Dr Zinta Harrington

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Zinta Harrington is a respiratory and sleep physician and head of the department at Liverpool Hospital. She has clinical interests in interstitial lung disease, tuberculosis, indigenous health, motor neuron disease. In the broader context she is also interested in quality improvement and clinical service delivery with a focus on patient-centred outcomes.

Dr Harrington has worked in diverse locations across the country including Aboriginal controlled health services, remote hospitals and urban tertiary institutions. she has also worked in New Zealand, and had a visiting scientist position at Harvard Medical School. She holds degrees in Medicine, Arts, and Masters of Health Sciences.

Dr Harrington's current aim is to engage her department in a continuous process of quality improvement with a goal of effective and compassionate patient care, facilitating research that makes a difference to patients, training staff to achieve their full potential and maintaining a workplace that is fun, inclusive and supportive.

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z.harrington@unsw.edu.au

Journal articles | 2024

Ding B; Chen S; Rapsomaniki E; Quinton A; Cook W; Reddel HK; Papi A; NOVELTY Scientific Community ; NOVELTY study investigators , 2024, 'Burden of Uncontrolled Severe Asthma With and Without Elevated Type-2 Inflammatory Biomarkers.', J Allergy Clin Immunol Pract, 12, pp. 970 - 982,

Journal articles | 2024

Hu X; Hulme K; Brien L; Hutabarat SN; Harrington Z, 2024, 'Controversies in the clinical management of chronic pulmonary aspergillosis', Breathe, 20,

Journal articles | 2023

Dabholkar SV; Vinod SK; Bray V; Harrington Z; Collett P; Kolevski B; Ivimey B; Descallar J; Williamson J, 2023, 'P1.16-05 Quality Initiative to Improve Timeliness of Care in a Rapid Assessment Lung Cancer Clinic', Journal of Thoracic Oncology, 18, pp. S221 - S221,

Journal articles | 2023

Hughes R; Rapsomaniki E; Bansal AT; Vestbo J; Price D; Agustí A; Beasley R; Fageras M; Alacqua M; Papi A; Müllerová H; Reddel HK; Olmo RD; Anderson G; Reddel H; Rabahi M; McIvor A; Sadatsafavi M; Weinreich U; Burgel PR; Devouassoux G; Inoue H; Rendon A; van den Berge M; García-Navarro AA; Faner R; Olaguibel Rivera J; Janson C; Bilińska-Izydorczyk M; Fihn-Wikander T; Franzén S; Keen C; Ostridge K; Chalmers J; Harrison T; Pavord I; Azim A; Belton L; Blé FX; Erhard C; Gairy K; Lassi G; Scott IC; Chipps B; Christenson S; Make B; Tomaszewski E; Benhabib G; Ruiz XB; Lisanti RE; Marino G; Mattarucco W; Nogueira J; Parody M; Pascale P; Rodriguez P; Silva D; Svetliza G; Victorio CF; Rolon RW; Yañez A; Baines S; Bowler S; Bremner P; Bull S; Carroll P; Chaalan M; Farah C; Hammerschlag G; Hancock K; Harrington Z; Katsoulotos G; Kim J; Langton D; Lee D; Peters M; Prassad L; Sajkov D; Santiago F; Simpson FG; Tai S; Thomas P; Wark P; Cançado JED; Cunha T; Lima M; Cardoso AP; FitzGerald JM; Anees S; Bertley J; Bell A; Cheema A; Chouinard G; Csanadi M; Dhar A; Dhillon R; Kanawaty D; Kelly A; Killorn W, 2023, 'Cluster Analyses From the Real-World NOVELTY Study: Six Clusters Across the Asthma-COPD Spectrum', Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice, 11, pp. 2803 - 2811,

Journal articles | 2023

Kritikos V; Harvey ES; Stevens S; Katelaris CH; Langton D; Rimmer J; Farah CS; Gillman A; Hew M; Radhakrishna N; Thomas D; Gibson PG; Baraket M; Bardin P; Bowden JJ; Bowler S; Chien J; Chung LP; Grainge C; Harkness N; Harrington Z; Jenkins C; Katsoulotos GP; McDonald VM; Lee J; Peters M; Reddel HK; Reynolds PN; Sivakumaran P; Upham JW; Wark PAB, 2023, 'Comorbidities Modify the Phenotype but Not the Treatment Effectiveness to Mepolizumab in Severe Eosinophilic Asthma', Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice, 11, pp. 885 - 895.e13,

