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2008 DEPM Seminar calendar

DEPM seminars are usually held on Wednesdays from 12 to 1pm in the DEPM seminar room, 3rd floor, Burnet Building, Alfred Hospital, unless otherwise stated. All welcome! Enquiries to +61 3 9903 0588.

Sep 10, 12-1 pm Open source software infrastructure for Public Health. Dr Ross Lazarus is an Australian trained physician, epidemiologist and computer scientist, currently based at Harvard, where he leads a medical informatics and bioinformatics research group, supported by NIH and CDC grants.
Sep 3, 12-1 pm Epidemiological research in multiple sclerosis (MS): The
Tasmanian MS longitudinal study, the Ausimmune study and related investigations. Prof Anne-Louise Ponsonby, Head, Environmental and Genetic Epidemiology Research Group, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
Aug 27, 12-1 pm

Pre-hospital, emergency and trauma care - can research change outcomes?
Prof Peter Cameron, Head, Prehospital, Emergency and Trauma, DEPM; Academic Director of the Emergency and Trauma Centre, The Alfred Hospital; Head of the Victorian State Trauma Registry and Associate Director of the National Trauma Research Institute
Aug 20, 12-1 pm

Biogrid - what is it and what can it do for you?
Dr Marienne Hibbert,  BioGrid Australia Project Director, Melbourne Health
Aug 13, 12-1 pm

Focus on CVD prevention - CCRE Therapeutics Research Initiatives 2008
A/Prof Chris Reid, CCRE Therapeutics, DEPM

July 30, 4.15-5.15 pm, AMREP Seminar Room

Toward a global solution for cardiovascular disease (CVD)—Can we prevent the majority of premature CVD in the next 25 years? Prof Salim Yusuf, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
July 30, 12-1 pm

PhD Seminars:Cameron Gosling, Incidence, risk factors and outcomes of injuries in triatheletes;Megan Lim,Novel ways of assessing and reducing the sexual risk behaviour of young men and women;CarolinaWeller,Chronic wounds: outcomes for people attending specialist wound clinics
July 3, 12-1 pm Observational studies analysed like random experiments: the case of postmenopausal hormone therapy and heart disease
A/Prof Miguel Hernan, Assoc. Director of the Program on Causal Inference in Epidemiology and Allied Sciences in the School of Public Health, Harvard University 

May 28, 12-1 pm

 Development and use of a Markov simulation model for predicting the requirements of CHD incidence/mortality and coronary artery revascularization procedures in WA
Dr Haider Mannan, Epidemiological Modelling Unit, DEPM
May 21, 12-1 pm PhD seminars: Ms Zanfina Ademi, Pharmacoepidemiology and health economics of cardiovascular disease; and Mr Asnawi Abdullah, The Duration of Obesity and Its impact on Estimating Risk, Burden of Chronic Diseases, Costing and Health Policy
Tuesday May 20, 4-5 pm

Network meta-analyses: rationale, potential and pitfalls
Prof Peter Juni, Head, Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Bern University Switzerland and co-director of CTU Bern, the clinical trials unit of Bern University Hospital and the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Bern
May 14, 12-1 pm Water recycling and health issues
Dr Karin Leder, Head, Infectious Disease Epidemiology Unit (IDEU), DEPM and Ms Joanne O'Toole, PhD student, IDEU
May 8, 12-1 pm Once is enough! Streamlining ethical review at Monash
Dr Simon Barrett, Manager, Research Ethics and Compliance, Monash University
May 7, 3.30-4.30 pm Room 380
MonQueST & Unit Evaluations Information Sessions 2008: Alfred Site Mr Phillip Adams (Evaluations Manager) and Mr Stefano Ferraiuolo (Evaluations Officer)
30 April, 12-1 pm PhD seminars:
  • Georgiana Chin: Transitions of care - Obstetric Clinical Handover.  The study, observation and improvements in Obstetric Clinical Handover to improve the efficacy and patient safety  in this practice
  • Ogilvie Thom Preventative aspects of non invasive haemodynamic monitoring in severely ill patients in the Emergency Department
  • Ruwan Wijemunige Improving the prevention and early detection & secondary brain injury in traumatic brain injury patients within the ICU setting
Monday, 28 April, 3.30-4.30 pm

Research update from the Coronel Institute of Occupational Health/Research Centre for Insurance Medicine/Pathways to work program
Dr Jan Hoving, Senior Research Fellow with the Coronel Institute for Occupational and Environmental Health at Amsterdam University. Jan was with MonCOEH from 2001-2005
Tuesday, 22 April,12-1 pm PhD seminars
  • Lavinia Tran Therapeutic targeting of signalling pathways in cardiovascular disease
  • Soula Fillipas Exercise and HIV/AIDS
  • Shelly Rodrigo Health effects of increased usage of recycled water and alternative water sources

Friday, 18 April, 12-1 pm

 Equity, Values and Public Health
Professor Pascale Allotey, Chair in Race and Diversity in Public Health and
Professor Daniel Reidpath, Chair in Public Health, both of Brunel University, London.
16 April, 12-1 pm

How to make the most of existing cohorts in your research
Dr Shyamali Dharmage, Senior Research Fellow (NHMRC) at University of Melbourne. See http://www.epi.unimelb.edu.au/about/staff/dharmage-shyamali