Central Clinical School's OHS staff update

L-R: Rachael Borg, Rebecca Reismanis, Darren Partridge

Congratulations to Dr Rebecca Reismanis, who has been appointed to a new, ongoing position for a Senior Technical Officer focussing on the Departments of Immunology & Pathology and Diabetes. This new position was created to provide longer-term support for the school’s growing portfolio of research activities and projects. Rebecca had already been working in a similar role supporting our Departments of Neuroscience, Infectious Diseases and Gastroenterology during Rachael Borg's maternity leave. 

Photo of the week: Central Clinical School staff portraits

Recent portraits of new and existing Central Clinical School staff and students with the Monash Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences blue backdrop. Our doctors, clinicians, researchers, lecturers, graduate students, adjuncts, administrative and professional staff all have faces! See complete staff listing (though without photos) at:  www.med.monash.edu.au/cecs/staff/allccs.html

Pictured here, L-R:
Top row: Marina Iacovou, Gayan de Mel, Anthony Dear, Joseph Doyle, Ben Fancke, Mark Fitzgerald, Smitha Georgy
Middle row: Vijay Kumar, Dussy Kuttner, Florence Lim, Harshal Nandurkar, Harvey Newnham, Miranda Paraskeva, Simone Peters
Bottom row: Arie Sebastian, Waled Shihata, Eric Tan, Emma Toulmin, Costa Valakopoulos, Menno Van Zelm, Shirley Webber

Dr Catherine Carmichael joins ACBD

Dr Catherine Carmichael

Welcome to Dr Catherine Carmichael from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute (WEHI), whose expertise is on the regulation of both normal and abnormal blood cell development especially in relation to leukaemia. Dr Carmichael received her PhD from the University of Melbourne in 2008, studying genetic predispositions to haematological malignancies. She was a postdoc for 6 years at WEHI studying the role of the ETS-related gene, ERG, during leukaemia development. She has now joined the Australian Centre for Blood Diseases Mammalian Functional Genetics lab of A/Prof Jody Haigh as a Research Fellow, and is studying the role of Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition (EMT) modulators during both normal blood cell production ("haematopoiesis") and leukaemia development. See more at www.acbd.monash.org/research/mammal-genetics.html