Professor Zsuzsoka Kecskes
Areas of expertise
- Paediatrics 111403
- Curriculum And Pedagogy 1302
- Paediatrics And Reproductive Medicine Not Elsewhere Classified 111499
- Design Practice And Management 1203
- Intensive Care 110310
Research interests
Neonatology
Higher Education, pedagogy in health care education
Partnering with patients in healthcare
Hospital design
Quality and Safety in Healthcare
Biography
Zsuzsoka was born in Hamburg, Germany, spent some time while studying Medicine in the US and Switzerland, moved to Sydney in 1994 and completed her training in Neonatology in Brisbane, where she also completed a PhD at the University of Queensland.
She worked as a Neonatologist in Canberra from 2001 to 2022 and was the Director of the Department from 2007 to 2015.
From 2020 to 2022 Zsuzsoka was the Director of the Medical School. In 2022 she was appointed as the Dean of Graduate Medicine at the University of Wollongong, reamining an honorary Professor at ANU.
She was recognised by the Australia Day Council who awarded her as the ACT Australian of the year 204 for her work with families to design a safe, family-centred Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and the implementation of the NICUcam, a web-based design for parents and families to view their baby when they are not able to visit.
Her research interests are in neonatology (specifically the neonatal brain), higher education and patient centred care.
Past student projects
Proteomic biomarkers in hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy in a rat model (Masters and PhD)
Facilitating Change in a Neonatal Intensive Care Redevelopment : A Participatory Action Research Project (PhD)
Pain in neonates - evidence versus current practices
Comparison of two early warning systems for patient
deterioration
Barriers to incident reporting in healthcare
Preparing health students for multidisciplinary teamwork: Canberra health students’ attitudes towards interprofessional education
Comparing single family rooms (SFR) and open bay designs for newborn intensive care units (NICU) and its effects on patient outcomes
Assessment of an early warning score to detect deteriorating neonates
Families' experiences in a tweo-cot room design
Staphylococcus epidermidis septicaemia in NICU patients: an audit at the TCH
Safety of a home gavage-feeding program for parents of neonatal patients
Realtionship between blood pressure and amplitde integrated EEG in term, asphyxiated neonates
Resuscitation of premature babies with 30% oxygen and short-term outcomes
Predicting outcome in apsyxiated term infants using clincally availble paramters
Effects of early extubation in premature infants on chronic lung disease
Amplitude integrated EEG findings in neoantal stroke
Publications
- Broom, M & Kecskes, Z 2020, 'Exploring the impact of a Dual-Occupancy NICU design on parental experience', Journal of Neonatal Nursing, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 217-221.
- Broom, M, Kecskes, Z, Kildea, S et al 2019, 'Exploring the Impact of a Dual Occupancy Neonatal Intensive Care Unit on Staff Workflow, Activity, and their Perceptions ', Health Environments Research and Design Journal, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 44-54.
- Broom, M, Gardner, A, Kecskes, Z et al 2017, 'Transition from an open-plan to a two-cot neonatal intensive care unit: a participatory action research approach.', Journal of Clinical Nursing, vol. 26, no. 13-14, pp. 1939-1948.
- Broom, M, Parsons, G, Carlisle, H et al 2017, 'Exploring Parental and Staff Perceptions of the Family-Integrated Care Model: A Qualitative Focus Group Study', Advances in Neonatal Care, vol. 17, no. 6, pp. 12-19.
- Kecskes, Z & Mitchell, I 2017, 'Teaching future doctors for modern health care', Medical Journal of Australia, vol. 206, no. 4, pp. 158-159pp.
- Kecskes, Z & Mitchell, I 2017, 'Introducing a new series on innovations in medical education', Medical Journal of Australia, vol. 206, no. 1, pp. 13-14pp.
- BOOST-II Australia and United Kingdom Collaborative Groups , C, Tarnow-Mordi, W, Stenson, B et al. 2016, 'Outcomes of Two Trials of Oxygen-Saturation Targets in Preterm Infants', New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 374, no. 8, pp. 749-760pp.
- Kecskes, Z 2016, 'Patient safety: a plane crash a month', The Medical Journal of Australia, vol. Online, pp. 1pp..
- Kecskes, Z 2016, 'Teaching approaches in medicine made easier', The Medical Journal of Australia, vol. 205, no. 6, pp. 255-255.
- Broom, M, Gardner, A, Kecskes, Z et al 2015, 'How can we help staff transition to a new NICU design?', Journal of Neonatal Nursing, vol. 21, no. 5, pp. 180-185.
- Mohamed, A, Kecskes, Z & Bajuk, B 2013, 'Actuarial day-by-day survival rates of preterm infants admitted to neonatal intensive care in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory', Archives of Disease in Childhood Fetal and Neonatal Edition, vol. 98, no. 3, pp. F212-F217.
- Broom, M, Brady, B, Kecskes, Z et al 2013, 'World café methodology engages stakeholders in designing a neonatal intensive care unit', Journal of Neonatal Nursing, vol. 19, no. 5, pp. 253-258.
- Chaudhari, T, Robertson, M, Ellwood, D et al. 2013, 'Maternal ventilation and sedation for H1N1 influenza resulting in fetal bladder rupture and urinary ascites', Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, vol. 49, no. 1, pp. E97-E100.
- Lam, Y, Kecskes, Z & Abdel-Latif, ME 2012, 'Breast milk banking: Current opinion and practice in Australian neonatal intensive care units', Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, vol. 48, no. 9, pp. 833-839.
- Lingwood, B, Healy, G, Kecskes, Z et al 2009, 'Prediction of outcome following hypoxia/ischaemia in the human infant using cerebral impedance', Clinical Neurophysiology, vol. 120, no. 2, pp. 225-230.
- Sedaghat, N, Ellwood, D, Shadbolt, F et al. 2008, 'The effect of mode of delivery and anaesthesia on neonatal blood pressure', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, vol. 48, pp. 172-178.
- Kent, A, Kecskes, Z, Shadbolt, F et al. 2007, 'Normative blood pressure data in the early neonatal period', Pediatric Nephrology, vol. 22, pp. 1335-1341.
- Croaker, G, Pearce, R, Li, J et al. 2007, 'Idiopathic slow transit constipation is rare - But delayed passage of meconium is common in the constipation clinic', Pediatric Surgery International, vol. 23, no. 12, pp. 1153-1159.
- Francis, B, Hallam, L, Kecskes, Z et al. 2007, 'Placental Mesenchymal Dysplasia Associated with Hepatic Mesenchymal Hamartoma in the Newborn', Pediatric and Developmental Pathology, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 50-54.
- Kent, A, Kecskes, Z, Shadbolt, F et al. 2007, 'Blood pressure in the first year of life in healthyinfants born at term', Pediatric Nephrology, vol. 22, pp. 1743-1749.
- Kecskes, Z, Kent, A, Dhawan, A et al 2006, 'Early diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging findings in neonatal herpes encephalitis', Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, vol. 42, no. 12, pp. 824-826.
- Kecskes, Z, Kent, A & Reynolds, G 2006, 'Treatment of pulmonary hypertension with sildenafil in a neonate with Spondyloepiphyseal Dysplasea Congenita', Journal of Maternal - Fetal & Neonatal Medicine, vol. 19, no. 9, pp. 579-582.
