Western Australian Health Translation Network

UWA Research Week Seminars: The Silent Killer- Keeping Hypertension Under Control
2017-09-05 14:00 - 15:00 (Asia/Shanghai)
Speaker: Prof Markus Schlaich
Please click here for information and Registration
Venue:
City of Perth Library and History Centre, 573 Hay St, Perth WA 6000

Clinical Metabolomics Course
2017-09-04 09:00 - 2017-09-05 17:00 | Murdoch University
Please see attached flyer and Registration form for details
Venue:
Building 121, Senate – Room 121.1.002 Murdoch University, South Street Campus Murdoch, Western Australia 6150
Cost:
Cost for 2 days $ 300 (excluding GST)
Registration information:
RSVP to Metabolomics@murdoch.edu.au
Contact Details:
k.roussety@murdoch.edu.au

Assessment of Future Risk in Asthma: Opportunities and New Technologies
2017-08-31 12:30 - 14:00 | Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research NORTH, 6 Verdun St, Nedlands, Perth, Western Australia, 6009, Australia
Presenter: Dr John Blakey
Respiratory Consultant
Royal Liverpool Hospital & Clinical Group Chair of the North West Severe Asthma Service
Please see the attached flyer for more information.
Registration information:
RSVP to sarah.cermak@resphealth.uwa.edu

Perkins Seminar Series: "The long and short (of) patient derived prostate cancer models"
2017-08-31 12:00 - 13:00 | Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research NORTH, 6 Verdun St, Nedlands, Perth, Western Australia, 6009, Australia
Presenter: Professor Gail Risbridger, Head, Prostate Cancer Research Group, Monash University
Contact Details:
A/Professor Juliana Hamzah
juliana.hamzah@perkins.uwa.edu.au

CCTRM Seminar Series 2017: Bio-engineering vascularised liver organoids to treat liver disease
2017-08-30 16:30 - 18:00 | Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research NORTH, 6 Verdun St, Nedlands, Perth, Western Australia, 6009, Australia
Presenter: Dr Kiryu Yap
Please see attached flyer for more information

Defining and Measuring Health Poverty
2017-08-30 12:00 - 13:00 | Curtin University
Professor Philip Clarke is Director of Centre for Health Policy at University of Melbourne. Previously, Prof Clarke held positions at the Sydney School of Public Health and at the University of Oxford. His research interest include evaluating policies to improve the management of people with chronic diseases such as diabetes, health inequalities and the use of simulation models to inform health economic evaluation. He has also undertaken policy relevant research for the World Bank, OECD, AusAID and DoH and is on the Lancet Commission on Diabetes.

Abstract
The seminar will focus on recent collaborative research with Guido Erreygers which aims to:
(1) elaborate how the concept of ‘health poverty’ can be defined and measured, and;
(2) apply this methodology to study health poverty in a variety of cases. Although not entirely new, the notion of health poverty is seldom used – in contrast to the notion of income poverty. After examining measures of income poverty such as the Foster-Greer-Thorbecke (FGT) class of poverty indicators we consider how they can be employed with health measures such as the risk of chronic diseases and mortality. We use this approach to obtain a robust estimate of the extent of health poverty in Australia and attempt to measure its evolution over time using data from the HILDA’s survey.

Event details

Event:
Defining and Measuring Health Poverty

Date:
Wednesday 30th August 2017

Time:
12.00 – 1.00pm

Location:
108.102
Curtin University
Kent Street, Bentley

RSVP:
No RSVP required

CMCA Seminar:“Super-resolution and correlative imaging of malaria parasites”
2017-08-30 11:00 - 12:00
Presenter: Professor Leann Tilley
Please see attached flyer for more information

Research Skills Seminar Series: Data Collection and Management
2017-08-25 12:30 - 13:30 | Perth Children’s Hospital, PCH Auditorium, Level 5, 15 Hospital Avenue, Nedlands, 6009, Australia
For more information visit: Research Education Program
Click here to Register Online

Perkins Seminar Series: “Spatial and temporal dimensions of G protein-coupled receptor signalling”
2017-08-24 12:00 - 13:00 | Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research NORTH, 6 Verdun St, Nedlands, Perth, Western Australia, 6009, Australia
Presenter: Dr Michelle Halls
NHMRC RD Wright Career Development Fellow
Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Seminar will be streamed live to Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, South Building, Seminar Room G39
Please see the attached flyer for more information
Contact Details:
Louise Winteringham on louise.winteringham@perkins.uwa.edu.au

