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Melbourne Health Matters
Autumn 2008 - Issue 20
Awards
Best of Health Awards:
* Health Care Award - Incompatible Kidney Transplantation
incorporating ABO Incompatible and Highly Sensitised Renal
Transplantation.
* Quality and Safety Award - General Medicine Indicators Group
* Research Award - Predicting and Preventing Type 1 Diabetes
* Education Award - Evidence Direct Service
* Organisational Improvement Award - Triple M Plan.
* Chairman's Award - Prof Graham Brown
Dr Geoff Lindeman awarded prestigious Eric Susman Prize
Research
Car entusiast sings RMH research praises
New hope for stroke victims with clot-busting drug
Vitamin D helps fight TB
BioGrid, the new name of MMIM
$55,000 grant for radiology/epilepsy study
Patient care
Radiology moves to filmless future
New Head of Radiology
Carers help build family skills in mental health care
Pampering massages for 9 West patients
Advanced training for RMH life savers
Miracle mum and bub revisit ICU on 15th birthday
Supporters
Cycling from Sydney to Melbourne for leukaemia
Australia Day Honour for dialysis supporter
Exercise for Life raises $15,000 for oncology
April 1963 nurses group celebrate 45th anniversary
Events
RMH celebrates 160th anniversary
Car auction raises almost $20,000
Behind the scenes
A spot of paint for RMH foyers from Leighton and Baulderstone
Emergency Department commences redevelopment
Melbourne Health Matters
Winter 2008 - Issue 21
Awards
* RMH nurse wins national graduate award
* Melbourne Health nurse of the year awards
* Neurologist wins Cleveland Young Investigator Award
* Recognition for outstanding breast cancer research
* Queen's Birthday Honours for Assoc Prof Norman James
Patient Care
* Stabbed taxi driver make miraculous recovery
* Wangaratta local caught on 'tele'
* Opening door on dementia in younger people
* Consumer Advisory Committee welcomes new member
* Asthma test for Olympians
* Meningococcal test for Victoria
* Guidance on prescribing drugs
Research
* Brain damage found in heavy cannabis users
Overseas aid
* Burnese cyclone survivors receive support from Australia
* Volunteers train Fijian students
Supporters
* Line honours for Murray to Moyne Cycle Relay
* Golf raises money for Cancer Support
Events
* Welcome to Royal Women's Hospital
* Looking back 100 years in RMH history
* RMH leaders, Prof Singh and Prof Cade, reflect on memorable
careers
* US war veterans visit for Anzac Day and to celebrate 160th
* RMH Community Expo a success
* Historical Room reopening
* Farewell Kiosk Auxiliary 1922-2008
Behind the scenes
* The pocket Guide to Perioperative and Critical Care
Echocardiography top selling book
* Indexing of RMH historical records
* Halal accreditation
* Vale: Roxane Tatnell and Ruth Sherlock
Melbourne Health Matters
Spring 2008 - Issue 22
Awards
* Six wins at statewide awards
- The Breast Service, in collaboration with the Royal
Women's Hospital
- Prof Stephen Davis
- ABO incompatible Renal Transplantation Team
- Prof Bruce Singh AM
- The Psychiatric Assessment and Planning Unit PAPU at
NorthWestern Mental Health
- Melbourne Health Improvement Program
* Kurt Roberts-Thomson wins the 2008 Young Investigator
Award of the Heart Rhythm Society
* Dr Daniel Steinfort wins inaugural Roslyn Hogan - Early
Detection of Lung Cancer Award
Patient Care
* RMH - one of Australia's busiest hospitals
* Sake to celebrate arrival of new angiography scanner
* Dialysis training for regional nurses
* Stem cells heal major fractures
* Good news from VICNISS Report on hospital acquired
infections
* More beds for transitional care
* Painful mouth sores reduced for bone marrow recipients
Research
* Stroke prevention on track
* RMH teams with Israel on brain disease research
Events
* Presentation of US Presidential letter.
* The ladies have come to stay: an exhibition showcasing the
role of women in the 160-year history of RMH.
* Inaugural Physicians' Dinner.
* US sailors help celebrate Posy Day.
Behind the scenes
* 100 years of nursing courage - RMH nurses volunteering in
Australia's war efforts over the past 100 years.
* Happy retirement to Mr Peter Field, Marlene Cutayar and
John Lavan.
* Excellent results in accreditation survey.
* ED relocates to temporary home.
* Surgical wards celebrate injury-free year for staff.
* Vale: Karin Stephens and Dr F Ian R "Skip" Martin
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