INDEX 2009 CONROD ANNUAL REPORT

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3 2009 CONROD ANNUAL REPORT 1 INDEX From the Chair... 2 From the Director... 3 Mission, Objectives and Overview... 5 Overview... 5 Committee Structures... 6 Achievements and Highlights... 8 Staff Profiles Grants Grants awarded in On-going Grants Completed Grants in Collaborations Programme Reports Committees and Professional Society Memberships Fellowship Reports Royal College of Surgeons Royal Australian College of General Practitioners Royal Australasian College of Physicians Research Reports RHD Students Publications/Presentations... 61

4 FROM THE CHAIR The year to 31 December 2009 saw continued progress in and expansion of CONROD s activity in addressing the economic and social wellness of society with respect to issues arising out of trauma. At year s close an inaugural appointment to the position of CONROD Professor of Orthopaedic Trauma Surgery at the Royal Brisbane and Women s Hospital is imminent. The establishment of this Chair as a joint clinical/research position involving collaboration between Queensland Health and The University of Queensland heralds CONROD s intention to maximize and expand its role as a clinical/research operation for the betterment of Queensland society. CONROD aims to secure additional clinical/research chairs to optimize the treatment of and outcome for persons suffering trauma with a particular emphasis on injuries sustained involving a motor vehicle. During the year, the Queensland Trauma Registry (QTR), a major component of CONROD s Acute Trauma Care Programme, was expanded to include public hospitals at Bundaberg, Hervey Bay, Logan and Maryborough. The QTR is now arguably the most comprehensive trauma registry operating in Australia. The operation of Trauma Review Committees under the direction of local clinical directors at each of the 20 hospitals within the QTR should ensure optimal trauma management and outcomes. A perusal of this Annual Report will give evidence to the outstanding performance over the year of the individual programmes. In this regard Professor Justin Kenardy as Deputy Director and Associate Directors Professor Luke Connelly, Professor Elizabeth Kendall and Associate Professor Michele Sterling deserve high commendation for the success of their teams and their own personal achievements. Associate Professor Cliff Pollard and Ms Kathy Harvey also deserve special recognition for their performance making the Queensland Trauma Registry such an important contributor to the improvement of trauma treatment and management. CONROD continues its strong international links with its involvement in the biennial series of fora on disability management and is contributing to the planning for the 5th International Forum on Disability Management scheduled for Los Angeles in September Future fora are scheduled for London in 2012 and Auckland in Additionally, CONROD continues its international activity supporting the publication of the International Journal of Disability Management Research with Professor Nicholas Bellamy the editor, and Professor Elizabeth Kendall, a member of the Editorial Board. CONROD s governance structure was strengthened with the establishment during the year of an Advisory Council. Membership of the Council is comprised of significant persons with a wide range of skills and experience. A major component of CONROD s success and achievement during 2009 was the contribution by its excellent administrative staff of Ms Deb Sunners, Ms Chesne McGrath and Ms Katherine Green and I extend to them my sincere thanks for their effort. I would also extend best wishes to Ms Robyn Clapshaw who left the Centre during the year after a decade with CONROD. Robyn was an excellent and talented employee and her cheerful manner is remembered fondly. In closing, I recognize with gratitude the support of the Queensland Government through the ongoing funding support from the Motor Accident Insurance Commission. Dr Graham Hughes AM Adjunct Professor Chair CONROD As in past years an acknowledgement of the leadership and qualities of the Director, Professor Nicholas Bellamy, should be recorded. Professor Bellamy has presided over and constructed CONROD to be one of the leading and most influential disability management and rehabilitation research centres in Australasia and to him I extend my congratulations and thanks.

5 2009 CONROD ANNUAL REPORT 3 FROM THE DIRECTOR The last 12 months have been very productive for CONROD. The Centre has successfully implemented the recommendations of two external reviews conducted in In particular, recommendations regarding the Queensland Trauma Registry (QTR) have seen the appointment of Associate Professor Cliff Pollard (Director QTR) and Ms. Kathy Harvey (Manager QTR), expansion of the QTR to encompass 20 Queensland hospitals receiving major trauma cases, the conduct of several research projects and the provision of data to support a large number of quality assurance and research initiatives in Queensland and Queensland Health hospitals. QTR activities have informed both policy development and practice improvement. CONROD has continued, along with others, its involvement in co-contributing to the implementation phase of the Trauma Plan for Queensland through its membership of the Statewide Trauma Clinical Network. Discussions between CONROD, the UQ School of Medicine, the Faculty of Health Sciences, and the Motor Accident Insurance Commission (MAIC) have resulted in CONROD launching a submission to Government for the future funding of CONROD on a rolling-funding basis. CONROD has also been involved in discussions regarding the recruitment of a senior academic to a new Chair to be called the CONROD Professor of Orthopaedic Trauma Surgery. A candidate has been identified and is expected to be appointed, with a commencement date in This position is expected to further enhance trauma research at CONROD and add clinical capacity in trauma service delivery at the Royal Brisbane & Women s Hospital (RBWH). CONROD has continued to support educational activities both within and outside the University. The Centre s Research Higher Degree programme is well subscribed with Masters and/or PhD level students in each of its programmes. CONROD, in collaboration with colleagues at the University of Northern British Columbia has been successful in supporting and progressing a new Journal entitled the International Journal of Disability Management Research, which as of next year will be termed the International Journal of Disability Management. CONROD has been successful in attracting interest in the Journal from the Organising Committee of the International Forum on Disability Management to be held in Los Angeles, U.S.A., September Programmes The Acute Trauma Care Programme is led by Professor Bellamy and is engaged in the development of a major longitudinal study of outcomes in road traffic crash victims, which will explore both process and outcome and the role of compensation systems. The appointment of Associate Professor Pollard and Ms. Harvey has brought considerable clinical and administrative expertise to the QTR. A QTR Advisory Committee and a QTR Research Subcommittee have been convened and have met regularly. The Acute Trauma Care Programme continues to pursue its research agenda, which will be still further enhanced by the impending appointment of the CONROD Professor of Orthopaedic Trauma Surgery. CONROD continues to provide support to the development of The Trauma Registry Consortium (Australia and New Zealand), and a Bi-National Trauma Registry. The Rehabilitation (Medical & Allied Health) Programme has continued its strong development under the leadership of Associate Professor Michele Sterling, successfully securing over $700,000 in external competitive funding in 2009, for a study exploring the development of chronicity in low back pain. Associate Professor Sterling is currently the recipient of a four year NHMRC Career Development Fellowship award. Associate Prof Sterling has developed a fully functional laboratory at RBWH associated with the CCRE initiative in Spine. CONROD s evidence-based whiplash website continues to be extremely popular. The website has received endorsement from the RACGP and other federal authorities. The Rehabilitation Programme has a very active research higher degree programme, with several students being supervised or co-supervised by Associate Professor Sterling. A Review of the American Medical Association Guidelines for the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment was completed for the Queensland Government and has been distributed to MAIC, QComp, Justice in Queensland as well as compensation authorities in other States and overseas. Impairment ratings under the AMA Guidelines are used as one resource in assigning compensation awards.

6 FROM THE DIRECTOR The Social and Behavioural Sciences Programme under the directorship of Professor Justin Kenardy is currently conducting research projects focusing on the psychological health and wellbeing of adults and children following medical trauma, with particular reference to the areas of whiplash, traumatic brain injury and PTSD. Professor Kenardy was awarded a National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant from the U.S.A. to develop PTSD tools. He was also appointed to the NHMRC Project Grant Review Panel. PhDs have been conferred on two students supervised by Professor Kenardy. During 2009, CONROD s Children s Accident Response website for children and their parents proved popular, and provides a much needed resource in an area of unmet need. The Social and Behavioural Sciences programme, Health Economics and Health Systems programme and the Rehabilitation (Medical & Allied Health) programme continue to actively participate in the CCRE and have extensive collaborations both internal and external to CONROD. The Health Economics and Health Systems (HEHS) Programme operates under the directorship of Professor Luke Connelly. It was a productive year for the Health Economics and Health Systems Programme. In addition to ongoing projects with national competitive funding (totalling approximately $6.7m), two new NHMRC grants and a grant from industry (totalling approximately $930,000) commenced in Staff and students from the Programme were well represented at the International Health Economics Association meeting in Beijing (4 papers), and at the National Australian Health Economics Society (6 papers) and Economics Society meetings in Hobart and Adelaide, respectively, and were also represented in a number of other international and national meetings. The Director of the Programme, Professor Luke Connelly, gave invited keynote presentations at three international conferences and staff and students from the Programme published 14 peerreviewed papers, a book chapter, and a book during the year. The Programme also collaborated on work that was awarded the Axel Ingelman prize for best presentation at the 34th Annual Meeting of the International Urogynecological Association, Lake Como, Italy. The Vocational and Community Rehabilitation (VCR) Programme located on the Griffith University Campus at Logan continues to be highly productive under the leadership of Professor Elizabeth Kendall. Dr Heidi Muenchberger was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to study brain injury. CONROD s VCR Programme was awarded an ARC-linkage Grant for a learning communities project. The VCR Programme is well integrated with the disability sector and local community goals and objectives; with its research finding application in both Australia and New Zealand. The last twelve months have been both successful and extremely productive for CONROD with significant progress and further development of all five Programmes. The Centre s research and related activities are well aligned with MAIC objectives and continue to actively contribute to the formulation of policy and practice. Nicholas Bellamy Director CONROD

7 2009 CONROD ANNUAL REPORT 5 MISSION, OBJECTIVES & OVERVIEW Mission To conduct research and educational activities at state, national and international levels into all aspects of the prevention, acute treatment, rehabilitation, psychological, social and vocational management of disabling conditions with particular emphasis on those of traumatic origin, and especially those due to road traffic crashes. Objectives \\ To conduct research and educational activities that inform policy and practice, and thereby improve the health, psychological, social, vocational and economic outcomes of individuals with a disability, particularly those who have sustained a traumatic injury, with special emphasis on injury and disability associated with road traffic crashes. \\ To provide a source of education and information concerning prevention, acute treatment, rehabilitation, psychological, social and vocational management of disabling conditions for health care professionals (including those in training and in rural and remote locations) and the community generally. \\ To facilitate the delivery of seamless evidence-based health care through a combination of research and educational programmes. \\ To promote CONROD as a national Centre for basic and applied research into all aspects of the prevention, acute treatment, rehabilitation, psychological, social and vocational management of disabling conditions with special emphasis on those of traumatic origin. OVERVIEW The Centre of National Research on Disability and Rehabilitation Medicine was established in 1997 through a partnership between the Motor Accident Insurance Commission (MAIC), the Queensland Institute of Medical Research (QIMR) and The University of Queensland. Today, under the current five year agreement that took effect on 1 November 2005, the University of Queensland and the Motor Accident Insurance Commission jointly support the Centre and its five core programmes. In addition, Queensland Health and MAIC also support the Queensland Trauma Registry. CONROD s core work complements the MAIC objective of generating positive research outcomes in the acute treatment and rehabilitation of people injured in road traffic crashes and other analogous events. In the broader context, CONROD s research philosophy is also congruent with Smart State principles to: \\ Improve the standard of health services \\ Support an increased quality of life through disease prevention \\ Develop and implement strategies to support Queensland families \\ Improve the lives of people with a disability, their families and carers \\ Work with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities to improve economic and social wellbeing \\ Improve workforce skills for current and future needs by focusing on lifelong learning \\ Encourage world-class research that builds on Queensland s unique resources \\ Minimise the risk and impact of accidents, emergencies and disasters Since 1997 CONROD has been based within the School of Medicine at The University of Queensland and is located within the Mayne Medical School at Herston. In addition to the Governance structures of UQ, CONROD receives advice from key stakeholders in injury, rehabilitation and policy development.

8 COMMITTEE STRUCTURES The University of Queensland Motor Accident Insurance Commission Innov8 Consulting Group The Australian Workers Union Motor Accident Insurance Commission Disability Services Queensland The University of New South Wales Queensland Health Woolworths Limited CONROD ADVISORY COUNCIL Dr Graham Hughes, AM Chair Mr. John Hand Insurance Commissioner Mr. Mark Bagshaw Director, Disability Consultants NSW Dr Yossi Berger Director, National Occupational Health and Safety Unit Ms. Kim Birch General Manager, CTP Dr Susan Brady Director, Policy Research and Evaluation Professor Helen Lapsley Health Economist Dr Robin Mortimer Senior Director, Office of Health and Medical Research Ms. Rhonda Pashen Risk and Safety Manager

9 2009 CONROD ANNUAL REPORT 7 COMMITTEE STRUCTURES Queensland Trauma Registry (QTR) Advisory Board Queensland Health Professor Michael Schuetz, Chair Chair, Queensland Statewide Trauma Clinical Network Queensland Health Dr Adrian Nowitzke CEO Gold Coast Health Service District The University of Queensland Adjunct Professor Graham Hughes Chairman, CONROD The University of Queensland Professor Peter Barss Professor and Chair Injury Prevention Motor Accident Insurance Commission Mr. John Hand Commissioner Queensland Ambulance Service Mr. David Melville Commissioner Royal Automobile Club of Queensland Mr. Gary Fites General Manager External Relations The University of Queensland Professor Nicholas Bellamy Director, CONROD and Chair Rehabilitation Medicine Queensland Trauma Registry Mr. Cliff Pollard, FRACS QTR Director (non-voting) Queensland Trauma Registry Ms. Kathy Harvey QTR Manager (non-voting) qld trauma registry (qtr) research subcommittee Professor Gerry FitzGerald (Chair) Queensland University of Technology Professor Public Health (Emergency and Disaster Management), School of Public Health Associate Professor Vivienne Tippett The University of Queensland Director, Australian Centre for Pre-hospital Care Research, School of Population Health Professor Narelle Haworth Queensland University of Technology Professor in Injury Prevention and Rehabilitation, Centre for Accident Research and Road Safety, Qld (CARRS-Q) Professor Jeffrey Lipman Royal Brisbane & Women s Hospital Director of Burns, Trauma and Critical Care Research Centre, UQ and Director of Intensive Care Medicine Dr. Don Campbell Gold Coast Hospital Emergency Department Consultant, Gold Coast Hospital and Chair Gold Coast Hospital QTR Trauma Review Committee Associate Professor Roy Kimble Royal Children s Hospital Director, Trauma Services Mr. John O Brien Queensland Health Director, Integration and Linkage, Health Statistics Centre Professor of Orthopaedic Trauma Surgery, The University of Queensland CONROD, School of Medicine Professor Nicholas Bellamy The University of Queensland Director, CONROD, and Chair of Rehabilitation Medicine, School of Medicine (ex-officio) Associate Professor Cliff Pollard The University of Queensland Director, Queensland Trauma Registry, School of Medicine (ex-officio) Ms. Kathy Harvey The University of Queensland Manager, Queensland Trauma Registry, School of Medicine (ex-officio) Professor Michael Schuetz Princess Alexandra Hospital Chair, Queensland Health Statewide Trauma Clinical Network and Director Trauma Services (ex-officio)

10 ACHIEVEMENTS AND HIGHLIGHTS Acute Trauma Care: \\ 2007 and 2008 QTR data collection completed \\ 2007 and 2008 QTR annual data reports available on the web site \\ 2009 data collection at least 50% complete at all 20 QTR hospitals \\ All QTR coding staff trained in AIS 2005 coding \\ QTR database and data collection manuals upgraded to AIS 2005 and ICD-10 6th Edition for 2009 data collection \\ QTR database and processes in place for commencement of 2010 data collection \\ Four new QTR hospital sites established: Bundaberg, Hervey Bay / Maryborough, Logan \\ Productive working relationships established with Queensland Health: Division of the Chief Health Officer, Health Statistics Centre and Information Division \\ QTR Advisory Board established; two meetings convened \\ QTR Research Subcommittee established; three meetings convened \\ QTR Data Workshop convened with statewide stakeholders to review QTR data set \\ Research projects examining mortality and morbidity issues in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and people with co-morbidities have been completed \\ Trauma Review Committee Chairs established at three new QTR sites \\ Two longitudinal studies in trauma and post-injury rehabilitation have been developed Rehabilitation (Medical & Allied): \\ A/Prof Sterling attended the National Pain Summit Taskforce meeting, Melbourne \\ A/Prof Sterling awarded fellowship to the Australian College of Physiotherapists for whiplash research work \\ A/Prof Sterling was keynote speaker at COCA Chiropractic & Osteopathic College of Australasia conference \\ Award of successful NHMRC project grant of $700,000 for investigation of the development of chronicity in low back pain \\ Award of two successful NHMRC project grants \\ Awarded UQ Enabling Grant $50,000 \\ Best paper award. Australian Spine Society Conference, Brisbane, April 2009 Sterling, Hendrikz, Kenardy \\ Commencement of four new staff members: Mr. Matthew Roodveldt; Ms. Helena Motlagh; Ms. Tegwen Howell and Ms. Stephanie Valentin \\ Commencement of new MPhil student: Mr. Edwin Lim \\ Dr. Elliott invited and attended Prime Ministers science awards evening, Canberra \\ Dr. Sterling attended Scientific Committee meeting for 2010 IASP international conference in Vancouver, 2009 \\ Fresh Science Award 2009: Dr. James Elliott \\ Laboratory at RBWH is now fully operational \\ Professor Bellamy completed an AMA 6 Desktop Review \\ Recruitment underway for two new RCTs for chronic whiplash \\ Runner-up. Best Paper award. Australian Pain Society Conference, Sydney, April Elliott, Sterling, Jull \\ Three education courses for graduate physiotherapists conducted: Sydney, Adelaide, Perth \\ Two PhDs conferred: Dr. Andy Chien, Dr. Jinny Uthaikup \\ Two visiting fellows in attendance: Ms. Niamh Moloney, University of Dublin, Ireland; Mr. Allan Abbott, Karolinska Institute, Sweden Health Economics & Health Systems: \\ Axel Ingelman Prize for best presentation was awarded to Maher, C. (presenter), Feiner, B., DeCupyer, E., Nichols, C., Schluter, P. and Connelly, L.B. in June 2009 \\ Book chapter on the use of pre-scored health status instruments in economic evaluations published in textbook titled Rehabilitation and Health Assessment: Applying ICF Guidelines \\ Commencement of participant recruitment in a RCT on the effectiveness of self-management in return-to-work outcomes for those with chronic injuries \\ Completed systematic review of the relationship between compensation and health outcomes \\ Invited address at the Health Insurance Product and Marketing conference on Private Health Insurance in Australia: Consumer Trends, Problems and Innovative Solutions \\ Invited book chapter for a forthcoming book on whiplash injuries, on conceptual issues and measurement problems in compensation and health outcomes \\ Invited book chapter entitled Economic Evaluations with Prescored Health Status Instruments for forthcoming textbook Rehabilitation and Health Assessment: Applying ICF Guidelines

11 2009 CONROD ANNUAL REPORT 9 ACHIEVEMENTS AND HIGHLIGHTS \\ Invited presentation on Australia s Risk Equalisation scheme to the Health Insurance Restricted Membership Association of Australia (HIRMAA) \\ Presentation on direct and indirect costs of major trauma, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, May 2009 \\ Presentation on evidence of moral hazard in the market for comprehensive car insurance in Australia, AHES Conference, October 2009 \\ Presentation on progress towards Australian national road safety target, AHES Conference, October 2009 \\ Report on the quality of systematic reviews of impact of compensation and/or litigation on health outcomes completed, provided to MAIC and presented at AHES Conference, October 2009 Social & Behavioural Science: \\ Appointment to Deputy Chair NHMRC Project Grant Review \\ Best paper for Spine Society Annual Conference \\ Commencement of tertiary trial for PTSD in traumatically injured children \\ New book on Whiplash contracted with Elsevier \\ NIH Grant to develop PTSD risk tools \\ Publication of Cochrane Review on Prevention of PTSD \\ Publication of Web-based prevention RCT in Journal of Pediatric Psychology \\ Publication in high impact American Journal of Psychiatry \\ Invited book chapter entitled Internet-delivered prevention of anxiety for forthcoming book Low Intensity Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Elsevier \\ International consortium formed to develop internetbased prevention of PTSD in children \\ Invited member of the National Stroke Foundation Taskforce to develop new stroke management guidelines \\ Appointment to Editorial Board of Health Psychology journal \\ Two PhD completions: Mala McHale and Sonja March \\ Two symposium presentations to International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies Conference, Atlanta Vocational & Community: \\ Development of a health promotion scholar s programme in collaboration with Queensland Health and the Q150 Initiative \\ Dr. Heidi Muenchberger won the Queensland chapter of the Churchill Fellowship titled Models of lifelong care for people with brain injury \\ Invitation to contribute 4 peer-reviewed articles to the Australian Journal of Primary Healthcare in their Special Issue on Partnerships in Primary Healthcare \\ PhD Student, Ms. Carolyn Ehrlich won a Research Publication Award to publish her thesis \\ Professor Kendall was awarded a Griffith University International Workshop \\ Professor Kendall, Dr. Muenchberger and Dr. Sunderland won an ARC Linkage Grant Both Smart and Healthy: Learning Communities of Practice \\ The CONROD Griffith Team were successful with the PVC Health - Research Team Award and also a PVC Health - Early Career Researcher Award (Dr. Heidi Muenchberger) \\ The peer-reviewed publishing record increased within the period with successful submissions to Social Science and Medicine, Disability and Rehabilitation, Health and Social Care in the Community and Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice \\ Three volume book set Disabilities: Insights from across fields and around the world released by Praeger \\ Published four peer-reviewed articles in the Australian Journal of Primary Healthcare in their Special Issue on Partnerships in Primary Healthcare

12 2009 STAFF PROFILES \\ Nicholas Bellamy was appointed Director of CONROD and Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine in 1999, and was also Director of the Queensland Trauma Registry from 2002 to He was previously Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of Western Ontario, Professor of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at McMaster University in Canada and a clinical rheumatologist at London Health Sciences Centre. His principal research contribution has been in the area of health status assessment in the rheumatic diseases. Nicholas Bellamy is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Australia, Canada, Glasgow and Edinburgh and a Fellow of the American College of Physicians. He holds Doctorates in Medicine and Science, and Masters degrees in Science and Business Administration. \\ Richard Bennett commenced with Queensland Trauma Registry in 2009 as the QTR Health Information Manager for the Royal Brisbane & Women s Hospital. Prior to joining QTR, Richard worked in various positions at Logan Hospital, including as a clinical coder. He achieved a Bachelor of Health Science (Health Information Management) from the Queensland University of Technology in \\ Judith Brennan is the QTR Trauma Nurse Co ordinator for The Townsville Hospital. Judith has a Bachelor of Nursing Science Degree, Midwifery Certificate, Critical Care Certificate and a Masters degree in Public Health and Tropical Medicine. She also has an extensive background of 20 years in Emergency Nursing. Judith has been involved with QTR since November 2001 and has assisted in the review and implementation of policy and procedures in relation to trauma documentation and patient care. \\ Annie Bristol commenced with Queensland Trauma Registry in early 2009 as the QTR Trauma Nurse Coordinator for the Logan Hospital. Annie comes to QTR with 18 years Operating Theatre experience and a Graduate Diploma in Advanced Clinical Nursing - Peri- Operative Specialty. During her career she has worked at the Royal Melbourne and Princess Alexandra Hospitals and has worked at Logan Hospital for the last 10 years where she continues to maintain her clinical skills working part-time in the Operating Theatres. Hospital clinical staff welcomed the Registry this year and actively support the QTR Trauma Review Committee processes. \\ Jan Burns has worked with Queensland Trauma Registry on a part time basis since Her background is 25 years in Emergency Nursing, including the Royal Flying Doctor Service and helicopter retrieval work (C-airmed). In addition to her work with QTR, Jan continues to work as a Clinical Nurse in the Cairns Base Hospital Emergency Department. \\ Jasmin Carroll worked as a Health Information Manager in a number of Queensland Health hospitals prior to joining Queensland Trauma Registry in January Jasmin completed a Bachelor of Health Science majoring in Health Information Management and is the Training and Development Health Information Manager for the QTR core team. Her role involves training new staff and providing support to existing QTR staff across Queensland. Jasmin also coordinates the Paediatric component of the Registry.

