iIMPROVE Emergency Care: Multidisciplinary Implementation Research
| Friday, October 16, 2026 |
| 8:45 AM - 9:25 AM |
| Grand Ballroom |
Overview
Lisa Kuhn & Diana Egerton-Warburton
Speaker
Professor Diana Egerton-Warburton
Conjoint Professor for Emergency Care Research at Monash University;Senior Emergency Physician at Monash Health
Monash University
iIMPROVE-PIVC STUDY GROUP
8:45 AM - 9:25 AMBiography
Professor Diana Egerton-Warburton is a Senior Emergency Physician at Monash Health and Conjoint Professor for Emergency Care Research at Monash University, Melbourne Australia. She has a passion for patient, health system, community, policy and climate advocacy. She has led numerous multi-site implementation trials with an emphasis on pragmatic, implementation research, to reduce unhelpful care. Achieving the triple aim of improving the patient experience of care, improving the health of populations, and reducing the per capita cost of healthcare including climate impact. She has received more than 16 million dollars of grant in the last 5 years including 8 million as chief investigator. She is an adjunct professor at Monash Art, Design & Architecture, Design Health Collab and uses design thinking to address unmet clinical and health system needs.
Associate Professor Lisa Kuhn
Associate Professor Of Nursing
Australian Catholic University
iIMPROVE-PIVC STUDY GROUP
8:45 AM - 9:25 AMBiography
Associate Professor Lisa Kuhn is an emergency nurse with extensive research, teaching and clinical experience across multiple emergency departments. She uses implementation science, mixed methods, qualitative, quantitative and registry-based research, and systematic reviews to generate high-quality evidence and translate it into frontline practice. Over the past five years, Lisa has received more than $8.5 million in research funding. She works closely with clinicians, consumers, multidisciplinary researchers and health service leaders, while mentoring nurses and doctors across ACU, Monash University and Monash Health. She currently supervises eight higher degree research students.
Lisa works at the nexus of the health and university sectors to maximise the impact of her research and holds leadership positions in both. As an Associate Professor in Nursing at ACU, she has led her School’s research nationally for three years. She is also an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Design Health Collab within the Faculty of Monash Art, Design and Architecture, and in Medicine within the School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, Sub-Faculty of Medicine, Monash University. At Monash Health, Lisa is Nursing Chair of the Monash Emergency Research Collaborative, leading nursing research in multidisciplinary, multisite trials to improve the health of populations and reduce low-value care.