Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences news archive 2009

Monash University feature stories

• $71 million for new health research centre
  A new A$71 million health research centre will be established at the Monash Medical Centre in Clayton. Funding for the Monash Health Research Precinct (MHRP), a partnership between Monash, the Monash Institute of Medical Research, Southern Health and the Prince Henry's Institute, was announced in last week's 2009-2010 Federal budget.
• World-first blood pressure treatment success
  A world-first treatment for high blood pressure has been successfully trialled in Melbourne.
• Rural Advocate recognised for outstanding career
  Associate Professor Ian Pettigrew from the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology has received a President's Medal, the highest individual award bestowed by the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.
• Monash researcher attracts $5.39 million for heart and kidney research
  Monash medical researcher Professor Henry Krum, from the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, has received a $5.39 million Program Grant from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) to study the prevention and treatment of chronic heart and kidney disease.

News from our schools

• Superbug debugged
  An international team of scientists led by Monash researchers have uncovered how a superbug kills elderly patients worldwide. And, in doing so, they've upturned prevailing dogma.
• MISCL achievement: Vice-Chancellor's Award 2009
  Professor Graham Jenkin and Dr Tony Goldschlager received the Vice-Chancellor's award for Excellence in Innovation and Collaboration in Research with Industry.

Faculty news stories

• 2009-01-06 AIDS prevention ambassadors meet in Malaysia
  Description: More than 300 student doctors from 23 nations across the Asia-Pacific region will meet at Monash University's Sunway campus in Malaysia between Wednesday 7 January and Sunday 11 January to discuss ways to engage youth in the fight against HIV/AIDS.
  
• 2009-01-19 $1.27 million boost for north west victorian aged care
  Description: A consortium, led by Dr Sam Davis of Monash University's School of Rural Health at Bendigo, has secured $1.27 million in funding to improve the care of people with dementia in residential aged care.
  
• 2009-01-19 Signed and sealed in Singapore
  Description: A new agreement between Singapore's Republic Polytechnic (RP) and the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences will strengthen Monash's relationship with one of Australia's close neighbours.
  
• 2009-01-20 Monash doubles its first preference applications as school leavers prefer Monash
  Description: Victorian school leavers have again voted Monash the university of first choice, reflecting strong interest in flexible, career-focused degrees, and Monash’s reputation for the highest standards of learning and teaching.
  
• 2009-02-23 A life of determination
  Description: As a medical student at the University of Adelaide during the late 1950s, a young Michael Alpers read with fascination about a fatal neurological illness called kuru that was endemic to a small cultural group in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea.
  
• 2009-02-23 Biography of a pioneer
  Description: Professor Alan Trounson is a world-renowned IVF pioneer and stem cell biologist who began his career undertaking research not in human reproduction but with females of the woolly kind.
  
• 2009-02-23 David de Kretser Awards celebrate determination in medical science
  Description: The Faculty recently acknowledged two men who stood fearlessly by their theories and discoveries, forever changing medical knowledge.
  
• 2009-02-27 David de Kretser awards slide show
  Description: David de Kretser awards slide show
  
• 2009-04-08 $153m Regenerative Medicine Institute officially opened
  Description: The Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute ARMI has been officially opened by by Federal Member for Chisholm Anna Burke and Parliament of Victoria Cabinet Secretary Tony Lupton.
  
• 2009-04-28 Community leader
  Description: A radio program and community health team are just two of the activities undertaken by this Monash student to help his people.
  
• 2009-05-04 Finding better care through perfect practice
  Description: A new strategy for boosting nursing and midwifery research at Monash University focuses on how to better meet the needs of patients.
  
• 2009-05-12 Monash and Southern Health agreement to strengthen Social Work
  Description: Monash University and Southern Health have strengthened their joint commitment to innovation in social work research and education through the creation of a new Associate Professor position that spans both organisations.
  
• 2009-05-21 Monash stem cell scientists first to receive California grants
  Description: Stem cell scientists from the Monash University, the Australian Stem Cell Centre, and the Florey Neuroscience Institutes are the first recipients of collaborative grants under the Victoria-California Stem Cell Alliance.
  
• 2009-05-27 Into the fire
  Description: The support of his Department and the Faculty meant that this CFA volunteer could take time off to fight the inferno.
  
• 2009-05-27 One of the lucky ones
  Description: It took five firefighters seven hours to defend the home of Professor Debra Nestel.
  
• 2009-05-27 Remembering Saturday
  Description: The generosity and courage shown by many Faculty staff during the bushfire disaster brought to light all of the best aspects of community.
  
• 2009-05-27 Ten carloads for the animals
  Description: A decision to donate blankets took on a life of its own for this volunteer.
  
• 2009-06-03 Chancellor launches alumni philanthropy campaign
  Description: Monash Chancellor Dr Alan Finkel AM is calling on his fellow Monash alumni to participate in the University's first online alumni philanthropy campaign launched on Wednesday 2 June. The Monash+ alumni philanthropy campaign is focused on student support.
  
• 2009-06-11 Singapore research agreement makes connections across the seas
  Description: A new memorandum of understanding between Monash University and Republic Polytechnic (RP) will promote collaboration between our researchers and those at Singapore's youngest polytechnic.
  
• 2009-06-12 Health researcher nominated as a future Australian leader
  Description: A new strategy for boosting nursing and midwifery research at Monash University focuses on how to better meet the needs of patients.
  
