Melanie Wittwer

Dr Melanie Wittwer is a clinical research scientist based at the Lyell McEwin Hospital in the Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN). She is a Postdoctoral Fellow within the College of Health and Enablement for the Safe@home study, an NHMRC-funded randomised controlled trial comparing a nurse-led telehealth-based disease management service with usual care for patients with heart failure, COPD and diabetes. Within the project she focuses on patient reported outcome and experience measures (PREMs and PROMs), qualitative investigation of barriers and enablers to participation, consumer engagement, and REDCap database management.

Melanie's other research areas include the epidemiology, management and outcome of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, and sex and gender differences and disparities in cardiovascular disease and end of life care in the ICU. She has a concurrent role as senior researcher for NALHN and has extensive experience in supporting clinician-led research, registry development, REDCap database management, consumer engagement, and mentorship. Melanie is particularly interested in improving survivorship after cardiac arrest using co-designed approaches.