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Emergency Medicine Foundation (EMF) is a non-profit agency for advancing emergency medicine research

Emergency Medicine Foundation: finding better ways to save lives

The Emergency Medicine Foundation (EMF) was established to build upon the success of the Queensland Emergency Medicine Research Foundation. QEMRF was established in 2007 with an investment of $5 million from the Queensland Government through Queensland Health. To date QEMRF has committed over $8 million into over 70 emergency medici

ne research projects in Queensland public hospital Emergency Departments. The outcomes of QEMRF funded research is attracting international attention that has the opportunity to positively impact on emergency medicine outcomes throughout the world. Our new foundation, EMF, will continue to raise funds to address an under investment in emergency medicine research across the sector nationally and internationally. The Emergency Medicine Foundation is focused on continuing the tradition of identifying the highest quality clinical research projects that will translate into improved practice, better patient experience, as well as delivering significant economic benefits to our healthcare systems. EMF intends to extend and capitalize on our successful grant administration and research selection systems by securing further government, philanthropic and corporate funding. We will offer research grants across the broader emergency medicine sector throughout Australia and beyond. EMF will support practical research projects engaging healthcare professionals, including emergency physicians and nurses, ambulance, fire-fighting and emergency retrieval professionals and many more. Please view our social media policy at www.emergencymedicinefoundation.org.au/terms-conditions/website-social-media-electronic-newsletters-terms-conditions-use/

15/06/2026

🚨Scholarships Now Open - Build practical research skills in emergency care

For Nicole Minotti, an Emergency Nurse Practitioner at Cairns ED, the Trauma Care Scholarship was a chance to build confidence and develop practical research skills through the Emergency Medicine Research Course, delivered by Monash University and The Alfred Emergency & Trauma Centre.

📖 Through the program, Nicole developed skills in research design, data analysis and writing proposals, and is now part of a multidisciplinary team working to grow research capacity in her department.

The scholarship supports Queensland emergency clinicians who are new to research, with a structured course and mentorship to help turn ideas into real projects.

📅 Applications close: 18 August

📌 Apply now: https://emergencyfoundation.org.au/grants/trauma-care/scholarships/

EMF thanks the Motor Accident Insurance Commission (MAIC) for supporting this program.

Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service

10/06/2026

A great day at the Logan and Beaudesert Health Service Research Symposium, at Metro South Health.

Fantastic to see such a strong program of research across safety, quality, chronic disease and innovation in care.👏

EMF-supported work was well represented, with three projects presented by Logan Hospital emergency clinicians:

🔹 Dr Siegfried Perez, developing a guideline-based framework for retrospective emergency department audit and risk stratification

🔹 Dr Brad Richardson, evaluating blood administration practices within LifeFlight Medicine

🔹 Dr Philip Jones, implementing a Surgical Rapid Assessment Unit to improve patient flow and access to care

An excellent day highlighting the depth of research across Logan and Beaudesert Health Service.🙌

09/06/2026

📢 The June EMF Research Newsletter is out now.

This edition brings together new funding opportunities, emerging research, and updates from across Queensland’s emergency care community.

🔎 In focus: Dr Ben Powell shares how a clinical question from aeromedical retrieval led to research exploring in-flight deterioration, and what he learnt along the way.

Also in this edition:

▪️ Round 46 of the Queensland Research Program is now open
▪️ Royal Flying Doctor Service - Queensland Section Medical Chest research in remote Queensland with Elizabeth Doran
▪️ Call for proposals: National evaluation of the economic impact of emergency medicine research
▪️ Upcoming EMF events and new website launch

📰 Read the full newsletter here: https://app4.vision6.com.au/em/message/email/view.php?id=1980175&a=111266&k=LURgWk_vRoiNboUMk96AwixVL1r6GFOIdADbo6O9ZmY

08/06/2026

Applications are now open for Round 46 of EMF's Queensland Research Program 🚨

With $600,000 in funding available, EMF is supporting clinician-led research that improves emergency care, and helping turn frontline questions into real-world impact across Queensland.

Whether you’re developing a new idea, building collaborations, or translating evidence into practice, EMF funding supports research at every stage.

Grant schemes available:

🔹 Jumpstart – up to $50,000
🔸 Leading Edge – up to $120,000
🔹 TranslatED Research – up to $120,000
🔸 Emerge – up to $12,000

Key dates 📅

Closing 17 August - Jumpstart, Leading Edge & TranslatED
Closing 31 August - Emerge

📌 Find out more and apply: https://emergencyfoundation.org.au/grants/queensland/

EMF thanks the Queensland Government for funding this program through Queensland Health.

04/06/2026

What happens after we fund research? 💡

In paediatric emergency care, decisions about whether a child needs a nurse es**rt during inter-hospital transfer have often relied on clinical judgement alone, without a structured tool to guide consistency.

With EMF support, Dr Michelle Davison, Medical Director of the Emergency Service Line at Caboolture Hospital and Executive Director of the Metro North Clinical Stream for Emergency Medicine, and colleagues developed PaNURAMA, a simple Red-Amber-Green framework to assess risk in non-urgent paediatric transfers.

Now embedded across Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Service, the tool is helping to:

🔹 Improve consistency in decision-making
🔸 Reduce unnecessary nurse es**rts
🔹 Support safer, more efficient transfers

This is what funded research looks like, turning clinical insight into practical tools that improve care.

