CLINICAL PATHWAYS FOR ACUTE CARE IN TASMANIAN EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS
With Associate Professor Viet Tran, Deputy Director of Emergency Medicine at Royal Hobart Hospital & Founding Director, Tasmanian Emergency Medicine Research Institute & Emergency Medicine Discipline Lead, University of Tasmania, Tasmania, Australia
RESEARCHER PROFILE
Filmed in Hobart, Australia | July 2025
Viet Tran is Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Tasmania, Founding Director of the Tasmanian Emergency Medicine Research Institute, Deputy Director of Emergency Medicine at Royal Hobart Hospital, Chair of the Tasmanian Emergency Departments Network and Inaugural Co-Chair of the Tasmanian Health Senate.
A/Prof Tran also works at the coalface of healthcare as an Emergency Physician and continually advocates for excellence in patient care through education, research, quality and safety and health reform.
He has built Emergency Medicine Research in Tasmania from the ground up, which has culminated in the success of a AUD$3 million Australian Government Medical Research Futures Fund grant looking into the Implementation of Clinical Pathways for Acute Care in Tasmania project. Dr Tran is also the Emergency Medicine Discipline lead within the Tasmanian School of Medicine and has key roles to play within Emergency Medicine training. He feels privileged to be able to teach and mentor across the whole spectrum of becoming a doctor, from watching students grow into junior doctors, senior registrar and as fellow medical specialists.
Source: University of Tasmania website
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Dr James Pang
DR JAMES PANG, RESEARCH FELLOW
TURNER INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN AND MENTAL HEALTH, MONASH UNIVERSITY
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Genetic disease research imitating function and architecture of organs
Professor Wolvetang was among the first to bring the first human embryonic stem cells to Queensland, with his Wolvetang Group at the AIBN now renowned for its work with organoids: growing them, studying them, and using them to try and understand diseases and human development.
Using cutting edge technology, Professor Wolvetang designs and grows organoids both for their own work and for labs across the country, coaxing pluripotent stem cells or tissue samples into 3D structures that mimic the function and architecture of real brains, livers, kidneys, spinal cords, and intestines.
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Investigating invasive lobular carcinoma and metaplastic breast cancer sub-types
Assoc Prof McCart Reed is the scientific lead on an MRFF-funded (Medical Research Future Fund) genomics program investigating the potential for the application of Whole Genome Sequencing in the breast cancer care pathway in Australia, ‘Q-IMPROvE’. She applies genomics and spatial transcriptomics methodologies to archival clinical samples to understand the differences between tumour types and their potential for treatment. Amy is passionate about clinical research, biobanking and precision oncology. In addition to her breast cancer research portfolio, she is on the steering committee for the Brisbane Breast Bank and the Scientific Advisory Board for Breast Cancer Trials.