13 2009 CONROD ANNUAL REPORT 11 STAFF PROFILES \\ Robyn Clapshaw was appointed to CONROD as Secretary to the Deputy Director in 1999 after moving from Mackay where she lived for 10 years. Robyn s role also encompasses reception and a myriad of other duties and responsibilities that keep the office running smoothly. In August, Robyn left CONROD after 10 years of service to pursue other career opportunities. \\ Luke Connelly was appointed Associate Professor of Health Economics and Associate Director of the Centre for National Research on Disability and Rehabilitation Medicine (CONROD) in May His main research interest is in health economics and includes interests in insurance, provider and consumer behaviour in health care markets, and the impact of health policies. The focus of his current research is injury, disability, rehabilitation and the systems that have been put in place to improve health and economic outcomes following injury. Luke s previous experience includes full-time academic positions in the Brisbane Graduate School of Business as well as the Schools of Public Health and Economics and Finance at QUT. He has more than 10 years experience teaching economics and health economics at graduate and undergraduate levels and was one of the architects of The University of Queensland s new Master of Health Economics programme. \\ Janet Conroy commenced employment with Queensland Trauma Registry in November 2007 as a Health Information Manager based at the Princess Alexandra Hospital. Janet holds a degree in Bachelor of Health Science majoring in Health Information Management. Janet has a diverse background in Health Information Management and Project Management roles in both the private and public health sectors. In her role at the PAH she works in conjunction with the Trauma Registry Nurse Coordinator, Dale Mason, in compiling and managing an extensive data collection that is a valuable resource to clinicians and associated areas, in particular the Emergency Department. \\ Melissa Dale is the Trauma Nurse Coordinator for Queensland Trauma Registry at the Royal Brisbane & Women s Hospital. With 16 years Emergency Nursing experience she also holds a Bachelor of Nursing and a Graduate Diploma in Education. Melissa has worked for the QTR since it commenced in 1998, and has been heavily involved in the evolution of the data collection systems. Currently she works closely with the QTR Health Information Manager at the RBWH. Melissa acts as a resource, assisting in the provision of educational activities and policy and procedures development for trauma management. \\ Natalie Dallow works as part of the Queensland Trauma Registry core team and is based at Sarina Hospital. As a Research Assistant, she conducts statistical analysis of data and prepares annual reports, along with various other tasks. Natalie returned to CONROD in January 2005 after spending two years at the Australian Bureau of Statistics in Canberra, where she worked in the areas of Population Survey Development, Census Development and Census Field Communications. \\ Gail Davies commenced with Queensland Trauma Registry in early 2009 as the QTR Trauma Nurse Coordinator for the Bundaberg Hospital. She also works as a Clinical Nurse in the hospital s Emergency Department. Gail has had a varied background working in rural areas as well as in large hospitals such as the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane. Her current role in the QTR is an expansive one which sees her involved in education and in formulation of trauma policy and procedures. Hospital clinical staff welcomed the Registry this year and actively support the QTR Trauma Review Committee processes.

14 STAFF PROFILES \\ Sue Davies commenced with Queensland Trauma Registry in early 2009 as the QTR Trauma Nurse Coordinator for the Hervey Bay and Maryborough Hospitals. Sue started Emergency Nursing at Mt Druitt Hospital Sydney in 1989 and was there for the next 16 years. She also worked for several ophthalmology surgeons in the surrounding area. In 2004, Sue moved to Hervey Bay and continued emergency nursing. In addition to her role with the QTR, Sue continues to work as a Level 2 Clinical Nurse at Hervey Bay Hospital. Hospital clinical staff welcomed the Registry this year and actively support the QTR Trauma Review Committee processes. \\ Alex De Young worked with Professor Justin Kenardy s research team from 2004 to 2006 on research projects looking at the impact that accidental injury, such as burns or traumatic brain injury, have on children s psychological and cognitive functioning. She has now commenced a Clinical Psychology PhD and is being supervised by Professor Kenardy. Her research is investigating the psychosocial impact that burn injuries have on young children and their families. \\ Jim Elliott completed his PhD at UQ in He was awarded a UQ post-doctoral research fellowship working within the CCRE-Spine, CMR and CONROD. Jim has worked extensively in clinical practice and was, prior to relocating to Brisbane, an assistant professor in the School of Physical Therapy at Regis University, Denver, Colorado. His research interests involve magnetic resonance imaging signal intensity changes in spinal tissues, pain processing and the role of inflammation in the development of persistent pain and disability following whiplash injury. He has published widely in the area of radiological and spine related sciences with over 20 publications. \\ Susan Gargett commenced work at CONROD in the Health Economics and Health Systems stream in April 2007 after finishing full-time PhD studies. Sue s first career was as a clinical physiotherapist, and she worked mostly in the areas of aged care and rehabilitation. She commenced part-time study in economics in the early 1990s and developed an interest in health economics. This led to her undertaking a PhD, which involved an economic analysis of the Australian nursing home industry. Currently, her work at CONROD is concerned with estimating the cost of injuries and with analysing the impact of road safety initiatives. \\ Cherie Giles commenced with Queensland Trauma Registry in September 2007 as the QTR Trauma Registry Nurse Coordinator in Toowoomba. She commenced work in the Emergency Department of the Toowoomba Base Hospital in 1988, and maintains a part time clinical role. \\ Katherine Green has worked as the CONROD Receptionist part-time since August After completing a Bachelor of International Studies and a Diploma of Indonesian at the University of Adelaide, she is currently undertaking her Masters in International Studies (Peace and Conflict) at the University of Queensland. Katherine is also involved with newly arrived refugees settling in Brisbane and completing an internship at the Foundation for Development Cooperation, which specialises in microfinance programmes across the Pacific.

15 2009 CONROD ANNUAL REPORT 13 STAFF PROFILES \\ Jennifer Hanby is the Cairns Base Hospital Queensland Trauma Registry Nurse coordinator. Cairns Base is the only major hospital within a 400km radius. Many trauma patients arriving here have experienced long transfer times, often without the benefit of medical assessment prior to transfer. This presents unique challenges for the management of trauma saw the appointment of Emergency Department specialist, Dr Emmeline Finn, and Cairns Base Hospital staff are looking forward to providing clinical input to the QTR trauma review process in the coming year. \\ Kathy Harvey commenced as Manager of the Queensland Trauma Registry in September Her appointment to the QTR followed a challenging and rewarding 13-year career with the Queensland Health Department where her roles included establishment and management of the state-wide clinical networks programme, development and implementation of an engagement programme to foster ICT/clinician relationships across the organisation, and implementation of policies and systems for data measurement and reporting of standards for the Health Quality and Complaints Commission. Major achievements for the QTR in 2009 included the establishment of four new QTR sites: Bundaberg, Hervey Bay, Maryborough and Logan Hospitals, and publication of the QTR statewide and hospital annual reports for both 2007 and \\ Athelie Haselgrove commenced with Queensland Trauma Registry in late 2008 as the QTR Health Information Manager for the Rockhampton Hospital. Rockhampton Hospital offers an extensive diversity of trauma cases as it receives many trauma cases from outlying areas. Working for the QTR was Athelie s first hospital-based position after completing her Health Information Management degree at the Queensland University of Technology in November, \\ Joan Hendrikz is a Senior Research Assistant and an Accredited Statistician with the Statistical Society of Australia Inc. She was appointed to CONROD in October 2004 to provide statistical support to all CONROD staff and PhD scholars and has co-authored several journal publications emanating from CONROD. She has an extensive and diversified background in statistical advisory work including 11 years at The University of Queensland as the Statistics Advisor for the Faculty of Biological and Chemical Sciences. Her main interests are in the area of applied statistics within the context of human and life sciences and teaching statistical concepts. \\ Alison Heppell shared the role of QTR Trauma Nurse Coordinator for the Queensland Trauma Registry this year, supporting both the Gold Coast Hospital and its Robina Campus, which opened in late Alison also maintained a nursing role with the District. \\ Michele Heron joined CONROD in Her research interests are focused broadly in developmental and clinical psychology. Michelle is currently involved in two major projects. The first investigates the mental and physical health of road traffic crash survivors over a 2-year period. This study will provide important information for improving policy and practice in injury management and post-injury rehabilitation. Michelle s other major research area investigates risk factors associated with admission to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit for both parents and infants. The primary focus is on early relationships between parents and infants and reducing parent mental health symptoms such as stress. \\ Elizabeth Hogan has worked since mid-2004 supporting the Queensland Trauma Registry at the Royal Brisbane & Women s Hospital. Liz also maintains a nursing role in the RBWH Emergency Department.

16 STAFF PROFILES \\ Daniel Hobbs has a strong background in public relations and media management. He joined the CONROD team as the Marketing and Communications Officer in October, Daniel spent several years engaged in media management, campaigning and policy research for numerous state and federal parliamentarians in both opposition and government. He has a particular interest in new media and the opportunities it creates for communicating research outcomes to the wider community and the influence this can have over government policy and decision making. He has a Diploma and Masters degree in Journalism and is an accredited Associate Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management. Now as Managing Director of HMG Consulting, a Brisbane based media and marketing firm, Daniel continues to play a vital role in the communication of CONROD s research outcomes. \\ Tegwen Howell commenced work with CONROD as a Research Assistant in the Rehabilitation Team in May Tegwen holds a Masters of Economic Studies with an interest in Health Economics, particularly with respect to injury, disability and rehabilitation. Tegwen is involved with a number of whiplash research projects which include a significant economic component. \\ Adjunct Professor Graham Hughes AM holds a Bachelor of Business Management (QUT), and was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 2004 in recognition of his contribution to research initiatives into road accident prevention, trauma treatment and rehabilitation and public administration of insurance and workers compensation. Graham was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Philosophy by The University of Queensland for his central role in conceiving and establishing the Centre of National Research on Disability and Rehabilitation Medicine (CONROD) and made an Honorary Doctor of the University by the Queensland University of Technology for his central role in conceiving and establishing the Centre of Accident Research and Road Safety Queensland (CARRSQ). \\ Chair, CONROD Advisory Council. \\ Member Queensland Trauma Registry Advisory Council. \\ Member International Co-ordinating Committee for biennial series of International Forums on Disability Management. \\ Former Insurance Commissioner of Queensland. \\ Former President of the Insurance Institute of Queensland. \\ Former member International Advisory Council of the National Institute of Disability Management and Research of Canada (NIDMAR).

17 2009 CONROD ANNUAL REPORT 15 STAFF PROFILES \\ Fumiko Irie commenced work as a Principal Research Fellow for the Acute Trauma Care group at CONROD in June She holds a PhD in Epidemiology and Neuroscience and a Master of Public Health in addition to her 10 years clinical experience as a neurosurgeon. She performed epidemiological research at the Laboratory of Epidemiology, Demography, and Biometry (NIH) and Pacific Health Research Institute in USA before she joined CONROD. Her research interests include efficient acute trauma systems, management of severe traumatic brain injury (TBI), neuroendocrinological alterations in TBI patients, physical/cognitive functional outcomes in elderly injured patients, and neurodegenerative disease in the elderly. She is a senior investigator in the QTR team, working with Professors Bellamy and Pollard and other researchers. Her work includes publications in peerreviewed journals and presentations at Australian and international academic conferences. \\ Greg Iselin joined CONROD in 2005 as Research Officer in the Health Outcomes team, assisting Dr. Cheryl Swanson. Greg was awarded a B.A. at the University of Sydney in 1998 with majors in psychology and comparative religion, and a B.Psych. (Hons) at Griffith University. Since then he has been working in research settings in both bio-medical and health services research. He is currently fulfilling his requirements for registration with the Psychologist s Registration Board of Queensland and combines his research activities at CONROD with clinical psychology practice. \\ Christel Jennekens is the Trauma Registry Nurse Co-Coordinator for the Gold Coast Hospital. Christel originally graduated in Nursing in the Netherlands and has been at the Gold Coast Hospital since She has specialised in CCU, ICU and A & E with certificates in TNCC, ALS, NIXR and Emergency Nursing. Before joining the QTR, Christel worked as a senior nurse in the Emergency Department at the Gold Coast Hospital. Christel also specialised in sports injury management at NSW University. In this capacity she works for Rugby Union and has been involved with Sporting Clubs for over a decade. \\ Justin Kenardy is Deputy Director of CONROD. He has a discipline background of clinical health psychology with his main interests in the psychological and behavioural consequences of injury. His work has primarily been in posttraumatic stress, its relationship to outcome following whiplash, its role in children s adjustment to traumatic injury, and early intervention. He is currently examining the role of psychological distress on recovery following traumatic brain injury in children.

18 STAFF PROFILES \\ Elizabeth Kendall completed her PhD in 1997 on the topic of adjustment following traumatic injury. This research was one of the first thorough investigations of multivariate predictive models in this area. Her publication of this work has stimulated a significant amount of research internationally and she has been cited in over 80 recognised journals. The work was awarded the Dean s Commendation for Outstanding PhD Thesis in 1998 (UQ). Importantly, it has led to practice changes within the sector and the development of training models for the health workforce. Since this time, her research has focused on the development of innovative service models for those with disabilities and chronic health conditions, including within Indigenous and rural communities. In 2001, she was invited to accept the role of Associate Director of CONROD at UQ as a result of her reputation in this area. Professor Kendall s research with government departments such as Queensland Health, DSQ, Qld Police Services, Corrective Services and DIR has contributed to significant policy and practice changes. She has maintained a strong publishing record in this area, with over 60 peerreviewed publications, 5 book chapters and 2 invited chapters in soon-to-be published books, 5 journal papers currently under review, 1 book under review and 20 government reports that have influenced policy and practice. She has been invited as keynote speaker at five leading international conferences on disability, health and rehabilitation since Internationally, she has maintained a five-year funded collaboration with University of Arizona, U.S.A. on the topic of Indigenous health services and was an invited visiting Fellow at University of Manchester in 2005 on the topic of chronic disease (with leading international expert Prof Anne Rogers). She is currently developing an international research network with Professor Ed Wagner, another expert on chronic disease management from the U.S.A \\ Jacelle Lang began her career at CONROD in January 2003 as a Research Assistant with the Queensland Trauma Registry. Her main role within the QTR is to conduct statistical analysis of data entered into the Registry database and to collaborate in research utilising QTR data. Jacelle also undertook higher duties from January 2007 until September 2008 during which time she assisted in the management of the QTR. In 2009, Jacelle achieved her Master of Science in the field of Biostatistics. \\ Helen Lapsley is a Senior Health Economist whose publications include economic analysis and evaluation relating to health services, hospital and health care costs, quality in health care, the medical workforce and costs and outcomes of interventions and treatments for osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis. She has undertaken extensive research on the economics of tobacco, alcohol and other drugs. She is a member of the N.S.W. Medical Board, a National Councillor of the Australian Healthcare Association, a member of the National Expert Advisory Committee on Tobacco, and the National Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Conditions Advisory Group. Consultancies have included economic analysis and policy review for the Australian commonwealth and state governments, the World Bank, the World Health Organisation and the International Red Cross. \\ Robyne Le Brocque is an NHMRC Research Fellow and is currently managing the multi-site study Cognitive Impairments and Post-Traumatic Stress Symptoms in Children with Traumatic Brain Injury in Brisbane and Melbourne. Robyne s main research interest is in child and adolescent psychopathology. She has worked extensively on longitudinal research studies and specialises in quantitative research methodologies. She is a member of the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development and the Society for Life History Research on Psychopathology.

19 2009 CONROD ANNUAL REPORT 17 STAFF PROFILES \\ Kim Lewis commenced with Queensland Trauma Registry in 2009 as the QTR Health Information Manager for the Nambour Hospital (NGH). Kim holds a degree in Bachelor of Business majoring in Health Information Management. Kim has a diverse background in Health Information Management and Project Management roles. In her role at the NGH she works in conjunction with the Trauma Registry Nurse Coordinator, Sue Woodford, in compiling and managing an extensive data collection that is a valuable resource to clinicians and associated areas, in particular the Emergency Department. \\ Sonya March is a post-doctoral Research Fellow at CONROD, University of Queensland. Her role is to coordinate a large NHMRC research project held by Justin Kenardy and colleagues investigating child and family based treatments for children experiencing post-traumatic stress disorder following injury. She was awarded her PhD (Clinical Psychology) from the University of Queensland in Her research interests include the assessment, prevention and treatment of anxiety in young people, as well as the development and evaluation of internet-based therapies. She has recently been awarded two research grants to examine an online parent programme for preschool children with anxiety. \\ Tahlee Marian joined the Social and Behavioural Science Research group in December 2008 after completing a Bachelor of Psychology (Honours 1) at Griffith University. Along with an active involvement in Dr. Michelle Heron s Adults adjustment to injury following motor vehicle accidents project and Ms. Katherine Olsson s An internet based information provision intervention for post concussion symptoms following childhood mild traumatic brain injury study, Tahlee provides ongoing support to the group, including assisting Professor Justin Kenardy with developing and editing publications and other such team projects. \\ Dale Mason has worked as a Registered Nurse for 11 years, and prior to that was an Enrolled Nurse for 19 years. Dale currently works for the Queensland Trauma Registry as the Trauma Nurse Coordinator for the Princess Alexandra Hospital. \\ Tracey Muscat is the Trauma Nurse Coordinator for the Queensland Trauma Registry at the Mackay Base Hospital. The hospital serves a population of 96,000 and acts as a referral hospital for five rural hospitals and surrounding resorts and the mining industry. Tracey has worked in Emergency settings for 14 years and prior to that worked in Coronary Care and Intensive Care. She has completed a Bachelor in Health Science (Nursing), TNCC, Accident and Emergency Certificate, Certificate IV, resource person and Clinical assessor for the Accident and Emergency Transition Course. Tracey currently also works part-time in the Emergency Department and is a member of Mackay Safe Communities action group Child Injury Prevention Programme. \\ Caitlin McGrath commenced work as a Research Assistant at CONROD in November Caitlin holds a Bachelor of Psychology (Hons) from Griffith University. Since joining the Social and Behavioural Science Research group, she has provided support for various projects conducted within the team. Currently, she is assisting with data management for the Predicting PTSD risk in children after acute traumatic events study, which is funded by the National Institutes of Health in the U.S.A. \\ Chesne McGrath has been with CONROD since 1999 as Personal Assistant to the Director and has contributed to the Centre s development into a high performance state-of-the-art research institution. Prior to joining CONROD Chesne spent over 13 years working in the Middle East and enjoyed the multicultural nature of the working environment.

20 STAFF PROFILES \\ Helena Motlagh is a Physiotherapist and Research Assistant for the Whiplash Research Unit within the Rehabilitation (Medical and Allied Health) programme at CONROD. In her role she works as an assessor for two clinical treatment trials of chronic whiplash associated disorders. Helena is also currently completing a Bachelor of Health Sciences (Honours) programme with a focus on acute whiplash injury. \\ Belinda Murray is currently undertaking a PhD in Clinical Psychology & Clinical Neuropsychology at the University of Queensland. Under the supervision of Professor Justin Kenardy, Belinda is investigating the role of memory in children s posttraumatic distress following admission to the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit. She has worked at CONROD in the Social & Behavioural Science Programme since 2005 researching psychological adjustment and outcomes in children following injury, illness and hospitalisation. \\ Sharon Neilson commenced with Queensland Trauma Registry in 2009 as the QTR Nurse for the Royal Brisbane & Women s Hospital (RBWH). She returned to Brisbane from northern NSW after five years at Tweed Hospital working in various roles in Intensive Care and Education and in emergency for ten years prior to that in various hospitals throughout Brisbane. Sharon completed her Bachelor in Nursing and Education in Brisbane (QUT) and Critical Care Certificate at RBWH. When not working with the QTR, she also works as a Clinical Nurse Educator at the Nathan campus of Griffith University teaching undergraduate nursing students. \\ Hong Son Nghiem specialises in applied econometrics. He is interested in research that impacts on health policies and performance measurement of health services. He has published in the Journal of Development Studies, International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economics and Social Sustainability, and has had advisory experiences in various agencies, including the World Bank, the European Union, the Asian Development Bank and Queensland Health. He is a member of the International Association of Agricultural Economists, International Health Economics Association, Australian Health Economics Society and the Australian Agricultural and Resources Economics Society. \\ Delia O Brien has worked for the Queensland Trauma Registry since February She also works as a Clinical Nurse in the Emergency Department at Redcliffe Hospital. Delia has 32 years emergency nursing experience in various roles both nationally and internationally. Delia worked for 5 years as the Clinical Nurse Coordinator for research at the RBWH. Her interests include triage, trauma management and the elderly patient in the Emergency Department. Delia is an active member of the College of Emergency Nursing Australasia with a position as the secretary of the Queensland branch. She is a member of the Australasian Trauma Society. \\ Vivienne Oliver is the Trauma Registry Nurse Coordinator at Rockhampton in Central Queensland. The Rockhampton Hospital services a local population of 65,000 and a regional population of 200,000. The Emergency Department treats approximately 34,000 patients annually. Vivienne commenced parttime with the Registry in July 2008 and continues as a Clinical Nurse within the Emergency Department at Rockhampton Hospital through a dual appointment.

