Medical Forum satirist Wendy Wardell has won the Rostrum WA Speaker of the Year Competition and is now holder of the Arthur Garvey Trophy.
Dr Margaret Smith, well-known gynaecologist, women’s health advocate and author, is retiring. There will be a celebratory farewell on 14 December 2011.
Dr Paul Bailey is the new Director Emergency Medicine at St John of God Hospital Murdoch. Paul’s previous positions include Deputy Director Emergency Medicine at Joondalup Health Campus and Director of Emergency Medicine at Peel Health Campus. He was most recently the senior clinician lead for implementation of the clinical reform program at Joondalup Health Campus.
Sarah Devereux was awarded the RACGP National Rural Faculty Medical Undergraduate Student Bursary 2011.
ECU’s Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet (www.healthinfonet.ecu.edu.au) has won the Diversity category at the 2011 Australia New Zealand Internet Awards. The judges commented that many communities and projects from outside Australia could learn a lot from this important resource that appropriately respects the culture of our first nation people.
A/Prof Yuben Moodley who heads the Stem Cell Research Unit of the Lung Institute of WA (LIWA), has won the inaugural LIWA Glenn Brown Memorial Grant for research into cystic fibrosis and bronchiectasis.
Finalist for WA’s Scientist of the Year includes Prof Sarah Dunlop (Principal Research Fellow, the NHMRC and Winthrop Research Professor, UWA) while Early Career Scientist finalist is A/Prof Meri Tulic (Paediatrics and Child Health UWA).
Contenders for WA’s Australian of The Year include Dale Alcock (builder and philanthropist), Prof Donna Cross (children’s advocate and eventual winner), Gerard Neesham OAM (sporting mentor) and Corporal Benjamin Roberts-Smith VC (inspiring soldier) – quite a mix, without a medical contender amongst them.
The contracts totalling $55.3m for supply of Sharps Consumables (2 years) and Disposable Biohazard Containers (4 years) to WA Public Healthcare Units in regional WA has been won by a combination of B. Braun Australia Pty Ltd, Becton Dickinson Pty Ltd, Western Biomedical, Scientific Educational Supplies Pty Ltd, ASP Healthcare Pty Ltd and Tyco Healthcare P/L from amongst 14 applicants.