Wiser Researcher Prof Chris Maher was appointed as a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) on the 26th of January 2024! Prof Christopher Maher was recognized for his significant service to physiotherapy as a researcher, clinician, and mentor, particularly in the field of pain [...]
Congratulations to Prof Denise O'Connor who won not one, but two, best paper awards at the 2023 Health Services Research Association (HSRAANZ) Awards! Best Paper Overall and Best Implementation Science Paper! O’Connor DA, Glasziou P, Maher CG, et al. Effect of an Individualized Audit and Feedback Intervention on [...]
Congratulations to Wiser Healthcare researchers, Prof Katy Bell, Prof Denise O'Connor and Dr Gustavo Machado, who were each awarded one of the highly competitive 2023 NHMRC Investigator Grants! Professor Katy Bell was awarded $2.7 million for driving the transition to high value testing to benefit [...]
Huge congratulations to Wiser Healthcare researcher Gustavo Machado who was runner up / highly commended for the Research Australia Health Services Research Award! Gustavo received this award for his research into the high rate of opioid use in the emergency department care of people with [...]
Huge congratulations to Denise O’Connor, Alexandra Gorelik and Laurent Billot who received the 2023 ACTA Trial of the Year Runner Up award on behalf of Wiser Healthcare researchers and Department of Health and Aged Care collaborators for their successful factorial cluster randomised trial of audit [...]
Huge Congratulations to Wiser Healthcare researchers Chris Maher, Andrew McLachlan and their colleagues Christine Lin, Caitlin Jones, Jane Latimer, Hanan McLachlan, Melissa Webb, Melanie Hamilton, Michelle Blowes and Laurie Guthrie who received the University of Sydney Vice Chancellors Award for Research Excellence for their OPAL [...]
Huge congratulations to Professor Chris Maher, who last week received the RPA Foundation Research Medal! This award is RPA Hospital’s highest accolade and is for excellence and outstanding achievement in research.
Congratulations to Dr Brooke Nickel (pictured with Professor Steven Woloshin from the Dartmouth Institute) for winning the Congress Lisa Schwartz Award at the 2023 Preventing Overdiagnosis Conference, held 14 to 16 August in Copenhagen. The Congress award is named after Lisa Schwartz for someone who embodies her same [...]
Professor Rachelle Buchbinder has been awarded the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences Outstanding Female Researcher Medal for 2023! This is in recognition of her exceptional and impactful contributions to the health and medical sciences in Australia, including discoveries and achievements in addressing overmedicalisation and overtreatment [...]
Wiser Healthcare has won the HSRAANZ Health Services and Policy Research Impact Award 2021 – see https://www.hsraanz.org/portfolio-items/barratt/ The Judges' Comments: Wiser Healthcare is an international research collaboration that has resulted in multiple research projects exploring sustainable healthcare systems. It is a powerful example of health [...]