The Annual Congress of the Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand (PSANZ) is being held in Perth, WA this week.
At the Congress Dinner four prestigious awards were won by Centre staff and students.
Dr Annie McDougall won the 2014 David Henderson Smart Award and a Cerebral Palsy Alliance award for her work on cerebellar development in the growth restricted fetus.
Medical student and PhD student James Aridas also won a Cerebral Palsy Alliance award for his research on protecting against brain injury in the newborn.
PhD student Melinda Dolan won the PSANZ Respiratory Research Award.
Great effort guys. Fabulous science.
Euan Wallace
Centre Head (Obstetrics and Gynaecology)
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Wednesday, 9 April 2014
Tuesday, 8 April 2014
Dr Anna Vlahandonis announced the 2013 Mollie Holman Medalist
A Ritchie Centre scientist, Dr Anna Vlahandonis (nee Kourbasis) has been awarded the Mollie Holman Doctoral Medal for the best PhD thesis awarded in 2013 from the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences at Monash University.
In 2013, there were 148 PhD theses awarded. Anna's thesis "Long-term sleep and cardiovascular outcomes in children with sleep disordered breathing: a four year follow-up" was judged as the most outstanding of all.
Well done to Anna and her supervisor, Professor Rosemary Horne. An outstanding achievement, well deserved.
Euan Wallace
Centre Head (Obstetrics and Gynaecology)
In 2013, there were 148 PhD theses awarded. Anna's thesis "Long-term sleep and cardiovascular outcomes in children with sleep disordered breathing: a four year follow-up" was judged as the most outstanding of all.
Well done to Anna and her supervisor, Professor Rosemary Horne. An outstanding achievement, well deserved.
Euan Wallace
Centre Head (Obstetrics and Gynaecology)
Monday, 11 November 2013
Dr Sarah Biggs on the importance of sleep
Dr Sarah Biggs participated in The Conversation this week, talking about sleep.
http://theconversation.com/regular-bed-times-as-important-for-kids-as-getting-enough-sleep-19396
So, what's so important about sleep?
Sarah's research tells us that sleep is critical for normal child development. However, it is not just about total hours of sleep. Having a regular bedtime is important.
Sit up, all parents!
Children who go to bed at a regular time each night are much less likely (as much as half as likely) than children who have irregular bedtimes to have hyperactivity and behavioural problems. A child whose bedtime varies from night to night by as much as 2 hours is 6 times more likely to have behavioural problems.
The key message?
Each child needs to have a regular bedtime and have 9-11 hours sleep each night.
An early night anyone?
Well done Sarah.
Euan Wallace
Director, The Ritchie Centre
http://theconversation.com/regular-bed-times-as-important-for-kids-as-getting-enough-sleep-19396
So, what's so important about sleep?
Sarah's research tells us that sleep is critical for normal child development. However, it is not just about total hours of sleep. Having a regular bedtime is important.
Sit up, all parents!
Children who go to bed at a regular time each night are much less likely (as much as half as likely) than children who have irregular bedtimes to have hyperactivity and behavioural problems. A child whose bedtime varies from night to night by as much as 2 hours is 6 times more likely to have behavioural problems.
The key message?
Each child needs to have a regular bedtime and have 9-11 hours sleep each night.
An early night anyone?
Well done Sarah.
Euan Wallace
Director, The Ritchie Centre
Wednesday, 30 October 2013
Dr Rebecca Lim Awarded Hugh Rogers Fellowship
Congratulations to Rebecca Lim on being awarded a prestigious 2013 Melbourne-Boston Sister Cities Hugh Rogers 2013 Fellowship.
Bec will use the funding to visit Carla Kim's lab at Harvard, Boston. There, she will further explore her research looking into how amnion (placental) stem cells mediate lung repair, unravelling how amnion cells wake up the lungs own progenitor (stem) cells.
This exciting new collaboration between The Ritchie Centre at Monash and the Children's Hospital Boston is made possible through this generous Fellowship.
Stay tuned for Bec's insights into the "placenta and the lung".
Euan Wallace
Director, TRC
Bec will use the funding to visit Carla Kim's lab at Harvard, Boston. There, she will further explore her research looking into how amnion (placental) stem cells mediate lung repair, unravelling how amnion cells wake up the lungs own progenitor (stem) cells.
This exciting new collaboration between The Ritchie Centre at Monash and the Children's Hospital Boston is made possible through this generous Fellowship.
Stay tuned for Bec's insights into the "placenta and the lung".
Euan Wallace
Director, TRC
Tuesday, 10 September 2013
New treatment for ectopic pregnancy
Scientists at The Ritchie Centre and at Centre for Cancer Research at Monash Institute of Medical Research (MIMR) have published two papers in the October issue of the leading journal Obstetrics and Gynecology.
The work has shown that combination medical treatment - tablets taken by mouth - is as effective as surgery for ectopic pregnancy. This breakthrough promises a safer treatment for ectopic pregnancy and a treatment that will preserve fertility.
The work was funded by a MIMR Flagship Grant.
Congratulations to the research teams.
Euan Wallace
Director
The work has shown that combination medical treatment - tablets taken by mouth - is as effective as surgery for ectopic pregnancy. This breakthrough promises a safer treatment for ectopic pregnancy and a treatment that will preserve fertility.
The work was funded by a MIMR Flagship Grant.
Congratulations to the research teams.
Euan Wallace
Director
Monday, 9 September 2013
Best talk at ANZLAA Annual conference
At the ANZLAA conference last week, Dr Hayley Dickinson was awarded Best Scientific Talk Prize.
Well done Hayley - another for the trophy cabinet!
The Ritchie Centre - world class research by world's best scientists. Saving tomorrow's lives with today's research.
Well done Hayley - another for the trophy cabinet!
The Ritchie Centre - world class research by world's best scientists. Saving tomorrow's lives with today's research.
Saturday, 7 September 2013
Ritchie centre student success at Fetal and neonatal Physiological Society Conference
Ritchie centre PhD student Stacey Ellery was received the student award for her oral presentation "Creatine Supplementation Protects the Neonatal Spiny Mouse Following Birth Asphyxia, but does it affect the Mother" at the Fetal and Neonatal Physiological Society (FNPS) in Santiago in Chile last week.
James Aridas, another Ritchie Centre PhD student, was awarded the Tania Gunn Memorial Prize for his oral "A Comparison of Melatonin and Hyperthermia for the Treatment of the acutely Asphyxiated Newborn Lamb".
FNPS is the premier International meeting for Fetal Physiologists.
Congratulations to Stacey and James for their exceptionally good work.
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James Aridas, another Ritchie Centre PhD student, was awarded the Tania Gunn Memorial Prize for his oral "A Comparison of Melatonin and Hyperthermia for the Treatment of the acutely Asphyxiated Newborn Lamb".
FNPS is the premier International meeting for Fetal Physiologists.
Congratulations to Stacey and James for their exceptionally good work.
- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone
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