International Women's Day 2022 is 8 March

The Central Clinical School's Gender Equity Diversity and Inclusion Committee has profiled our women researchers on many and varied topics as a special focus for International Women's Day 2022 - look out for our special issue on Tuesday 8 March!

See more about IWD2022: www.internationalwomensday.com/

Welcome to Professor Constantine (Con) Tam

Professor Constantine (Con) Tam

Welcome to Professor Con Tam, who has started with Central Clinical School on 28 February 2022. 

Professors Harshal Nandurkar, Terry O'Brien and Steve Jane write:

It is a pleasure to announce the recruitment of Professor Constantine (Con) Tam to join Alfred Health and Central Clinical School as Head of the Lymphoma Service.

Neuroscience supports early career researchers with new initiative

Dr Juliana Silva (left) and Dr Ana Antonic-Baker (right)

by Dr Loretta Piccenna

Congratulations to Dr Juliana Silva and Dr Ana Antonic-Baker in Central Clinical School's (CCS) Department of Neuroscience who have each received a seed grant worth $25,000 to pursue new collaborations and research projects.

The Department of Neuroscience launched their inaugural “Find a Friend” initiative late in 2021 to provide funding for two Early Career Researchers or late stage (final year) PhD students to undertake a small (pilot) research project over 12 months.

Oesophageal cancer a rare but deadly disease

Suzanne Neate (The Aftershock CEO) and Prof Wendy Brown

As rare diseases have been in the spotlight this week with Rare Disease Day on 28 Feb, we are revisiting a feature last year on the support offered by The Aftershock for work by the CCS’s Associate Professor James Lee into thyroid cancer, then Professor Meng Law’s group investigating the deadly brain cancer glioblastoma, and Professor Wendy Brown's work on oesophageal cancer. 

See the story

Experiences of Health Workers in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Experiences of Health Workers in the COVID-19
Pandemic was published 22 Feb 2022. See more

Associate Professor Natasha Smallwood has co-authored a book, Experiences of Health Workers in the COVID-19 Pandemic, together with three other Australian researchers, Associate Professor Marie Bismark (University of Melbourne), Professor Karen Willis (Victoria University) and Dr Sophie Lewis (University of Sydney).

The publisher, Routledge, describes the book:

Experiences of Health Workers in the COVID-19 Pandemic shares the stories of frontline health workers—told in their own words—during the second wave of COVID-19 in Australia. The book records the complex emotions healthcare workers experienced as the pandemic unfolded, and the challenges they faced in caring for themselves, their families, and their patients. The book shares their insights on what we can learn from the pandemic to strengthen our health system and prepare for future crises.

Congratulations to our recently completed PhD students!

Dr Bridgette Semple with recent PhD graduate
Rishabh Sharma, in the Department of Neuroscience

Congratulations to our four graduate research students, Mr Rishabh Sharma, Dr Bradley Gardiner, Ms Anna Beale and Mr Martin Ndubuisi Ezeani on their PhD completions on 17 February 2022!

Mr Rishabh Sharma in the Department of Neuroscience was supervised by Dr Bridgette Semple, Dr Pablo Casillas-Espinosa, and A/Prof Sandy Shultz. His thesis is titled, Systemic Inflammation after Paediatric Traumatic Brain Injury: Consequences for Acute and Chronic Outcomes.

Congratulations to Professor Orla Morrissey on prestigious appointment

Congratulations to Professor Orla Morrissey, who has been selected by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) Executive Committee and the Standard and Practice Guideline Committee (SPGC) Leadership of IDSA as Vice-Chair of the IDSA Aspergillosis Guideline Panel. 

 As Vice-Chair, Orla will play a lead role in crafting the updated Aspergillosis Clinical Practice Guidelines. The Aspergillosis guidelines were first published in 2008 and updated in 2016. These guidelines are internationally recognised and regularly used by clinicians the world over. The guidelines have been cited 1862 times since 2016.