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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
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Third Degree Burn Wound Closure using Engineered Skin- Phase I Clinical Trial
Cleland, H. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)), Akbarzadeh, S. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Lo, C. H. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Marks, D. C. (Chief Investigator (CI)) & Gargett, C. (Chief Investigator (CI))
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. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)), Cleland, H. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Gold, M. (Chief Investigator (CI)) & Reeder, S. (Chief Investigator (CI))
1/01/21 → 31/12/21
Project: Research
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Incident and injury matched dataset: Data linkage project
Muir, C. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)), Newstead, S. (Chief Investigator (CI)), D'Elia, A. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Smith, K. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Gabbe, B. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Cleland, H. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Bourne, M. (Chief Investigator (CI)) & Gilbert, J. (Chief Investigator (CI))
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. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)), Cleland, H. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Cameron, P. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Wood, F. M. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Perrett, T. (Chief Investigator (CI)) & Singer, Y. (Chief Investigator (CI))
1/01/18 → 30/06/20
Project: Research
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Does injury type influence patient preference, response rates, and data completeness for online or telephone follow-up following injury?
Tracy, L. M., Cleland, H. J., de Steiger, R. N., Teague, W. J., Cameron, P. A. & Gabbe, B. J., Feb 2025, In: Injury. 56, 2, 7 p., 112060.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Quality of life and return to work rates in the first two years following major burn injury
Tracy, L. M., Cameron, P. A., Cleland, H. J., Kimmel, L., Teague, W. J. & Gabbe, B. J., Apr 2025, In: Burns. 51, 3, 8 p., 107355.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Trauma system management of adults with severe burns in Victoria, Australia
Cleland, H., Cameron, P. & Gabbe, B. (Leading Author), Feb 2025, In: EMA - Emergency Medicine Australasia. 37, 1, 7 p., e14495.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Bloodstream infections and multidrug resistant bacteria acquisition among burns patients in Australia and New Zealand: A registry-based study
Cleland, H. (Leading Author), Stewardson, A., Padiglione, A. & Tracy, L. (Leading Author), Aug 2024, In: Burns. 50, 6, p. 1544-1554 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Concordance between coding sources of burn size and depth across Australian and New Zealand specialist burn services
Perkins, M., Cleland, H., Gabbe, B. J. & Tracy, L. M., May 2024, In: Health Information Management Journal. 53, 2, p. 129–136 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review