
Professor Renuka Visvanathan
Professor
Adelaide Medical School
Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences
Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.
PROFESSOR RENUKA VISVANATHAN
PhD, FRACP, FANZSGM, FAAG, MBA (Health Service Management), G.Cert. Ed (Higher Education), MBBS, ATCL
Professor Visvanathan has an international reputation in the research area of nutritional frailty. She is especially interested in the provision of quality health care to prevent the impact of frailty (e.g. falls and fracture) as well as improve the wellbeing, function and quality of life of frail, older people and consumers with dementia. She is also interested in research that is likely to translate into improved clinical practice.
Professor Visvanathan is the Head of Unit of the Aged & Extended Care Services at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (& Basil Hetzel Institute), Central Adelaide Local Health Network since 2005. In that role, she oversight a geriatric medicine clinical service with 8 consultants and up to 5 advance trainees.
She leads the Adelaide Geriatrics Training and Research with Aged Care (G-TRAC) Centre, which includes an innovative partnership project between the University of Adelaide and Resthaven Inc. at Paradise. GTRAC is a collaborating partner of the South Australian Advanced Health Research and Translation Centre (Health Translation SA).
Professor Visvanathan was Project Lead to the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Frailty and Healthy Ageing (2015-2022), a global network focused on frailty research to improve clinical care for older people, lead out of the Basil Hetzel Institute/The Queen Elizabeth Hospital.
Professor Visvanathan was also Chief Investigator and executive committee member to the Registry of Senior Australians, based at SAHMRI as part of the Health Translation SA. Professor Visvanathan iwas previously board member of Resthaven Inc. She is a current committee member of the Australasian Association of Gerontology (AAG) Executive- SA Division, member of the Research Committee to the AAG. She is on the Geriatric Medical Education and Training Committee of the Australia and New Zealand Society for Geriatric Medicine. She is also a member of the SA Divison of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians.
Professor Visvanathan is Associate Editor to the Journal of Frailty and Ageing and was previously an editorial board member of the Journal of Nutrition, Health and Ageing.
Websites of interest for Professor Renuka Visvanathan include:
Project Lead: National Health and Medical Research Council Centre of Research Excellence Frailty Trans-disciplinary Research To Achieve Healthy Aging.
Centre Director: Adelaide Geriatrics Training and Research with Aged Care Centre
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Awards and Achievements
Date Type Title Institution Name Country Amount 2022 Award Healthy Ageing 50 Support By: International Telecommunication Union (ITU), International Labour Organization (ILO), Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (UN Human Rights), United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA), World Economic Forum (the Forum), World Health Organization (WHO) Switzerland - 2019 Honour Dr Venkoba Rao Oration Indian Academic of Geriatrics India - 2019 Fellowship Fellow Australian Association of Gerontology Australian Association of Gerontology Australia - 2015 Recognition Distinguished Member Australian Association of Gerontology Australia - 2013 Fellowship 2013 Fellowship of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Geriatric Medicine Australian and New Zealand Society of Geriatric Medicine Australia - 2009 Award 2009 Australia and New Zealand Society For Geriatric Medicine Lundbeck Fellowship Australia and New Zealand Society For Geriatric Medicine Lundbeck Australia - 2007 Award 2007 Bristol-Myers Squibb Career Investigator Award Australia and New Zealand Society for Geriatric Medicine (ANZSGM) Australia - 2005 Award 2005 Merck New Investigators Award American Geriatric Society (AGS) United States - 2003 Scholarship International Postgraduate Research Scholarship Department of Education, Youth and Training Affairs Australia - 2002 Award 2002 RM Gibson Prize Australian Society for Geriatric Medicine Australia - -
Education
Date Institution name Country Title 2010 University of Adelaide Australia Graduate Certificate in Education (Higher Education), 2005 University of Adelaide Australia PhD in Medicine 1997 University of Adelaide Australia MBBS- Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery -
Certifications
Date Title Institution name Country 2010 SA Health Leads Future Leaders Program SA Health - 2007 Faculty of Health Science Leadership Program University of Adelaide Australia 2004 Teaching at University Certificate University of Adelaide Australia 2003 FRACP- Fellowship Royal Australasian College of Physicians Australia 1987 ATCL- Associate Trinity College of Music London - -
Research Interests
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Journals
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Book Chapters
Year Citation 2022 Williamson, T., Soebarto, V., Bennetts, H., Arakawa Martins, L., Pisaniello, D., Hansen, A., . . . van Hoof, J. (2022). Assessing human resilience: A study of thermal comfort, wellbeing and health of older people. In F. Nicol, H. B. Rijal, & S. Roaf (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Resilient Thermal Comfort (1 ed., pp. 108-127). Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Taylor & Francis. 2009 Penhall, R., & Visvanathan, R. (2009). Nutritional disorders and the older person. In S. Jackson, P. Jansen, & A. Mangoni (Eds.), Prescribing for elderly patients (1 ed., pp. 249-262). United Kingdom: Wiley.
