Pa Research Foundation
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Mission Statement
To build sustainable giving for the continuous funding of innovative, clinically lead medical research discoveries. Accelerating new treatments, progressing patient care, preventing disease, saving lives and restoring quality of life for those battling chronic and debilitating disease.
About This Cause
The Princess Alexandra Hospital (PA Hospital) is a tertiary health care center, providing care in all major adult specialties including acute medical, surgical, mental health, cancer, rehabilitation and allied health services. The PA Hospital is the second largest hospital in Queensland, employing more than 5,500 staff with over 750,000 patients receiving health care at the hospital each year. We are nationally recognised for our expertise in trauma management and we are a major transplantation center for livers, kidneys, bone, cartilage, and corneas. We are one of Australia’s leading academic and research health centers, hosting Australia’s most advanced medical research facility; the Translational Research Institute (TRI) as well as a new Clinical Research Facility for the discoveries made at TRI to be trialed in a safe clinical environment. We also have responsibility for state-wide services including: Acquired Brain Injury Outreach Service, Queensland Spinal Cord Injury Service, Queensland Liver Transplant Service, Queensland Eye Bank and Queensland Bone Bank. We have an aeromedical retrieval service, a road accident response service and a major trauma retrieval service managed by our Emergency Department and Intensive Care Unit. The PA Research Foundation, which is situated on our hospital campus, is dedicated to fundraising to support PA Hospital research and project activities.