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Professor Craig Anderson

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Professor Craig Anderson is Professor of Neurology and Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW Sydney, and is in part-time clinical practice as a neurologist at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, Australia.  

Craig holds specialist qualifications in clinical neurology and geriatrics, a PhD in medicine and epidemiology from The University of Western Australia, and is a Senior Investigator Fellow of the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) of Australia.  He is a past President of the Asia Pacific Stroke Organisation and the Stroke Society of Australasia, and is a member of several specialist societies and an editor for the Cochrane Stroke Group.  He has published widely on the clinical and epidemiological aspects of stroke, cardiovascular disease and aged care, and has led several large-scale investigator-initiated epidemiological and clinical trials that have had a major influence on clinical practice guidelines for stroke treatment and prevention.

Dr Mahesh Ramanan

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Mahesh Ramanan is a Staff Specialist in Intensive Care Medicine at The Prince Charles and Caboolture Hospitals, QLD, Australia. His main clinical interests include long-term outcomes of critical illness and post intensive care syndrome. He was the medical lead at one of the first ICU long-term follow-up clinics in Australia during his appointment at Redcliffe Hospital, QLD. During his training in Intensive Care Medicine, Mahesh completed a Masters degree in clinical epidemiology at the University of Sydney. He also has an interest in electronic health records and the IT/clinical interface.

Mahesh is currently pursuing a PhD under the supervision of Professor Balasubramanian Venkatesh investigating the evolution of trials methodology and recruitment challenges in critical care clinical trials. Mahesh is the principal investigator of a currently recruiting cluster-randomised trial of fluid therapy in diabetic ketoacidosis. He is the current Chair of the Queensland Critical Care Research Network. Mahesh's vision for the Network is to bring pragmatic research to peripheral, non-tertiary hospitals which have traditionally not played a major role in clinical research. 

Inclusive AI Design in Action - Co-Creating Solutions with Community Health Workers (Part 1)

News / Opinion piece 08 May 2025

AI for Community Health Workers in India: A Bottom-Up Approach to Technology Development (Part 3)

News / Opinion piece 08 May 2025

Building AI Solutions Based on Essential Needs, Not Just Hype (Part 2)

News / Opinion piece 08 May 2025

Qiang Li

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Qiang is Senior Biostatistician in Statistics Division at the George Institute and Conjoint Senior Lecturer at The University of New South Wales. He has a master degree in Biostatistics from the University of Sydney and a Bachelor degree in Public Health (Preventive Medicine) from Xi'an JiaoTong University (China). He is an accredited statistician by the Statistical Society of Australia since 2009. 

Prior to joining the George Institute in 2007, Qiang worked at the Woolcock institute of medical research (Australia) for one year and at the School of Public Health in Xi'an JiaoTong University (China) for six years. In his current position, Qiang Li is responsible for the design, analysis and reporting of numerous medical studies ranging from health surveys and epidemiological studies to multinational clinical trials in critical care, cardiovascular diseases, neurological and mental health illnesses, renal and metabolic diseases. In ten years at the George Institute, he has worked on approximately 20 major research studies including NHMRC funded studies as well as a number of clinical trials sponsored by the pharmaceutical industry. 

Are We Doing Enough on Chronic Disease? Experts Say Draft Global Declaration still needs work

News / Media mentions 03 Jun 2025

Bianca Barnier

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Bianca Barnier identifies as a Gumbaynggir woman and is a Project Manager within the Guunu-maana (Heal) Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Program. Bianca has extensive experience in project management, reporting and finance, as well as community engagement.

Bianca coordinates and monitors projects from start to completion and is committed to ensuring that all projects developed with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are underpinned by equity, transparency and self-determination. Bianca is a proud mother of two and an active member of her community.

Winners of The George Institute and UNICEF India Innovation Challenge

News 05 Oct 2021

Bitesize: Why does embracing Ubuntu matter for authentic research partnerships?

Podcast 19 Feb 2024

Dr Mei Ling Lim

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Dr Mae Lim is a Research Fellow at The George Institute and a Conjoint Associate Lecturer at the University of New South Wales. She is also a Postdoctoral Fellow at Neuroscience Research Australia.

Her research promotes adaptive ageing and empowers older people to stay independent in the community. More specifically, she currently leads a research program on applying the health literacy lens to preventing falls and reducing concerns about falling in older people. She developed the novel Falls Health Literacy Scale which enabled clinicians to quantify a person's health literacy in the context of fall prevention. 

Dr Lim is also passionate about investigating the potential benefits of intergenerational practice in preventing frailty and falls in older people. Currently, she is the leading Research Fellow working on the NHMRC-funded large multi-site clinical trial to test the impact of intergenerational practice on improving the physical, cognitive, and psychological outcomes in older people.

$5.6M grant will test weight-loss drugs in kidney disease

News 19 May 2025

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