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Conference Papers
Year Citation 2022 Visvanathan, R., Lange, K., Selvam, J., Dollard, J., Boyle, E., Ingram, K., . . . Hill, K. (2022). Characterising falls and fallers whilst comparing three methods to identify falls in hospitals: Results from the Ambient Intelligent Geriatric Management (AmbIGeM) system falls prevention trial. In AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL ON AGEING Vol. 41 (pp. 30). WILEY. 2020 Arakawa Martins, L., Williamson, T., Bennetts, H., Zuo, J., Visvanathan, R., Hansen, A., . . . Soebarto, V. (2020). Individualising thermal comfort models for older people: the effects of personal characteristics on comfort and wellbeing. In S. Roaf, F. Nicol, & W. Finlayson (Eds.), Proceedings of the 11th Windsor Conference on Thermal Comfort: Resilient Comfort (pp. 187-199). online: Windsor. 2020 Soebarto, V., Williamson, T., Bennetts, H., Arakawa Martins, L., Pisaniello, D., Hansen, A., . . . Carre, A. (2020). Development of an integrated data acquisition system for thermal comfort studies of older people. In S. Roaf, F. Nicol, & W. Finlayson (Eds.), Proceeding of the 11th Windsor Conference: Resilient comfort. (pp. 155-170). online: Windsor. 2019 Proceedings of the 23rd International Symposium on Wearable Computers (2019). In UbiComp '19: The 2019 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing. ACM.
2019 Jayatilaka, A., Dang, Q. H., Chen, S. J., Visvanathan, R., Fumeaux, C., & Ranasinghe, D. C. (2019). Designing batteryless wearables for hospitalized older people. In Proceedings of the 23rd International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC'19) (pp. 91-95). New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
Scopus11 WoS72019 Chesser, M., Jayatilaka, A., Visvanathan, R., Fumeaux, C., Sample, A., & Ranasinghe, D. C. (2019). Super low resolution RF powered accelerometers for alerting on hospitalized patient bed exits. In 2019 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2019) Vol. abs/2003.08530 (pp. 146-155). Kyoto, Japan: IEEE.
Scopus92019 Inacio, M. C., Visvanathan, R., Lang, C., Amare, A., Harrison, S., & Wesselingh, S. (2019). Pain in Australians Seeking Aged Care Services. In JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN GERIATRICS SOCIETY Vol. 67 (pp. S60). Portland, OR: WILEY. 2019 Khadka, J., Visvanathan, R., Theou, O., Wesselingh, S., & Inacio, M. C. (2019). Development and Validation of a National Frailty Index. In JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN GERIATRICS SOCIETY Vol. 67 (pp. S147). Portland, OR: WILEY. 2019 Martins, B. A., Jadczak, A. D., Dollard, J., Barrie, H., Marahajan, N., Tam, K. L., & Visvanathan, R. (2019). The self-perceived importance and competence of 5th year medical students in assessing, diagnosing and managing frailty before and after a geriatric medicine course.. In Australasian Journal on Ageing Vol. 38 (pp. 58). Adelaide: Wiley. 2019 Jadczak, A., Visvanathan, R., Barnard, R., & Luscombe-Marsh, N. (2019). A randomized controlled pilot and feasibility effectiveness supplementation study supporting autonomy in community-dwelling frail older adults. In The Journal of Frailty & Aging Vol. 8 (pp. S24). Miami, USA. 2018 Taylor, D. S., Theou, O., Barrie, H. R., Lange, J., & Visvanathan, R. (2018). Developing a spatial socio-environment healthy ageing index. In AAG Conference- 2018 Conference Program, Abstracts and Presentations. Melbourne, Australia: AAG. 2016 Arjuna, T., Chapman, I., Soenen, S., Miller, M., Visvanathan, R., Ueno, T., & Luscombe-Marsh, N. (2016). Provision of Standard and Fortified 'Meals-on-Wheels' Meals to Improve Nutrition, Functional Status, Quality of Life, and Hospitalizations of Community-Dwelling Nutritionally At-Risk Elderly. In JOURNAL OF AGING AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY Vol. 24 (pp. S23-S24). HUMAN KINETICS PUBL INC. 2012 Visvanathan, R., Ranasinghe, D., Shinmoto Torres, R., & Hill, K. (2012). Framework for preventing falls in acute hospitals using passive sensor enabled radio frequency identification technology. In Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS (pp. 5858-5862).
