Western Australian Health Translation Network

Re-imagining the future of e-health
2020-06-25
Join a workshop to help imagine the future of the outpatient e-Health experience.
About this Event
COVID-19 has shown that our health system can pivot to deliver telehealth outpatient services which ensure quality and support patient choice. The success of maintaining connectivity during COVID-19 has been exciting, and is a gain we don’t want to see backslide as we navigate towards our new normal.
Our health system has shown it can work towards a future vision of:

Transforming the patient journey – making it simpler to navigate
Ensuring every appointment achieves patient centred outcomes; and
Improving access for those most in need, including those in rural and remote communities and people with mobility issues.

What could our eHealth future look like?
The opportunities for Western Australia’s health system to advance are endless. Imagine having your own digital e-health portals managing your outpatient clinic appointments from your lounge rooms thanks to in-home health sensors and remote access to clinical experts.
The patient journey of the future is about choice. The choice for consumers and community members to take control of their own health management and only attend physical facilities for required face to face interventions.
Join us for this online workshop
The WA Innovation Hub and South Metropolitan Health Service, in partnership with the Health Consumers’ Council and the Consumer and Community Health Research Network, invite you to an online, interactive workshop, facilitated by EY. This session aims to bring consumers and other health stakeholders to continue developing the thinking of a patient journey map as imagined 30 years into the future.
PLEASE NOTE: Register for the 8:30am session or the 12:30pm session. There is no need to book for both.

ISHR Asia-Pacific Cardiovascular Webinar Series: Cancer therapies and the heart
2020-06-17
The International Society for Heart Research (ISHR) is holding an Asia-Pacific Cardiovascular Webinar: Cancer therapies and the heart.
A/Prof Nicole Beard, University of Canberra will address cancer treatment, cardiotoxicity and calcium and A/Prof Doan Ngo, University of Newcastle will address cardiovascular toxicities associated with cancer treatments.
Please register for this webinar.
You can view the Asia-Pacific time zones online program or the European/American time zones online program.
Previous webinar recordings can be accessed via youtube.

Fireside Chat with Denise Sullivan: Staying well in a time of pandemic
2020-06-11 10:00 - 10:45 (Asia/Shanghai)
The third in the Health Consumers’ Council’s series of Fireside Chats will be held on Thursday 11 June with Dr Denise Sullivan. It will tackle your questions about how to minimise the risk of infection, how the impact of the pandemic is being tracked and preparation for recovery. It will also explore what it’s been like for Public Health staff during this unprecedented time.
Register for this free virtual event

Summer by Design - International Workshop on Translating and Commercialising Regenerative Medicine
2020-06-06 - 2020-06-21 | University of Toronto St George Campus, 27 King's College Circle, Toronto, Ontario, M5S1A1, Canada
Organised by Medicine by Design and the Rotman School of Management in Toronto and now in its fourth year, Summer by Design brings together trainees from the University of Toronto and its affiliated hospitals and other Canadian and international universities to learn from experts in clinical translation and commercialisation, explore the city’s dynamic life sciences hub, and make connections with emerging researchers from around the world.
This workshop is for high-performing PhD candidates and post-doctoral fellows from around the world to advance their understanding of how to translate and commercialise regenerative medicine research.
Please note Summer by Design is a full-time, intensive, two-week program. Sessions run from roughly 8:30am to 5pm on weekdays with some evening sessions. Participants must commit to attending the entire program. Admission is competitive.

All applicants must send a completed application and supporting documents to Dr Chih Wei Teng by Friday 14 February 2020.

CCRM Australia are also offering travel awards worth up to $2,500.

