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UNSW Medicine Newsletter - 5 June 2009
General News
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Cancer Researcher of the Year
Professor Phil Hogg receiving the award from presenter Adam Spencer | Congratulations to Professor Phil Hogg
Director of UNSW’s Cancer Research Centre, Professor Philip Hogg, has been awarded this year’s prestigious Cancer Institute NSW Premier's Award for Outstanding Cancer Researcher, the highest cancer research honour in NSW.
Professor Hogg was presented with the $50,000 award by Australia’s Chief Medical Officer, Professor Jim Bishop, at a gala event in Sydney.
The NSW Government award acknowledges the potential for Professor Hogg’s research to change cancer treatment and improve the survival chances of patients.
He is internationally recognised in cancer research for developing a dye that fastens onto dead or dying cancer cells and reveals whether cancer treatments are working just days into the course.
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Research News |
Mobile Phones as a Health Tool? - Survey
Researchers at the Black Dog Institute would love YOUR views!!
They are looking for volunteers to complete a 15 minute online survey. The survey is about the use of mobile phones to help people track their moods and behaviour and learn how they can manage depression, anxiety and stress.
They are interested in hearing the views of people with and without depression, anxiety or stress. The questionnaire is completely confidential.
Everyone who completes the survey can enter the draw for an 8GB IPOD Nano.
Can I do the survey?
If you are 18 years or older we would like to invite you to complete the survey.
What do I need to do?
If you are interested in filling out the survey, please follow the link to the survey.
Link to Survey: http://www.blackdoginstitute.org.au/docs/MobileTrackerSurvey2.pdf
Further information is available on the Black Dog Institute website or can be gained by contacting Associate Professor Judy Proudfoot,
Biological Resources & Imaging Laboratory Update
Renovation/Refurbishment (formerly) BABS animal house - operational in the week beginning 15th June
Biological Resources Wallace Wurth facilities will then consist of:
Roof: 4 rat holding rooms, 2 mouse holding rooms (1PC2 OGTR) and 4 rooms which can be used for surgery, procedures and/ or behavioural studies
Level 5 (nth): 2 rat holding rooms, 1 behavioural studies room, 3 mouse rooms (1 PC2 non OGTR) and 1 procedure room
Level 5 (sth): ALL PC2 OGTR: Imaging Laboratory, 2 procedure rooms, 3 mouse holding rooms and 1 rat holding room
LG 1: mouse room, 1 behavioural studies mouse room, 1 mouse procedure room, (All PC2 OGTR certified) 3 rabbit/guinea pig holding rooms and 1 rabbit/guinea pig procedure room.
For further information contact our Office: Tel: 9385 8456, Fax: 9385 8457 or email
Imaging Laboratory
Charges for Imaging Equipment have been introduced from 1/6/09. $50.00 per hour, for internal users and $60.00 per hour for external users + $10.00 per hour for the use of anaesthetic equipment. It was necessary to introduce this charge to help offset some of the maintenance and operating costs of the equipment. Charges will be reviewed at the end of this year and may be adjusted up or down, depending on use and outgoings. Researchers are encouraged to maximise the use of this equipment. Dr Carl Power will continue to provide a period of free training to any new internal users. A training fee of $100.00 per hour will apply to external users.
Please contact Carl for further information -
Clinical Trial - Free Tai Chi for People with Low Back Pain
A 2nd year PhD student within the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Sydney is recruiting for a Clinical Research trial which is looking at the effects of a 10-week Tai Chi Program for People with Long-term Low Back Pain.
The study is open to anyone in the community who has had low back pain for more than 3 months.
Location: The tai chi classes are generally located in the city. However, when there is enough interest at a particular site, they will try to arrange a space at that site to make it easier for people to attend.
Cost: The classes are entirely FREE!
For further information, please contact Amanda Hall at The George Institute (9657 0391, amandahall@george.org.au).
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IT News |
IT Change Program - Medicine update
UNSW are rolling out a range of “shared” IT services across the University. Some of these services are already in use in our student labs, as outlined in previous communications.
These are known as "Shared IT Utility Services" and include:
- A new Password system ( Computer Login – called zPass) - More information: http://www.it.unsw.edu.au/staff/zpass/index.html
- A new eMail service (Exchange 2007) - More information: http://www.it.unsw.edu.au/services/email/index.html
- A centralised file service for user files.
- A Standard Operating Environment (SOE) - this includes the operating system and the configuration for your computer (whether desktop or laptop and Windows or Mac), plus a set of applications.
More Information: http://www.it.unsw.edu.au/services/desktop/index.html
- We will continue to use the UNSW service desk to log calls. Calls will be resolved by both the UNSW service desk and Medicine support. (This is not really a change for Medicine Faculty but will be for other groups on campus).