Journal articles | 2022

Agustí A; Rapsomaniki E; Beasley R; Hughes R; Müllerová H; Papi A; Pavord ID; van den Berge M; Faner R; Benhabib G; Ruiz XB; del Olmo R; Lisanti RE; Marino G; Mattarucco W; Nogueira J; Parody M; Pascale P; Rodriguez P; Silva D; Svetliza G; Victorio CF; Rolon RW; Yañez A; Anderson G; Baines S; Bowler S; Bremner P; Bull S; Carroll P; Chaalan M; Farah C; Hammerschlag G; Hancock K; Harrington Z; Katsoulotos G; Kim J; Langton D; Lee D; Peters M; Prassad L; Reddel H; Sajkov D; Santiago F; Simpson FG; Tai S; Thomas P; Wark P; Cançado JED; Cunha T; Lima M; Pinto Cardoso A; Rabahi M; Anees S; Bertley J; Bell A; Cheema A; Chouinard G; Csanadi M; Dhar A; Dhillon R; FitzGerald JM; Kanawaty D; Kelly A; Killorn W; Landry D; Luton R; Mandhane P; McIvor A; Pek B; Petrella R; Sadatsafavi M; Stollery D; Chen M; Chen Y; Gu W; Hui KMC; Li M; Li S; Lijun M; Qin G; Song W; Tan W; Tang Y; Wang C; Wang T; Wen F; Wu F; Xiang PC; Xiao Z; Xiong S; Yang J; Yang J; Zhang C; Zhang M; Zhang P; Zhang W; Zheng X; Zhu D; Grimaldos FB, 2022, 'Treatable traits in the NOVELTY study', Respirology, 27, pp. 929 - 940,

Journal articles | 2022

Golam SM; Janson C; Beasley R; FitzGerald JM; Harrison T; Chipps B; Hughes R; Müllerová H; Olaguibel JM; Rapsomaniki E; Reddel HK; Sadatsafavi M; Benhabib G; Mandhane P; Ruiz XB; McIvor A; Olmo RD; Pek B; Lisanti RE; Petrella R; Marino G; Stollery D; Mattarucco W; Chen M; Nogueira J; Chen Y; Parody M; Gu W; Pascale P; Hui KMC; Rodriguez P; Li M; Silva D; Li S; Svetliza G; Ma L; Victorio CF; Qin G; Rolon RW; Song W; Yañez A; Tan W; Baines S; Tang Y; Bowler S; Wang C; Bremner P; Wang T; Bull S; Wen F; Carroll P; Wu F; Chaalan M; Xiang PC; Farah C; Xiao Z; Hammerschlag G; Xiong S; Hancock K; Yang J; Harrington Z; Yang J; Katsoulotos G; Zhang C; Kim J; Zhang M; Langton D; Zhang P; Lee D; Zhang W; Peters M; Zheng X; Prassad L; Zhu D; Bolivar Grimaldos F; Sajkov D; Arboleda AC; Santiago F; Bueno CM; Simpson FG; Molina de Salazar D; Tai S; Bendstrup E; Thomas P; Hilberg O; Wark P; Kjellerup C; Cançado JED; Weinreich U; Cunha T; Bonniaud P; Lima M; Brun O; Cardoso AP; Burgel PR; Rabahi M; Chouaid C; Anees S; Couturaud F; Bertley J, 2022, 'The burden of mild asthma: Clinical burden and healthcare resource utilisation in the NOVELTY study', Respiratory Medicine, 200,

Journal articles | 2022

Hughes R; Rapsomaniki E; Janson C; Keen C; Make BJ; Burgel P-R; Tomaszewski EL; Müllerová H; Reddel HK; NOVELTY study investigators , 2022, 'Frequent productive cough: Symptom burden and future exacerbation risk among patients with asthma and/or COPD in the NOVELTY study.', Respir Med, 200, pp. 106921,

