Kristina Lambrakis

Dr Kristina Lambrakis is a clinical trialist and health systems researcher, holding roles as a Senior Research Fellow at Flinders University and Translational Research Lead and Senior Research Fellow (adjunct) at Monash Health and Monash University. She holds joint academic and health service appointments, a structure that has long characterised her career and allowed her to bridge these environments fluently.

Her expertise sits at the intersection of research design, clinical and health system implementation and big data and AI in digital health. Over the last 15 years, she has progressed from conducting early-phase sponsored drug trials to the design and leadership of investigator-led pragmatic, randomised trials evaluating new clinical pathways and models of care, conducted across academic, government health, and industry settings at state and national levels - including the design and embedding of AI-based clinical decision support within public hospital-based acute care pathways.

She serves as an Investigator on multi-million dollar research and innovation programs and has attracted ~$7 million in research funding to date, including ~$6.5 million from the MRFF/NHMRC as a named Chief Investigator. Her leadership across these programs extends beyond that of a scientific director to include governance structure design, stakeholder and partnership building, contract and intellectual property negotiation, financial management, and people leadership. She has co-authored more than 40 peer-reviewed publications, undertaken research informing national and international guidelines, and built and led teams exceeding 120 personnel. She is a member of the Monash Health Human Research Ethics Committee and an Associate Fellow of the Australian College of Health Service Management. She has previously served as Co-Chair of the Victorian Heart Institute's Personalised Medicine Grand Challenge, where she extended the initiative's scope beyond genomics and discovery science to include personalised medicine at the clinical and health service level.

In addition to her cardiac and critical care evidence generation interests, she also has an interest in evidence translation as a distinct field of inquiry, focused on the behavioural and organisational determinants of practice change within health systems.

She is undertaking a Doctor of Medicine at Flinders University, in parallel with her ongoing research leadership. In future, Dr Kristina Lambrakis intends to combine her clinical practice with roles spanning clinical innovation, transformation, and evaluation to improve outcomes at both the individual and population level - extending, rather than departing from, the multidisciplinary work she has built at the interface of research, clinical care, and health system improvement.