Dr Kim Tee Ong, from Dalkeith, was recognised in the Australia Day honours receiving an OAM for service to the rural community of Mandurah, and to medicine as a general practitioner.
Dr Alex Strahan joins the Sports Medicine WA board in 2012. Alex is a Fellow of the Australasian College of Sports Physicians having completed specialty training in the field of Sport and Exercise Medicine.
Dr Carmel Goodman has been presented with the Ken Fitch Award for outstanding contribution to a team in the field of sports medicine. Carmel is WAIS Medical Director and team doctor for the Australian Women’s Hockey team.
As a ‘retro’ award, Prof Fiona Stanley has been named as one of Australia’s top 10 health researchers for 2011 by the National Health and Medical Research Council. This pays tribute to her team’s work in contributing to the nation’s wellbeing as Chief Investigator for early intervention research into the “Determinants of child health and development: populations”. Prof Stanley is the UNICEF Australia Ambassador for Early Childhood Development.
The tender for “Provision of a Health Identifiers Solution” software for rural health regions has been award to IBM Australia Limited for $10.46m, for three years until January 2015. Curtin University of Technology will receive $278,183 over the next two years for a “pilot study to engage with local government authorities to investigate options to promote and enhance community injury prevention and community safety at a local level”. Atherton has been awarded a $115,880 contract by WA Country Health Service to supply Steriliser Services for the Goldfields/Esperance Health Region over the next three years. The DoH Health Information Network has been busy with the awarding of 20 separate contracts in the past three months valued at $3.8m, with the largest, $1.5m, going to Hewlett Packard for “Software Including Support and Maintenance”.
Mr Cameron Agnew has been appointed as executive officer of the Lung Institute of WA. He was formerly the CEO of the WA Amateur Football League.
Emergency Department nurse practitioner Ms Shirley Schoppe will be based at York Hospital in the Western Wheatbelt for a six-month pilot program as part of the Southern Inland Health Initiative. She is the first nurse practitioner specialising in emergency medicine to be appointed as part of the SIHI.
Researchers from Curtin’s School of Public Health have co-authored a scientific research paper that has received the Australasian Medical Journal’s (AMJ) best paper award for 2011. Professor Rosemary Coates, Professor Bruce Maycock and PhD candidate Peng Tao submitted the paper ‘The impact of infertility on sexuality: A literature review’, which was chosen from a field of 500 submissions from across the world.
The Ear Science Institute Australia (ESIA) has appointed WA’s Chief Scientist, Lyn Beazley, as a director.