TQEH was opened in 1954 and quickly established a reputation as a leader in medical research. In 1965, Australia’s first successful kidney transplant operation was performed at TQEH. The hospital has a proud and strong tradition of providing excellent clinical care, teaching and research, and has developed a fine reputation as a teaching hospital.

The Basil Hetzel Institute for Translational Health Research is the productive research arm of The Queen Elizabeth Hospital and home to almost 200 researchers and research administrative staff. You can read more about the BHI here.

• Anaesthesia Research Group
• Aged and Extended Care Services
  • Frailty
  • Malnutrition
  • Falls and fractures
  • Dementia
  • Polypharmacy
• Cardiology Unit
• Clinical Pharmacology Unit
  • Renal Disease
• Endocrinology Unit
  • Diabetes
  • Osteoporosis
• Haematology and Medical Oncology
  • Breast Cancer
  • Bowel Cancer
• Neurology Unit
  • Stroke
  • Dementia
  • Multiple Sclerosis
• Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery
  • Ear, Nose and Throat Surgery
  • Chronic Rhinosinusitis

• University of Adelaide, Discipline of Medicine
  • Sleep Health
  • Diabetes

• Respiratory Medicine and Clinical Practice Unit
  • Non-invasive ventilation
  • Respiratory failure
  • Asthma
  • Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
  • Mental health
  • Sleep apnoea
• Rheumatology Unit
  • Arthritis
  • Sjogran’s syndrome
  • Giant Cell Arteritis
  • Ankylosing Spondylitis
  • Gout
  • Scleroderma
  • Osteoarthritis
• University of Adelaide Discipline of Psychiatry
• University of Adelaide, Discipline of Surgery
  • Hepatitis C
  • HIV
  • Breast Cancer
• University of South Australia, Therapeutics Research Centre