21 2009 CONROD ANNUAL REPORT 19 STAFF PROFILES \\ Katherine Olsson commenced work as a Research Assistant at CONROD in She provides assistance to both Professor Justin Kenardy and Dr. Sonja March on the project Treating children with PTSD following accidental injury: A multi-site RTC. She is also completing her Doctorate of Clinical and Clinical Neuropsychology thesis under the supervision of Professor Kenardy. Her thesis is investigating the effectiveness of an internet based psychoeducation intervention for children and their families following a mild traumatic brain injury. \\ Wendy Parker has worked with the Queensland Trauma Registry on a part time basis since In addition to her work with the QTR, Wendy continues to work as a Clinical Nurse in the Cairns Base Hospital Emergency Department. \\ Cliff Pollard, Director of the Queensland Trauma Registry since July 2008, is a graduate of The University of Queensland and a general surgeon with a major interest in trauma and emergency surgery. He is Director of the QTR and Director of Trauma Services at RBWH. Cliff is a member of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS) Trauma Quality Improvement Committee, as well as the RACS National and Queensland Trauma Committees. Cliff is also a member of the National Trauma Registries Consortium. Cliff previously served with the ADF in East Timor and Bougainville. \\ Andrew Popple commenced work at CONROD as a Research Assistant in the Rehabilitation team (Medical & Allied Health Research programme) in January Since his arrival at CONROD Andrew has contributed to a number of the team s whiplash research projects and has been heavily involved in the development of the whiplash evidence based online resource. Andrew holds a Bachelor of Applied Science in Human Movement Studies (Hons), a Masters of Philosophy and is currently studying part-time for a Graduate Certificate in Population Health with a focus on Biostatistics. \\ Lisa Rasmussen has 17 years emergency nursing experience, including 10 years of helicopter primary and secondary response work with the Nambour Hospital Retrieval Team. As well as working for the Queensland Trauma Registry, Lisa continues to maintain her clinical skills working as a Clinical Nurse in the hospital s Emergency Department. She has achieved a number of accreditations including TNCC, ENPC, PHTLS, ALS, PALS. Although interested in all areas of trauma care, she has a special interest in geriatric trauma, mass casualty management and quality improvement processes/techniques. \\ Joanne Real has been the Queensland Trauma Registry Trauma Nurse Coordinator since it recommenced in Mount Isa in June Jo, a Mount Isa local, worked at the Townsville and Ayr Hospitals for five years before returning to Mount Isa in Jo has worked in the wards and ED, ICU (Critical Care Certificate 1997), Nurse Management and Community Health (Family & Child Health Certificate 2003). Jo s other interests include advanced life support.

22 STAFF PROFILES \\ Shelley Shepherd was appointed as Queensland Trauma Registry Nurse Coordinator at Ipswich Hospital in August 2001, and continues as a Clinical Nurse within the Emergency Department at Ipswich Hospital through a dual appointment. Shelley completed a Graduate Diploma of Emergency Nursing through the University of Adelaide and the Royal Adelaide Hospital in She has clinical experience in a variety of settings from rural Primary Health Care Centres through to Emergency Departments in tertiary referral hospitals. Establishment of the Trauma Review Committee combined with the ongoing review process of the QTR is supporting and maintaining trauma management standards within Ipswich Hospital and its collaborative partners. \\ Chantal Spanagel commenced with the Queensland Trauma Registry in November 2007 as a Health Information Manager based at the Royal Brisbane & Women s Hospital. In February 2009 she joined the QTR core team in the role of Data Quality Assurance Health Information Manager. Her role involves the operations of the QTR database, conducting data cleaning and data edit exercises, and assisting with coding queries from participating QTR hospitals. Chantal holds a Bachelor of Health Science majoring in Health Information Management. \\ Carolyn Starrett has worked with the Queensland Trauma Registry since 1999 as a Clinical Coder. Her main role is to collect data and code injuries for the paediatric component of the Queensland Trauma Registry. She continues to work part-time as a community nurse. Carolyn s nursing background in intensive care, neurosurgery and coronary care enhances her ability to code complex injury cases. \\ Michele Sterling was appointed as CONROD Assistant Director and Director of the Rehabilitation (Medical and Allied Health) programme in She is an Associate Professor in the Schools of Medicine and Health and Rehabilitation Sciences and a NHMRC Research Fellow (CDA). She has a discipline background as a musculoskeletal physiotherapist. Her main focuses of research are the physical and psychological factors underlying whiplash associated disorders, the prediction of outcome following whiplash injury and the clinical translation of research findings to clinical practice. She has received numerous awards for her research including The University of Queensland Foundation Research Excellence award in \\ Andrew Stone is a Physiotherapist and Research Assistant in the Whiplash Research Unit within the Rehabilitation arm of CONROD. He is also enrolled in a research Masters degree investigating brain responses to painful stimuli in whiplash patients with ongoing pain. His areas of interest include the management and diagnosis of whiplash associated disorders, Functional MRI brain mapping of pain processes and the neurobiological mechanisms underlying chronic pain. In 2008 Andrew published in the Australian Journal of Physiotherapy. \\ Deb Sunners joined CONROD as Business Manager in July The role has offered exciting challenges due to the steady growth in CONROD operations, particularly during In 2000 she completed a Bachelor of Social Science (HRD) part-time. Previously Deb was the administrative officer within the School of Medicine at Herston, having moved to that position from the School of Nursing at QUT where she managed the student and clinical administration.

23 2009 CONROD ANNUAL REPORT 21 STAFF PROFILES \\ Glenda Thomas commenced working with Queensland Trauma Registry in September 2007 as Trauma Registry Nurse Coordinator for the Toowoomba Base Hospital. Glenda commenced working in the Emergency Department of Toowoomba Base Hospital in 1981, where she still works on a part time basis. She completed a Bachelor of Nursing (post graduate) in 1996 at USQ Toowoomba. \\ Stehpanie Valentin is a Physiotherapist and commenced employment in the whiplash Research Unit as a Research Assistant in May Her main role is to coordinate two clinical trials investigating chronic whiplash associated disorders. Previously she has worked as a musculoskeletal physiotherapist in the UK. Stephanie holds a Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Physiotherapy and a Master of Science in Veterinary Physiotherapy. \\ Jane Watson commenced with Queensland Trauma Registry in 2009 as the QTR Health Information Manager for The Townsville Hospital. Jane has a Bachelor of Business - Health Administration and has an extensive background in Health Information Management working in hospitals in Mackay, Darwin, Adelaide, Cairns and the United Kingdom. \\ Cecilia Wilson is a Physiotherapist working in research. She has spent many years in clinical practice both in the public and private sectors and has extensive health service management experience both at home and overseas, having worked in the health care sector in six different countries. Currently she works in CONROD as a research manager within the musculoskeletal research programme. Her research interests are in the fields of osteoarthritis, physical activity, health outcomes, outcome measurement and ageing. \\ Sue Woodford commenced with Queensland Trauma Registry in early 2009, in the part time role of Trauma Nurse Coordinator for the Nambour General Hospital, where she also works as a Registered Nurse in the Department of Emergency Nursing. Sue has prior experience as a Trauma Coordinator at the Royal Darwin Hospital Emergency Department. Royal Darwin Hospital is recognised as Australia s National Critical Care and Trauma Response Centre and won international recognition for its role in the retrieval, treatment and transfer of 61 victims of the 2002 Bali bombings, where Sue was part of the medical team involved in that disaster.

24 GRANTS AWARDED IN 2009 Medibank Private Exercise and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Knee Osteoarthritis Investigator/s: Prof Kim Bennell, Prof Frances Keefe, Prof Gwen Jull, Prof J Kenardy, Dr M Hunt, Dr C Bryant, A/Prof M Nicholas, Dr T Harris Year: Amount: $750,000 NSW Motor Accidents Authority Improving health for people with compensable injuries Phase 1 Investigator/s: Prof Ian Cameron, C Maher, A Collie, A/Prof M Nicholas, I Harris, Prof L Connelly, Prof Nicholas Bellamy, F Blyth, S Derrett, Prof Justin Kenardy Year: Amount: $200,000 Exploratory/Development Grant, Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Mental Health Predicting PTSD risk in children after acute traumatic events Investigator/s: Prof Nancy Kassam-Adams, Prof Justin Kenardy, Prof Douglas Delahanty, Dr Patrick Palmieri Year: Amount: $530,000 NHMRC Project Grant Why do people keep hurting their back: A longitudinal study of biological, psychological and social predictors Investigator/s: Prof P Hodges, A/Prof M Sterling, A/Prof M Nicholas, Prof J Cholewicki, Prof M Barbe, Dr G Moseley, Dr A Khan Year: Amount: $709,521 Griffith University Industry Collaboration Scheme General Practice Queensland ARC Grant Investigator/s: Prof Elizabeth Kendall, Dr Heidi Muenchberger, Ms K Armstrong Year: 2009 Amount: $10,000

25 2009 CONROD ANNUAL REPORT 23 GRANTS AWARDED IN 2009 Queensland Health Centre for Functioning Disability and Health Research Fellowship joint appointment with GIHMR Investigator/s: Prof Elizabeth Kendall Year: Amount: $150,000 (appointment to be located at QH) Churchill Fellowship Models of lifelong care for people with brain injury Investigator/s: Dr Heidi Muenchberger Year: 2009 Amount: $25,000 ARC Linkage 2 nd Round Both smart and Healthy: Learning communities of practice Investigator/s: Prof Elizabeth Kendall, Dr Heidi Muenchberger and Dr N Sutherland Year: Amount: $322,360 PVC Health Research Team Award Healthy People, Healthy Places Investigator/s: Prof Elizabeth Kendall, Dr Heidi Muenchberger and Dr N Sutherland Year: 2009 Amount: $10,000 PVC Health Early Career Research Award Early Career Award Investigator/s: Dr Heidi Muenchberger Year: 2009 Amount: $5,000

26 ON-GOING GRANTS MAIC Longitudinal Study of RTC Outcomes Component A Investigator/s: Prof Justin Kenardy Year: Amount: $570,550 Investigator/s: MAIC Longitudinal Study of RTC Outcomes Component B Prof Nicholas Bellamy Year: Amount: 2008 $268, $172, $177,125 Queensland Health Queensland Trauma Registry Investigator/s: Prof Nicholas Bellamy, A/Prof Cliff Pollard, Ms Kathy Harvey Year: Amount: $1.2 million per annum Queensland Health Health Promotion Programme Investigator/s: Prof Elizabeth Kendall Year: Amount: $900,000 + $150,000 ARC Linkage Grant Both Healthy and Smart: Learning Communities as an approach to Health Investigator/s: Prof Elizabeth Kendall, Dr Heidi Muenchberger, Dr N Sunderland, Dr P Singh, Dr P Henniker Year: Amount: $350,000 MAIC CTP Claimant Experiences Investigator/s: Prof Elizabeth Kendall Year: 2008 Amount: $128,000 MAIC Systematic review of the impact of compensation for non-economic losses on health status Investigator/s: Prof Luke Connelly Year: 2008 Amount: $42,753

27 2009 CONROD ANNUAL REPORT 25 ON-GOING GRANTS NHMRC Treating children with PTSD following an accidental injury: A multi-site RCT Investigator/s: Prof Justin A Kenardy, Dr Vanessa E Cobham, Dr Reginald DV Nixon, Prof Brett M McDermott Year: Amount: $346,425 NHMRC Dry-needling, advice and graded exercise for chronic whiplash Investigator/s: Dr Michele Sterling, Prof Bill Vicenzino, Dr Tina Souvlis, Prof Luke B Connelly Year: Amount: $297,875 MAIC Dry-needling, advice and graded exercise for chronic whiplash Investigator/s: Dr Michele Sterling, Prof Bill Vicenzino, Dr Tina Souvlis, Prof Luke B Connelly Year: Amount: $240,000 NHMRC A promising new treatment for chronic whiplash Investigator/s: Prof Chris G Maher, Dr Michele Sterling, Prof Gwen A Jull, A/Pr Jane Latimer, Prof Luke B Connelly Year: Amount: $598,025 MAIC/MAA A promising new treatment for chronic whiplash Investigator/s: Prof Chris G Maher, Prof Gwen A Jull, A/Pr Jane Latimer, Prof Luke B Connelly Year: Amount: $168,380 NHMRC Using the web to prevent anxiety Investigator/s: Prof Helen Christensen, A/Pr Kathleen M Griffiths, Prof Andrew J Mackinnon, Prof Justin A Kenardy Year: Amount: $605,125 MAIC Evaluation of an information-based early intervention for children with mild traumatic brain injury (Mtbi) Investigator/s: Prof Justin Kenardy Year: Amount: $146,771

28 ON-GOING GRANTS Australian Research Council (ARC)-Linkage [with Health Services Australia (HSA) Group, The Workers Compensation Regulatory Authority (Q-COMP), and the Motor Accident Insurance Commission (MAIC)] Does Self Management Increase The Effectiveness Of Vocational Rehabilitation For Chronic Compensated Disorders? Investigator/s: Ellis N, Jull GA, Johnston V, Strong J, Gargett SA, Battersby M and Adam KW Year: 2008 Amount: $193,000 NHMRC Project Grant Optimising corticosteroid steroid injection for lateral epicondylalgia with physiotherapy: a randomised placebo controlled trial Investigator/s: Vicenzino, B. (G.), Brooks, P., Connelly, L.B., and Bisset, L. Year: 2008 Amount: $358,700 NHMRC Project Grant Motor vehicle injuries: Economic evaluation of a new treatment modality Investigator/s: Butler JRG, Connelly LB. Year: 2008 Amount: $166,791 Physiotherapy Research Foundation The development of fatty infiltrate in cervical extensor muscles following whiplash injury: association with activity and a systemic inflammatory response Investigator/s: Dr M Sterling, Dr J Elliott, Prof G Galloway, Dr P Cabot Year: Amount: $18,000 UQ Early Career Grant MRI analysis of the oropharynx and the relationship to voice alterations following whiplash injury Investigator/s: Dr Jim Elliott Year: 2009 Amount: $30,000 University of Queensland Postdoctoral Research Fellowships for Women Investigator/s: Dr Robyne Le Brocque Year: Amount: $15,000

29 2009 CONROD ANNUAL REPORT 27 ON-GOING GRANTS Motor Accident Insurance Commission The Centre of National Research on Disability and Rehabilitation Medicine Investigator/s: Prof Nicholas Bellamy, Prof Luke Connelly, Prof Graham Hughes, Prof Justin Kenardy, Prof Elizabeth Kendall, Dr Michele Sterling Year: Amount: $1.54 million per annum Merck Sharp & Dohme REFLECT Study Investigator/s: Prof Nicholas Bellamy Year: Amount: $62,000 GP Queensland Research Fellowship and Partnership Agenda with GIHMR Investigator/s: Prof Elizabeth Kendall Year: Amount: $172,000 NHMRC Centre for Clinical Research Excellence Clinical Centre of Research Excellence in Spinal Pain, Injury and Health Investigator/s: Prof Paul Hodges, Prof Gwendolyn Jull, Prof Wayne Gibbon, Prof Dr Michelle Sterling, Prof Justin Kenardy, Prof Bill Vincenzino, Prof Peter Brooks, Dr Amanda Cresswell, A/Prof Luke Connelly. Year: Amount: $2,000,000 ARC Discovery Grant The development of chronicity following whiplash injury- the fear avoidance model versus a neurobiological stress model Investigator/s: Dr Michelle Sterling, Prof Justin Kenardy, Dr Chris Maher, Dr Ross Darnell Year: Amount: $412,632 ARC Linkage Project Motor vehicle injuries: economic evaluation of a new treatment modality Investigator/s: Prof JR Butler and Prof Luke Connelly Year: Amount: $87,236

30 ON-GOING GRANTS Genzyme Biosurgery Inc Validation of electronic data capture (EDC) using the WOMAC Index in total joint replacement patients Investigator/s: Prof Nicholas Bellamy Year: Amount: $70,000 Genzyme Biosurgery Inc Quasi-experimental evaluation of the introduction of quantitative measurement (QM) into routine clinical care (Australia) Investigator/s: Prof Nicholas Bellamy Year: Amount: $60,000 ARC Linkage Grant Coalitions for community health: A community-based response to chronic disease Investigator/s: Prof Elizabeth Kendall, S Baum, Dr Heidi Muenchberger, Dr Tan Yigitcanlar and Ms Debbie Cowan Year: Amount: $448,101 NHMRC Project Grant Measuring adverse events: development of a Patient-Centred Adverse Event Reporting Tool (PAET) Investigator/s: A/Prof Marissa Lassere, Prof Nicholas Bellamy, Prof Richard Day, Dr Rick Iedema, Dr Kent Johnson, Prof Peter Tugwell Year: Amount: $447,250 NHMRC Health Services Research Grant Establishment of Australian Centre for Economic Research on Health (ACERH) Investigator/s: Dr James Butler, A/Prof Luke Connelly, Prof D Arcy Holman, Prof Warwick McKibbin, Dr Alexandra Sidorenko Year: Amount: $4,500,000 NHMRC Testing a home based rehabilitation programme for survivors of a critical illness: a randomised controlled trial Investigator/s: Prof Doug Elliott, Prof Sharon McKinley, Prof Jennifer Alison, Dr Leanne Aitken, Dr King Madeleine. Year: Amount: $338,875

31 2009 CONROD ANNUAL REPORT 29 ON-GOING GRANTS Wesley Mission YoungCare Evaluation Investigator/s: Dr Heidi Muenchberger, Prof Elizabeth Kendall, A/Prof Judy Wollin, Dr J Batkin. Year: Amount: $50,000 CONROD/MAIC Vocational and Community Rehabilitation Research Agenda Investigator/s: Prof Elizabeth Kendall, Dr Heidi Muenchberger, Dr Tara Catalano, Prof Nick Buys Year: Amount: $1,300,000 Queensland Health Place-based Initiative Research Fellowships Investigator/s: Prof Elizabeth Kendall, Dr Heidi Muenchberger, A/Prof Scott Baum Year: Amount: $997,086 RCH Foundation top-up PhD Scholarship The role of memory in children s distress following admission to PICU Investigator/s: Belinda Murray Year: 2008 Amount: $5,000 over 3 years GURG and RCCPI Developing a local response to multicultural health Investigator/s: Dr S Henderson and Prof Elizabeth Kendall Year: Amount: $18,000 + $5,000 Connecting Healthcare in Communities Service Innovation Grants A test of the multi-cultural natural helper model Investigator/s: Prof Elizabeth Kendall and S Henderson Year: Amount: $247,561 NHMRC Career Development Award Whiplash injury: classification, prediction and directives for improved management strategies. Investigator/s: Dr Michele Sterling Year: Amount: $370,000

32 COMPLETED GRANTS 2009 RCH Foundation Near Miss Grant Medical traumatic stress in children and their parents following paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) admission Investigator/s: Dr Robyne Le Brocque, Professor Justin Kenardy Year: 2008 Amount: $50,000 NHMRC Equipment Grant State-of-the-art wireless electromyography (EMG) system for clinical research Investigator/s: Prof Paul Hodges, Prof Gwen Jull, Dr Julia Treleaven, Dr Michele Coppieters, Dr Kylie Tucker, Dr Shaun O Leary, Dr Venerina Johnston, Dr Michele Sterling, Prof Justin Kenardy, Dr Andy Creswell Year: 2008 Amount: $120,000 NHMRC Project Grant Clinical Trial Investigating Individualised Treatments for People with An Acute Whiplash Injury Investigator/s: Prof Gwen Jull, Dr Michele Sterling, Prof Justin Kenardy, Dr M Cohen, Prof Luke Connelly, and Dr E. Beller Year: Amount: $378,450 NHMRC Equipment Grant Pathway System Investigator/s: Dr M Sterling, Prof Bill Vicenzino, Dr R Cunningham Year: 2008 Amount: $70,000 UQ External Support Enabling Grant Fatty infiltrate development in cervical extensor muscles following whiplash: association with an inflammatory response Investigator/s: Dr M Sterling, Dr J Elliott, Prof G Galloway, Dr P Cabot Year: 2009 Amount: $50,000 School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences/ MAIC Development of clinical measures for the assessment of whiplash injury Investigator/s: Dr Michele Sterling, Prof Bill Vicenzino Year: Amount: $26,000

33 2009 CONROD ANNUAL REPORT 31 COMPLETED GRANTS 2009 Physiotherapy Research Foundation Characterization of whiplash injury Investigator/s: Mr Andy Chien, Dr Michele Sterling Year: Amount: $10,000 University of Sydney Near Miss Funding A new treatment for chronic whiplash Investigator/s: Prof Chris Maher, Dr Michele Sterling, Prof Gwen Jull, Dr Jane Latimer, Prof Luke Connelly. Year: 2008 Amount: $50,000 MAIC AMA6 Investigator/s: Prof Nicholas Bellamy Year: 2008 Amount: $31,006 Genzyme Biosurgery Inc Osteoarthritis Measurement in Routine Rheumatology Outpatient Practice (OMIRROP (Australia) Investigator/s: Prof Nicholas Bellamy Year: Amount: $12,000 Genzyme Biosurgery Inc Normative Data Study (Australia) Investigator/s: Prof Nicholas Bellamy Year: Amount: $54,000 Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Grant (with the Motor Accident Insurance Commission and Suncorp-Metway) Prediction of Outcome following Whiplash Study: A Multicentre International Prospective Study Investigator/s: Dr Michele Sterling, Prof Gwen Jull, Prof Justin Kenardy, Prof Bill Vincenzino, Prof Peter Brooks, Prof A Cresswell, Prof Luke Connelly Year: Amount: $1.1 m

