Emergency physician and toxicologist, Dr Mark Monaghan, will be the new Head of Emergency at Fiona Stanley Hospital. Mark is currently the Co-Director of Emergency at Fremantle Hospital.
Prof Peter Leedman has been appointed Director Designate of the WA Institute of Medical Research(WAIMR). He takes over from Prof Peter Klinken who will move into a new role within WAIMR. The appointment will be official early next year when WAIMR opens its new $100m research building at the QEII Medical Centre.
The breakthrough findings of Murdoch University researchers Prof Steve Wilton and Prof Sue Fletcher on Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, which featured in Medical Forum last month, has earned the pair a prestigious Australian Museum Eureka Prize for research translation.
Prof Moyez Jiwa has been awarded the RACGP Integrative Medicine and Lifestyle Research Grant ($7500) for phase two of a clinical trial on Musaceae Musa (a member of the banana family of plants) as treatment for cutaneous warts. Dr Sarah McEwan has received the RACGP PWH Grieve Memorial Award ($1250) for course fees to study for her Master of Clinical Education at Flinders University.
The GPET-Ochre Recruitment Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Training Award winner is Dr Emma Griffiths, from WAGPET, for her work in the development of an electronic renal program in the Kimberley.
Curtin University’s 2013 Commercial Innovation Awards recognised Mr Matthew Oldakowski’s spinal stabilisation implant, SZ Device, which will be used in the cervical spine to treat neck pain. On the team was spinal surgeon Dr Philip Hardcastle. The Early Research Career Award was presented to Ms Elizabeth Grenik the development of a bioactive synthetic hydrogel scaffold that can be applied to chronic wounds such as diabetic foot ulcers. First prize went to Dr Dehua Dong for the development of a membrane that can speed up the rate of extraction of oxygen out of a selected gas or liquid mixture. It will have manufacturing and medical implications.
St John of God (SJG) Pathology has appointed Mr Michael Hogan as its new CEO following the appointment of former CEO Dr Lachlan Henderson to the position of Executive Director Perth Northern Hospitals.
GenesisCare Shenton House at Joondalup has gained hospital accreditation and has opened its chemotherapy in-patient sleep centre.
Ms June Oscar [Medical Forum, September] received the Order of Australia for her service to the Indigenous community of WA, particularly through health and social welfare programs in Fitzroy Crossing.
In Government contract news, Integranet Technology Group, Fujitsu Australia and Fusion Applications Consulting will share a $4.5m contract to provide Corporate Application Support Services for the Health Corporate Network (HCN). There were five applicants.
The Information Group has been awarded the $143,680 contract to develop, test and trial an application to electronically request (ER) with decision support (DS), medical imaging examinations on behalf of ImagingWest.
Spotscreen has been awarded a $450,000 contract to provide skin cancer screening services for Department of Agriculture and Food (DAFWA) staff both in the city and regional locations.