This workshop aims to understand the value of how cord blood might help in the treatment of diseases aside of the more traditional bone marrow transplants.

Presenter:Dr Belinda Parker, Senior Research Fellow, Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering, School of Molecular Sciences, Department of Biochemistry, La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science

Hosted by the Centenary Institute

Presenter:Professor Louise Sharp, Clinical Research Director, School of Psychology

Summary
Chronic pain patients demonstrate attentional biases towards pain-related stimuli. However, their clinical importance has yet to be established. The aim of this presentation is to determine (1) whether patients with chronic pain demonstrate attentional biases; (2) whether attentional biases predict subsequent function; and (3) whether interventions that change attentional biases result in clinical improvements. There is now clear evidence that attentional biases exist in chronic pain patients that are not evident in healthy people. However, these biases do not appear to be associated with function. However, biases away from affective pain information or towards positive stimuli consistently predicted subsequent pain reports, when stimuli were presented for 500ms, indicating strategic avoidance of negative stimuli. In the only study to investigate vigilance (100ms presentation of stimuli with a mask), speeded response to painful stimuli predicted subsequent pain. Further, there was evidence that interventions targeting attentional biases resulted in changes in pain in both analogue and clinical samples. These results suggest that attentional biases in pain are more complex than initially thought, but appear to be important, at least in the development and management of pain.

Hosted by the Woolcock Institute of Medical Research

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Sydney Medical School's Research and Careers Fair is an opportunity for students considering undertaking Honours, Masters or PhDs, or a project which can be done as part of a medical degree, to discuss options with some of the faculty's leading medical and health researchers. Students will be able to talk about specific projects or interests with a wide cross section of researchers and current students, working in areas including cancer, neuroscience, immunology, child and maternal health, cardiac disease, obesity, nutrition and exercise, clinical trials, ageing, smoking, public health, sleep medicine, ophthalmology, genetics, medical imaging - and more! Scientists, clinicians and researchers will be happy to talk about and advise on projects suitable for Honours, Masters or PhDs, or which can be done as part of a medical degree.

Sydney Medical School is one of the largest research organisations in Australia. This Fair brings together representatives from all its major research Institutes, Centres and Schools, those based on campus as well as those linked to the School's teaching hospitals at Westmead, Nepean, Concord, RPA and North Shore.

Careers in medicine and health

Attending the Research and Careers Fair will be a range of public and private sector employers of medical and health graduates, including NSW Health and the Local Health Districts. A number of the key Royal Colleges (Physicians, General Practitioners, Psychiatrists, Ophthalmologists, Intensive Care Medicine) and alumni from a range of disciplines (including cardiology and emergency medicine), will be present to meet students and discuss career options.

Participating organisations
Antipodeans Abroad
Australia Orthopaedic Association
Australian Society for HIV Medicine
Cancer Council NSW
Contact Singapore
Defence Force Recruiting
HealthStrong
NSW Health
Public Health Training and Workforce
Public Health Association of Australia
PwC
Western NSW Local Health District

Colleges
Royal College of General Practitioners
Royal Australian College of Surgeons
Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists
Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists
Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia

Research institutes
Brain and Mind Research Institute
Save Sight Institute
Kids Research Institute at The Children's Hospital at Westmead
Faculty of Pharmacy
Children's Medical Research Institute
Heart Research Institute
Nepean Clinical School
ANZAC Research Institute
Save Sight Institute
CIRUS
Bosch Institute
Westmead Millennium Institute for Medical Research
Charles Perkins Centre
Brain Dynamics Centre
Centre for Values, Ethics & the Law in Medicine

Specialists attending
Cardiologist
Research Academic
Careers in Medicine
Primary Care GP
Emergency Medicine

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Thinking of applying to study graduate medicine or dentistry at Sydney Medical School or Faculty of Dentistry?

The evening will provide an overview of thegraduate entrymedicine (MBBS) and dentistry (DMD) programs, as well as up to date information on the application process and advice on preparing for the (much feared) Multiple Mini Interviews.

Program

Martin, Stage 3 medical student (MC)
Professor Bruce Robinson, Dean, Sydney Medical School
Professor Chris Peck, Dean, Faculty of Dentistry
Harriet, Stage 2 medical student
Simon, Stage 3 medical student and MedSoc president
David, Year 4 dentistry student
Professor Stewart Dunn, Associate Dean, Sydney Medical Program Admissions
Q&A

Students attending should also visit Sydney Medical School's Research and Careers Fair, held in MacLaurin Hall immediately prior to the Medicine and Dentistry information evening. Encouraging students to undertake research is an important component of studying medicine at Sydney, and the Research and Careers Fair is an introduction to the extensive research opportunities available to students.

