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Professor Louise Cullen

Professor Louise Cullen

Please note: Professor Cullen is unable to accept new mentees until 2021

Clinical researcher/Consultant Emergency and Trauma Centre

Louise Cullen is a Pre-Eminent Staff Specialist in Emergency Medicine, a clinical trialist and outcomes researcher in acute diseases. She is enthusiastically involved in the translation of research by clinical redesign and innovation. As an accomplished acute disease researcher, Prof Cullen has focused on biomarkers and the diagnosis and management of patients presenting with acute cardiac diseases in the Emergency Department (ED).

Since 2014, Louise Cullen has published over 130 peer reviewed articles and has been cited 4391 times, including papers in the New England Journal of Medicine and the Lancet. Her research has focussed on strategies to improve efficiency, whilst maintaining safety for patients with possible ACS, syncope, heart failure, shortness of breath and atrial fibrillation.

More recently, Prof Cullen’s research endeavours include Health Services Research, identifying and then translating value-based care initiatives and supporting capacity building in emergency research. Prof Cullen has been extensively involved translation of research findings into changed clinical practice. She is currently the Professional lead for the Promoting Value-based care in the ED (PROV-ED) Project and recently the Clinical Lead in the Accelerated Chest pain Risk Evaluation project (ACRE 2012-9), implementing changed practice models of care across Queensland Health for ED patients based on her research, resulting in significant improvements in ED efficiency while maintaining patient safety.

  • Building research capacity
  • Health services research

  • Health Services and Implementation Research Award, MNHHS 2018 Research Excellence Awards (Raymer M, O’Leary S, Comans T, Chang AT, Moretto N, Standfield L)

  • Moretto N, Comans TA, Chang AT, O’Leary SP, Osborne S, Carter HE, Smith D, Cavanagh T, Blond D, Raymer M. Implementation of simulation modelling to improve service planning in specialist orthopaedic and neurosurgical outpatient services. Implement Sci. 2019 Aug 9;14(1):78. doi: 10.1186/s13012-019-0923-1.
  • Cottrell M, Judd P, Comans T, Easton P and Chang AT. Comparing fly-in fly-out and telehealth models for delivering advanced-practice physiotherapy services in regional Queensland: An audit of outcomes and costs. Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare. 2019; DOI: 10.1177/1357633X19858036
  • Chang AT, Gavaghan B, O’Leary S, McBride LJ, Raymer M (2017) Do patients discharged from advanced practice physiotherapy-led clinics re-present to specialist medical services? Aust Health Rev May 15. doi: 10.1071/AH16222.
  • Comans TA, Chang AT, Standfield L, Knowles D, O’Leary S and Raymer M (2017) The development and practical application of a simulation model to inform musculoskeletal service delivery in an Australian public health service. Operations Research for Health Care, 15 13-18. doi:10.1016/j.orhc.2017.07.002
  • Caruana LR, Barnett AG, Tronstad O, Paratz JD, Chang AT, Fraser JF (2017) Global tidal variations, regional distribution of ventilation, and the regional onset of filling determined by electrical impedance tomography: reproducibility. Anaesth Intensive Care Mar;45(2):235-243.
  • Caruana L, Paratz JD, Chang A, Barnett AG, Fraser JF (2015) The time taken for the regional distribution of ventilation to stabilise: an investigation using electrical impedance tomography. Anaesthesia and Intensive Care 43(1):88-91.
  • Smith MD, Chang AT, Hodges PW (2016) Balance recovery is compromised and trunk muscle activity is increased in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Gait Posture Jan; 43:101-7

Email: angela.chang@health.qld.gov.au

Phone: (07) 3646 2289