Lonza and Pepro Tech Morning Tea
2017-08-24 10:00 | Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research NORTH, 6 Verdun St, Nedlands, Perth, Western Australia, 6009, Australia
Please see attached Flyers for information

Perkins Seminar Series: “Impact of mother-child interaction through breast milk on immune development and long term homeostasis”
2017-08-17 12:00 - 13:00 | Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research NORTH, 6 Verdun St, Nedlands, Perth, Western Australia, 6009, Australia
Presenter: Professor Valérie Verhasselt
Larsson Rosenquist Foundation, Chair in Human Lactology
School of Molecular Sciences
University of Western Australia

RPH Postgraduate Medical Education Department 2017 Hospital Grand Round - Robert Vandongen Memorial Lecture
2017-08-16 12:00 - 13:00 | Royal Perth Hospital

WAHTN Clinical Trials Forum
2017-08-14 17:00 - 19:00 | Telethon Kids Institute (Seminar Room), 100 Roberts Rd, Subiaco, WA, 6008, Australia
The next WAHTN Clinical Trials Forum will be hosted at the Telethon Kids Institute, 100 Roberts Road, Subiaco on Monday 14th August 2017 at 5pm – 7pm (see attached map). Please note we have onsite parking but this is limited to 15 car bays. There is ticketed parking available along Roberts Road and Hamilton Street. Subiaco Road has some free car spaces available as well (as well as ticketed parking).
This forum is an opportunity for sharing knowledge, experience, advice, and ideas, in relation to current proposals for clinical trials, with a wide range of researchers from WA. The forum will occur monthly and will generally involve presentation and discussion of two clinical trial proposals. Proposals are welcome from both experienced and less experienced investigators.
Speakers for this forum:
Dr Ben Saville from Berry Consultants (Austin, Texas) will be presenting on “Adaptive Clinical Trials for the 21st Century”.
As medical research continues to push into new frontiers of discovery and personalized patient care, it is imperative that clinical trial designs evolve to address the forthcoming challenges. One key innovation is the use of adaptive clinical trial designs. Such designs allow certain trial design features to change during the course of the trial based on observed data within the trial. These adaptations are planned prospectively and are used to increase trial efficiency and to increase the probability of achieving the scientific goals of the study. Adaptive trial designs may include frequent interim analyses, adaptive sample sizes, longitudinal modelling of time-delayed outcomes, borrowing of historical data, study population enrichment, or response adaptive randomization. We discuss common adaptations in various disease settings, illustrating the benefits compared to traditional designs, and provide examples of real trial designs.
Dr Chris Blyth (Paediatrician, Infectious Diseases Physician and Clinical Microbiologist at Princess Margaret Hospital) will be discussing PATRIC: Pragmatic Adaptive Trial for Respiratory Infection in Children.
Acute respiratory infection is the most common cause for paediatric hospitalisation in WA. Although mortality from ARI is uncommon in Australia, the morbidity and economic cost of paediatric ARI remains enormous. In a highly vaccinated population, the majority of childhood lower respiratory tract infection or pneumonia is secondary to respiratory virus infection: despite this, most children with pneumonia are prescribed antibiotics. Inappropriate antimicrobial therapy is a major driver the antimicrobial resistance and this remains one of the world’s great current public health threats. Using a pragmatic adaptive design and patient/parental reported outcomes, PATRIC will be the first clinical trial to compare the safety and efficacy of short-course antibiotic therapy and placebo in children with mild-moderate outpatient pneumonia.
A calendar invite will be sent shortly. If you are attending, please do accept so we have an idea of numbers for catering purposes as light refreshments will be served.

Contact Details:
Inge Timmerman at inge.timmerman@telethonkids.org.au

Perkins Seminar Series: “Novel tools for diagnosis and therapy of thrombosis, inflammation, unstable atherosclerotic plaques and cancer”
2017-08-09 12:00 - 13:00 | Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research NORTH, 6 Verdun St, Nedlands, Perth, Western Australia, 6009, Australia
Professor Karlheinz Peter
Deputy Director and Head of the Atherothrombosis and Vascular Biology Program
Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute

Cancer Epidemiology Network
2017-08-09 09:00 - 11:30 | Curtin University
Presenters: Dr Miriam Sullivan and Dr Ann Grand
Please see attached flyer for more information
Venue:
Room 303, Building 400, Curtin University (Bentley Campus)
Registration information:
To register Email Sonia.el-zaemey@curtin.edu.au by 2 August 2017