Information for students seeking scholarships for research degrees

Associate Professor Brett Hambly will provide a comprehensive outline of scholarships available and the application process for postgraduate research within Sydney Medical School, Sydney Nursing School, and the Faculties of Dentistry and Pharmacy. Join in person or via webinar, details for webinar participants will be emailed prior to the event.

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Presenter:Professor Peter L McLennan, University of Wollongong

Presenter:Professor Philip Mitchell from the University of New South Wales

This one hour webinar will firstly focus on epidemiology of mood disorders with details of the prevalence of mood disorders in the community, the common ages of onset of the anxiety disorders, the common comorbidities that you would screen for in a patient with an anxiety disorder, and the population level risk factors for the development of a mood disorder.

After a brief Q&A session, the webinar will continue to discuss the symptoms of bipolar disorder. The presentation will highlight the symptoms of bipolar disorder. You will learn how to distinguish between major depression and bipolar depression. The webinar will end with a discussion on cyclothymia and other forms of bipolar disorder followed by a brief Q&A session again.

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Hosted by the Discipline of Psychiatry at Westmead Clinical School

Presenter:Professor Gavin Andrewsfrom the University of New South Wales

Major depressive disorder accounts for 30% of the Burden of Mental Disorders and is the principal cause of disability in the world. Standard treatment has been with medication but recent reviews show that they are weak treatments with number needed to treat ranging from 4-14. Cognitive behaviour therapy, especially that delivered over the internet is a stronger treatment and is to be preferred especially as there is concurrent reduction in suicidal ideation and work loss days.

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Hosted by the Discipline of Psychiatry at Westmead Clinical School

Presenter:Associate Professor Simon Carlile, Disicpline of Physiology, School of Medical Sciences

Presenter:Professor Tim Usherwood from the Discipline of General Practice

At the end of this presentation, participants will:

1. Appreciate the ways in which mood disorders may present in primary care and be aware of appropriate responses by the clinician,
2. Be able to describe a safe and focused approach to assessment, suitable for the primary care context, and
3. Be able to outline a structured approach to management, based on an assessment of the patient, their illness and its context

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Hosted by the Discipline of Psychiatry at Westmead Clinical School

Presenter: Professor David Castle from the University of Melbourne

Depression and anxiety often occur together in clinical practice and their co-occurrence carries negative prognostic implications. There has been ongoing debate about how these disorders should be classified, with some proposals suggesting generalised and anxiety disorder (GAD) in particular should be subsumed under the mood disorders grouping. This presentation takes GAD as a case example, traces its genesis over time and points out ways of differentiating its features from those of depression. The aetiological underpinnings of GAD are then contrasted with those of depression, and various parameters (psychological, genetic, neurotransmitter, neuroendocrine) considered in trying to dissect the disorders, Finally, an attempt is made at a pharmacological dissection.

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Hosted by the Discipline of Psychiatry at Westmead Clinical School

Presenter:Professor Malcolm Hopwood from the University of Melbourne & Albert Road Clinic

Treatment of depression has proved challenging with all effective agents associated with an approximately 60 to 70% response rate, and a 40% remission rate. The earliest available antidepressant agents such as the tricyclic antidepressants and monoamine oxidase inhibitors were also associated with significant side effects and toxicity in overdose. The introduction of the Serotonin Specific Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs) in the late 1980s has thus had a dramatic influence on the treatment of Depression in the community. These agents are associated with probably equivalent efficacy, considerably lower side effect burden and relatively low toxicity in overdose.

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Hosted by the Discipline of Psychiatry at Westmead Clinical School

Presenter:Professor Jayashri Kulkarni from Monash University & Alfred Hopsital

This webinar will introduce you to the differences between men and women in the epidemiology of mood disorders, the differences in the presentation of mood disorders between men and women, the biological and sociological reasons for the differences in the presentation and frequency of mood disorders between men and women, and the treatment implications for these differences.

