Past Events

• 2005-4-07 2nd Annual Rod Andrew Oration
  Description: "Forensic Pathology and Human Remains following War or Internal Violence: from Katyn Forest to Iraq"
  
• 2008-04-17 Clinical decision making and the meaning of life
  Description: In this first Dean's Lecture for 2008, Professor Pat Croskerry discusses the current status of clinical decision making in medicine, focusing on cognitive and emotion-based errors that still flow through to mistakes in diagnosis. He presented a new universal model of decision making that applies to medicine, but which can also be used for making decisions in everyday life.
  
• 2008-06-25 Building better links between universities and health care facilities to improve health outcomes
  Description: Dean of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Professor Steve Wesselingh, outlines the complex reasons behind this disjunction, touching upon the separate funding models for health and higher education. Drawing on his experience as educator, clinician and researcher, Professor Wesselingh argues the case for forging stronger links between teaching hospitals and medical schools to deliver outstanding medical care and world-class innovation.
  
• 2008-08-07 Sustainability in Healthcare
  Description: Using practical examples, the Minister for Health, the Hon Daniel Andrews MP, will present on the challenges facing Victoria's healthcare system, and the State Government's agenda for sustainable health reform.
  
• 2008-09-25 Stem Cell Awareness Day
  Description: Stem Cell Awareness Day - 25 September 2008 - Hosted by the Monash Immunology and Stem Cell Laboratories
  
• 2008-10-28 Sir Magdi Yacoub - Heart and Lung transplant pioneer
  Description: Sir Magdi Yacoub has performed more transplants than any other surgeon in the world and, as a scientist, his interest in the basic mechanisms of heart structure and function in health and disease has improved transplant surgery and patient care.
  
• 2008-11-27 Peter Salama - MNHS Dean's Lecture Series 2008
  Description: Dr Peter Salama - Faculty of Medicine Nursing and Health Sciences Dean's Lecture Series 2008
  
• 2008-9-29 Nazi Medicine
  Description: The Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences and the Jewish Holocaust Centre present: Nazi Medicine: the role of health professionals as agents of state control, then and now
  
• 2009 Nobel Prize Winner - Professor Elizabeth H. Blackburn
  
• 2009-04-29 Australian Society for Medical Research presents: "The Annual Medical Research Tertiary Careers Evening"
  Description: Hear from speakers with biomedical science degrees about: What can you do with a biomedical degree or a PhD in medical research How work can take you overseas Careers in research, scienc e communic ation, education, biotech and public health
  
• 2009-05-11 Public forums on Monash medical course need your input
  
• 2009-05-12 Community View - "What do you want in your Future Doctors?"
  Description: The Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences is undertaking a review of our selection processes, curriculum activities and graduate attributes. As part of this we are holding forums to seek feedback from key stakeholders.
  
• 2009-06-10 Careers Forum for Research Students
  Description: Join us as we showcase non-research biomedical careers for research students from honours to PhD levels in biomedical and biological sciences.
  
• 2009-09-13 Monash University Medical Foundation presents: "Taking out the curves: novel angles from the bench to help combat obesity"
  Description: Presented by: Monash University Medical Foundation Medical Researach Seminar Series 2009
  
• 2009-09-21 Bachelor of Behavioural Neuroscience information session
  Description: Associate Professor Nellie Georgiou-Karistianis, Course Convener, Bachelor of Behavioural Neuroscience, School of Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, invites you to attend an Information Session to learn more about this exciting 3-year degree.
  
• 2009-10-15 World Health Summit: the evolution of medicine
  Description: Berlin, 15-18 October 2009
  
• 2009-10-22 Launch of Biomedical Education Advancement Unit and Professor Ian Hughes lecture
  Description: The Biomedical Education Advancement Unit (BEAU) is an exciting new initiative focused on excellence in teaching and promoting staff development in biomedical education. You are invited to be part of the launch of BEAU, and a lecture by Professor Ian Hughes, Senior Fellow of the Faculty of Biological Sciences at the University of Leeds, and a world renowned expert in the field of bioscience education.
  
• 2009-11-09 Indigenous Health and Healing Symposium - 'Investing in better public policy'
  Description: The Prime Minister's Apology to the Stolen Generations and all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Peoples has reinvigorated Indigenous public policy debates, and re-focussed attention on dire needs in health care. The Prime Minister has responded by announcing a Healing Foundation to address the cycle of trauma and grief in Indigenous communities, particularly those relating to the Stolen Generations.
  
• 2009-13-10 Free Public Symposium - Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences in collaboration with Doctors for the Environment Australia
  Description: 'Climate change is the biggest global health threat of the 21st century' (The Lancet, 2009) Join an eminent panel of academic and policy experts for a public discussion on the significance of climate change, the challenges it presents to global public health, and what needs to be done to tackle an issue that threatens the lives and livelihoods of billions of people.
  
• 2009-2-11 Free Public Lecture - Healing, Truth and Justice in Canada
  Description: Dr Mike DeGagné is the founding Executive Director of Canada's Aboriginal Healing Foundation, which is governed by a board of leaders from the First Nations, Metis and Inuit communities.
  
• 2010-05-04 Rural Medical Schools host eminent South African delegation
  Description: Monash University is hosting a visit to Australia by a group of eminent senior members of the leading medical schools in South Africa.
  
• 2010-05-14 The pedagogy informing the Australasian Survey of Student Engagement (AUSSE) video
  Description: The pedagogy informing the Australasian Survey of Student Engagement (AUSSE) video
  
• 2010-07-01 Monash Emergency Management Forum
  Description: The Contemporary Emergency Manager and Professionalising the Emergency Management Workforce
  
• 2010-08-18 Master of Medical Radiations
  Description: This information night is for students with career interest in the Medical Radiation Professions; Radiation Therapy and Medical Ultrasound.
  
• 2010-09-08 Career Start program open
  Description: Career Start is a 3-day program supporting students and recent graduates in their preparation for professional employment. There are 70 places available.
  
• 2010-09-22 Monash Obesity Research Initiative (MORI) Seminar Series
  Description: Obesity trends in Australia- implications for government target setting.
  
• 2010-09-30 Health Professional and Health Sciences Educational Research Symposium 2010
  Description: A Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences presentation in association with Peninsula Campus, Monash University.
  
• Dean's Public Lectures 2007
  
• Mental Ill-Health in Australia: A 21st Century Approach
  
• Victorian Obesity Consortium 2010 Symposium