Early career researcher’s paper honoured in Faculty awards

Dr Narelle Cox has won one of the six 2022 MNHS ECR publication
prizes for her paper on telerehabilitation for chronic respiratory disease.

by Anne Crawford

A paper reviewing the merits of telerehabilitation for Chronic Respiratory Disease has won one of the six Monash Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences Faculty Early Career Researcher Publication Prizes 2022 (see detail of prizes in Monash intranet).

The global review by Central Clinical School physiotherapist/academic Dr Narelle Cox was awarded the Jenny Keating Prize for Nursing and Allied Health.

Repeated concussions can thicken the skull, Monash University study finds

Repeated head trauma thickens skull bone. Image: Shutterstock

New research has found that repeated concussions can thicken the structure of skull bones. Previous studies have shown damage to the brain following concussion, but have not looked at the brain’s protective covering.

A Monash-led study published in the journal Scientific Reports by Associate Professor Bridgette Semple from the Monash University’s Central Clinical School Department of Neuroscience, found that repeated concussions resulted in thicker, denser bones in the skull.

See faculty story here.

Ask 'R U OK?' No qualifications needed. Because a conversation could change a life.

R U OK? day is coming up on 8 September. Join us for a free coffee at the Forecourt (Commercial Road) between the Baker Building and the Burnet Tower. This is provided by a joint initiative between the CCS OH&S team and the CCS GEDI committee, to encourage us to take a stroll with our colleagues around Fawkner Park and start a conversation that could change a life. Please register here.

Congratulations to MSHC team on their Eureka Prize win

The team at the awards ceremony. L-R: Prof Christopher Fairley AO,
Prof Deborah Williamson, Prof Catriona Bradshaw, Prof Jane Hocking,
A/Prof Eric Chow, Prof Marcus Chen

Congratulations to Monash University’s Associate Professor Eric Chow, Professors Christopher Fairley AO, Catriona Bradshaw and Marcus Chen together with University of Melbourne's Professors Jane Hocking and Deborah Williamson, who have won a prestigious Eureka Prize for their important work on sexual health.

They were awarded the Australian Infectious Disease Research Centre Eureka Prize for Infectious Diseases Research at a ceremony in Sydney.

See their video and read faculty story.

23-29 Aug 2022 Central Clinical School recent publications

COVID-19 patients are more sensitive to FBG levels, and suffer

more severe clinical complications than other pneumonia patients:

Study

Recent publications featuring research as notified by PubMed during 23-29 August 2022 from Central Clinical School affiliated researchers in the following departments.

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. The below is not a comprehensive list.

COVID-19 Health Impacts and Vaccination Schedules MRFF grants announced

Congratulations to Central Clinical School's Professor Menno van Zelm and Professor Merlin Thomas (seen left to right opposite) on their MRFF grants in the COVID-19 Health Impacts and Vaccination Schedules mission! See detail below or faculty story here.

See all 14 recipients of the MRFF COVID-19 mission in today's media release from the office of the Honourable Mark Butler, Minister for Health and Aged Care.

Monash AI model may help epilepsy patients become seizure-free

The 2D plane shows the machine learning model is able to

identify patterns between patients at the different centres.

A study led by Monash University and believed to be a world first has demonstrated that an Artificial Intelligence (AI)  model can potentially predict the best personalised, anti-seizure medication for patients with newly diagnosed epilepsy.

The predictive model, once fully developed, would spare these patients the uncertainty of not knowing when their lives would be returned to normal by taking anti-seizure medications, and possibly the harmful side-effects associated with some drugs.

See faculty story here.

Rhiannon Grant to represent graduate research students at faculty level

Rhiannon Grant

Congratulations to Rhiannon Grant, a PhD student in the Central Clinical School's Department of Immunology and Pathology, who has been selected for the position of Graduate Research Student Representative on the MNHS Faculty Research Committee. 

The role includes participation on the Faculty Higher Degree Research Student Committee, which facilitates cross-communication between the School Higher Degree Research student representatives and the Faculty Research Committee.