Transforming Healthcare Systems: Israel Delegation
2020-06-06 - 2020-06-13
In partnership with the Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce (AICC), RMIT’s Health Transformation Lab and Flinders University Digital Health Design Lab, CISCO is bringing together a unique delegation of Hospital CEO’s, CIO’s and Clinical Executive Directors from across Australia, New Zealand and Asia.
The focus of the delegation is to work with the leading hospitals and innovation organisations in Israel to understand how to take cutting edge technology and optimise its use in large operational healthcare systems. The objective is to learn from Israel’s unique experiences so that the delegation can better transform care delivery in their country’s.
Key leaders of the delegation are:

Prof Fiona Murray – William Porter Professor of Entrepreneurship MIT Sloan
Prof Vishaal Kishore – Professor of Innovation and Public Policy at RMIT University
Prof Trish WIlliams – Professor of Digital Health Systems at Flinders University
Dr Brendan Lovelock – Health Practice Lead at CISCO ANZ

For more information or to reserve your place in the delegation (places are strictly limited), please contact Brendan Lovelock or Mark Majzner (Delegation Director)

Fireside Conversation with Dr James Williamson
2020-05-28 10:00 - 11:00
Fireside conversations is a regular series of informal Q&A sessions between the WA community and experts from WA Health. Health Consumers’ Council Executive Director, Pip Brennan puts your COVID-19 research-related questions to Assistant Director General of WA Health’s Clinical Excellence Division, Dr James Williamson.
When you register you can pose your questions about development of vaccinations, COVID research and COVID research trials. Questions will be grouped by theme, and those that are relevant will either be answered live in the session (time permitting) or responses provided by FAQs afterwards. Questions related to other topics may inspire the next topic for these fortnightly sessions.
Register for this event

Beyond COVID-19: a solution-focussed forum
2020-05-20 13:30 - 14:30
Australian Clinical Trials Alliance (ACTA), PRAXIS Australia, ARCS Australia and CT:IQ have come together to create, Beyond COVID-19: a solution-focussed forum, after identifying a need for the clinical trial sector to collaborate and share information.
Beyond COVID-19: a solution-focussed forum, is an exciting new initiative for people working in clinical trials to share their learnings and assist with solutions.
It will be open for anyone to read, and registration to participate is simple. Clinical trialists can instantly share their knowledge, assist with responses and point each other to useful resources or contacts; from ethics to telehealth, pharmaceutical supply to remote monitoring.
Solving problems is at the heart of clinical trials, and the COVID-19 pandemic has seen the sector becoming more agile; adapting existing trials, finding new ways to commence planned trials, or moving quickly to help test treatments and solve the riddles of coronavirus.
The pathway out of the pandemic will also see some twists and turns and more problem-solving for the sector, where the Beyond COVID-19: a solution-focussed forum will continue to be a sharing space.
Join us all from 1:30pm – 2:30pm AEST on International Clinical Trials Day, Wednesday 20 May, for the official launch of Beyond COVID-19: a solution-focussed forum.
A guest panel of experts will be live on the forum for the launch to offer their perspectives on your questions about clinical trials and registries through COVID-19 and beyond.
The forum will be hosted at clinicaltrialsalliance.org.au/forums/
#clinicaltrials #COVID19 #BEYONDCOVID19

Coordination of COVID-19 Research in Western Australia Seminar
2020-05-18 12:30 - 13:00
This short seminar will discuss current COVID-19 research activities and their coordination in WA, including WAHTN’s role in funding, coordination and prioritisation.
Presenter: Professor Gary Geelhoed MBBS, FRACP, FACEM, MD
Professor Geelhoed is Executive Director of the Western Australian Health Translation Network and was previously WA’s Chief Medical Officer and Assistant Director General of Clinical Services and Research, WA Department of Health. Prof Geelhoed has a keen interest in health reform, particularly in the area of clinical research and innovation and has worked to forge closer ties between our hospitals and the research community.
Register for this free event

Webinar: The Impact of COVID-19 & what can we do for the sector NOW!
2020-05-14
The effects of COVID-19 has been far reaching with negative impacts being felt globally. While most industries have suffered greatly, the medical industry is operating at two speeds. Quests for vaccines and treatments for COVID-19 are being fast tracked to clinical trials while other innovations have slowed or put on hold.
This webinar focuses on insights into how the regenerative medicine sector is coping with the unprecedented impacts of the pandemic and what can be done now to prepare for a fast start in order to make up for lost time. This webinar brings together thought leaders in this field from around the world to share their experiences and insights.
View the event flyer for more information or register for the event.

