| Wed 9 Dec |
ASPREE group: How to answer the question of whether aspirin influences health outcomes in elderly people |
| Wed 2 Dec |
Dr Nick Thomson, Field Director, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, USA
"Amphetamines, Prisons, Chlamydia and Moroccan Mud Wraps": reflections on a field based PhD in northern Thailand |
| Wed 18 Nov |
PhD student presentations
Victor Hoe, The CUPID study: risk factors for musculoskeletal and somatic symptoms and associated disability in workers
Geraldine Lee, The heart of Soweto study: ECG in detecting and managing cardiovascular disease in South Africa
Carolina Weller, Chronic wounds: outcomes for people attending specialist wound clinics
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| Wed 11 Nov |
Dr Louise Phillips, Senior Research Fellow, TORC
"Talking about TORC (Transfusion Outcomes Research Collaborative)" |
| Wed 4 Nov |
Honours student presentations
Venu Ariyaratne, Determinants of 30-day mortality in heart valve surgery
ZhongXiong Cai, Is higher mobile phone usage associated with adolescents' weight and physical activity? |
| Wed 28 Oct |
Dr Lyle Gurrin, Centre for Molecular, Environmental, Genetic and Analytic Epidemiology, University of Melbourne: The HealthIron Study: Genetic and environmental modifiers of disease phenotypes in HFE-associated hereditary haemochromatosis |
Tues 27 Oct
12-1 pm
AMREP Classroom 2 |
PhD student presentations
Pupalan Iyngkaran: The renovascular axis in cardiovascular disease
Megan Bohensky: Using routine hospital data to measure and improve the quality of patient care |
Wed 14 Oct
12-1 pm
AMREP Seminar Room |
Dr Stephen Campbell, National Primary Care Research & Development Centre, University of Manchester,
"Developing clinical quality indicators for primary care in Europe - what works and doesn't work for cardiovascular disease - a 10 country indicator development study"
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| Wed 23 Sept |
PhD student presentations
Biswadev (Dev) Mitra: Transfusion practice in trauma resuscitation
Adrian Cameron: The Metabolic Syndrome in Australia |
| Wed 2 Sept |
Professor Sally Green, Director, Australasian Cochrane Centre, MIHSR,
"Improving reproductive and child health in South East Asia through the SEA ORCHID project:early analysis of the outcome data"
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| Wed 26 Aug |
Dr Jodie Leditsche, Manager, VIFM Forensic Technical Services,
"Mass Fatality Management in Victoria" |
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Mon 17 Aug
AMREP Seminar Room
1.30-2.30 pm
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Professor Paul Ridker, MD, Harvard Medical School, Director, Centre for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Brigham & Women's Hospital: "Inflammation, hsCRP, Statins, and Primary Prevention: Controversies and Implications of the JUPITER Trial" Download flyer (311 kb) |
| Wed 12 Aug |
PhD presentations:
Michele McGrady: "Epidemiological assessment of aboriginal & non-aboriginal Australians at high risk of developing heart failure";
Judy Lowthian: "Increasing demand for emergency patient services in the Australian community: underlying drivers, implications and potential solutions";
Basia Diug: "Factors contributing to Bleeding Risk in patients receiving Warfarin therapy". |
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Wed 5 Aug
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Dr Claire Harris, Centre for Clinical Effectiveness, MIHSR
"Evidence-based decision-making: examples from the real world" |
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Wed 22 July
AMREP Classroom 2
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PhD Students Presentations:
Ruwan Wijemunige: " Improving the prevention and early detection of secondary brain injury in traumatic brain injury patients within the ICU setting"
Mohammadreza Mohebbi: "Multilevel (hierarchical) regression models and their application to spatial statistics and reliability studies"
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Thur 16 July
AMREP Seminar Room 4-5 pm
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A/Professor Bebe Loff, Head, Human Rights and Bioethics Unit, DEPM:
'Ethics of Research in Vulnerable populations"
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Thurs 2 July
12.30-1.30 pm
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Clinical Professor Alistair Woodward, Head of School of Population Health at the University of Auckland:
"Climate Change: the biggest global health threat of the 21st century? And, a not-to-be-missed opportunity for health promotion?"
