Dr Noriko Sato Travelling to Washington, USA and Wakayama, Japan
Kate Bryce Travelling to North Carolina and Florida, USA
Bimbi Gray Travelling to Florida and North Carolina, USA
Noriko is a research fellow within the Kolling who specialises in frailty research in older patients using data from six hospitals in NSW. She will present the frailty study at the International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology conference in Washington and chair an international symposium at the Japanese Society of Social Pharmacy. Noriko said I am very pleased to have received this award and excited about the chance to present our study at the largest and most prestigious pharmacoepidemiology conference. “This travel grant will broaden my expertise, strengthen international collaborations and extend the impact of our Kolling research using data to improve
Kate, a PhD student with the Osteoarthritis Clinical Research Group at Kolling, investigates the use of digital technologies to encourage behaviour change in the treatment of osteoarthritis. Kate will attend the 2026 Osteoarthritis Research Society International (OARSI) World Congress in the USA, where she will meet with experts in behaviour change and implementation science, including collaborators from Duke University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Wake Forest University. Kate says their expertise will allow us to enhance the broader rollout of the ATLAS clinician eLearning platform for osteoarthritis and a mobile app for knee osteoarthritis named OA Coach. “Visiting their universities and learning from their work will help refine digital interventions to support clinician and patient behaviour change more effectively, and I’m grateful to have received this travel award.”
Bimbi, a PhD candidate also with the Osteoarthritis Clinical Research Group, will attend the 2026 OARSI World Congress and deliver a presentation on the ATLAS program. The trip will strengthen partnerships with leaders at the Thurston Arthritis Research Centre in North Carolina and the Arthritis Foundation’s Osteoarthritis Action Alliance. These collaborations will speed the implementation of ATLAS with insights to refine and scale the program for broader adoption. Bimbi said she was thrilled to receive the travel award. “As an early-career researcher, this experience will bolster my expertise in knowledge
translation, implementation science and international
collaboration, while also boosting the reputation of our research at the Kolling Institute,” she said.
the use of medications in clinical practice,” she said.
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