Research Skills Seminar Series: Introductory Biostatistics
2017-08-04 12:30 - 13:30 | Perth Children’s Hospital, PCH Auditorium, Level 5, 15 Hospital Avenue, Nedlands, 6009, Australia
Presenter: Dr Julie Marsh
For more information and Registration visit: http://researcheducationprogram.org/

Perkins Seminar Series: "Liver Disease and Cancer: The Impending Tsunami"
2017-08-03 12:00 - 13:00 | Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research NORTH, 6 Verdun St, Nedlands, Perth, Western Australia, 6009, Australia
Presenter: Professor George Yeoh
Laboratory Head, Liver Disease and Carcinogenesis Laboratory
Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research

Please see attached flyer for more information
Contact Details:
Juliana Hamzah
E: juliana.hamzah@perkins.uwa.edu.au

Perkins Seminar Series: “Targeting inflammatory mechanisms in chronic respiratory diseases”
2017-07-27 12:00 - 13:00 | Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research NORTH, 6 Verdun St, Nedlands, Perth, Western Australia, 6009, Australia
Professor Alaina Ammit
Biomedical Scientist
University of Sydney
Please see attached flyer

Aspirin: how long can this old dog surprise us with new tricks?
2017-07-26 18:00 - 19:00
Presenter: Distinguished Visiting Professor John Eikelboom
Registration Information: http://www.ias.uwa.edu.au/lectures/eikelboom
Venue:
Fox Lecture Theatre, The University of Western Australia
Contact Details:
Leanne Hall: leanne.hall@uwa.edu.au

Oral anticoagulation: past, present and future
2017-07-25 12:30 - 13:30 | Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research NORTH, 6 Verdun St, Nedlands, Perth, Western Australia, 6009, Australia
Presenter: Distinguished Visiting Professor John Eikelboom
Registration Information: https://alumni.uwa.edu.au/events/registration-pages/2017-deans-distinguished-lecture-series-associate-professor-john-eikelboom?erid=635166&trid=c4d21fc4-b2b6-4996-99ec-bc740464b980
Contact Details:
Leanne Hall: leanne.hall@uwa.edu.au

CMCA Workshop: “Scientific desktops in the cloud: Introducing the Characterisation Virtual Laboratory and the Cytometry Workbench”
2017-07-25 12:00 - 14:30 | Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research NORTH, 6 Verdun St, Nedlands, Perth, Western Australia, 6009, Australia
Presenters:
Dr Lance Wilson, Senior HPC Consultant, Multi-modal Australian ScienceS Imaging and Visualisation Environment (www.massive.org.au), Monash University
Dr Andrea Holme, Senior Lecturer, Group Leader – Cytometry, CMCA
Dr Andrew Mehnert, Senior Lecturer, Group Leader – Data Management, Analysis and Visualisation, CMCA
Please see attached flyer for details

Research Skills Seminar Series: Consumer and Community Involvement in Research
2017-07-21 12:30 - 13:30 | Perth Children’s Hospital, PCH Auditorium, Level 5, 15 Hospital Avenue, Nedlands, 6009, Australia
Presenter: Anne McKenzie AM
For more information visit: http://researcheducationprogram.org/
click here to Register Online

Perkins Seminar Series: “Genome-wide DNA methylation hydroxymethylation analysis”
2017-07-20 12:00 - 13:00 | Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research NORTH, 6 Verdun St, Nedlands, Perth, Western Australia, 6009, Australia
Dr Lu Wen
Research Scientist, Biodynamic Optical Imaging Centre, Pekins University, Beijing, China
Please see the attached flyer for more information.
Contact Details:
Ryan Lister: ryan.lister@uwa.edu.au

Consumer & Community Training Workshop: Introduction to Research
2017-07-20 09:30 - 14:30 | The University of Western Australia, Australia
Please see attached flyer for more information
Venue:
Seminar Rooms 3 & 4, School of Population & Global Health, UWA
Registration information:
http://bit.ly/intro2researchjuly2017
Contact Details:
phone: 6488 8176 or 9489 7742

