Showing posts with label Surgery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Surgery. Show all posts

14 Dec 2014

Congratulations to prize winners Chris Brooks and Laura Blair-West

Mrs Candice Rosengarten awarding
the prize plate to Chris Brooks
Congratulations to CCS students and graduates for recent wins.

Chris Brooks (Department of Surgery) won the D.S. Rosengarten Surgical Trainee Research Prize for his presentation, "Smoking increases postoperative respiratory complications and unplanned return to Theate in vascular surgical patients". Read more

Laura Blair-West (MAPrc) is a BMedSc(Hons) student investigating how social behaviour is affected with direct current stimulation. She won best poster presentation at the Australian Cognitive Science conference (seen here presenting her poster at the September 2014 AMREP EMCR conference, which she also won). Read more.

2 Nov 2014

Congratulations to Fabienne Mackay, Eric Chow and Jeffrey Rosenfeld

The AMREP Research Prize 2014 for the article describing original basic research published in the journal with the highest impact factor in 2013 was awarded to Professor Fabienne Mackay (Department of Immunology, Monash University). The prize was one of a suite awarded for work presented during the Alfred Research Week 27-31 October 2014. See more.

Dr Eric Chow's poster won the Burnet Prize for Infectious Diseases Research from  those submitted for the Alfred Research Week. The poster was entitled ‘Ongoing decline in genital warts among young heterosexuals seven years after the Australian Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination programme’.  See more.

Professor Jeffrey V. Rosenfeld is the new Director of the Monash Institute of Medical Engineering. See more

Publication highlights

Lung Transplantation as Rescue Therapy
A recent study has looked at an increasing demand for lung transplantation in patients in advanced respiratory failure. Although many of these patients do not require mechanical ventilation or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, an increasing number are critically ill. The study analyses lung transplantation in subjects who were inpatients at the time of their transplant and not expected to survive to discharge. Click here to read the full study.
 
How do you treat phantom pain?
A recent study co-authored by CCS researcher Dr Carolyn Arnold found that due to the disruption to multiple neural networks in the case of a phantom pain—including sensory and motor, multiple treatment approaches are required. See more.

The Art of Thinking
The European Respiratory Journal is publishing a series of essays by Associate Professor Tom Kotsimbos (Department of Allergy, Immunology and Respiratory medicine) over 2014. The essays feature key pieces of revolutionary European art spanning the last 500 years to spark cross-disciplinary conversations, insights and extrapolations the “Art of Thinking” between the Arts, Science and Philosophy. October's essay looks at the art of Edvard Munch and Gustav Klimt. See more.

Parkinson's and gut biota
CCS researchers conducted a study this year which looked at small intestinal bacterial overgrowth in Parkinson's disease, and a possible association with gastrointestinal symptoms and worse motor function. See more.

Perimenopausal depression is different
MAPrc researchers have published a study which found that symptoms of depression during perimenopause were found to present as subtly different to that seen during the childbearing years, with milder symptoms of depression, increased anger, reduced sleep quality, and increased fatigue that was independent of sleep quality.  See more


12 Oct 2014

Media mentions

Image: Financial Review
06/10/2014 Bill Gates had met with two Monash students:  Jarrel Seah (CCS BMedSc(Hons) student) and Jennifer Tang (Pictured right) who developed an app that allows users to self-screen for anaemia by taking a ‘selfie’ of their eye.  Gates said that he could see a future version of Eyenaemia being used in developing countries, especially with pregnant women, since anaemia contributes to nearly 20 percent of deaths during pregnancy.

20 Jul 2014

$1.5M grant for project to make more heart transplants possible

L-R: Dr Rouchong Ou, Dr John
Woodard & Prof Frank Rosenfeldt.
Absent: Mr Jonathan Neville
Professor Frank Rosenfeldt is one of four researchers working on a new project to enable the production of a device to perfuse transplant donor hearts. The project based at the Alfred and Monash University has received a $1.5M government grant to develop a device which will reduce the damage produced by ice storage and enable hearts to be resuscitated and used as human transplants.

13 Jul 2014

Research highlights: B cell control, 'brain fog' in coeliacs and conserving donor hearts for transplant

B cell control in the immune system: review article


B cell control mechanisms
Department of Immunology researchers have published an article reviewing the control of B cells by a group of proteins called TNF superfamily proteins. These proteins trigger necessary signals that activate or regulate the various protective functions of B cells in the immune system, and they are important to understand because B cell pathologies including some cancers or autoimmunity can occur when these functions are disrupted.

18 May 2014

Photo of the week: Monash University Surgery Interest Group

Monash University Surgery Interest Group participants, at a 2012 workshop
Professor Frank Rosenfeldt has coordinated surgery workshops for interested MBBS students for a number of years. In 2012, the faculty photographer attended for the first time, and took some wonderful photos, now shared via CCS Monash's Google+ photo gallery. See the associated report below. For more information about Surgery education, see www.med.monash.edu/surgery/alfred.

10 Mar 2014

Media Mentions (03-09 Mar)

07/03/2013 Prof Sharon Lewin, Head of the Department of Infectious Diseases, commented on the use of gene therapy to upgrade the immune system of HIV patients.  She mentioned that the idea of modifying a T-cell to make it resistant and showing it is feasible and they survive, is exciting.
BBC
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-26451427

 

07/03/2013 A/Prof Wendy Brown, Departmentof Surgery, commented on increased spending on supersized ambulances, hospital beds and reinforced toilets as hospitals struggle to cater for Australia's obesity epidemic.  She mentioned that facilities across Australia have had to enlarge hospital rooms, hallways and doorframes to improve access, and reinforce walls and ceilings to support the heavy-duty equipment, and that she'd expect to see more and more bariatric equipment in hospital wards.
Australian Doctor
http://www.australiandoctor.com.au/news/latest-news/millions-spent-on-fat-trucks-extra-large-loos



03/03/2014 Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor Ian Haines, Department of Medicine, commented on prostate cancer surgery. He said there was

no real evidence that prostate cancer surgery changes the natural history of the disease and that we’re good at curing prostate cancers that are not a problem but not good at curing those biologically programmed to kill a person.

The Herald Sun, Geelong Advertiser, Northern Territory News and seven other regional online newspapers.