Scopus182012 Visvanathan, R., Ranasinghe, D., Shinmoto Torres, R., & Hill, K. (2012). Framework for preventing falls in acute hospitals using passive sensor enabled radio frequency identification technology. In Proceedings of the 34th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Vol. 2012 (pp. 5858-5862). CD: IEEE.
WoS14 Europe PMC22012 Ranasinghe, D., Shinmoto Torres, R., Sample, A., Smith, J., Hill, K., & Visvanathan, R. (2012). Towards falls prevention: a wearable wireless and battery-less sensing and automatic identification tag for real time monitoring of human movements. In Proceedings of the 34th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Vol. 2012 (pp. 6402-6405). CD: IEEE.
Scopus26 WoS16 Europe PMC32011 Adams, R., Piantadosi, C., Appleton, S., Mcevoy, D., Hill, C., Visvanathan, R., & Wilson, D. (2011). Investigating obstructive sleep apnoea - Will the health system have the capacity to cope? A population study. In JOURNAL OF SLEEP RESEARCH Vol. 20 (pp. 63-64). Sydney, AUSTRALIA: WILEY-BLACKWELL. 2010 Rajendran, S., Visvanathan, R., Weekes, A. J., Morgan, C., & Beltrame, J. (2010). Octogenarians with chronic stable angina have better quality of life and are more likely to achieve risk factor targets than the young. In EUROPEAN HEART JOURNAL Vol. 31 (pp. 489). Stockholm, SWEDEN: OXFORD UNIV PRESS. 2010 Davey, K., Cheung, J., Visvanathan, R., & Willison, J. (2010). A unique assessment of stress and stress factors on engineering academics in the research and teaching environment. In Proceedings of 21st Annual conference for the Australasian Association for Engineering Education (pp. 1-10). Australia: AAEE. 2005 Visvanathan, R., Hammond, A., Wishart, J., Horowitz, M., & Chapman, I. (2005). Fasting plasma ghrelin levels are comparable in under-nourished and well-nourished community dwelling older people.. In JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN GERIATRICS SOCIETY Vol. 53 (pp. S145). Orlando, FL: WILEY-BLACKWELL.
WoS12004 Gentilcore, D., Visvanathan, R., Russo, A., Chaikomin, R., Stevens, J. E., Horowitz, M., & Jones, K. L. (2004). Effects of the nitric oxide synthase inhibitor, L-NAME, on postprandial blood pressure and gastric emptying in healthy older subjects. In GASTROENTEROLOGY Vol. 126 (pp. A63-A64). New Orleans, LA: W B SAUNDERS CO. -
Conference Items
Year Citation 2021 Zanker, J., Sim, M., Brennan-Olsen, S., Duque, G., Hayes, A., Henwood, T., . . . Scott, D. (2021). The Australian and New Zealand Society for Sarcopenia and Frailty Research (ANZSSFR) Sarcopenia Diagnosis and Management Task Force: Findings from the expert Delphi process. Poster session presented at the meeting of AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL ON AGEING. WILEY.
