Prof Fiona Stanley is to retire from the Board of the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research at the end of this year. She will continue as Chief Investigator on a number of research projects that have funding into 2014.
UWA has appointed Dr Wendy Erber as Winthrop Professor, Chair and Head of the School of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. She was recruited from Cambridge where she was the Director of Haematology and Head of the East of England Haemato-Oncology Diagnostic Service. Her expertise is around haematological malignancies.
Prof Jack Goldblatt was awarded a Member (AM) in the General Division in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for service to medicine in the area of human genetics as a clinician and researcher, and to professional associations.
Dr Mary Theophilus (surgeon and Research Fellow at the Colorectal Surgical Society of Australia & New Zealand) has been named as the inaugural recipient of the $20,000 Jean and John Tonkinson Research Foundation research grant. Her PhD (under the supervision of Prof Cameron Platell) explores new techniques for laparoscopic surgery for bowel cancer, in the hopes it could be a more effective surgical treatment.
Amy Cuthbert will be replacing RACGP WA Faculty Marketing & Event Officer, Abby Roberts, who after three years of working for the College is relocating to Melbourne.
Caroline Kirkby has been appointed Marketing and Communications Manager at Silver Chain, to replace Nick Harvey.