19th Asia Pacific Diabetes Conference
2017-07-20 00:00 - 2017-07-22 00:00
Diabetes Asiapacific-2017 would lay a platform for the interaction between experts around the world and aims in accelerating scientific discoveries.
Diabetes Asiapacific-2017 conference will be organized around the theme “Emphasis on Treatments and Explore the Diabetic Complications”.
For more details of the conference kindly follow: http://diabetesexpo.com/asiapacific/
Special Features:
• All accepted abstracts will be published in the respective supporting Journals.
• Each abstract will receive a (DOI) Number provided by Cross Ref.
Conference Highlights
• Diabetes, Types, and Symptoms.
• Screening and Treatments of Diabetes.
• Transplantation of Diabetes.
• Complications of diabetes.
• Emerging Focus in Diabetes Research.
• Neuro Endocrinology.
• Management of Diabetes.
• Auxiliary Treatments of Diabetes.
• Computerized applications in Diabetes mitigations.
• Advancement of New Drug/Biomarker Discovery for Treatment of Diabetes.
• Technologies for the Treatment Of Diabetes
If you are interested, kindly send your abstract through http://www.diabetesexpo.com/asiapacific/abstract-submission.php

Raine Visiting Professor Lecture Series: Vascularization dynamics in engineered tissues
2017-07-13 12:00 - 13:00 | Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research NORTH, 6 Verdun St, Nedlands, Perth, Western Australia, 6009, Australia
Presenter: Professor Schulamit Levenberg
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Technion, Haifa, Israel

Contact Details:
Dr Amanda Cleaver
Project Manager
Raine Medical Research Foundation
Telephone: 9386 9701
Email: amanda.cleaver@rainefoundation.org.au

WAHTN Clinical Trials Forum: The CIRCA DIEM Trial: Early Restoration of a Circadian Rhythm after Very Preterm Birth to Enhance Long-Term Neurodevelopmental Outcomes
2017-07-10 17:00 - 19:00
The forum is an opportunity for sharing knowledge, experience, advice, and ideas, in relation to current proposals for clinical trials, with a wide range of researchers from WA. The forum will occur monthly and will generally involve presentation and discussion of two clinical trial proposals. Proposals are welcome from both experienced and less experienced investigators.
Jane Pillow will be presenting The CIRCA DIEM Trial: Early Restoration of a Circadian Rhythm after Very Preterm Birth to Enhance Long-Term Neurodevelopmental Outcomes which is looking at intervention involving environmental modifications.
The second half of the meeting will be a session with presentation and discussion about the implications of the NHMRC Structural Review and the MRFF to the landscape for funding and conduct of clinical trials and clinical research.
It is essential that you RSVP as this event is restricted to 40 attendees.
Please access this URL to book your free ticket https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/wahtn-clinical-trials-forum-tickets-35450555566?utm_term=eventurl_text
If you would like to present a clinical trial proposal at one of the forums, please contact Rebecca Henderson CCRE-Administrator@curtin.edu.au

Venue:
Lotterywest Community Resource Room, Level 1, Perkins Institute, QEII MEDICAL CENTRE, Monash Avenue, Nedlands

Perkins Seminar Series: "Distinctly different mechanisms for muscular dystrophies due to defects in dystrophin (DMD) and dysferlin (LGMD2B)"
2017-07-06 12:00 - 13:00 | Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research NORTH, 6 Verdun St, Nedlands, Perth, Western Australia, 6009, Australia
Emeritus Professor Miranda Grounds
Senior Honorary Research Fellow
University of Western Australia
Contact Details:
Louise Winteringham
E: louise.winteringham@perkins.uwa.edu.au

12th International Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) International Conference- "Knowledge into Practice: A Lifespan Approach"
2017-07-05 00:00 - 2017-07-08 00:00
The Move.Grow.Engage Organising Committee (UWA, Curtin & Notre Dame) is pleased
to invite you to the 12th Developmental Coordination Disorder International Conference to
be held 5th to 8th July 2017 in Perth, Western Australia.
Please see attached flyer and program. For more information visit www.DCD12.com.au
Venue:
Esplanade Hotel, Fremantle

Short Course in Strategic Health Leadership and Management at Murdoch University
2017-06-30 09:00 - 2017-07-21 16:00 | Murdoch University
This short course provides students with knowledge on leadership and managerial approaches in health care organisations.
Lectures will be delivered by both academics and guest industry leaders.The overall objective is to introduce students to issues in healthcare leadership
and management in Australian and global health industries, as well as developing appropriate competencies to work effectively in health organisations.
The course aims to develop essential strategic health leadership for effective management of health services and projects.
Please see the attached flyer for more information
