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June 2013
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Saturday 08 |
8:00 - EVENT - DIABETES SEMINAR : Multidisciplinary CPD seminar - Diabetes: Priorities, targets & the annual cycle of care
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UWA CPD Health presents a Multidisciplinary CPD seminar on Saturday June 8th 2013.
In association with the Diabetes and Endocrine Health Network and Diabetes WA, UWA CPD Health is presenting a unique education seminar on Diabetes: Priorities, targets & the annual cycle of care.
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Monday 24 |
9:00 - COURSE - Food and Nutrition in Population Health : Winter School - 5 day intensive unit
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This five-day 6 point unit introduces the principles of essential human nutrition with applications to public health.
This unit will provide students with a basic introduction to food and nutrition as well as applications to public health. Applied topics include nutrition for different life stages; (...)
12:00 - SEMINAR - Medical Research Seminar : "New approaches to prevent airway inflammation in early CF lung disease – from mummies to MetaGex"
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LIWA invites you to a free seminar on: "New approaches to prevent airway inflammation in early CF lung disease – from mummies to MetaGex" by Clin/Prof Stephen Stick, Head, Department of Respiratory Medicine,
Princess Margaret Hospital for Children;
School of Paediatrics and Child Health (...)
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Tuesday 25 |
The aim of this course is to introduce you to basic statistics. It will cover descriptive statistics (means and standard deviations); data exploration; basic categorical data analysis; simple linear regression and basic analysis of variance (ANOVA).
The course is subsidised for UWA (...)
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Wednesday 26 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - The socioeconomic pattern of Aboriginal health: the evidence and consequences
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Carrington Shepherd is a senior analyst at the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research in Perth, with qualifications in economics and statistics (BEc) and health sciences (PhD). His research focuses on the wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, and the use of (...)
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Friday 28 |
9:00 - SYMPOSIUM - A Life Worth Hearing : 3rd Annual Symposium on ear and hearing research
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This is the 3rd Annual Symposium highlighting research in ear and hearing.
The keynote speakers have a high international profile. Dr Wayne Wilson (UQ) will be speaking about (Central) Auditory Processing Disorder, and Dr De Wet Swanepoel will be speaking on mHealth.
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July 2013
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Monday 01 |
9:00 - EVENT - Masterclass: Research with Impact : Planning a pathway to impact for your research
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This masterclass for doctoral and early career doctoral researchers will focus on the development of plans for achieving research impact through collaborations and the two-way exchange of knowledge between the university and a range of external stakeholders.
9:50 - COURSE - Epidemiology and Control of Communicable Diseases : Winter School - 5 day intensive unit
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Our Epidemiology and Control of Communicable Diseases unit is designed to allow students to understand the principles of infectious disease emergence and transmission using current cases and examples.
The unit reviews the traditional tools of outbreak and epidemic investigation, combined (...)
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Tuesday 02 |
The course is designed for those who have no experience with R, but have a basic understanding of statistics. Those without this experience are encouraged to attend the Introductory Statistics course first.
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Thursday 04 |
8:30 - SYMPOSIUM - Translational Research Symposium on Skeletal Health
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Skeletal Health is one of the key initiatives in health care. More than 30% of patients admitted to hospital are for skeletal health related issues including osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, trauma and other degenerative diseases.
This one day symposium brings together a wide range of (...)
This course covers material ranging from Kaplan Meier curves to the analysis of censored data and Cox's proportional hazards models.
Participants must bring their own laptop with R installed.
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Tuesday 16 |
9:00 - COURSE - ANOVA, Linear Regression and Logistic Regression : A Short Course using SPSS
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This course covers techniques that can be used to analyse data with continuous and categorical variables. The course will begin with simple linear regression and then proceed with approaches that can be used with more than two variables such as multiple regression. ANOVA with interactions and (...)
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Monday 22 |
12:00 - SEMINAR - Medical Research Seminar Series : "Understanding childhood susceptibility to otitis media: genetic and environmental risk factors"
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LIWA invites you to a free seminar on: "Understanding childhood susceptibility to otitis media: genetic and environmental risk factors" by Dr Sarra Jamieson,
Genetics and Health Division, Telethon Institute for Child Health Research. A light lunch will be served from 12.00pm with a 12.30p (...)
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Friday 26 |
14:00 - ORATION - Three Minute Thesis Competition Final : An 80,000 word thesis would take 9 hours to present - their time 3 minutes!
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The task for the 10 finalists is to give an engaging talk on their PhD topic and it's significance in language that everyone can understand - in just 3 minutes. The audience will vote for its People's Choice.
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August 2013
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Friday 02 |
13:00 - SYMPOSIUM - HERE&NOW13 Disability and the Arts Symposium : Enabling people with disability access to, and involvement in the arts
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As part of the HERE&NOW13 exhibition program, the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery is hosting the 'Disability and the Arts' Symposium on 2nd and 3rd of August.
This two-day symposium brings together a range of Western Australian organisations to discuss the importance of enabling people (...)
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Monday 05 |
19:00 - PUBLIC TALK - 2013 Election Climate Forum : Fiona Stanley, AC chairs forum with representatives from the ALP, LNP and Greens.
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This event is free, but please RSVP at www.climateforum.eventbrite.com as places are limited!
Panelists for the evening are:
Alannah MACTIERNAN, Labor Candidate for Perth
Dennis JENSEN, Liberal MP for Tangney
Scott LUDLAM, Greens Senator for WA
Entry by donation to cover costs.
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Sunday 11 |
10:00 - OPEN DAY - 2013 Open Day : Join us for our Centenary Open Day and experience all that UWA has to offer
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Come and find out about our undergraduate and postgraduate courses, career options, scholarship opportunities, our valuable research, community programs and facilities.
There's also residential college tours, hands-on activities, live music, entertainment, and plenty of fun activities (...)
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Tuesday 13 |
9:00 - COURSE - Clinical Pilates Special for UWA Staff & Affiliates : Individual clinical Pilates assessment plus 2 bonus studio sessions $100
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Specical offer for UWA staff and affiliates! Individual clinical Pilates assessment plus 2 studio sessions for only $100.
All sessions conducted by an accredited Exercise Physiologist and can be tailored to suits any individual.
Session bookings are subject to appointment (...)
13:00 - EVENT - CARE Tales from Peru : Assessing the relationship between attentional control and attentional bias in trait anxiety.
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Speaker: Patrick Clarke
Title: Examining the Functional Role of the Prefrontal Cortex in Attentional Bias Acquisition: Evidence from tDCS
Biased attention to threatening information is consistently implicated in the development and maintenance of anxiety pathology (...)
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Monday 19 |
Professor Daniel Galvão is a Research scientist in exercise oncology and the Director of the Edith Cowan University Health and Wellness Institute, Perth, Western Australia. His work has facilitated the use of exercise as an important strategy to mitigate treatment side effects and improve (...)
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