Western Australian Health Translation Network

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 (Asia/Shanghai) | 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

Workshop 2: Designing Pragmatic RCTs, Day 2
2019-11-06 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: Randomisation & Sample Size; Data Collection, Analysis & Interpretation Collecting data, understanding it and interpreting results – Primary, Secondary and Post-hoc Analyses
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)

Workshop 2: Designing Pragmatic RCTs, Day 1
2019-11-05 09:00 - 16:00 | 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
This workshop is fully booked. If you would like to be put onto the waiting list, please email info@wahtn.org

Topics: Introduction; The Research Question; Overview of evaluative research designs; Rationale for undertaking a Pragmatic RCT – internal and external validity
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

Pragmatic Randomised Trials Workshop 1 : Introduction to Pragmatic Randomised Trials and the PRECIS 2 Tool
2019-11-04 09:00 - 13:00
Places are still available for this workshop.
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

Research Skills Seminar: Grant Applications and Finding Funding
2019-11-01 12:30 - 13:30 | Perth Children’s Hospital, 15 Hospital Avenue, Nedlands, 6009, Australia
Are you interested in turning your research idea into a well prepared grant application?
With funding rounds always around the corner, it is never too late to spend an hour looking at strategies for putting together a high quality grant application. This seminar will provide practical tips on writing applications, grant review processes, and responding to review comments.
For more information about this event and to reserve your place, please click here.

WACRA Symposium Day
2019-10-28 08:00 - 17:00 | McCusker Auditorium, Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, North Building, 6 Verdun Street, Nedlands, Western Australia, 6009, Australia
You’re invited to a WACRA Symposium Day with invited international guest Professor Cathy Shanahan (King’s College London, UK) and key WA Cardiovascular researchers.
Professor Cathy Shanahan was educated in Australian and obtained a PhD in Genetics from the University of Adelaide. She began research in the field of cardiovascular medicine in the Biochemistry Department at the University of Cambridge, UK. From 1995-2004, she was a British Heart Foundation Lecturer and in 2005 became a BHF Senior Fellow in the Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge. In 2007 she left Cambridge to take up the Chair of Cellular Signalling in the School of Cardiovascular Medicine and Sciences at King’s College London. She is currently Theme Lead for Vascular Biology and Vice-Dean of Development, Diversity and Inclusion for the Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine.
This free event also includes Workshop and Q&A session on Collaborative Opportunities (The University of Edinburgh), a Sundowner and Networking session from 5pm. There is lunch and catered breaks
Registrations are essential. Book your place by 21 October here
Download the WACRA Symposium Flyer 2019

Introduction to Data Linkage workshop
2019-10-25 09:30 - 16:30
Curtin University’s Centre for Data Linkage is running a short 1 day introductory workshop on Data Linkage. This is an introductory course that will expose participants to some of the technical aspects of data linkage, including:

Different methodologies of linkage (deterministic, probabilistic, SLK),
Different grouping strategies,
Errors in data linkage (types & how to measure them),
“Wicked problems” in linkage, and
Emerging methods (privacy-preserving linkage).

The workshop assumes no prior knowledge of the subject matter.
Please contact Associate Professor Anna Ferrante on 9266 9455 or a.ferrante@curtin.edu.au if you would like to know more about this workshop or to register. Please note that places are limited and registration is essential.

Clinical Trial and Data Management Centre (CTDMC) : Need help with Clinical Research?
2019-10-22 09:30 - 13:30, 2019-08-20 09:30 - 13:30 | SR 612, Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research Institute, Nedlands
The WAHTN are offering a Clinical Research Support Service for anyone currently involved in or interested in conducting clinical research in Western Australia.
This service is provided by the Clinical Trial and Data Management Centre (CTDMC) who will be visiting WAHTN member partners.
Please click here for flyer

Lions Eye Institute Research Week
2019-10-22 - 2019-10-26
The Lions Eye Institute (LEI) will share important developments in research into vision loss and blindness during the inaugural LEI Research Week.
LEI Research Week will comprise a series of free events, including:

Eye health and research lectures for the community: McCusker Auditorium, Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, 6 Verdun St Nedlands, 10am – 4pm, Tuesday 22nd October.
The Ian Constable Lecture: University Club UWA, 7pm – 8pm, Thursday 24th October.
Sensory Science – An LEI Exhibition to Stimulate the Senses: IQX UWA, 8 Broadway, Crawley, 11am – 3pm, Saturday 26th October.

Visit the LEI website for further information about each event and to book your place.
All events are free, however, booking is essential.

Who you gonna call? How to navigate the WA start-up ecosystem
2019-10-21 17:30 - 18:30 | CERI – Centre for Entrepreneurial Research and Innovation, Level 1, 22 Stirling Highway,, Nedlands, WA, 6009, Australia
Founders need help to grow their venture yet are, by definition, short on time and money to get that assistance. WA has a vibrant, generous and well-connected ecosystem of supporters, funding and resources. However, it’s not documented anywhere and navigating it is not intuitive.
This introductory workshop will share both the ‘map’ of who’s who, and how to efficiently access what you need. This session will be most relevant to founders still defining their products, services and searching for their fit in the market.

