PA Research Foundation

22/12/2025

Christmas is just sleeps away. 🎄🎅

For more than 600 people, they will start Christmas Day not with those they love and cherish, but in a hospital bed. Though there will be the smiling face and festive greetings of the PA Hospital staff to help lift their spirits we know the positive impact on patients that receiving their very own gift can have.

You can support our efforts to provide every patient spending Christmas in hospital with a gift by donating to our Christmas Gift Appeal here: https://www.pafoundation.org.au/giftappeal

Because Christmas should come to everyone! 🦌🎁

19/12/2025

It's just so festive here right now and we are all for it! Because Christmas should come to EVERYONE!

17/12/2025

Brewing up more than just great coffee, Stellarossa cafes across Queensland make a valued contribution to medical research and breast cancer awareness each October through their support of our Project Pink campaign.

More here: https://www.pafoundation.org.au/blog/stellarossa-brewing-community--connection-and-commitment-to-better-health

16/12/2025

Today, we took receipt of four boxes of toiletries and beauty products and more donated by the kind and generous customers of Chempro Chemists Buranda
The fantastic staff of Chempro Buranda chose the Foundation and the patients of the PA Hospital to be the recipients of their annual Christmas Gift Collection.
We can't thank them enough for choosing the PA and the Foundation as their place to give this Christmas. 🎄🎅

15/12/2025

Shout out to all these incredible nurse practitioners! 🤩

The PA Hospital Nurse Practitioner workforce is being celebrated for the impactful patient care they provide across a growing portfolio every day. 👏

PAH has more than 30 NP’s covering the specialties of diabetes and endocrine, nephrology, oncology, haematology and stem cell, palliative care, aged care, neurology, dementia and delirium, cardiology, trauma, toxicology, melanoma, plastics, dermatology, emergency equivalent care for Residential Aged Care and the new specialty of ENT.

Chair of the Metro South Health Nursing and Midwifery Advanced Practice Committee, Erin Cranitch said the progression of the NP profession means there are exciting improvements to advanced practice pathways.

“Our committee is focused on improving the Nurse Practitioner career pathway by emphasising the importance of strong partnerships,” Erin said at the MSH Nurse Practitioner Planning Day this December.

“By encouraging collaboration between NPs, healthcare services, and managers, the goal is to create a more seamless pathway for NPs to benefit those they work with.”

Nurse Practitioners (NPs) are the highest qualified clinical nurse in Australia with a master’s degree and an extended scope of practice allowing them to independently assess, diagnose, order, and interpret tests, prescribe medications and provide referrals to other health professionals.

14/12/2025

Every year around 600 or so people will wake up on Christmas Day, not in their own beds but in a Hospital bed. Here at the Foundation we believe Christmas should come to everyone, even if they're in hospital trying to get well again.
This year like last year and the year before that we will be ensuring a gift is given to not just long stay patients but every patient in hospital on Christmas Day. 🎄
We can't bring a touch of the joy of Christmas to everyone without support from generous people who choose us as their place to give at Christmas time.
Please consider making a donation of $25 or more to our Christmas Gift Appeal and help us to bring Christmas to everyone. 🎅🎄🎁

Donate here: https://www.pafoundation.org.au/giftappeal

12/12/2025

We are so lucky to get to call Port of Brisbane one of our Friends of the Foundation! As one of our amazing corporate partners they have supported our work since 2013 in a number of ways, including as the major sponsor of our annual Smiddy Fun Run event which raises funds for melanoma and skin cancer research.

Learn more about how Port of Brisbane are innovators on the water and in health in this Q and A with Port of Brisbane's Community Relations Manager Ed Harwood here: https://www.pafoundation.org.au/blog/port-of-brisbane--innovation-on-the-water---innovation-in-health

10/12/2025

Last month we were so proud to continue our commitment to closing the health gap.

Thank to those who choose us as their place to give we announced funding for PA Hospital Clinician Associate Professor William Wang and his research project entitled: Improving Secondary Cardiovascular Prevention for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People Through Culturally Informed Care.

Pictured is research project team member Vivian Bryce accepting the award on behalf of A/Prof Wang the PA's Cardiology Department.

09/12/2025

Not only is our boss an accomplished and respected fundraiser and executive, but he's quite handy with a pair of tongs as well.
Today we put him to work serving lunch to the fabulous volunteers of the PA Hospital at the annual volunteer Christmas Party.
The volunteers do some much valuable and vital work at the PA and it was lovely to take the time to have lunch with them and most importantly celebrate and thank them for all their hard work throughout the year. 🎄🎅🌭🥩🍔

08/12/2025

Thanks to our incredible corporate partners of our Project Pink initiative as well as other incredible supporters, we proudly announced more ongoing funding for Professor Fiona Simpson and the The University of Queensland's Simpson Lab earlier this month. The funding will allow the team to continue progressing research into new treatments and solutions for breast cancer.

Simpson Lab's Combination Therapy research has already advanced to large clinical trial, collaborating with the Garvan Institute in Sydney, involving more than 400 patients. We know with Prof Simpson's track record, passion and dedication to helping patients, that more promising results, that bring hope to so many are never too far away.

06/12/2025

Say G'Day to PA Hospital clinician Dr Tyrone Humphries. Dr Humphries is based in Urology and Kidney Transplant Services at the PA and is the proud recipient of a our 2026 Early Career Researcher Grant.

Thanks to our amazing community of donors, supports, corporate partners and community fundraisers we are proud to fund Tyrone's project entitled; Non-Invasive Quantification of Kidney Triglyceride Content in Diabetic Kidney disease Using In Vivo Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy.

05/12/2025

Congratulations to S.Cameron of Point Lookout who is the lucky winner of our latest medical research lottery. Just in time for Christmas!