Human Genome Meeting 2020 Conference
2020-04-05 - 2020-04-08 | Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre
The 24th Annual Human Genome Meeting will be held in Perth in April 2020. The Human Genome Meeting is an international meeting with a long history and broad audience of researchers and clinicians applying leading edge genomic technologies to study the human genome and diagnose and treat disease.
The 2020 meeting is broadly spread across three themed days covering genome function, genome variation and clinical application. High profile international and national speakers have been secured across each of these themes.
To register for the event, click here.
To submit an abstract for the event, click here.

Webinar: Managing Multi-center Specimen Collection Studies with OpenSpecimen
2020-03-26
Managing multi-site specimen collections can be challenging without the right LIMS to manage the process.
Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND, Geneva) is a global non-profit organisation driving innovation in the development and delivery of diagnostics to combat major diseases affecting the world’s poorest populations.
FIND’s Specimen Biobank has been using OpenSpecimen since 2017 to manage collections across multiple countries in Africa and Asia, and store specimens in a central biorepository in the USA.
From preparing for the collection to utilisation, Audrey Albertini and Anna Mantsoki will talk about how OpenSpecimen helps them to streamline their processes.
To register for the event please visit the OpenSpecimen website.

Webinar: Supporting clinical trials during COVID-19
2020-03-25 12:00 - 13:30
A free webinar is being provided for the Australian clinical trials sector to discuss the impacts of COVID-19 (Coronavirus).
Sector experts across the clinical trials eco-system, including, industry, regulators, health departments, HRECS, and sites, will provide information, advice and a chance to discuss the impacts. The webinar is independently conducted by PRAXIS.
Australian biotech companies are at the forefront of the global response to COVID-19, which is continuing to rapidly spread cross the world. This world-class biomedical research is part of a global vaccine development pipeline and is testimony to the substantial contribution the Australian life sciences ecosystem delivers to the world.
Clinical trials are worth around $1 billion to the Australian economy annually, inlcuding around $650 million of foreign investment, with Australia attracting trials from around the world. They are a critical component in the development process of bringing new therapies, devices and diagnostics to patients.
To register for this webinar, please visit PRAXIS Australia.

Workshop: Quantitative Imaging and Precision Medicine in WA
2020-03-23 09:45 - 17:00 | McCusker Auditorium, Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, North Building, 6 Verdun Street, Nedlands, Western Australia, 6009, Australia
Please note: Due to the evolving COVID-19 pandemic, this event has been postponed until further notice.
Quantitative imaging is a convergence of medical imaging, computer science, multi-omics and the clinical sciences. It is focused on the extraction of image features which can be used as actionable biomarkers regarding disease and normal pathology.
Improvements in imaging technology and quantitative harmonisation, computational methods such as machine learning, and the increased availability of high performance computing infrastructure, are leading to a revolution in the way medical imaging is used in precision medicine.
The development of quantitative imaging expertise and capability is aligned with WA Health initiatives in digital health and the implementation of precision medicine techniques, and it will enable opportunities for innovation and commercialisation.
This workshop will showcase existing research in this field in Western Australia, provide some insights from researchers who have worked in this field internationally and help to identify a pathway to enabling broader access to these techniques in WA in a way which integrates with developments in local health strategy and innovation.
The day will follow the brief schedule below. Refreshments and lunch will be provided:
9:45 – 10:00 Welcome and introduction
10:00 – 12:30 Applications (including morning tea)
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 16:00 Opportunities (including afternoon tea)
16:00 – 17:00 Public seminar
To register for the workshop, please click here. Note that numbers are limited.

