Events in 2008

The Faculty of Medicine holds a large number of seminars on health and health-related issues throughout the year. Please see listings below. Unless otherwise indicated, all events are open to the general public.

Centenary Colloquium IV - Opportunities in microRNAs
Wednesday 30 January, 8.30am-5.00pm

Seminar - Measuring psychosocial consequences of false-positive screening results - breast cancer as an example
Friday 1 February, 1.00-2.00pm
Speaker: John Brodersen, MD, GP, PhD, University of Copenhagen, Institute of Public Health

Seminar - Assessing the demand for cancer services
Friday 8 February, 3.30-5.00pm
Speaker: Professor Michael Barton OAM, South West Clinical School, UNSW

Schizophrenia Symposium
Friday 15 February, 8.30am - 5.00pm

Seminar - New Developments with Bisphosphonate and anti-RANKL therapy in Cancer
Friday 22 February, 10.00 - 11.00am
Speaker: Professor Allan Lipton, Chief, Division of Oncology , Milton S. Hershey Medical Centre, Pennsylvania State University, USA

Seminar - Quality assuring work based assessment - the view from the UK
Monday 3 March, 4.00 - 5.30pm
Speaker: Dr Julian Archer MB ChB, MRCPCH, PhD

Seminar - What in the world wide web is going on? Redefining health related advertising and marketing after the Web 2 revolution
Thursday 6 March, 1.00pm
Speaker: Ms Becky Freeman

Seminar - What is Patient Safety? How do we Teach it?
Monday 10 March, 9.00am - 12.30pm

Seminar - Screening in diabetes – is it worthwhile?
Tuesday 18 March, 4.30pm
Speaker: Professor Stephen Colagiuri, Professor of Metabolic Health
Institute of Obesity, Nutrition and Exercise, University of Sydney

Seminar - Therapeutic Targeting of P1 3-Kinase Signalling Pathways in Cardiovascular Disease
Tuesday 25th March, 12-1pm
Speaker: Professor Shaun Jackson

Seminar - Where is Australian PHC going and where should it go? Does PHC mean 'Powerless to Hear the Community'?
Thursday 27 March, 1.00pm
Speaker: Professor Gavin Mooney, Director of SPHERe and Professor of Health Economics, Curtin University of Technology

Seminar - Protocol 4 and NSW trauma systems
Friday 28 March, 12:30-2pm
Speaker: Dr Paul Middleton, Ambulance Service of NSW

Seminar - Developing Research Skills: formulating research questions
Friday 28 March, 2-4pm
Speaker: Professor Ian Cameron, MBBS PhD FAFRM (RACP), Rehabilitation Studies Unit, Faculty of Medicine University of Sydney (located at Royal Rehabilitation Centre Sydney)

Seminar - Human mineralised tissues and calcium phosphate-based biomaterials
Thursday 3 April, 1-2pm
Speaker: Dr Ramin Rohanizadeh, Advanced Drug Delivery Group, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Sydney

Presentation - National registration, recent legislative changes & governance issues arising from recent high profile cases
Thursday 17 April, 6-7pm
Speaker: Dr Alison Reid

Seminar - Metabolic and cardiovascular consequences of obesity
Thursday 17 April, 1-2pm
Speaker: Professor Margaret Morris, Professor of Pharmacology, School of Medical Sciences, University of New South Wales

Seminar - Germ-line V-genes dictate the three dimensional structures of human antibodies that neutralise cytomegalovirus
Friday 18 April, 4pm
Speaker: Professor John Schrader, Canada Research Chair in Immunology and Director, the Biomedical Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver

The Mammalian Kruppel-like Factor (KLF) Family and Gene Control
Tuesday 22 April, 12 noon
Speaker: Professor Merlin Crossley, Professor & Acting Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research), USyd

Seminar - Using animal behavioural models to understand the development of schizophrenia and mechanism of action of antipsychotic drugs
Thursday 24 April, 1-2pm
Speaker:Associate Professor Maarten van den Buuse, NHMRC Senior Research Fellow, Head, Behavioural Neuroscience Laboratory, Mental Health Research Institute of Victoria

Seminar - Aging and regeneration of the immune system: the highs and lows of sex and drugs
Tuesday 29 April, 12 noon
Speaker: Professor Richard Boyd. Director, Monash Immunology and Stem Cell Laboratories, Monash University

Course - Methods in Cell Biology I
Wednesday 30 April, 2-4.30pm
Speakers: Dr Geoff Holst, Centenary Institute, Bldg 93. 'Basic Tissue Culture';
Dr Chuck Bailey, RPAH. 'Basic Molecular Biology'; Prof John Rasko. 'Gene Transfer Technology'.

