What's On at UWA

Prof Chen Shengwen will give a brief introduction to the Nanshan Hospital and its department of respiratory medicine. He will present a range of challenging cases his department has dealt with and discuss respiratory medicine practice in China today. There will be the opportunity for questions (...)

Join WA Premier’s Research Fellow, Winthrop Professor Shaun Collin, as he focuses on the vision of species of fish which inhabit the diverse Australian marine ecosystems. Shaun talks about the vital importance of light detection to the survival of any living organism. Highlighting 2010 as the (...)

Prof Constable is recognised as one of the world’s leading ophthalmic surgeons and is founder of the Lions Eye Institute. He is a consultant retinal surgeon at Royal Perth, Sir Charles Gairdner and Princess Margaret Hospitals.

Prof Constable was awarded the Chancellor’s Medal from UWA (...)

Michael Grzelak

"Evaluation of nano-particle based delivery of curcumin into skeletal muscle cells" Supervisors: Dr Tony Bakker, Dr Gavin Pinniger, Prof Colin Raston

Shresta Lobind

"Rubidium86 turnover as a method to measure field metabolic rate; is (...)

Expert panel of guest presenters from various health disciplines discussing healthy lifestyle and cancer. Topics including exercise, complementary therapies, nutrition and patient support services. Take home information available from various support groups, and information provided on current (...)

Gain useful insight into the ARC Linkage Projects scheme and Commercialistation.

The speakers will discuss: 1) Support available at UWA when applying for Linkage; 2) IP Commercialisation via different routes such as licensing, spin-outs, and research contracts; 3) Their personal (...)

Presented by the Statistical Society of Australia, W.A. Branch, this talk will provide some examples of how this accountability works in identifying hospitals, departments and individual doctors who are not performing as expected. The media have provided extensive coverage of the problems for (...)

Medical School Graduating Class of 1990/ People who started UWA medical school in 1985. Keep This Date Free!

Want to relive the carefree 1980s for a night? Want to find out what's happened to your medical school mates for the last 20 years? When: Sat 13th November 2010 Venue: UWA (...)

Following the enormous advances in the understanding of health and disease that marked the closing decades of the 20th century and continue unabated today, our capacity to deal with scientific (and social) complexity may determine the future of the medical sciences and, perhaps, our species through (...)

This 5-day fulltime, 6 point unit focuses on the application of epidemiologic research principles to questions relating to clinical diagnosis, prognosis and the efficacy of therapeutic interventions.

Unit outline This five-day unit considers: * design, conduct and analysis of (...)

School of Population Health, The University of Western Australia, in collaboration with Health Information Research Unit, School of Medicine, Swansea University, Wales is proud to present this "Information Governance and Data Linkage" workshop.

This is an intensive two-day (...)

This is an intensive five-day six-point unit on the theory and practice of analysis of large sets of linked administrative health data at an introductory to intermediate level.

Rapid growth in data linkage projects has led to a shortfall in analyst skills.

Some researchers (...)

In 2009, Dr Stevens was seconded to the Department of Corrective Services by the Director General of Health to undertake a review of the Prison Health Service. This Service sits within the DCS and provides clinical care to a population of around 5,000 prisoners located in 15 adult prisons and two (...)

Professor Noppen’s leadership and strategic vision for the University Hospital in Brussels and his interest in the provision of quality public healthcare will bring a European perspective on these aspects for Australian healthcare providers and underpins his lecture.

This lecture is (...)

Economic evaluation has been identified as a key research priority by the World Health Organization.

It is already a mandatory requirement for the introduction of new technologies in some areas, such as the listing of new drugs on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.

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SBGN is an ongoing international collaboration to provide standard graphical/visual representations of biochemical and cellular processes in an unambiguous way. SBGN has three types notation: process description, entity relationship, and activity flow. The standard defines a comprehensive set of (...)

This is an intensive five-day six-point unit on the theory and practice of analysis of large sets of linked administrative health data at an intermediate to advanced level.

Unit outline: Advanced principles of health care epidemiology are combined with hands-on practical exercises in the (...)

The National Youth Science Forum is a two weeks in January program of events for students about to enter Year 12 and who are considering going on to a tertiary education in the sciences. The Forum is run in three sessions: two in Canberra and one in Perth.

Selection of participants for (...)

Dr Sheree Smith is an academic from the discipline of nursing who has received a number of national and international research awards. Dr Smith is currently leading research capability development through an initiative with the respiratory and critical care nurses of the European Respiratory (...)

Dr C. Donald Combs, Ph.D., Vice Provost for Planning and Health Professions at Eastern Virginia Medical School is visiting Perth from the U.S. Dr Combs oversees a medical simulation program and is responsible for the development of EVMS's new simulation center which will open in the summer of 2011 (...)