Events Coordinator

Description:

Today the Alfred Hospital Trauma Service is one of two level 1 adult trauma centres serving the populations of Victoria, the Victorian-New South Wales border and Northern Tasmania. In terms of severely injured patients, the Alfred is the busiest Trauma Centre in Australasia.

The Alfred Trauma Service relies on the expertise of many of the specialty units within the Alfred. These include intensive care, anaesthesia and acute pain services, general surgery, orthopaedics, neurosurgery, emergency medicine, general and interventional radiology, plastic and reconstructive surgery, cardiothoracic surgery, vascular, neurosurgery, ophthalmology, burns service, psychiatry and the dental service.

With a mission to improve care of the injured, the National Trauma Research Institute (NTRI) was established in 2003 by partnership institutions Alfred Health and Monash University. The NTRI is located with the Alfred Medical Research and Education Precinct (AMREP) at The Alfred campus in Melbourne, Australia and supports the Trauma Services clinical unit’s education and research activities.

The NTRI works with organisations nationally and internationally to prevent and reduce the impact of severe injury by integrating research, education, biotechnologies and trauma system development to improve clinical care and outcomes. In early 2016 the NTRI’s activities were combined with those of The Alfred Trauma Service to integrate research with patient outcomes and to improve efficiency.