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CANCELLED - SEMINAR: �The Centre for Clinical Research In Emergency Medicine: Investigating the mechanisms of human anaphylaxis�

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Due to unforeseen circumstances this seminar has been cancelled.

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Professor Simon Brown has comprehensive specialist clinical training in Emergency Medicine (FACEM) with additional experience in the fields of anaesthesia, critical care, prehospital care, retrieval medicine, disaster medicine and health management, combined with a PhD in immunology/allergy and more than a decade of running clinical trials, multicentre studies and multidisciplinary collaborations. Professor Brown’s early research career focussed on the epidemiology and natural history of allergy to the native jack jumper ant (JJA), the principle cause of anaphylaxis in the Hobart region, and developing a venom immunotherapy (VIT). We completed the first-ever double-blind placebo-controlled trial of VIT which was published in The Lancet in 2003. In 2004 Professor Brown took his first academic appointment with the University of Western Australia, based first at Fremantle Hospital then at Royal Perth Hospital from 2008. Professor Brown has been the Head of CCREM since it was established in 2008. Prof Brown was awarded a NHMRC Career Development Fellowship in 2007. Professor Brown is also a member of the Anaphylaxis Working Party of the Australasian Society of Clinical Immunology and Allergy (ASCIA) and is an Emergency Physician at Royal Perth Hospital, and a Consultant to the Royal Hobart Hospital for the Tasmanian VIT Program.

Dr Stone has a PhD (Distinction) from the University of Western Australia (UWA). From 2000-2006, my PhD and early postdoctoral work at the Centre for AIDS Research at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, focused on identifying the underlying immunopathological mechanisms of immune reconstitution in HIV patients receiving antiretroviral therapy. Exacerbations of inflammatory responses to opportunistic pathogens in these patients, called Immune Restoration Diseases (IRD), were a newly identified clinical problem in the treatment of HIV and my work was the first to confirm the release of pro-inflammatory mediators during IRD. In 2007 Dr Stone returned to Australia to work with Professor Simon Brown at the University of Western Australia, initially at Fremantle Hospital. My focus was investigating the mechanisms of anaphylaxis and venom immunotherapy. In 2008, our laboratory expanded and relocated to the Western Australian Institute for Medical Research (WAIMR) at RPH and we have established the Centre for Clinical Research in Emergency Medicine (CCREM) within WAIMR. CCREM integrates laboratory research and clinical trials to improve the early management and outcomes of acute illness and injury, with particular focus on anaphylaxis, sepsis, head trauma and post-cardiac arrest.
Speaker(s) Professor Simon Brown & Dr Shelley Stone
Location WAIMR Seminar Room, Ground Floor, B Block, SCGH, Hospital Ave, Nedlands 6009
Contact Fiona Mackenzie <[email protected]> : 93463838
URL http://www.waimr.uwa.edu.au
Start Wed, 13 Apr 2011 16:00
End Wed, 13 Apr 2011 17:00
Submitted by Fiona Mackenzie <[email protected]>
Last Updated Wed, 13 Apr 2011 09:58
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