Pawsey Supercomputing and Cloud Resources Training
2020-03-11 - 2020-03-12 | Hemsley Learning Suite, Reid Library, UWA
This training introduces Pawsey supercomputing and cloud resources and presents how to use those resources to aid researchers work. Please note each of the sessions is $25
Day 1: Wednesday 11 March 2020
09:00-09:30 Introduction to Pawsey
This session is free and outlines the services that Pawsey Supercomputing Centre provides
09:30-12:00 Introduction to Unix
13:00-16:00 Introduction to supercomputing

Day 2: Thursday 12 March 2020
09:00-12:00 Nimbus research cloud training
13:00-16:00 Remote Visualisation

for more information please contact Luke Edwards at Pawsey Supercomputing

Healthcare Immersive Technologies Symposium
2020-03-06 - 2020-03-07
The 2020 Healthcare Immersive Technologies Symposium has two full days of innovation, research, policy and community. The Symposium is delivered in four half-day sessions, including From Policy to Community, Research Presentations, Inter-Industry Knowledge Transfer and Discussion Panels.
The 2020 Symposium has the following discount options:

If you’re a start-up based in the City of Perth, you’re eligible for a 30% discount
If you’re a student, you’re eligible for a 50% discount
If you’re a researcher, you might be eligible for free access if your affiliated organisation is one of the Symposium Friends

If you’re not a Symposium Friend you’re eligible for a 20% discount

Wise Realities welcomes participation in the 2020 Symposium by persons with lived experience of health issues and disabilities, their family members, carers, and support workers. If you are a person with a disability and want to attend Wise Realities offers a 20 day pass registration (6th March excluding the social event) for people to attend the Symposium.
Email Dr Ali Fardinpour for more information

Click here to read the full program and list of speakers

Click here to register for the Symposium

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Research Showcase 2020
2020-02-27 - 2020-02-28 | South Australian BioMedical Precinct, South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI), North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia, 5000, Australia
Reflections and Future Directions

Join us while we celebrate our progress to date whilst imagining a shared vision for the future of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health research.
What’s the showcase all about? It’s an opportunity to:

Be inspired by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander researcher leaders
Discover current and recent Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health research projects
Learn more about assessing research impact
Network with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander researchers
Share your research findings (through a presentation or poster)

Abstracts submission closes December 1. Submit here
Pre-conference workshop for IRNet members 12-5pm, February 26, 2020.
This is a free event but registrations are essential and places are limited. Registrations close February 7, 2020.
Any queries please contact Wardliparingga.

For those who do not live in Adelaide we recommend booking your accommodation early as the Adelaide Fringe Festival is on at the same time.

TGA's SME Assist - Meeting Your Obligations
2020-02-25 10:00 - 13:30 | University of New South Wales, High Street, Kensington, New South Wales, 2052, Australia
The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) Small to Medium Enterprise (SME) workshop is aimed at beginners who are unfamiliar with TGA regulation. If you are making therapeutic claims about a product or have a product that is likely to be considered a therapeutic good, this workshop will help you to understand your responsibilities at different stages of the regulation process.
The workshop will cover:

Basics of regulation
Case studies
Q&A with TGA staff
Product focus

Register your interest to view the workshop via live stream or to attend in person (please note this workshop is being held in Sydney)

ACTA Super Webinar
2020-02-11
On Tuesday 11 February 2020 ACTA will hold its biggest webinar to date—the Super Webinar to disseminate and open communication around a document ACTA has created to guide trialists towards optimising their trials for implementation and implementability.
The Super Webinar will be held concurrently at nine live locations in capital cities across Australia and New Zealand. It will be hosted and facilitated at each site by members of ACTA’s Reference Group on the Impact and Implementation of CTN Clinical Trials.
This event will start with a one-hour webinar presentation followed by an hour of peer-to-peer discussion.
This event will be relevant for anyone who is involved with clinical trials, or who has an interest in clinical trials: researchers, clinicians, health service providers, health managers, institution heads etc.
Register for this event

Establishing an Australian Rural Health and Medical Research Network - is there a role for Western Australia in the Spinifex Network
2020-02-03 | McCusker Auditorium, Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, North Building, 6 Verdun Street, Nedlands, Western Australia, 6009, Australia
Are you interested in:

intra and intersectoral, collaboration for research for rural and remote communities?
better health service models and research translation for rural Australia?
improving WA’s research performance?

