(Formerly known as Central Clinical School)
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| Prof Sam El-Osta's group has published research on how to reverse damage caused in broken-heart syndrome. See study |
Using mouse models, the pre-clinical study published in the acclaimed journal Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy, has shown the cardioprotective benefit of a drug called Suberanilohydroxamic acid, or SAHA, dramatically improved cardiac health and reversed the broken-heart. The landmark study used SAHA to target genes and is a world first for Takotsubo cardiomyopathy.
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| Acute stroke callout team care is more rapid when an emergency pharmacist ia included: study. Image: NTRI |
Researchers from the Pharmacy Department (Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences), the Department of Neuroscience (Central Clinical School) and Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine (School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine) have found that by adding an emergency pharmacist to the acute stroke call-out team provided an improvement in the average time to administer treatment (thrombolysis with alteplase, or recombinant tissue plasminogen activator rtPA) to a patient by 12 minutes.
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| Vaccination for people with MS needs to be planned: MJA. Image: Shutterstock |
“Determining immunisation status when commencing DMTs is key, as is an individualised approach to risk–benefit assessment when considering vaccinations,” wrote the authors, led by Dr Cassie Nesbitt, a neurologist at Alfred Health in Melbourne.
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| The Monash Trauma group have published a paper on concussion in amateur AFL players. Men get hurt worse than women; and both sexes show disruption to their brains' white matter 2 weeks later. See study. |
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| Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is used only for extremely compromised patients. The Alfred trauma registry has recorded 11 patients over 10 years. Study |
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| Professor Paul Lawton |
Lee Hamley, Martin McCall and Terry O'Brien write:
We are delighted to announce the appointment of Paul Lawton to the position of Professor and Director of Renal Medicine, a joint senior academic & clinical role with Alfred Health and Monash University. Paul comes to us from the Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University and the Top End Health Services (Royal Darwin Hospital) where he was a consultant nephrologist, general physician and senior research fellow.
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| Professor Alex Boussioutas |
Pip Hawkins, Martin McCall and Terry O'Brien write:
Dear All CCS Staff, Students and Adjuncts,
We are delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Alex Boussioutas to the positions of Professor and Director of Gastroenterology, a joint senior academic & clinical role with Alfred Health and Monash University, Program Director Medical Specialties Alfred Health and Head of Department of Gastroenterology, CCS, Monash University.
