16 May 2024 Professor Adam Elshaug was elected as Australia’s representative member of the Scientific Council (SC) of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), for a four-year term. The principal responsibilities of [...]
Distinguished researcher Professor Rachelle Buchbinder AO FAA FAHMS has been elected a 2024 Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science. Professor Buchbinder has been recognised for her sustained research achievements in the musculoskeletal health field, and for being a vocal proponent of evidence-informed high-value health care. Fellows of [...]
Wiser Researcher Prof Chris Maher was appointed as a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) on the 26th of January 2024! Prof Christopher Maher was recognized for his significant service to physiotherapy as a researcher, clinician, and mentor, particularly in the field of pain [...]
Congratulations to Prof Denise O'Connor who won not one, but two, best paper awards at the 2023 Health Services Research Association (HSRAANZ) Awards! Best Paper Overall and Best Implementation Science Paper! O’Connor DA, Glasziou P, Maher CG, et al. Effect of an Individualized Audit and Feedback Intervention on [...]
Congratulations to Wiser Healthcare researchers, Prof Katy Bell, Prof Denise O'Connor and Dr Gustavo Machado, who were each awarded one of the highly competitive 2023 NHMRC Investigator Grants! Professor Katy Bell was awarded $2.7 million for driving the transition to high value testing to benefit [...]
Huge congratulations to Wiser Healthcare researcher Gustavo Machado who was runner up / highly commended for the Research Australia Health Services Research Award! Gustavo received this award for his research into the high rate of opioid use in the emergency department care of people with [...]
Huge congratulations to Denise O’Connor, Alexandra Gorelik and Laurent Billot who received the 2023 ACTA Trial of the Year Runner Up award on behalf of Wiser Healthcare researchers and Department of Health and Aged Care collaborators for their successful factorial cluster randomised trial of audit [...]
Huge Congratulations to Wiser Healthcare researchers Chris Maher, Andrew McLachlan and their colleagues Christine Lin, Caitlin Jones, Jane Latimer, Hanan McLachlan, Melissa Webb, Melanie Hamilton, Michelle Blowes and Laurie Guthrie who received the University of Sydney Vice Chancellors Award for Research Excellence for their OPAL [...]
Huge congratulations to Professor Chris Maher, who last week received the RPA Foundation Research Medal! This award is RPA Hospital’s highest accolade and is for excellence and outstanding achievement in research.
Congratulations to Dr Brooke Nickel (pictured with Professor Steven Woloshin from the Dartmouth Institute) for winning the Congress Lisa Schwartz Award at the 2023 Preventing Overdiagnosis Conference, held 14 to 16 August in Copenhagen. The Congress award is named after Lisa Schwartz for someone who embodies her same [...]