34 COMPLETED GRANTS 2009 Griffith University Infrastructure HOLD: Health Outcomes Laboratory Database for dissemination Investigator/s: Prof C Rickards, Prof Elizabeth Kendall, et al Year: Amount: $78,000 ARC Linkage Grant An empirical evaluation of an innovative occupational stress intervention to improve the health and retention of high-risk employees Investigator/s: A/Prof Paula Brough, Prof Elizabeth Kendall, Prof Mike O Driscoll, Prof B Myors, Mr CS Cehrke Year: Amount: $190,327 ARC Linkage Grant Psychological stress at work Investigator/s: A/Prof Paula Brough, Prof Elizabeth Kendall, Prof Mike O Driscoll, Mr Craig Gehrke Year: Amount: $245,000 Wesley Mission Youngcare: An age appropriate home for people with disabilities Investigator/s: Dr Heidi Muenchberger, Prof Elizabeth Kendall, A/Prof Judy Wollin, and Dr Pat Dorsett Year: 2007 Amount: $45,000 ABIOS Steps: Negotiating the community following brain injury Investigator/s: Dr Heidi Muenchberger and Prof Elizabeth Kendall Year: 2007 Amount: $40,000 Disability Services Queensland Spinal Injuries Research Project Investigator/s: Dr Pat Dorsett, Prof Lesley Chenoweth, Prof Elizabeth Kendall, Dr Heidi Muenchberger, A/Prof Jayne Clapton Year: 2007 Amount: $75,000

35 2009 CONROD ANNUAL REPORT 33 COMPLETED GRANTS 2009 Griffith University Community Partnership A Healthy Partnership in Logan Investigator/s: Prof Elizabeth Kendall, Prof Marianne Wallis, A/Prof Scott Baum, A/Prof Peter Howard Year: 2007 Amount: $17,000 Motor Accident Insurance Commission BRAKE Research Project Investigator/s: Prof Elizabeth Kendall Year: Amount: $90,245 PA Foundation Grant Health status and economic outcomes of critically ill trauma patients Investigator/s: Dr Leanne Aitken, Dr Wendy Chaboyer, Prof Elizabeth Kendall, C Joyce Year: Amount: $50,000

36 COLLABORATIONS IN 2009 Within Faculty \\ Department of Psychiatry (Emeritus Professor Barry Nurcombe) \\ Division of Occupational Therapy, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences (Dr Jennifer Fleming) \\ Division of Occupational therapy, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences (Dr Tamara Ownsworth) \\ Faculty of Health Sciences (Professor Peter Brooks, Executive Dean) \\ Division of Physiotherapy, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences (Professor Gwendolen Jull) \\ Division of Physiotherapy, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences (Professor Paul Hodges) \\ Division of Physiotherapy, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences (Professor Bill Vicenzino) \\ Division of Physiotherapy, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences (Dr Tina Souvlis) \\ School of Pharmacy (Dr Peter Cabot) Across Faculty \\ Centre for Magnetic Resonance (A/Professor Graham Galloway) \\ Queensland Brain Institute (A/Prof Ross Cunnington) \\ School of Psychology (Professor Sue Spence) National \\ Access Arts (Ms. Emma Bennison) \\ Acquired Brain Injury Outreach Service (Mr. Raymond Quinn) \\ Arthritis Queensland (Mr. Bob Unger) \\ Australian Centre for Economic Research on Health (ACERH, ANU) (Professor Jim Butler) \\ Australian Centre for Economic Research on Health (ACERH, UWA) (Dr. Rachel Moorin) \\ Australian Centre for Economic Research on Health (ACERH, UWA) (Professor D Arcy Holman) \\ Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (Ms. Catherine Sykes) \\ Brisbane Southside Central Division of General Practice \\ Central Queensland Centre for Rural and Remote Mental Health (Dr. Jennifer Bowers) \\ Centre for Health Economics, Research and Evaluation, University of Technology, Sydney (Dr. Madeleine King) \\ CRS Australia \\ Department of Communities \\ Department of Corrective Services \\ Department of Families Youth and Community Care \\ Department of Industrial Relations \\ Disability Services Queensland \\ Education Queensland \\ Ethnic Communities Council of Queensland (Ms. Nera Komarik) \\ Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Health, University of Technology, Sydney (Professor Sharon McKinley) \\ Faculty of Nursing, University of Sydney (Professor Doug Elliott) \\ General Practice Queensland (Dr. Kylie Armstrong) \\ George Institute, University of Sydney (A/Prof Jane Latimer) \\ George Institute, University of Sydney (Professor Chris Maher) \\ Gold Coast Division of General Practice (Dr. Jon Goodman)

37 2009 CONROD ANNUAL REPORT 35 COLLABORATIONS IN 2009 \\ Health Interactive Technologies Network (HITnet) (Dr. Ernest Hunter) \\ Howard Florey Institute, University of Melbourne (Dr. Michael Farrell) \\ Inergise Rehabilitation \\ Insurance Australia Group (IAG) \\ Jacana Brain Injury Services (Ms. Rosamond Harrington) \\ Job Futures \\ LaTrobe University, Melbourne (Mr. Ken Niere) \\ Logan Area Division of General Practice \\ Logan City Council \\ Logan-Beaudesert Health Coalition (Ms. Debbie Cowan) \\ Loganlea State High School \\ Macquarie University (Professor David Collins) \\ Mater Children s Hospital \\ Monash University, Melbourne (Dr. Owen Williamson) \\ Motor Accident Insurance Commission (Ms. Cathy Pilecki) \\ MS Society (Ms. Wendy Longley) \\ Multicultural Chronic Disease Partnership (Ms. Fazil Rostram) \\ National Centre for Classification in Health, Queensland University of Technology (Ms. Sue Walker) \\ National Centre for Classification in Health, Queensland University of Technology (Dr. Kirsten McKenzie) \\ National Stroke Foundation \\ National Stroke Foundation (Ms. Sally Hoffman) \\ North Brisbane Division of General Practice \\ PriceWaterhouse Coopers \\ Princess Alexandra Hospital Rehabilitation Unit \\ Princess Alexandra Hospital (Dr. Phillip Vecchio) \\ Princess Alexandra Hospital Spinal Unit (Ms. Glenda Price) \\ Q-COMP \\ Queensland Council of Carers (QCC) \\ Queensland Health (Ms. Debbie Cowan) \\ Queensland Health - Research and Ethics Advisory Unit (Dr. Jane Jacobs, Manager) - Integrated Patient Transport Unit, Division of the Chief Health Officer (Dorothy Vicenzino, Director) - Queensland Emergency Medicine Advisory Committee (Dr. Cliff Pollard, Chair) - Clinical Information Management Unit (Joanne Buckland, Director) - Health Statistics Centre, Performance and Accountability Division (Sue Cornes, Senior Director) - National Critical Care Trauma Response Centre, PAH and Royal Darwin Hospitals (Leanne Smith) - Statewide Trauma Clinical Network (Professor Michael Schuetz, Chair) - Trauma Services (PAH, RBWH, RCH, TTH) - Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Service, Centre for Healthcare Improvement (Dr. John Wakefield, Senior Director) - Service Integration Management, Information Division (Roy James, Director) - Queensland Stay on Your Feet - Falls Injury Prevention Collaborative - Injury Prevention/Safety Promotion, Health Promotion Branch (Mr. Phil Carswell, Senior Health Promotion Officer) \\ Health Quality and Complaints Commission: Health Services Improvement Network (Professor Michael Ward, Commissioner) \\ Queensland Police Service \\ Queensland Self-Management Alliance (Ms. Beth Hunter) \\ Queensland Trauma Committee, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (Dr. Cliff Pollard) \\ QUT Tan \\ Rehabilitation of Brain Injured Children and Neuromuscular Disorders (ROBIN) \\ Rehabilitation Studies Unit, University of Sydney (Associate Professor Robyn Tate)

38 COLLABORATIONS IN 2009 National (continued) \\ Research Centre for Clinical and Community Practice Innovation Griffith University (Professor Nicholas Buys) \\ Research Centre for Clinical and Community Practice Innovation (and Centre of National Research on Disability and Rehabilitation Medicine) Centre for Work (Professor Elizabeth Kendall) \\ Research Centre for Clinical Practice Innovation, Griffith University (Professor Wendy Chaboyer) \\ Riding for the Disabled Association \\ Royal Brisbane and Women s Hospital (Dr. Alex Klestov) \\ Scenic Rim Council \\ School of Physiotherapy, University of Sydney (Dr. Jennifer Alison) \\ Services for Australian Rural and Remote Allied Health (Mr. Owen Allen) \\ Several small businesses in Logan \\ SQIT TAFE (Andrea Harris) \\ Stroke Support Group \\ University of New South Wales (Dr. Natasha Posner) \\ University of New South Wales (Professor Gaven Andrews) \\ University of Newcastle (A/Prof Philip Bolton) \\ University of Sydney (A/Prof Lorimer Moseley) \\ University of Sydney (A/Professor Lyn March) \\ University of Tasmania (Dr. David Buchanan) \\ Wesley Hospital Multi-disciplinary Pain Programme \\ Wesley Mission (Mr. Geoff Batkin) \\ Work Directions Australia \\ WorkCover Queensland \\ Youngcare (Mr. Simon Lockyer) International \\ CICH, University of London (Dr. Sally Hartley) \\ i3innovus, Burlington, Canada (Ms. Shelley Lee) \\ Indian Health Service \\ Karolinska Instituet, Mid-Sweden University, Sweden (Dr. Bodil Landstad) \\ Mc Gill University, Montreal, Canada (Dr Sophie deserres, Dr. Julie Cote) \\ McMaster University, Canada (Professor Charlie Goldsmith) \\ National Primary Care Research and Development Centre, University of Manchester UK \\ Northern Arizona University, U.S.A. (Dr. Catherine Marshall) \\ Regis University, Denver, U.S.A. (Dr. Tim Noteboom) \\ Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, U.S.A. (Professor Anne Barr) \\ University Medical and Dental School New Jersey, U.S.A. (Professor Eli Eliav) \\ University of Arizona, U.S.A. (Dr. Catherine Marshall) \\ University of Hawaii, U.S.A. \\ University of Northern British Columbia, Canada (Professor Henry Harder) \\ University of Ottawa, Canada (Professor Peter Tugwell) \\ University of Reykyavik, Iceland (Dr. Eythor Kristjansson) \\ University of Reykyavik, Iceland (Dr. Helgi Jonsson) \\ University of Texas, U.S.A. (Dr. Shelton Brown) \\ University of Toronto, Canada (Professor Mary Bell) \\ University of Western Ontario, Canada (Professor Robert Bourne) \\ University of Western Ontario, Canada (Ms. Jane Campbell)

39 2009 CONROD ANNUAL REPORT 37 Programme REPORTS Programme 1 - Acute Trauma Care Programme Report by Professor Nick Bellamy, Associate Professor Cliff Pollard, Dr. Fumiko Irie, Ms. Jacelle Lang and Ms. Kathy Harvey The Acute Trauma Care Programme focuses on all aspects of injury management from the time of injury through to discharge from acute care health services. This programme was developed to incorporate and expand upon the role of the Queensland Trauma Registry by being multi-disciplinary and multi-speciality in nature, crossing boundaries between pre-hospital and in-hospital arenas. The goal of the Acute Trauma Care Programme is to enable improved trauma care by facilitating quality improvement and practice change and informing policy and legislation. Specifically, the programme aims to: \\ Provide a state-wide evidence base of serious trauma \\ Optimise the standard of trauma care provided throughout Queensland \\ Identify innovative, cost-effective and integrated trauma care services \\ Identify the factors that impact on recovery and resumption of usual lifestyle of injured individuals \\ Benchmark trauma care nationally and internationally through the National Trauma Registry Consortium (Australia and New Zealand) More specifically, the objectives of the Queensland Trauma Registry are a focus for the Acute Trauma Care Programme and include: \\ Determining the incidence, cause, location, explanatory variables, treatment and outcomes of serious injury in Queensland \\ Establishing benchmarks and identifying variations in accepted standards of care for people who experience serious injury in Queensland \\ Facilitating clinical review and making recommendations for changes in trauma management throughout Queensland \\ Conducting scientific research to reduce future incidence and burden of injury and improving trauma management and outcomes The Queensland Trauma Registry (QTR) component of the Acute Trauma Care Programme underwent an external review in 2008, initiated by Queensland Health and performed by KPMG, as part of due process for considering CONROD s funding submission for the QTR. The recommendations of the KPMG review were very favourable for CONROD, which was able to achieve several of its key QTR objectives. In particular, with substantial support from MAIC, funding has been confirmed by Queensland Health to support the QTR operation for the period 1 July June This has facilitated the appointment of a QTR Director from the trauma surgery environment and a QTR Manager, with high-level clinical service improvement experience from Queensland Health Corporate Office. This role has supported the core QTR operation, and considerably assisted CONROD in strategically planning QTR activities that can inform and influence policy and practice development at state, hospital and health professional levels. A new QTR Advisory Board was established which closely aligns QTR s activities with the goals of the Statewide Trauma Clinical Network and the Queensland Trauma Plan. The first meeting of the Advisory Board occurred in February, with a second meeting taking place in October. The Advisory Board established a new Research Subcommittee, which held its first meeting in August. The KPMG review also recommended expansion of the QTR to Logan, Bundaberg and Hervey Bay Hospitals, an expansion that CONROD has been striving to achieve for several years. All three hospitals came on stream as QTR sites in CONROD will remain a School Centre within the School of Medicine for the foreseeable future. This decision has had positive consequences, one of which has been the availability to CONROD of accumulated Research Quantum funds for the period. These funds are being used to support, together with clinical sessions from RBWH, a new Professorial level appointment in the Faculty. The new Chair will be called the CONROD Professor of Orthopaedic Trauma Surgery. The clinical component will be located at RBWH and the research component at CONROD. A position description and announcement were prepared and advertised. The appointment of the CONROD Professor of Orthopaedic Trauma Surgery is a key component of further enhancing the Acute Trauma Care Programme and bringing

40 Programme REPORTS another high level academic clinician into the CONROD environment. It is anticipated that this appointment will result in additional opportunities for CONROD to shape policy and practice and successfully compete in competitive research grant competitions at the national level. The appointment will also expand orthopaedic surgical capacity at RBWH. The Queensland Trauma Registry has been fully operational in 20 sites across Queensland during These sites include Bundaberg, Caboolture, Cairns, Gold Coast and Robina, Hervey Bay and Maryborough, Ipswich, Logan, Mackay, Mount Isa, Nambour, Princess Alexandra, Redcliffe, Rockhampton, Royal Brisbane & Women s, Toowoomba and Townsville Hospitals. In addition, two paediatric sites of Mater Children s and Royal Children s are operational. QTR data were used to inform the development of A Trauma Plan for Queensland (2006), and subsequently the establishment of four Major Trauma Services at the Princess Alexandra, Royal Brisbane & Women s, and Townsville Hospitals, and a Statewide Paediatric Trauma Service (2008). In 2009, QTR data were used for Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS) Trauma Verification processes for the 4 major trauma services. QTR staff data coding skills were kept up to date with a statewide training workshop held in November 2009, which was attended by 28 of the 30 member QTR team (see photo). The 2007 and 2008 QTR Annual Statewide Reports (3) and Site Reports (14/16) were completed in The QTR web site has been reviewed and updated to include publication of all QTR Annual Statewide Reports. These reports provide a summary of demographic, injury, treatment and outcome data and facilitate review of current trauma care as well as planning for future trauma care. At the end of the year, 2009 data collection was well advanced and expected to be completed, along with completion of data quality processes, by mid The University of Queensland previously received prescribed entity status under the Health Services Regulation 2001, legally permitting Queensland Health staff to release confidential patient-identifying information to the QTR for the purposes of evaluating, managing, monitoring and planning health services for trauma patients. These data support trauma audit and quality assurance activities at participating hospitals. Data collected by the Queensland Trauma Registry are also utilised within each of the hospitals in which QTR operates and by other interested parties, including government and university staff. The QTR provides data for activities such as research, education and auditing. Release of data follows strict guidelines and a data request form is required before data are released. During 2009 the QTR successfully responded to 100 data requests from hospital clinicians and external researchers, for application in activities directed at informing policy and practice. Policies and procedures for data collection have been reviewed on an ongoing basis, including upgrades to the Data Collection Manual and implementation of the new edition of ICD-10-AM (6th Edition) for external cause coding, as well as a new edition of Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) coding for all admissions from 1 January, These changes necessitated major upgrades to the QTR database, which also continuing. Adherence to coding classification systems (including ICD- 10-AM and AIS) is reviewed on an annual basis through the procedure of data cleaning. Predefined queries that identify common data entry errors are also included as part of the data cleaning process. These checks, along with annual site audits of subsets of included and excluded cases via dual coding of patient health records by a senior Health Information Manager and ad hoc data quality checks, are performed on a regular basis. Results of these quality assurance processes, as well as results of the coding exercises, inform the training programme which is provided on a continuous basis within the Registry. The training programme is multi-dimensional and includes monthly staff meetings, biannual workshops, a quarterly QTR newsletter and an /telephone help desk for coding assistance. In addition, In November 2009 all QTR Trauma Registry Nurse Coordinators (TRNC) and Health Information Managers who commenced with QTR in the past twelve months, that is those who were not previously accredited in November 2008, were provided with accredited training in AIS 2005 coding. EDIS has now been implemented in each hospital emergency department across Queensland Health, and all QTR staff continue to identify relevant patients through standard reporting. The process of matching QTR cases to discharge diagnoses reports provided by the Health Information services of all QTR hospitals, continues to identify approximately 5 10 per cent of cases who bypass ED or who are not identified through routine screening mechanisms.

41 2009 CONROD ANNUAL REPORT 39 Programme REPORTS Newsletters continue to be distributed to all TRNCs for the purposes of ensuring they are aware of activities happening throughout QTR, as well as to provide education regarding the coding process. In addition a number of QTR hospital sites publish a local newsletter which is distributed throughout the hospital and associated health care areas and reviews aspects of care related to trauma patients. Trauma Review Activities The trauma review and practice development activities of the QTR are coordinated by the Trauma Review Committees (TRC) operating in most sites. The TRCs meet on a regular (between monthly and quarterly) basis to review cases that have tripped a performance indicator or have been identified as being worthy of review for an additional reason. Regular reports of summary data regarding performance indicators for each hospital are provided to these forums as requested. Recommendations are made, and policies changed that influence trauma care throughout the region. Examples of recommendations and policy changes brought about by the TRC process include: \\ Development/revision of trauma forms to improve documentation \\ Improvement of communication between tertiary and regional hospitals via improved referral information \\ Development of protocols for spinal clearance procedures Staff Development QTR staff have attended relevant conferences, workshops and seminars and have themselves delivered educational and information sessions on site. The biannual workshops in particular concentrate on developing knowledge of coding practices, as well as skills and strategies to effectively implement practice development programmes within each of the QTR hospitals and surrounding health service districts. All QTR staff were supported to attend the Queensland Statewide Trauma Symposium held in Brisbane on 6 November Publications Research manuscripts have been prepared and are being submitted to peer review journals. These include the following: 1. Characteristics and outcomes of injury patients in an Aboriginal and Torres-Strait Islander (ATSI) population - Queensland Trauma Registry, Australia 2. The presence of complications is associated with increased fatal outcomes in middle-aged and elderly trauma patients - Queensland Trauma Registry, Australia 3. The association between pre-hospital/emergency department management and developing complications among trauma patients - Queensland Trauma Registry, Australia Research Acute Trauma Care Programme staff participated in a number of research projects during Longitudinal study of outcomes in road traffic crashes Professor Nicholas Bellamy, Dr. Fumiko Irie and colleagues have advanced the development of a protocol for a prospective longitudinal observational study of trauma outcomes in RTC victims registered by the QTR. The study aims to generate information capable of informing policy and practice in injury management and post injury rehabilitation and provide insight into the functioning of aspects of the Compulsory Third Party (CTP) scheme in Queensland. Characteristics and outcomes following serious traumatic injury in the elderly This study was designed to describe, characterize and compare the differences in injury characteristics and outcomes in the elderly population (aged 65 years and older). This study also aims to identify risk factors for death and discharge placement following hospital discharge. During 2007, ethics applications were prepared and approval was gained from the Princess Alexandra Hospital Human Research Ethics Committee and The University of Queensland Medical Research Ethics Committee. Data from QTR (January 2003 December 2006) have been analysed to examine these aims and a draft manuscript has been produced and distributed to all authors for comment. Data will be sourced from existing road traffic, injury and trauma data collections, including the Queensland Trauma

42 Programme REPORTS Registry, Queensland Injury Surveillance Unit, Queensland Health Admitted Patient Data Collection, the Queensland Transport Road Crash Database and the Vehicle Registrations Database. The Department of Transport and Main Roads has been approached to extract data relating to road side factors from the free text included in the Road Crash Database. Characteristics and outcomes following injury in the ATSI population Disadvantage and inequality of health in indigenous populations, such as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders (ATSI), compared to non-indigenous populations is known to exist, however, injury-related health problems in indigenous people are rarely noted and investigated. This study aims to compare the characteristics and outcomes of injury in an ATSI population to the non-atsi population who are living in Queensland, Australia. Data from the QTR database for the period between 2003 and 2005 were analysed for this project. The analysis, including examining baseline and injury characteristics, injury outcomes (length of stay, number of complications, mortality) which compared the non-atsi and ATSI population has been finished. Further analysis, including the injury leveladjusted odds ratio for the mortality outcomes stratified by age, gender and number of complications also has been completed. A manuscript is now in progress to submit to the appropriate peer-reviewed journal. Impact of complications in trauma patients The development of complications can lead to increased risk of suboptimal outcomes in trauma patients. Complications can also negatively impact on the length of hospital stay and lead to excess medical costs. The aims of this study are: \\ To examine the impact of pre-hospital and emergency department management processes on developing complications in trauma patients and \\ To examine the association between the development of multiple complications and risk of death in different age categories. Statistical analysis has been completed and writing of the manuscript is now in progress. Data from the QTR ( ) was used for this study. Co-morbidity data were included in the analysis and essential statistical analysis has been performed. The study results were presented at the Population Health Conference held in Brisbane, July, The study results were also presented at the CONROD Annual Scientific Meeting in June Predicting the probability of survival following injury for the Queensland population The TRISS (Trauma and Injury Severity Score) method has been the standard way of predicting outcome in trauma patients for many years, however, there are alternative methods that may produce more accurate predictions in the Queensland population. The aim of this project is to tailor the TRISS methodology to a Queensland setting, thus enabling more accurate predictions based on the data collected by the QTR. It is envisaged that more detailed exploration of the QTR data and modelling of TRISS-type algorithms for predicting survival in trauma patients will commence in the New Year. Trauma Tracking Study This collaborative project with the NCCH was designed to determine the outcome of injured patients who survived to hospital discharge three years post injury. The second phase of the Trauma Tracking Study examines 2003 data from all QTR sites. This study will enable investigation of concordance of data coding practices across the entire state and will also facilitate investigation of trends in death across time and across different geographical areas. Approval was sought from the Director-General of Queensland Health to enable linkage of QHPADC data to QTR data. This approval was granted on 12 August, All data linkage is now complete, with QTR data, National Death Index data and Queensland Health morbidity data linked into one file. Kirsten McKenzie presented a paper titled Concordance of Injury and External Cause Data Across Systems: Comparing Trauma Registry, Hospital Morbidity and Mortality Data for Trauma-Related Hospitalisations at the Australasian Mortality Data Interest Group (AMDIG) workshop held at the University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand on the 2nd and 3rd of December, The paper has been drafted and is currently under review before submission to a peer reviewed journal.

