The development of complex projects requires a wide range of expertise. The Advance Project Team is being led by HammondCare.
The HammondCare Project Team comprises:
Project Director
Josephine Clayton MBBS(Hons) FRACP FAChPM PhD
Professor Josephine Clayton is the Chair of the Advisory Group and the Project Director. She is a Palliative Care Physician working for
HammondCare in Sydney; Professor of Palliative Care at the University of Sydney and Director of Palliative Care Research and Development,
Hammond Innovations. She has extensive clinical experience in providing palliative care and discussing advance care planning with people with a variety of chronic and debilitating conditions. She leads a research program that aims to improve health professional/patient/family communication in order to enhance palliative and end-of-life care. She is currently contributing to various projects aimed at facilitating earlier consideration of advance care planning and/or palliative and supportive care. Josephine’s research has been published widely in leading international journals in palliative care and oncology, and translated widely into clinical practice. She has a strong interest in teaching communication skills relevant to the care of patients with life limiting illnesses.
Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Consultant
Jon San Martin RN, BSN, GCAdvNur, MPallCare
Jon San Martin is a registered nurse with over a decade of experience in aged and palliative care. Driven by a passion for improving palliative care for older people, Jon focuses on building workforce capability and translating research into practice. He strongly advocates that palliative care and dementia care are core business in aged care. Starting as a care worker in home care and retirement villages, Jon progressed in his nursing career to residential aged care and then to specialist palliative care services. Jon has been involved in the implementation of various palliative care projects in aged care. He is currently working at
Hammond Innovations as the Clinical Nurse Consultant for
The Advance Project.
Project and Evaluation Coordinator
Srivalli Vilapakkam Nagarajan BE CertIVTAA MEnggStud EdD
Dr Srivalli Nagarajan worked as the project coordinator and evaluation officer for the Advance Project, based at HammondCare. She has a doctoral degree in education and more than two decades of cross-disciplinary teaching and research experience. She is a very experienced qualitative researcher and has published several peer-reviewed full research papers. Srivalli has extensive project management expertise, working with a diverse range of stakeholders, and has managed numerous grants, research and education-focused projects achieving successful outcomes in Allied Health, Education, ICT, Business and Healthcare which have made contributions to policy development. Sri is a Data and Information Officer for
Hammond Innovations, HammondCare and a research affiliate at the Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney.
The CareSearch Project Team is responsible for the development of the website, and co-developed the General Practice elearning modules. The following people are developing these CareSearch resources:
Jennifer Tieman BSc(Hons), MBA, PhD
Professor Jennifer Tieman is a Matthew Flinders Fellow in the College of Nursing and Health Sciences. As Director and Research Lead for two national palliative care resources,
CareSearch and
PalliAGED she is responsible for ensuring palliative care evidence is available for health professionals, aged care workers and people and families affected by the need for palliative care. The CareSearch project team undertakes research on knowledge retrieval and knowledge dissemination and investigates approaches that encourage the use of evidence in health, particularly in palliative care and end of life care. Jennifer is part of the consortium team delivering the
ELDAC project. She is also research lead of a specialist research team, Flinders Filters, which is building the evidence around bibliometric retrieval and use.
Heather Grigg Website Assistant, CareSearch
Heather Grigg is a Web Content Assistant for CareSearch, and manages content editing and data management for the project. Heather has extensive administrative experience in the legal and health systems, including a palliative care clinical research setting.