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Doors open to Flinders medical research precinct

Adelaide has more than one medical-health research precinct, and the less known Flinders cluster leads the way just south of the city.

Sep 01, 2017, updated Sep 01, 2017

The public is invited to learn more about a wide range of specialist medical research and expertise at next week’s Flinders Health Research Week.

From 4 to 8 September, Research Week will showcase the investigations and discoveries of more than 50 leading researchers whose work is saving countless lives – or may contribute to life saving breakthroughs in the future.

Research week highlights include:

  • The latest work led by Flinders University Professor Graeme Young to develop a world-first test to diagnose cancer via DNA obtained in a simple blood sample
  • Presentations by visiting Professors Jeffrey Braithwaite of the Australian Institute of Health Innovation and Grant McArthur from the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
  • the “Lighthouse Project” at the Flinders Medical Centre which is improving outcomes for Indigenous people with acute coronary syndrome
  • The 40th anniversary of the Flinders Centre for Neuroscience, with high profile original members including former Vice-Chancellor, Emeritus Professor Ian Chubb AC and Emeritus Professors Laurie Geffen AM and John Chalmers AC participating in a panel session.

Research Week will include the 2017 John Chalmers lecture, to be presented this year by Professor Anne Kelso, Chief Executive Officer of the National Health and Medical Research Council.

“We know research always improves the quality of patient care,” says Mr Villis Marshall, Director of the Southern Adelaide Local Health Network Office for Research.

“The South of Adelaide is rich with world-class health and medical research and for the first time we are pleased to be able to shine a light on the passion, talent and giftedness of our medical professionals, students, clinical researchers and health staff based in the South.”

Did you know that art and also yoga can marry with medical sciences and support recovery and more healthy lives? Or that over-the-counter codeine can be potentially lethal and have significant cost to society and the health system?

Would you like to hear the latest efforts to promote positive body image and address eating disorders and anxiety in this age of airbrushed media images?

These are among a host of fascinating and compelling topics that will feature at the inaugural Flinders Health Research Week.

An initiative of the Flinders Medical Centre (part of the Southern Adelaide Local Health Network), Flinders University and Flinders Foundation, Research Week aims to shine a spotlight on the life-changing and world-leading research that takes place in Adelaide’s southern biomedical research precinct.

Medical research benefits the community, individuals and the state, including:

  • Access to better health services
  • Discoveries in disease prevention and treatment
  • Reduced pain and suffering
  • Well-founded hope
  • Reduced patient burden on the health system
  • Attraction of the world’s brightest, pioneering minds to this state.
  • Creation of a knowledge-intensive medicines industry
  • Creation of a more diverse economy
  • Attraction of private investment to Australia.
  • Provides Australia with strong international standing in health and medical research.

Flinders Health Research Week aims to raise awareness of research in the medical field across key stakeholders, including staff, students, graduates, industry, government, media and the wider community. The program will promote a journey of discovering new medical knowledge and creating new methods of techniques for the community.

Research Week will offer a range of lectures, masterclasses and workshops, panels and professional development opportunities.

Health Minister Jack Snelling, Flinders University Vice-Chancellor Professor Colin Stirling, Flinders Foundation Executive Officer Amanda Shiell and Southern Adelaide Local Health Network CEO Professor Michael O’Keefe will launch Flinders Health Research Week on Monday 4 September at 9am, at the Flinders Centre for Innovation in Cancer (Flinders Drive, Bedford Park).

For more information go to www.flindershealthresearch.com.au

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