This year’s MHTP Research Symposium was an overwhelming success. More than 220 posters were submitted and displayed throughout Monash Medical Centre, the Monash Children’s Hospital and the Translational Research Facility. For the third consecutive year there were ‘standing room’ only crowds for the keynote speaker. Professor Ian Frazer AC spoke about the history of papillomavirus and the development of a vaccine.
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Poster competition winners
| Poster Category | Abstract title | Best Poster Prize Winner - $500 |
|---|---|---|
| Women's Health and Female Reproduction | The Role of PFN1 in Endometrial Cancer | Lisanne George |
| Public Health & Health Services | Antibiotic prescribing patterns in the paediatric community | Sabrina Yeh |
| Oncology (supported and sponsored by MPCCC) | DNMT1 depletion by Guadecitabine induces potent anti-T-cell lymphoma activity in vitro andin vivo | Belinda Maher |
| Nursing and Midwifery | Person-Centredness in a Complex Care Program: Perspectives of Clients and Staff | Julie White |
| Mental Health and Neurosciences | Do patients with Motor Neurone Disease experience disorders of olfaction? | Chi Hsuan Hu |
| Inflammatory & Infectious Diseases | Glucocorticoid-Induced Leucine Zipper (GILZ) Represents A Checkpoint Limiting Type 1 Interferon (IFN) Production In SLE | Champa Nataraja |
| Emergency Medicine, Anaesthetics, Intensive Care and Surgery | Just Say No To the Just In Case Cannula: Does a Multimodal Intervention Reduce Peripheral Intravenous Cannula (PIVC) Associated Health-care Acquired Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemias? | Chhavi Raj Bhatt |
| Diabetes, Obesity, Men's Health & Reproduction & Endocrinology | Does combined osteopenia/osteoporosis and sarcopenia confer greater risk of fracture than either condition alone in older men? The Concord Health and Ageing in Men Project | David Scott |
| Child & Neonatal Health | Epidemiology of adenotonsillectomy in Victoria and risk factors for postoperative complications | Aimy Tran |
| Cardiovascular Disease | Application of the DILEMMA score to improve lesion selection for invasive physiological assessment | Michael Michail |
| Allied Health and Other | Cultural empathy in physiotherapy students: a pre-test post-test study utilising virtual simulation | Annika Ward |
Translational research young investigators poster competition winners
| Poster Category | Abstract title | Best Poster Prize Winner |
|---|---|---|
| Inflammatory and Infectious Diseases | Assessment of gut dysfunction in a mouse model of stroke | Kathryn Kumar (1stprize $500) |
| Other | Development of assisted reproductive techniques to conserve Australia’s native fish | Nicola Rivers (2nd prize $200) |
| Inflammatory and Infectious Diseases | Prospective Validation of the Lupus Low Disease Activity State - a Treatment Target for Systemic Lupus Erythematosus | Dr Vera Golder (3rdprize $100) |
Oral presentation winners
- Best oral presentation: Nicole Free (winner of the Moash Univesrity 3MT final)
- Second place: Dr Jasna Aleksova
- People’s Choice award: Gloria Leung