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Issue #79 June 2009The 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
SPHPM Local eNews 5 June 2009This is the local SPHPM eNews, featuring staff and local news, published to the DEPM website as usual. Download this issue (495kb), file attached below. A SPHPM eNews for the wider world, featuring publications, conference reports, awards, prizes, media mentions, etc. is due out 12 June. This enews may initially be hosted on the DEPM website, but is expected to finally reside on the SPHPM website.Attached Files: 090605 SPHPM local enews.pdf 495 KiloBytes | Contents | Marketing & Communications update: Photosi. Staff photos Staff photos are kept in the V drive, at V:\epm\Department\Staff Photo. Next Faculty photographer visit is booked for 29 June, 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 ar-range. 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. See most recent sample in pdf download, Judy Lowthian and Basia Diug featuring in pharmacy shots. These will be available on CD, copy kept at my desk, in high resolution suitable for print publication. I will publish low resolution (small) photo files to the V drive. 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. v. 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 vi. Photos to go subscription for three months We’ve subscribed for three months to a stock photo library, “Photos to go”. I will send URL to admin staff for them to select generic images for hospital, laboratory, medical, blood products, pharmacy, ambulance, accidents, lifestyle, you name it. vii. Event notification checklist (Regularly updated) V:\epm\Department\Communications\Marketing\Advertising avenues.| Contents | New Staff from 1/5/09Name, Role and working on: Bianca Chang RF MOOD-CARE project with IPHU Emma Frean RA MIGHI with IPHU Mitesh Chaudhari Database Developer CIDMU Juliana Roos RF Clin-Epi Cabrini Masoumeh Sanagou Visiting Academic Baki Billah, Biostatistics See photos of staff in pdf download.| Contents | Departing StaffRebecca Watson, Executive Officer for AIPHS, has been working with Brian Oldenburg for over 4 years, 1 year in Qld and 3.5 years here in Victoria. She is going to VACCHO (Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation). Her last day here is 12 June. We have all enjoyed her heritage recipes, commitment to good causes and cheerful commitment to a huge workload. Des Gul, Admin Officer for IPHU since 2006 is now going to be working for Microbiology, Monash University, at the Clayton campus. So it’s not so much “Goodbye” as “Au revoir”. Good luck & best wishes to both in their new roles. See photos in pdf download.| Contents | Survey on environmentally friendly policies for DEPMWe look forward to an update from Rosanne.Freak-Poli on the survey. Enquiries to Rosanne.Freak-Poli@med.monash.edu.au Monash University does have some environmentally friendly policies in place, but perhaps not well known or acted on. For example, Monash already has a catering policy, dated Jan 2009, recommending vegetarian catering http://fsd.monash.edu.au/files/Sustainable%20Catering%20Guide.pdf. There was a recent Radio National show, 6 May, about sustainable diet. The forum speakers recommended that our diet include a higher proportion of food which is less energy & water intensive - food which manufactures its content directly from the sun i.e. plants. http://www.abc.net.au/rn/foraradio/stories/2009/2561532.htm.| Contents | PHAA Vic branch update - Helen Keleher and Penny RobinsonPublic Health Association of Australia news PHAA Vic branch, together with Health Issues Centre, held a forum titled "Making (some?!) sense of the health system - how does it all fit together - or not??" on Tuesday 26 May evening. The forum was very interesting - and showed how complex the Australian health care system is. It was also a great success with 80-90 registrants. Future PHAA Vic branch events for the diary - more details to follow. NHMRC Reforms: What do they mean for Victoria? Fri 17 July from 1:30 - 5 pm in the AMREP Seminar Room Sexual and Reproductive Health in Victoria Tues 18 August from 4 - 7 pm in the AMREP Seminar Room| Contents | Cycling update from PennyDates for the Diary • Sat 29 Aug: SRAM Whittlesea Challenge www.cyclosportifvic.com.au/default.asp?MenuID=Events/c20175/17195,Whittlesea_Challenge/c20280/32398 • Thurs 15 Oct L'Etape du Tour (i.e. Mt Buller challenge) More information on the above two mentioned rides will be avail-able here (http://www.cyclosportifvic.com.au) closer to the time. • Wed 14 Oct 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 options (50km, 80km, 100km, 210km (Queenscliff via ferry SOLD OUT) and 250 km (SOLD OUT)). Check here (http://www.bv.com.au/join-in/126/) for more in-formation. • Sat 28 Nov - Sun 6 Dec BV's "Great Victorian Bike Ride from Portland to Geelong along the Great Ocean Road.More details available here (http://www.bv.com.au/great-rides/40985/). The Great Ocean Road rides are proving popular! Only 700 (out of 5000) spots remain as at time of