Melinda (Lindy) Fitzgerald
Professor of Neurotrauma, Curtin University, Australia
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Melinda Fitzgerald is Professor of Neurotrauma and Dean of Research of the Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University, jointly appointed by the Perron Institute for Neurological and Translational Science. Prof Fitzgerald is Chair of the Expert Working Group of the Australian Mission for Traumatic Brain Injury and inaugural CEO of Connectivity Traumatic Brain Injury Australia, a health promotion charity that is ensuring implementation of evidence based research in TBI. Prof Fitzgerald leads a team of 14 researchers and post-graduate students in research focused around understanding and preventing the loss of function that occurs following neurotrauma, and leads collaborative clinical trials and national consortia designing strategies to predict outcomes following mild and moderate to severe traumatic brain injury.
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Prof Fitzgerald has contributed over 105 papers; recent papers have been published in influential, international journals, including discipline leading J Neuroscience, Nature Nano, ACS Nano and J Neurotrauma. She has been invited to speak at numerous local, national and international conferences. Total research and equipment funding awarded for her career is $12.5 million, $6.9 million as CIA. She is a member of the Executive Committee for International TBI Research (InTBIR2) and Handling Editor for the Journal of Neurochemistry.
Research interests – neurotrauma, traumatic brain injury, concussion, myelin, multiple sclerosis, mechanisms of injury
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Research interests – neurotrauma, traumatic brain injury, concussion, myelin, multiple sclerosis, mechanisms of injury
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AUS-TBI: The Australasian Traumatic Brain Injury Initiative
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a physical injury to the brain that is a common and costly occurrence in Australia. Each year, approximately 20,000 Australians suffer moderate-severe injuries; substantially impacting these individuals, their families, and society. Recovery varies greatly, mortality is high, and less than half of people achieve long-term independence. At present, there is no indicator or group of indicators that can sufficiently predict treatment outcome or responsiveness to allow for personalised acute care and rehabilitation for individual patients with TBI.
AUS-TBI is an active national consortium that is working to establish the optimal approach to gather nationally representative data from people who have experienced these injuries. By conducting systematic reviews in study areas of social, biological, health, clinical, intervention and outcomes, parallel consultations with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, followed by consensus discussions and consumer prioritisation, we will generate a single data dictionary of common data elements. The team will then design the informatics approach to optimally collect, link, store, manage and protect the data. When implemented, the approach will securely facilitate researcher access to a world-leading nationally consistent, high-quality linked dataset that can be used to predict outcomes and personalise care following moderate to severe TBI.
AUS-TBI is an active national consortium that is working to establish the optimal approach to gather nationally representative data from people who have experienced these injuries. By conducting systematic reviews in study areas of social, biological, health, clinical, intervention and outcomes, parallel consultations with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, followed by consensus discussions and consumer prioritisation, we will generate a single data dictionary of common data elements. The team will then design the informatics approach to optimally collect, link, store, manage and protect the data. When implemented, the approach will securely facilitate researcher access to a world-leading nationally consistent, high-quality linked dataset that can be used to predict outcomes and personalise care following moderate to severe TBI.
