Leading researcher at NSW Health Pathology Prof Emmanuel Favaloro has published an article in the Australian Journal of Medical Science outlining the substantial contribution of the organisation to medical research since its establishment in 2012.

Med­ical research is inte­gral to improv­ing diag­no­sis and treat­ment of dis­ease and as the largest pub­licly fund­ed pathol­o­gy organ­i­sa­tion in Aus­tralia, NSW Health Pathol­o­gy also under­takes sig­nif­i­cant research relat­ed activities.

Until now there has been no for­mal broad analy­sis of these research activ­i­ties since the statewide organ­i­sa­tion was cre­at­ed in 2012.

NSW Health Pathology’s Lead Sci­en­tist in haemosta­sis research, locat­ed at the Depart­ment of Haema­tol­ogy at the Insti­tute of Clin­i­cal Pathol­o­gy and Med­ical Research, Prof Emmanuel Faval­oro, who has just been named in the 2025 Top 250 Researchers list for The Aus­tralian Mag­a­zine for Haema­tol­ogy, has recent­ly con­duct­ed a detailed analy­sis of med­ical research out­put from researchers cit­ing an affil­i­a­tion with NSW Health Pathology.

His analy­sis iden­ti­fied a total of 2345 pub­li­ca­tions cit­ing at least one affil­i­a­tion as NSW Health Pathology.

He found the year­ly pub­li­ca­tion rate of NSW Health Pathol­o­gy researchers has grown expo­nen­tial­ly since 2012, when there were two pub­li­ca­tions cit­ed, fol­lowed by four and anoth­er nine pub­li­ca­tions respec­tive­ly in the next two years.

In the four years from 2020 to 2023, NSWHP affil­i­at­ed researchers pub­lished more than 400 PubMed list­ed papers each year.

“The pub­li­ca­tions appear in a wide range of jour­nals, the most pop­u­lar was per­haps unsur­pris­ing­ly, ‘Pathol­o­gy’ (link: https://www.pathologyjournal.rcpa.edu.au/ ),” Prof Faval­oro said.

Forty-six NSWHP affil­i­at­ed researchers pub­lished in excess of 20 papers each year over the 10 year time­frame, with the lead author pub­lish­ing near­ly 250 pub­li­ca­tions over this time.

The research also looked at the geo­graph­ic work­site loca­tion of authors and cat­e­gorised the pub­li­ca­tions and authors by Clin­i­cal Stream or Service.

NSWHP researchers based at West­mead Hos­pi­tal, Prince of Wales Hos­pi­tal, Roy­al Prince Alfred, Roy­al North Shore Hos­pi­tal and Newcastle’s John Hunter Hos­pi­tal were the most pro­lif­ic pub­lish­ers of research papers.

Ten ‘ser­vice streams’ con­tributed author­ships in excess of 60 each over the data cap­ture peri­od, with Micro­bi­ol­o­gy, Anatom­i­cal Pathol­o­gy and Haema­tol­ogy the lead­ing research areas.

“To my knowl­edge, this is the most com­pre­hen­sive analy­sis of pub­li­ca­tions aris­ing from researchers cit­ing a NSWHP affil­i­a­tion,” Prof Faval­oro said.

“It high­lights a broad spread of pub­li­ca­tions aris­ing from sev­er­al loca­tions and ser­vice streams of NSWHP,” Prof Faval­oro said.

“I’m proud to work at an organ­i­sa­tion mak­ing such a sig­nif­i­cant con­tri­bu­tion to med­ical research and the fur­ther­ing of knowl­edge in these diverse fields of study.”

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