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Research Development Unit: *2025 CKW Research Symposium*

Research Support for Caboolture and Kilcoy Hospitals and Woodford Corrections Health

CKW

Call for Presentations!

2025 CKW Research Symposium

Wednesday, 3 September 2025 9am – 1pm

Presentations are invited from staff, collaborators and students on:

  • Research/QI Project – planned or in progress (5-minute presentation)
  • Research/QI Project – completed (8-minute presentation)

Interested? Please submit by COB Monday 28 July using the form link below

https://forms.office.com/r/7A8WQXvRT6

Questions? For presenter guidelines and further information please email RDU.Caboolture@health.qld.gov.au or download from documents below

Symposium Documents & Links:

2025 Presenter Guidelines 

2025 Research Symposium TEAMS Link 

2024

2024 CKW Research Symposium wrap-up


On Wednesday we hosted the 2024 CKW Research Symposium, our annual forum recognising, celebrating and promoting our research that is driving health improvements for the CKW community and staff. As a Clinical Directorate, CKW covers many areas of healthcare, from acute health to rural care, to prison health, to satellite hospitals and Minor Injuries, so it was impressive to see research across the spectrum of our care and services.   

We heard presentations of current research and quality improvement activities from various teams and individuals, which were fascinating. Professor Claire Rickard, opened as the keynote speaker for the event discussing research around intravenous devices, including the appropriate protocols and timeframes for these devices to prevent infection and re-cannulation. We then embarked on a breadth of topics that covered patient safety, staff welfare and community trust, culture, falls, ECT, feeding/nutrition, podcasting for education, prison health, and delirium.

This year our judging panel consisted of three consumers and winners are listed below. Congratulations winners!

 

Research Symposium

2023 CKW Research Symposium

Sponsored by The Common Good, we celebrated our third annual CKW Research Symposium on October 17, 2023. The symposium featured 16 oral presentations and five posters across a diverse range of topics that highlighted multidisciplinary collaborations in nursing/midwifery, allied health and medicine. Highlights included a consumer presentation by Paul Bryden and a keynote presentation by Metro North Mental Health Psychiatrist Associate Professor Dylan Flaws.

  • Best Research Presentation: Dr Alison Craswell – Caboolture Hospital performance against Australian care standards: A point prevalence study of delirium.
  • Highly Commended Research Presentation: Alana Hogan – Understanding nursing assessment of health literacy in a hospital context: A qualitative study.
  • Best QI Presentation: Dr Sabina Bialkowski – Management of Type 2 Respiratory Failure in COPD Patients at Caboolture Hospital.
  • Highly Commended QI Presentation: Joshoa Tussler and Emma Doyle – Impact of post-falls huddles on repeat fall rates and safety culture on acute medical wards.
  • Best Novice Researcher: Debbi Sutherland – An integrated health and social model of antenatal care for young, vulnerable women: A cohort study of engagement and birth outcomes

Thanks also to all of our presenters, including:

  • Dr Prashanti Marella
  • Prue Brian
  • June Chan
  • Tim Dunn
  • Dr Sabina Bialkowski
  • Alana Hogan
  • Joshoa Tussler
  • Emma Doyle
  • Laine Chilman
  • Dr Alison Craswell
  • Debbi Sutherland
  • Anabelle Marozza
  • Dr Seiji Humphries
  • Katrina Johnson
  • Dr Louise Purtell
  • Dr Thuy Frakking
  • Dr Zi Ping Tong
  • Dr Stuart Baker

2023 Research Symposium Program

2022 Research Symposium

2022 CKW Research Symposium

The Symposium featured sixteen study presentations and a keynote presentation by Professor Nicole Marsh, Nursing and Midwifery Director RBWH.

The symposium was made possible by the support of Angie Dobbrick, ED Caboolture and Kilcoy Hospitals and Woodford Corrections Health, Prof Dan Chambers, Executive Director Metro North Research and the event sponsor The Common Good, Caboolture Hospital.

Thanks also to all of our presenters, including:

  • Dr Nina Meloncelli
  • Belinda Chappell
  • Alana Hogan
  • Dr Karen Furlong
  • Zoe Robinson
  • Benita Suckling
  • A/Prof Dylan Flaws
  • Katrina Cook
  • Jennifer Dermer
  • Dr Alison Craswell
  • Tracey Zammit
  • Anabelle Marozza
  • Dr Mahesh Ramanan
  • Dr Lisa Kane
  • Dr Louise Purtell
  • Dr Thuy Frakking
  • Stacey Watts
  • Stella Snape-Jenkinson

2022 Symposium Program

Presentations

2021 CKW Research Symposium

The Symposium featured fourteen study presentations and a keynote presentation by Dr Mahesh Ramanan, Intensive Care Medicine Staff Specialist, Caboolture and TPCH.

The symposium was made possible by the support of Angie Dobbrick, ED Caboolture and Kilcoy Hospitals and Woodford Corrections Health and the event sponsor The Common Good, Caboolture Hospital.

Thanks also to all of our presenters, including:

  • A/Professor Dylan Flaws
  • Benita Suckling
  • Louisa Lightfoot
  • Luke Reynolds
  • Dr Thuy Frakking
  • Dr Alison Craswell
  • Dr Sean Clark
  • Dr Steven James
  • Dr Amanda Zahumensky
  • Stacey O'Donnell
  • Dr Enoka Gonsalkorala
  • Dr Yogesh Apte
  • Amy Le
  • Nicol Franz
  • Belinda Chappel
  • James Phang
  • Stacey Watts
  • Stella Snape-Jenkinson

 2021 Research Symposium Program

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