2018 Surgical Research Forum – Innovation for better patient care

Thursday 26 July, 2018
1.30 pm – 5.30 pm
Lecture Theatre, Level 5 Alfred Centre
Purpose: 
To showcase the research activities of the Alfred Hospital Surgical Departments
 
Session 1 – The Hugh Dudley Symposium on Surgical Innovation
Chair – A/Prof Bill Johnson Director of Surgery Alfred Health

Time	Presenter	Topic
1.30 pm	A/Prof Jeremy Grummet	Innovations in the diagnosis of prostate cancer
1.45 pm	Prof Mark Fitzgerald	New tools for streamlining trauma care
2.00 pm	Mr Cheng Lo	Clinical application of cultured epithelial autografts (CEA) in burns injuries
2.15 pm	A/Prof Heather Cleland	Novel ways to achieve skin closure in burns patients
2.30 pm	A/Prof Susan Liew	Custom implants and instruments
2.45 pm	Mr Charles Milne	An integrated approach to the operating room – Hybrid Technology

The Sir Edward Hughes Keynote Lecture
Introduced by Adrian Polglase 

3.00 pm

Prof David McGiffin

Novel ideas to improve therapy for patients with end stage heart disease

3.30 – 3.45 pm Afternoon tea
Session 2 – The Paul O'Brien Younger Surgical Researchers Symposium
This Symposium will highlight the work of our Higher Degree Students and Post Doctoral Fellows
Chair – Professor Wendy Brown Chair, Department of Surgery

Time	Presenter	Topic
3.45 pm	Dr Geraldine Ooi	Improving   liver function through weight loss
4.00 pm	Mr Matt Read	Barretts oesophagus – towards a better future
4.15 pm	Mr Stephen Bell	ADIPOSE trial – the effect of weight loss on Rectal Cancer Surgery - Cabrini
4.30 pm	Dr Rebekah Engel	Organoid research and colorectal cancer - Cabrini
4.45 pm	Rowan Miller	Urology Masters
5.00 pm	Mr Frank Raiola	Osseointegration changing lives
5.15 pm	Mr Charles Pilgrim	IRE – new hope for inoperable Pancreatic Cancer

The John Masterton Public Lecture

"Thyroid Cancer, towards a better paradigm"  Mr James Lee

AMREP Lecture Theatre and Foyer, AMREP Education Centre, Alfred Health
5.30 pm    Drinks and canapes
6.00 pm    Lecture to begin with Introduction by Mr Roger Wale

Enquiries: Dr Daphne Vogiagis daphne.vogiagis@monash.edu
Web: www.monash.edu/medicine/ccs/surgery-alfred

Intensive course: Surgical Research Essentials (SuRE) 16-17 Jun, 28-29 Jul, 8-9 Sep 2018

SuRE is accredited by RACS

Mr James Lee is the Surgical
Research Essentials  (SuRE)
course convenor

Mr James Lee is offering his highly successful introductory course: Surgical Research Essentials (SuRE) for the third year running. Register your interest now.

Why do this course?

A good understanding of surgical research is essential for a surgeon. Good quality research and the ability to apply it clinically is the cornerstone in evidence based practice. In training the surgeons of the future, compulsory research requirements have now been incorporated into every surgical training program. Not only that, research experience and output has become one of the differentiators in many job and training position applications.

Even if being an active researcher does not become part of your surgical career, a sound working knowledge of the ins and outs of research is essential. There is no better way to understand evidence based surgery than to be involved in a few research projects.

Details

• Dates: The course runs over three weekends: 16-17 Jun, 28-29 Jul, 8-9 Sep 2018
• Time: 8.00 am - 5.00 pm
• Discount available for students. Please note, this course is only available to year level 3 and above medical students. Please get in contact for more information.
• Location: Seminar Room 1 Level 5, Alfred Centre
• Quota: The course will be capped at 20 this year with a minimum of 10 to run.
• RACS accreditation
• Web: www.monash.edu/medicine/ccs/surgery-alfred/teaching/sc-sure
• Register interest

27 April 2018 Bionic limbs and osseointegration forum at the Alfred - all welcome

The Alfred-Monash forum on bionic limbs and osseointegration
is being held 3 pm Friday 27 April. All welcome, RSVP.

