Traumatic Brain Injury Projects

Assessment and intervention for patients with mild traumatic brain injury
Chief Investigator: Professor Jennie Ponsford
Associate Investigators: Professor Peter Cameron, Associate Professor Mark Fitzgerald

Lead Organisation: Monash University 

Chief Investigator : Dr Larry Abel, A/ Professor Janinta Douglas
Lead Organisation:  University of Melbourne
Enhancing endogenous neurogenesis as a potential therapy following traumatic brain injury (pilot study)
Chief Investigator: Associate Professor Cristina Morganti-Kossmann
Lead Organisation: Bayside Health
Multi-centre prospective randomised trial of early decompressive craniectomy in patients with severe traumatic brain injury (DECRA)
Chief Investigator: Prof D. Jamie Cooper
Lead Organisation: Bayside Health
Fluid resuscitation for patients with traumatic brain injury- potential mechanisms behind the detrimental effect of albumin resuscitation
Chief Investigator: Professor Jamie Cooper
Other Investigators: Associate Professor John Myburgh, Associate Professor Simon Finfer, Professor Rinaldo Bellomo, Professor Robyn Norton
Lead Organisation: Bayside Health
Hypothermia in Traumatic Brain Injury in Children (HiTBIC)
Chief Investigator: Dr John Beca
Other Investigators: Associate Professor Warwick Butt, Dr Simon Erickson, Dr Barry Wilkins, Dr Andreas Schibler, Dr Michael Yung, Dr Andrew Numa, Dr Christian Stocker
Lead Organisation: Royal Children's Hospital
Longitudinal in vivo study of hippocampal structure and function, and relationship to neurocognitive, neurobehavioral and epileptic outcomes, in a model of human traumatic brain injury
Chief Investigator: Associate Professor Terence O’Brien

Associate Investigators: Associate Professor David Howells, Dr Peter Batchelor, Dr Damien Myers, Professor Rod Hicks, Professor Chris Pantelis, Associate Professor Gary Egan, Associate Professor Edward Hogan, Dr Dennis Velakoulis, Dr Stefanie Dedeurwaerdere, Dr Nigel Jones, Dr Ke Fang
Lead Organisation: University of Melbourne
Australian Harmonization and Validation of the International QOLIBRI (Quality of Life after Brain Injury) for Assessing the Quality of Life after Brain Injury
Chief Investigator A: Associate Professor Graeme Hawthorne
Other Chief Investigators: Professor Andrew Kaye, Associate Professor Russell Gruen
Lead Organisation: University of Melbourne 
Mobility skills following childhood traumatic brain injury
Chief Investigator: Ms Anne Kissane
Associate Investigators: Professor Mary Galea, Dr Beverly Eldridge, Dr Kevin Dunne, Dr Gavin Williams
Lead Organisation: Murdoch Children's Research Institute
Chief Investigator A: Dr Angela Morgan
Other Chief Investigators: Prof Alan Connelly, Dr Frederique Liegeois,
Associate Investigators: Prof Vicki Anderson, Prof Sheena Riley, A/Prof Michael Ditchfield, Dr Jacques-Donald Tournier
Lead Organisation: Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
Chief Investigator: Professor Catriona McLean
Associate Investigators: Associate Professor Cristina Morganti-Kossmann, Professor Jeffrey Rosenfeld, Professor Thomas Kossmann

Lead Organisation: Bayside Health

Chief Investigator: Professor Seong-Sen Tan
Associate Investigators: Associate Professor Cristina Morganti-Kossmann, Professor Thomas Kossmann, Professor Sharad Kumar, Professor David Vaux, Dr John Silke
Lead Organisation: Howard Florey Institute
Prevention and treatment of social problems following traumatic brain injury (TBI) in children and adolescents
Chief Investigator: Professor Vicki Anderson
Associate Investigators: Dr Cathy Catroppa, Professor Keith Yeates
Lead Organisation: Murdoch Children’s Research Institute
Chief Investigator: Ms Catherine Willmott
Associate Investigator: Professor Jennie Ponsford

Lead Organisation: Monash University 

Chief Investigator: Associate Professor Cristina Morganti-Kossmann
Associate Investigators: Professor Thomas Kossmann, Professor Jamie Cooper, Professor Jeffrey Rosenfeld
Lead Organisation: Bayside Health 
Chief Investigator: Dr Robert Medcalf
Associate Investigators: Associate Professor Cristina Morganti-Kossmann, Professor Harald Schmidt
Lead Organisation: Monash University 
Chief Investigator: Associate Professor Glynda Kinsella
Associate Investigators: Associate Professor John Olver, Dr Ben Ong
Lead Organisation: La Trobe University
Chief Investigator: Professor Norman Saunders
Associate Investigators: Associate Professor Cristina Morganti-Kossmann, Associate Professor David Howells, Dr Peter Crack, Professor Seong-Sen Tan, Professor Peter McIntyre, Associate Professor Kate Dziegielewska, Dr Jennifer Callaway

Lead Organisation: University of Melbourne

The use of non invasive brain stimulation in the treatment of the sequelae of closed brain injury
Chief Investigator : Professor Paul Fitzgerald
Associate  Investigators: Professor Jayashri Kulkarni, Ms Jacqueline Anderson, Dr Yitzchak Hollander 
Lead Organisation:  Monash University