Guest speaker, Professor Christine Jorm is developing a new Australian Alliance for Rural Medical Research (promoters are NSW Regional Health Partners and University of New England). The bid to MRFF proposes significant funding for research in rural health through support for a network of rural researchers with research priorities around access to healthcare and sustainable rural communities.
For more information about this presentation please view the flyer.

Launching Lifeblood Microbiome
2019-12-11 16:00 - 17:30 | Seminar Room G24, Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research (North), Ground Floor, Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, 6 Verdun Street, Nedlands, WA, 6000, Australia
Faecal microbiota transplants to empower Australian research.
Australian Red Cross Lifeblood, formerly the Australian Red Cross Blood Service, is launching an exciting new pilot program in 2020 to supply stool aliquots to Fiona Stanley Hospital for faecal microbiota transplants (FMT) and for the Australian research community.
Learn about the program and join a workshop to identify potential research projects exploring FMT as an effective treatment for novel indications.
There will be a 30 minute presentation followed by a 30 minuted interactive Research Potential Workshop. Drinks, nibbles and networking will follow.

This event is free but RSVPs are essential. Please RSVP to WAHTN by 4pm, Friday December 6.

RIGG Symposium - Climate Change and Future Child Health
2019-12-04 08:30 - 13:00 | McCusker Auditorium, Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, North Building, 6 Verdun Street, Nedlands, Western Australia, 6009, Australia
The UWA Research Income Growth Grant (RIGG) Symposium on Climate Change and Future Child Health will examine the effects of climate change, environmental degradation and population dynamics on the health of future children. Given that children are estimated to bear 80-90% of the burden of ill-health caused by climate change, this issue is now one of the greatest problems facing the future of our species on the planet.
This Symposium will examine:

The future climate and environment impacts most likely to affect children
The likely consequences for their health
The striking paucity of research which examines the scale of these effects over the next 10 to 50 years
Why there’s an urgent need for this research
How this research can be used to help ensure the health children in the future

This event is free and open to all researchers, scientists, clinicians, students, research funders and health providers interested in climate change and future child health. Registrations are essential – please email Prof Peter Le Souëf by COB Wednesday 27 November 2019 to secure your place.

Program:
0900-1030: Climate change and an increasingly hostile environment
0900: Brief welcome address – Carmen Lawrence
0900-0915: Climate change, geospatial mapping and human ecology – Corey Bradshaw
0915-0930: Climate change and the environment – global and local – Jatin Kala
0930-0945: Climate change and air quality – current and future – Alex Larcombe
0945-1010: Geospatial analyses of future infectious diseases in children – Peter Gething
1000-1030: Forum discussion – climate change and the environment
1030-1100: Coffee break
1100-1230: Future child health: why climate change is important
1100-1115: Future child health in low-income countries – Quique Bassat
1115-1130: Climate change and eco-anxieties in young people – Petra Tscharkert
1130-1145: The Lancet Commission and global child health – Peter Sly
1145-1200: Future child health in Australia and Western Australia – Peter Le Souëf
1200-1230: Forum discussion – climate change and future child health
1230-1300: Light lunch

Speakers (expertise in brackets):
Prof Corey Bradshaw – ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage; Global Ecology, College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University (global ecology, statistical modelling)
Dr Jatin Kala – ARCH Discovery Early Career Research Award fellow, IPCC Coordinating Lead Author (CLA), Murdoch University (climate change and the environment)
Dr Alex Larcombe – Telethon Kids Institute (health effects of air pollution)
Prof Quique Bassat – University of Barcelona, Spain; Health Research Centre, Manhiça, Mozambique (child health in developing countries)
Prof Peter Gething – Telethon Kids Institute (geospatial mapping of infectious diseases)
Prof Petra Tschakert – Faculty of Science, UWA School of Agriculutre and Environment, CLA of IPPC Chapter 5, Special Report on 1.5C Global Warming (human-environment interactions)
Prof Peter Sly – Director, Children’s Health and Environment Program; Director, WHO Collaborating Centre for Children’s Health & Environment, University of Queensland (climate change & child health, respiratory health in children)
Prof Peter Le Souëf – School of Medicine, UWA (respiratory and global child health)