Journal articles | 2021

Chapman JL; Hoyos CM; Killick R; Sutherland K; Cistulli PA; Zwar N; Yee BJ; Marks G; Grunstein RR; Wong KKH; Siebers A; Dungan G; Dennis S; Rofail LM; Vedam H; Buchanan P; Harrington Z; Lee R; Chan ASL; Williams M; Andrew NG; Wong E, 2021, 'Development and validation of a model for diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnoea in primary care', Respirology, 26, pp. 989 - 996,

Journal articles | 2021

Chou MSH; Ting NCH; El-Turk N; Harrington Z; Dobler CC, 2021, 'Treatment burden experienced by patients with obstructive sleep apnoea using continuous positive airway pressure therapy', PLoS ONE, 16,

Journal articles | 2021

Elliott R; Chawla A; Wormleaton N; Harrington Z, 2021, 'Short-term physical health effects of sleep disruptions attributed to the acute hospital environment: a systematic review', Sleep Health, 7, pp. 508 - 518,

Journal articles | 2021

Phua CS; Ng A; Brooks C; Harrington Z; Vedam H; Huynh T; Seccombe D; Aouad P; Cordato D, 2021, 'Prevalence and factors associated with advanced care directives in a motor neuron disease multidisciplinary clinic in Australia', Postgraduate Medical Journal, 97, pp. 566 - 570,

Journal articles | 2021

Sharma A; Hofmeyr A; Bansal A; Thakkar D; Lam L; Harrington Z; Bhonagiri D, 2021, 'COVID-19 associated pulmonary aspergillosis (CAPA): An Australian case report', Medical Mycology Case Reports, 31, pp. 6 - 10,

Journal articles | 2021

Upham JW; Le Lievre C; Jackson DJ; Masoli M; Wechsler ME; Price DB; Mansur A; Detoraki A; Altraja A; James A; Nanzer-Kelly A; Côté A; Menzies-Gow A; Papaioannou A; Cheffins AM; Bourdin A; Mahboub B; Lipworth B; Celis-Preciado CA; Torres-Duque C; Bucca C; Porsbjerg C; Ulrik C; Corrigan C; Taube C; Farah C; Katelaris C; Langton D; Ryan D; Larenas-Linnemann D; Zervas E; Heffler E; Hoyte F; Puggioni F; Christoff G; Canonica GW; Carpagnano GE; Guida G; Katsoulotos G; Brusselle G; Rupani H; Jersmann H; Clifton I; Dhariwal J; Fingleton J; Duke J; Rimmer J; Douglass J; Fonseca J; van Boven J; Corless J; Harrington J; Maspero J; Miguel JL; Pipatvech K; Kenny K; Chapman K; Kostikas K; Lehtimäki L; Chung LP; Heaney L; Hang LW; Boulet LP; Perez-de-Llano L; Ricciardi L; Idrees M; Milanese M; Conte ME; Costantino MT; Siyue MK; Fitzgerald M; Hew M; Peters M; Tsai MJ; Patel M; Khan MH; Sadatsafavi M; Al-Ahmad M; Yacoub MR; De Gennaro M; Radhakrishna N; Hanania NA; Papadopoulos N; Lugogo N; Linaker N; Crimi N; Dennison P; Nair P; Mitchell PD; O'Byrne P; Pfeffer P; Kauppi P; Hughes P; Middleton P; Wark P; Bardin P; Fu PK; Akuthota P; Chaudhuri R; Campos R, 2021, 'Defining a Severe Asthma Super-Responder: Findings from a Delphi Process', Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice, 9, pp. 3997 - 4004,

Journal articles | 2021

Wanberg LJ; Rottapel RE; Reid ML; Bertisch SM; Bron M; Kapur VK; Bujanover S; Harrington Z; Bakker JP; Javaheri S; Hanson M; Figetakis K; Page K; Hanes S; Villa KF; Redline S, 2021, 'Prevalence of sleepiness and associations with quality of life in patients with sleep apnea in an online cohort', Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, 17, pp. 2363 - 2372,

Journal articles | 2020

Harrington Z, 2020, 'Is bronchoscopy essential for pulmonary infections in patients with haematological malignancies?', Breathe, 16, pp. 1 - 2,

Journal articles | 2019

Rottapel R; Reid M; Bertisch S; Bron M; Kapur VK; Bujanover S; Harrington Z; Bakker JP; Hanson M; Figetakis K; Page K; Hanes S; Villa KF; Redline S, 2019, '0487 Prevalence and Morbidity of Sleepiness in an Online Sleep Apnea Patient Cohort', Sleep, 42, pp. A195 - A195,