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| Wed 17 June |
Dr Helena Teede, Head of the Jean Hales Womens Health Research Group, MIHSR:
"Lifestyle related diseases and effective prevention". |
| Wed 10 June |
Dr Robert Hall, Senior Research Fellow, DEPM, Chair of the Technical Advisory Committee on Immunization and Vaccine Preventable Diseases for the Western Pacific Region of the WHO:
"Swine Flu: Update on the A/California/08/2009 (H1N1) Influenza - Epidemiology and possible approaches to control"
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| Wed 3 June |
PhD students Presentations:
Asnawi Abdullah: "The Duration of Obesity and Its impact on Estimating Risk, Burden of Chronic Diseases, Costing and Health Policy";
Ogilvie Thom: "Preventive aspects of non invasive haemodynamic monitoring in severely ill patients in the Emergency Department".
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| Wed 7 May |
Professor Helen Keleher, HOD, Department of Health Social Science:
"Research in Health Social Science: our contributions to public health"
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Wed 2 May
4-5 pm AMREP Seminar Room
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Professor Ed Fisher, Global Director, Peers for Progress; and Professor, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
"Peer and other supports for the global prevention and management of diabetes and other chronic diseases"
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| Wed 6 May |
PhD Student Presentations:
Jason Wasiak, ‘The physical and psychosocial outcomes following burn injury: A 12 month follow-up study”
Ben Clissold, "Analysis of ambulance factors in identification of stroke and accessibility to hospitals with acute stroke therapies"
Alisa Pedrana, “Next Wave: Innovative HIV prevention for men who have sex with men (MSM) in Victoria”
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| Wed 29 Apr |
Prof Just Stoelwinder, Chair of Health Services Management, DEPM.
"Do we need radical reform of Medicare? Consumer Choice" |
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Tues 28 Apr
10.30-11.30
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Mr John Fox, Category Manager-Travel, Strategic Procurement Group, Monash University will discuss travel arrangements at Monash, including Travel Management Companies, Best Fare of the Day, New Preferred Airlines, Car Hire and Accomodation. |
| Wed Apr 22 |
Honours student presentations:
Zhongxiong Cai, "Is higher mobile phone usage associated with adolescents undertaking less physical activity and their weight?"
Venu Ariyaratne: "Determinants of 30-day mortality in heart valve surgery"
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| Thur, 16 Apr, 7.00-9.00 am, AMREP Education Centre |
Prof Alan Merry, one of the Principal Investigators on the WHO Surgical Checklist study, will be presenting this work from 7-8 am; 8-8.30 panel discussion; 8.30-9 am coffee. RSVP to Catherine.Pound@med.monash.edu.au. |
| Wed, 8 April |
PhD student presentations:
Ella Zomer: Epidemiological modelling of cardiovascular disease & prevention strategies in patients with metabolic syndrome
Greg Duncan: Incidence and prevalence study of people experience chronic wounds in the community in Victoria
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Mon, 30 Mar
1.30-2.30 pm |
Prof Paul Barach, Director of the New South Wales Injury Risk Management Centre: "Patient safety - making sure it happens". Hosted by CRE-PS. |
| Wed, 25 Mar |
Dr Deborah Zion: "Ethics of healthcare provision for asylum seekers". Dr Zion is a Senior Lecturer. She is based in the Human Rights and Bioethics Unit, DEPM.
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Wed, 18 Mar,
1-2 pm |
Dr Bernadette Hayman, OH&S consultant for the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences will be speaking on "A practical session on workstation ergonomics". The presentation will include information on posture, equipment, organisation of work systems and processes. There will also be a practical demonstration of how to set up an office workstation in the correct ergonomic manner.
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| Wed, 11 Mar |
PhD student presentations:
Lavinia Tran: "Therapeutic targeting of signalling pathways in cardiovascular disease"
Suree Lekawanvijit : "Pathophysiology of cardiorenal syndrome; and role of protein-bound uremic toxins and biomarkers in cardiorenal syndrome."
Michele McGrady: "Epidemiological assessment of aboriginal & non-aboriginal Australians at high risk of developing heart failure"
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| Wed, 25 Feb |
PhD student presentations:
Alison Beauchamp: "Socioeconomic status as a determinant of cardiovascular disease"
Sharon Brennan: "Novel risk factors in the influence of musculoskeletal disease in population based adults."
Trish Berry: "The role of lifestyle factors on hip cartilage volume and ragte of cartilage loss in a normal community-based population"
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| Wed, 18 Feb |
No seminar |