writing, • For those who like hills ... Alpine Attack - 7 March 2010 ("Labour Day holiday" weekend) 230 km loop from Falls Creek via Tawonga Gap, Harrietville, Mt Hotham (30 km climb !), Dinner Plain, Cobunga, Omeo and back to Falls Creek. Congratulations to Hendrik Zimmet who recently competed in the Olympic distance triathlon at the Arafuna Games in Darwin in early May. It’s been a week of PB's (personal bests) for me this week (see right, bedizened with medals!) On Sunday, I raced in the time trial at Kew Blvd. My time over 1-lap of 22 min 40 secs placed me 16th out of 20 in D grade, but I don't care about that - as I broke my 1-lap PB by 15 seconds :-) Normally I'm passed by lots of other competitors - but this time, I got to pass one competitor (two people racing the course on a tandem) twice up the hills - after they passed me on one of the downhills in between. Then last night at my cycling club's wind trainer session, I managed to briefly reach a PB maximum cadence of 175 rpm ... that's almost 3 revolutions per second! There was no falling off my road bike while it was attached to the wind trainer this time though - that was my "trick" a few weeks ago!| Contents | Births, deaths and marriagesKatie Webby (Dale), a Victorian Public Health Fellow who recently spent three months with the Infectious Disease Epidemiology Unit, gave birth to a baby boy (Tristan John Dale) on 5th April. News from Siouxzy Morrison: Alistair Nichol our ANZICS-RC Senior Research Fellow and his wife Fiona have had a baby, Jemima (fondly known as Trucker before she was born) on 21 May 2009. Jemima weighed 3520g / 7lb 14oz - all doing well and blissfully happy. See very gorgeous photo of "Trucker" in pdf download.| Contents | 2009 Short Course registrations now open2009 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 The Aviation Medicine course has had 15 registrations so far, many international. The new peri-operative medicine course is also proving of interest to practitioners, with 12 enrolments so far. 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 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.| Contents | DEPM & other seminarsDEPM seminar series 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. For the next month: Date Speakers 10-Jun-09 Dr Robert Hall, Senior Research Fellow DEPM, giving an update on H1N1 In-fluenza virus, its epidemiology and possible methods of control. 17-Jun-09 Dr Helena Teede, Head of the Jean Hales Womens Health Research Group, MIHSR:"Lifestyle related diseases and effective prevention". 24-Jun-09 PhD student presentations: Mohammadreza Mohebbi: Multilevel (hierarchical) regression models and their application to spatial statistics and reliability studies Megan Bohensky: Linking clinical and administrative data to evaluate intensive care outcomes Basia Diug: Factors contributing to Bleeding Risk in patients receiving warfarin therapy. CRE-PS Seminar: "Implementing Quality Indicators: Moving from Theory into Practice" This seminar will be held in Sydney on Thursday June 11 and will focus on how to implement quality indicators to maximise their impact on improving patient safety. Speakers from a range of disciplines and specialties will share lessons they have learned in implementing indicators. This seminar should be attended by clinicians/quality managers/administrators who have a role to play in rolling out quality indicators and assessing their impact on quality of care. Date: Thursday 11 June Time: 0900-1640 Venue: Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney Cost: $220 (inclusive of GST) More de-tails including a map of the venue and accommodation options can be found on our website: www.crepatientsafety.org.au/seminars/ *** Please note that registrations should be made early to avoid disappointment as these seminars fill quickly*** Other seminars The Centre for Health Economics is pleased to announce the following seminar "The AQoL suite of instruments” Presented by Mr Angelo Iezzi, Wednesday 10th June 2009 (1pm - 2pm) Centre for Health Economics Seminars are held in the RB Scotton Room, 2nd Floor, Building 75, Monash University, Clayton Abstract: This seminar will provide an overview of the AQoL (Assessment of Quality of Life) body of work at CHE. The instru-ments are multi-attribute health related quality of life instruments.Initially they were designed for use in economic evaluation studies (cost utility analysis). However their use is broader and need not be limited to economic or health related work. The AQoL program is evolving and new algorithms and transformations are currently under development. If you are interested in understanding more about these instruments, theirconstruction and their use, come along. The latest scoring algorithm will be demonstrated and the website will be presented. VISITORS ARE MOST WELCOME. The Seminar Series is free of charge. For confirmation of your attendance and further information please telephone 9905 0733 or email che@buseco.monash.edu.au| Contents | 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 |