WoS12020 Thompson, M. Q., Theou, O., Tucker, G. R., Adams, R. J., & Visvanathan, R. (2020). Frailty is a dynamic condition where repeated measurement is important for mortality prediction: findings from the North West Adelaide Health Study. Poster session presented at the meeting of AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL ON AGEING. WILEY. 2020 Inacio, M. C., Lang, C., Caughey, G., Bray, S., Whitehead, C., Visvanathan, R., . . . Wesselingh, S. (2020). Quality and Safety Indicators for Long-term Care in Australia. Poster session presented at the meeting of JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN GERIATRICS SOCIETY. Long Beach, CA: WILEY. 2019 Khadka, J., Visvanathan, R., Theou, O., Wesselingh, S., & Inacio, M. (2019). Development and validation of a Frailty Index in Australia (FI-Aus) using routine aged care eligibility assessment record data. Poster session presented at the meeting of AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL ON AGEING. WILEY. 2019 Khow, K., Shibu, P., Yu, S., Chehade, M., & Visvanathan, R. (2019). Perioperative haemoglobin and clinical outcomes in older people after hip fracture surgery. Poster session presented at the meeting of AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL ON AGEING. WILEY. 2019 Martins, B. A., Visvanathan, R., Barrie, H., Huang, C. H., Matsushita, E., Okada, K., . . . Kuzuya, M. (2019). Built environment and frailty: neighborhood perceptions and associations with frailty, experience from the Nagoya Longitudinal study. Poster session presented at the meeting of AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL ON AGEING. WILEY. 2018 Thompson, M., Theou, O., Tucker, G., Adams, R., & Visvanathan, R. (2018). Frailty state transitions and associated factors in South Australian older adults. Poster session presented at the meeting of Abstracts of the Australian and New Zealand Society for Geriatric Medicine Annual Scientific Meeting 2018, as published in Australasian Journal on Ageing. Sydney, Australia: Wiley.
2018 Bikdeli, B., Bikdeli, B., & Visvanathan, R. (2018). Use of prophylaxis for prevention of venous thromboembolism in patients with isolated foot or ankle surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Poster session presented at the meeting of AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL ON AGEING. WILEY.
WoS12018 Yap, E. Y. L., Visvanathan, R., & Naganathan, V. V. (2018). Survey of teaching of geriatric medicine in australia medical schools. Poster session presented at the meeting of AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL ON AGEING. WILEY. 2018 Nawi, S. N. M., Yu, S., & Visvanathan, R. (2018). Screening tools for sarcopenia: a scoping review. Poster session presented at the meeting of AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL ON AGEING. WILEY.
WoS12017 Khow, K., McNally, C., Shibu, P., Yu, S., Chehade, M., & Visvanathan, R. (2017). Retrospective observational study comparing haemoglobin changes and transfusion requirement after hip fracture in frail nursing home residents with community- dwelling older people. Poster session presented at the meeting of AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL ON AGEING. WILEY. 2017 Theou, O., Sluggett, J. K., Bell, J. S., Tan, E. C. K., Emery, T., Robson, L., . . . Visvanathan, R. (2017). Relationship of frailty with hospitalization and mortality in Australian residential aged care facilities. Poster session presented at the meeting of AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL ON AGEING. WILEY. 2017 Woo, T., Yu, S., Adams, R., & Visvanathan, R. (2017). The association between sarcopenia and quality of life is different in community dwelling older australian men and women. Poster session presented at the meeting of AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL ON AGEING. WILEY. 2016 Jadczak, A. D., Tam, K. L., Yu, S., & Visvanathan, R. (2016). Medical Students' Perceptions of the Importance of Exercise and their Perceived Competency in Prescribing Exercise. Poster session presented at the meeting of JOURNAL OF AGING AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY. HUMAN KINETICS PUBL INC. 2015 Tan, E. C. K., Visvanathan, R., Hilmer, S. N., Vitry, A., & Bell, J. S. (2015). Association Between Analgesic Use and Daytime Sleepiness in People with and Without Dementia in Aged Care Facilities. Poster session presented at the meeting of PHARMACOEPIDEMIOLOGY AND DRUG SAFETY. WILEY-BLACKWELL. 2015 Khow, K., Shibu, P., Yu, S., Chehade, M., & Visvanathan, R. (2015). Epidemiology and postoperative outcomes of atypical femoral fractures in older adults: a systematic review. Poster session presented at the meeting of Abstracts of the 2015 The Australian and New Zealand Society for Geriatric Medicine Annual Scientific Meeting, as published in Australasian Journal on Ageing. Perth, WA: Wiley-Blackwell.
