Former WA Mental Health Commissioner Mr Eddie Bartnik has been appointed strategic adviser on mental health to the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA).
The Deputy CEO of the national Mental Health Commission, Ms Georgie Harman, has been appointed CEO of Beyond Blue.
Former Perth doctor, Dr Richard Pestell, who is now director of the Kimmel Cancer Centre at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, has won the biotechnology category at the 2014 Advance Australian Global Awards. The awards recognise the work of Australians living overseas. Dr Pestell graduated from UWA in 1981.
The former medical director at SJG Murdoch, Dr Shirley Bowen, is the new Dean of Notre Dame’s School of Medicine.
The Western Australian Centre for Rural Health’s [formerly CUCHR] state-of-the-art EdSIM Centre was open last month by the Federal Assistant Minister for Health, Senator Fiona Nash and WA Minister for Regional Development, Mr Terry Redman. The name change became official at the launch. The director of WACRH is Dr Sandra Thompson.
Ms Lorraine Willis is the new national events team leader at Cancer Council WA, responsible for events including Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea, Daffodil Day, Girls Night In and Pink Ribbon Day.
Hollywood Private Hospital medical director, Dr Daniel Heredia, and CEO of the WA Council of Social Service, Ms Irina Cattalini, were finalists in the 40 Under 40 awards run by Business News.
Ms Rachael Hadlow, from Third Avenue Surgery, Mt Lawley, has received an AAPM scholarship to study at the University of New England in Armidale, NSW. The scholarship is sponsored by Avant.
A/Prof Foteini Hassiotou of UWA’s Hartmann Human Lactation Research Group has been awarded two major international grants – a postdoctoral fellowship from the American Association of Anatomists and a $900,000 grant from Swiss group Medela AG for her work into human breast milk.
UWA Engineering student Ms Loretta Scolaro (with supervisor Prof David Sampson) has won the Canon Extreme Imaging competition for her imaging device which is hoped will improve intra-operative cancer detection for women with breast cancer.