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16 Days in WA 25 November 2022 With the annual 16 Days in WA campaign (external site) starting on November 25, it’s a time to reflect and ask how we can all help to end violence against women and their children. The campaign, which begins on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (external site) and finishes on Human Rights Day (external site) on 10 December, aims to drive change in the culture, behaviour and attitudes that lead to family and domestic violence. In keeping with this year’s theme, ‘Ending violence against women – it’s everybody’s business’, NMHS is asking everyone to do their part to promote 16 Days in WA. We know that women who have experienced family domestic violence use health services regularly, so we have an important role to play in improving the safety of our patients. King Edward Memorial Hospital will be lighting up orange ... -
Meet Dr Piers Gooding 23 November 2022 Dr Piers Gooding is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne Law School. He is a socio-legal researcher who examines disability and mental health law and policy and is the author of A New Era for Mental Health Law and Policy: Supported Decision-making and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2017) with Cambridge University Press, and serves on the editorial board of the International Journal for Mental Health and Capacity Law. Piers has acted as a board member and advisor in a range of local, national and international bodies working on the rights of disabled people, and has advised policy-makers at national and international levels. Piers will give the keynote address at an NMHS and Disability Health Network event celebrating International Day of People with Disability on 30 November. He will also take part in a panel discussion around supported deci... -
Congratulations Professor Bruce Robinson 16 November 2022 Professor Bruce Robinson, SCGH Respiratory Medicine Specialist and Professor of Medicine UWA, has been awarded the Cancer Council WA Researcher Career Achievement Award 2022. The award recognises a senior cancer researcher who has a history of significant achievement in cancer research and a strong record of leadership in administration, advocacy, and promotion of cancer research. Bruce has made an exceptional contribution to cancer research locally, nationally, and internationally, with an impressive track record of leadership, mentorship and collaboration. The outcomes and outputs of Professor Robinson’s research program have led to critical and longstanding improvements in terms of disease burden due to asbestos cancers, mesothelioma and lung cancer. It is due to this contribution that Perth is recognised as one of the leading research locations for mesothelioma. Professor Robin... -
Congratulations Dr Kat Lewis 15 November 2022 Dr. Katharine Lewis, Haematology Fellow at SCGH, has been awarded Cancer Council WA Early Career Researcher of the Year 2022. The award recognises an emerging cancer researcher who has made a significant advance in cancer research within the last 18 – 24 months. A passionate early career lymphoma researcher, Katherine has led a number of international studies and made significant contributions to leadership and collaborations within the WA lymphoma research community. The Cancer Council is the largest charitable funder of independent cancer research in WA. In the 2021/2022 financial year they invested over $2.5 million to support 102 local cancer researchers across 42 projects. They established the WA Research Excellence Awards in 2013 to recognise and celebrate the achievements of Western Australia’s best and brightest cancer researchers. The awards also provide encouragemen... -
Hear all about it… new mobile audiometry technology 25 October 2022 The ‘SHOEBOX’ Tablet Audiometer innovation carried out in the Ear Nose and Throat (ENT) clinic at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital (SCGH) came to fruition following a successful Innovative Future (IF) Program, Round 2 application by Dr Jafri Kuthubutheen, an ENT Consultant specialising in ear and hearing disorders. SHOEBOX is an application used on a tablet coupled with a set of specialised headphones which self-guides, measures and reports on a patient’s level of hearing. It is an automated program which plays a series of tones of varying loudness and patients are guided to tap on the screen if they can hear the sounds being presented. Through a validated protocol, the program can then determine the degree of hearing loss in each ear. Jafri set out on this journey to solve the growing problem of the increasing number of patients on the ENT waitlist and long wait times to ...
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12/04/2021