Being inclusive of First Nation staff and visitors at Central Clinical School

The CCS GEDI committee has created visual resources for NAIDOC's
"Heal Country!" theme. See more images under 'Initiatives' at their web page

by Jess Borger, Michelle Zajac and Alex Dimitropoulos,
CCS GEDI committee
 
This year’s NAIDOC week theme (4-11 July) “Healing Country” means sustaining the lives of Indigenous people in every aspect - spiritually, physically, emotionally, socially, and culturally. Find out how you can be more welcoming and inclusive below.

22 June - 5 July 2021 Central Clinical School recent publications

In meeting the vast, complex challenge of combating a rapidly spreading
 and mutating virus across the globe, regulatory authorities  followed at
least 51 different ways of bringing vaccine to market: Allergy editorial 

Recent publications featuring research as notified by PubMed during 22 June - 5 July 2021 from Central Clinical School affiliated researchers in the following departments. The below is not a comprehensive list. The most recent validated publications for the school and departments can be seen on their publications pages, linked to from the headings below. Otherwise, read down the entry for recent notifications.

• Anaesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine
• Australian Centre for Blood Diseases
• Gastroenterology
• Immunology and Pathology
• Infectious Diseases
• Medicine (including Alfred and Peninsula)
• Melbourne Sexual Health Centre
• Psychiatry
• Neuroscience
• Psychiatry
  
• Surgery (including National Trauma Research Institute)

Identifying those at risk of developing complications from diabetes

Professor Sam El-Osta is part of a Danish-
Australian collaboration investigating diabetic
complications. See full story

Danish and Australian researchers are teaming up with the goal of better understanding the relationship between the risks for and actual development of complications arising from diabetes, including diabetic kidney disease (DKD).

“Our goal is to understand the burden, natural history and propensity of the Danish population, with or at risk of diabetes, to develop complications,” they say. “We want to outline the clinical, metabolic and epigenetic correlates of diseases in order ultimately to predict, treat and prevent diabetic kidney disease.” An important associated goal of the group is to find those patients with diabetic kidney disease who need more aggressive treatment.