March 2013
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Wednesday 27 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - What does smoking and drinking have to do with breastfeeding? An epidemiological study of Australian and Western Australian women
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Dr Giglia will present her research titled 'Alcohol consumption and cigarette smoking of Australian women; changes with pregnancy and lactation'. In March 2009 the recommendations from her research were included in the revised NHMRC; 'Australian Alcohol Guidelines to Reduce Health Risks from Drinking Alcohol'.
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April 2013
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Wednesday 03 |
9:00 - CANCELLED - COURSE - Introduction to statistics : A short course using Microsoft Excel
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Unfortunately this event has been cancelled.
Due to unforeseen circumstances the presenter is no longer available to deliver this course.
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This course aims to provide you with an introduction to the facilities available in MS Excel from a statistical point of view. As well as an introduction to Excel, spreadsheet functions and graphics, it concentrates on performing basic statistical methods, producing charts and tables, and discusses the limitations of Excel when it comes to more complex statistical analysis.
Discount fees are available to UWA Postgraduate Research Students.
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Thursday 04 |
9:00 - VISITING SPEAKER - Unisuper Financial Advice : Unisuper Financial Adviser will be on campus at UWA
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Book your financial advice appointment on campus at the University of Western Australia with a Unisuper Financial Advisor.Whichever type of advice you choose, your first appointment with UniSuper Advice is complimentary. If you wish to proceed, a fixed quote will be provided at the conclusion of the meeting.Contact Unisuper to make an Appointment
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Thursday 18 |
12:00 - SEMINAR - HDR Supervision Series : “Supporting HDR supervision: Lessons from the field”
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This event is open to both new and more seasoned staff who would like to gain a wider perspective on the joys and challenges of supervision from an Education perspective.
Topics include: Supervising at a distance/Supervising international students; and Balancing the fine line between supervision and intervention.
BYO lunch, tea and coffee will be provided.
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Friday 19 |
17:30 - FREE LECTURE - Raine Lecture : Raine Visiting Professor Lecture - Strabismus and other eye motor disorders
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Professor Engle’s research combines clinical, genetic, and molecular biological approaches to the study of strabismus (commonly referred to as 'misaligned eyes' or 'squint') and ocular motor neuron and axon development. As a paediatric neurologist, her research has focused primarily on a set of disorders referred to as the congenital cranial dysinnervation disorders. These are incomitant forms of strabismus in which primary gaze may be aberrant and one or both eyes are unable to move into one or multiple fields of gaze. These disorders can cause significant visual impairment and can be cosmetically disfiguring.
Professor Engle's Lecture will discuss recent advances in causes, genetic diagnosis and treatments for these disorders.
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Monday 22 |
12:00 - SEMINAR - LIWA Medical Research Seminar Series : "Liver progenitor cells: friend or foe"
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LIWA invites you to a free seminar on: "Liver progenitor cells: friend or foe" by Prof George Yeoh, Head, Liver Disease and Carcinogenesis, Centre for Medical Research, UWA
Associate Dean (Research), Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, UWA. A light lunch will be served from 12.00pm with a 12.30pm – 1.30pm presentation.
Jennifer has recently submitted her PhD in epidemiology investigating the role of sleep as a risk factor for breast cancer. She has previously worked with the cancer epidemiology group at the WA Institute for Medical Research on studies of non-melanoma skin cancer, prostate cancer and bowel cancer.
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Friday 26 |
13:00 - SEMINAR - Thesis as a Series of Papers : An outline of UWA rules and advantages and disadvantages of this format
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The Graduate Education Officers will outline the UWA rules on formatting your thesis as a series of papers. The advantages and disadvantages of this format will also be discussed.
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May 2013
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Wednesday 22 |
16:00 - Public Forum - The Deeble Institute � the new national health policy research institute : Connecting health policymakers, practitioners and researchers
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Come and hear the Director of the Deeble Institute, Dr Anne-Marie Boxall, talk about how they can work with individuals and organisations to enhance the development of policy. The Deeble Institute's mission is to support the development of evidence-informed health policy and practice by building stronger partnerships between policymakers, practitioners and researchers. The Institute is keen to talk to you about what they can do and how you can get involved. Based in Canberra, the Deeble Institute is an initiative of the Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association, the national, independent, peak membership body and advocate for the Australian public and not-for-profit healthcare systems. By bringing health services, academics and policymakers together, the Deeble Institute is uniquely placed to become the national leader in exchanging and translating knowledge for health policy and practice. All interested persons are welcome to attend. RSVP BY Friday 17 May is essential for catering purposes by email: [email protected]
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Friday 24 |
13:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Exhibition Talk: Aspects of Traditional Life in the South Fore : An account of the transformation of the South Fore villages in Papua New Guinea
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Michael Alpers shares his experiences of the changes that took place in the South Fore villages (Papua New Guinea) in this insightful talk at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery on Friday 24 May 2013.
In the 1960s, Michael Alpers (John Curtin Distinguished Professor of International Health, Curtin University) spent time in the South Fore villages, located in the Okapa District of the Eastern Highlands Province, while conducting medical field studies. His work there included identifying the neurodegenerative prion disease, kuru, and from 1977, building the Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research.
Michael will talk about the changes he witnessed during the transformation from a traditional lifestyle to the modern world.
Michael Alpers was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2005 and Companion of the Papua New Guinean Order of the Star of Melanesia in 2008.
This free public talk forms part of the broader Public Program of the Berndt Museum accompanying the current exhibition Through the Kunai Grass: Portraits of the New Guinea Highlands 1951-53.
