Issue #78 May 2009

The DEPM eNews is issued monthly, in pdf format with images. Each month's feature article on research can be accessed either through the pdf or its own link below.

Please send any comments and/or items for inclusion in future issues to: depmnews@med.monash.edu.au

Contents

1. SPHPM Local eNews 1 May 2009
2. Photos, Marketing and Communications
3. SPHPM Annual Report 2008 update
4. Staff News
5. PhD news
6. PHAA Vic branch update - 26 May event
7. Cycling update from Penny
8. Births, deaths and marriages
9. Swine Flu Google Map – regularly updated
10. 2009 Short Course registrations now open
11. Forthcoming SPHPM seminars
12. Postgraduate Research Scholarship: MABEL - May 15 closing date

SPHPM Local eNews 1 May 2009

Reminder: We are producing a monthly enews, featuring staff and local news, published to the DEPM website as usual. Download this issue (540 kb), file attached below.

A quarterly SPHPM eNews for the wider world, featuring publications, conference reports, awards, prizes, media mentions, etc. is planned. Next issue Is due out 29 May. I will be contacting you for content. This enews may initially be hosted on the DEPM website, but is expected to finally reside on the SPHPM website.

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Photos, Marketing and Communications

i. Staff photos
Staff photos are kept in the V drive, at V:\epm\Department\Staff Photo. Next Faculty photographer visit is 13 May, 2-3 pm, DEPM foyer. If your photo is not on file, or is old, please be photographed: email Julia.veitch@med.monash.edu.au to arrange.
ii. Group photos
V drive, at V:\epm\Department\Staff Photo\staff group photos. I now have 14 updated group (Unit, Section, etc) photos.
iii Action photos
Various units have been organising ‘action’ photos, which theme their research areas. I am in the process of making these available for everyone, and will let you know once they’re available. See most recent sample to the right, Carolina Weller’s bandaging study.
Additionally, Monash Image Library is a developing resource. It has over 1200 photographs available at no cost for publications and promotional material. http://www.imagelibrary.monash.edu.au/Standard/Login2.jsp
iv Arranging photos
Anyone can organize photos through Faculty’s Multimedia service. You need your cost centre and fund number when logging a job. Address: http://jobdesk.monash.edu.au/login/index.cfm?med and select Multimedia.
Event notification checklist (Regularly updated) - attached V:\epm\Department\Communications\Marketing\Advertising avenues.

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SPHPM Annual Report 2008 update

The 2008 SPHPM Annual Report is a consolidated, School wide listing of activities. I (Julia Veitch) am setting up various Wiki pages for data capture. Those so far set up are:
Doctoral Students http://sphpm.med.monash.edu.au/twiki/bin/view/Main/AR2008PhDList
Grants http://sphpm.med.monash.edu.au/twiki/bin/view/Main/AR2008Grants
Prizes, Awards, Promotions http://sphpm.med.monash.edu.au/twiki/bin/view/Main/AR2008Prizes
Publications http://sphpm.med.monash.edu.au/twiki/bin/view/Main/AR2008Publications
I will be setting up pages for an Overview, Staff, Undergraduate Teaching, Honours, Postgraduate, MPH teaching, and will notify those concerned when the pages are opened for data entry. Looking forward to your assistance in this matter - Julia Veitch.

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Staff News

Welcome to all new staff having started with DEPM from 26/3/09.  
 
 Milena Piotrowska student from RMIT Pharmaceutical Sciences, doing her industry year (2009) with Louise Shiel, CCRE Therapeutics
 Hugh Zhang Casual Data Collector Haemostasis Registry
 Hilary Young Casual Data Collector Haemostasis Registry
 Nanda Kumar Casual Data Collector Haemostasis Registry
 Stephanie Rahardja Casual Data Entry Clerk VSTORM
 Rita Raab-Broner Casual Data Collector Haemostasis Registry
 Peter Lee Casual data entry clerk VSTORM
 Renata Mistarz Casual Data Collector Haemostasis Registry
 Aneeka Parikh Data entry clerk VSTORM
 Deepika Konda Casual Data Collector Haemostasis Registry
 Navneet Sandhu Casual Data Collector Haemostasis Registry
 Allen Cheng Associate Professor Infectious Disease unit at Alfred & DEPM
 Daniel Reidpath Professor Joint appointment with Faculty and SPHPM at Monash Malaysia
 Pascal Allotey Professor Joint appointment with Faculty and SPHPM at Monash Malaysia
 Anna Hawkins Admin Officer Reception, with Sabina Davey

New Honoraries
None notified last month

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PhD news

Recently started
Lal Rawal, from Nepal, is being supervised by Brian Oldenburg, IPHU.

