Newsletter | Issue 4 | December 2018

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Congratulations to Professor Lena Sanci, newly appointed Head, Department of General Practice.

Very exciting news for the Department with successful promotions for Dr Victoria Palmer, who was recently promoted to Associate Professor and Dr Susie Fletcher who was recently promoted to the position of Senior Research Fellow.

Grant success for DGP Staff and students

Congratulations to Dr Chance Pistoll on being awarded the 2018 Dean’s Fellowship for Learning and Teaching Excellence

On the 20-21st of November, the Safer Families Centre of Research Excellence held a successful conference

Statistics, prizes and unique networking opportunity.

Department of GP students impress with PhD posters at ECR Symposium.

Congratulations to Jason Chiang who was awarded the Dr Barbara Starfield Award for first place in the Distinguished Trainee Award at the North American Primary Care Research Group Annual Conference

Honours students won two poster prizes

A Discussion Paper on integrated approaches for children and young people in Victorian statutory care

Four of our academics presented at the National Youth Health Conference this year. Prof Lena Sanci presented the key note on the Victorian Doctor’s in Secondary School’s Program with two Year 10 Reservoir High School Students, Dr Bianca Forrester and Dr Roisin Bhamjee also presented on the Doctor’s in Secondary Schools program and Mr Tim Kariotis presented on the privacy concerns for teenagers holding a My Health Record.

Brea recently spoke with Pursuit to discuss how clever marketing can make physical activity promotion easier

Call for GPs: research interviews, tell us about the barriers and enablers to collecting urine samples from young children in primary care.

PC4's Dr Kristi Milley and Sophie Chima present a brand new conversational podcast on recent cancer in primary care publications. The podcast will cover the whole cancer journey from prevention, detection and diagnosis through to cancer survivorship and palliative care.

Anders Moller is a visiting PhD candidate from Denmark.

An enriching 4 days at the APS Congress 2018

Dr Gemma McKibbin recently attended the NOTA (National Organisation for the Treatment of Abuse) conference in Glasgow.

Over two days, OPUS will be hosting the inaugural OPUS Forums where you can network, consider your career in research and explore how to improve osteoarthritis care in Australia.

Recent publications from the Department of General Practice