Journal articles | 2019

Rottapel R; Reid M; Bertisch S; Bron M; Kapur VK; Bujanover S; Harrington Z; Bakker JP; Hanson M; Figetakis K; Page K; Hanes S; Villa KF; Redline S, 2019, 'Prevalence and morbidity of sleepiness among sleep apnea patients in an online cohort', Sleep Medicine, 64, pp. S328 - S329,

Journal articles | 2018

Kapur VK; Johnston JC; Rueschman M; Bakker JP; Donovan LM; Hanson M; Harrington Z; Weng J; Redline S, 2018, 'Patient satisfaction with sleep study experience: Findings from the Sleep Apnea Patient-Centered Outcomes Network', Sleep, 41,

Journal articles | 2016

Pathak V; Harrington Z; Dobler CC, 2016, 'Attitudes towards preventive tuberculosis treatment among hospital staff', PeerJ, 2016, pp. e1738,

Journal articles | 2016

Redline S; Baker-Goodwin S; Bakker JP; Epstein M; Hanes S; Hanson M; Harrington Z; Johnston JC; Kapur VK; Keepnews D; Kontos E; Lowe A; Owens J; Page K; Rothstein N, 2016, 'Patient partnerships transforming sleep medicine research and clinical care: Perspectives from the Sleep Apnea Patient-Centered Outcomes Network', Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, 12, pp. 1053 - 1058,

Journal articles | 2015

Khandkar C; Harrington Z; Jelfs PJ; Sintchenko V; Dobler CC, 2015, 'Epidemiology of peripheral lymph node tuberculosis and genotyping of M. tuberculosis strains: A case-control study', PLoS ONE, 10,

Journal articles | 2015

Maw M; Harvey M; Harrington Z; Baraket M; Montgomery R; Williamson J, 2015, 'Endobronchial deposits of chronic lymphocytic leukemia - an unusual cause of central airway obstruction', Respirology Case Reports, 3, pp. 41 - 43,

Journal articles | 2014

Bryant PA; Smyth GK; Gooding T; Oshlack A; Harrington Z; Currie B; Carapetis JR; Robins-Browne R; Curtis N, 2014, 'Susceptibility to acute rheumatic fever based on differential expression of genes involved in cytotoxicity, chemotaxis, and apoptosis.', Infect Immun, 82, pp. 753 - 761,

Journal articles | 2014

Mahasneh T; Harrington Z; Williamson J; Alkhawaja D; Duflou J; Shin JS, 2014, 'Intravascular large B-cell lymphoma complicated by invasive pulmonary aspergillosis: A rare presentation', Respirology Case Reports, 2, pp. 67 - 69,

Journal articles | 2007

Harrington Z; Barnes DJ, 2007, 'One drug or two? Step-down therapy after i.v. antibiotics for community-acquired pneumonia.', Intern Med J, 37, pp. 767 - 771,

Journal articles | 2006

Harrington Z; Thomas DP; Currie BJ; Bulkanhawuy J, 2006, 'Challenging perceptions of non-compliance with rheumatic fever prophylaxis in a remote Aboriginal community.', Med J Aust, 184, pp. 514 - 517,

Journal articles | 2006

Harrington Z; Visvanathan K; Skinner NA; Curtis N; Currie BJ; Carapetis JR, 2006, 'B-cell antigen D8/17 is a marker of rheumatic fever susceptibility in Aboriginal Australians and can be tested in remote settings.', Med J Aust, 184, pp. 507 - 510,

Journal articles | 2006

Yang LPH; Eriksson BKG; Harrington Z; Curtis N; Lang S; Currie BJ; Fraser JD; Proft T, 2006, 'Variations in the protective immune response against streptococcal superantigens in populations of different ethnicity.', Med Microbiol Immunol, 195, pp. 37 - 43,
Conference Abstracts | 2022

Myooran J; Dabholkar S; Descallar J; Harrington Z, 2022, 'Adverse events associated with inpatient intercostal chest catheter insertion', in RESPIROLOGY, WILEY, Vol. 27, pp. 155 - 155,