2014 Yu, S., Appleton, S., Adams, R., Chapman, I., Wittert, G., Visvanathan, T., & Visvanathan, R. (2014). The impact of low muscle mass definition on the prevalence of sarcopenia in older Australians. Poster session presented at the meeting of AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL ON AGEING. WILEY-BLACKWELL. 2014 Shibu, P. K., Visvanathan, R., & Hudson, D. (2014). OSTEOPOROSIS SCREENING AND MANAGEMENT IN OLDER FALLERS PRESENTING TO HOSPITAL: PILOT EXPERIENCE WITH A DEDICATED GERONTOLOGY NURSE. Poster session presented at the meeting of OSTEOPOROSIS INTERNATIONAL. Seville, SPAIN: SPRINGER LONDON LTD. 2013 Nair, S., Gentilcore, D., & Visvanathan, R. (2013). Intermittent walking: a potential treatment strategy for older people with postprandial hypotension. Poster session presented at the meeting of AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL ON AGEING. WILEY-BLACKWELL. 2013 Yu, S., Appleton, S., Adams, R., Chapman, I., Wittert, G., Visvanathan, T., & Visvanathan, R. (2013). Sarcopenia in community dwelling older Australians. Poster session presented at the meeting of AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL ON AGEING. WILEY-BLACKWELL. 2013 Tam, K. L., Chandran, K., Yu, S., Nair, S., & Visvanathan, R. (2013). A geriatric medicine course to senior undergraduate medical students improves attitudes and self perceived competency scores. Poster session presented at the meeting of AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL ON AGEING. WILEY-BLACKWELL. 2013 Adikari, G. S., Khoo, A., Stewart, L., & Visvanathan, R. (2013). Characteristics and circumstances of inpatient falls: A retrospective audit. Poster session presented at the meeting of AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL ON AGEING. WILEY-BLACKWELL.
WoS12012 Resili, K., McCaskill, C., & Visvanathan, R. (2012). The communication bridge: Talking books bridging the gap for elderly, culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) patients in the Emergency Service (ES), at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (TQEH). Poster session presented at the meeting of AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL ON AGEING. WILEY-BLACKWELL. 2012 Yu, S., Visvanathan, T., Field, J., Chapman, I., Adams, R., Wittert, G., & Visvanathan, R. (2012). A prediction equation to aid the diagnosis of sarcopenia in primary care. Poster session presented at the meeting of Abstracts of the Australian and New Zealand Society for Geriatric Medicine Annual Scientific Meeting 2012, as published in Australasian Journal on Ageing. Sydney, N.S.W.: Wiley-Blackwell.
2012 Dent, E., Chapman, I., Piantadosi, C., & Visvanathan, R. (2012). Frailty determinants and discharge outcomes in hospitalised older persons. Poster session presented at the meeting of Poster abstracts from the 45th National Conference of the Australian Association of Gerontology, as published in Australasian Journal on Ageing. Brisbane, Queensland: Wiley-Blackwell.
WoS12012 Dent, E., Visvanathan, R., Piantadosi, C., & Chapman, I. (2012). Nutritional status at admission predicts functional outcomes in older south Australians admitted to a higher acuity geriatric evaluation and management unit. Poster session presented at the meeting of AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL ON AGEING. WILEY-BLACKWELL. 2012 Nair, S., Gentilcore, D., & Visvanathan, R. (2012). The effects of a postprandial blood pressure decline following a glucose drink on gait parameters in healthy older volunteers. Poster session presented at the meeting of Abstracts of The Australian and New Zealand Society for Geriatric Medicine Annual Scientific Meeting 2012. Sydney, N.S.W.: Wiley-Blackwell.
WoS12012 Adams, R., Appleton, S., Gill, T., Hill, C., & Visvanathan, R. (2012). ASTHMA CONTROL IS ASSOCIATED WITH BLOOD GRANULOCYTE PATTERNS IN A POPULATION COHORT SAMPLE. Poster session presented at the meeting of RESPIROLOGY. WILEY-BLACKWELL. 2012 Appleton, S., Gill, T., Hill, C., Visvanathan, R., & Adams, R. (2012). ASTHMA AND WHEEZE ARE ASSOCIATED WITH REDUCED VITAMIN D LEVELS IN A POPULATION COHORT. Poster session presented at the meeting of RESPIROLOGY. WILEY-BLACKWELL. -
Internet Publications
Year Citation 2021 Soebarto, V., Bennetts, H., Arakawa Martins, L., van Hoof., Visvanathan, R., Hansen, A., . . . Zuo, J. (2021). Thermal Comfort at Home: A guide for older South Australians. The University of Adelaide.
