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Community Partnership Award Winner - SuPeR Knee
On 1 November 2024, CRI’s Director, Professor Michael Nilsson attended the Ramsay Hospital Research Foundation Inaugural Research Dinner and accepted a Community Partnership Award for CRI’s SuPeR Knee Project…
Winner - Primary Care Innovation Award
The EngAGE program was awarded the Primary Care Innovation Award at the PHN 2023 Primary Care Quality and Innovation Awards
QBE Insurance and the Centre for Rehab Innovations (CRI) partnering to evaluate new models of service delivery
The management of patients recovering from severe injury is a complex process. Often rehabilitation requires…
SuPeR Knee feature: Ramsay Hospital Research Foundation’s Impact Report 2020-2021
The Ramsay Hospital Research Foundation (RHRF) has released its Impact report for 2020 and 2021, detailing the organisation’s most active period to date, despite the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic…
Winner - University of Newcastle HDR Festival
Congratulations is extended to Elizabeth Ditton, CRI's Wellness Intervention specialist, for winning a prize at the University of Newcastle's first ever HDR Festival! Eighteen HDR candidates presented their work at the School of Medicine…
Career Development Funding Success
Each year the University of Newcastle's School of Medicine and Public Health Research Management Committee allocate funding for career development grants with the goal to support Early and Mid-Career Researchers transition to independent researchers…
2022 Rehabilitation and Medicine Society of Australia and New Zealand (RMSANZ) 5th Annual Scientific Meeting
On Tuesday 7 June, CRI together with the Rehabilitation Medicine Society of Australia and New Zealand (RMSANZ) jointly hosted a Pre-Conference workshop where we explored the controversies of the role of the Rehabilitation Medicine…
2021 Brilliant Women in Digital Award
CRI's Clinical Research Assistant, Gillian Mason, has been recognised as an inaugural 2021 Brilliant Women in Digital Award recipient. The award was presented by Telstra Health, recognising women with excellent technical expertise with…
Australian research centre to use Swedish big data in stroke recovery research
The CRI team have featured in the latest Research Australia Inspire magazine (Issue 19), highlighting our recent partnership with researchers at the University of Gothenburg for the PREDICT project…
Sweden in Australia Healthcare Dialogue
In late April, the Swedish Embassy in Canberra, hosted "Sweden in Australia Healthcare Dialogue", bringing together representatives from the public sector and academia to explore current trends in healthcare and to discuss how innovation, research…
NHMRC Ideas Grant Success
CRI's Director, Professor Michael Nilsson, has been awarded over $400,000 for an NHMRC Ideas grant exploring the impact of commonly described medications on the trajectory of recovery in stroke survivors. The three…
NHMRC Ideas Grant Success
Professor Leeanne Carey and her team at La Trobe University, in collaboration with the Centre for Rehab Innovations (CRI), The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health and University of South Australia, have…
HunterWiSE win University of Newcastle’s Excellence Award
Professor Sarah Johnson & the team behind HunterWiSE won the University of Newcastle's Excellence Award for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion…
Collaborations with the Rehabilitation Research Institute Singapore
On the 13th of November, we hosted a delegation from the Rehabilitation Research Institute Singapore (RRIS). The purpose of this visit was to further develop and formalise our collaborative links in areas of common interest. Professor Michael Nilsson is…
SuPeR Knee kicks off!
Professor Michael Nilsson spoke to Kia Handley on ABC Newcastle radio…
Thriving through theatre
A new play exploring this question has come up with a range of answers with one common theme - that hope is needed to make life after a stroke not just bearable, but enjoyable…
Project targets ‘precision rehab’ for knees
A new decision-making tool being developed in a $1.5 million research project at the University of Newcastle (UON) and Hunter Medical Research Institute is set to give patients better and more personalised rehabilitation interventions after knee replacement surgery…
Health Hubs: the changing face of Australian healthcare
Healthcare is on the edge of a frontier right now as, across the nation, a range of new and established health hubs work to design a future bringing together research, industry and community…
New Centre to lead innovation in rehabilitation
Medical rehabilitation services are set for a significant overhaul, following the launch of Australia's first Centre for Rehab Innovations (CRI) at the University of Newcastle…