02/06/2026

Keynote Spotlight - 2026 Emergency Care Research Symposium 🏥

What happens when long-standing clinical practice is challenged by emerging evidence?

At this year’s Emergency Care Research Symposium at Gold Coast University Hospital, Associate Professor Katherine Isoardi will present From Dogma to Data: Making Intramuscular Naloxone Stick, exploring how evidence can influence established clinical practice in emergency care and improve outcomes for patients.

A/Prof Isoardi is a leading clinician-researcher in toxicology, who has contributed to EMF-funded research that has helped drive meaningful change in overdose management. This includes work on a shorter, 12-hour acetylcysteine regimen for paracetamol overdose, now influencing clinical practice, as well as research into lamotrigine toxicity, improving understanding of high-risk presentations in EDs.

Her keynote reflects the real-world impact of translating research into practice, where data doesn’t just inform care, but reshapes it.

EMF is proud to support this event as a sponsor, highlighting research that is improving emergency care across Queensland.

📅 25-26 June 2026
📍 Gold Coast University Hospital
📌 Find out more: https://gchedresearchsymposium.my.canva.site/

Gold Coast Health

01/06/2026

📢 Call for Proposals: Measuring the Economic Impact of Emergency Care Research

EMF, in partnership with the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM), is commissioning a national economic evaluation of the impact and return on investment of emergency medicine research.

This independent evaluation will examine the real-world economic value of emergency care research across Australia, including the system costs of access block and ambulance ramping, alongside the benefits of research-informed, evidence-based improvements.

We are inviting experienced health economists, research teams, and academic institutions to submit proposals to deliver a high-impact, policy-relevant report that will inform future investment, advocacy, and system planning in emergency care.

📅 Submissions open: 1 June 2026
🚨 Close: 27 July 2026

📌 Full Request for Submissions and submission details available here: https://emergencyfoundation.org.au/request-for-submissions-economic-evaluation-of-emergency-medicine-research-impact/

27/05/2026

Emergency Medicine Day is a chance to recognise the people who deliver and support emergency care 🌟

Every day, people working across emergency care - from hospital emergency departments to prehospital and retrieval services - work in complex, fast-paced environments to deliver care when it matters most. Their work doesn’t just impact individual patients, it strengthens the entire health system.

At EMF, we’re proud to be guided by a Board with experience across emergency departments, prehospital care, education and research.

We asked a few of our Board members, Dr Kim Hansen, A/Prof Luke Lawton, Prof Viet Tran and Prof Hugh Grantham, to reflect on what drew them to emergency medicine, and what continues to inspire their work.

💬 Swipe through to see their reflections.

Days like this also highlight the importance of continuing to invest in emergency medicine research.

Round 46 of the Queensland Research Program opens on 8 June, supporting research to improve patient care, system performance and outcomes across emergency medicine.

📌 Find out more: https://emergencyfoundation.org.au/queensland-research-program/

21/05/2026

Severe trauma in rural and remote Queensland requires time-critical intervention often before hospital-based care is available. ⌛

The ROUGE study, led by Dr Ellie Kitcatt and Retrieval Services Queensland, is now underway and investigating whether early administration of fibrinogen concentrate in the pre-hospital aeromedical retrieval setting can improve outcomes for patients with life-threatening haemorrhage. 🩸

Fibrinogen is a key component in blood clot formation, and low levels are a major contributor to trauma-induced coagulopathy – a life-threatening complication. Fibrinogen level testing and replacement is a standard of care for patients with major traumatic haemorrhage in Queensland's larger hospitals.

The ROUGE study is looking to see if we can accurately identify patients in the resource-limited prehospital and retrieval environment who need fibrinogen replacement, and if early administration improves outcomes for rural and remote patients. 🧪

While recruitment is ongoing, early implementation has already highlighted the ability to and importance of delivering advanced haemostatic care in the retrieval environment. Findings from this work have the potential to inform future trauma care practice both in Australia and internationally.

Have an idea that could improve trauma care?

🚨 Applications for EMF’s Trauma Care Research Grants are open and close 6 July.

These grants support clinician-led research aimed at improving outcomes for patients in regional, rural and remote Queensland, supported by the Motor Accident Insurance Commission.

📌 Find out more and apply: https://emergencyfoundation.org.au/trauma-care/

Queensland Health

20/05/2026

International Clinical Trials Day: Improving Care Through Evidence 🌏

Clinical trials are how we move from clinical experience to clinical certainty.

📅This International Clinical Trials Day, we’re highlighting the EMF-funded STeroids in Preschool Asthma Reduction (STAR) Study, led by A/Prof Shane George at Gold Coast University Hospital.

Funded through Round 44 of EMF’s Queensland Research Program, this multicentre, double-blind randomised controlled trial is comparing a single dose of oral prednisolone with the standard three-day course for preschool children presenting to EDs with asthma. 👏

The study is designed to assess whether a simplified single-dose regimen is non-inferior to current practice in preventing short-term morbidity, including re-presentation, need for additional treatment, adverse events, and prolonged hospital stay.

🏥Asthma remains one of the most common reasons young children present to ED, and while corticosteroids are a cornerstone of care, the optimal duration of therapy in this age group has never been directly tested in a large pragmatic trial.

By rigorously testing everyday treatments, clinical trials like the STAR Study help ensure emergency care continues to evolve, becoming more consistent, evidence-based, and patient-centred.

📌 Explore EMF Grant opportunities: https://emergencyfoundation.org.au/research-grants-calendar/

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