Graduations & early career prospects
PhD students graduating on 7 May:

Tsharni Zazryn. Thesis topic:  “Improving epidemiological surveillance in Victorian boxing.” Supervisors: Pro-fessor Peter Cameron (Pre-hospital and Emergency Trauma Group) & Associate Professor Paul McCrory (University of Melbourne). Tsharni is now a Lecturer in Department of Health Social Science here at Monash.

Joanne O'Toole. Thesis topic: “Exposure assessment for recycled and alternative water use.” Supervisors - John McNeil; Karin Leder; Martha Sinclair in the Infectious Diseases Epidemiology Unit. She has applied for an early career re-searcher grant (inclusive of fellowship application) from ARC which if successful will commence 2010.  So far, Jo has eight (8) first author publications relating to her PhD project.

Pradeep Wijayaratne (MPhil). Thesis topic: “Factors affecting and change in patella cartilage volume in healthy populations”

Jennifer Coghlan. Thesis topic: “Efficacy of subcromial continuous ropivacaine infusion for postoperative pain management following arthroscopic rotator cuff surgery: a randomised double-blind placebo-controlled trial.” Supervisors: Profs Rachelle Buchbinder and Andrew Forbes, DEPM. Jennifer has had four (4) first author publications relating to her PhD project. She is now working at the Melbourne Shoulder and Elbow Centre as Study Coordinator for a multi centre Phase IIb drug trial for pain management following arthroscopic shoulder surgery and co-ordinating a randomised controlled trial of different suture anchors used in first time shoulder stabilisation surgery. She is also tutoring in Foundations of Health at Monash University. By coincidence, her husband, an orthopedic surgeon with the Monash University Dept. of Surgery, is graduating as a PhD the same day.

Cameron Willis. Thesis topic: "Measuring quality patient outcomes: the example of trauma services". Supervisors: Peter Cameron and Just Stoelwinder. Now DEPM staff. Cameron has had three (3) publications relating to his PhD project.

First publication by PhD student

Zanfina Ademi: Ademi Z, Liew D, Chew D, Conner G, Shiel L, Nelson M, Soman A, Steg G, Bhatt DL, Reid C. Drug treatment and cost of cardiovascular disease in Australia. Cardiovascular Therapeutics 2009, in press.

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PHAA Vic branch update - 26 May event

MAKING (SOME?!) SENSE OF THE HEALTH SYSTEM – HOW DOES IT ALL FIT TOGETHER……OR NOT?
 Come and join in an interactive and fun two hours of unravelling of one of the most complicated health systems in the world! Add some more pieces to your picture of how it all works.
Listen to a few insiders give their explanations of their corners of the system
Contribute to a lively exploration of how the multitude of health services (public and private, acute, primary, rehabilitation, early intervention, preventive, support), government departments (Local, State and Federal), funding streams (from Medicare to private health insurance to ARHRF), professional associations (ANF), regulatory authorities (PBS), workforce organisations (RWAV) and educational institutions (Unis, Colleges), consumer and carer organisations, preventive organisations, research centres and many, many, more all fit together…..or not… We will create a unique and somewhat anarchic map of the system for participants to receive after the event.
Facilitated by Tony McBride (shy and) retiring CEO of Health Issues Centre and PHAA Victoria Executive member)
Date: Tuesday, 26 May 2009, 5.30pm - 7.30pm (5.00pm registration)
Venue: Alfred Medical and Research Precinct (AMREP) Seminar Room, Ground Floor of Education Centre

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Cycling update from Penny

Dates for the Diary ...
• Sat 2 May = Marysville bushfire fundraiser ride.More information on the ride, route will be made available here once de-tails are known: (http://www.cyclosportifvic.com.au/default.asp?Page=32143)
• Sat 29 August = SRAM Whittlesea Challenge
• Thurs 15 Oct = L'Etape du Tour (i.e. Mt Buller challenge) More information on the above two mentioned rides will be available here (http://www.cyclosportifvic.com.au) closer to the time.
• Wed 14 October = Bicycle Victoria's annual "Ride to Work" day. Watch this space!  And check here (http://www.bv.com.au/join-in/126/) for more information.
• Sun 18 October = BV's annual "Around the Bay in a Day" with the usual distance (50km, 80km, 100km, 210km and 250 km) options.
Entries open on Wed 8 April.  Check here (http://www.bv.com.au/join-in/126/) for more information.
• Sat 28 Nov - Sun 6 Dec = BV's "Great Victorian Bike Ride from Portland to Geelong along the Great Ocean Road.More de-tails available here (http://www.bv.com.au/great-rides/40985/).  The Great Ocean Road rides are always popular!

