'Concord Hospital is committed to a culture where research is embedded within clinical care and have established structures to facilitate high quality research to optimise patient care'.
Concord Repatriation General Hospital is one of New South Wales’s leading teaching hospitals, with a vision for excellence in health and healthcare for all. Part of Sydney Local Health District’s (SLHD) network of hospitals and services, Concord Hospital is recognised for numerous sub-specialty centres of excellence including the state-wide burns service, colorectal surgery, laparoscopic surgery, molecular biology and genetic laboratory, aged and extended care, gastroenterology, and palliative care. Concord Hospital is also home to Australia’s first National Centre for Veterans’ Healthcare dedicated to supporting the health and wellbeing of veterans and their families.
Concord Hospital is committed to a culture where research is embedded within clinical care and have established structures to facilitate high quality research to optimise patient care. Concord Hospital’s research has been particularly successful in the areas of genetics, ageing, andrology, bone biology, mesothelioma, nutrition, dementia, osteoporosis/fracture prevention, diabetes and obesity, and metabolic aspects of mental disease.
Research is supported through hospital services, medical research institutes, centres of excellence and educational partners. The ANZAC Medical Research Institute, Concord Institute of Academic Surgery, the Centre for Education and Research in Ageing, and the Centre for Cardiometabolic Health in Psychosis (ccCHiP) play an integral role in supporting the research at the hospital.
Concord Hospital has contributed to SLHD’s success, which has run over 7090 clinical trials since 1979 in state-of-the-art facilities leading to significant contributions to science in Haematology, Cardiology, Gastroenterology, Neurology, Respiratory Medicine, Medical Oncology, Surgical, Mental Health, Population Health and Drug Health Services demonstrating SLHD’s success as clinical research leaders. View the trials on offer at SLHD via the ClinTrial Refer App or visit the website to start searching today.
