The Faculty is delighted to announce that with the help of a $4 million National Health and Medical Research Council’s Australia Fellowship, Professor Paul Glasziou of Oxford University will join the Faculty academic team in early 2010.

Professor Glasziou will use his fellowship to undertake research to contribute new knowledge about the process and implementation of evidence-based medicine. This research will help to effectively close the gap between best available evidence and current clinical practice.

The recipients (pictured) of these prestigious fellowships have been recognised as having made an outstanding contribution to health and medical research and as a leading researcher in their field.

In 2003, the Bulletin Magazine named Professor Paul Glasziou one of Australia’s Top 10 Smartest People. Based at Oxford University’s Department of Primary Health Care, he is internationally renowned as Director of the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) and Editor of the Evidence- Based Medicine Journal.

“This grant program is making significant inroads to reversing the ‘brain drain’ by encouraging world renowned Australians, like Professor Glasziou, to return and share their expertise with our next generation of leaders,” said Faculty Dean, Professor Chris Del Mar.

“For our students to have access to the world’s foremost authority in the field is a coup for our medical faculty.”

Bond University’s resident EBM authority, Professor Jenny Doust, has worked together with Professor Del Mar and Professor Glasziou over many years, on numerous research projects and studies in EBM, and they have published research papers and books together.

Over the past few years, Professor Glasziou has been teaching at Oxford University, heading up the Centre for EBM, publishing over 100 scientific papers and authoring six books, all while still working part-time in general practice.

One of the Gold Coast’s top eye specialists Dr John Kearney recently hosted two Ophthalmology workshops at Bond University. The workshops were attended by an integrated group of final year medicine students from the Bond University and Griffith University Medicine Programs.

Bond University’s Clinical Education and Research Centre at Robina Hospital is a step closer with early construction works commencing on the $287.7 million hospital expansion.

The second annual Moonlight Masquerade Charity Ball was held on Friday 30 January at Conrad Jupiters Casino. Hosted by the Medicine Ball Committee, the aim of the Ball was to raise funds for the Gold Coast based charity, Future for Kids Queensland.

Bond University first year medicine students Emma Hogan and Kylie Ferguson are two of only 16 Australian medicine students to be chosen by the Australian Medical Students Association (AMSA) to attend the March Global Health Conference in Tunisia, North Africa.

The Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine hosted a student organised Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training workshop (ASIST) from 18-19 January. Organised by Phase 3 student Omar Mansour, the workshop focused on teaching the necessary skills to medical students to assist in dealing with the fragile situation of a person who is contemplating or threatening suicide.

In January, the Faculty's inaugural medical cohort completed their elective, where students can opt to complete a rotation in a clinical setting, or take part in a research project. The elective is a fantastic opportunity for students to gain experience in a location or speciality they are particularly interested in.

First launched in 2006, the Faculty hosts an annual Professional Development Series in Children’s Services consisting of regular evening and weekend workshops. The aim of the sessions is to provide professional support to interested children’s services staff, early childhood educators and parents within the community.

The Faculty congratulates Professor Jenny Doust on her appointment by the Minister of Health to the prestigious Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee (PBAC). This Committee has world-wide recognition as one of the finest ways of deciding which pharmaceuticals governments should subsidise, using not just evidence-based criteria, but also health-economics criteria.

A team of academics from Bond University’s Faculty of Health Sciences & Medicine has been chosen from a nation-wide tender process to design a revolutionary method to uncover doping – a practice that has lured many athletes seeking that elusive edge.

After a year of preparing her literature review and PhD proposal, PhD student, Sheree Hughes-Stamm is about to begin the practical research of her research project on improving DNA typing methods in natural and mass disasters.

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