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. 

Brain injury from concussion in young football players causes long-term damage

Study shows subtle abnormalities in young AFL football players' brains
six months after concussion injury.

Monash Neuroscience Trauma Group researchers have published the first study to report long-term physical damage to the brains of young adult Australian rules players, even six months after their most recent concussion, raising concerns about the long term neurological health of these players. 

See:

• Monash Medicine news story
• Cerebral Cortex paper 
• Monash Trauma Group
  

8-21 June 2021 Central Clinical School recent publications

The need for solid organ transplant for people living with HIV (PLWH)
is increasing as this group, thanks to effective anti-viral treatments, live
longer. A 15 year retrospective audit found donees experienced good
outcomes.

Recent publications featuring research as notified by PubMed during 8-21 June 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
• Gastroenterology
• Immunology and Pathology
• Infectious Diseases
• Medicine (including Alfred and Peninsula)
• Melbourne Sexual Health Centre
• Psychiatry
• Neuroscience
• Psychiatry
  
• Surgery (including National Trauma Research Institute)

Finding a therapeutic target for Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy

Professor Geoffrey Cloud

by Loretta Piccenna, PhD
Research Manager, Department of Neuroscience, Central Clinical School

 An opinion piece published in the journal Stroke proposes the re-purposing of a potent existing drug, tranexamic acid (TXA), for the treatment of cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA), a devastating cause of stroke due to intracerebral haemorrhage and dementia.  

Professor Geoffrey Cloud, Director of Stroke Services, Alfred Health and Group leader, Department of Neuroscience at the Central Clinical School, said, 

‘Cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) is a neurological condition that is increasingly being diagnosed in clinical practice, but sadly there is no specific treatment for patients.’ 

Congratulations to Prof Anne Holland on becoming Head of Respiratory Research@Alfred!

Professor Anne Holland, centre front row, with her group.

It is with great pleasure that we announce the appointment, after a highly competitive selection process, of  Professor Anne Holland, BAppSci (Physio), PhD, FThorSoc, to the position of Head of Respiratory Research@Alfred (formerly Allergy, Immunology and Respiratory Medicine, known as AIRMed), The Department of Immunology & Pathology, The Central Clinical School, Monash University (joint appointment with Alfred Health).