Top education award received by Alfred Health trainee

Dr Kathryn Connelly has been
awarded the Bryan Hudson medal

We are delighted to report that Dr Kathryn Connelly, one of Alfred Health’s Basic Physician Trainees, has been awarded the prestigious Bryan Hudson Medal for the best overall performance throughout Australasia in the 2017 RACP combined Written and Clinical Examinations (Adult Medicine).  The Alfred Basic Physician training program also achieved the highest average mark in Australasia for the written examination in 2017.  This training program is co-ordinated by A/Profs Laila Rotstein and Anne Powell who also co-ordinate the medical school program for Central Clinical School.

Welcome to Sabina Davey, CCS reception!

Welcome to Sabina Davey, long time reception staffer for the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine and now working for Central Clinical School. Sabina is based as she has been at reception on Level 6, Alfred Centre, and works Monday to Thursday. In addition to reception, Sabina will be able to assist staff with room bookings, courier deliveries, etc.

Welcome Sabina!

Thank you to our blood donors!



Your blood donation has been a gift without
which our research at ACBD could not progress.
Image: www.123rf.com

To our valued blood donors,

Time flies when you’re having fun!  As 2017 rushes toward its end, we wanted to take some time out to thank you, our invaluable blood donors, for your ongoing support of our important research into blood-based diseases. We had some serious research highlights into managing blood clotting, see below.

Video of the week: T Clark Gamblin "The forgotten male cancers"

The Department of Surgery hosted a public lecture last month (Thursday 2 November 2017), given by Professor T. Clark Gamblin, Chief of Surgical Oncology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. The informative lecture looked at the progression and treatment of “The forgotten male cancers”.

Professor Gamblin, an internationally renowned surgeon specialising in cancers of the liver and pancreas, is a Fulbright Scholar who is visiting Australia on the Fulbright Specialist Program.

Video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fQeneqngGM&t=3s
Photo gallery: https://photos.app.goo.gl/344h2WcSywOEL0eA2
Event: www.monash.edu/medicine/ccs/headlines/events-calendar/2017-surgery-public-lecture

What's on at CCS 11-15 Dec 2017

Alice Ying is presenting
on Tues 12 Dec

Central Clinical School (CCS) has regular seminar series and postgraduate presentations. Event notices are posted on the CCS Events calendar.

 

CCS staff and students can see details of both public and local events (including professional development courses, trade fairs and Graduate Research Student calendars) and deadlines, at the CCS intranet's Announcements page.

See CCS seminar index:  www.med.monash.edu.au/cecs/events/seminars.html

Note, most local seminar series and grand rounds are winding down for the year, with University closedown dates being 21 December 2017 - 1 January 2018 inclusive.

What's on at CCS 11-15 Dec 2017

Mon	11/12/2017	►	13:30	Advanced Literature Searching
Tue	12/12/2017	►	11:00	PhD Mid-Candidature Milestone: Ya-Lan Ying (Alice)
		►	14:00	MRO Presentation on NHMRC Restructure
Wed	13/12/2017	►	11:30	Immunology Seminar
		►	16:45	AMREP students free yoga
Thur	14/12/2017	►	11:30	Cutting Edge Journal Club: Kirsty Wilson
		►	12:30	ACBD special seminar: A/Prof Barry Paw
		►	16:00	CCS Xmas Party - College Lawn

Recent CCS Publications: 1-8 December 2017

Dr Geraldine Ooi is co-author on a
paper on calibrating risk factors
 for  NAFLD in the obese. Geraldine
also won the 2017 D.S. Rosengarten
Surgical Research Prize - see more

Recent publications for Central Clinical School affiliated authors in the following departments. Note, browse down this entry for complete publications list. Linked headings for each section are to the departments' home pages.

• Allergy, Immunology and Respiratory Medicine (AIRMed)
• Australian Centre for Blood Diseases (ACBD) 
• Centre for Obesity Research and Education
• Gastroenterology
• Immunology
• Infectious Diseases
• Monash Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre (MAPrc)
• Medicine
• Melbourne Sexual Health Centre (MSHC)
• National Trauma Research Institute
• Neuroscience
• Surgery 

AMREP EMCR news now out, Issue 26, Dec 2017

The EMCR Committee is pleased to launch the 26th Edition of the AMREP EMCR newsletter.

Have a safe and lovely Christmas and New Year break. News link

Kind regards,

EMCRTimes Editor,
Eric Chow

AMREP Early-Mid Career Researcher Committee
Email: ecr.amrep@monash.edu
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmrepEcrsWeb: http://www.med.monash.edu.au/cecs/ecr

Intranet: https://sites.google.com/a/monash.edu/ccsintranet/ecr
Seminar calendar: http://www.med.monash.edu.au/cecs/headlines/events-calendar.html