2012 'Best Doctoral Thesis' award

Dr Bernadette Fitzgibbon MAPrc) was awarded the 2012 'Best Doctoral Thesis' award from the School of Psychology and Psychiatry. She is currently a Research Fellow at MAPrc in the Psychiatric Neurotechnology team. Bernadette completed her PhD in 2011 where she conducted the first clinical and neurophysiological studies into a new pain phenomenon in amputees.

Finance team awards

The Alfred Research and Revenue Accounting team of Ben Norman, Bo Zhou, Pei Lim (based at Parkville), Rowena van Essen & Justine Sik won the 2012 Monash Finance Excellence Award for their exceptional customer service, team work, support and contribution to develop an effective working alliance between the Alfred and Parkville campuses. See Finance eNews #25 for detail.

Varun Sood shared an award for Team of the year, with Jamuna Krishna Moorthy and Raghav Gupta. He is in the Global Engagement & VP Advancement, Planning and Budgeting Team. Based at AMREP, Varun works with Gavin Horrigan, Precinct Manager for both Monash Schools (SPHPM and CCS) at AMREP. See link as above for detail.

Zane Kaplan wins ASTH medal

Dr Zane Kaplan (a PhD student in Shaun Jackson's ACBD lab, and a haematologist at the Alfred Hospital), was awarded the Australasian Society of Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ASTH) medal for his research at the recent international meeting of HAA (Haematology Society of Australia and New Zealand - HSANZ, the Australian & New Zealand Society of Blood Transfusion - ANZSBT, and the ASTH).

Rosie Worsley wins Equity Trustees grant

Dr Rosie Worsley (MAPrc) has won a grant through Equity Trustees - from the Preston & Loui Geduld Trust Fund, to do a study investigating the effect of metformin treatment on depression. Rosie also won the Maturitas 2012 New Investigator Award. Maturitas is a prestigious Endocrinology Journal and Rosie has been awarded this honour for her paper on perimenopausal depression.

'Clinicians Online' launch: a telehealth initiative

10/01/2013 'Clinicians Online' was recently launched, led by the Department of Health, Victoria and the Cystic Fibrosis service, headed by Professor John Wilson, at the Alfred and Department of Allergy, Immunology and Respiratory Medicine at Monash. Prof Wilson drove the development of the research consortium and funding for the new service,

Lupus worse for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people

23/12/2012, 14/12/2012 Dr Fabien Vincent, Department of Immunology, on a new study to find out why Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people suffer more frequently and severely from Lupus than non-Indigenous Australians. ABC Online www.abc.net.au/speakingout/stories/s3660250.htm; NITV Sydney, 774 ABC Melbourne, Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association http://ahha.asn.au/news/indigenous-australians-vulnerable-lupus.

Advances in methods to study the brain

17/12/2012 Dr Kate Hoy, MAPrc, describes how methods used to study the brain have advanced.
The Conversation
http://theconversation.edu.au/explainer-the-brain-11196
For more information about MAPrc's research, see www.maprc.org.au