Improving the Quality of ICU Survivorship

Associate Professor Kimberley Haines (PhD, BHSc Physio) is a NHMRC Emerging Leader Level 1 and Principal Research Fellow in the Department of Critical Care, University of Melbourne. She is the Physiotherapy Research Lead at Western Health.

A/Prof Haines is a leading national and emerging international expert in critical care recovery - particularly using experience-based co-design and qualitative methods. She has established the icuRESOLVE Critical Care Recovery Research Program alongside ICU survivors in the Department of Critical Care, University of Melbourne. Her research program aims to improve post-ICU outcomes for patients and their caregivers via novel models of care, utilising digital health innovations. A/Prof Haines has co-authored > 100 manuscripts in leading critical care journals. She has successfully obtained international and national grant funding (> $1million in grants). She mentors interdisciplinary clinician-researchers and research higher degree students. A/Prof Haines is regularly invited to present at premier scientific meetings and has delivered >20 invited speaker/key note presentations internationally.

Determining the Key Multi-Disciplinary Research Priorities In Australian Critical Care Medicine: A Modified Delphi study

Dr Elyssia Bourke is an Emergency Physician and Director of Emergency Medical Research at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, Executive Committee member of the Department of Critical Care at the University of Melbourne, Chair of the Australasian College of Emergency Medicine (ACEMI) Clinical Trials Network and an executive member of the ACEM research committee and the Paediatric Research in Emergency Departments International Collaborative (PREDICT) network. She has completed a PhD examining the optimal management of paediatric acute behavioural disturbance in the emergency department setting.

Dr Ned Douglas is an anaesthetist at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, retrieval physician at Adult Retrieval Victoria, and PhD candidate at DOCC examining postoperative hypotension. He chairs the RMH Perioperative multidisciplinary meeting and the recognition and response to deterioration committee. His major research interests are in response to critical illness outside of ICU, airway management and prehospital care.

Mr Ryan Shen is currently pursuing his Honours year at DoCC with Dr Bourke and Dr Douglas as his Honours year supervisors. His study aims to assess the priorities across and within critical care (anaesthesia, emergency medicine, and intensive care medicine). This is a continuation of his Bachelor’s where he majored in Physiology under the Bachelor of Biomedicine. Ryan aspires to work within the health care field, and is currently in the process of applying to medicine.

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Recorded on 05/11/25