About Us

Background

I attended Monash University in Melbourne and graduated in 1996.  My emergency Medicine training was divided between Victorian Hospitals (Monash, Dandenong and The Alfred) and The Townsville Hospital in North Queensland.  After I completed FACEM training in 2005, I returned to Queensland to take up a consultant position at the Townsville Hospital.  There I developed an interest in research, perused some further post graduate education and established a small, productive research team which I headed from 2009 to 2018. 

In 2018 I returned to Victoria in a position as an Emergency Physician at University Hospital Geelong and a Senior Lecturer with Deakin University, School of Medicine.  I am a member of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM) Research Committee and on the Board of the Emergency Medicine Foundation (EMF), a not for profit research organisation based in Queensland that supports emergency medicine research. 

Research Focus

I have broad research interests and passionate about collaborative, clinical research and translation into practice.  Recently I have been increasingly involved with paediatric emergency research within the PREDICT group, a collaboration of Australian and New Zealand paediatric emergency researchers. 

Awards & Achievements

• “Best Paper by a Fellow” - ACEM – Annual Scientific Meeting (Melbourne 2014): Furyk et al Distal ureteric stones and tamsulosin: A double blind, placebo-controlled, randomised, multi-centre trial (the DUST trial).

Feature Publications

• Furyk JS, Chu K, Banks C, Greenslade J, Keijzers G, Thom O, et al. Distal Ureteric Stones and Tamsulosin: A Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Randomized, Multicenter Trial. Annals of emergency medicine. 2016 Jan;67(1):86-95 e2. PubMed PMID: 26194935.

• Furyk J, Levas D, Close B, Laspina K, Fitzpatrick M, Robertson K, et al. Intravenous versus oral paracetamol for acute pain in adults in the emergency department setting: A prospective, double-blind, double-dummy, randomised controlled trial. Emergency Medicine Journal. 2018;35(3):179-84.

• Dalziel S, Borland M, Furyk, J; Bonisch M; Neutze J; Donath S; Francis KL; Sharpe C; Harvey S; Davidson A; Craig S; Phillips N; George S; Rao A; Cheng N; Zhang M; Kochar A; Brabyn C; Oakley E; Babl FE; PREDICT research network. Levetiracetam versus phenytoin for second-line treatment of convulsive status epilepticus in children (ConSEPT): an open-label, multicentre, randomised controlled trial. . Lancet. 2019;393(10186):2135-45.

• Franklin D; Babl FE; Schlapbach LJ; Oakley E; Craig S; Neutze J; Furyk J; Fraser JF; Jones M; Whitty JA; Dalziel SR; Schibler A. A Randomized Trial of High-Flow Oxygen Therapy in Infants with Bronchiolitis. New England Journal of Medicine. 2018;378(12):1121-31.

• Babl FE; Borland ML; Phillips N; Kochar A; Dalton S; McCaskill M; Cheek JA; Gilhotra Y; Furyk J; Neutze J; Lyttle MD; Bressan S; Donath S; Molesworth C; Jachno K; Ward B; Williams A; Baylis A; Crowe L; Oakley E; Dalziel SR; Paediatric Research in Emergency Departments International Collaborative (PREDICT). Accuracy of PECARN, CATCH, and CHALICE head injury decision rules in children: a prospective cohort study. Lancet. 2017;389(10087):2393-402.

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