Presented by Andrew Outhwaite who has co-founded two ventures foundational to the WA ecosystem, chaired StartupWA and worked with more than 100 incubators on behalf of the Australian Government.

Research Week 2019
2019-10-21 - 2019-10-25 | Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Hospital Avenue, Nedlands, WA, 6009, Australia
Join your colleagues from the North Metropolitan Health Service Provider in a week long celebration of research!
Download the Research Week 2019 – Timetable

Free online summit on research translation
2019-10-21 - 2019-10-22
The 2019 Research Impact Summit features over 20 speaker sessions led by knowledge translation and research impact experts, researchers, proven practitioners and influencers from government, policy and business. The Summit consists of content across the themes of: Translation, Implementation Science, Collaboration & Engagement, Dissemination, and Research Impact. The summit is for researchers, research support and administrators, research funders and anyone wanting to learn more about research impact.
For more information or to register for this event, please click here.

WA BioInnovation Symposium 2019
2019-10-17 - 2019-10-18 | Ernst & Young Building, 11 Mounts Bay Rd, Perth
The WA BioInnovation Symposium will provide industry and investors with intimate access to promising WA life sciences research projects nearing translation and provide entrepreneurs, clinicians and researchers the chance to receive vital feedback and learn about industry sector requirements.

Hear about the latest WA biotech and healthcare investment and partnering opportunities,
Learn about WA’s R&D and research translation capabilities,
Network with pharma and medtech companies and investors,
Attendees will have many opportunities to network with the entire Medtech and Pharmaceutical ecosystem.

Places are limited. Find out more and register here.

What can Genes tell us about Dementia and Alzheimer's disease Community Conversation
2019-10-15 18:00 - 20:30 | Wembley Community Centre, 40 Alexander Street, Wembley, WA, 6014, Australia
Are you related to someone with a dementia disease or Alzheimer’s? Do you have an interest as to how your genetics and lifestyle impacts and interacts with the possibility of developing a dementia related disease? Would you like to know more about the link between genes and dementia? Researchers from Edith Cowan University would like to speak to community members to discuss how they can design better communications methods, how to increase community involvement in their research, and what would motivate people to make lifestyle changes which may decrease community members risk of becoming unwell.

Researchers would like to speak with people from diverse ages and backgrounds, including:

People who have a lived experience of dementia, or are a friend, or carer of someone with dementia
Young people who have grandparents or other older family members with dementia or Alzheimer’s
People who have little or no experience or knowledge of dementia or Alzheimer’s disease
Older healthy people
People who would like to know more about what your genes can tell you about dementia and Alzheimer’s disease

Register now

Australian Rotary Health WA Mental Health Week Breakfast
2019-10-09 07:00 - 08:30 | UWA Club, Hackett Drive, Crawley
Australian Rotary Health (ARH) are holding a breakfast during Mental Health Week in recognition of World Mental Health Day.
The Auditor General, Ms Carolyn Spencer, will be addressing her recent report on access to state mental health services in WA.
The event is a networking opportunity for researchers, practitioners and others in WA working in the area of mental health. ARH hope to start conversations that help identify research opportunities and priorities and spark potential collaborations to progress understanding of and solutions to mental health issues, in academia, business and the professions, as well as possibly build new relationships with community support groups.
The UWA club have very generously agreed that all proceeds will go to Australian Rotary Health. To book your ticket, please click here.

2019 AADDM Conference
2019-10-03 13:00 - 2019-10-04 17:00 | Perth Children’s Hospital, 15 Hospital Avenue, Nedlands, 6009, Australia
The Australian Association of Developmental Disability Medicine (AADDM) Conference will be held on 3 – 4 October 2019 at the Telethon Kids Institute at Perth Children’s Hospital.
This national conference will be of particular interest to clinicians, allied health workers and researchers who specialise or have an interest in improving the health and function of over 500,000 Australian children, adolescents and adults with intellectual disability.
The exciting and varied program will cover a wide range of topics including autism, preterm birth, FASD, rare diseases, quality of life and data linkage.
Register your attendance or submit an abstract

ACTA International Clinical Trials Conference
2019-10-02 - 2019-10-05 | ICC Sydney, 14 Darling Drive, Sydney, NSW, 2000, Australia
The Australian Clinical Trials Alliance (ACTA) International Clinical Trials Conference will cover every facet of clinical trials from governance to consumer engagement. Whether you’re from industry, government, academia or anything in between make sure you register for the opportunity to engage with international and national experts.

