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Office for Research

Level 3 Western Centre for Health, Research & Education (CHRE) Building
Sunshine Hospital
176 Furlong Road
St Albans VIC 3021

Operating Hours: 9:00am - 5:00pm​

Please send all Ethics and Governance enquiries to: [email protected]
Please send all Research Facilitation enquires to: [email protected] 

COVID-19 Notice

Please continue to send your enquiries, submissions and correspondence to [email protected] or phone 03 8395 8074.

We will make all efforts to respond to enquiries and process submissions in a timely manner, however please be aware unavoidable delays may occur in the processing of QA, LREP and SSA submissions if Office for Research staff and/or LREP reviewers are adversely impacted by COVID -19.

Thank you for your patience and understanding during this time, our thoughts are with the community and we urge everyone to please take care of themselves and those around them.

Contact Details

Contact For: 

Mr Bill Karanatsios

Research Program Director

Telephone: 03 8395 8073

Email: [email protected]  or [email protected]

• Research Agreements & Legal queries
• Policies & Procedures
• Covid-19 queries
• Breaches & misconduct
• Complaints
• Research Facilitation:
  • REDCap access
  • Education & Training Workshops
  • Research Report
  • Research & Best Care Conference
  • Research Grants

A/Prof Harin Karunajeewa

Director of Clinical Research

Email: [email protected]

Role includes some but not limited to:

• LREP Chair
• Breaches & misconduct
• Complaints
• Research Roadmap
• Research Facilitation:
• Education & Training
• Research Report
• Research & Best Care Conference
• Research Grants

Dr Kai Yan Mak

Manager – Office for Research

Telephone: 03 8395 8070

Email: [email protected]

• SSA Governance Projects
• National Mutual Acceptance Process
• Research Agreements & Legal queries
• Low Risk Ethics Projects
• Low Risk Ethics Amendments
• Ethics/Governance Submission Support (Commercial Trials only)
• Research Grants
• Auditing & Monitoring
• General queries

Ms Kerrie Russell

Ethics and Governance Administrative Officer

Telephone: 03 8395 8074 (Mon, Tue & Thu)

Email: [email protected]

• Audits/QA Projects
• QA amendments
• Honorary Researcher Appointments
• Finance and Payments
• General queries

Ms Saritha Bingi

Ethics & Governance Officer

Phone: 03 8395 8072

Email: [email protected]

• Progress & Final Reports
• SSA Governance Post Approval Amendments and Acknowledgements
• Auditing & Monitoring
• Website queries
• General queries

Ms Naomi Korboe

Research Administrative Support Officer

Phone: 03 8395 8068

Email: [email protected]

• SSA Governance Post Approval Amendments and Acknowledgements
• Low Risk Ethics Projects
• Low Risk Ethics Amendments
• Finance and payments
• General queries

Ms Deepti Sharma

Research Administrative Support Officer

Phone: 03 8395 8069

Email: [email protected]

• SSA Governance Post Approval Amendments and Acknowledgements
• Low Risk Ethics Projects
• Low Risk Ethics Amendments
• Finance and payments
• General queries