Dr Shane Kelly, former head of St John of God Health Care has been appointed state manager of Ramsay Health Care.
Dr Michael Page has been inducted as the new president of the AMA (WA) taking the reins from retiring president Dr Mark Duncan-Smith.
Health professionals figured prominently in the finalist lists of the Premier’s science awards. Among them, haematologist Professor Wendy Erber (UWA), Alzheimer researcher Professor John Mamo (pictured, Curtin University) and autism researcher Professor Andrew Whitehouse (UWA and TKI) are in the running the Scientist of the Year.
Among the finalists of the mid-career award are paediatric anaethetist Professor Britta Regli-von Ungern-Sternberg (UWA, PCH) and mental health researcher Professor Ashleigh Lin (TKI).
The early career awards acknowledged Dr Rebecca Bennett (Ear Science Institute Australia and Curtin University), microbiologist Dr Kieran Mulroney (Perkins Institute) and clinical psychologist Dr David Preece (Curtin).
In the student category, Denby Evans (TKI, Curtin) is acknowledged for her work with preterm infants, Ingrid Stacey (UWA) for her research on data linkage for acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease, and biochemist Somayra Mamsa (UWA) on neurodegenerative diseases.
The $20 million development at Abbotsford Private Hospital in West Leederville has opened offering 47 new mental health inpatient beds, new group therapy rooms, administration facilities and additional car parking. The total number of mental health beds now at Abbotsford is 77, more than doubling the hospital’s patient capacity.
Australian medicinal cannabis company Little Green Pharma awarded commercial tender to supply up to AU$1.6 million of its CBD50 product to a French medicinal cannabis trial.