(Formerly known as Central Clinical School)
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| Professor Silvana Marasco |
I am delighted to announce that Professor Silvana Marasco has been appointed the head of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the Alfred. Silvana will be well known to many of you as she has been a medical student, trainee and senior consultant at the Alfred.
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| Newly promoted Adjunct Associate Professor Charles Prilgrm. Image: Device Robotics |
Professor Wendy Brown, Head of the Department of Surgery in Central Clinical School writes:
Charles graduated from Monash University in 2000 and entered surgical training at The Alfred. He gained his fellowship in General Surgery in 2007 and in 2008 was the Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery fellow at The Alfred before commencing his PhD though the University of Melbourne at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in 2009. He completed this in 2012 and then moved to the USA to complete a second fellowship as the Surgical Oncology fellow in Hepatopancreaticobiliary (HPB) Surgery at the Medical College of Wisconsin Cancer Centre.
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| Ethan Oxley |
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| Michelle Flynn |
Ms Michelle Flynn's thesis is titled "Investigating the Role of Neutrophil Glucose Metabolism in Inflammation and Diabetes-Associated Myelopoiesis and Atherosclerosis". Michelle was supervised by Professor Andrew Murphy and Dr Man Kit Sam Lee, Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute.
Dr Emily Edwards shares how her work as a research scientist at the Alfred Hospital and Monash University is improving the health of Victorians.
After completing her PhD in Wales, Emily moved to Brisbane and research immune responses to viruses, then to Sydney to begin her Primary Immunodeficiency research. She joined Associate Professor Menno van Zelm's group in the Department of Immunology and Pathology in 2018 to continue her research in Primary Immunodeficiencies.
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| Image by Annie Jen, © The New Yorker |
Christine Keneally describes the experience of Rita Leggett, who has epilepsy, participated in a trial called Neurovista. An implant gave her to advance warning of impending seizures so she could ensure she was safe when they happened.
Prof Terry O'Brien is quoted: "Specialists know [a seizure] when they see one, he said, but ... nobody ha[s] come up with a unifying description. At the most basic level, he said, a seizure is a rogue electrical discharge, an oscillation that moves in time and space, a bit like a tornado. Understanding isn’t helped by the fact that epilepsy is not a single disease, but rather the brain’s response to a variety of pathologies. Consequently, people with epilepsy often struggle with other conditions."
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/04/26/do-brain-implants-change-your-identity
Like turning the bulky CD player into the Apple iPod, Monash University researchers have developed a small device that can perform molecular testing within minutes – making it possible to test people quickly outside traditional laboratories at the point-of-care/need.
Professor Patrick Kwan, from Monash University’s Central Clinical School, and Dr Tuncay Alan, from Monash University’s Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, have developed an ultra-portable, self-contained, nucleic acid amplification test device.
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| Why is the brain a major target for SARS-CoV2 infection? ACBD haematologists @dr_maithili & Prof Harshal Nandurkar hypothesise that it could be the cerebral endothelium (lining of the inner surface See their review article in Stroke |
