Western Australian Health Translation Network

BPMRI : The oropharyngeal microbial population of Busselton: a community split by smoking
2017-11-06 16:00 - 17:00 (Asia/Shanghai) | Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research NORTH, 6 Verdun St, Nedlands, Perth, Western Australia, 6009, Australia
Speaker: Professor William Cookson
Please see the attached flyer for more information

WAHTN Clinical Trials Forum
2017-11-06 04:30 - 18:00 | Curtin University
The WA Health Translation Network Clinical Trials Forum is an opportunity to share knowledge, experience, advice and ideas, in relation to current proposals for clinical trials, with a wide range of researchers from Western Australia. The forum occurs monthly and involves presentation and discussion of two clinical trial proposals. Proposals are welcome from both experienced and less experienced investigators.
In this session:

Dr Steve Webb will present “Preparation on NHMRC grant applications for clinical trials-what panels are looking for”

Dr Rebecca McKetin will present ”The N-ICE trial: a double blind placebo controlled RCT of N-acetylcysteine for methamphetamine (“ice”)”

If you are attending, please RSVP to CCRE-Administrator@curtin.edu.au for catering purposes as light refreshments will be served.
Curtin Campus can be found here
Venue:
Curtin University, Bentley Campus, Building 410 Room 314
Parking:
Free parking available after 4.30 pm

Telethon Kids Visiting Speaker: “The Psychology of Successful Women”
2017-11-03 13:00 - 14:30 | Telethon Kids Institute (Seminar Room), 100 Roberts Rd, Subiaco, WA, 6008, Australia
Speaker: Ms Shona Rowan
Please see the attached flyer for more information.

Research Skills Seminar Series - Oral Presentation of Research Findings
2017-11-03 12:30 - 13:30 | Perth Children’s Hospital, PCH Auditorium, Level 5, 15 Hospital Avenue, Nedlands, 6009, Australia
Presenter: Assoc Professor Sue Skull
For more information and Registration click here

Online rTMS during a visual learning task: differential impacts on visual circuit and behavioral plasticity in adult ephrin-A2A5-/- mice
2017-11-02 15:00 - 16:00 | Murdoch University
Speaker: Eugenia Poh
Please see attached abstract
Venue:
Murdoch University, South Street Campus, Education and Humanities building (building no.450, room 3.00

Perkins Seminar Series: "Development of molecular tools and novel therapies to prevent bacterial ear disease”
2017-11-02 12:00 - 13:00 | Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research NORTH, 6 Verdun St, Nedlands, Perth, Western Australia, 6009, Australia
Dr Lea-Ann Kirkham
Senior Research Fellow, School of Biomedical Sciences, UWA
Honorary Research Fellow, Wesfarmers Centre of Vaccines and Infectious Diseases,
Telethon Kids Institute
Please see te attached flyer for more information

SCGH, Post Graduate Medical Education: Stories from the Bedside
2017-10-31 12:30
Speaker: Dr James Rippey, Emergency Physician, SCGH
Please see the attached flyer for information
Venue:
SCGH, Joske Rooms, 8th Floor, G Block (near blue lifts)

Perkins Seminar Series: "Revelations and Limitations of Genomic Medicine. The hunt for disease genes is not at all like CSI."
2017-10-26 12:00 - 13:00 | Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research NORTH, 6 Verdun St, Nedlands, Perth, Western Australia, 6009, Australia
Presenter: Associate Professor Sandra Cooper
Deputy Head, Institute for Neuroscience and Muscle Research
Children’s Hospital at Westmead
Please see the attached flyer for more information

Sir Walter Murdoch School Policy Seminar: "How to gently shake the world" : A Conversation with Dr M.R.Rajagopal
2017-10-25 10:00 - 13:00 | Murdoch University
“Dr Raj”, described by the New York Times as the “father of palliative care in India”, will discuss the just-released major commission of the British Lancet on palliative care and pain relief in the developing world. The report highlights the disparity in prescribing opioids between developed and developing nations, leading to enormous levels of pain and unnecessary suffering for those dealing with life-threatening and terminal illnesses. His focus on ethical medicine will be explored as well as implications for rural and regional Australia. The seminar will also include excerpts from the film Hippocratic currently in cinemas, nation-wide.
About “Dr Raj”
M.R.Rajagopal MD is a palliative care physician from India. He qualified as a physician from Trivandrum Medical College, Kerala and as an anaesthesiologist from All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. He and his colleagues founded the Pain and Palliative Care Society, a palliative care delivery system suited to the Indian cultural and social background. This initiative has now resulted in palliative care reaching about 30% of the needy in Kerala as against a national average of less than 0.5%. Since 1996 he has worked with Pain and Policy Studies group in Madison-Wisconsin to remove regulatory barriers to availability of oral morphine for pain relief in India, resulting in simplification of narcotic regulations in 13 of India’s 28 states. In 2003, he founded the charitable trust, “Pallium India” which has been successful in establishing palliative care services in 8 Indian states, which till then had no palliative care service. Currently, he is the chairman of Pallium India (www.palliumindia.org) and director of Trivandrum Institute of Palliative Sciences.
Please RSVP to sirwalterschool@murdoch.edu.au by Monday 23rd October.
Venue:
Learning Link Building 513 Room 1.004 Murdoch University, 90 South Street

