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We provide support across human research ethics and governance, site authorisation and monitoring, clinical trials governance, research agreements and collaboration, and research strategy.

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Office closure over festive period

Research Support Services will be closed from Monday 22 December 2025  – Friday 02 January 2026. In preparation for the closure, new applications for Site Specific Authorisations, new Quality Assurance applications, responses to HREC review and post approval amendments are requested to be submitted by 11 December 2025 for a response by 19 December 2025. 

New Human Research Ethics Applications pre-booked for the January meeting must be submitted by 11:00am on 18 December 2025. Applications not pre-booked will not be accepted.

Office Hours and Availability

Our team is available for meetings until 4:00pm and phone calls until 4:30pm. For urgent issues involving patient safety, please contact the team by phone in the first instance.

Upon prior arrangement, we may be able to assist outside of these times.

All correspondence must be sent to research@monashhealth.org, to allow the most appropriate team member/s to provide advice.

Contact Information

Address

Research Support Services
Level 2, i Block,
Monash Medical Centre
246 Clayton Road
Clayton VIC 3168

Meet the Team

A/Prof Tam Nguyen
Director, Research & Innovation
T: (03) 9594 4611

Ms Deborah Dell 
Head, Research Operations
T: (03) 9594 0528

Mr Michael Kios
Research Governance Manager
T: (03) 9594 4606

Ms Anusha Hingalagoda
HREC Executive Officer
T: (03) 9594 2075

Mr Hayden Lee
Senior HREC & SSA Coordinator
T: (03) 9594 4090

Ms Cliona Barrientos
HREC & SSA Coordinator
T: (03) 9594 4611

Ms Skye Nolan
Research Quality Improvement Manager
(On Secondment till 2026)

Ms Khushboo Khatri
Research Quality Improvement Project Officer
T: (03) 9594 6701

Mrs Annalyse Induni
Research Governance Officer
T: (03) 9594 4056

Leah Quigley
Research Governance Officer
T: (03) 9594 46703

Ryan Lam
Administrative Assistant
T: (03) 9594 4611

Ms Joan Angello
Administrative Officer
T: (03) 9594 4853
(Monday, alternating Tuesdays, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday)

Dr Fatemeh Karimi
Clinical Trials Business Development Officer
T: (03) 9594 4748
E: Research_BD@monashhealth.org

Got a Query? Check out our Monthly Sessions

Our team offers fortnightly virtual drop-in sessions on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of each month, to allow you the opportunity to raise any research ethics and governance queries. Feel free to drop-in with your questions  or to simply listen n’ learn from other people’s queries.

For any complex or project oriented queries we offer private book-in sessions on the last Wednesday of each month.