Confirmed International Speakers:

Derek C. Angus
Barbara Bierer M.D.
Simon Denegri OBE
Neena Modi
Richard Pazdur
Stuart Spencer
Pamela Tenaerts

National Drug Discovery Centre information session
2019-09-25 14:00 - 16:00
The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute has expanded its early stage drug discovery capacity to create the National Drug Discovery Centre (NDDC). Thanks to generous investments from the Australian and Victorian Government and leveraging the Institute’s own contribution and philanthropic gifts, the Centre will increase medical researchers’ access to advanced robotic high-throughput screening, addressing a critical early challenge in the drug discovery pipeline.
The NDDC invites applications from researchers around Australia to fast-track their scientific breakthroughs into new medicines to treat disease. Successful applicants will benefit from accessing the latest technologies and a fully staffed team at a highly subsidised rate (at 90 per cent off actual costs).
Find out more about the NDDC and how to apply for subsidised screens at this information session with senior team members; Jeff Mitchell, Acting Manager of the NDDC and Kym Lowes, Deputy Head of Screening.
Registration is essential

TGA SME Assist & WAHTN : Meeting Your Obligations workshop
2019-09-25 09:00 - 12:30 | The Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, Nedlands
Therapeutic Goods Administration’s (TGA) SME Assist in partnership with WAHTN is holding a ‘Meeting Your Obligations’ workshop in Perth on 25 September 2019.
This is a free workshop aimed at beginners who are unfamiliar with therapeutic goods regulation. This may include:

small to medium enterprises (SMEs),
start-ups, and
researchers.

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 understand your responsibilities at different stages of the regulation process.
For more information, please visit the TGA website and register your interest if you wish to attend.

WAHTN Clinical Trial Forum
2019-09-19 17:00 | Fiona Stanley Hospital, Lecture Theatre G.3,Education Building, Fiona Stanley Hospital,Murdoch, WA 6961
The next WAHTN Clinical Trial Forum will introduce Professor Toby Richards who has recently moved from UCL to take up the Lawrence-Brown Professor of Vascular Surgery at the University of Western Australia. Professor Richards will be speaking on Student Networks – How to develop international audits incorporating 10,000 patients in 2 weeks.
For more information about the forum or to register, click here.

Commonwealth Data Sharing and Release Legislation roundtables
2019-09-16 | The Durack Centre, 263 Adelaide Terrace, Perth, WA, 6000
A Discussion Paper on the Data Sharing and Release (DS&R) legislation is now open for public comment until Tuesday 15 October 2019. The Office of the National Data Commissioner is hosting a roundtable series during September and October 2019 on the Discussion Paper. You can find out more and make a submission through the website.
Each session will go for two hours and seek your views on:

The purposes for sharing data, including data sharing for commercial purposes.
The Data Sharing Principles and risk management, including privacy risks and consent.
Guidance materials, including the Best Practice Guide to Applying Data Sharing Principles.
How the DS&R Framework could work for different users in practice.
The role of the National Data Commissioner.
Accreditation principles and criteria.
Higher standards of protections for sensitive data.
Adequacy of proposed transparency and accountability mechanisms.
Methods for dealing with complaints, redress options and review rights.
Enforcement and penalties.

For more information and to register for a roundtable in your state, please visit the website.
If your preferred roundtable session is booked out, please add yourself to the waitlist for that session. The waitlisted participants will be contacted if places become available.
A webinar will be held for those who are unable to meet face to face, where your pre-submitted questions can be answered by the panel. More information about this session will become available soon.
Written submissions on the Discussion Paper are also welcome. These can be lodged through the website.

Autism Training for the WA Health Sector
2019-09-03 - 2019-10-24
The Autism Association of Western Australia is partnering with the WA Health Sector and has developed training packages and resources to increase Autism awareness within the health sector.
The ultimate aim of this initiative is to improve access to health care and the health outcomes for individuals with Autism, in line with the WA Disability Health Framework 2015-2025, and the National Disability Insurance Scheme.
This event will be held at numerous locations around WA over two months. Please click here for more information and to RSVP to the event nearest to you.

Spinnaker Community Forum - Fremantle Diabetes Study
2019-08-29 18:00 - 20:00 | Fremantle Library, 70 Parry Street, Fremantle
Spinnaker Health Research Foundation has the privilege of hosting a community forum to share outcomes of the significant Fremantle Diabetes Study, commenced 1993.
Keynote speaker: Professor Timothy Davis, Chief Investigator of Phase I & II, Fremantle Diabetes Study
Prof Davis, Fremantle Diabetes Study lead since 1993, will be joined by medical practitioners and study participants to share outcomes of the study, improvements in patient care and the overall health impacts for the community.
“We started the Fremantle Diabetes Study in 1993 to better understand how to diagnose and manage the disease, but also to understand what the risks are for complications and how we can improve the overall wellbeing of people with diabetes.
Now, after more than 25 years and with the involvement of over 3,000 participants from the Fremantle community, we know so much more. Importantly, so does the rest of the world”
– Professor Tim Davis, Chief Investigator, Fremantle Diabetes Study
Places are limited so please let us know via the link below if you would like to attend.
RSVP: YES
For further enquiries, please email:
Dani Ryder, Development Officer at dani.ryder@health.wa.gov.au or call 6152 6278.
