Meredith Cameron, NICS
As part of their commitment to support future leaders in health care, the National Health and Medical Research Council offer NICS Fellowships through the National Institute of Clinical Studies.
These Fellowships offer a unique opportunity to health professionals who share a passion for ensuring the best available evidence is practiced. Applicants identify an area within their own discipline where evidence exists, but is not being applied to routine care.
NICS Fellowships represent an investment in people as well as projects. To date, the mentoring, support and half time stipend provided by the Fellowships has enabled 28 individuals to undertake implementation projects across areas as diverse as cancer, blood clot prevention, mental health, osteoporosis and stroke management.
NICS recently celebrated the graduation of six NICS Fellows and two NICS scholars:
Dr Jane Munro, NICS Fellow 2005-2008, Paediatric Rheumatologist, Royal Children's Hospital, Victoria
Project: Kids' comfort: improving procedural pain management in children and adolescents within a tertiary paediatric hospital
Dr Melanie Benson , NICS-VQC Fellow 2006-2008, Palliative Care Consultant, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Victoria
Project: Improving the management of cancer pain
Dr Taryn Bessen, NICS-RANZCR Fellow 2006-2008, Consultant Radiologist, Royal Adelaide Hospital, South Australia
Project: Im proving the uptake of imaging guidelines in the emergency department
Clinical Associate Professor Stacy Goergen, NICS-RANZCR Fellow 2006-2008, Director of Research, Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Southern Health, Victoria
Project: Promoting evidence-based diagnostic testing for suspected venous thromboembolism
 Ms Cheryl Kimber, NICS-SA DoH Fellow 2006-2008, Nurse Practitioner Orthopaedics, Flinders Medical Centre, South Australia
Project: Preventing osteoporosis-related fractures from happening again
Dr Sepehr Shakib, NICS-SA DoH Fellow 2006-2008, Director of Clinical Pharmacology, Royal Adelaide Hospital, South Australia
Project: Improving the management of heart failure at the interface of the hospital and community
Two NICS PhD Scholars are also congratulated for completing their scholarships this year and for adding new knowledge to the field of implementation science. They are:
Ms Sonja Hood, NICS Scholar 2004-2008, School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Victoria
Project: Getting evidence into practice: the management of heart failure in Australia
Ms Ruth Sladek, NICS Scholar 2004-2008, Flinders University, South Australia
Project: Understanding doctors' cognitive processes and how this influences uptake of new research evidence
Applications for the NICS 2009 Fellowships closed recently and again attracted a wide scope of projects and individuals that confirm the value of this unique program. NICS will announce the successful applicants early 2009.
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