Show on mental illness an edgy experience for psychiatrist

The expert panel on the SBS two part series, "How 'mad' are you?"
 L-R: Prof Tim Carey, Ms Jan Mcintire & Prof Jayashri Kulkarni

Professor Jayashri Kulkarni, Director of Monash Alfred Psychiatry research centre (MAPrc), gives us a behind-the-scenes look at the two-part SBS documentary How ‘Mad’ Are You? in which she appears.

It is a two part series, broadcast 11 & 18 October 2018, and available on SBS On Demand.

Pipeline to success for anti-blood clotting agent

L-R: Prof Mark Sleeman & A/Prof Justin Hamilton

Pipeline to success: how a Monash-brokered collaboration with a US pharmaceutical company is pushing a Monash discovery to clinical trial.

by Anne Crawford

In 2014, Associate Professor Justin Hamilton approached Professor Mark Sleeman, Director of the Monash Antibody Technologies Facility (MATF), with a proposal. Associate Professor Hamilton, who heads a laboratory in Monash’s Australian Centre for Blood Diseases (ACBD), wanted to use a technology platform the facility had licensed to further his work into a promising anti-thrombotic agent and to jointly apply for seed funding to do this.

Mum’s diet could hold key to colic

Mother's diet could influence infant colic

A low FODMAP diet for breastfeeding mums might hold the key to reducing colic in her infant, a new study has found.

The study published today in the journal, Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics, suggests that a nutritious low FODMAP diet (that removes ‘windy’ foods) for nursing mothers could significantly reduce fussiness and crying in the first nine weeks of her newborn’s life.

The study involved 20 breastfeeding mothers with babies under nine weeks old with and without colic.

Video of the week: Mr James Lee talks about thyroid cancer

The 2018 John Masterton Public Lecture was held 26 July with Mr James Lee giving a lecture on "Thyroid cancer: towards a better paradigm".

See more:

• Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fSOtPlz3mw&t=8s
• Department of Surgery: https://www.monash.edu/medicine/ccs/surgery-alfred
• Gallery: https://photos.app.goo.gl/Yrbexty5j1AzyJvG7

What's on at CCS 15-19 Oct 2018

Prof Wendy Brown is giving a public lecture
on obesity treatment by surgery, Thurs 18 Oct.
Find out more and RSVP

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.monash.edu/medicine/ccs/headlines/events-calendar

What's on at CCS 15-19 Oct 2018

Mon	15/10/2018	►	09:00	Monash University Health Data Platform launch
		►	10:30	PhD Confirmation Milestone: Dr Bradley Gardiner
		►	12:00	Neuroscience seminar series: Dr Adeel Razi
Tue	16/10/2018	► ►	11:30 14:30	ACBD Scientific seminar: Dr Warwick Nesbitt PhD Confirmation milestone : Dr Charithani Keragala
Wed	17/10/2018	►	11:30	Immunology Seminar: Tim Gottschalk
Thur	18/10/2018	►	11:00	PhD Pre-submission Milestone: Mary Ajamian
		►	14:00	PhD Pre-submission milestone seminar: Ms Minhee Halemba
		►	18:30	2018 CCS Public Lecture: Obesity: a serious disease that deserves serious treatment
Fri	19/10/2018	►	15:30	Dept of Immunology EMCR Seminar: Craig and Gill

Recent CCS publications: 25 September - 7 October 2018

Head of Surgery, Prof Wendy Brown
co-authored a paper on long-term outcomes
of lap-banding surgery. She is also giving a
CCS Public Lecture, Thurs 18 Oct. 

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
• Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine
• Australian Centre for Blood Diseases (ACBD)
• Diabetes 
• Immunology and Pathology
• Infectious Diseases
• MAPrc
• Medicine
• Neuroscience
• NTRI
• Surgery

Diabetes risk of babies increased by famine experience of mothers

The Chinese Famine (1959-1961) left health effects on
people who were in utero at the time. Image: China Mike

A paper by Monash University published today in Nature Reviews Endocrinology suggests that pre-birth exposure to poor nutrition during times of famine and other disasters may put babies at risk of diabetes, contributing to today’s global type 2 diabetes epidemic.

The review, led by Department of Diabetes Professor Paul Zimmet AO, examined data about in utero exposure to poor nutrition during the Chinese Famine (1959–1961), concluding it probably contributed to China's current diabetes epidemic.The paper warns that relief agencies should urgently review the way emergency food aid is given in populations during major catastrophes, including war and earthquakes.