Seminar - Target Based Drug Design of Selective GABA(C) Receptor Ligands
Thursday 1 May, 1-2pm
Speaker: Ms Heba Abdel Halim, Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Sydney

Seminar: Hepatic progenitor cells: links to fibrosis and cancer
Friday 2 May, 11am-12pm
Speaker: Professor John Olynyk, Deputy Director of WAMRI, School of Medicine and Pharmacology, University of WA

Seminar - Effects of respiratory syncytial virus infection in human airway smooth muscle cells
Thursday 8 May, 1-2pm
Speaker: Dr Maria Sukkar, Pharmacy Practice, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Sydney

Forum - 10th Sydney University Reproduction Forum (SURF Club)
Thursday 8 May 2-6pm
Speakers: Dr Kirsten McTavish, ANZAC Institute; Dr Kirsty Walters, ANZAC Institute; Professor Jonathon Morris, Northern Clinical School; Professor Keith Jones, University of Newcastle; Dr Laura Lindsay, School of Medical Sciences; Dr Claire Kershaw-Young, College of Veterinary Sciences

Faculty of Science Dean's Seminar Series - Duplication of the genome: mechanism and regulation
Friday 9 May, 5:30pm
Speaker: Professor Bruce Stillman, President, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY, USA

Seminar - New insights into the formation and function of caveola
Tuesday 13 May, 12-1pm
Speaker: Professor Robert Parton, NHMRC Principal Research Fellow, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, Brisbane

Lecture - Health related quality of life assessment in clinical oncology research and practice: facts, fictions and future directions
Tuesday 13 May 3.30-5.00 pm
Speaker: Professor Neil Aronson, Head of the Division of Psychosocial Research and Epidemiology at the Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam and Professor in the Department of Clinical Psychology, the University of Amsterdam

Course - Methods in Cell Biology II
Wednesday 14 May, 2-4.30pm
Speakers: Dr Bernadette Saunders, Centenary Institute, Bldg 93. 'ELISA and ELISPOT'; Dr Nick Shackel, RPAH. 'Real-Time PCR'; Dr Nick Shackel. 'Microarrays'

Lecture - Science Meets Commerce: Licensing in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Thursday 15 May, 12-1pm
Speaker: Dr Liz Jazwinska, Executive Director of New Business and Strategic Alliances
Johnson & Johnson Research, Sydney

Seminar - Electronic medication management systems in hospitals: Are they effective in reducing prescribing and administration errors?
Thursday 15 May, 1-2pm
Speaker: Professor Johanna Westbrook, Director, Health Informatics Research & Evaluation Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney

Seminar - Identification of FHL1 as a critical regulator of muscle mass and function
Tuesday 20 May, 12-1pm
Speaker: Professor Christina Mitchell, Head of the School of Biomedical Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne

Seminar - Is there a difference in high-grade cervical abnormalities by 2- or 3-year screening interval?
Wednesday 21 May, 4.30-5.30 pm
Speaker: Dr Stephen Morrell

Grand Challenges in Health & Medicine Public Lecture Series 2008
Population Ageing: What does it mean for the future of health care?
Wednesday 21 May, 5.30-6pm refreshments, 6-7pm lecture
Speaker: Dr Deborah Schofield, Associate Professor and Director of Research, Northern Rivers University Department of Rural Health, School of Public Health

Thursday lunchtime series: Presenting Science to a Non-Scientific Audience
Thursday 22 May, 12-1pm
Speakers: Dr John Allen, Associate Professor Chris Semsarian and Professor Barbara Fazekas de St Groth

Seminar - New vascular wall directed therapies for the prevention of atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease
Thursday 22 May, 1-2pm
Speaker: Associate Professor Peter Little, NHMRC Senior Research Fellow
Head, Cell Biology of Diabetes Lab Baker Heart Research Institute, Melbourne President of Diabetes Australia

Forum - 2020 Summit
Thursday 22 May, 1-2pm
Speakers: Professor Stephen Leeder, Professor Louise Baur, Professor Elizabeth Elliott, Professor Ian Hickie

Meeting - Regular Meeting of the Faculty of Medicine
Thursday 22 May, 4pm
Speaker: Professor Warwick Anderson, Chief Executive Officer of the NHMRC