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Hosted by the Discipline of Psychiatry at Westmead Clinical School

Presenter:Professor Philip Hazell, Head of the Discipline of Psychiatry, Sydney Medical School

A survey of Australian children found 3.7% of boys and 2.1% of girls aged 6-12 years had experienced a depressive episode in the previous 12 months. The rate among teenagers aged 13-17 years was 4.8% for boys and 4.9% for girls. This webinar will describe the causes and clinical manifestations of depression in young people, and the typical course of the disorder. In addition the webinar will examine the indications for the treatment of depression in children and adolescents, how to prioritize treatment, the evidence supporting various treatment options, and how to explain treatment to young people and their parents.

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Hosted by the Discipline of Psychiatry at Westmead Clinical School

Full title: Who, what, when and how? The development and implementation of a set of risk assessment tools for detecting undiagnosed type 2 diabetes in a multi-ethnic UK population

Speaker: DrLaura Gray, University of Leicester

About the speaker

Dr Laura Gray is a Lecturer of Population and Public Health Sciences at the University of Leicester, UK. Laura has led the development and implementation of the Leicester risk assessment tools for detecting undiagnosed type 2 diabetes.

Laura's background is medical statistics with a particular interest in the design and analysis of clinical trials (especially cluster randomised trials, and trials with ordinal outcomes) and evidence synthesis.

RSVP via online registrationor email to crystal.lee@sydney.edu.au

Hosted by the Boden Institute

Full title: Inserting a red light into the brain; development of a new treatment for Parkinson's disease

Presenter:Professor John Mitrofanis, Disicpline of Anatomy and Histology, School of Medical Sciences

Presenter:Professor Colleen Loo from the University of New South Wales

The development of novel physical treatments is an exciting recent development in psychiatry. Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation uses strong magnetic pulses to focally stimulate the surface of the brain and has been shown in clinical trials to have antidepressant effects. Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation uses very small electrical currents (approximately 1/400 of those used in electroconvulsive therapy) and is able to stimulate the brain at depth. Recent clinical trials suggest it also has meaningful antidepressant efficacy. Both of these novel treatments do not require any anesthesia and do not induce seizures. Further, clinical studies have shown that they do not cause memory and cognitive impairment, and may in fact, improve cognition. Other novel physical treatments will also be discussed in this webinar - magnetic seizure therapy, deep brain stimulation.

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Hosted by the Discipline of Psychiatry at Westmead Clinical School

The scientific sessions will be in five themes, all pioneered by Bishop and his colleagues:

* Thalamic processing of retinal input
* Parallel processing of visual information
* Physiological optics
* Cortical processing of visual information
* Neural basis of Stereopsis

Hosted by the Bosch Institute

This course is designed to address the most common issues that occur when establishing and running epidemiological research projects. The collective research experience of the Respiratory & Environmental Epidemiology (REE) team at the Woolcock combines to provide hands-on and practical ways for new researchers to transfer theoretical knowledge into practice.

Hosted by the Woolcock Institute

All researchers be they from medicine, chemistry or science that work in the nanomedicine field are acutely aware of the great need to prevent and cure diseases which have emotional, social and economic ramifications. We, either working at the bench or at the bedside, acknowledge that the application of nanotechnology into healthcare offers possibilities in the key areas of

- Target Delivery

-Sensing

- Diagnostics

- Regenerative Medicine

- Imaging

- Translational Medicine

- NanoSafety

Effective faculty leadership and governance are essential to Higher Education sustainability. Realigning goals and objectives is essential to achieve success in these demanding roles. The constant challenges of change and increasing support to key academic and research functions has increased the demand for a professional forum for leaders in Higher Education to engage and enhance their skills to be more effective and dynamic in their roles.

Confirmed keynotes include

•Johnand Connie O'Brien, known internationally for thier ground-breaking work on person-centred approaches
•Associate Professor Vivienne Riches, who will be talking on 'Who Supports the Support Workers'
•Phil Tuckerman, CEO of JobSupport and recognised in the Disability Employment Australia Hall of Fame

Hosted by the Centre for Disability Studies

'L' plates for language? We don't receive a drivers licence for communication, yet there is no doubt that we develop new skills as we develop language and literacy skills, and that educators and families play a major role in society as 'communication' driving instructors.

Recognising the role of medical education in the establishment of positive health behaviours for medical students, this conference will provide a forum for open discussion between educators and experts in doctors' health.

In conjunction with the 25th Anniversary of the Centre for International Health at The University of Bergen.

The conference will present Norwegian and international implementation andhealth systems research. The key question at the conference is how we can improve health service delivery in low and middle-income countries?

"Translating the science into clinical practice"