Research Committee

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ANZSBT strongly encourages advancement of research in transfusion medicine and science in Australasia. The Society provides an annual Research grant to promote and develop research in related transfusion medicine knowledge and science.

The ANZSBT Research Committee is responsible for reviewing all research grant applications for the annual ANZSBT Research Fund and evaluating the merits of proposed research projects, the significance of the project and value of potential outcomes for Australia and New Zealand.

The Society ensures that the Research Committee is made up of suitably qualified and experienced researchers from across Australia and New Zealand who have significant expertise in blood transfusion and who are able to evaluate the merits of proposed research programs and to determine how research funds are applied to research purposes.

The Research Committee is led by Associate Professor Tina Noutsos (Chair) and includes Professor Paul Monagle, Associate Professor Catherine Hyland, Professor Erica Wood and Dr Laura Young.

A/Prof Tina Noutsos (Chair)

A/Prof Tina Noutsos is a Senior Specialist Haematologist with a special interest in transfusion at Royal Darwin Hospital, NT, and is Head of the Global and Tropical Health Division/Senior Research Fellow at Menzies School of Health Research. She has over 13 years’ experience in rural specialist haematology practice, and an extensive track record of working for and with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (First Nations) peoples in rural and remote Australia.

Her research interests focus on improving evidence-based transfusion practice for First Nations peoples, and in rural and remote settings. She is a world expert on snakebite-associated thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA), a World Health Organization declared neglected tropical disease, and serious blood clotting complication of snakebite.

She is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, haematologist lead of the NT Transfusion Committee, and NT expert member of the multijurisdictional Blood Matters Serious Transfusion Incident Reporting System (STIR) Expert Group.

Members

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  • Transfusion Medicine Specialist
    Head, Transfusion Research Unit, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University
    Consultant Haematologist, Monash Health
    Honorary Consultant Haematologist, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre / Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre

  • Principal Research Fellow for Australian Red Cross Lifeblood, Queensland
    Adjunct appointment with the Queensland University of Technology

  • Professor of Paediatrics, Department of Paediatrics, The University of Melbourne
    Group Leader/Honorary Fellow, Haematology Research, Clinical Sciences, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Melbourne
    Paediatric Haematologist, Department of Clinical Haematology, Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne

  • Haematologist and Clinical Lead, Cancer and Blood Services, Auckland City Hospital, FRACP, FRCPA, PhD