Bayesian Adaptive Trials Workshops
2019-12-04 - 2019-12-05 | Telethon Kids Institute, 15 Hospital Avenue, Nedlands
Adaptive Health Intelligence are pleased to announce that a Bayesian adaptive trials workshop series will be held in Perth, 4-5 December 2019 to help researchers and statisticians gain knowledge and practical skills to design these types of trials. These workshops will be run by Bayesian clinical trial experts Ben Saville, PhD and Anna McGlothlin, PhD from Berry Consultants (Texas, USA) and Mark Jones and Julie Marsh, PhD from Adaptive Health Intelligence, Telethon Kids Institute (Perth, AUS).
For more information or to register for the workshops please click here.

Palliative Care Consumer World Cafe
2019-12-03 09:00 - 11:00 | Australian Institute of Management, 76 Birkdale Street, Floreat
The WA Department of Health invites you to join their Palliative Care Consumer World Cafe. Share your ideas and preferences around what a good palliative care journey would look like. Light refreshments and a small payment will be provided.
Register by 5pm, 29 November 2019 by emailing Christina Turco on Christina.Turco@health.wa.gov.au
See flyer

Technology in Research: South Metropolitan Health Service Research Showcase 2019
2019-11-28 | Fiona Stanley Hospital
The South Metropolitan Health Service (SMHS) is holding a full day Research Showcase on Thursday 28 November, 2019. The day will feature a number of events including a:

CSIRO Breakfast Research Forum: Research Potential of Emerging Technologies,
SMHS Innovation Presentation: Kaartdijin: Big Dreaming – What is it all about?,
Podium Presentations,
Consumers in Research,
Technology Expo,
Novice Investigator: Three Minute Project Competition,
Closing Ceremony and Awards Presentation, and
Harry Perkins Institute Networking Session.

For full details about each of these events please view the SMHS flyer.

Research Priority Mapping Workshop: Neurological Conditions
2019-11-27 09:00 - 14:30 | Perth Zoo, 20 Labouchere Road, South Perth, WA, 6151, Australia
You’re invited to participate in a Research Priority Mapping Workshop aimed at gaining an understanding of the issues which face individuals living with a neurological disorder and potential avenues for future research.
At the Workshop, the research team will present an overview of the research program, followed by group discussions, sharing and brainstorming ideas about the main issues impacting on the quality of life people and potential targets for future research to improve the quality of life of individuals living with neurological conditions.
Individuals with a neurological condition, family members or carers of a person living with a neurological condition are invited to attend.
Please note, this consumer consultation is the initial phase of a larger research program and as such the discussions and outcomes from the day may be used as research data.
For more information please email the CCHRN Team or call 6151 1071.
RSVPs are essential and close Wednesday November 20.

Telethon Kids Innovation Forum: Target validation in the drug discovery process
2019-11-25 12:00 - 13:00 | Telethon Kids Institute Seminar Room, Level 5, Perth Children’s Hospital
This talk is a unique opportunity to hear from Professor Roberto Solari about the process of commercial drug discovery. It will cover the basic techniques of target discovery and validation and how new technologies have influenced productivity in Pharma.
Roberto Solari is a research biologist and is a Visiting Professor at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London and also acts as an advisor to Brandon Capital Partners. Prior to this Roberto was Vice President in GSK’s Respiratory Therapy Area based in Stevenage in the UK where his role covered drug discovery from target identification through to proof of concept studies in man. Roberto joined Glaxo in 1986 after two post-docs at the Institut de Biochimie, Universite de Lausanne and at Liverpool University. Roberto has a BSc and PhD in Physiology and Cell Biology from Nottingham University. He is currently CEO of a new spinout company from Imperial College and the Francis Crick Institute called Myricx Pharma.
A light lunch will be provided from 11.45am. Please RSVP to this event by emailing Ashley Schoof at Ashley.Schoof@telethonkids.org.au
We will be live streaming this Innovation Forum. If you are interested in attending via LiveStream please clink this link and enter the following password: [REDACTED]