43 2009 CONROD ANNUAL REPORT 41 Programme REPORTS Traumatic Injury Recovery Study: The management and prediction of early recovery This study, conducted in collaboration with the Centre for Work, Leisure and Community Research at Griffith University, has been funded under the CONROD collaborative grants scheme. It will: \\ Describe the natural progress of early recovery from severe traumatic injury in a population-based sample of adults (18 years of age or older) \\ Document the characteristics of care and rehabilitation received by this sample \\ Identify the determinants of outcome in terms of injury factors, psychosocial variables and early treatment experiences of patients with severe injury Data from the QTR ( ) were used for this study. A manuscript is now in preparation. The study results were presented at the Trauma Melbourne Conference, November \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ This project has two sources of data for each participant: a mail-out questionnaire and Queensland Trauma Registry data. The questionnaire has three points of data collection discharge, 3 months post-discharge and 6 months post-discharge. Data were collected from the Gold Coast Hospital and the Princess Alexandra Hospital. The QTR has provided data for all participants from both hospitals and this constitutes the final sample. Data cleaning has been finalized and multivariate analysis is in progress, with the first reports to be presented shortly. The first publications are to be written up before the new year. Epidemiology of Traumatic Epidural Hematoma in Young Age Epidural hematoma (EDH) is a major traumatic brain injury and a potentially life-threatening condition, with the mortality rate in the young age group varying across studies. The aim of this analysis was to investigate the magnitude of traumatic epidural hematoma in young patients aged 0 to 24 years by presenting data on EDH details, incident environment, treatment received and their outcomes. This project investigates the magnitude of traumatic epidural hematoma on young patients. Since high morbidity is expected, further analysis to evaluate their long-term health outcome via a longitudinal follow-up study is warranted for this young age group. These research aims align with MAIC s objectives to improve the quality of trauma management and to reduce the burden on medical budgets.

44 Programme REPORTS Programme 2 - REHABILITATION (MEDICAL AND ALLIED HEALTH) Programme Report by Associate Professor Michelle Sterling The Rehabilitation (Medical and Allied Health) Programme appointed three additional full-time staff members in 2009: Ms. Helena Motlagh, Ms. Stephanie Valentin and Ms. Tegwen Howell. Both Ms. Motlagh and Ms. Valentin are involved in the 2 NHMRC and MAIC/ MAA co-funded randomized controlled trials for chronic whiplash via participant recruitment and assessment. An additional PhD scholar, Ms. Tze Siong Ng commenced in 2009 as a remote candidate. Ms. Ng will investigate whiplash in Singapore. The appointment of these new staff now brings the total compliment of staff working on the Rehabilitation (Medical and Allied Health) Programme to nine. The Rehabilitation (Medical and Allied Health) Programme was significantly successful in 2009 with the award of over $700,000 in external competitive funding. Associate Professor Sterling was awarded a NHMRC Project grant in collaboration with Professor Paul Hodges (CCRE: Spine), Dr. Lorimer Moseley (University of Sydney) and Associate Professor Michael Nicholas (University of Sydney) for commencement in 2010 and entitled: Why do people keep hurting their back? The programme also received grants from other bodies including Uniquest, The University of Queensland and the Motor Accident Insurance Commission (Qld). Grants awarded in previous years continued including an ARC Discovery project, two NHMRC project grants and the NHMRC CCRE: Spinal Pain Injury and Health. The Whiplash Evidence Based Website launched in 2008 has continued to be successful. The website was a joint project of CONROD Rehabilitation and Social and Behavioural Science Programmes and CCRE: Spine and aims to provide evidence based information to consumers and health care professionals about whiplash and its management. Since its launch, the website has received a large volume of hits, has been endorsed by the RACGP and is linked to websites of other organizations including MAIC (Qld), MAA (NSW), TAC (Vic), MAC (SA) and Queensland Health. A number of papers were published, accepted for publication or presented at national and international conferences. Members of the Rehabilitation (Medical and Allied Health) Programme presented invited papers at numerous scientific meetings including: UK Private Practitioners Group conference, American Physical Therapy Association conference, International Kinetic Control conference in Edinburgh, Australian Physiotherapy Association conference, Australian Pain Society Annual Meeting, Australian Spine Society Meeting and the Chiropractic and Osteopathic College of Australia conference. Members of the Rehabilitation team were awarded a Best Paper award at the Australian Spine Society conference in Brisbane, Best Poster award at the International Kinetic Control conference in Edinburgh and runner up to Best Paper award at the Australian Pain Society conference. Associate Professor Sterling was a member of the Primary Care Task Force in preparation for the National Pain Summit. The summit will be held in 2010 and aims to bring a higher profile to the management of pain. Other achievements include: Dr. Andy Chien and Dr. Jinny Uthaikup were awarded their PhDs; Dr. James Elliott was awarded a Fresh Science award for new investigators and Associate Professor Sterling was awarded a Fellowship to the Australian College of Physiotherapists. Details of specific projects are as follows: The prediction of outcome following whiplash injury Recent data indicate that up to 60% of people will develop persistent pain and disability following whiplash injury and these people incur the vast majority of costs. These studies funded by the Australian Research Council (Linkage and Discovery grants) aim to identify both physical and psychological factors predictive of poor functional recovery following whiplash injury. This will assist in the provision of early intervention strategies as well as curtail claim costs. The studies are multi-centre in design and include collaborations with universities in Iceland, Canada, USA, Melbourne and Sydney. The ARC Linkage project is now completed with final data analysis underway. Findings from this area of research are now included in current Australian Guidelines for Whiplash Management (Motor Accident Authority -MAA, NSW). To date, six publications have arisen from this work in international journals including Pain, The Clinical Journal of Pain.

45 2009 CONROD ANNUAL REPORT 43 Programme REPORTS Physical (biological) processes underlying painful musculoskeletal conditions These ongoing studies are being undertaken by Associate Professor Sterling, Dr. Elliott and Mr. Stone in collaboration with Professor Eli Eliav (University Medical and Dental School, New Jersey, USA), Professor Michele Curatolo (The University of Bern, Switzerland), Professor Graham Galloway and Ms. Gail Durbridge (Centre for Magnetic Resonance (UQ), Associate Professor Ross Cunnington (Queensland Brain Institute) and Dr. Peter Cabot (School of Pharmacy (UQ). In 2009, Dr. Michael Farrell from the Howard Florey Institute, University of Melbourne commenced collaboration with the Rehabilitation team. These studies aim to further develop understanding in the pain processing mechanisms underlying musculoskeletal pain including whiplash, neck pain and low back pain. Methodologies such as Quantitative Sensory Testing, measurement of nociceptor withdrawal reflexes, Magnetic Resonance Imaging and measurement of inflammatory biomarkers are utilized. Outcomes include publications in Pain, Clinical Journal of Pain, Clinical Radiology, Spine. From these studies we have been able to demonstrate that different pain processing mechanisms underlie various spinal pain conditions. PhD scholars Cynan Lewis and Ashley Smith continued work in this area investigating physiological processes underlying ongoing pain following whiplash injury as well as low back pain. Damian Caruana, physiotherapy Honours student from the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences also worked on these projects in Relationships between the physical (biological) and psychological manifestations of whiplash and neck pain This Australian Research Council funded project utilizes unique methodology to measure daily life function and processes involved in recovery or the development of persistent pain following whiplash injury. It explores inter-relationships between physical (muscle and sensory) function, psychological factors and the daily life experiences of whiplash injured people from soon after injury. This project is being conducted in collaboration with the George Institute, University of Sydney (Professor Christopher Maher, PhD scholar Steve Kamper). Initial findings have been published in Pain and The Clinical Journal of Pain. Final data collection for this project will take place in Classification of whiplash injury: translating findings to clinical practice The programme has previously identified important physical and psychological factors associated with delayed recovery following whiplash injury. These factors were identified using laboratory equipment. These studies aim to develop and validate an inexpensive clinical test kit and clinical prediction rule for use in primary care practice. This will facilitate improved diagnosis and classification of the whiplash condition that will allow the targeting of appropriate interventions and enhance recovery. A provisional patent was filed in May 2008 on a portable device to measure cold pain threshold (one prognostic indicator identified by our group) (Associate Professor Sterling and Mr. Matthew Greaves (Hydrexia engineering) in conjunction with Uniquest. This device has undergone extensive testing and now a license is being sought by Uniquest. Dry needling and exercise for chronic whiplash: a randomized controlled trial This study is funded by the NHMRC and MAIC. Recruitment is well underway with 32 participants enrolled in the study to date. The interventions are provided by community physiotherapists in Ipswich, Brisbane and the Gold Coast. The protocol for this study was published in Combined exercise for chronic whiplash: a randomized controlled trial This study is funded by NHMRC, Motor Accident Insurance Commission (Qld) and Motor Accident Authority (NSW). It is a multicentre study between the University of Queensland and the George Institute in Sydney. Recruitment is well underway with nearly 40 participants enrolled in the study. The treatment interventions are provided by community physiotherapists in Brisbane, Sydney and the Gold Coast. The protocol for the trial was published in \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\

46 Programme REPORTS Programme 3 - HEALTH ECONOMICS AND HEALTH SYSTEMS Programme The Health Economics and Health Systems Programme, including the ACERH initiative, had three Professorial staff (one full-time), three postdoctoral staff and three part-time research officers in Six PhD students were under the principal or associate supervision of the Programme s staff. Two ACERH staff left during the course of the year to take up continuing university appointments and positions were advertised to fill those posts. While recruitment to fixed term positions in health economics remains a challenge, by the end of 2009 offers had been made to several candidates and at least one is expected to take up an ACERH post in The Programme also welcomed a Visiting Professor and Visiting Scholar in Professor Dorte Gyrd-Hansen joined us for her sabbatical in September 2009 and will return to Denmark in March Dr Narimasa Kumagai also joined us in September 2009 for 12 months sabbatical. Several themes of research continue to develop within the Programme. They include a focus on: \\ Road traffic crashes and their outcomes \\ Insurance markets and problems of insurance \\ Compensation processes and the outcomes (particularly health outcomes) associated with them \\ Child health \\ Distributional issues in the health sector, including the equity of health care financing and delivery \\ The cost-effectiveness of interventions that can improve health, especially for people with musculoskeletal conditions that are attributable to road crashes \\ Quality and safety in health care the Programme were also represented in a number of other international and national meetings. The Director of the Programme, Professor Luke Connelly gave invited keynote presentations at three international conferences and staff and students from the Programme published 14 peer-reviewed papers, a book chapter, and a book during the year. The Programme also collaborated on work that was awarded the Axel Ingelman prize for best presentation at the 34th Annual Meeting of the International Urogynecological Association, Lake Como, Italy. The Programme s successes in 2009 are attributable, not only to its own staff and students, but also its strong collaborative links within CONROD and the Faculty of Health Sciences, but across The University of Queensland. In addition, collaborative efforts with researchers at several other research-intensive universities within Australia (particularly at The Australian National University, The University of Melbourne and The University of Western Australia), and abroad, have contributed to the Programme s standing and success. \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ In addition, as the list of presentations and papers in this report attests, researchers in the Programme write on a range of topics that are relevant to public policy and the effects of policy on health and welfare. It was a productive year for the Health Economics and Health Systems Programme. In addition to ongoing projects with national competitive funding (totalling approximately $6.7m), two new NHMRC grants and a grant from industry (totalling approximately $930,000) commenced in Staff and students from the programme were well represented at the International Health Economics Association meeting in Beijing (4 papers), and at the National Australian Health Economics Society (6 papers) and Economics Society (3 papers) meetings in Hobart and Adelaide, respectively. Staff from

47 2009 CONROD ANNUAL REPORT 45 Programme REPORTS Programme 4 SOCIAL AND BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCE Programme Report by Professor Justin Kenardy Our Research Programme focuses on the psychological health and wellbeing of adults and children following medical trauma. Children and Families A large part of our programme has focussed on exploring post traumatic stress in children and their parents following a visit to the hospital for a variety of medical issues including visits to the emergency department or admission to hospital following accidental injury, traumatic brain injury, burns or admission to the paediatric intensive care. A degree of psychological distress is common in the initial weeks after medical trauma and for most children these changes are transient with children and their families adapting and moving on. However, for a significant proportion (between per cent) of children the trauma, and their response, has the potential to disrupt their development of cognition, attention, personality style, self-concept, self-esteem and impulse control. Other adverse outcomes reported in the literature include; persistent mood disturbances, tantrums, mood swings and sleep disturbances, post traumatic stress disorder, phobic anxiety. This has both emotional and financial costs for the individual, their family and society as a whole. Our research and that of others indicates that, for these children and their parents, symptoms and associated disability may be ongoing and persist for years. Collaborators Our research Programme is conducted within the context of international efforts to understand the psychological impact of medical trauma on children and their families. Our collaborators include staff from the University of Queensland, Mayne Medical School and the School of Psychology as well as the Universities of Melbourne and Adelaide. In addition, our Programme includes collaborators from The Royal Children s Hospitals (Brisbane and Melbourne), The Mater Children s Hospital, Brisbane, the Mater Child and Youth Mental Health Service and the Queensland Paediatric Rehabilitation Service. Our collaborators come from a variety of disciplines including medical and nursing staff, rehabilitation specialists and staff with expertise in psychology, medical sociology and biostatistics. An important partner in our efforts to understand post-traumatic stress following medical events includes collaborations with researchers and clinicians at The Children s Hospital of Philadelphia including Dr. Nancy Kassam-Adams and Professor Anne Kazak. We have partnered with a number of researchers in the United States and have obtained a grant from the National Institute of Health to support an international consortium to develop a risk assessment tool for post traumatic stress in children and their families. We are also working jointly on the next generation of prevention programmes for children who have been exposed to trauma. We also work closely with students from The University of Queensland and the University of Melbourne as well as a range of international students from The Netherlands and United States. Our Research Programme to Date Our research programme has focussed on: \\ The assessment and diagnosis of the incidence, severity, and course of post traumatic stress in children and their parents following accidental injury, admission to hospital after accidental injury (primarily orthopaedic), traumatic brain injury, paediatric burn injury, and admission to paediatric intensive care (PICU). (Funded by grants from NHMRC and Royal Children s Hospital Foundation) \\ The design and evaluation of early screening tools to identify children at risk of poor psychological outcomes. (Funded by a grant from Royal Children s Hospital Foundation) \\ The design, implementation and evaluation of prevention programme aimed at moderating the effects of medical trauma. (Funded by a grant from MAIC) \\ The design, implementation and evaluation of an early intervention programme to address postconcussion symptoms in children following mild traumatic brain injury. (Funded by a grant from MAIC) \\ The design, implementation and evaluation of an early intervention programme targeting children and families where the impact of medical trauma has resulted in post-traumatic stress disorder. (Funded by a Project Grant from NHMRC)

48 Programme REPORTS Adults Our research continues in the area of psychological factors in adult injury. The main areas of focus have been: \\ Identification of psychological factors, including psychological comorbidity in recovery following motor vehicle injury. This project is well under way and recruitment should be completed by 2010 (Funded by a grant from MAIC) \\ Assessment of the role of traumatic stress in relation to chronic pain in individuals with whiplash related injury. This work is progressing with all necessary cases recruited \\ Evaluation of effectiveness and dissemination of a consumer-focussed evidence-based website for treatment of post-traumatic stress. All evidence to date has been gathered and the website is currently under construction for launch in 2010 \\ Development and evaluation of a web-based intervention for general distress in adults. (Funded by a Project Grant from NHMRC) Outputs \\ Four papers have been published from the programme including a systematic review in the Cochrane Library on early intervention with post-traumatic stress disorder \\ Results of the research from the Programme have resulted in 21 presentations at national and international forums. These include the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies Conference in Atlanta, U.S.A.; Australian Society for the Study of Brain Impairment, Sydney; Australian Society for Psychiatric Research, Canberra; and the E-Health Summit, Amsterdam \\ Sonja March and Michelle Heron were each awarded UQ Early Career Researcher Fellowships. Robyne LeBrocque was awarded a Promoting Women Fellowship \\ A new U.S.A. NIH grant and a new MAA grant were awarded to add to six ongoing grants, including two from NHMRC, and two from MAIC Staffing We have appointed two new staff associated with the core and externally funded projects. Sonja March is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow working on the NHMRC Early Intervention project and Michelle Heron is also a Postdoctoral Research Fellow working on the MAIC-funded longitudinal study of CTP claimants. \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\

49 2009 CONROD ANNUAL REPORT 47 Programme REPORTS Programme 5 VOCATIONAL AND COMMUNITY REHABILITATION Programme Report by Professor Elizabeth Kendall In 2009, the Griffith University team consisted of one Professor, two Post-doctoral and 3.5 full-time research fellows and 11 part-time support staff. Sixteen key projects were commenced or progressed during the year. During 2009, the team produced twenty-one publications in peer-reviewed journals (such as Social Science and Medicine, Disability and Rehabilitation, Australian Health Review) with another 9 manuscripts submitted. Eleven industry reports were finalised. The team supervised nine PhD students, two Masters students and one Honours student. Several projects resulted in significant outcomes for practice and policy this year. There is evidence of use of our research findings in courses at Flinders University and other Queensland universities around studies of self-management and community rehabilitation. We have facilitated ongoing research partnerships with key stakeholder organisations and health services to enable research to contribute to planning and policy decisions with inclusion of MAIC in these partnerships. The Griffith research team has provided expertise and advice for health services and rehabilitation providers in the community on brain injury rehabilitation, younger people with complex care needs following traumatic injury/illness and self-management following traumatic injury/illness. Research findings in the area of vocational rehabilitation are being used in the training delivered by the Accident Compensation Corporation in New Zealand. The team has maintained their existing collaborations and have developed new links in 2009 with G-Plan, the Logan-Beaudesert Coalition, Multi-Link Services, AccesServices Inc., Access Arts, Gold Coast Division of General Practice, Wesley Mission Brisbane and QPASTT. The team continues to actively provide representation on key advisory panels including Queensland Health, Acquired Brain Injury Outreach Service, Queensland Self-Management Alliance and Flinders University Self- Management. The Projects Evaluation of the ABIOS STEPS intervention: A statewide intervention This study evaluates individual change in health and well being over time following participation in the STEPS intervention. Specifically, the evaluation will identify the indicators of success for the intervention and the factors that facilitate positive outcomes. Publication was submitted in January. The project is finalised. ABIOS has acquired recurrent funding for the project Traumatic Injury: Management of recovery and the prediction of well-being This study involved a prospective cohort design, using both quantitative and qualitative methods with data collection at hospital discharge and three and six months post-discharge. Quantitative surveys measuring demographics, injury and treatment data, general health, self efficacy, illness perceptions, autonomy, self advocacy, knowledge and support, decision making styles and continuity of care were administered. Reanalysis of the data is being undertaken. Journal articles are currently being prepared. Collective approaches to well-being: Culturally respectful research. This project is underpinned by the Indigenous selfmanagement project. The research in this area has developed into a team approach that focuses on collective approaches to wellbeing and culturally respectful research. We are operationalising a number of important principles in this research agenda and establishing ways in which respectful research can occur in future. The proposed principles are: \\ Formal negotiated research relationships with traditional owners \\ Respect for Indigenous ways of knowing and Indigenous knowledge \\ Promotion of participatory community-based methods and localised responses to the needs of Indigenous people \\ Appropriate collaboration between Indigenous and non-indigenous researchers \\ Commitment to growth and development of Indigenous researchers Three publications have been submitted to peerreview journals with two submissions to peer-reviewed conferences. The final report is being completed.

50 Programme REPORTS The development of Bi-lingual Natural Helpers to address the lack of access to services by culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) Australians in the community This project focuses on the use of natural helpers to work with CALD communities to promote health and well being. This new model incorporates the use of formally trained Bi- Lingual natural helpers drawn from the local community. By virtue of their background and position in the community, these natural helpers will draw on their existing community linkages in a culturally appropriate way to act as a bridge between the communities and the service system. They will advocate for improved access, ensure that local communities are consulted appropriately and support them in their interpretation and use of services. It is also important to ensure that local input is equitable and that sustainability issues are examined. Evaluation of the implementation stage has been finalised with data being analysed. The final report is currently being completed. A review of the Spinal Cord Injuries Response (SCIR) The project examined and reported on the outcomes of the Spinal Cord Injuries Response, benefits to key stakeholders and the cost effectiveness of the programme. The findings of the research were used to inform the strategic planning and policy formation of spinal cord injury service delivery and improve the service planning for people with spinal cord injury. Publications are currently being edited and finalised. Restrictions to publish the results are currently in place until mid-late Evaluation of Youngcare: An accommodation option for people with high health and high support needs This study is an empirical evaluation of an independent living option for younger people with continual care needs. Within a Logic model framework, the evaluation will consider the contextual elements required to deliver such a model of care, resources available, activities that have/will occur, intermediate outcomes and overall impact and sustainability of the initiative. A longitudinal cohort study will be undertaken using a mixed-methods design. Key outcome indicators include individual quality of life and community partnership experiences. Data analysis is ongoing. One manuscript has been accepted for publication in Disability and Rehabilitation and two others are currently being prepared. Interview and focus group data are currently being transcribed and data are being analysed. Staff workshops have been delivered and evaluation is in progress 1000 Voices The purpose of this project is to collect and display 1000 life narratives from people with disability from around the world. With this collection of narratives we hope to build awareness of the lived experiences of people with disability, to provide opportunities for people with disability to have their own voice in determining how their lives are seen and heard and to make sure that these voices become part of ongoing research, service, and policy development activity in Australia and beyond. The project will centre on a public interactive website that will display and catalogue a minimum of 1000 life narratives from participants in Australia and participating countries. These life narratives will be presented in a number of multimedia and textual formats to accommodate our participating narrators communication strengths and weaknesses. Public launch of the website occurred in early December 2009 at Griffith University Logan with government delegates. Moral Distress in Community-based Research This national multi-phase project will examine the prevalence and effects of moral distress among community based researchers in Australia who work with vulnerable populations such as Indigenous and migrant communities and people with chronic illness and disability. The research will also investigate the training and support needs for Community Based Researchers (CBR) who work with vulnerable populations. We are now awaiting acceptance of publication that has been submitted to the Journal of Social Services Research. Healthy Places: Putting health in context This project will understand how place can influence health and well-being, increase the capacity of community to understand and respond to local health issues, protect and support the social structures that can contribute to health and well being. And encourage different settings to engage in health promotion and prevention of injury/ illness. The Annual Report will be submitted in January 2010; two publications have been accepted by peerreviewed journals.

