Aims
1. Implementation of recommendations of the Concord Hospital Research Review (March 2000).
2. Facilitation of research on Concord Hospital campus.
3. Promotion of links between, and provision of support for, all components of research on the Concord Hospital campus, including:
a. Concord Hospital departmental research units
b. ANZAC Research Institute
c. Centre for Education and Research on Ageing (CERA)
d. Asbestos Disease Research Centre (ADRC)
e. Other clinical schools in the Faculty of Medicine, and other faculties within the College of Health Sciences
4. Promotion of Concord Hospital research within the hospital community, Sydney South West Area Health Service, and the general public. This will involve the production of a biennial Concord Research Report.
Responsibilities
This committee reports to the Hospital Governance Committee.
Membership
- Chairman
- Medical Director, Concord Hospital
- Clinical Trials Pharmacist (or Pharmacy representative)
- Director, Anzac Research Institute
- Director, CERA
- Post-graduate Coordinator
- Professor of Nursing (Representative)
- Sub-dean Research, University of Sydney Central Clinical School, Concord Hospital
- Invited researchers
Chair: Professor Ben Freedman
Deputy Chair: Professor David Handelsman
Quorum: 50% of membership plus one
Meetings
Five (5) or six (6) per year
Minutes taken by Manager, Concord Research Office.
A copy of minutes is to be distributed to all committee members prior to the next meeting.
A clean copy of the minutes is to be signed by the Chairperson and filed as a true record of that meeting
A copy of the minutes is also to be forwarded to the General Manager (Chair, Hospital Governance Committee) and to the Chair of the Division of Medicine Concord Hospital.