• 2009-06-12 Zinc Finger Protein Key to Immune Response
  Description: Professor Bryan Williams of the Monash Institute of Medical Research has presented the results of research into immune response in the prestigious publication Immunity
  
• 2009-07-09 Faculty IT innovators team with Dell to construct high performance computing cluster
  Description: The Technology Services Group within the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences has been recognised by IT partner Dell for its role in constructing a high-performance computing (HPC) cluster to support the Faculty's biomedical research efforts.
  
• 2009-07-17 Monash educators recognised through Australian Learning and Teaching Council Citations
  Description: Dr Julia Harrison and Professor Catriona McLean have been gained recognition for excellence through the 2009 Australian Learning and Teaching Council Citations.
  
• 2009-07-17 Monash University Research Gala
  Description: A celebration of translational research - through a fusion of eminent presenters, a display of abstracts, together with cocktails, canapes and jazz. That's the 2009 Monash University Research Gala at Clayton, Thursday 27 August.
  
• 2009-07-20 2009 Dean's Ball is coming!!
  Description: A night of fun, fellowship and dazzling entertainment for staff, students, alumni and friends of the Faculty - the 2009 Dean's Ball is the social highlight of the year!!
  
• 2009-07-20 Monash Medical Graduates Remember Moon Landing
  Description: It was 40 years ago, at 1:00pm AEST on 21 July 1969, that one of the greatest endeavours in human achievement reached its zenith. At Tranquility Base on the Moon, humankind set foot on the lunar surface for the first time, as Neil Armstrong stepped from the ladder of the Eagle landing module.
  
• 2009-07-23 Of insects, mice and man
  Description: Enter the philanthropic Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which is paying 81 scientists worldwide $US 100,000 each to test bold concepts. And Dr Fasseli Coulibaly, from the Monash Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, is one happy recipient.
  
• 2009-08-17 Monash wins AMSA Emergency Medicine Challenge
  Description: A team from Monash University has emerged victorious from the 2009 AMSA Emergency Medicine Challenge (EMC), a centrepiece of the Australian Medical Students' Asssociation (AMSA) national convention in Brisbane.
  
• 2009-08-21 Interdisciplinary teamwork leads to hot victory
  Description: A team of Monash students from the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences and the Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences have won the first ever HealthFusion Team Challenge -- a national event designed to educate tomorrow's healthcare professionals about collaborative client care.
  
• 2009-08-21 Tablets help to teach health
  Description: A large trial of Tablet PC technologies in the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences is enhancing the learning experience.
  
• 2009-09-09 Obesity drugs bound for Australia
  Description: An experimental drug that could reduce weight and improve people's health including lowering the risk of Type 2 diabetes could be on the market in Australia within four years.
  
• 2009-09-11 Monash academics win Victorian Public Healthcare Awards
  Description: Two senior Monash academics working in the fields of psychiatry and women's health have been honoured with Victorian Public Healthcare Awards.
  
• 2009-09-25 Australian scientists make major new HIV dementia discovery
  Description: A Melbourne-based research team has discovered that infection of a particular type of brain cell is extensive in patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) -- associated dementia.
  
• 2009-10-01 Australia's largest clinical trial to test benefits of aspirin
  Description: Researchers at Monash University and the United States-based Berman Center for Outcomes and Clinical Research will lead an international clinical trial to test whether taking aspirin contributes to good health in the elderly.
  
• 2009-10-02 Staff and students scoop the pool at Southern Clinical School
  Description: Three Monash students from the Southern Clinical School Department of Medicine have won awards at this year's 45th Australian and New Zealand Society of Nephrology (ANZSN) Annual Scientific Meeting held in Hobart in September.
  
• 2009-10-15 Monash ranked among top universities for biomedicine
  Description: Monash has risen five places in the prestigious Times Higher Education - QS World University Rankings for 2009 to the ranking of 25th for Life Sciences and Biomedicine.
  
• 2009-10-22 Monash makes its presence felt at World Health Summit
  Description: A delegation from the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences has made a significant impact at the inaugural World Health Summit, held in Berlin, 15-18 October.
  
• 2009-10-29 A Biomedical Benchmark
  Description: The School of Biomedical Sciences has established a new team to strategically build on the strengths of biomedical education and teaching.
  
• 2009-11-30 Harvard health economist appointed to Finkel Chair in Global Health
  Description: An eminent health economist who has worked in Asia, the Middle East and the United States has been appointed as the first Alan and Elizabeth Finkel Chair in Global Health at Monash University.
  
• 2009-12-01 New knowledge on Closing the Gap a main event for Monash
  Description: The Monash Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences has put new approaches to Indigenous health on the agenda through its growing support for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Healing Foundation.
  
• 2009-12-04 Monash researcher is million dollar man
  Description: Dr Travis Beddoe, a National Health and Medical Research Council Career Development Fellow in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, has been awarded $1 million to carry out biomedical research in Australia.
  
• 2009-12-08 Nothing disgraceful about arthritis donation from bikers
  Description: Arthritis research at Monash University has received a generous boost from Australia's leading organisation of 40-plus motorcyclists.
  
• 2009-12-21 A stroke of brilliance for telemedicine
  Description: Monash academics are leading a project that will allow specialist neurologists in Melbourne to treat acute stroke patients in Bendigo with a super effective clot-busting drug.
  
• 2009-12-21 Vivian Bullwinkel Lecture
  Description: A large trial of Tablet PC technologies in the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences is enhancing the learning experience.
  
• 2009-12-22 Vale Dr Jared Purton
  Description: Monash graduate Dr Jared Purton, an accomplished immunologist and fundraiser for prostate cancer research, has tragically lost his life in a motor vehicle accident in the United States on 13 December.