Alfred ICU wins the 2010 AMREP Research Prize – 3rd time in 6 years
26 August 2011
A/Prof Andrew Davies has been awarded the 2010 AMREP Research Prize. This annual prize is awarded to the AMREP first or senior author whose original research paper was published in the previous year in the journal with the highest impact factor. A/Prof Davies’s article entitled ‘Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for 2009 influenza A (H1N1) acute respiratory distress syndrome’ was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (impact factor: 30.7). Andrew led this work with Dr Vincent Pellegrino, and other Alfred ICU staff played important roles, including Prof Carlos Scheinkestel, Dr Andrew Hilton, Ms Jasmin Board and Ms Shirley Vallance. The paper reported the high utilisation of ECMO for H1N1 influenza in Australia and New Zealand ICUs, including the excellent patient outcomes that were delivered, requiring the expertise of many hundreds of clinicians.
Staff members of The Alfred ICU department have won the prize three times in its first six years. Prof Jamie Cooper received the prize in its inaugural year, 2005, and again in 2008. These prizes were for the articles ‘Prehospital hypertonic saline resuscitation of patients with hypotension and severe traumatic brain injury: a randomized controlled trial’ (Journal of the American Medical Association, 2004) and ‘Saline or albumin for fluid resuscitation in patients with traumatic brain injury’ (New England Journal of Medicine, 2007).
Andrew Davies with Amrep Research Prize