Grants (2011-2022)
Commonwealth Category 1- National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Grants
2022-2024 | ARC Discovery. CI Soebarto V, Williamson T, Visvanathan R, Pisaniello D. Developing resilient housing for low socio-economic older people. | $375,000 |
2021-2024 | NHMRC Ideas. CI Ranasinghe I, Woodman R, Kaambwa B, Aliprandi-Costa B, Kotwal S. AIs Scott I, Visvanathan R, Carmeiro G, Adams R, Gallagher M, Horton D. Safety effectiveness of care and resource use among Australian hospitals (SAFER HOSPITALS). | $1,084,271 |
2019-2022 | MRFF. CIs Maddern G, Iancio M, Visvanathan R, Karnon J. AI Tivey D, Dollard J, Ma N, Vreugdenburg T. Mobile x-ray services provided within residential aged care facilities. | $1,970,000 |
2018-2020 | ARC Discovery. CIs Soebarto V Pisaniello D, Zuo J, Williamson T, Hansen A, Visvanathan R. Improving thermal environment of housing for older Australians. | $413,298 |
2015-2020 | NHMRC Centre For Research Excellence. . CI: Visvanathan R, Karnon J, Kitson A, Beilby J, Cameron I, Bell S, Chehade M, Feist H. AI: Taylor D, Morley J, Rockwood K, Cesari M, Theou O, Yu S, Schultz T. Frailty Trans-Disciplinary Research To Achieve Healthy Ageing. | $2,301169.40 |
2015-2017 | NHMRC Project Grant. CI: Visvanathan R, Hill K, Ranasinghe D, Lange K, Wilson A (AIs Cooper I, Alford J, Karnon J, Ingam K, Shibu P, Maher S, Hoskins S). Effectiveness of an Ambient Intelligence Geriatric Management system (AmbIGeM) to prevent falls in older people in hospitals: the AmbIGeM stepped wedge randomised trial. | $1,609,305.90 |
2012-2017 | NHMRC Centre For Research Excellence- . Associate Investigator CIs Horowitz M, Wittert G, Clifton P, Blackshaw LA, Rayner C, Chapman I, Feinle-Bisset C, Jones K, Noakes M, Chapman M. AI Beckett E, Deane A, Heilbronn L, Kitson A, Little T, Luscombe-Marsh N, Nguyen N, Page A, Shi Z, Turnbull D, Visvanathan R, Young R - Translating Nutritional Science to Good Health. | $2,499,990 million |
Other Research Grants
2019 | Flinders Foundation Seed Grant. Kanon J, Fafzali H, Visvanathan R, Inacio M, Khadka J, Ratcliffe J. Cost of frailty. | $50,000 |
2018 | Theou O, Rockwood K, Kehler S, Blanchard C, Cahill L, Hajizadeh M, Jarett P, Visvanathan R, Romero-ortuno R, Hartley P. The breaking 'bad rest' study: interrupting sedentary time to reverse frailty levels in acute care. | $103,959.25 |
2017-2019 | Ahip SS, Visvanathan R, Shariff S, Theou O. The Ministry of Health Malaysia-National Institute of Health Research Grant Funding Schemes. The Malaysin Pictorial Fit-Frail Sclae (M-PFFS): Development and testing of feasibility, validity and reliability in Malaysia. | $138,430 |
2017 | Visvanathan R, Martins B. Equipment Grant- Hospital Research Foundation.InBody 570 Body Composition Analyser. | $27,665 |
2017-2020 | Wesselingh S, Visvanathan R, Whitehead C, Russell P, Daniel M, Roder D, Stanley A, Griffith L, Karnon J, Miller C, Phillips P, Denson L, Ward L, Gill T, Ratcliffe J, Walters J, Kerrins E. Premiere’s Research and Industry Fund Research Consortia Program: Measuring and Intervening for Health Ageing In South Australia. | $4,000,000 |
2016 | Jones K-Chief Investigator. Associate Investigator- Horowitz M, Rayner C, Soenen S, Visvanathan R, Hausken T. Royal Adelaide Hospital Research Committee NHMRC Near Miss Grant. Post-Prandial hypotension- gastrointestinal mechanisms and management. | $50,000 |
2016 - 2021 | Visvanathan R. Hospital Research Foundation Challenge Funding. Frailty to achieve Healthy Aging. | $625,000 |
2015-2016 | Visvanathan R-Northern Communities Health Foundation- The effects of exercise in combination with a commercially available nutritional supplement in older people at-risk of sarcopenia: A Pilot Study. | $50,000 |
2014 | Ratcliffe J, Luszcz M, Doyle C, Visvanathan R. Flinders University DVCR (R) Near Miss Grant. Incorporating older peoples’ preferences into the design and delivery of dementia diagnostic services. | $20,000 |
2013 | Bell S (Chief Investigator), Co-Investigators-Hilmer S, Vitry A, Visvanathan R. Alzheimer’s Australia- Resthaven Dementia Grant- ‘Analgesic load, pain and daytime sedation in people with dementia in aged care facilities’ | $150,000 |