NRP Seminar: From stem cells to clinical trials
2017-10-25 10:00 - 11:00 | Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research NORTH, 6 Verdun St, Nedlands, Perth, Western Australia, 6009, Australia
Speaker: Professor Alan Mackay-Sim
Please see the attached flyer for more information

AusBiotech 2017
2017-10-25 09:00 - 2017-10-27 17:00
The annual AusBiotech conference has brought together Australian and international biotech leaders and stakeholders for more than three decades, creating a forum to reflect on the sector’s achievements and exchange ideas to further advance the sector’s standing both nationally and globally.
AusBiotech is dedicated to consolidating this growth, and our 2017 conference will once again present issues critical to industry. Global biotech trends, breakthroughs, challenges and success stories will feature prominently on the program. Panel discussions and key themes will cover regulation and reimbursement, research translational strategies, new markets, business development and capital access, emerging technologies, clinical trials and commercisalisation.
Please go to ausbiotechnc.org for more information and registration.
Venue:
Adelaide Convention Centre

“Rites of Passage” Seminar
2017-10-24 13:00 | The University of Western Australia, Australia
Presenter: Dr Sarah Lovett
Shool of Human Sciences, UWA
Please see the attached flyer for more information
Venue:
Room 1.81, Anatomy, Physiology & Human Biology Building North, The University of Western Australia

Mitochondrial tales of mice and men
2017-10-20 15:00 - 16:00
RPH Medical Research Forum Seminar Series 2017
Please see the attached flyer for more information
Venue:
MRF Building, Rear 50 Murray Street,Perth
Contact Details:
W/Prof Markus Schlaich phone: 9224 0382
email: markus.schlaich@uwa.edu.au

Research Skills Seminar Series: Statistical Tips for Interpreting Scientific Claims
2017-10-20 12:30 - 13:30 | Perth Children’s Hospital, PCH Auditorium, Level 5, 15 Hospital Avenue, Nedlands, 6009, Australia
Speaker: Dr Julie Marsh
For more information please visit Research Education Program
Please see the attached flyer for information and registration

Public Lecture: “Acoustic Reflections: advanced medical ultrasound imaging and parallels in the mining and construction industries.”
2017-10-19 18:00 - 19:00 | The University of Western Australia, Australia
Presenter: Professor Jeffrey Bamber
Head, Ultrasound and Optical Imaging Physics, The Institute of Cancer Research London and Institute of Advanced Studies Gledden Short Stay Visiting Fellow
Please RSVP http://www.ias.uwa.edu.au/lectures/bamber
Please see the attached flyer for more information
Venue:
Fox Lecture Theatre, Arts Building, UWA

Perkins Seminar Series: “Invention, drug development and the uncertain path to commercialisation”
2017-10-18 12:30 - 13:30 | Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research NORTH, 6 Verdun St, Nedlands, Perth, Western Australia, 6009, Australia
Presenter: Professor Sue Fletcher
Director of Research, Perron Institute
Deputy Director, Muscular Therapies Laboratory, Murdoch University

Please see the attached flyer for more information

New cutting-edge technologies in biomedical research
2017-10-13 15:00 - 16:00
Dr Laila Abudulai is a Senior Research Officer at the Biological and Molecular Mass Spectrometry Facility (BMMSF) and Application Group Leader of Biomedical Sciences at the Centre for Microscopy, Characterisation and Analysis (CMCA).

Please see the attached flyer for more information
Venue:
MRF Building, Rear 50 Murray Street,Perth

Research Skills Seminar Series: Rapid Critical Appraisal of Scientific Literature
2017-10-13 12:30 - 13:30 | Perth Children’s Hospital, PCH Auditorium, Level 5, 15 Hospital Avenue, Nedlands, 6009, Australia
Presenter: Associate Professor Sue Skull
For further information and Registration please see flyer attached or visit Research Education Program

Planning behavior change programs: An overview of the Intervention Mapping approach
2017-10-13 12:00 - 13:00 | Telethon Kids Institute (Seminar Room), 100 Roberts Rd, Subiaco, WA, 6008, Australia
Dr Rebecca Pedruzzi
Senior Research Officer, Pilbara FASD Project,Telethon Kids Institute

In this seminar, Rebecca will give an overview of the Intervention Mapping process and her learnings from Maastricht University where the training was conducted. This seminar will be of interest to those working across health promotion, risk reduction, or management behaviours such as treatment adherence.

