Mission Statement
Achieving improved quality of care for patients through access, awareness and quality use of palliative care medicines in the community through clinical studies.
The Palliative Care Clinical Studies Collaborative (PaCCSC) is a research group that consists of a Coordinating Agency; Flinders University of South Australia, a governance structure including a Management Advisory Board (MAB), and a number of organisations that will be collaboratively involved in Phase 3 and Phase 4 clinical medication studies.
Funding Source
PaCCSC is funded by the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing under the National Palliative Care Program.
Investigators
- Professor David Currow (Chief Investigator)
- Ms Tania Shelby-James
- Ms Debra Rowett
- Dr John Plummer
- Professor Geoff Gourlay
- Associate Professor Simon Eckermann
- Assistant Professor Amy Abernethy
Coordinating Site Staff are;
National Manager
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The National Manager is responsible for budget and finance, contracts, reporting, infrastructure (such as committee structures), monitoring, protocol development, and general overall management of the collaborative. The National Manager is the important interface between the sites, investigators, funding body, and regulatory authorities. |
Ms Belinda Fazekas (National Project Officer)
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Belinda’s main areas of responsibility are to implement the study protocols, ethics submissions, form design, data management and reporting of site progress. Belinda will be involved in working with each site to undertake recruitment and maintain trial requirements.
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Dr Lindy Warrell
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Lindy is an anthropologist with health sector experience. Lindy has joined PaCCSC to help with report writing, reviews and project evaluation.
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Ms Caroline Litster (Project Officer)
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Caroline's main area of responsibilities include the development and writing of Phase I-III clinical trial protocols and corresponding ethics submissions. Caroline will also be involved with critical appraisal, systematic reviews and manuscript production. |
Ms Christine Wiltshire (Finance Administrator)
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Christine's main area of responsibilities include managing the financial aspects of the project including the contractual agreements with the sites. |
Administration Officer
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The Administration Officer main area of responsibilities include coordinating meetings, travel arrangements and events, providing PA assistance to the National Manager, general secretarial duties for PaCCSC, data checking and correcting and overall providing general office support to ensure the smooth progress of the collaborative. |
Zac Vandersman (Data Assistant)
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Zac assists with checking the study data and makes any necessary corrections to the databases.
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Page Author: PaCCSC
This page was created on 9 May 2008
Last updated 1 August 2011*