Ms Louisa Lam - Researcher Profile

Biography

Louisa Lam joined the School of Nursing and Midwifery as a lecturer in March 2011. She has more than 20 years of nursing experience in Hong Kong and Australia. She is specialised in coronary care and has completed a Masters degree in public health.

Prior to joining the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Louisa was working as a project manager at the Australia New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre managing the ARISE-RCT study, a large multi-centre randomised controlled trial of early goal-directed therapy in sepsis (EGDT). Previously, Louisa also worked with the Monash Accident Research Centre and the Pre-Hospital and Trauma Group at the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine at Monash University. Her research area included observational injury prevention, road trauma studies and randomised controlled trials in the area of heart failure. Louisa is currently completing her PhD entitled "Diagnosis and management of heart failure in the emergency department."

Teaching in 2012

Member of the working group in Acute Cardiac Care with the European Society of Cardiology

• Affiliate member of Cardiac Society of Australia & New Zealand
• Review author for Cochrane Heart Group
• Reviewer for The American Heart Journal
• Reviewer for Circulation Journal, American Heart Association

Qualifications

MASTER OF PUBLIC HEALTH

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 2005

Publications

Journal Articles

Ronaldson, K.J., Lam, L.L.Y., Rodrigo, S., Tonkin, A.M., 2012, A meta-analysis of haemorrhage with ticlopidine and clopidogrel following coronary artery stent placement, European Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine [E], vol 11, issue 11, Healthcare Bulletin, United Kingdom, pp. 98-104.

Lokuge, A., Lam, L.L.Y., Cameron, P., Krum, H., De Villiers Smit, P., Bystrzycki, A., Naughton, M.T., Eccleston, D., Flannery, G., Federman, J., Schneider, H., 2010, B-type natriuretic peptide testing and the accuracy of heart failure diagnosis in the emergency department, Circulation: Heart Failure [P], vol 3, issue 1, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, United States, pp. 104-110.

Lam, L., Cameron, P., Schneider, H., Abramson, M., Mueller, C., Krum, H., 2010, Meta-analysis: Effect of B-type natriuretic peptide testing on clinical outcomes in patients with acute dyspnea in the emergency setting, Annals Of Internal Medicine [P], vol 153, issue 11, American College of Physicians, United States, pp. 728-735.

Schneider, H., Lam, L., Lokuge, A., Krum, H., Naughton, M.T., Smit, P.D.V., Bystrzycki, A., Eccleston, D., Federman, J., Flannery, G., Cameron, P., 2009, B-type natriuretic peptide testing, clinical outcomes, and health services use in emergency department patients With dyspnea a randomized trial, Annals Of Internal Medicine [P], vol 150, issue 6, American College of Physicians, United States, pp. 365-371.

Schneider, H., Lam, L.L.Y., Cameron, P., 2009, Does B-type natriuretic peptide testing affect outcome and management of patients with acute dyspnea? In response:, Annals Of Internal Medicine [P], vol 151, issue 4, American College of Physicians, United States, pp. 289-290.

Brand, C.A., Lam, L.L.Y., Roberts, C., Gorelik, A., Amatya, B., Smallwood, D., Russell, D., 2009, Measuring performance to drive improvement: development of a clinical indicator set for general medicine, Internal Medicine Journal [P], vol 39, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia, Australia, pp. 361-369.

Conference Proceedings

Lam, L.L.Y., Schneider, H., Andrianopoulos, N., Krum, H., Abramson, M.J., Mueller, C., Cameron, P., 2009, The effects of BNP testing at ED for acute SOB patients on clinical outcomes (meta-analysis), Heart, Lung and Circulation, Elsevier Australia, Australia, p. S190.

Smit, D., Lokuge, A., Lam, L., Bystrzycki, A., Cameron, P., Eccleston, D., Federman, J., Krum, H., Naughton, M., Schneider, H., 2008, B-type natriuretic peptide testing in patients with shortness of breath in the emergency department: a preliminary analysis of the accuracy of heart failure diagnosis, Annals of Emergency Medicine, Mosby, Inc., United States, p. 481.