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NARI / RMH (RPC) Research and Clinical Meetings and Seminars 2012

A combined National Ageing Research Institute & Royal Melbourne Hospital Royal Park Campus program

Seminars are held on Tuesdays 1200hrs – 1300hrs in the NARI Seminar Room, Building 9.

Visitors please enter Gate 4, Poplar Road, Parkville (Melways Map 29, Ref: D10).
Parking is available in Oak Street and Park Street or in the RMH (RPC) car park Gate 1 – flat rate $5.00 (coins required).
If using public transport, take Tram No 55 or the Upfield line train to Royal Park Station.

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Convenors: Dr Bruce Barber (Phone: (03) 8387 2616 / E-mail: Bruce Barber)
and Dr Thangam Balasubramanian (8387 2000)
** = RAPP Students present

If you wish to be added to the seminar program email list please email Dr. Bruce Barber

ALL WELCOME

DATE

PRESENTER

TOPIC

PRESENTATION SLIDES
14 February Dr Mike Whishaw, Geriatrician and Head of Continence Clinic RMH Royal Park Campus. Intravesical Botulinum Toxin
21 February Dr Colleen Doyle, Director, Service Development and Evaluation Division, NARI. Treatment of anxiety and depression in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
28 February Dr Peter Lange, Geriatrician RMH.

Syncope and Bayes theorem, or the tale of a Clinical Pathway.

6 March Dr Briony Dow, Director, Health Promotion Division, NARI. Ms Emma Renehan, Research Assistant, NARI. Evaluation of the Barwon South West Region Dementia Strategy.
13 March Dr Rebecca Iseli, Geriatrician RMH, Ms Sally James and Ms Ai Wei Ng. Wound Management  
20 March

Dr Melita Giummarra, Monash Bridging Fellowship, Experimental Neuropsychology Research Unit, School of Psychology and Psychiatry, Monash University.

Experience of the body and phantom limb phenomena after amputation.
27 March Mary Etty-Leal, Pharmacy, RMH. Anticholinergic Medications
3 April Lesley Dowson & Stephanie Antonopoulos.

Person-centred Practice and Best Care for Older People Everywhere: The toolkit.
The Victorian Government’s ‘Improving care for older people’ Policy and NARI.

 
10 April Easter: No Seminar.    
17 April Michael Gorton, AM, LLB, B.Comm, FRACS (Hon), FANZCA (Hon) Principal, Russell Kennedy, Solicitors.

Regulation of health professionals: The latest information – including mandatory reporting.

24 April Dr Mike Whishaw, Geriatrician and Head of Continence Clinic RMH Royal Park Campus. TBC  
1 May Maree Mastwyk, Caulfield General Medical Centre. Expectations and experience of memory clinics: Lessons from patients and their families.  
8 May Rosie Watson, University of Newcastle, UK.

Structural and Diffusion Tensor MRI in dementia with Lewy bodies.

 
15 May

Noel Faux, NHMRC Post-doctoral Fellow Australian Imaging Biomarker Lifestyle (AIBL) Flagship, Mental Health Research Institute.

TBC  
22 May A/Prof Dina Logiudice, Geriatrician RMH RPC. TBC  
29 May

Heather Lane RMH

TBC  
5 June AC1 (A/Prof Tony Snell, Director Aged Care RMH and Registrar). TBC  
12 June Dr Eleanor Flynn, Senior Lecturer,
Medical Education Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences.
Images of Medieval Death.  
19 June Dr Kylie Staggard, Geriatrician RMH RPC Transition Care Program  
26 June Yen Ying Lim, PhD student, Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne, MHRI. The nature of change in cognition in very early Alzheimer's disease.  
3 July Nina Zhang,  Rehabilitation,  RMH Rehabilitation Conversion Disorder  
10 July Melissa Lindeman, Head of Research, Centre for Remote Health, a joint Flinders University & Charles Darwin University centre. Needs assessments in Aboriginal communities of Central Australia: challenges to effective care planning.  
17 July RMH TBC  
24 July

Professor Stephen Gibson, Deputy Director NARI, Director, Biomedical Research NARI, Caulfield Pain Management and Research Centre.

Does pain vary with different types
of dementia?
 
31 July RMH TBC  
7 August Professor Yvonne Wells New service directions.  
14 August Dr Selva Mudaliar, Rehabilitation, RMH    
21 August

Tess Tsindos, Aged & Disability Services,
City of Melbourne.

Happiness is good health.  
28 August RMH    
4 September Fran McInerney, Professor of Aged Care,
Australian Catholic University/Mercy Health.
Later life care for people with advanced dementia.  
11 September RMH    
18 September

Professor Colin L. Masters,
Mental Health Research Institute.

Aβ oligomers as tractable targets fort Alzheimer’s disease diagnostics and therapeutics.  
25 September RMH    
2 October Dr Briony Dow, Director, Health Promotion Division, NARI. Sabbatical report.  
9 October RMH    
16 October

Irja Haapala, NARI.

TBC  
23 October RMH    
30 October Bruce Barber, Deputy Director, Biomedical Division, Coordinator Professional Learning Program, NARI. Event-related potentials: Cognition and emotion in ageing and dementia.  
6 November Melbourne Cup Day – No Seminar.    
13 November RMH    
20 November NARI    
27 November RMH    
4 December

Laurie McNamara

Ethical Perspectives on
Human Ageing.
 
11 December RMH    
18 December David Ames, Professor of Ageing & Health,
University of Melbourne, Director, National Ageing Research Institute.
   

Click below to view past seminars and download handouts

2011 seminar program

2010 seminar program

2009 seminar program

2008 seminar program

 

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