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Births, deaths and marriages

15/4/09 from Shelly Jeffcott. Louisa Lam, a research fellow and PhD student in the PET group under Peter Cameron, was married last month on Easter Saturday, 11 April at 3pm at the Church of Christ on Swanston St in the city, with a short buffet reception and cake cutting afterwards.  The bride was blooming, and the groom, Jason Ting, never stopped smiling.  Jason works in civil engineering management. There was a large DEPM contingent at the wedding to wish the couple well: Shelly Jeffcott, Rwth Stuckey, Cameron Willis, Kathlyn Ronaldson, Shelly Rodrigo, Vina Nyugen, Emily Mullholland, Kim Kyungjin, Lei Chen, Kunnapoj Pruksawongsin, Pornwalee Porapakkham and her husband, Anna Sutijiadi and her family and Louisa's son, Edward Chow, who also works at DEPM managing the VSTORM database (now based on the 4th floor). Bride, groom and various colleagues pictured in pdf download.

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Swine Flu Google Map – regularly updated

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=111577266763816089567.00046889626923d99c25c&ll=27.059126,8.4375&spn=150.222974,360&z=1&source=embed

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2009 Short Course registrations now open

Jun 18-24 Research with Vulnerable Populations Dr D Zion

Jul 6-17 Australian Certificate of Civil Aviation Medicine Dr D Newman

Jul 21 – Oct 6 Perioperative Medicine Dr. Joel Symons 6-9 pm Tuesdays across 12 weeks

Jul 29 Drug Epidemiology and post-marketing surveillance Dr K Ronaldson

Aug 13-14 Introduction to systematic reviews of interventions  Miranda Cumpston

12-23 Oct 2009 Monash Spring School for Public Health and Clinical Research
  A two week program including courses on Public Health Updates and Clinical Research
 
Download attached flier; bookmark & browse our web page www.med.monash.edu.au/epidemiology/shortcrs/ or contact short-courses.depm@med.monash.edu.au for further information. Discounts apply.

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Forthcoming SPHPM seminars

DEPM seminars are held in the DEPM seminar room on Wednesdays from 12-1 pm unless otherwise noted. A reminder will go out about DEPM seminars on the morning of the day they are to be given. The seminar program is at http://www.med.monash.edu.au/epidemiology/events/. The weekly AMREP seminar listings are emailed by Heather Gallichio to all Alfred based staff. Various other seminars which involve DEPM people are also listed.
2009 seminar presentations are timetabled, Wednesdays 12-1 pm, usually in the DEPM seminar room.
Date Speakers
06-May-09 

PhD student presentations: Jason Wasiak, Alisa Pedrana, Ben Clissold
20-May-09
4-5pm AMREP Seminar room Prof Ed Fisher - Global Director, Peers for Progress; and Professor, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA:"Peer and other supports for the global prevention and management of diabetes and other chronic diseases"
27-May-09 

Prof Helen Keleher, HOD, Dept Health Social Science, “Research in Health Social Science: our contributions to public health”
10-Jun-09 

Dr Louise Phillips, Senior Research Fellow, DEPM, “TORC (Transfusion Outcomes Research Collaborative)”.
17-Jun-09 

Dr Helena Teede, Head of the Jean Hales Womens Health Research Group, MIHSR:"Lifestyle related diseases and effective prevention".

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Postgraduate Research Scholarship: MABEL - May 15 closing date

Applications are invited for a PhD scholarship at Monash University. The scholarship is funded through an NHMRC Health Ser-vices Research Grant, and will be based at either the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine in Melbourne, or the School of Rural Health in Bendigo. The PhD research will be based on a longitudinal national survey of doctors, the ‘MABEL’ study (www.mabel.org.au), which is being conducted by the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research in collaboration with Monash University. Potential research topics include dynamics of the rural medical workforce, international medical graduates, medical workforce decision making, and the impact of policies on workforce supply.

We are seeking applicants from a variety of backgrounds, including epidemiology, demography, and health, social and beha-vioural sciences. Applicants should have an interest in health services research and/or health policy, good quantitative skills and experience using large data sets. The successful applicant will be part of a large research team and generous support will be provided. Applicants must be an Australian citizen or permanent resident.

To discuss this opportunity in more detail please contact Dr Catherine Joyce
catherine.joyce@med.monash.edu.au or Professor John Humphreys john.humphreys@med.monash.edu.au

Closing date: 15 May 2009

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Items for the DEPM News are due The DEPM eNews is issued monthly, in pdf format with images. Each month's feature article on research can be accessed either through the pdf or its own link below..

Please send any comments and/or items for inclusion in future issues to: depmnews@med.monash.edu.au