Symposium - Iodine Deficiency in Australia. A Call to Action
Monday 26 May, 9am-4.30pm
Speakers: Nicola Roxon, Minister for Health and Ageing; Professor Jennie Brand Miller, University of Sydney; Professor Cres Eastman, University of Sydney; Dr Mu Li, University of Sydney; Professor Carol Nowson, University of Melbourne; Dr Sheila Skeaff, University of Otago, New Zealand; Ms Judy Seal, Department of Health and Human Services; Dr Dorothy Mackerras, FSANZ; Ms Fiona Fleming, George Weston Foods

Seminar - Multiple Sclerosis: novel approaches to control the battle between destruction and repair
Tuesday 27 May, 12-1pm
Speaker: Professor Claude Bernard, Group Leader, Multiple Sclerosis Research Laboratory, Monash University, Melbourne

Course - Methods in Cell Biology III
Wednesday 28 May, 2-4.30pm
Speakers: Professor Nick King, Centenary Institute, Bldg 93. 'Flow Cytometry'; Dr Jane Radford, RPAH. 'Immunohistochemistry'; Dr Louise Cole. 'Microscopy'

Workshop - ACF Flow Cytometry
Thursday 29 May

Lecture - Science Meets Commerce: IP Commercialisation Vehicles
Thursday 29 May, 12-1pm
Speaker: Dr Derek Baigent, Mallesons Stephen Jaques, Sydney

Seminar - Metabolism and hepatotoxicity study of kavalacones
Thursday 29 May, 1-2pm
Speaker: Ms Shuang Fu, Pharmaceutics, Faculty of Pharmacy,
University of Sydney

RSU Continuing Education Program 2008 - Developing a research institute
Friday 30 May, 1-2pm (light lunch from 12:30pm)
Speaker: Professor Robyn Norton, Principal Director, The George Institute For International Health and Associate Dean (International), Faculties of Health, The University of Sydney

RSU Continuing Education Program 2008 Workshop - Outcome Measures: quality of life and acquired brain injury
Friday 30 May, 2-4pm
Speaker: Associate Professor Robyn Tate, Rehabilitation Studies Unit, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Sydney

Festschrift - Professor John Pollard
Monday 2 June, 9am-3pm
Speakers: Professor Eva Feldman, University of Michigan School of Medicine; Professor Hugh Willison, Glasgow Biomedical Research Centre; Professor Austin Sumner, Louisiana State University; Professor John Pineas, University of Sydney; Professor Kathryn North, University of Sydney and Children’s Hospital at Westmead; Dr Judy Spies, University of Sydney and Royal Prince Alfred Hospital

Special Seminar - Sphingosine 1-phosphate signaling in the vasculature
Monday 2 June, 4-5pm
Speaker: Professor Tim Hla, Director, Centre for Vascular Biology, University of Connecticut Health Centre, USA

Seminar - Organ specific leukocyte recruitment
Tuesday 3 June, 12-1pm
Speaker: Professor Paul Kubes, Director, Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, Professor, Departments of Physiology & Biophysics and Medicine, University of Calgary

Workshop - Cross Cultural Perspectives in Aboriginal Health
Tuesday 3 June and Wednesday 4 June, 9am-5pm

Centenary Colloquium V - Opportunities in Stem Cell Biology
Wednesday 4 June, 8.30am - 5.00pm

Thursday lunchtime series: Cancer Therapeutics – from research to the patient, drug discovery from your cancer research
Thursday 5 June, 12-1pm
Speaker: Guy Heathers, Chief Business Officer, Cancer Therapeutics CRC

Seminar - Potential bZIP Transcription Factors that Regulate the Gene Expression of a Special P450 Gene, CYP2J2
Thursday 5 June, 1-2pm
Speaker: Mr Andy Lee, Pharmaceutics, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Sydney

Special seminar - Integrin Signalling and Cancer
Friday 6 June, 12-1pm
Speaker: Professor Martin A Schwartz, Cardiovascular Research Centre, Depts of Microbiology and Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia, USA

Seminar - Health inequalities in England - current understanding and future approaches
Friday 6 June, 1-2pm
Speaker: Professor Gillian Rowlands, visiting from London South Bank University

Seminar - Identifying therapeutic targets for cancer from laboratory to clinical practice
Tuesday 10 June, 12-1pm
Speaker: Associate Professor Grant McArthur, Sir Edward Dunlop Clinical Research Fellow; Consultant Medical Oncologist; Head, Cancer Therapeutics Program; Peter MacCallum Institute, Melbourne, Victoria

