Institute to promote research in the Division of Medicine.

The RPA Institute for Academic Medicine (IAM) has officially launched. 

The Institute has been established to continue improving patient care and outcomes through promoting research and innovation in the hospital’s Division of Medicine. 

It will also provide a focus for research and professional development among physicians and foster collaboration within RPA and with partner organisations. 

Members of our District’s research and medical communities came together at RPA’s Kerry Packer Education Centre recently to celebrate the launch. 

The event featured presentations from the Institute’s Co-Directors, Associate Professor Lauren Troy, Senior Staff Specialist in the RPA Department of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine and Associate Professor Stephen Adelstein, Senior Staff Specialist in the Department of Clinical Immunology and Allergy. 

Attendees also heard from Kiel Harvey, RPA General Manager, Dr Michael Spies, Network Director of the RPA Basic Physican Training Program and from the IAM’s Acting Senior Research Operations Manager, Mariana Sena Board. 

“We are incredibly excited to officially launch the IAM following our extensive consultation and introduction period,” she said. 

“We have been warmly welcomed into the Research space across the RPA and District campus and look forward to continuing to foster and grow the research capacity of the RPA Division of Medicine.” 

District Chief Executive Dr Teresa Anderson welcomed the establishment of the Institute. 

In a presentation, she highlighted the strong history of quality research across our District, which has helped to ensure its reputation for excellence in patient and family centred care. 

“I am incredibly proud of our research community and of our clinicians’ passion for continuously evaluating and improving their practice and models of care to ensure our patients are receiving the best care possible,” she said. 

RPA is one of Australia’s premier tertiary referral hospitals and is a principal teaching hospital of the University of Sydney. 

The IAM will work collaboratively with partners including the District’s other research institutes, the MyDistrictOK staff wellbeing program, Sydney Research, Digital Health and Innovation, the District’s Clinical Research Centre and the RPA Ethics and Governance Office. 

Its launch comes at an exciting moment for research in Sydney Local Health District, which is developing a state-of-the-art biomedical research complex, the Sydney Biomedical Accelerator, in partnership with the University of Sydney and New South Wales Health.