Trial Operations and Participating Centres

Principal Investigator

• Prof Peter Dargaville

Trial Steering Committee

• Prof Peter Dargaville
• Dr Omar Kamlin
• Dr Tony De Paoli
• Ms Francesca Orsini
• Prof John Carlin
• Prof Roger Soll
• Prof Peter Davis
• Prof Howard Clark

Data and Safety Management Committee

• Prof. Brian Darlow
• A/Prof. Michael Dunn
• Dr. Amy Salter

Trial Coordinating Centre

• Menzies Institute for Medical Research,  University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia

Data Management Centre

• Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Unit, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia

Trial Sponsor

• Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania

Trial Insurer

• Unimutual Limited

Clinical Trials Registry

• Australia and New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry ACTRN12611000916943
  ClinicalTrials.gov NCT02140580
  EudraCT 2013-005429-21

TGA approval number

• 2011/0503 &140/2011

Related Funding Bodies

• National Health and Medical Research Council
• Royal Hobart Hospital Research Foundation

Staff

• Prof. Peter Dargaville
  Neonatal and Paediatric Intensive Care Unit
  Royal Hobart Hospital
  Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
• Lizzy Reid
  OPTIMIST-A Trial Research Nurse
  Menzies Institute for Medical Research
  Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
  email: optimist.trials@menzies.utas.edu.au
• Nicky Stephens
  OPTIMIST-A Trial Research Nurse
  Menzies Institute for Medical Research
  Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
  email: optimist.trials@menzies.utas.edu.au

Participating Centres

Participating Sites (actively recruiting)

• Australia: Royal Hobart Hospital, Hobart
• Australia: Mercy Hospital for Women, Melbourne
• Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne
• Monash Medical Centre, Melbourne
• New Zealand: Auckland City Hospital, Auckland
• New Zealand: Dunedin Hospital, Dunedin
• Middlemore Hospital, Auckland
• Turkey: Zekai Tahir Burak Hospital, Ankara
• United States: Evanston Hospital, Evanston, IL
• Israel: Ziv Medical Center, Tsfat
• Bnai Zion Medical Center, Haifa
• Turkey: Uludag University Hospital, Bursa
• United States:  Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital, New Haven, CT
• Cooper University Hospital, Camden, NJ
• Kapiolani Medical Center, Honolulu, HI
• University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
• University of Southern California, Good Samaritan, CA
• Slovenia: University Medical Centre Ljubljana
• Southern General Hospital, Glasgow
• The Netherlands: University Medical Center, Groningen
• Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London
• Royal Alexandria Hospital, Alberta, Canada
• University of Vermont Medical Centre, Vermont
• Kunani Sultan Suleyman Hospital, Turkey

Participating Sites (committed)

• Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre, Boston, MA
• United Kingdom: Southampton University Hospital, Southampton
• University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff
• Singleton Hospital, Swansea
• Royal London Hospital
• KK Hospital, Singapore
• Rambam Health Care Campus, Israel
• Canberra Hospital, ACT