2019

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$881,312

Limited Budget Support - $20,000

Principle Investigator
Project Title
Amount Awarded
Dr Anthony Kueh
To evaluate the utility of cardiac CT in left ventricular thrombus
$20,000

Project Support - $200,000

Principle Investigator
Project Title
Amount Awarded
Dr Mark Webster
Intra-arterial vasodilators to prevent vascular spasm during radial access angiography and intervention: a cluster-randomised, crossover trial
$50,000
Dr Paget Milsom
Tiusse Engineered Heart Valves: Novel Decellularisation Techniques
$100,000
Dr Jocelyne Benatar
Do beta-blockers improve outcomes after heart attacks - a feasibility study
$50,000

Senior Fellowship - $120,000

Principle Investigator
Project Title
Amount Awarded
Dr Patricia Ding (year 3)
Three projects planned under the PhD thesis 1) Left ventricular thrombus project: Professor Ralph Stewart, Dr Jith Somaratne 2) Bifurcation stenting project: Associate Professor Mark Webster, Professor John Ormiston 3) Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy project: Professor Ralph Stewart
$120,000

PhD Scholarship - $0

Principle Investigator
Project Title
Amount Awarded
There were no PhD Scholarships awarded in 2019

Centennial Travel Award: Nurses, Technical, and Paramedical Staff - $0

Principle Investigator
Project Title
Amount Awarded
There were no Centennial Travel Awards awarded in 2019

Mornington Brennan Nurses Scholarship - $5,000

Principle Investigator
Project Title
Amount Awarded
Ms Hannah Flett
Nursing 703 A&B Paediatric Cardiac Speciality Nursing
$2,500
Ms Yeshi Dolma
Nursing 773 Advance Assessment and Clinical Reasoning
$2,500

Travel/Conference Support - $44,704

Principle Investigator
International Conferences
Domestic Conferences
Green Lane Travel Award
$8,281
$4,427
Nursing /Technical /Paramedical
$16,934
$3,597

Salary Support - $303,208

John Neutze Scholarship
Recipient Professor Harvey White

Administrative Support
Eli Dimalapang (Biostatistics), Charlene Nell (Desktop Administrator), Michele D’Souza (Cardiovascular Research Unit)

Restricted Funds released - $188,400

Research support, Research Salary support, Travel support, Transplant Fellowship, Auckland Medical Museum (Brave Hearts exhibition), GL Dinner

Prof Brian Anderson

Author: Prof Brian Anderson and co-authors
Description: Characterisation of the pharmacokinetics of routine prophylactic antibiotics in order to improve dosing regimens when given to children undergoing cardiopulmonary bypass surgery

Dr Anita Sumpter

Author: Conor J. O’Hanlon, Anita Sumpter Brian J. Anderson
Description: Milrinone dosing in paediatric cardiac intensive care

Dr Jocelyne Benatar

Author: T. Yndigegn, B. Lindahl, K. Mars,…,J. Benatar
Description: Do beta-blockers improve outcomes after heart attacks – a feasibility study

Dr John Beca

Author: Luregn J. Schlapbach, Kristen S. Gibbons, et al.
Description: Nitric Oxide on cardio pulmonary bypass in congenital heart disease – A randomized controlled multi-center trial

Ryan Welch

Author: Ryan Welch, John Kolbe, Mandy Lardenoye and Kevin
Description: Exercise induced dyspnea caused by ventilatory limitation to exercise: A normal process for adolescents?

Eileen Gilder

Author: Eileen Gilder and co-authors
Description: Suction or Not to Suction, that is the question. Latest paper published: Avoidance of Routine Endotracheal Suction in Subjects Ventilated for # 12 Hours Following Elective Cardiac Surgery

Dr Pau Medrano-Gracia

Author: Dr Pau Medrano-Gracia and co-authors
Description: Improving coronary stenting design and patient outcomes

Dr Kathryn Waddell-Smith

Author: Dr Kathryn Waddell-Smith and co-authors
Description: The change in QTc around puberty in long QT syndrome and adherence to beta-blocker therapy

Dr Richard Douglas

Author: Kristi Biswas, Michael Hoggard, et al.
Description: Studies of chronic rhinosinusitis

Dr Jonathan Skinner

Author: Ivone US Leong, Jonathan R Skinner et al.
Description: Targeted Next Generation Sequencing to identify the genetic causes of heritable cardiac disorders

Dr Margaret Wilsher

Author: Dr Simon GA Brown, Emma L Ball, et al.
Description: To determine whether conservative management of primary spontaneous pneumothorax is an effective, safe and acceptable therapeutic option

Dr Kathleen Gilbert

Author: Dr Kathleen Gilbert and co-authors
Description: Left and right ventricular function in congenital heart disease

Dr Shay McGuinness

Author: Dr Shay McGuinness and co-authors
Description: Study of the control of oxygen levels during cardio- pulmonary bypass

Dr Margaret Wilsher

Author: Peter G Jones, Sinan Kamona, et al.
Description: High flow oxygen therapy in the emergency room

Dr Raymond Kim

Author: Dr Raymond Kim and co-authors

Description: Staphylococcus aureus in recalcitrant chronic rhinosinusitis

Ms Rachael Parke

Author: Ms Rachael Parke and co-authors
Description: High flow nasal oxygen therapy after cardiac surgery

Ms Rachael Parke

Author: Ms Rachael Parke and co-authors
Description: Can nasal high flow therapy prevent respiratory complications following cardiac surgery?

Dr Loretta Wigg

Author: L. T. Radford, M. J. Bolland et al.
Description: Cardiovascular effects of calcium supplementation

Dr Jocelyne Benatar

Author: Dr Jocelyne Benatar and co-authors
Description: The effect of dietary intervention on ruminant TFA and CRP levels in NZ

Dr Paul Sexton

Author: Paul Sexton, Patricia Metcalf, and John Kolbe
Description: Respiratory effects of insulin sensitisation with metformin: a prospective observational study

Dr Nigel Wilson

Author: Bo Reményi, Nigel Wilson, et al.
Description: Maintenance of website for echocardiographic Rheumatic Heart Disease standardisation project

Ms Jacqui Hannam

Author: Ms Jacqui Hannam and co-authors
Description: Modelling for Awareness Prediction and Simulation (the MAPS Studies)

Prof Alan Merry

Author: Prof Alan Merry and co-authors
Description: Multimodal, clinical assessment of a system to reduce error during anaesthesia

Dr Shay McGuinness

Author: Dr Shay McGuinness and co-authors
Description: A multiple blind randomized controlled trial of sodium bicarbonate in cardiac surgery patients at high-risk of acute kidney injury