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Personal profile
Biography
Heather Cleland is a Plastic Surgeon and currently Head of the Victorian Adult Burns Unit at The Alfred.
She is a member of the Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons, and the Australian and New Zealand Burn Association, of which she is a Past President and current board member. She chairs the Board Burns Quality Improvement Program Committee, and is Chair of the Steering Committee of the Burns Registry of Australia and New Zealand.
She is a member various committees and organizations, including the Court of Examiners of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (Plastic Surgery), the Australasian Foundation for Plastic Surgery’s Education Committee, and the Donor Tissue Bank Committee of the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine.
She is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of the International Society for Burn Injuries (Burns), a reviewer for several international surgical journals, a supervisor for higher degree students, and has published over 100 articles in peer reviewed journals.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
External positions
Alfred Hospital
Research area keywords
- Burn injuries
- Plastic surgery
Network
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Third Degree Burn Wound Closure using Engineered Skin- Phase I Clinical Trial
Cleland, H., Akbarzadeh, S., Lo, C. H., Marks, D. C. & Gargett, C.
1/06/21 → 31/05/26
Project: Research
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Palliative care for unsurvivable burn injury in Australia and New Zealand
Tracy, L., Cleland, H., Gold, M. & Reeder, S.
1/01/21 → 31/12/21
Project: Research
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Incident and injury matched dataset: Data linkage project
Muir, C., Newstead, S., D'Elia, A., Smith, K., Gabbe, B., Cleland, H., Bourne, M. & Gilbert, J.
13/04/18 → 30/04/19
Project: Research
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Burn Quality Improvement Program: the use of clinical registry data to directly improve patient outcomes
Gabbe, B., Cleland, H., Cameron, P., Wood, F. M., Perrett, T. & Singer, Y.
1/01/18 → 30/06/20
Project: Research
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A Review of Petrol Burns in Australia and New Zealand
Savage, N., Doherty, Z., Singer, Y., Menezes, H., Cleland, H. & Goldie, S. J., 30 Jan 2023, (Accepted/In press) In: Journal of Burn Care and Research. 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Exploring clinicians’ decision-making processes about end-of-life care after burns: A qualitative interview study
Reeder, S., Cleland, H. J., Gold, M. & Tracy, L. M., May 2023, In: Burns. 49, 3, p. 595-606 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Platelet lysate can support the development of a 3D-engineered skin for clinical application
Banakh, I., Rahman, M. M., Arellano, C. L., Marks, D. C., Mukherjee, S., Gargett, C. E., Cleland, H. & Akbarzadeh, S., Jan 2023, In: Cell and Tissue Research. 391, 1, p. 173–188 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Understanding the mechanisms of spontaneous and skin-grafted wound repair: the path to engineered skin grafts
Garcia, N., Lau, L. D. W., Lo, C. H., Cleland, H. & Akbarzadeh, S., 2 Jan 2023, In: Journal of Wound Care. 32, 1, p. 55-62 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review Article › Other › peer-review
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Biomarkers for the Early Diagnosis of Sepsis in Burns: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Li, A., Moussa, A., Gus, E., Paul, E., Yii, E., Romero, L., Lin, C., Padiglione, A. A., Lo, C. H., Cleland, H. & Cheng, A. C., Apr 2022, In: Annals of Surgery. 275, 4, p. 654-662 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
2 Citations (Scopus)