Within the Faculty, our deployment is proposed in two stages; an initial pilot group (the School of Public Health and Community Medicine) followed by the rest of the Faculty later this year (think Aug-Oct). All the Schools and units that are on the University Network (not our Hospitals) will be included in this.
I am currently visiting the various schools and units that will be included to talk with you directly about this process and to answer some questions in person. Detailed planning will be carried out for each School and unit to minimise impact on teaching and research activities and to get the right configurations and applications prepared for your computers.
As always, specialised needs will continue to be catered for in conjunction with academic and research staff.
During this time you will be visited by the transition team which will include members from Medicine IT and the transition project. We will be visiting all staff to collect the required information from your computers. We expect that each visit will take up to 30 minutes.
Further details, including training opportunities, will be available closer to the migration of these services into your area.
If you have any questions or concerns please feel free contact me directly.
Luc Betbeder
IT Manager
KeySurvey Software – IT at UNSW
Key Survey's web-based software is easy to use and delivers all the features you need to conduct sophisticated, multi-channel, multi-language surveys.
Simply design and distribute your survey, then collect and analyse your data. Anyone with access to a browser can use this survey software.
Because it is web-hosted, there is nothing to download, nothing to install, no maintenance and no administration UNSW now supports KeySurvey Software as part of services supported by the IT Service Centre.
If you intend to conduct online surveys in the near future, you will require completing an OSA07 KeySurvey Registration Form to generate a new account that will allow you to access this software online.
This is available from the IT Services web page or from the IT Service Centre - http://www.it.unsw.edu.au/services/forms/
More information see flyer (PDF)
Apple Workshops and Tips
Apple creative academic workshops are hands-on sessions that will introduce you to the Mac, and show you what's possible.
Date | Time: Tuesday, 9 June 2009, 10.00am - 12.00pm & 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Venue: Room 1001, 1st Floor, The Quadrangle, UNSW
Register your interest: http://support.apple.com.au/Blackbelt/discover/
Any questions with regards to the workshops please contact: Ryan Mathieson, Account Executive - NSW/ACT Higher Education, Direct 02 8987 8557, Phone 0434 324 728, Email: rmathieson@asia.apple.com
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Current Events |
Pain recognition in laboratory animals
Date | Time: Thursday 25th June 2009, 9.15am - 1.00pm
Venue: Biomed Lecture Theatre F, Biosciences Blg, University of NSW
Speaker: Assistant Professor Alicia Karas, Tufts University, Boston, USA
Margaret Rose, Director of research for South-East Sydney Illawarra Area Health Service and Conjoint Professor in the Faculty of Medicine, has put together the following half-day program which should be of great interest and value to those of you who work with laboratory animals.
It is particularly likely to be useful to early-career investigators, PhD students and post-docs but anyone who would like to attend is welcome.....there are 75 seats in Biomed F....first in first seated! See Program for contact details
See Program for details
International Conference - Realising the Rights to Health and Development for All
Call for Expressions of Interest!
Date: Monday 26 – Thursday 29 October, 2009
Venue: Meliá Hotel, Hanoi, Vietnam
The University of New South Wales Initiative for Health and Human Rights (IHHR) and Central Commission for Popularization and Education of The Communist Party of Vietnam, are pleased to inform you of the forthcoming International Conference on Realising the Rights to Health and Development for All.This Conference aims to further the understanding of the complex and powerful relationships between health, development and human rights and to propose practical ways that policies, strategies and research can optimally respond to these challenges.
The themes of the Conference include: HIV/AIDS and other current and emerging public health threats; maternal and child health; climate change; and economic globalisation. The Conference objectives and agenda aim to surface a reflection and recommendations on how these contemporary challenges to health and development can be documented, analysed and responded to from the perspective of their reciprocal interactions and through human rights-based approaches in Vietnam, the Asia-Pacific Region, and globally.
The four day International Conference will engage representatives of research institutes, universities, governmental and non-governmental organisations, as well as leading international and regional scholars, human rights practitioners, health professionals and members of civil society. The realisation of this Conference owes to the keen support from Vietnamese leaders, The Atlantic Philanthropies, the United Nations (One-UN), The USAID | Health Policy Initiative, Task Order 1; the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID); and the Open Society Institute (OSI).
Places are limited! Submit your Expression of Interest now on the Conference website at http://www.healthandrights.com.
Submissions are due 18 June, 2009.
Inaugural Whole Person Care National Symposium
Responding to the Challenge of Whole Person Care in Clinical Practice
The provision of Whole Person Care is both challenging and rewarding for patient and practitioner. Two international speakers and a host of national speakers will accompany us in exploring the complexities and challenges in responding to the distress of people who face life threatening illness.
Objectives:
- To provide a forum for practitioners to explore the challenges faced when working daily with patients who have life threatening illness, and their families.
- To take stock of the impact of this work on ourselves and our patients.
Full details see conference website: http://www.iceaustralia.com/wholeperson09/
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