2021 Doug Lording Research Award

Professor Stephen Hall

Medical Director Emeritus Research, Professor of Medicine Monash University, Rheumatologist Cabrini Health

The Doug Lording Research Award is named in honour of the founder of Cabrini Research, Associate Professor Doug Lording AM. It is awarded every year to a Cabrini researcher for outstanding achievements in clinical, applied or basic research.

Awardees are considered on the total impact their career has had on leadership, mentorship and contribution to research discoveries at Cabrini that have made a lasting impact on a research field and guided the development of new research directions.

Cabrini Research was honored to announce Professor Stephen Hall as the recipient of the 2021 Doug Lording Research Award.

Professor Hall is the Medical Director for Emeritus Research, an independent clinical trial centre in

Melbourne which he founded in 2000, Professor of Medicine Monash University, and a rheumatologist at Cabrini Health. Professor Hall studied medicine at Monash University, completing his degree in 1977. He then specialised in rheumatology and undertook further training at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. He has published widely on all aspects of rheumatic disease and maintains a strong interest in general medicine. He has led some 250 clinical trials and is fascinated by new advances in medicine and what they may offer those who suffer with various medical conditions. He has been successful in launching multiple investigator initiated studies to try to fill in details of disease and treatment which were not addressed in randomised controlled trials. Patient care and safety remains his prime focus.