2011 | Jones K, Gentilcore D, Visvanathan R, Chapman IM, Rayner CK, A Deane, Horowitz M. Hanson Institute, Royal Adelaide Hospital Equipment Grant- Assessment of splanchnic blood flow in humans | $65,000. |
Teaching & Training Grants
2012-2014 | Visvanathan R Aged Care Workforce Fund Department of Health And Ageing - Expanding the’ Teaching Research Aged Care Service’. Development of the Adelaide Geriatrics Training and Research with Aged Care (G-TRAC) Centre. | $543,000 |
2011-2013 | Visvanathan R and Beilby J. Health Workforce Australia Clinical Placement Grant- to develop a ‘Teaching Research Aged Care Service’ | $1,015,706 |
2011-2016 | Visvanathan R Specialist Training Program. | $600,000 |
2012-2016 | Visvanathan R Specialist Training Program. | $500,000 |
2014-2016 | Visvanathan R Specialist Training Program. | $300,000 |
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Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)
Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name 2022 Principal Supervisor Under-diagnosis of Dementia in Residents of Residential Care Services- Extent, Predictors and Impact Master of Philosophy (Medical Science) Master Part Time Dr Reena Tewari 2022 Co-Supervisor An Investigation into the Genetic Basis of Human Intrinsic Reserve Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Melkamu Bedimo Beyene 2021 Principal Supervisor Studies of Depression and Frailty Risk in Nursing Homes Doctor of Philosophy under a Jointly-awarded Degree Agreement with Doctorate Full Time Dr Tomomichi Sakai 2019 Principal Supervisor Predictive Validity Assessment of the Pictorial Fit-Frail Scale-Malay Version Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Ms Sally Suriani Ahip 2018 Principal Supervisor A pre-post, feasibility and acceptability study investigating the effects of a goal-setting coaching intervention using accelerometer guided objective feedback on real time feedback on sedentary behaviour and physical activity in hip fracture patient Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Unyime Jasper 2017 Principal Supervisor The Utility of Frailty and Activities of Daily Living (ADL) Assessments in the Management of Emergency Department (ED) Patients from Nursing Homes (NH) Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Dr James Farrell Smyth -
Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)
Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name 2018 - 2020 Principal Supervisor Frailty in older adults: Findings from longitudinal studies Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Dr Mark Quinlivan Thompson 2016 - 2020 Principal Supervisor Built Environment and Frailty: Understanding the influence of neighbourhood
on older people’s healthDoctor of Philosophy under a Jointly-awarded Degree Agreement with Doctorate Full Time Dr Beatriz Arakawa Martins 2015 - 2017 Co-Supervisor Ambulatory Monitoring using Passive RFID Technology Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Asanga Wickramasinghe 2014 - 2018 Principal Supervisor Exercise and Older People: Strategies to Prevent, Treat and Delay Frailty Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Agathe Daria Jadczak 2013 - 2018 Principal Supervisor Clinicians' Perspectives and Clinical Efficacy of a Health Information Technology Tool in Hospital Falls Risk Assessment and Prevention among Older Persons Master of Philosophy (Medical Science) Master Part Time Dr Ruth Teh 2012 - 2019 Co-Supervisor An Exploratory Investigation of the Oral Health of Hospitalised Older People Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mrs Clare McNally 2011 - 2015 Principal Supervisor Postprandial Hypotension in Older People Master of Philosophy (Medical Science) Master Part Time Dr Shailaja Nair G.N. Nair 2010 - 2013 Co-Supervisor Frailty Indices and Nutritional Screening Tools as Predictors of Adverse Outcomes in Hospitalised Older People Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Elsa Dent 2007 - 2014 Co-Supervisor Sarcopenia in Older People Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time APrf Solomon Yu
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