TranslateKidney research
Our Mission: To improve the health of Tasmanian's living with kidney disease through research.
Research governance
All research conducted is reviewed and approved by the Tasmanian Health and Medical Research Ethics Committee. Oversight will also be provided by the Department of Health Research or the University of Tasmania Research Team. We have strong collaborations with the University of Tasmania Menzies Institute for Medical Research and School of Medicine.
- Kidney Research
- Current Clinical Trials
- Clinical Trials coming soon:
- Recent publications:
Decision-making for advanced kidney disease
Research recently completed
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Topic |
Description |
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| Chronic Kidney Disease in Tasmania | This work highlights the variability in who has kidney disease throughout Tasmania. |
| Consumer Flyers – pages 1-5 |
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Research underway (PhD studies)
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Researcher |
Topic Description |
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| Dr Rajesh Raj (Awarded PhD 2019) | Living long or living well: the dilemma for older people considering dialysis. |
| Robyn Montgomery | Factors that influence progression of people with type 1 diabetes to end stage kidney failure in Tasmania: management pathways to improve health outcomes. |
| Leigh Tesch | Health and well being impacts of creative arts in health care environments. |
| Conghui Liu | Factors that predict early stages of chronic kidney disease in people aged in their 40s. |
| Imogen Jones | Defining Multi morbidity within the Australian Population and its act on Mental Health Outcomes. |
Research coming up
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Topic |
Description |
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| TEACH-PD | Targeted Education Approach to improve Peritoneal Dialysis outcomes |
| SWIFT |
Dialysis Symptom monitoring with feedback). To determine whether regular symptom monitoring with feedback to the renal team can improve health-related quality of life and overall survival among adults with end stage kidney disease managed with facility-haemodialysis. |
Publications from some of our researchers
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Author |
Notes |
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| Professor Matthew Jose |
Click on Professor Jose's name to see his University of Tasmania profile, and from there you can select the publications tab to review his publications For further details, please contact Professor Matthew Jose ([email protected] ) |
Research participation
Researchers are trying to understand how people in Tasmania and other regional centres, are coping with costs associated with accessing dialysis and kidney transplantation.
If you are interested in participating in local research please talk to your kidney doctor about opportunities.
