A state-of-the-art health informatics, biostatistics, health economics and epidemiology centre
State-of-the art research
Based at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, the Adelaide EpiCentre’s objectives are to grow research and research translation; support clinical researchers with advice, training and mentorship; and optimise health service delivery through data-driven insights.
About the EpiCentre
Our activities revolve around clinical epidemiology with the aims of improving access to and outcomes of health care.
Key functions
Support in clinical and applied research
- Advice on study design and clinical epidemiology
- Advice and support for data management (e.g., linked data) and analyses (e.g., biostatistics)
- Advice about ethics and governance issues related to data use in a health setting
Health services research
- Facilitate the use of routinely collected health and EMR data for research and service improvement
- Use of data to drive health service planning and evaluation
Health economics
- Quantification of the economic burden of ill-health
- Economic evaluation of health interventions complementary to other fields of research
- Evaluation of the impact of health programs in hospitals or other settings, to refine programs and inform practice and policy
Research translation and implementation
- Support to improve the real-world relevance of research
- Support for implementation of research findings into practice and policy
Teaching, training and mentorship
- Supervision of higher research degrees
- Research mentorship
- Short courses
- Ad-hoc advice to clinicians, researchers and students
The EpiCentre team
Our team are available to provide expert advice, leadership, supervision, and training.
Professor Stephen McDonald
Director, EpiCentre
Dr Emmanuel Gnanamanickam
Consultant Research Epidemiologist
Associate Professor Liz Sutton
Director, Research, CALHN
Annie Conway
Biostatistician
Support team
Dr Flynn Slattery
Strategic Projects Officer
Loredana Sterian
Administration Manager
Key collaborators
Professor Guy Ludbrook
Director of PARC Clinical Research
Professor Sheree Smith
Professor of Nursing
Professor Gerry O'Callaghan
Senior Consultant Intensive Care Medicine
Madison Bills
Lead Research Nuclear Medicine Technologist
Examples of our work
- Rates and determinants of risk of readmission to hospital
- Vancomycin and acute kidney injury
- Morbidity and Mortality following COVID-19 treatments in South Australia
- Use of Registry data to support health service decision making.
- Prediction of future demand for dialysis
- Novel ways of examining patient flow through the hospital
- Sarcopenia and visceral obesity following Neoadjuvant treatment
- Reducing Arterial Blood Gas sampling among ICU patients
- South Australian Myeloid Neoplasm (SA-MN) Registry
Our mission
The mission of the Adelaide EpiCentre is to improve the quality and quantity of clinical research performed on CALHN campuses with a specific focus on use of data to answer clinical research questions and to build the underlying evidence base for clinical practice.
Contact
For further information contact the Adelaide EpiCentre team.