15:00 - EVENT - FMDHS Education Research Symposium 2013 : A research showcase from the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
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The Education Centre is pleased to present the 2nd Biennial FMDHS Education Research Symposium on Friday 24th May at the University Club.
This is a great opportunity to lend your support and hear about the innovative research ideas, best practices and projects undertaken in the Faculty by staff and students.
A full program of events is offered this year, including the keynote address by Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Professor Lambert Schuwirth on the reliability of clinical assessment, a research showcase of 18 staff and student presentations from a cross-section of disciplines, and ending with the Excellence in Teaching Awards Ceremony.
This event gives our staff and students a chance to share their research and accomplishments with the wider Faculty community and we hope that you will join us in supporting this special event.
For full program details visit: http://www.meddent.uwa.edu.au/teaching/research-symposium
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Monday 27 |
Through the UWA Health & Rehabiliation Clinic a variety of Clinical Pilates options are now available to staff and general public!
Clinical Pilates is a form of physical exercise that focuses on posture, balance, control, strength, flexibility, and breathing. It incorporates mat and equipment based exercises to optimise function, improve fitness and aid the management or rehabilitation following pain or injury.
Using the experitse of Physiotherapy and Exercise Physiology trained staff to tailor exercises, Clinical Pilates is able to ensure optimal gains whilst minimising risk of injury or aggravation.
Initial assessment may be required prior to starting classes. Sessions are available Mon-Fri at various times between 6am-6pm. Private Health Rebates May Apply.
Statistical meta-analysis deals with a variety of sophisticated statistical methods to efficiently combine the results of several studies that have a common target.
In this course, we will describe the basic concepts of effect size for continuous measurements as well as qualitative attributes, combination of tests and estimates of effect size, tests for homogeneity of effect sizes, fixed versus random effects model of meta-analysis, combination of Gallup polls, meta-analysis of binary data, meta-regression, and publication bias.
12:00 - SEMINAR - LIWA Medical Research Seminar Series : "A microscope in a needle: New technologies to image disease"
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LIWA invites you to a free seminar on: "A microscope in a needle: New technologies to image disease" by A/Professor Robert McLaughlin, Optical+Biomedical Engineering Lab, The University of Western Australia. A light lunch will be served from 12.00pm with a 12.30pm – 1.30pm presentation.
Bring your biomarkers to life with simultaneous multianalyte detection. This seminar will showcase the use of cytometric bead assays to provide very highly multiplexed simultaneous analysis. A much more efficient approach than multiple ELISAs.
At the CMCA, we have instrumentation which will allow you to perform these multiplexed analyses.
Light refreshments provided.
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June 2013
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Tuesday 04 |
16:30 - SEMINAR - CMCA Seminar: Quantitative MRI applications for investigating disease and monitoring the cellular uptake and biodistribution of nanoparticles and therapeutic drugs.
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MRI is an incredibly versatile imaging modality stemming from the wide range of approaches that can be applied to generate image contrast. While qualitative imaging is common in clinical MRI, increasingly quantitative methods capable of measuring molecular tissue properties are being exploited. In this seminar I will present an overview of my research focussing on the application of quantitative MRI approaches to measure and map the distribution of;
1) iron, fat and fibrosis in the body and
2) magnetic nanoparticles to enable cell tracking and biodistribution studies of therapeutic agents.
Please join us for this meeting of WA Flow, a Western Australian flow cytometry interest group. There will be presentations of applications, protocols, results, information and general discussion of current flow cytometry.
Three presentations:
Dr Coral-Ann Almeida (IIID, Murdoch University) "Single cell sorts of CD8 T cell clones for HIV research",
Kerryn Stoner and Rom Krueger (Pathwest, Royal Perth Hospital) "Minimal Residual Disease detection by Flow Cytometry in AML", and
Irma Larma (WA Institute for Medical Research) "Back to Basics - Cell sorting: Principal and applications".
All welcome - refreshments provided.
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Thursday 06 |
10:00 - EVENT - CMCA Seminar: Applications of magnetic resonance: From crickets to cortical dysplasias
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Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) based techniques have revolutionized chemical characterization of materials and non-invasive in-vivo diagnostics, with pioneers garnering Nobel Prizes in Chemistry for NMR spectroscopy, and in Medicine for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). This seminar will begin with an overview of my experience in MR. Examples will be included from solid-state NMR spectroscopy, micro-MRI (hydrogen fuel cells, rheo-NMR), small animal MRI, and human MRI. In the latter portion of the seminar I will present some recent and interesting developments from the literature that aim to achieve novel MRI contrast linked to underlying micro-structure or biochemistry.
11:00 - SEMINAR - CMCA Seminar: "Preclinical MRI. An Advanced and Reliable tool for Biomedical Research. Are we there yet ?"
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Dr Daniel Procissi, visiting from Chicago's Northwestern University, will be presenting a series of preclinical MRI experiments which he has conducted in different areas ranging from neurology and oncology to hybrid modality imaging (PET-MRI).
This overview of imaging research will be discussed within a conceptual framework aimed at identifying the practical, technical and scientific issues that one needs to address when attempting to establish MR imaging as a reliable, reproducible and quantitative tool for biomedical and biological research.
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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.
The event represents a great opportunity to understand patient management from all perspectives and strengthen collaboration and develop referral pathways between health care providers.
Open to ALL members of the multidisciplinary health care team.
This seminar is eligible for 6 active learning hours for CPD with optional assessment.
Seminar attendance is fully catered for at the UWA Club OR online access is available through the Universities' Lecture Capture System.
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