Ms Kristina Lambrakis

Kristina is an early career cardiac clinical researcher, holding academic status at Flinders University, and employed in the role of Translational Research Lead at Monash Health/University.

With a scientific, clinical and program leadership background, Kristina has worked across academic, health system and industry sectors in diverse research roles. She has substantial experience in early-phase sponsored clinical trials and has transitioned to developing and driving large-scale investigator-led pragmatic randomised clinical trials and data-driven research at state and national levels. As a co-investigator, she currently informs and directs clinical and data-driven research programs (>$7million), centrally focussed on advanced analytics and innovation, to improve clinical decision-making, care and outcomes meaningfully and at scale.

Kristina has extensive expertise in bridging clinical and academic environments to accelerate research into practice. She has robust strategic acumen, vast expertise across research, clinical, data, and digital realms, and utilises cross-domain knowledge and systems-level thinking to bring diverse stakeholders together to achieve research goals and subsequently establish novel clinical pathways and models of care. Frequently navigating uncharted territory, Kristina has achieved unique firsts, including leading the strategic design and implementation of digital infrastructure within a government ecosystem that enables real-time AI-based clinical decision-support, unlocking capabilities for virtual registries and adaptive randomised trials.

Further, Kristina has significant leadership and capacity-building experience, having established unique workforce models, and in doing so has trained and coached >120 team members. Kristina also currently leads a research delivery team and provides direction and specialist counsel to global stakeholders.

Kristina has strong academic interests in improving cardiovascular outcomes and clinical decision making, particularly through enhanced data capabilities and digital innovation, and has successfully attracted ~$4.5 million in research funding as an Investigator; ~$4 million from the MRFF/NHMRC as a Chief Investigator. She has played key roles in practice-changing research that have also informed international guidelines.