Research Presentation Day
Friday 13 June, 9am start

Annual Scientific Meeting 2008 - Heart, Vessels and Health
Friday, 13 June
Keynote speaker: Professor John Kearney, Chief, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, UMass Memorial Healthcare, Professor of Medicine, UMass Medical School, Boston, USA

Cancer Research Meeting - Interrogating breast cancer pathology
Friday 13 June, 12-1pm Note: this meeting has been rescheduled
Speaker: Dr Rosemary Balleine, Research Group Leader, Translational Oncology, Sydney West Area Health Service & Westmead Institute for Cancer Research & Cancer Institute NSW Fellow

On the role of the doctor of the future
Wednesday 18 June, 10am-12pm
Speaker: Professor Des Gorman

Grand Challenges in Health & Medicine Public Lecture Series 2008
Increasing the use of evidence in health policy
Wednesday 18 June, 5.30-6pm refreshments, 6-7pm lecture
Speaker: Professor Sally Redmond, CEO Sax Institute

RSU Continuing Education Program 2008 - Social Cognition in Brain Injury: New Advances
Friday 20 June, 1-2pm (light lunch from 12.30pm)
Speaker: Professor Skye McDonald

RSU Continuing Education Program 2008 - Outcome measures for spinal cord injury: ASIA Impairment Scale
Friday 20 June, 2-4pm
Speaker: Dr Lisa Harvey

Second Alzheimer's & Parkinsons Disease
Symposium: Novel strategies to dissect pathomechanisms in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases.
Saturday 21 June, 8am-4.45pm

Seminar - Of birds and men: the challenge of influenza
Tuesday 24 June, 12-1pm
Speaker: Professor Anne Kelso, Director, WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza, Parkville, Victoria

1st Sino-Australian Symposium - Cancer research in the 21st century
Jointly sponsored by the University of Sydney and Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Tuesday 24 June and Wednesday 25 June

Forum - Getting published in the lay press
Wednesday 25 June, 12.30-2pm
Speakers: Dr Mark Ragg, Melissa Sweet, Dr Catriona Bonfiglioli, Professor Simon Chapman

Course - Introduction to Biostatistics
Wednesday 25 & Friday 27 June, 2-5pm
Speaker: Dr Federica Barzi, The George Institute Centenary Inst, Bldg93, RPAH

University of Sydney Cancer Research Network Scientific Meeting - Theme: Angiogenesis
Thursday 26 June, 2-4.20pm
Speakers: Professor Philip Hogg, Director, UNSW Cancer Research Centre; Professor Jennifer Gamble, Vascular Biology Program, Centenary Institute; Dr Martin Ng, Cardiologist, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital

Meeting - Regular Meeting of the Faculty of Medicine
Thursday 26 June, 4pm
Speaker: Professor Warwick Anderson, Chief Executive Officer of the NHMRC

NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre Research Seminar - PhD Student Presentations
Friday 27 June 2008, 3.30-5pm

Seminar - Human elastin: flexing proteins, quantized assembly and elastic tissue repair
Tuesday 1 July, 12-1pm
Speaker: Professor Tony Weiss, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biotechnology, School of Molecular and Microbial Biosciences, University of Sydney

Cancer Research Meeting - Pre-Clinical Development of Ex-Vivo Expanded Umbilical Cord Blood Stem Cells for Use in Allogeneic Transplantation
Friday 4 July, 12-1pm
Speaker: Dr Alla Dolnikov, Principal Hospital Scientist, Cord and Marrow Transplant Facility, Sydney Children's Hospital
Associate Investigator, Leukaemia Gene Therapy Group, CCIA
Conjoint Lecturer, Faculty of Medicine, School of Women's and Children's Health, UNSW

NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre Research Seminar - Bias modelling in evidence synthesis for decision making
Monday 7 July, 3.30-5.00pm
Speaker: Professor Simon Thompson, MRC Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Seminar - Sunlight (ultraviolet rays) and asthma: links and immunological mechanisms
Tuesday 8 July, 12-1pm
Speaker: Professor Prue Hart, NHMRC Principal Research Fellow, Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, Perth

Seminar - The enigma of cardiac regeneration
Tuesday 15 July, 12-1pm
Speaker: Professor Robert Graham, Head, Molecular Cardiology & Biophysics Division, Executive Director, Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute

Seminar - the role of randomised controlled trials, accuracy studies and other sources of comparative evidence for test evaluation
Wednesday 16 July, 4.30-5.30pm
Speaker: Dr Sally Lord, Epidemiologist, NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre, School of Public Health, The University of Sydney

