PERIPHERAL INTRAVENOUS CATHETER MANAGEMENT
With
Dr Grace Xu,
Nurse Practitioner
Emergency Department,
QEII Hospital, Brisbane &
Emergency & Trauma Centre,
Royal Brisbane Women’s Hospital,
Brisbane, Australia
RESEARCHER PROFILE
Filmed in Brisbane, Australia | May 2026
Dr Grace Xu is a clinician-researcher, senior nurse practitioner, and emerging implementation scientist with more than 16 years of emergency nursing experience. She is a Fellow of the College of Emergency Nurses Australasia and a Centaur Fellow. She also leads the Early Career Researcher/Clinician Researcher portfolio within the Alliance for Vascular Access Teaching and Research group.
As Chief Investigator, Dr Xu has secured over $3 million in competitive grant funding and co-authored more than 40 publications, including eight ranked among the top 10% most cited globally in her field. Her international research standing is reflected in Scopus rankings, placing her in the top 99th percentile for mindfulness research and the top 93rd percentile for catheter infection. During the COVID-19 pandemic, her wellness research informed local and state wellness activity planning and was featured by major media outlets such as 10 News (2020 & 2021).
Her achievements have been recognised through numerous awards, including the Early Career Researcher Award (2024), Early Career Academic of the Year (2024), Research Implementation Award (2024), Clinician Researcher Award (2023), Outstanding Achievement in Nursing/Midwifery Leader Award (2022), and multiple teaching excellence awards.
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Thanks to: Emergency Medicine Foundation
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Risk factors and prevention of respiratory infections and infectious diseases in children
A/Prof Hannah Moore OAM is an infectious disease epidemiologist; Co-Head of the Infectious Disease Epidemiology team within the Wesfarmers Centre of Vaccines and Infectious Diseases at The Kids Research Institute Australia and Associate Professor at the School of Population Health, Curtin University in Western Australia.
A/Prof Moore has been awarded more than $19M in competitive research grants, co-authored more than 140 papers, was TEDxPerth 2018 speaker, recipient of a WA Young Tall Poppy Award (2013) and the WA Premiers Science Early Career Scientist Award (2015). In 2024, she was honoured with a Medal of the Order of Australia for her service to epidemiology as a researcher.
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Iodine in pregnancy on baby brain and nervous system development
Dr Karen Best is Senior Research Fellow in the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI) Women and Kids Theme. She is a Registered Midwife with a unique breadth of experience in clinical project management, academic skills and knowledge translation and is committed to better understanding the essential role that modifiable exposures in pregnancy play in setting the foundations for a healthy start to life.
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Radiation therapy techniques and combination treatments for sarcoma
Professor Angela Hong MBBS, MMed, PhD, FRANZCR is a Professor at Sydney Medical School of the University of Sydney. She is a radiation oncologist and has been a member of the Multidisciplinary Bone and Soft Tissue Tumour Clinic at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital/Chris O’Brien Lifehouse for the past 15 years.
As a radiation oncologist located in Sydney, Australia, Professor Hong is focused on treating patients with bone and soft tissue sarcoma. And as a clinician scientist, her research focuses on developing innovative radiation therapy technique and combination treatments to improve the outcome for patients with sarcoma.