Please see the attached flyer for more information

Making Enzymes Dance and Sing
2017-10-12 15:00 - 16:00
Presenter: Prof Gregory Weiss
Professor of Chemical Biology, University of California, Irvine
Please see the attached flyer for more information
Venue:
MRF Building, Rear 50 Murray Street, Perth

Perkins Seminar Series: "Ultrasound research in cancer medicine"
2017-10-12 12:00 - 13:00 | Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research NORTH, 6 Verdun St, Nedlands, Perth, Western Australia, 6009, Australia
Speaker: Professor Jeffrey Bamber
Please see the attached flyer for more information
Contact Details:
brendan.kennedy@uwa.edu.au

Medical Imaging Symposium
2017-10-12 08:30 - 17:00 | Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research NORTH, 6 Verdun St, Nedlands, Perth, Western Australia, 6009, Australia
This Medical Imaging Symposium will showcase how medical imaging is used in practice and to present some of the most exciting emerging medical imaging techniques. The speaker list represents a unique combination of clinicians and engineers/physicists, with presenters ranging from surgeons, radiologists and ophthalmologists to medical physicists and biomedical engineers.
The symposium will start with a talk from WA Scientist of the year Prof Christobel Saunders and will also feature a number of international speakers, including Professor Jeff Bamber, Institute of Cancer Research, London, a pioneer in the field of ultrasound imaging. There will also be a focus on local researchers working in this field, with a number of PhD students and early-career researchers presenting their work. Please see attached flyer for more details.
Please RSVP for catering at http://medicalimagingsymposium.eventbrite.com.au

SPARK Co-Lab Open Session: Quality Control and Funding
2017-10-09 16:00 - 19:00
Speakers: Samantha South, Ken Green, Greg Thomas & Russell Nicholls
Please click here for information and registration.
Venue:
CERI – 22 Stirling Hwy, Nedlands

Improving the health of justice involved young people: From evidence to action
2017-10-06 12:00 - 13:00 | Telethon Kids Institute (Seminar Room), 100 Roberts Rd, Subiaco, WA, 6008, Australia
Speaker: Prof Stuart Kinner
Venue: Telethon Kids Institute
Please see attached flyer for more information

Career Development and Cardiovascular Symposia
2017-10-06 09:00 - 13:00 | Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research NORTH, 6 Verdun St, Nedlands, Perth, Western Australia, 6009, Australia
Two virtual symposia: live feed from Brisbane and Melbourne!
Please see the attached flyer for more information

From clinical to pre-clinical research – using animal models to understand the neurobiology of schizophrenia
2017-10-03 16:00 - 17:00 | The University of Western Australia, Australia
Speaker: E/Prof Pat Michie
Please see the attached flyer for more information.
Venue:
Bayliss Building G 33 university of western australia

MK2 signaling in cancer: Role and targeting
2017-09-29 12:00 - 13:00 | Telethon Kids Institute (Seminar Room), 100 Roberts Rd, Subiaco, WA, 6008, Australia
Speaker: A/Prof Lenka Munoz
Please see the attached flyer for more information.
Venue:
Telethon Kids Institute 100 Roberts Road Subiaco Institute Seminar Room

Bioengineering and Biophysics workshop
2017-09-29 09:00 - 12:00 | The University of Western Australia, Australia
Critical Mass Research Group workshop will showcase the broad bioengineering and biophysics research undertaken at UWA.
Attendees will have the opportunity to liaise with like-minded academics in their field and create new networks to expand their own and UWA’s research impact.
Please see the attached PDF for the program.
Students and medical researchers are very welcome!
Venue:
Weatherburn Lecture Theatre, University of Western Australia
Registration information:
RSVP to brendan.kennedy@uwa.edu.au

Aussie kids’ dental decay reported as ‘somewhat inflated’. Ethical Dilemmas in Money, Research and Policy
2017-09-26 13:00 - 14:00 | The University of Western Australia, Australia
Modern research in public health can make substantial differences to millions of people. With this scale in change comes responsibility. Responsibility in ensuring high quality evidence-based decisions are made, resting on good, sound evidence. It brings substantive risk when evidence is misused, misinterpreted, or reflecting a situation that is removed from reality, through inappropriate sampling or data analysis perceptions. Decisions that affect millions of people, and cost hundreds of millions of dollars, may not result in the change that was originally desired, or see resources directed where they are needed. This is a substantial pressure added to public health researchers to ensure sound scientific methodology and clarity in their data and analysis. This seminar will reflect on these pressures and dilemmas as learnings for all.
For more information please see the attached PDF or visit www.aphb.uwa.edu.au
Venue:
UWA, Room 1.81, Anatomy, Physiology & Human Biology Building North
Contact Details:
Debbie Hull: Phone 6488 3313 Fax 6488 1051
Email: deborah.hull@uwa.edu.au
