Video of the week: FODMAP animation - 30,000 views and counting!

The Monash Department of Gastroenterology's new video describing how FODMAPs in diet cause bloating in IBS sufferers was released on 14 December 2015. Since then, it has clocked up 30,000+ views, maintaining a steady average of between 400-500 views per day. It's an excellent tool for the Department, enabling a public understanding of the problem, based on rigorous research, and pointing the public to the Department's low FODMAP app, which is the highest selling medical app in Australia and now downloaded in over 100 countries worldwide.

• See the video at: https://youtu.be/Z_1Hzl9o5ic
• Website: http://bit.ly/1vXL2tQ
• App: http://bit.ly/1PKfK3Y
• Booklet: http://bit.ly/1yFzqxg

Forthcoming CCS events: Seminars, public events, general notices

Timothy Patton presenting at the
2015 CCS postgrad symposium

Central Clinical School has regular seminar series and postgraduate presentations. All event notices are maintained on the CCS Events calendar.

CCS staff & 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 Intranet's Announcements page.

Various departments have their own calendars. See CCS seminar index: www.med.monash.edu.au/cecs/events/seminars.html

What's on for this coming week: 08-12 Feb 2016

Wed	►	10-Feb	11:30	Immunology Seminar Series : Dr Lev Kats
Fri	►	12-Feb	12:30	Cutting Edge Journal Club

In the Future

• 25 Feb Honours (x30) orientation
• 29 Feb - BMedSc Honours (x18) orientation
• 17 Mar Graduate Research student orientation

Immunology "Cutting Edge" Friday seminars kicking off 5 Feb

Maria Demaria at the 2015 Day
of Immunology GTAC workshop

"Cutting Edge Immunology” sessions were initiated in 2015, in which an important new paper in the broad field of immunology is discussed each week by young scientists as part of their training in reading, presenting and discussing new and significant research. This continues in 2016 and the first session is on Friday 5 Feb.

Welcome to David Tarlinton, new HOD of Immunology & Pathology!

We welcome Professor David Tarlinton, our new Head of Department of Immunology and Pathology in the Faculty of Medicine, based at the Central Clinical School. David is one of Australia's foremost B-cell immunologists and comes to us after a very successful time at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute.

David's research interests particularly focus on B cell memory - what triggers the formation of memory; and how, in the case of autoimmune diseases such as lupus, memory might be reversed so the immune system is no longer primed.

Congratulations to Professor Robyn O'Hehir for being awarded the Order of Australia

Congratulations to Professor Robyn O'Hehir for being awarded the Order of Australia at Officer level on Australia Day 2016. The Officer of the Order of Australia is awarded for distinguished service of a high degree to Australia or humanity at large and is to recognise outstanding achievement and service. The Order of Australia was awarded to Professor O'Hehir for "...distinguished service to clinical immunology and respiratory medicine as an academic and clinician, to tertiary education, and to specialist health and medical organisations”. 

Congratulations to Alfred researchers on MIME funding

The Monash Institute of Medical Engineering (MIME) has announced its 2015 Seed Funding Awardees, to which over $700,000 has been disbursed in research project support. The projects will be undertaken in collaboration with researchers in the Faculties of Engineering and IT.

The Central Clinical School recipients were:

Professor Mark Fitzgerald (National Trauma Research Institute)   

• Chest trauma: Develop semi-automated device for emergency drainage of blood in the chest cavity (pleural decompression device)    
• Trauma resuscitation: Develop wireless heads-up display for real-time decision support in trauma situations   

Professor Anton Peleg (Department of Infectious Diseases)

• Hospital-acquired infections: Develop surface coatings for medical devices that resist the attachment of organisms and establishment of biofilms, particularly antibiotic resistance biofilms

Adjunct Professor Bruce Thompson (Allergy, Immunology and Respiratory Medicine )

• Asthma treatment: Development and testing of a nebulizer with “dial up” particle size control that can target small airways, improving the treatment of asthma   

Professor Andrew Spencer (Australian Centre for Blood Diseases)

• Multiple myeloma diagnostic tool: Develop a diagnostic test for detecting circulating tumour DNA for use in primary healthcare

 

 

MIME PhD Scholarship support

MIME also funds PhD scholarships so students can be recruited to work with researchers. Successful researchers from CCS were: 

Dr Heather Cleland, Mr Stephen Goldie (Department of Surgery)

• Burn injuries: Develop a tissue engineered skin substitute, which will enable rapid and permanent wound closure, as well as functional and aesthetic reconstruction   

Dr Stephen Ting (Australian Centre for Blood Diseases)

• Leukemia stem cell detection: Single cell identification, separation, isolation and assay of bone marrow and leukemia stem cells     

 


Professor Mark Fitzgerald (National Trauma Research Institute)   

• Trauma resuscitation – develop wireless heads-up display for real-time decision support   

Professor David Kaye (Department of Medicine, Baker IDI)

• Heart attack: Develop 3D-printed muscle patch for heart repair

Welcome to our 2016 Honours and BMedSc(Hons) students!

Welcome to our 48 new Honours students for 2016!

Central Clinical School will be holding orientation sessions for our 2016 Honours (Immunology, medical biology and human pathology) and Bachelor of Medical Science (Honours) cohorts (30 and 18 respectively) on Thursday 25 Feb and Monday 29 Feb 2016. See calendar entries through the links above for full details about what is covered. We will be publishing updates and student lists to their web pages.

For more information, contact Laisa Tigarea, CCS Student Services Officer on laisa.tigarea@monash.edu or ph 990 30027. See more about CCS education at www.med.monash.edu.au/cecs/education/index.html.