Prof Harvey Coates and Prof Gunesh Rajan have won a research award for their tissue engineered tympanic membrane at the Garnett Passe and Rodney Williams Memorial Foundation ‘Frontiers’ meeting.
Dermatologists Clin A/Prof Carl Vinciullo and Dr Harvey Smith received the national 2014 Award for Excellence in Innovative Clinical Practice for Antimicrobial Stewardship. Their work to reduce surgical site infection by using topical decolonisation rather than oral antibiotic prophylaxis was recognised.
Former Foreign Affairs and Defence Minister, Mr Stephen Smith, has become patron of Arthritis & Osteoporosis WA.
Dr Allan Pelkowitz has been appointed regional coordinator for medical services at St John of God Health Care Group’s Perth northern hospitals. He will continue as medical director of SJG Midland Public and Private Hospitals and will assist with integration of services at the SJG Mt Lawley (previously Mercy).
Ms Heather McRobb, of Eaton Medical Centre and Australind Medical Centre is the 2014 AAPM Practice Manager of the Year WA.
The research team from UWA’s Optical + Biomedical Engineering Laboratory, in collaboration with clinicians from RPH and SCGH are finalists in this years WA Innoavotr of the Year awards for developing the world’s smallest microscope. The microscope can fit into a needle and is capable of detecting cancer cells.
Ministerial Advisory Council on Child Protection (MACCP)
Applications for the second intake of the 2015 Australian General Practice Training program opens on September 8 and closes on September 19.
Amity Health, based in Albany, has been awarded a $342,000 contract to provide a Kids Health Link program for disadvantaged children and families in the Eastern Wheatbelt.
Fulham Medical Centre was announced WAGPET Training Practice of the Year 2013 at the recent awards night. Dr Elaine Lee is GP Registrar of the Year and Dr Andrea Gomes took out the Prevocational Community Medicine Award.
RACGP WA faculty chair A/Prof Frank Jones has been appointed Vice-President of the RACGP.
Curtin University’s Professor Gill Lewin has been awarded the 2013 Council on the Ageing (COTA) Western Australia Champion for Seniors Award.
MDA National’s CEO, Mr Peter Forbes, announced at the AGM in November that he would retire in June. Also announcing their retirement from the board were West Australian A/Prof David Watson and Prof Guy Van Hazel.
Ms Jenni Perkins will act as the Commissioner for Children and Young People for the next 12 months, following Ms Michelle Scott’s departure.
Orthopaedic surgeon Dr Michael Halliday was named St John of God Murdoch Hospital’s Doctor of the Year for 2013.
Fiona Stanley Hospital appointments
Dr Gavin Coppinger is Medical Co-Director Service 2; Dr John Keenan is Deputy Director Clinical Services ; Dr Matthew Wright is Head of Haematology; Prof John Olynyk is Head of Gastroenterology; Prof David Fletcher is Head of General Surgery; Dr Annette McWilliams is Head of Respiratory Medicine; Dr Stephen Fenner is Head of Psychiatry; Dr Mark Monaghan is Head of Emergency; Dr Janine Spencer is Head of Paediatric Medicine; Dr Gargeswari Sunanda is Head of Obstetrics and Gynaecology; Dr Alex Swann is Head of Anaesthetics; Prof Gareth Prosser and Prof Piers Yates are co-heads of Orthopaedic Surgery; Prof Michael Stacey is Head of Vascular Surgery; Dr Stephen Wright is Head of General Medicine.
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