Clinical research
Research team & collaborators
The people behind The Clinical Research Institute – directors, fellows, associates and the academic clinicians we publish with, in Australia, the United States, the Netherlands and South Korea.
Directors
The Clinical Research Institute
Sean Mungovan
Professor · Director, The Clinical Research Institute
B.App.Sc. (Physiotherapy), MPhil · APA Titled Research Physiotherapist
Orthopaedics and osteoarthritis, men’s health and urology, cardiothoracic and respiratory medicine, high-performance sport, microplastics and human health.
BlacktownNorwestPenrithWestmeadResearch
Steven Huang
Physiotherapist · Director, The Clinical Research Institute
B.App.Sc. (Phty) Hons.
Mulligan concept manual therapy and aquatic therapy.
Blacktown
Clinical research fellows
Senior academic appointments to the Institute
Professor Greg G. Gass
University of Jamestown
Fargo, United States
Professor Neil A. Smart
University of New England
Armidale, Australia
Associate Professor Doa El-Ansary
Swinburne University of Technology
Melbourne, Australia
Cunningham Foundation research fellows
Senior academic appointments to the Institute
Elena Bartos
2024 – present
Current
Sophie Cho
2025 – present
Current
Dr Marie March
2023 – 2024
Dr Tarcisio Folly de Campos
2021 – 2023
Research associates
Clinical streams
Samantha Khanna
Pelvic Health
Research associates
St Vincent's Private
Hospital Sydney
Sophie Brown
Joanna Devey
Collaborative academic and research clinicians
Who we publish with
Named investigators and co-authors across our research programs.
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Associate Professor Nick Vertzyas Chair | St Vincent's Private Hospital Sydney, Australia |
| Associate Professor Manish I. Patel | Westmead Private Hospital and The University of Sydney, Australia |
| Dr Petra L. Graham | Macquarie University, Australia |
| Dr Jaspreet Sandhu | Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, United States |
| Dr Oguz Akin | Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, United States |
| Dr Sigrid Carlsson | Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, United States |
| Associate Professor Richard Chard | Westmead Private Hospital, Australia |
| Dr Aaron Scanlan | Central Queensland University, Australia |
| Associate Professor Hong Koo Ha | Pusan University Hospital, Busan, South Korea |
| Dr Joel Fuller | Macquarie University, Australia |
Not in the supplied list. The handover brief also named Professor Steven Faux (St Vincent’s Private Hospital Sydney), Dr Etienne Masle-Farquhar (Garvan Institute of Medical Research), and Professor Kevin Thomas, Dr Cassandra Rauert and Dr Fatma Nur Eraslan (The University of Queensland / QAEHS) as research collaborators. They are held here rather than dropped.
Research training
Higher degrees and research students
Research degrees and placements supervised through the Institute.
PhD students
2010
Andrew D. Hirschhorn
Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery: Exercise Testing and Prescription in the Acute Preoperative Phase.
International research students
2017
Henk B. Luiting
Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
2015
Bryan James
Physical Therapy Division, University of Kentucky, Lexington, United States.
2014
John W. Lockhart
Physical Therapy Division, University of Kentucky, Lexington, United States.
2012
Bregtje P. Huijbers
Center for Human Movement Sciences, University Medical Center, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
Former research associates
People who built this programme
Research associates whose work sits in the Institute’s published record.
Dr John D. Breckenridge
Dr Andrew D. Hirschhorn
Cardiothoracic Surgery and Men’s Health
Dr Elizabeth Dylke
Musculoskeletal
Victoria Elias
Cardiothoracic Surgery
Lauren Nicola
Cardiothoracic Surgery
Amanda Thomas
Cardiothoracic Surgery
Preetraj Singh
Cardiothoracic Clinical Research Stream
Paula J. Peralta
High Performance Sport
Daniel Vukovic
Musculoskeletal and Men’s Health
Susie B. Stinton
Musculoskeletal
Emma K. Ho
Neurosciences
Samantha Delahay (née Rand)
Nutrition and Dietetics
The complete scholarly record
Peer-reviewed publications, presentations and higher degree research from more than three decades.