Seminar - Cardiovascular disease: a global perspective
Tuesday 22 July, 12-1pm. Lunch will be provided after the seminar
Speaker: Professor Stephen MacMahon, Principal Director, The George Institute for International Health, Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine & Epidemiology, University of Sydney

China Health Forum
Wednesday 23 July, 5-7pm. Refreshments served from 5pm
Speakers: From the Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine

Sydney Cancer Conference 2008 - Research translation: Innovation to practice
Thursday 24 to Saturday 26 July

Linear Models: a flexible and powerful way of analysing just about anything
Friday 25 July 2008, 1-2pm. Light lunch from 12.30pm
Speaker: Associate Professor Robert Herbert

Developing Research Skills: formulating research questions
Friday 25 July, 2-4pm
Speaker: Professor Ian Cameron, MB BS PhD (Medicine) FAFRM (RACP)

Seminar - Functional specialisation of the actin cytoskeleton by tropomyosins
Tuesday 29 July, 12-1pm. Lunch will be provided after the seminar
Speaker: Associate Professor Edna Hardeman, Professor of Anatomy, School of Medical Sciences, University of New South Wales

Course - Intermediate/Advanced Biostatistics
Tues 29 & Thurs 31 July, 2-5pm
Speaker: Dr Federica Barzi, The George Institute Centenary Inst, Bldg 93, RPAH

Grand Challenges in Health & Medicine Public Lecture Series 2008
The 50 year revolution in global public health
Wednesday 30 July, 5.30-6pm refreshments, 6-7pm lecture
Speaker: Sir Gustav Nossal, AC CBE, Professor Emeritus, Department of Pathology, University of Melbourne

Human Genome Epidemiology Symposium
Friday 1 August, 9am-2pm (coffee and tea from 8.45am)
Speakers: Dr Nat Rothman, Dr Qing Lan, Dr Sophia Wang, Dr Mark Purdue and Dr Lindsay Morton from the National Cancer Institute, USA and Dr Angie Brooks-Wilson, Head, Cancer Genetics Laboratory, Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre

RPAH Clinical Week
Monday 4 to Friday 8 August

Workshop - Fundamentals of Rasch Measurement
Monday 11 August, 8:30am-4:30pm and Tuesday 12 August, 9am-4pm
Speaker: Professor Trevor Bond, Head, Department of Educational Psychology, Counseling and Learning Needs, Hong Kong Institute of Education

Grand Challenges in Health & Medicine Public Lecture Series 2008
Rethinking the role of medicine
Wednesday 20 August, 5.30-6pm refreshments, 6-7pm lecture
Speaker: Professor Stephen Leeder, Co-Director, Menzies centre for Health Policy, Medical Foundation Fellow, University of Sydney

Careers in Medicine and Public Health Information Forum
Thursday 21 August, 5-7pm

Course - Thesis, Grant and Journal Article Writing
Wednesday 27 August, 2-4.30pm
Speakers: A/Prof Jillian Kril, Centenary Institute, Bldg 93. 'Planning & Writing a Thesis'; A/Prof Jillian Kril, RPAH. 'Writing a Grant Application'; Dr Cheryl Salome. 'Writing a Journal Article'

Course - Informatics, Genomics & Proteomics
Wednesday 17 September, 2-4.30pm
Speakers: Professor Ron Trent, Centenary Institute, Bldg 93. 'SUPAMAC'; Dr Jonathan Arthur, RPAH. 'Bioinformatics'; Professor Marc Wilkins. 'Proteomics'

Course - Commercialisation of Research
Wednesday 24 September, 2-4.30pm
Speakers: Dr Sandra Anderson, RPAH. 'From an Idea to Commercialisation'; Dr Rob Silberstein. ' Protecting Medical & Surgical Technologies'

Grand Challenges in Health & Medicine Public Lecture Series 2008
Lifting the last straw: the challenge of chronic illness
Wednesday 24 September, 5.30-6pm refreshments, 6-7pm lecture
Speaker: Bruce Armstrong, Professor of Public Health and Medical Foundation Fellow, University of Sydney

Grand Challenges in Health & Medicine Public Lecture Series 2008
Tackling public health’s deadly sins – the epidemiology of gluttony and sloth
Wednesday 22 October, 5.30-6pm refreshments, 6-7pm lecture
Speaker: Adrian Bauman, Sesquicentenary Professor of Public Health, School of Public Health, Medical Foundation Fellow, University of Sydney