Australian National Phenome Centre: Talk and Q&A with Professor Jeremy Nicholson
2019-11-11 16:00 - 18:00 | McCusker Auditorium, Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, North Building, 6 Verdun Street, Nedlands, Western Australia, 6009, Australia
WAHTN will host a talk and short Q and A on the newly established Australian National Phenome Centre (ANPC). The talk titled, Clinical and population phenomic approaches to augment clinical actionability and preventive medicine strategies, will be presented by Professor Jeremy Nicholson (Director of the Australian National Phenome Centre, Pro Vice Chancellor for Health Science and Director of the Health Futures Institute at Murdoch University) and colleagues.
The establishment of the ANPC is a very exciting and significant development for WA research, led by Murdoch University. Through the use of sophisticated biological analysis technology, the ANPC will enable researchers to examine the complex interaction and influence of genes, the environment and lifestyle on human and animal health. This talk will focus on the technical side of what can be achieved with the ANPC and invite those in related fields to explore potential research collaborations.
Places are limited so please register your interest as soon as possible by emailing Koshala at koshala.shanmugakumar@uwa.edu.au.

Accelerating Child Health Research: A Systems Biology Symposium
2019-11-11 - 2019-11-13 | Perth Children’s Hospital, 15 Hospital Avenue, Nedlands, 6009, Australia
Please save the date for the Accelerating Child Health Research: A Systems Biology Symposium co-hosted by the Respiratory Research Centre and the Centre for Personalised Medicine for Children.
The key themes for this symposium include:

Precision health,
Multi-omics applications,
Systems epidemiology and
Date integration and visualisation.

Abstract submissions are open now. Please submit your abstract to respiratory.research.centre@telethonkids.org.au
Further details about the event and abstract submissions can be found in the symposium flyer.

Proton Radiotherapy Seminar
2019-11-07 17:45 - 20:30
The Cancer Council WA and Western Australian Clinical Oncology Group invite you to attend their Proton Radiotherapy Education Event.
The event will be chaired by Dr Martin Ebert, Director of Physics Research, Department of Radiation Oncology, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital.
Visiting speakers include:

Dr Scott Penfold- Principal Physicist, Bragg Centre, SA;
Dr Hien Le – Radiation Oncologist, Royal Adelaide Hospital, SA;
Dr Peter Gorayski – Radiation Oncologist, Royal Adelaide Hospital, SA and
Prof Thomas Bortfeld – Massachusetts General Hospital, USA.

Registrations are essential as places are limited.
Please see the flyer for further event information and to register your place.

Workshop 2: Designing Pragmatic RCTs, Day 3
2019-11-07 09:00 - 16:00
This workshop is fully booked. If you would like to be put onto the waiting list, please email info@wahtn.org

Topics: Ethics in Pragmatic Trials; Pragmatic Randomised Controlled Trials Complete Protocol exercise
The WAHTN and UWA School of Population and Global Health are proud to host Professor Merrick Zwarenstein (Department of Family Medicine, Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Western University, Ontario; see profile here ) in Perth in early-November 2019 as part of the WAHTN’s Distinguished Visiting Professor Program.
Merrick is an internationally-renowned primary care and health services researcher who trained at the Karolinska Institute (Sweden), the London School of Hygiene (UK) and Witwatersrand University Medical School (South Africa). He is recognised as one of the foremost international experts in the area of pragmatic randomised controlled trial design.
Course fees are heavily subsidised (by 70%) by the WAHTN and UWA School of Population and Global Health and specific details are available in the attached flyer.
Register at: http://trybooking.com/BETSA – Please note that places are limited