51 2009 CONROD ANNUAL REPORT 49 Programme REPORTS Capable Consumers: Managing our own health This is a two year project that aims to understand the health-related experiences of consumers accessing health care provision within the geographical area defined by the Logan Beaudesert Health Coalition. Specifically, the project seeks to understand the interaction between consumers and the health care system and how individual values and beliefs impact on health outcomes. Development of this level of understanding of consumer experience will include ascertaining the processes that people use to adjust to and manage their health, and identify ways in which consumers can be actively engaged in health related interventions. Interviews have been conducted and data are currently being analysed. Active Care Management Programme This is a nine-month area prospective intervention trial within a defined geographical area (Gold Coast Division of General Practice) that aims to increase the coordination of health care for individuals with long term conditions accessing General Practice. This study involved a participatory action research project designed to develop a model of coordinated care for implementation by Practice Nurses within General Practice. Data are being reanalysed and publication is being prepared. Coordinated Care Concept Analysis This was a six month project aimed at identifying the components of Coordinated Care through analysis of the concept and providing a report to General Practice Queensland for distribution amongst Divisions of General Practice within Queensland. Coordinated care is a term frequently used to describe an approach to health care delivery in a complex primary health care system. However, the elements constituting the concept are not completely understood, nor clearly defined. Rather the term is often used simultaneously and interchangeably to conceptualize the structure, process, philosophy and interpersonal dimensions of care delivery. This project sought to explore current literature and develop an understanding of the attributes of coordinated care. Two publications are currently being prepared for the Medical Journal of Australia. Social Care Networks Shorter hospital stays and the push towards community health settings have inadvertently created a new social economy in Australia around informal human structures of support and significance (people and partnerships). This situation has revealed uncertainties about the capacity of the social infrastructure to support these systemic changes. In response to contemporary relational concerns, this project aims to provide definitive theoretical and empirical advances to the social capital knowledge base. Specifically, the project will: \\ Identify network forms, functions and pathways of social networks in chronic disease \\ Extend the theoretical framework of networks in health and statistically test the value of human structures of support and significance across multi-levels (system, organisation, consumer) \\ Use findings to assign leverage points and priorities for social network capacity building to promote resilient networks and develop value-based social policy Organisational network data is ongoing. Consumer network data commenced and the Health Professional data collection will be commencing in April Knowledge Transfer The purpose of this research is to map and evaluate knowledge transfer within the LBHC and across the broader LBHC Network. The specific aims of the research are to: \\ Identify and track the flows of knowledge development and information transfer between subgroups and members of the LBHC learning community \\ Identify effective processes of knowledge transfer within the Logan-Beaudesert health district learning community \\ Identify the reach of knowledge transfer and communication activities between key groups such as the Board, Programme Areas, Advisory Groups, the broader LBHC Network, and health consumers. Knowledge transfer beyond the Logan-Beaudesert district will also be investigated where appropriate, for example, influence on state-wide or national policy. The Annual Report was completed in December Observations will be continuing throughout A manuscript has also been submitted for publication to the Journal of Ethnography.

52 Programme REPORTS Health Check of the Comprehensive Third Party Scheme Following a motor vehicle accident, individuals are usually required to make an insurance claim under comprehensive third party insurance (CTP) to compensate for their injury and loss. However, the claimant process for individuals following a motor vehicle accident is not necessarily easy to navigate or understand and can potentially add a further burden to an already complex process. The purpose of this research is to investigate claimant experiences of, and attitudes towards, the current Compulsory Third Party (CTP) Insurance Claims scheme in Queensland. This research will help to identify gaps and strengths in the process for the benefit of future claimants. This research aims to understand the experiences (quantitative and qualitative) of insurance claimants following their motor vehicle accident for all claims finalised with the Motor Accident Insurance Commission in the past 12 months. Key areas to be investigated include: \\ Claimant awareness \\ Knowledge and information about the CTP Scheme, \\ Claimant experiences of, and attitudes towards the claims process, \\ Experiences of self-claimants (i.e. those who do not engage legal representation) and experiences of claimants who engage legal representation, \\ Experiences and awareness of treatment and rehabilitation options, \\ Settlement efficiency \\ Satisfaction and quality of life of claimants who experience catastrophic injuries. RESP-ECCT: Respite for Emerging Communities in Cultural Transition The RESP-ECCT project is a highly innovative and collaborative project aimed at three main areas of development: service delivery, establishment of a CALD service model and sector/community capacity building as it relates to respite needs for people from diverse backgrounds experiencing severe mental illness. Naturally, any new approach in providing services raises important questions for individuals, families, staff, organisations, funders and the community more broadly. Research conducted by Griffith University, in collaboration with the RESP-ECCT consortia members will seek to evaluate aspects of the project so as to inform similar approaches in the future. The literature review has been finalised and the organisational survey has been completed. Several focus groups have been facilitated with the writing up preliminary results and development of guiding principles for a decision-making model. \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ The survey has been distributed (hard copy and online) to CTP clients. Data collection is ongoing and is currently being collated and entered with the literature review finalised.

53 2009 CONROD ANNUAL REPORT 51 COMMITTEES AND PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS \\ Member (Bellamy), the Queensland Trauma Data Scoping Project Steering Committee. \\ Member (Bellamy), the Statewide Trauma Clinical Network. \\ Member (Bellamy), the QEMS Quality Council. \\ Member (Bellamy), International Society for Chronobiology. \\ Member (Bellamy), Ontario College of Physicians. \\ Member (Bellamy), Royal College of Physicians of the United Kingdom. \\ Fellow (Bellamy), Royal College of Physicians of Canada. \\ Fellow (Bellamy), American College of Physicians. \\ Member (Bellamy), Canadian Rheumatism Association. \\ Member (Bellamy), American Rheumatism Association. \\ Member (Bellamy), British Society for Rheumatology. \\ Member (Bellamy), International Epidemiology Association. \\ Member (Bellamy), Canadian Society of Internal Medicine. \\ Fellow (Bellamy), Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. \\ Fellow (Bellamy), Royal College of Physicians of Glasgow. \\ Fellow (Bellamy), Royal Society of Medicine. \\ Member (Bellamy), National Trauma Registry Consortium Steering Committee. \\ Associate Member (Bellamy), Australian Rheumatism Association. \\ Fellow (Bellamy), Australasian Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine. \\ Board Member (Bellamy), Arthritis Foundation of Queensland. \\ Member (Connelly), International Health Economics Association (ihea) Scientific Committee. \\ Dean s (Faculty of Health Sciences) Representative (Connelly), Business Economics and Law Faculty Academic Board (UQ). \\ Dean s (Faculty of Health Sciences) Representative (Connelly), Business Economics and Law Faculty Board of Studies (UQ). \\ Member (Connelly), The American Economic Association (AEA). \\ Member (Connelly), International Health Economics Association (ihea). \\ Member (Connelly), Australian Health Economics Society (AHES). \\ Member (Connelly), American Society of Health Economists (ASHE). \\ Member (Connelly), American Risk and Insurance Association (ARIA). \\ Professors Connelly and Lapsley were also engaged in national and international review activities for a variety of granting bodies and journals. \\ Professors Connelly and Lapsley are also members of and reviewers for a range of granting bodies and journals. \\ Stakeholders (Dale, Mason and Brennan) on the Queensland Trauma Data Scoping Project Working Group. \\ Member (Dale), RBWH Trauma Service Practice Development Steering Committee. \\ Member (Dale), RBWH Trauma Research Group. \\ Member (Gargett), International Health Economics Association (ihea). \\ Member (Gargett), Australian Health Economics Society (AHES). \\ Member (Gargett), Economic Society of Australia (ESA). \\ Dr. Gargett also was involved with reviewing activities for a national journal. \\ Member (Hanby), Safe Communities Committee run by the Cairns City Council (a WHO initiative). \\ Member (Irie), Japan Medical Society. \\ Member (Irie), Japan Neurosurgical Society. \\ Member (Irie), The Japanese Congress of Neurological Surgeons. \\ Committee Member (Kenardy), Allied Health Education Standing Committee, Queensland Health. \\ Expert Advisor (Kenardy), Queensland Police Service. \\ Editor (Kenardy), Clinical Psychologist. \\ Editorial Board (Kenardy), Journal of Anxiety Disorders. \\ Editorial Board (Kenardy), Australasian Journal of Disaster and Trauma Studies. \\ Editorial Board (Kenardy), Cognitive and Behavioural Psychotherapy. \\ Editorial Advisory Board (Kenardy), Cognitive and Behavioural Psychotherapy. \\ Editorial Board (Kenardy), Evidence-Based Mental Health.

54 COMMITTEES AND PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS \\ Ad hoc reviewer (Kenardy) for Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Journal of Psychosomatic Research, Nervous and Mental Disease, Journal of Traumatic Stress, Evidence-based Mental Health, Evidence-based Medicine, Diabetic Medicine, British Journal of Health Psychology, International Journal of Behavioural Medicine, British Medical Journal, CNS Spectrum, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, Journal of Pediatrics. \\ External (international) examiner (Kenardy) for PhD and Masters theses. \\ Regular expert review (Kenardy), for: NHMRC, NSW Cancer Council, Commonwealth Department of Health and Family Services Research and Development Grants Council. \\ Ad hoc expert reviewer (Kenardy), for: ARC, Australian Sports Commission, NSW Institute of Psychiatry, National Heart Foundation, Diabetes Australia Research Trust, Murdoch Children s Research Foundation, Emergency Management Australia. \\ Member (Kenardy), National Executive, Australian Psychological Society College of Clinical Psychologists. \\ Member (Kenardy), Australian Psychological Society Directorate of Science Advisory Group. \\ (Kenardy), Examiner, Board of Censors, Australian Psychological Society College of Clinical Psychology. \\ Course Accreditor (Kenardy), Australian Psychological Society College of Clinical Psychology. \\ Member (Kenardy), National Mental Health Disaster Response Committee. \\ Member (Kenardy) Royal Children s Hospital Foundation Research Committee \\ Fellow (Kenardy), Australian Psychological Society (replaces Member, Australian Psychological Society). \\ Chair (Kenardy), Disability Subcommittee, Senate Standing Committee for Equity, Diversity and the Status of Women. University of Queensland. \\ Member (Kenardy), Senate Standing Committee for Equity, Diversity and the Status of Women. University of Queensland. \\ Member (Kenardy), Academic Board, University of Queensland. \\ Convene (Kenardy), Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry Group, Research Quality Framework Group, University of Queensland. \\ Deputy Chair (Kenardy), Faculty Academic Continuing Appointments and Promotions Committee. \\ Member (Kendall), Logan Beaudesert Health Coalition Board. \\ Member (Kendall), Riding for Disabled Australia. \\ Member (Kendall), E-Health Research Centre Board. \\ Member (Kendall), Chronic Disease Evaluation Working Party. \\ Member (Kendall), Queensland Government Chronic Disease Working Party. \\ Member (Kendall), NCRISS Board. \\ Member (Lapsley), N.S.W. Medical Board. \\ National Councillor (Lapsley), of the Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association. \\ Member (Lapsley), Economic Society of Australia. \\ Member (Lapsley), International Hospital Federation Governing Council. \\ Vice-President (Lapsley), International Health Policy and Management Institute. \\ Member (Lapsley), Pharmaceutical Benefits Remuneration Tribunal. \\ Member (Le Brocque), National Research Policy Committee, National Tertiary Education Union. \\ Member (Nghiem), Australian Health Economics Society (AHES). \\ Member (Nghiem), International Health Economics Association (ihea). \\ Member (Nghiem), Australian Agricultural and Resources Economic Society (AARES). \\ Member (Nghiem), International Association of Agricultural Economists (IAAE). \\ Members (Pollard, Bellamy), of the International Collaboration of Trauma Registry Research. \\ Chair (Pollard), Patient Transport Quality Council, Integrated Patient Transport Unit. \\ Member (Pollard), The Queensland Emergency Services Advisory Committee. \\ Guest Editor (Sterling), Journal of Orthopedic and Sports Physical Therapy. \\ Editorial Board (Sterling), Australian Journal of Physiotherapy. \\ Editorial Board (Sterling), Open Journal of Anaesthesiology. \\ Editorial Advisory Board (Sterling), Manual Therapy. \\ Titled Member (Sterling), Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy Australia. \\ Member (Sterling), Australian Physiotherapy Association. \\ Member (Sterling), Australian Pain Society. \\ Member (Sterling), International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP).

55 2009 CONROD ANNUAL REPORT 53 COMMITTEES AND PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS \\ Member (Sterling), Association of Clinical research Professionals. \\ Member (Sterling), School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences Research Committee. \\ Member (Sterling), Grants Review Committee, Physiotherapy Research Foundation. \\ Member (Sterling), Technical Advisory Group, TracSa, Clinical Pathway for Whiplash Development. \\ Member (Sterling), Scientific Advisory Group, Motor Accident Authority (NSW), Clinical Guidelines for Whiplash Management. \\ Member (Sterling), Editorial Advisory Committee, Manual Therapy. \\ Member (Sterling/Elliott), Editorial Advisory Committee, Journal of Orthopaedic and Sports Physical Therapy. \\ Member (Elliott), APTA. \\ Ad hoc reviewer (Sterling), for Journal of the American Medical Association, Pain, Clinical Journal of Pain, European Journal of Pain, Manual Therapy, Rheumatology, BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, BMC Neurology, Spine, Biological Research for Nursing, Journal of Orthopedic and Sports Physical Therapy, European Journal of Neurology, Physiotherapy Research International. \\ Expert Reviewer (Sterling), for Australian Research Council, NHMRC, Physiotherapy Research Foundation, Alberta Health Research Fund, Canada. \\ External (national and international) examiner (Sterling), for PhD and Masters theses

56 FELLOWSHIP REPORTS 2009 CONROD/Royal College Of Surgeons Trauma Fellowship Recipient: A/Professor Phillip Walker, Chairman, Department of Vascular Surgery, Royal Brisbane & Women s Hospital Project title: Establishment of a statewide trauma registry for the Endovascular Management of Thoracic Aortic Trauma (TEVAR for TAT Registry) Aims: The aim of this project is to establish a statewide Queensland registry to document the clinical presentation, procedural outcomes and follow-up results of endovascular stent-graft repair (TEVAR) of traumatic thoracic aortic tears throughout Queensland. Ultimately, the aim is to develop an online data entry system for data input from vascular centres throughout Australasia with the additional aim of expanding the registry to include the full spectrum of indications for TEVAR and to secure ongoing funding to maintain an Australasian Registry. Current Progress: Funding from this Fellowship has been used to employ a research officer (Ms. Jessica Gale) at the University of Queensland and the Department of Vascular Surgery at Royal Brisbane & Women s Hospital to establish the Registry in Queensland. Agreement for participation in the registry has been obtained from all the Vascular Surgery Units in Queensland. Agreement was obtained from Professor Tim Buckenham from Christchurch in New Zealand to allow us to mirror the data set that has been used in the Thoracic Aortic Trauma Repair section of the New Zealand Registry for Endovascular Treatment of Thoracic Aortic Aneurysms, Dissection & Trauma. This harmonisation of the data will allow combined and comparative analysis in the future. Thirty-nine patients were identified in Queensland who have undergone TEVAR for traumatic aortic tears and form the basis of the initial registry. There were 30 males (77 per cent) and 9 females. Mean age was 42 years (range years, median 40 years). Most injuries were related to motor vehicle or motor cycle accidents. All but one patient survived giving mortality rate for this group of 2.6 per cent. Full data on this cohort will be submitted for presentation at the ANZ Society for Vascular Surgery Vascular 2010 meeting. We propose publishing this early state-wide experience and a review article on TEVAR for thoracic aortic trauma in the ANZ Journal of Surgery. I have discussed rolling out the Registry nationally in Australia with Professor Tim Buckenham who oversees the New Zealand Registry to form an Australian and New Zealand Registry. This is dependent on securing ongoing recurrent funding for data management and audit and moving to an online system for data entry. I have also discussed linking the TEVAR for TAT Registry data set to the recently instituted Australasian Vascular Audit (AVA), which commenced on January 1, 2010 with Dr. Barry Beiles who is the administrator of the AVA. He has informed me that this is technically easy to do and has given me in-principle support to progress this mechanism for expanding the registry binationally through the AVA. Professor Buckenham has received agreement from the New Zealand Vascular Society to join with Queensland to increase the numbers in the thoracic aortic trauma section of the database and has sought costings to progress this initiative. I am in the process of sourcing recurrent funds and National Ethics approval to advance this initiative. Publications and Presentations: Nil to date. The registry data will be submitted for presentation at the ANZ Society for Vascular Surgery Vascular 2010 meeting. We propose publishing this early state-wide experience and a review article on TEVAR for thoracic aortic trauma in the ANZ Journal of Surgery. Award: $50,000.00

57 2009 CONROD ANNUAL REPORT 55 FELLOWSHIP REPORTS 2009 CONROD/Royal Australian College Of General Practitioners Research Fellowship Project title: Overcoming barriers to using child restraints in an urban Indigenous community: A Pilot Study Chief Investigators: Dr. Winston Lo, A/Professor Rebecca Ivers, Dr. Lisa Keay, RACGP, Sydney Award: $20, An extension has been granted for this grant. The final report is due August \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ Project title: To drive or not to drive: assessment dilemmas for GPs Chief Investigators: A/Professor Peter Schattner, Dr. Kay Jones, Dr. Andrew Beveridge, Monash University, Department of General Practice Award: $19, Report not yet received from College. \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ CONROD/Royal Australasian College of Physicians Research Fellowship This Fellowship was not awarded in \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\

58 RESEARCH REPORTS COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH GRANTS COMPETITION REPORTS Project An intervention programme for children with traumatic stress reactions following accidents. Chief Investigators: Dr. Vanessa Cobham, Professor Justin Kenardy and Dr. Peta Lilley Final Report The deliverables for this project were renegotiated in early This project has now come to an end. The following outcomes have been achieved: \\ Development of treatment materials for a child-focused and a parent-focused intervention, as well as a therapist manual \\ Presentations regarding the above materials at conferences \\ An NHMRC funded project grant to conduct a multi-site RCT evaluating the above materials \\ The beginnings of collaborative work with international experts in the area (e.g. Professor Tom Ollendick, Virginia Tech, U.S.A.) with a view to evaluating adapted versions of the materials developed in this project Project Brain activation in children with post-traumatic stress symptoms following traumatic brain injury: An fmri study Chief Investigators: Professor Vicki Anderson, Professor Justin Kenardy and Dr. Peta Lilley The current study is ongoing. We have completed piloting of the behavioural paradigms in 10 normal children, 2 children with PTSD post TBI and 2 children without PTSD post TBI. We have made modifications to the fmri protocol drawing on the findings from the pilot study and taking into consideration feedback from participants. We have identified and recruited 10 normative children to complete the fmri protocol. In addition, 10 children with and without PTSD post TBI have been identified and recruited. We have completed the scanning for 6 children with TBI and 2 controls have conducted preliminary analysis of this data. Award: $89, The first Chief Investigator is attending a conference in New York later this year with a view to establishing new and consolidating existing links with potential collaborators. Finally, a review paper is currently underway and submission is expected by mid-year. Award: $77,038.72

59 2009 CONROD ANNUAL REPORT 57 RHD STUDENTS PhD Students Name Supervisor Thesis title Date Enrolled Melissa Kaltner (nee Faulkner) Alexandra De Young UQ Prof Justin Kenardy UQ Prof Justin Kenardy UQ Submission Date Full-time/Part- Time Abuse-related Traumatic Brain Injury June 2009 June 2012 Full time Nil Investigation of the Impact of Paediatric Burns on Young Children and Parent s Psychosocial Adjustment February 2006 February 2010 Full time Clinical Psychology PhD student Financial Support Royal Children s Hospital Foundation Postgraduate Scholarship Australian Postgraduate Award Belinda Murray UQ Prof Justin Kenardy UQ Mala McHale Prof Justin Kenardy UQ Rian Dob UQ Prof Justin Kenardy UQ The role of memory in children s posttraumatic distress following admission to the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit Depression and Diabetes: Prevalence, diagnosis and help-seeking: Influence in depression, glycemic control and quality of life Effects of premorbid factors and emotional reactions on cognitive outcome following paediatric traumatic brain injury February 2007 August 2010 PhD Clinical Psychology and Clinical Neuropsychology Full time APA Scholarship Royal Children s Hospital Top-Up Scholarship December 2003 May 2009 Full time APAI Scholarship January 2004 December 2008 Full-time UQ Postgraduate Scholarship NHMRC Top-up Scholarship Rachel Dunne UQ Rachel Dunne UQ Cynan Lewis UQ Prof Justin Kenardy UQ A/Prof Michele Sterling (Associate) UQ A/Prof Michele Sterling PTSD and pain sensitivity in whiplash February 2006 June 2009 Full-time APA Scholarship CCRE Scholarship PTSD and pain sensitivity in whiplash February 2006 June 2009 Full time APA Scholarship Strain-counterstrain techniques for low back pain February 2006 December 2010 Part-time Remote nil Ashley Smith UQ Steve Kamper University of Sydney UQ A/Prof Michele Sterling UQ A/Prof Michele Sterling (Associate) UQ A prospective study of the time course of effects of cervical medial branch radiofrequency neurotomies on sensory, motor and psychological features of whiplash Prediction of outcome following whiplash injury September Part-time Remote nil February Full time NHMRC PhD Scholarship

