Recent publications with EMCR authors

The EMCR Times no.14 included recent publications with EMCR authors, which if you didn't see there, you can see below. Congratulations to all our hard working graduate students and postdocs.

Research highlights: Rib healing; HIV & Hep C, AIRmed grants

Research highlights this week:

• Analysis of bone healing in flail chest injury: do we need to fix both fractures per rib?

• Clinical presentation of risk factors of hepatitis C virus among HIV-infected patients in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau

• Professor Bruce Thompson on NHMRC, ARC and Victorian Government grants for asthma and respiratory research

 

Participants sought: HealthMap and prevention of heart disease in HIV

Photo: Living Positive Victoria

You are invited to participate in a research study to help people with HIV be healthier, HealthMap. The program includes:

• access to interactive health records at home as well as other resources,
• access to phone and online health coaching,
• access to anonymous online chat groups.

The HealthMap program is being launched as a one year study.  It is a randomised trial, and the study doctors will be randomised. Doctors and their patients randomised to the 'intervention' arm will receive immediate access to the HealthMap program. Doctors and their patients randomised to the 'control' arm will receive access to the HealthMap program after one year. See more about HealthMap and the research study.

Contact Ms Karen Klassen Ph: 1800 004 284 or email: karen.klassen@monash.edu

Media mentions

04/08/2014 Associate Professor Edwina Wright, Department of Infectious Diseases, commented on HIV.  She said that in Australia, the average person has been infected for about three years before diagnosis,

The Saturday Paper

Photo of the week

Prof Jenny Hoy giving the public lecture

The 2014 CCS public lecture by Prof Jenny Hoy was held Thursday 10 July. We've now got a photo gallery up, showing our visitors and guests, the community support from the Victorian AIDS Council and Living Positive Victoria, the Burnet Institute and the Alfred's Education Resource Centre on STIs. See link below.

You can follow AIDS 2014 updates on Twitter, by following:
@AIDS_conference with the hashtag #AIDS2014.

• 10 July 2014 CCS public lecture photo gallery
• CCS Monash's Google+ page for more photo albums.

HIV research in Monash: Prof Jenny Hoy, A/Prof Edwina Wright, Dr Janine Trevillyan

Video of Monash
HIV researchers

Professor Jenny Hoy, Associate Professor Edwina Wright and Dr Janine Trevillyan are all based in the Department of Infectious Diseases at the Alfred campus. Here, they talk about their areas of HIV research. Janine is a clinician and a PhD student supervised by Jenny Hoy. They both work on the cardiovascular health issues faced by ageing HIV positive patients. Jenny's other main area of research is osteoporosis. A/Prof Edwina Wright’s main research focus includes neurological disorders and opportunistic infections of the central nervous system (CNS) in HIV infected individuals. See more at:

• http://www.med.monash.edu.au/cecs/infectious-diseases/research/groups/index.html
• Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umgBuply5Sc&list=PL3C_6vEl3O5Qi7WQDdMzPQb-ZHyQDyvr-&index=23

Photo of the week: 10 July 2014 HIV public lecture

Slide from Professor Jenny Hoy's talk on the stigma of HIV

The 2014 CCS public lecture by Prof Jenny Hoy was held last Thursday 10 July.  Around 140 people braved the cold and wet weather to hear Professor Jenny Hoy give a superb talk about her journey through the era of HIV/AIDS. Jenny's presentation provided an excellent overview of the history of the disease, the changing nature of problems for patients as well as future directions in research and treatment. Read more below about this slide and for updates about publication of the photo gallery and video upload.

Photo of the week: 2014 AIDS schools workshop 20-24 July

Image: Kenya Education fund

This year, Melbourne is hosting the 20th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2014), the world’s largest health conference with an expected 14,000 delegates this year. It is the first time the event is being held in Australia. Designed to unite leading scientists, health care professionals, policy makers, community organisations and people living with HIV, the theme of AIDS 2014 is 'Stepping up the Pace', emphasising a move towards an HIV/AIDS-free generation. Importantly, there has been a strong focus placed on global youth, recognising that such a massive task cannot be achieved without youth empowerment and leadership. A workshop is being held for high school students, organised by Monash, Burnet, WEHI, GTAC and YEAH!

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Photo of the week: Jenny Hoy

Prof Jenny Hoy outside The Alfred

Prof Jenny Hoy, Department of Infectious Diseases, CCS and Alfred, has been a clinician and researcher for thirty years and is well known and respected in the HIV+ community for her commitment. She has been researching how longterm #HIV infection affects the development of chronic diseases including cardiovascular and osteoporosis. Jenny is giving a public lecture 10 July, "Challenges of living well with HIV". See more, http://www.med.monash.edu.au/cecs/infectious-diseases/education/2014-public-lecture.html. All welcome. RSVP
See gallery for more photos.
See CCS Monash's Google+ page for more photo albums.

Research highlights

Sharon Lewin on the Lancet seminar paper overviewing HIV infection

Prof Sharon Lewin video

Prof Gary Maartens, Prof Connie Celum and Prof Sharon Lewin, Department of Infectious Diseases, have published a seminar article in The Lancet, "HIV infection: epidemiology, pathogenesis, treatment, and prevention". Sharon gives an overview of the article, including her own area of pathogenesis, covering recent developments in immune activation and vaccine development. "No-one clears HIV spontaneously", she says, which is a very unusual feature for a virus. Treatments are now investigating latency, or how to 'wake up' dormant virus hidden within cells. #HIV also causes low level inflammation from immune activation, which contributes to chronic disease development. See The Lancet abstract.

Photo of the week: A man, his medicine and HIV

actvicto.org/2013/09/13/aidshiv-realities/

There is no cure as yet for HIV, which means that medicines to control the vius must be taken life-long. The regime is complicated, and particularly difficult for people challenged  environmentally, culturally and physiologically with poverty, stigma and the process of ageing itself. The forthcoming CCS public lecture being given by Professor Jenny Hoy focuses on how long term infection with HIV and its treatment with antiretroviral therapy affects different body systems which contribute to the increased likelihood of chronic illness such as cardiovascular disease and osteoporosis.
10 July lecture details: Link RSVP: Link

2014 Central Clinical School Public lecture "Challenges of living well with HIV: Where to from here?"

Professor Jenny Hoy

Central Clinical School is holding its annual public lecture for 2014 on 10 July, on a viral infection that has changed our world, the Human immunodeficiency virus infection (HIV). Professor Jennifer Hoy has 30 years' experience in HIV clinical research and patient care, particularly on the effect of HIV and its treatment with antiretroviral therapy on different body systems which contribute to the increased likelihood of chronic illness such as cardiovascular disease and osteoporosis. She will describe the transformation in the lives of people with HIV, how her current research is changing the way doctors help people with HIV, and outline the challenges ahead.