Newsletter | Issue 14 | December 2019

And so we come to the end of another year and a remarkable decade. From the birth pangs of Electronic Medical Records to the rise of clinical tools connected to smart devices, the digital transformation of healthcare has arrived for all of us, with profound implications for our teaching, research and clinical practice.

Serendipity, wanting more, and moving outside your comfort zone ... MMS researchers shared their heartfelt life and career journeys at the third MMS Research Symposium.

Professor Debra Nestel, Department of Surgery, has been appointed Editor in Chief of the BMJ Simulation and Technology Enhanced Learning (BMJ STEL).

The Department of Surgery would like to congratulate Dr Luke Campbell, a PhD graduand from Department of Surgery – Otolaryngology, who won the Prime Minister’s New Innovator’s Prize in Canberra recently.

Melbourne Medical School people in the media.

It’s like an episode of Survivor, only no one gets kicked off the island. Meet the team who pull out all stops for one heady week in October to help select the next year's Doctor of Medicine student cohort. ​

The second Melbourne Children's General Practice Paediatric Update (GPPU) was held at The Royal Children's Hospital on 12 October, 2019.

The Department of Medicine, Royal Mebourne Hospital (RMH), recently celebrated the achievements of the former Head of Department, James Stewart Chair, Professor Terry O’Brien by the unveiling of his portrait.

Associate Professor David Canty  is the Director of Ultrasound Simulation and a Senior Lecturer, Department of Surgery. He also works as a Consultant Anaesthetist, working a mixture of cardiac and non-cardiac surgery, in both public and private healthcare.

A landmark anaesthesia trial (the Balanced Anaesthesia Study) has been published in the prestigious general medical journal The Lancet.

Massimo’s Mission, a clinical and research program in childhood leukodystrophies has commenced.

Professor Alistair Royse, Acting Director of the University of Melbourne – Department of Surgery and Ultrasound Education Group, welcomed The Hon. Richard Wynne, Minster of Planning and Housing Victoria, to demonstrate the Butterfly iQ ultrasound on 25 October.

Professor Mary Galea is collaborating with Professor Fary Khan to work in the only Rehabilitation Flying Faculty in the world.

Department of Paediatrics PhD student Fiona Lynch has been celebrated as a leader amongst her university peers.​

Biomed Link, an annual conference held at St Vincent's Hospital, was attended by nearly 100 students on 6 November​.

St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne Consultant Endocrinologists, who hold joint appointments with the University of Melbourne, have recently received awards from the Australian Diabetes Society and Diabetes Victoria.

Reinetta Tanujaya, a MD student at the Western Clinical School,  was awarded the best poster prize at the 2019 Western Health Research and Best Care Conference.

Training is avaialable for REDCap, a secure, web-based application for building and managing online databases and surveys available to University of Melbourne researchers.

The Urinary Incontinence Management in Women online course is an opportunity to learn from six industry leaders in the areas of clinical practice, research, surgery, physiotherapy, and geriatrics to resolve female urinary incontinence.