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 [...]
We are proud to announce our involvement in the Quality Use of Medicines Alliance, which has been awarded two new health education and heath literacy grants by the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care. The grants will run over a 2-year period and [...]
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 [...]
Professor Rachelle Buchbinder has been awarded the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences Outstanding Female Researcher Medal for 2023! This is in recognition of her exceptional and impactful contributions to the health and medical sciences in Australia, including discoveries and achievements in addressing overmedicalisation and overtreatment [...]
When Sophie was pregnant with her first baby, she had an oral glucose tolerance blood test. A few days later, the hospital phoned telling her she had gestational diabetes. Despite having only a slightly raised glucose (blood sugar) level, Sophie describes being diagnosed as affecting her pregnancy [...]
Last week, actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney released a video of themselves getting colonoscopies to encourage others to undergo screening. The procedure detected polyps in the two men, both aged 45...