Dr Kirsty Galpin
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Dr Kirsty Galpin

Research Associate
Research Manager Psycho-Oncology Co-operative Research Group (PoCoG) School of Psychology, Faculty of Science
Dr Kirsty Galpin

Kirsty began her career as a registered nurse in the United Kingdom. She has been working in health services research for almost 20 years.

Her early research focus was in intensive care and peri-operative settings. She completed her PhD in Nursing at the University of Edinburgh which studied the clinical decision making of intensive care nurses in relation to sedation practices.

Kirsty's current role is as a Research Associate/Research Manager for the Psycho-oncology Co-operative Research Group (PoCoG). PoCoG’s work focuses on caring for the whole person, not just the disease, from the time of diagnosis throughout their whole cancer journey. The role focuses on developing research capacity and co-ordinated collaboration to conduct large-scale, multi-centre psycho-oncology and supportive care research. PoCoG wants to ensure that individuals impacted by cancer (including health care professionals providing care) achieve psychological resilience in the face of a disease that can be both chronic and life-limiting.

Prior to this Kirsty was a Research Fellow for the Sydney Catalyst Flagship Program Embedding Research (and Evidence) in Cancer Healthcare - EnRICH’, a prospective clinical cohort of >1000 patients with lung cancer in New South Wales. She explored the clinical variation in the treatment of patients with lung cancer and assisted in the development, implementation and evaluation of quality improvement interventions to address these unwarranted clinical variations.

She has worked on a range of clinical research projects in her career to date including commercial randomised control trials, investigator led studies and quality improvement studies.

Kirsty’s interests lie in translational health services research that helps improve clinical outcomes and quality of life for patients. She has a passion for making a difference and helping people lead the best life they possibly can.

Kirsty has no current teaching or supervision commitments.

  • PoCoG
  • Sydney Health Partners
  • Implementation Science Community of Practice
  • Cancer Trials Network

Publications

Journals

  • Brown, B., Galpin, K., Simes, R., Boyer, M., Brown, C., Chin, V., Young, J. (2024). Development of clinically meaningful quality indicators for contemporary lung cancer care, and piloting and evaluation in a retrospective cohort; experiences of the Embedding Research (and Evidence) in Cancer Healthcare (EnRICH) Program. BMJ Open, 14(2), e074399. [More Information]
  • Brown, B., Galpin, K., Simes, R., Boyer, M., Chin, V., Young, J. (2023). Clinicians' Evaluation of Lung Cancer Clinical Quality Indicators and Comparative Performance Data in Practice. European Journal of Cancer Care, 2023, 6636704. [More Information]
  • Riedel, B., Li, M., Lee, A., Ismail, H., Cuthbertson, B., Wijeysundera, H., Ho, K., METS, S., Everingham, K. (2021). A simplified (modified) Duke Activity Status Index (M-DASI) to characterise functional capacity: a secondary analysis of the Measurement of Exercise Tolerance before Surgery (METS) study. British Journal of Anaesthesia, 126(1), 181-190. [More Information]

2024

  • Brown, B., Galpin, K., Simes, R., Boyer, M., Brown, C., Chin, V., Young, J. (2024). Development of clinically meaningful quality indicators for contemporary lung cancer care, and piloting and evaluation in a retrospective cohort; experiences of the Embedding Research (and Evidence) in Cancer Healthcare (EnRICH) Program. BMJ Open, 14(2), e074399. [More Information]

2023

  • Brown, B., Galpin, K., Simes, R., Boyer, M., Chin, V., Young, J. (2023). Clinicians' Evaluation of Lung Cancer Clinical Quality Indicators and Comparative Performance Data in Practice. European Journal of Cancer Care, 2023, 6636704. [More Information]

2021

  • Riedel, B., Li, M., Lee, A., Ismail, H., Cuthbertson, B., Wijeysundera, H., Ho, K., METS, S., Everingham, K. (2021). A simplified (modified) Duke Activity Status Index (M-DASI) to characterise functional capacity: a secondary analysis of the Measurement of Exercise Tolerance before Surgery (METS) study. British Journal of Anaesthesia, 126(1), 181-190. [More Information]

2020

  • Ackland, G., Abbott, T., Jones, T., Leuwer, M., Pearse, R., Everingham, K., et al (2020). Early elevation in plasma high-sensitivity troponin T and morbidity after elective noncardiac surgery: prospective multicentre observational cohort study. British Journal of Anaesthesia, 124(5), 535-543. [More Information]
  • Stephens, T., Peden, C., Haines, R., Grocott, M., Murray, D., Cromwell, D., Johnston, C., Hare, S., Lourtie, J., Drake, S., et al (2020). Hospital-level evaluation of the effect of a national quality improvement programme: time-series analysis of registry data. BMJ Quality and Safety, 29, 623-635. [More Information]
  • Wijeysundera, D., Beattie, W., Hillis, G., Abbott, T., Shulman, M., Ackland, G., Mazer, C., Myles, P., Pearse, R., Cuthbertson, B., et al (2020). Integration of the Duke Activity Status Index into preoperative risk evaluation: a multicentre prospective cohort study. British Journal of Anaesthesia, 124(3), 261-270. [More Information]

2019

  • Peden, C., Stephens, T., Martin, G., Kahan, B., Thomson, A., Everingham, K., et al (2019). A national quality improvement programme to improve survival after emergency abdominal surgery: the EPOCH stepped-wedge cluster RCT. Health Services and Delivery Research, 7(32). [More Information]
  • Bartoszko, J., Thorpe, K., Laupacis, A., Wijeysundera, D., Everingham, K., et al (2019). Association of preoperative anaemia with cardiopulmonary exercise capacity and postoperative outcomes in noncardiac surgery: a substudy of the Measurement of Exercise Tolerance before Surgery (METS) Study. British Journal of Anaesthesia, 123(2), 161-169. [More Information]
  • Kydonaki, K., Hanley, J., Huby, G., Antonelli, J., Walsh, T., Everingham, K., et al (2019). Challenges and barriers to optimising sedation in intensive care: a qualitative study in eight Scottish intensive care units. BMJ Open, 9, e024549. [More Information]

2018

  • Wijeysundera, D., Pearse, R., Shulman, M., Abbott, T., Torres, E., Ambosta, A., Croal, B., Granton, J., Thorpe, K., Grocott, M., et al (2018). Assessment of functional capacity before major non-cardiac surgery: an international, prospective cohort study. The Lancet, 30(391(10140)), 2631-2640. [More Information]
  • Stephens, T., Peden, C., Pearse, R., Shaw, S., Abbott, T., Jones, E., Kocman, D., Martin, G., Everingham, K., et al (2018). Correction to: Improving care at scale: process evaluation of a multi-component quality improvement intervention to reduce mortality after emergency abdominal surgery (EPOCH trial). Implementation Science, 13(148). [More Information]

2017

  • Kahan, B., Koulenti, D., Arvaniti, K., Beavis, V., Campbell, D., Chan, M., Moreno, R., Pearse, R., Everingham, K. (2017). Critical care admission following elective surgery was not associated with survival benefit: prospective analysis of data from 27 countries. Intensive Care Medicine, 43(7), 971-979. [More Information]

2016

  • Walsh, T., Kydonaki, K., Antonelli, J., Stephen, J., Lee, R., Everingham, K., Hanley, J., Phillips, E., Uutela, K., Peltola, P., et al (2016). Staff education, regular sedation and analgesia quality feedback, and a sedation monitoring technology for improving sedation and analgesia quality for critically ill, mechanically ventilated patients: a cluster randomised trial. The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, 4(10), 807-817. [More Information]