GRANTS AND AWARDS
2024: Order of Australia
Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the General Division
Professor Charlotte Hespe, NSW
For significant service to general medicine as a practitioner, academic and mentor.
2024: MRFF
BREATHE SMART- Breathlessness Rapid Evaluation And THErapy- Screening, Management And IntegRated Technology: CIA Charlotte Hespe, Administering University -The University of Notre Dame Australia
2024: MRFF
Dispensing Patient empowerment and self-management skills through technology-enabled interventions delivered by community pharmacists – CIA Bandana Saini, CIC Charlotte Hespe
2023: MRFF
Solving Australias Hypertension Treatment Problem: CIA Aletta Schutte, CIF Charlotte Hespe
2023: RACGP Academic Research Training grant
Dr Kristen Hamilton / Professor Charlotte Hespe
2022: MRFF
Transforming blood pressure control in primary care using the next generation of blood pressure measurement devices: The NEXTGEN-BP randomised trial: CIA Aletta Schutte (UNSW), CIB Charlotte Hespe
2022: RACGP Academic Research Training grant
Dr Stephanie Eid / A/Professor Charlotte Hespe
2021: RACGP Academic Research Training grant
Dr Louisa Ling / A/Professor Charlotte Hespe
2020: RACGP Academic Research Training grant
Dr Edwina Brown / A/Professor Charlotte Hespe
2019 HCF RACGP Foundation Research grant
AF SELF SMART- Atrial Fibrillation Self-Screening, Management and Guideline Recommended Therapy. Dr Katrina Giske, A/Professor Charlotte Hespe, Professor Ben Freedman, Dr Nicole Lowres, Dr Ruth Webster
2019: RACGP Academic Research Training grant
Dr Katrina Giske / A/Professor Charlotte Hespe
2018: RACGP Academic Research Training grant
Dr Alum Sheila Uyiroth / A/Professor Charlotte Hespe
2017: NHRMC Partnership for Better Health Grant (APP1142883)
An intervention to improve the detection and management of Familial Hypercholesterolaemia in primary care. A/Prof Hespe is part of a team based at The University of Notre Dame who were awarded $2 million in funding and comprises a contribution from the NHMRC and in-kind support.
CIA - Professor Tom Brett CIB - Associate Professor Diane Arnold-Reed CIC - Professor Gerald Watts CID - Associate Professor David Sullivan CIE - Professor Alistair Vickery CIF - Doctor Ian Li CIG - Doctor Lakkhina Troeung CIH - Professor Clare Heal CII - Associate Professor Charlotte Hespe CIJ - Associate Professor Jan Radford
2017: RACGP Academic Research Training grant
Dr Anna Samecki / A/Professor Charlotte Hespe
2016: RACGP/PWH Grieve Memorial Award, RACGP Research Grants
Rubella immunity and screening in women of childbearing age in Sydney general practice
Dr Su-Yin Yeong, Dr Fiona Millard and A/Prof Charlotte Hespe
2016: Investigator Sponsored Study (ISS), Amgen
An intervention to improve the detection and management of Familial Hypercholesterolaemia in primary care. A/Prof Hespe is heading the NSW team as part of a national research collaboration with the UNDA Fremantle School of Medicine. She was successful in winning a grant to fund a research intervention study to be conducted in four practices in New South Wales (NSW), using a method of care involving phenotypic diagnosis of FH and follow up management in primary care.
A/Prof Charlotte Hespe, Prof David Sullivan, Prof Tom Brett, Dr Diane Arnold-Reed
2014: NHMRC Grant
An integrated general practice and pharmacy-based intervention to promote the prescription and use of appropriate preventive medications among individuals at high cardiovascular risk. A/Prof Hespe is part of an international group of Researchers who are working to reduce cardiovascular disease from the primary care setting. The partnership is led by Professor Patel out of the George Institute.
CIA – Patel (George), CIB – Peiris (George), AI-F - Dr Hespe.
2014: Bupa Health Foundation 2014 Health Awards
An innovative Medicare Local quality improvement model to reduce cardiovascular disease (Q Pulse)
School of Medicine Sydney, the University of Notre Dame Australia: A/Prof Charlotte Hespe, A/Professor Sally Lord, Associate Professor Lucie Rychetnik; The George Institute, The University of Sydney: A/Professor David.
2014: APHCRI Funding
Support for Developing Research Capacity in Primary Health Care: Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute to fund the development of research capacity in primary health care at the University of Notre Dame Australia’s School of Medicine.
A/Prof Charlotte Hespe, A/Prof Lucie Rychetnik, Prof Joe McGirr, A/Prof Catherine Harding.
2013: Family Medical Care, Education and Research Grant application, RACGP Research Grants
Patient acceptability and attitudes to receiving alcohol use enquiry from general practitioners
Dr Michael Tam, Prof Nicholas Zwar, A/Prof Charlotte Hespe.