60 RHD STUDENTS PhD Students Name Supervisor Thesis title Date Enrolled Esther Williamson University of Warwick Andrew Stone UQ A/Prof Michele Sterling (Associate) UQ A/Prof Michele Sterling UQ Judith Milliken Prof Elizabeth Kendall Griffith University Tara Catalano Prof Elizabeth Kendall Griffith University Melissa Kendall Prof Elizabeth Kendall Griffith University Carolyn Ehrlich Prof Elizabeth Kendall Griffith University Kylie Rixon Prof Elizabeth Kendall Griffith University Paula Longbottom Prof Elizabeth Kendall (Associate) Griffith University Hayley Quinn Prof Elizabeth Kendall Griffith University Narina Jenkinson Prof Elizabeth Kendall Griffith University Garth Henniker Prof Elizabeth Kendall (Associate) Griffith University Debbie Cowan Prof Elizabeth Kendall (Associate) Griffith University Carol Rushton Prof Elizabeth Kendall (Associate) Griffith University An investigation into the role of patients beliefs following whiplash injury in the development of late whiplash syndrome The evidence for central hyperexcitability in chronic whiplash associated disorder and observable changes in brain function Submission Date Full-time/Part- Time February Full time nil October Part-time Nil April Full-time April Full-time April 2008 March 2008 Full-time April Full-time 2009 Full-time 2011 Full-time 2011 Full-time 2011 Full-time April Full-time April Full-time April Full-time Financial Support

61 2009 CONROD ANNUAL REPORT 59 RHD STUDENTS PhD Students Name Supervisor Thesis title Date Enrolled Christine Randall Prof Elizabeth Kendall (Associate) Griffith University Submission Date Full-time/Part- Time 2008 Full-time Financial Support Carol Jeffreys A/Prof Naomi Sunderland David Rowell (ACERH) Mohammad Hajizadeh (ACERH) Mai Pham (ACERH and ANU) Duncan Maclaine (ACERH) Natalie Spearing (ACERH) Griffith University Prof Luke Connelly UQ Prof Luke Connelly UQ Prof. Luke Connelly (Associate) UQ Prof. Luke Connelly UQ Prof Luke Connelly UQ An analysis of the motor accident insurance market in Queensland Equity of health care financing and delivery in Australia and Iran: A comparative analysis Full-time January 2007 December 2009 Full-time ACERH UQ Scholarship February 2007 December 2009 Full-time Iran Ministry of Health Scholarship Cost efficiency in Australian Hospitals June 2008 Full-time Essays in Applied Health Economics February 2006 February 2009 Full-time ACERH and UQ Graduate School Joint Research Scholarship A comparison of personal injury motor vehicle insurance schemes in Australia and their impact on health outcomes April 2008 April 2011 Full-time Joint ACERH-CCRE Spine Scholarship

62 RHD STUDENTS Completed Name Supervisor Thesis title Date Enrolled Jinny Uthaikhup UQ Andy Chien UQ Nick Penney UQ A/Prof Michele Sterling UQ A/Prof Michele Sterling UQ Prof Nick Bellamy UQ Physical and psychological features of headache in the elderly Investigation of a neuropathic component to whiplash Prognostication in low back pain: A biopsychosocial Index Submission Date April 2004 June 2009 Awarded October 2009 February 2004 April 2009 Awarded October 2009 May 2002 Completed August 2009 Full-time/Part- Time Financial Support Full-time Thai Government Scholarship Full-time Menzies Scholarship Part-time Nil Catherine Cox (nee Eccleston) UQ Prof Justin Kenardy UQ Sonja March UQ Prof Justin Kenardy (Associate) UQ MSc(Statistics) A web based early intervention for children and their parents following unintentional trauma. An investigation of an internetbased treatment for childhood anxiety (BRAVE for Children- ONLINE): An evaluation of efficacy and factors associated with treatment outcomes January 2006 Completed December 2009 January 2003 Completed December 2009 Jacelle Lang Prof Annette Dobson August 2004 December 2009 Completed Awarded December 2009 MSc Christine Smith (Curtin University of Technology, WA) Kauthar Al Busaidi (Curtin University of Technology, WA) MPhil Edwin Lim UQ Prof Nick Bellamy (Associate) Prof Nick Bellamy (Associate) A/Prof Michele Sterling UQ Becky Saul Prof Justin Kenardy UQ The development of the Breast Lymphoedema Severity Symptom Questionnaire (BLYSS) The prevalence of urinary incontinence among Oman woman: A pilot study Lateral epicondylalgia and its management: Are central mechanisms involved? Preparation for Hospital Admission Clinical Psychology PhD full time November 2007 June 2011 Full-time August 2007 December 2010 Full-time APA Scholarship Royal Children s Hospital Top- Up Scholarship Full-time UQ Postgraduate Scholarship Part-time Study assistance February Full-time Singapore Government Scholarship 2007 Continuing Full-time

63 2009 CONROD ANNUAL REPORT 61 PUBLICATIONS BOOKS Collins D and Lapsley H. Weighing the Evidence: evaluating the social benefits and costs of the Australian Tobacco Industry. Cancer Council of Western Australia, Perth Australia Nghiem, H.S (2009). The Efficiency and Effectiveness of Microfinance. Lambert Academic Publishing. ISBN: BOOK - CHAPTERS Barnett, L. & Barnett, D. (2009). Australian indigenous health and the SIPES Model of Well-being: The legacy of Lauraine Barlow. In Marshall, C., Kendall, E. Gover, R. & Banks, M. (Eds), Volume 2, Disability: Insights from across Fields and Around the World (pp ). Westport, CT: Praeger Publication. Catalano, T. & Domalewski, D. (2009). Surely someone can support me : A caregiver s perspective. In Marshall, C., Kendall, E. Gover, R. & Banks, M. (Eds), Volume 2, Disability: Insights from across Fields and Around the World (pp ). Westport, CT: Praeger Publication. Catalano, T. & Kendall, E. (2009). But stroke happens to older people doesn t it? The experiences of young people following stroke. In Marshall, C., Kendall, E. Gover, R. & Banks, M. (Eds), Volume 1, Disability: Insights from across Fields and Around the World (pp ). Westport, CT: Praeger Publication. Connelly, L.B. (2009) Economic Evaluations with Pre- Scored Health Status Instruments, in Oakland, T. and Mpofu, E. (eds) Rehabilitation and Health Assessment: Applying ICF Guidelines, Springer, New York, pp Kendall, E. & Marshall, C.A. (2009). Global networking, social justice, and the implications for chronic illness and disability. In Marshall, C., Kendall, E. Gover, R. & Banks, M. (Eds), Volume 3: Disability: Insights from across Fields and Around the World (pp ). Westport, CT: Praeger Publication. Kendall, E. & Muenchberger, H. (2009). When systems hurt rather than heal: outcomes following psychological injury at work. In Marshall, C., Kendall, E. Gover, R. & Banks, M. (Eds), Volume 3: Disability: Insights from across Fields and Around the World (pp ). Westport, CT: Praeger Publication. Kendall, E., Kendall, M. & Muenchberger, H. (2009). Coping following traumatic brain injury: lessons from autobiographical accounts. In Marshall, C., Kendall, E. Gover, R. & Banks, M. (Eds), Volume 1, Disability: Insights from across Fields and Around the World (pp ). Westport, CT: Praeger Publication. Kendall, M. (2009). Through my rose-coloured glasses: when disability strikes a health professional. In Marshall, C., Kendall, E. Gover, R. & Banks, M. (Eds), Volume 2, Disability: Insights from across Fields and Around the World (pp ). Westport, CT: Praeger Publication. Marshall, C., Kendall, E. Gover, R. & Banks, M. (Eds). (2009). Disability: Insights from across Fields and Around the World. Westport, CT: Praeger Publication. (Submitted) Sterling M (2009) Pain, Transportation issues and whiplash. In: Pain and Injury: Cultural and Clinical Aspects. Ed; Rhonda Moore (accepted 2 March 2007). Sterling M and Vicenzino B. Pain and sensory system impairments that may be amenable to MWM. In: Mobilisation with Movement: Evidence in Practice. Eds: Vicenzino B, Hing W, Hall T (accepted March 2009). Vicenzino B, Souvlis T, Sterling M. (2009) Neurophysiological effects of spinal manipulation. In: Diagnosis and management of headache. Eds: César Fernández de las Peñas, Lars Arendt-Nielsen, Robert Gerwin (accepted 28/3/08). ORIGINAL ARTICLES Aitken LM, Hendrikz JK, Dulhunty JM, Rudd MJ. Hypothermia and associated outcomes in seriously injured trauma patients in a predominantly sub-tropical climate. Resuscitation 2009;80(2): Bellamy E, Wilson C and Bellamy N. Osteoarthritis Measurement in Routine Rheumatology Outpatient Practice (OMIRROP) in Australia: a survey of practice style, instrument use, responder criteria, and state-attainment criteria. J Rheumatol 2009;36(5): Bellamy N, Bell MJ, Goldsmith CH, Lee S, Maschio M, Raynauld J-P, Torrance GW and Tugwell P. BLISS Index for analyzing WOMAC Osteoarthritis Trials Data. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 2009 doi: /j. clinepi

64 PUBLICATIONS Bellamy N, Wilson C and Hendrikz J. Population-based normative values for the Western Ontario and McMaster (WOMAC ) osteoarthritis index and the Australian/ Canadian (AUSCAN) hand osteoarthritis index functional subscales. Inflammopharmacology doi: / s Bellamy N, Wilson C, Hendrikz J, Patel B, Dennison S. Electronic Data Capture (EDC) using cellular technology: implications for clinical trials and practice, and preliminary experience with the m-womac Index in hip and knee OA patients. Inflammopharmacology 2009;17(2): Bootha-Scheepers S, Riyazi N, Watt I, Rosendaal FR, Slagboom E, Bellamy N, Breedveld FC, Kloppenburg M. Progression of hand osteoarthritis over 2 years: a clinical and radiological follow-up study. Ann Rheum Dis Aug;68(8): Catalano, T. & Kendall, E. (2009). The experiences of Leaders of Self-management courses in Queensland: Exploring Health Professional and Peer-Leaders Perceptions of Working Together. Health and Social Care in the Community, 17(2), Chien A, Eliav E and Sterling M. Hypoaesthesia occurs with sensory hypersensitivity in chronic whiplash further evidence of a neuropathic condition. Manual Therapy 2009;14: Chien A, Sterling M. (2009) Sensory hypoaesthesia is a feature of chronic whiplash but not chronic idiopathic neck pain. Manual Therapy. 2009, doi: /j. math Connelly, LB. Earning and conversion handicaps and the welfare economics of disability. International Journal of Disability Management Research 3 2: Connelly, LB. The economic characteristics of Registries and their policy implications. The Journal of TRAUMA Ò Injury, Infection and Critical Care. 2009;66: Coombes BK, Bisset L, Connelly LB, Brooks Pm Vicenzino B. Optimising corticosteroid injection for lateral epicondylalgia with the addition of physiotherapy: a protocol for a randomised control trial with placebo comparison. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2009,10:76 doi: / Cox CM, Kenardy JA and Hendrikz JK. A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Web-Based Early Intervention for Children and their Parents Following Unintentional Injury. Journal of Pediatric Psychology 2009; doi: /jpepsy/ jsp095. Cross M, Lapsley H, Barcenilla A, Parker D, Coolican M, March L. Patient expectations of hip and knee joint replacement surgery and post-operative health status. The Patient: Patient-Centred Outcomes Research (1):51-60 Ehrlich, C., Kendall, E., Muenchberger, H. & Armstrong, K. (2009). Co-ordinated Care: What does this really mean? Health and Social Care in the Community. Online 13/5/2009. DOI: /j x Elliott J, Gorman I. Coincidental findings of a vertebral hemangioma on magnetic resonance imaging. JOSPT- 2009;39(2):149. Elliott J, Noteboom J, Flynn T, Sterling M. Characterization of Acute and Chronic Whiplash Associated Disorders- JOSPT 2009;39(5): Elliott J, Sterling M, Noteboom J, Treleaven J, Galloway G, Jull G. The Clinical Presentation of Chronic Whiplash and the Relationship to Findings of MRI Fatty Infiltrate in the Cervical Extensor Musculature. European Spine Journal doi: /s Irie F, Pollard C, Bellamy N. Characteristics and outcomes of injury patients in an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (ATSI) population- Queensland Trauma Registry, Australia. Injury, International Journal of the Care of the Injured 2009,doi: /j.injury Jull G and Sterling M. Bring back the biopsychosocial model for neck pain disorders. Manual Therapy 2009;14: Kendall E and Muenchberger H. Stress at Work: Using a Process Model to Understand the Trajectory. Work, 32(1), Kendall, E. & Terry, D. (2009). Predicting emotional wellbeing following traumatic brain injury: a test of mediated and moderated models. Social Science and Medicine, 2009,doi: /j.socscimed Kendall, E. Sunderland, N. Muenchberger, H., Armstrong, K. (2009). When guidelines need guidance. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. Accepted 10/11/08.

65 2009 CONROD ANNUAL REPORT 63 PUBLICATIONS Kendall, E., Muenchberger, H. & Catalano, T. (in press). The Move Towards Community Rehabilitation: Are We Equipped for the Challenge? Disability and Rehabilitation 2009;DOI: / Kendall, E., Muenchberger, H. (2009). Stressors and supports across work and non-work domains: The impact on mental health in the workplace. Work, 32(1), Khanam, R., Nghiem, H.S., and L.B. Connelly (2009). Child health and the income gradient: Evidence from Australia. Journal of Health Economics;28: Le Brocque RM, Hendrikz J, Kenardy JA. The course of Posttraumatic Stress in Children: Examination of Recovery Trajectories following traumatic injury. Journal of Pediatric Psychology 2009;doi /ipepsy/jsp050. McNair P, Borovnicar D, Jackson T, Gillett S. Prospective payment to encourage system wide quality improvement. Medical Care 2009;47(3): Michaleff ZA, Maher CG, Jull G, Latimer J, Connelly LB, Lin C-W C, Rebbeck T, Sterling M. A randomized clinical trial of a comprehensive exercise programme for chronic whiplash: trial protocol. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2009; doi: / Michel, J.L., Nghiem, H.S. and T.J. Jackson (2009). Using ICD-10-AM Codes to Characterise Hospital-Acquired Complications. Health Information Management Journal, 83(3): Muenchberger, H., Han, H. & Kendall, E. Human infrastructure in Health: A commentary on networks of support and significance. Submitted to Australian Health Review. O Leary S, Falla D, Elliott J, Jull G. Muscle dysfunction in cervical spine pain: implication for assessment and management. JOSPT 2009;39(5): Penney, NJ. A comparison of Australian and European evidence-based guidelines for intervention in acute, non-specific low back pain. International Journal of Osteopathic Medicine 2009;12: Powell R, Allan J, Johnston D, Gao C, Johnston M, Kenardy J, Pollard B and Rowley D. Activity and effect: Repeated within-participant assessment in people after joint replacement surgery. Rehabilitation Psychology : Rivest, K, Cote JN, Dumas J-P, Sterling M. De Serres SJ. Relationships between pain thresholds, catastrophozong and gender in acute whiplash injury. Manual Therapy 2009, doi: /j.math Roberts NP, Kitchiner NJ, Kenardy J, Bisson JI. Systematic review and meta-analysis of multiple-session early interventions following traumatic events. Am J Psychiatry 2009;166(3): Roberts, N.P., Kitchiner, N., Kenardy, J., Bisson, J. Multiple session early psychological interventions for the prevention of post-traumatic stress disorder. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2009, Issue 3. Sterling M. (2009) Physical and psychological aspects of whiplash: important considerations for primary care assessment, Part 2 Case studies. Manual Therapy14:e8-e12. Sterling M. Neck pain much more than a psychosocial condition (Editorial). JOSPT 39(5): Sterling, M., Valentin, S., Vicenzino, B. Souvlis, T., and Connelly LB. Dry needling and exercise for chronic whiplash a randomised controlled trial. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2009,10:160 doi: / Sunderland, N., Domalewski, D., Kendall, E. & Armstrong, K. (in press). Which comes first: the partnership or the tool? Reflections on the requirements for effective use of partnerships tools in local health partnerships. Australian Journal of Primary Healthcare. Accepted 20/4/09. Sunderland, N., Kendall, E., & Catalano, T. (2009). Missing Discourses: Concepts of Joy and Happiness in Disability. Disability and Society, 24(6), Uthaikup S, Sterling M, Jull G. Cervical musculoskeletal impairment is common in elders with headache. Manual Therapy 2009 doi: /j.math Uthaikup S, Sterling M, Jull G. Psychological, cognitive and quality of life features in the elderly with chronic headache. Gerontology 2009;55(6): Muenchberger, H. Kendall, E. Hoon, H. (2009). How much of self-management is social? Australian Health Review. Accepted 19/09/09. (In Press)

66 PUBLICATIONS DISCUSSION/WORKING PAPERS Scott, A. and Connelly, L.B. (2009) Financial Incentives and the Health Workforce, Australian Centre for Economic Research on Health (ACERH) Working Paper Series, Working Paper No.6, ACERH, Canberra, May Hajizadeh, M. and Connelly, L.B. (2009) Equity of Health Care Financing in Iran, Australian Centre for Economic Research on Health (ACERH) Working Paper Series, Working Paper No.5, ACERH, Canberra, March 2009, The following papers have been submitted: Dworkin RH, Turk DC, Peirce-Sandner S, et al. Research design considerations for confirmatory chronic pain clinical trials (Submitted) Gargett, S. (2009) Developing measures of the dependency of nursing home residents and policies targeting access to nursing home services (paper submitted to Health Policy March 2009) Ehrlich, C., Kendall, E., Muenchberger, H. & Armstrong, K. (2009). Co-ordinated Care: What does this really mean? Health and Social Care in the Community. Accepted 29/11/08. Kendall, E. Sunderland, N. Muenchberger, H., Armstrong, K. (2009). When guidelines need guidance. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. Accepted 10/11/08. Australia: an empirical investigation of the impact on price Health Economics, Policy and Law (Accepted) Kendall, E. Sunderland, N. Muenchberger, H., Armstrong, K. (in press). When guidelines need guidance. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. Accepted 10/11/08. Sunderland, N., Kendall, E., & Catalano, T. (in press). Missing Discourses: Concepts of Joy and Happiness in Disability. Disability & Society. Accepted 7/10/08. Sunderland, N. (in press). Virtuous or vicious? Agency and representation in biotechnology s virtuous cycle. Journal of Technical Writing and Communication. Accepted 29/08/08. Sunderland, N., Domalewski, D., Kendall, E. & Armstrong, K. (in press). Which comes first: the partnership or the tool? Reflections on the requirements for effective use of partnerships tools in local health partnerships. Australian Journal of Primary Healthcare. Accepted 20/4/09. Sunderland, N., Woodly, E., & Tripp, A. Women s work? Exploring the gender of community engagement, research, and service in Universities. Submitted to Australian Journal of Education. MRI Findings of Fatty Infiltrate in the Cervical Flexors in Chronic Whiplash James Elliot; Joan Hendrikz; Michele Sterling; Shaun O Leary; Ashley Pedler; Gwendolen Jull. for publication in Spine: Rowell, D., Nghiem, H.S., Jorm, C. and T. Jackson (2009). How different are complications, which affect the older adult inpatient? Quality and Safety in Health Care (Submitted) Muenchberger, H., Han, H. & Kendall, E. Human infrastructure in Health: A commentary on networks of support and significance. Submitted to Australian Health Review. In Press Aitken LM, Burmeister E, Lang J, Chaboyer W & Richmond T. Risk factors for injured older adults not returning to usual residence post discharge from acute hospital admission. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2009 (in press). Gargett S. The introduction of a targeted user-pays approach to funding high level residential aged care in

67 2009 CONROD ANNUAL REPORT 65 PUBLICATIONS ABSTRACTS Bellamy N, Bell MJ, Goldsmith CH, Lee S, Maschio M, Raynauld J-P, Torrance GW and Tugwell P. BLISS Index using WOMAC Index detects between-group differences at low intensity symptom states in osteoarthritis. Internal Medicine Journal 2009;39 (Suppl 2):A66. Bellamy N, Wilson C, Hendrikz J, Patel B, Dennison S for the m-womac Index Validation Study Group. Validation study of electronic data capture (EDC) using the WOMAC NRS 3.1 Index (m-womac ): Preliminary interim analysis. Internal Medicine Journal 2009;39 (Suppl 2):A67. Connelly, L.B., Paolucci, F., Butler J.R.G. and Collins, P. (2009), Risk Equalisation in Australia, Abstracts - 7 th World Congress of the International Health Economics Association, Beijing, July Hajizadeh, M. and Connelly, L.B. (2009) Equity of Health Care Financing in Iran, Abstracts - 7 th World Congress of the International Health Economics Association, Beijing, July Hajizadeh, M., Connelly, L.B. and Butler, J.R.G. (2009) Equity of Health Care Financing in Australia, Abstracts - 7 th World Congress of the International Health Economics Association, Beijing, July Irie F, Bellamy N and Pollard C. Incidence and outcomes of traumatic subdural hematoma across different age groups. Trauma Melbourne Conference. November Irie F, Le Brocque R, Kenardy J, Bellamy N and Pollard C. Epidemiology of traumatic epidural hematoma in young age. Trauma Melbourne Conference. November Khanam, R., Nghiem, H.S. and Connelly, L.B. (2009), Child Health and the Income Gradient in Australia: The Role of Chronic Conditions, Abstracts - 7 th World Congress of the International Health Economics Association, Beijing, July Khanam, R., Nghiem, H.S. and Connelly, L.B. (2009) Does Maternity Leave Affect Child Health? Evidence from the Parental Leave in Australia Survey, A Paper Presented at the 38 th Annual Conference of Economists, Adelaide, September Hajizadeh, M., Connelly, L.B. and Butler, J.R.G. (2009) Equity of Health Care Financing in Australia Revisited, A Paper Presented at the 38 th Annual Conference of Economists, Adelaide, September QUEENSLAND TRAUMA REGISTRY REPORTS Lang J, Bellamy N and Pollard C. Queensland Trauma Registry: Description of Serious Injury throughout Queensland Herston: Centre of National Research on Disability and Rehabilitation Medicine, Dallow N, Lang J. Bellamy N, Pollard C. Queensland Trauma Registry: A Summary of Paediatric Injuries treated in Queensland Herston: Centre of National Research on Disability and Rehabilitation Medicine, Dallow N, Lang J, Bellamy N, Pollard C. Queensland Trauma Registry: Serious Injury due to road traffic crashes in Queensland Herston: Centre of National Research on Disability and Rehabilitation Medicine, Dallow N, Hanby J, Lang J, Bellamy N and Pollard C. Queensland Trauma Registry: A summary of injuries treated at Cairns Base Hospital Herston: Centre of National Research on Disability and Rehabilitation Medicine, Lang J, Jennekens C, Bellamy Nm Pollard C. Queensland Trauma Registry: A summary of injuries treated at Gold Coast Hospital Herston: Centre of National Research on Disability and Rehabilitation Medicine, Dallow N, Shepherd S, Lang J, Bellamy N, Pollard C. Queensland Trauma Registry: A summary of injuries treated at Ipswich Hospital Herston: Centre of National Research on Disability and Rehabilitation Medicine, Dallow N, Muscat T, Lang J, Bellamy N, Pollard C. Queensland Trauma Registry: A summary of injuries treated at Mackay Base Hospital Herston: Centre of National Research on Disability and Rehabilitation Medicine, Jukes D, Rasmussen L, Lang J, Bellamy N, Pollard C. Queensland Trauma Registry: A summary of injuries treated at Nambour General Hospital Herston: Centre of National Research on Disability and Rehabilitation Medicine, Dallow N, Mason D, Ward, J, Conroy J, Lang J, Bellamy N, Pollard C. Queensland Trauma Registry: A summary of injuries treated at the Princess Alexandra Hospital Herston: Centre of National Research on Disability and Rehabilitation Medicine, 2009.