Mr Frank Bruscino-Raiola, Director and Head of Plastic Surgery at Alfred Health, and Mr Steven Gray, Director of Osseointegration (OI) & Targeted Muscle Reinnervation (TMR) Surgical and REHAB programme invite you to attend a forum at the AMREP Lecture Theatre

“Osseointegration and Bionic Limb Integrated to Bone, Nerves and Muscles”

Date: Friday 27 April 2018

Time: 2.30pm arrival/tea for 3.00pm start, followed by refreshments 4.30pm

Venue: AMREP Lecture Theatre, 75-85 Commercial Road, (between the Baker & Burnet Institutes), Melbourne 3004

RSVP for catering purposes: goo.gl/AVYu1k
Enquiries:  Mr Steven Gray, sjgray@alfred.org.au

26 April 2018 public lecture on prostate cancer diagnosis by A/Prof Jeremy Grummet

A/Prof Jeremy Grummet with a colleague. He is an advocate for
non-invasive diagnostic techniques for prostate cancer

You are invited to attend a public lecture by Associate Professor Jeremy Grummet on the Australian revolution in prostate cancer diagnosis, hosted by the Department of Surgery, Central Clinical School, Alfred Centre.

Details

• Date: Thursday 26 April 2018
• Time: 5.30pm refreshments for 6.00pm start.  Lecture will be followed by Q&A session
• Venue: AMREP Lecture Theatre
• Cost: Free
• RSVP: link
• Web: 
• Enquiries: E daphne.vogiagis@monash.edu T +61 3 9903 0611

Bionic limbs becoming more integrated: Max Ortiz Catalán video

The Department of Surgery hosted a public lecture late last year (Thursday 21 September 2017), given by A/Prof Max Ortiz Catalán. A/Prof Max Ortiz Catalán sheds light on how biology and mechatronics, for the first time, can integrate man and machine through intuitive prosthetics useful in daily life.

Dr. Max Ortiz Catalán is an Associate Professor with Chalmers University of Technology where he founded the Biomechatronics and Neurorehabilitation Laboratory (@ChalmersBNL). He also serves as the Research Director with Integrum AB, Sweden. He received the European Youth Award in 2014, the Delsys Prize in 2016, the SER Prize in 2017, and the Brian & Joyce Blatchford Award in 2017.

Video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4zQCSnAi1w&t=4s
Photo gallery: https://photos.app.goo.gl/Jw6yvhlCmA5NY4443

Dr Geraldine Ooi wins 2017 D.S. Rosengarten Prize

This year's winner of the annual D.S. Rosengarten Surgical Research Prize, Dr Geraldine Ooi.

Dr Ooi presented on: Lipidomic analysis of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in morbid obesity: Pathologic alterations in liver lipid profile and parallel serum changes with progressive disease. Dr Ooi is undertaking research for her PhD supervised by Professor Wendy Brown, Head of Department of Surgery.

See more about the event: www.monash.edu/medicine/ccs/surgery-alfred/prizes/rosengarten and Photo gallery

Prof Clark Gamblin presents on "The forgotten male cancers"

The Department of Surgery hosted a public lecture in November 2017, given by Professor T. Clark Gamblin, Chief of Surgical Oncology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. The informative lecture looked at the progression and treatment of “The forgotten male cancers”.

Professor Gamblin, an internationally renowned surgeon specialising in cancers of the liver and pancreas, is a Fulbright Scholar who visited Australia in 2017 on the Fulbright Specialist Program.

• Video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fQeneqngGM&t=3s
• Photo gallery: https://photos.app.goo.gl/344h2WcSywOEL0eA2
• Event: www.monash.edu/medicine/ccs/headlines/events-calendar/2017-surgery-public-lecture