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| Issue 16 - Summer 2006-2007 Click for PDF (2.5MB)
News
Values for a new culture
Prof Stephen Davis invited to Vatican
$5 million grant heralds new era in cancer research
Best of Health award winners celebrate
Guidance wins Victorian Public Healthcare Award for IT innovation
13,000 participants needed for diabetes vaccine trial
Botox restores speech to laryngectomy patients
Cyril Jewell House sets sail!
20 years strong for Bone Marrow Transplant Unit
Medicine and Surgery Departments to celebrate 50 years
Feature - Organ Donation
Glen's gift of life
A question of ethics
RMH Organ Donation Collaborative
HealthArts
John So and Roy Alexander Best to join us for Opera in the Market
Mental Health
Smell test provides clues to brain disorders
Supporters
RMH Dialysis Support Group raises funds for TVs at Broadmeadows Dialysis
Golf Classic a winner for Medical Oncology and Clinical Haematology
Staff
Prof Ingrid Winship appointed director of Adult linical Genetics Service
Length of Service awards
Vale, Miss Lynly Aitken AM
Issue 15 - Spring 2006 Click for PDF (2.4MB)
News
VIDRL to host world influenza collaborating centre
$65 million Emergency Department redevelopment
Minister opens revamped VIDS ward
Kidney transplant success involving incompatible blood groups an Australian first
Two home dialysis training services amalgamate at RMH Royal Park Campus
HealthArts
Artist in residence forms Healing Threads
VCA students perform at hospital
Mental Health
Mental health support continues in disaster-affected areas of Asia
Harvard bipolar tool aids diagnosis/ Bipolar Clincal Research Program launched
ORYGEN postcard study
Big Trees transformed into sculpture - ORYGEN Youth Health project (HealthArts)
Supporters
Dame Edna Everage becomes RMH Foundation patron
Become a RMH Volunteer Guide
Tattersall's funding supports emergency medicine research
Dedicated supporters shine
Auxiliary members' 30 years' service recognised
RMH Auxiliaries and Support Groups raise $400,000 in 2005-2006
Staff
Dr Gad Trevaks says farewell
Vale Graham Joyson, Director of Nursing 1976-1986
New theatre named in honour of Professor Richard Lovell, first Professor of Medicine /
new clinical school facilities officially opened
Best of Health "Celebrating Excellence" Awards - nominations open
Issue 14 - Winter 2006 Click for PDF (1.7MB)
Precinct partners join forces on cancer
New Volunteer Guide Service to be launched at RMH
New CEO appointed
Sir Gustav Nossal opens Research Week; prizewinners announced
Parkville Precinct Strategic Plan launched
Inner West Building Partnerships group benefits people with mental illness
Heart of the Hospital - ICD implant patient Madeline Williams describes her experiences
Mental health help tips for carers released in seven languages
RMH performs world's first stem cell implant in an orthopaedic patient
Tee up for Masters of Medicine at Royal Melbourne Golf Course
Major trial into very early stroke rehabilitation
Bunnings 'blitz' creates new backyard at Boyne Russell House
St Jude Medical donation boosts atrial fibrillation research
Purina Pet Partners Visiting Program brings joy to patients and staff
Study seeks Lupus Nephritis patients
Issue 13 - Autumn 2006 Click for PDF (1.8MB)
RMH Home Lottery raises $1.4 million
Dr Margaret Henderson, 90, honoured with Consultant Emeritus at AGM
Governor-General opens Clinical Centre for Research Excellence in Youth Mental Health
'Window on the brain' revolutionises treatment of aneurysm patients
PM launches major new foundation for youth mental health
Health Minister Bronwyn Pike opens Chiron residential site
Harvester Clinic (Mid West Area Mental Health Service) opens
RMH chosen as designated 2006 Commonwealth Games hospital
RMH nurses win Journal of Wound Care award for case study
Epilepsy researcher Assoc Prof Terence O'Brien awarded 2006 Driefuss-Penry Award
RMH Diabetes Foot Unit wins major award at first Victorian Public Healthcare Awards
Vale Len Swinden
New design for newsletter
Interns face a tough, but exciting year - 50 doctors join RMH
Graduate nurses begin new careers at RMH and NorthWestern Mental Health
Expressions Art Exhibition attracts more than 200 entries
Length of Service awards
Historic Quadrangle Garden comes back to life
Social Work Day - James' story
Opera Therapy documentary screens on SBS
Guidelines tackle pain for residents in aged care faciilties
RMH Golf Classic
Improvement in good hand hygiene | 
