Supportive and Palliative Care Unit
The Supportive and Palliative Care Unit at Monash Health is a Monash University academic unit focused on excellence of care for patients and their families who have a life limiting illness.
Our unit comprises:
- Embedded supportive and palliative care research team (palliative medicine fellows, research assistants and post-doctoral researchers).
- 16-bed (Monash Health Clayton) and 5-bed (Monash Health Casey) inpatient units
- Bi-disciplinary medical/nursing consult team covering the Monash Health Network
- Oncopain outpatient’s clinic
- Palliative care telehealth/hybrid clinics
- Palliative care inreach service (RAPID)
- Supportive care clinic for non-malignant chronic diseases
- Volunteer program
The unit is an accredited palliative medicine registrar training facility with all our physicians being accredited supervisors of the Chapter of Palliative Medicine (Royal Australasian College of Physicians). We also provide undergraduate medical student palliative medicine teaching for Monash University (including BMedSci research and medical student elective placements), teaching for resident medical officers, physician training registrars and nursing - undergraduate, post graduate and nurse practitioners. The unit also closely collaborates with Monash University’s Faculty of Information Technology in digital health research.
To promote collaborative research and identifying important areas for clinical and translational research our clinicians are members/office bearers of the following bodies:
- Chapter of Palliative Medicine (Royal Australasian College of Physicians)
- Victorian Southern Palliative Care Consortia
- Victorian Integrated Cancer Streams
- Gippsland Regional Palliative Care Consortium
- Australian and New Zealand Society of Palliative Medicine
- Palliative Care Research Network Victoria
- Australian Lung Trials Group
- Monash Partners
- Monash Partners Comprehensive Cancer Consortium
- European Society of Medical Oncology: Accredited designated centre of integrated oncology and palliative care
- Australasian Institute of Digital Health
- Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer
Meet the team
Researchers
Other staff and students
Post-doctoral fellow
- Dr Laura Bird (MPsych, PhD)
Research Fellow
- Dr Neil Robinson (MBBS, BSc (Hons), MRCP(UK))
Research Assistants
- Jade Hudson (MSci)
Honorary Researchers
- Isabella Hall (MPsych)
- Mika Musgrave-Takeda (RN, MHlthPrac, MACN)
- Emmy Trinh (RN)
PhD student
- Dr Neil Robinson (MBBS, BSc (Hons), MRCP(UK))
Honours student
- Jenny Lin
- Malena Rudolph
- Eve Ravanbaksh
Past student
- Jessica Vereker (BMedSc(Hons) candidate)