Conference Abstracts | 2021

Dabholkar S; Malalasekera A; Vinod S; Bray V; Harrington Z; Collett P; Descallar J; Williamson J, 2021, 'EVALUATION OF A RAPID ASSESSMENT CLINIC FOR LUNG MALIGNANCY', in RESPIROLOGY, WILEY, Vol. 26, pp. 50 - 50,

Conference Abstracts | 2020

Dabholkar S; Malalasekera A; Vinod S; Bray V; Harrington Z; Collett P; Descallar J; Williamson J, 2020, 'EVALUATION OF A RAPID ASSESSMENT CLINIC FOR LUNG MALIGNANCY', in RESPIROLOGY, WILEY, Vol. 25, pp. 173 - 173,

Conference Abstracts | 2020

Ghosh S; Dronavalli M; Harrington Z, 2020, 'EFFICACY AND SAFETY OF TALC PLEURODESIS: A SINGLE TERTIARY CENTRE 5 YEAR CASE SERIES', in RESPIROLOGY, WILEY, Vol. 25, pp. 159 - 159,

Conference Papers | 2019

Chawla A; Wormleaton N; Elliott R; Harrington Z, 2019, 'Short term impacts of in-hospital sleep disruption on adult patients' health: A systematic review', in JOURNAL OF SLEEP RESEARCH, WILEY, AUSTRALIA, Sydney, presented at 31st Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM) of the Australasian-Sleep-Association and the Australasian-Sleep-Technologists-Association (Sleep DownUnder), AUSTRALIA, Sydney, 16 October 2019 - 19 October 2019,

Conference Papers | 2019

Ghosh S; Harrington Z; Williamson J; Dronavalli M, 2019, 'EFFICACY AND SAFETY OF TALC PLEURODESIS: A SINGLE TERTIARY CENTRE 5 YEAR CASE SERIES', in RESPIROLOGY, WILEY, pp. 223 - 223,

Conference Papers | 2017

Harrington Z; Bakker JP; Wright A; Baker-Goodwin S; Page K; Rueschman M; Redline S, 2017, 'QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS COMPARED WITH NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING OF A PATIENT FORUM FOR IDENTIFYING PATIENT CENTERED OUTCOMES IN SLEEP APNEA', in SLEEP, OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC, MA, Boston, pp. A443 - A444, presented at 31st Annual Meeting of the Associated-Professional-Sleep-Societies (APSS), MA, Boston, 03 June 2017 - 07 June 2017,

Conference Presentations | 2014

Khandkar C; Harrington Z; Dobler C, 2014, 'RISK FACTORS FOR PERIPHERAL LYMPH NODE AND PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS: A COMPARATIVE CASE-CONTROL STUDY', Vol. 19, pp. 126 - 126,

Conference Papers | 2014

Myat T; Meggit E; Phillips C; Buchannan P; Baraket M; Harrington Z; Williamson J, 2014, 'CLINICAL EXAMINATION DOES NOT RELIABLY DETERMINE SAFE SITE FOR THORACENTESIS', in RESPIROLOGY, WILEY-BLACKWELL, pp. 72 - 72,

Conference Papers | 2014

Nadeem KM; Wainwright C; Tighe C; Harrington Z; Taylor B; Collett P, 2014, 'TARGETO2 PATHWAY FOR OXYGEN TREATMENT IN PATIENTS WITH COPD AND ACUTE BREATHLESSNESS', in RESPIROLOGY, WILEY-BLACKWELL, pp. 118 - 118,

Conference Papers | 2014

Pathak V; Harrington Z; Dobler C, 2014, 'ATTITUDES TOWARDS TREATMENT OF LATENT TUBERCULOSIS INFECTION AMONG HOSPITAL STAFF', in RESPIROLOGY, WILEY-BLACKWELL, pp. 31 - 31,

Respiratory Sleep and Environmental Health Research Group, Research Seed Fund 2017 $15,000

Dr Harrington is currently involved in clinical trials in the Department of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine relating to airways disease and retrospective studies and audits relating to tuberculosis management.

She has a small number of publications in the topics of respiratory infections, rheumatic heart disease and sleep medicine.

Her current research plan is to evaluate interventions to improve sleep quality for inpatients and interventions to reduce frailty in inpatients.

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