St John of God Murdoch Hospital’s Emergency Department, led by Dr Paul Bailey, has been voted top private emergency department in Australia for the second year running in Press Ganey’s annual patient survey.
Dr David Blacker is the new Medical Director at the WA Australian Neuroscience Research Institute (WANRI). Mr Roger Hussey is its new chairman.
Prof Jeff Hughes from Curtin’s School of Pharmacy, has been awarded the 2014 Australasian Pharmaceutical Sciences Association (APSA) Medal.
Former Dean of Medicine at Notre Dame University Prof Gavin Frost is now Dean of Education at Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators in Sydney.
Dr Sayanta Jana, ED of Medical Services at KEMH will be representing Australian Public Hospitals at the Australian Medical Council.
Renal physician and hypertension specialist Prof Markus Schlaich has been appointed inaugural Dobney Chair in Clinical Research, a position co-funded by UWA, RPH and RPH Medical Research Foundation.
The winners of the annual WA Health Awards include: RPH Medical Renal Transplant Unit (Director General’s Award); Operations manager State Cancer Centre Mr Thomas Tuchyna (Minister for Health’s Award); painHealth website developed by Dr Helen Slater, PhD, and Dr Stephanie Davies (Empowering Patients Award); Breastscreen WA online booking project (Consumers Engagement Award).
Kaleeya Hospital, sitting on 10,000sq m in East Fremantle, has been sold for $17.5m to Southern Cross Care (WA), which plans to use the land for an aged care service and health facility.
Resonance Health has won the WA Innovator of the Year award for developing its HepaFat-Scan technology which uses MRI to measure the level of fat in a person’s liver.
Mr Chris Pickett, Dr Andrew Png, Mr Tim Shackleton, and Dr Damien Zilm have been re-elected as WAGPET directors for another two-year term.
The WA Country Health Service received a Premier’s Award for Excellence in the Public Sector for its emergency telehealth service.
The NHMRC and the ARC have announced a $46m Dementia Research Development Fellowships scheme.
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p class=”MsoNormal” style=”margin-bottom: 6.0pt;”>Genesis CancerCare has opened at Fiona Stanley Hospital from February 2 inside the hospital’s Cancer Centre.