68 PUBLICATIONS Lang J, O Brien D, Bellamy N, Pollard C. Queensland Trauma Registry: A summary of injuries treated at the Redcliffe & Caboolture Hospitals Herston: Centre of National Research on Disability and Rehabilitation Medicine, Jukes D, Oliver V, Lang J, Bellamy N, Pollard C. Queensland Trauma Registry: A summary of injuries treated at the Rockhampton Hospital Herston: Centre of National Research on Disability and Rehabilitation Medicine, Lang J, Jukes D, Dale M, Spanagel C, Bellamy N, Pollard C. Queensland Trauma Registry: A summary of injuries treated at the Royal Brisbane & Women s Hospital Herston: Centre of National Research on Disability and Rehabilitation Medicine, Lang J, Brennan J, Bellamy N, Pollard C. Queensland Trauma Registry: A summary of injuries treated at The Townsville Hospital Herston: Centre of National Research on Disability and Rehabilitation Medicine, Dallow N, Giles C, Thomas G, Lang J, Bellamy N, Pollard C. Queensland Trauma Registry: A summary of injuries treated at Toowoomba Hospital Herston: Centre of National Research on Disability and Rehabilitation Medicine, Lang J, Bellamy N and Pollard C. Queensland Trauma Registry: Description of Serious Injury throughout Queensland Herston: Centre of National Research on Disability and Rehabilitation Medicine, Dallow N, Lang J. Bellamy N, Pollard C. Queensland Trauma Registry: A Summary of Paediatric Injuries treated in Queensland Herston: Centre of National Research on Disability and Rehabilitation Medicine, Dallow N, Lang J, Bellamy N, Pollard C. Queensland Trauma Registry: Serious Injury due to road traffic crashes in Queensland Herston: Centre of National Research on Disability and Rehabilitation Medicine, Dallow N, Hanby J, Lang J, Bellamy N and Pollard C. Queensland Trauma Registry: A summary of injuries treated at Cairns Base Hospital Herston: Centre of National Research on Disability and Rehabilitation Medicine, Lang J, Jennekens C, Bellamy N, Pollard C. Queensland Trauma Registry: A summary of injuries treated at Gold Coast Hospital Herston: Centre of National Research on Disability and Rehabilitation Medicine, Dallow N, Shepherd S, Lang J, Bellamy N, Pollard C. Queensland Trauma Registry: A summary of injuries treated at Ipswich Hospital Herston: Centre of National Research on Disability and Rehabilitation Medicine, Dallow N, Muscat T, Lang J, Bellamy N, Pollard C. Queensland Trauma Registry: A summary of injuries treated at Mackay Base Hospital Herston: Centre of National Research on Disability and Rehabilitation Medicine, Dallow N, Real J, Lang J, Bellamy N, Pollard C. Queensland Trauma Registry: A summary of injuries treated at Mount Isa Hospital Herston: Centre of National Research on Disability and Rehabilitation Medicine, Jukes D, Rasmussen L, Lang J, Bellamy N, Pollard C. Queensland Trauma Registry: A summary of injuries treated at Nambour General Hospital Herston: Centre of National Research on Disability and Rehabilitation Medicine, Dallow N, Mason D, Ward, J, Conroy J, Lang J, Bellamy N, Pollard C. Queensland Trauma Registry: A summary of injuries treated at the Princess Alexandra Hospital Herston: Centre of National Research on Disability and Rehabilitation Medicine, Lang J, O Brien D, Bellamy N, Pollard C. Queensland Trauma Registry: A summary of injuries treated at the Redcliffe & Caboolture Hospitals Herston: Centre of National Research on Disability and Rehabilitation Medicine, Jukes D, Oliver V, Lang J, Bellamy N, Pollard C. Queensland Trauma Registry: A summary of injuries treated at the Rockhampton Hospital Herston: Centre of National Research on Disability and Rehabilitation Medicine, Lang J, Jukes D, Dale M, Spanagel C, Bellamy N, Pollard C. Queensland Trauma Registry: A summary of injuries treated at the Royal Brisbane & Women s Hospital Herston: Centre of National Research on Disability and Rehabilitation Medicine, Lang J, Brennan J, Bellamy N, Pollard C. Queensland Trauma Registry: A summary of injuries treated at The Townsville Hospital Herston: Centre of National Research on Disability and Rehabilitation Medicine, Dallow N, Giles C, Thomas G, Lang J, Bellamy N, Pollard C. Queensland Trauma Registry: A summary of injuries treated at Toowoomba Hospital Herston: Centre of National Research on Disability and Rehabilitation Medicine, 2009.

69 2009 CONROD ANNUAL REPORT 67 PUBLICATIONS INDUSTRY REPORTS Kendall, E., Muenchberger, H., Ehrlich, C. & Neal, R. Practice Nurse. Griffith University and Gold Coast Division of General Practice, UNPUBLISHED CONFERENCE PAPERS Connelly, L.B., Paolucci, F., Butler J.R.G. and Collins, P. (2009), Risk Equalisation in Australia, A Paper Presented at the 32 nd Australian Conference of Health Economists, Hobart, 1-2 October Gargett, S., Connelly, L.B. and Nghiem, H.S. (2009) Crash or Crash Through? Australian Policy Targets and Road Traffic Casualties: Preliminary Results, A Paper Presented at the 32 nd Australian Conference of Health Economists, Hobart, 1-2 October Hajizadeh M., Connelly L.B., Butler J.R.G. and Khosravi, A. (2009) Measuring Horizontal Inequalities in Iran s Health Care System Using a Wealth Index, A Paper Presented at the 32 nd Australian Conference of Health Economists, Hobart, 1-2 October Khanam, R., Nghiem, H.S. and Connelly, L.B. (2009) Does Maternity Leave Affect Child Health? Evidence from the Parental Leave in Australia Survey, A Paper Presented at the 32 nd Australian Conference of Health Economists, Hobart, 1-2 October Rowell, D., Nghiem, H.S. and Connelly, L.B. (2009) Moral hazard: An Empirical Examination of the Insurance Market for Road Traffic Crashes in Australia, A Paper Presented at the 32 nd Australian Conference of Health Economists, Hobart, 1-2 October Spearing, N. and Connelly L.B. (2009) Is Injury Compensation Bad for Health? A Systematic Meta-Review, A Paper Presented at the 32 nd Australian Conference of Health Economists, Hobart, 1-2 October PRESENTATIONS ACERH s 3rd annual Policy Forum was held in Perth on 20 February The purpose of the Forum is to showcase the work of ACERH researchers and to provide an opportunity for policy makers to provide input to the research agenda. Alauddin, M. and H.S. Nghiem Do Instructional Attributes Pose Multicollinearity Problems? Unravelling the Myth using an Australian Experience, a paper presented at the Oxford Business & Economics Conference, June 24 26, 2009, Oxford, UK. Armstrong, K. Evaluation Outcomes of the Statewide Capacity for Local Partnerships Initiative. General Practice Queensland State Forum, Partnerships The Next Chapter. Convention Centre, Brisbane, April, Armstrong, K. The value of the state-wide health partnership between Griffith University and General Practice Queensland. Invited presentation to Professors on ARC Linkage Grants. Griffith University, June, Armstrong, K. Addressing Reform with Action. Connecting Healthcare in Communities Partnership Council Roundtable Meeting. Townsville, July Bellamy N, Bell MJ, Goldsmith CH, Lee S, Maschio M, Raynauld J-P, Torrance GW and Tugwell P. BLISS Index using WOMAC Index detects between-group differences at low intensity symptom states in osteoarthritis. ARANZ in conjunction with RHPA(Australia) & NZHPR Combined Conference, Wellington, New Zealand, 3-6 May, (Poster) Bellamy N, Wilson C, Hendrikz J, Patel B, Dennison S for the m-womac Index Validation Study Group. Validation study of electronic data capture (EDC) using the WOMAC NRS 3.1 Index (m-womac ): Preliminary interim analysis. ARANZ in conjunction with RHPA(Australia) & NZHPR Combined Conference, Wellington, New Zealand, 3-6 May, (Poster) Connelly, L.B. (2009) Modelling the Cost-Effectiveness of Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Vaccination: Evidence from High Income Countries and Considerations for Low and Middle Income Countries, Invited Address to The First Symposium on Human Papillomavirus Vaccination in the Asia-Pacific and Middle East Regions, Seoul, Korea, June 1-2, Published as video at:

70 PUBLICATIONS popup/hpv2009.html Connelly, L.B. (2009) Risk Equalisation in Australian Private Health Insurance Markets, Invited Address to the Health Insurance Restricted Membership Association of Australia (HIRMAA), Sydney, 5 March Cox C and Kenardy J. Preventative interventions for children and their parents following unintentional trauma: From paper to web International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies ISTSS 5-7 November 2009, Atlanta Georgia Presented by R. Le Brocque. Cox C. and Kenardy J.A. The development and evaluation of information-provision tools for children and their parents following accidental injury: Moving with the times into web interventions. CONROD Annual Scientific Meeting, 12 June 2009, Brisbane. Dallow, N and Pollard C. Injuries sustained by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander males in Queensland CONROD Annual Scientific Meeting, Brisbane. 12 June Dallow, N and Pollard C. Injuries sustained by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander males in Queensland AEA Annual Scientific Meeting, Dunedin NZ. 31 August De Young, A and Kenardy, J. Post Trauma Reactions in Very Young Children: Implications for DSM-V. Australian Society for Psychiatric Research (ASPR) Conference 2-4 December 2009, Canberra. De Young, A., Kenardy, J.A., Kimble, R., Keogh, S., & Cobham, V. Psychosocial impact of burn injuries on young children and families. CONROD Annual Scientific Meeting, 12 June 2009, Brisbane. De Young, and Kenardy, J. Post Trauma Reactions in Very Young Children: Implications for DSM-V. International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies ISTSS 5-7 November 2009, Atlanta Georgia Dunne, R., Kenardy, J.A. & Sterling, M. The impact of posttraumatic stress disorder on physiological arousal and sensory pain thresholds in patients with chronic whiplash. CONROD Annual Scientific Meeting, 12 June 2009, Brisbane. Ehrlich, C. (2009). Actively managing chronic conditions: expanding the role of the practice nurse. CONROD Annual Scientific Meeting, 12th June, 2009 at Sofitel Brisbane. Elliott J. Evaluation and Management of Whiplash Associated Disorders- Zurich, Switzerland- ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences, 9 January Elliott J. Is it time to jump off the patho-anatomical wagon with whiplash? Physio-First, The London Conference, London, England, UK 9 February Invited Keynote Address Elliott J. Physiological and anatomical basis of magnetic resonance imaging in whiplash Australian Pain Society Annual Conference, Sydney, Australia, 9 April Runner-up Award Best Paper Elliott J. The clinical presentation of chronic whiplash and the relationship to fatty infiltrate in the cervical extensor musculature- Australian Pain Society Annual Conference, Sydney, Australia, April 2009 Elliott J. Fatty Infiltration in the Cervical Flexors in Chronic Whiplash- Australian Physiotherapy Conference, Sydney, Australia, October 2009 Gargett, S., Connelly, L.B. and H.S. Nghiem Crash or Crash Through? Australian Policy Targets and Road Traffic Casualties: Preliminary Results, a paper presented at The 31st Australian Conference of Health Economists, October 1 2, 2009, Hobart, Australia. Gargett S and Connelly L. Economics cost of road traffic crashes: Australian states and territories, 2007, CONROD Annual Scientific Meeting, Brisbane 12th June Gudes, O. (2009). Community-based public health: an online decision support system for Logan City, Australia. CONROD Annual Scientific Meeting, 12th June, 2009 at Sofitel Brisbane. Heron, M., and Irie, F. Consequences of road traffic crash injuries in Queensland. CONROD Annual Scientific Meeting, 12 June 2009, Brisbane. Irie F, Pollard C, Bellamy N. Characteristics and outcomes of injury patients in an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population- Queensland Trauma Registry, Australia. CONROD seminar, May 21st, 2009.

71 2009 CONROD ANNUAL REPORT 69 PUBLICATIONS Irie F, and Heron M. Consequences of Road Traffic Crash Injuries in Queensland. CONROD Annual Scientific Conference, June, Irie F, Pollard C and Bellamy N. The presence of complications is associated with increased mortality in middle-aged and elderly trauma patients. CONROD Annual Scientific Conference, June, Irie F, Le Brocque R, Kenardy J, Pollard C. Epidemiology of Traumatic Epidural Hematoma in Young Age. Trauma Melbourne 09, Nov, Irie F, Bellamy N, Pollard C. Incidence and outcomes of traumatic subdural hematoma across different age groups. Trauma Melbourne 09, Nov, Iselin G, Kenardy J, Anderson V, McKinlay L, Le Brocque R. Diagnosis of PTSD in Children with Traumatic Brain Injury. Australian Society for the Study of Brain Impairment, May 2009, Sydney. Iselin G, Kenardy J, Anderson V, McKinlay L, Le Brocque R. Which Method of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Classification Most Accurately Predicts Psychosocial Outcomes in Children with Traumatic Brain Injury? Australian Society for the Study of Brain Impairment, 32nd Annual Brain Impairment Conference, May 2009, Sydney. Iselin G, Kenardy J, Anderson V, McKinlay L, Le Brocque R. Which method of posttraumatic stress disorder classification best predicts psychosocial outcomes in children with traumatic brain injury? Australian Society for Psychiatric Research (ASPR) Conference 2-4 December 2009, Canberra. Iselin, G., Kenardy, J.A., Anderson, V., & McKinlay, L. Which method of posttraumatic stress disorder classification most accurately predicts psychosocial outcomes in children with traumatic brain injury? CONROD Annual Scientific Meeting, 12 June 2009, Brisbane. Iskander, A. Empowering disadvantaged communities: The role of health literacy and social capital in improving health outcomes. Alcohol and Other Drugs Seminar, 22nd April, 2009, Alcohol and Drug Training and Resource Unit, Queensland Health Statewide Services, Brisbane. Iskander, A. Social Inequality and Health: The Role of Social Capital and Health Literacy in Empowering Disadvantaged Communities. Seminars in Drug and Alcohol Studies, Queensland Health Alcohol and Drug Training and Resource Unit, Brisbane, 22nd April Jung Hoon Han (2009) Invited Speaker: Creative Cities in Korea and Australia: the Visions of New Urban Paradigm, Asia-Pacific City Submit, Inchoen, Korea, 15 to 17th September 2009 Media source: gov.au/bcc:base::pc=pc_5686,?utm_ campaign=cpmaskurl&utm_medium=stmcatch&utm_ source=apcs Jung Hoon Han and Tan Yigitcanlar (2009) Managing ubiquitous eco cities: ehealth technology, infrastructure and management issues. Knowledge City Submit, Shenzhen, China, 4 to 6th November 2009 Jung Hoon Han, Jonathan Corcoran and Scott Baum (2009), Changing Location Patterns of Older People in South-East Queensland, Pacific Regional Science Conference, Gold Coast, Queensand, Australia, 19 to 22 nd July Kenardy J and Le Brocque RM. Paediatric medical traumatic stress: Prevalence, risk and prevention. 10th International Mental Health Conference, August 2009, Surfers Paradise. Kenardy J and McHale M. Screening for depression in diabetes: what happens next? Endocrinology Group Meeting. Princess Alexandra Hospital, October Kenardy J, Iselin, V. Anderson, L. McKinlay, R. Le Brocque. Diagnosis of PTSD in Children with Traumatic Brain Injury. International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies ISTSS 5-7 November 2009, Atlanta Georgia Kenardy J, Anderson V, McKinlay L, Le Brocque R. Predictors of Health Outcomes following Traumatic Brain Injury in Children. Australian Society for the Study of Brain Impairment, May 2009, Sydney. Kenardy J, Iselin, Anderson V, McKinlay L, Le Brocque R. Diagnosis of PTSD in Children with Traumatic Brain Injury. International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies ISTSS 5-7 November 2009, Atlanta Georgia.

72 PUBLICATIONS Kenardy J. Child trauma and its consequences. School of Psychology Seminar, University of Queensland, October Kenardy J. Child Traumatic Stress following injury. Australian Child and Adolescent Trauma Loss and Grief Network National Meeting, Australian National University, Canberra, August Kenardy J. Paediatric Medical Traumatic Stress: Prevalence, Risk and Prevention. Discipline of Psychiatry Seminars, University of Queensland, September Kenardy J. Paediatric Traumatic Stress following injury. National Allied Health Conference, Canberra, October Kendall, E. & Cripps, A. (2009). Response to Queensland Parliamentary Enquiry into Chronic Disease in Queensland Communities. Queensland Government Parliament. Presented 30th July, Kendall, E. (2009). The spinal cord injury response project: service integration for improved outcomes. CONROD Annual Scientific Meeting, 12th June, 2009 at Sofitel Brisbane. Khanam, R. and H.S. Nghiem. The Impact of Child Health on Schooling: Evidence from Bangladesh, a paper presented at the Australian Conference of Economists, September 28 30, 2009, Adelaide, Australia. Lang J, Aiken L, Burmeister E, Chaboyer W and Richmond T. Risk factors for injured older adults not returning to usual residence post discharge from acute hospital admission. CONROD Annual Scientific Meeting, Sofitel, Brisbane, Australia - 12 June Lang J, Aiken L, Burmeister E, Chaboyer W and Richmond T. Risk factors for injured older adults not returning to usual residence post discharge from acute hospital admission. Australasian Epidemiological Association Annual Scientific Meeting, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand - 30 Aug to 1 Sep Lapsley H. Australian Health Financing and Health Aid in the Pacific Region. International Health Leadership Forum, Paris, France, May Le Brocque R and Kenardy J. Paediatric Medical Traumatic Stress: Prevalence, Risk and Prevention Australian Research Alliance on Children and Youth ARACY National Conference 2 4 September 2009 Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, Melbourne. Le Brocque R, Hendrikz J and Kenardy J. The course of post traumatic stress disorder: An exploration of recovery trajectories of children and their parents following accidental injury Australian Society for Psychiatric Research (ASPR) Conference 2-4 December 2009, Canberra. Le Brocque R, Hendrikz J and Kenardy J. Parental Response to Child Injury: Examination of parental posttraumatic stress symptom trajectories International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies ISTSS 5-7 November 2009, Atlanta Georgia. Le Brocque R. Social Work Research in the Hospital Setting. 17 June 2009 Mater Hospital Brisbane. March S, Kenardy J and Iskander A. Using the web as a tool for improving health literacy and help seeking behaviours in consumers with post traumatic stress disorder. E-Mental Health Summit, October Amsterdam. March, S. New Research: A multi-site RCT of a cognitivebehavioural intervention for youth with post-traumatic stress disorder following accidental injury. CONROD Annual Scientific Meeting, 12 June 2009, Brisbane. Marian T, Le Brocque RM, Hendrikz J, Kenardy J. The course of post traumatic stress disorder: An exploration of recovery trajectories of children and their parents following accidental injury. CONROD Annual Scientific Meeting, 12 June 2009, Brisbane. Marian T, Le Brocque RM, Hendrikz J, Kenardy J. The course of post traumatic stress disorder: An exploration of recovery trajectories of children and their parents following accidental injury. 10th International Mental Health Conference, August 2009, Surfers Paradise. Muenchberger, H. (November 30th, 2009). Dual Disability Taskforce [Invited]. Department of Communities, Queensland Health.

73 2009 CONROD ANNUAL REPORT 71 PUBLICATIONS Nghiem, H.S., R. Khanam and L.B. Connelly (2009). Does Maternity Leave Effect Child Health? Evidence from the Parental Leave in Australia Survey, a paper presented at The 31st Australian Conference of Health Economists, October 1 2, 2009, Hobart, Australia. Quinn, H. (2009). An analysis of the opportunities and challenges within new accommodation service for younger people with chronic and complex health care needs. CONROD Annual Scientific Meeting, 12th June, 2009 at Sofitel Brisbane. Rixon, K. (2009). Recovery from traumatic injury: can the environment change self-care behaviours and health outcomes? CONROD Annual Scientific Meeting, 12th June, 2009 at Sofitel Brisbane. Rowell D., Nghiem H.S. and L.B. Connelly (2009). Moral Hazard: an Empirical Examination of the Insurance Market for Road Traffic Crashes in Australia, a paper presented at The 31st Australian Conference of Health Economists, October 1 2, 2009, Hobart, Australia. Spearing N. Is Compensation Bad for Health? Results of a Systematic Meta-Review. CONROD Seminar Series; 19 March 2009; The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland. Spearing N. Is Compensation Bad for Health? Results of a Systematic Meta-Review. Queensland Treasury (Motor Accident Insurance Commission); 20 March 2009; Brisbane, Queensland. Spearing N. Is Compensation Bad for Health? Results of a Systematic Meta-Review. CONROD Annual Convocation; 12 June 2009; Brisbane, Queensland. Spearing N. Is Compensation Bad for Health? A systematic meta-review. Australian Health Economics Society 31st Annual Meeting; 2-3 October 2009; Hobart, Tasmania. Ullman A, Iskander A and Le Brocque R. Psychological outcomes in children and their parents following paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) admission Child and Youth Mental Health Conference Child and Youth Mental Health Service December 3, 2009 Brisbane.

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