The MS McLeod Research Fund is continuing to support a monthly research seminar series at the CYWHS during 2008.
Seminars are held on the last Wednesday of the month at 12.30 pm in the Queen Victoria Lecture Theatre at the Women's and Children's Hospital campus. They will be preceded by light refreshments at 12 noon.
A small committee, chaired by Dr Taher Omari from Gastroenterology at the Hospital, is responsible for organising all aspects of the seminar program.
Feedback and enquiries to Dr Taher Omari
Tel: (08) 8161 6880 or Email: taher.omari@adelaide.edu.au
Seminar Program 2008
Date
Speaker
Organisation
Title
February 12 (Note: this is a Tuesday)
Prof Michael Stratton
Deputy Director, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and Head, Cancer Genome Project, Cambridge, UK
A systematic sequencing screen of the coding exons of the X chromosome in X-linked mental retardation
April 30
Prof Ashley Blackshaw
Head, Nerve Gut Research Laboratory, Hanson Institute
Future treatments for gastro-oesophageal reflux disease: a basic science perspective
May 28
Cancelled
June 25
Dr Marc Benninga
Director, Paediatric Gastroenterology & Nutrition, Emma Children's Hospital Academic Medical Centre Amsterdam
Abdominal pain in childhood: Hypnotherapy as an alternative treatment option
July 30
Cancelled
August 5 (Note: this is a Tuesday)
Mr Tim Jarvis
Environmental Scientist and Adventurer
Mawson life and death in Antarctica: Making a case for vitaminosis over cannibalism?
August 19th (note this is a Tuesday)
A/Professor William Wilcox
Lysosomal Storage Disease Treatment & Research Centre
Cedar- Sinai Medical Centre, LosAngeles
"Treatment of Lysosomal Storage Disorders, the Past, Present and Future."
September 24
Prof Ruth Salom
Executive Director, SA Pathology
"The strategic direction of SA Pathology"
October 24 (Note: This is a Friday, refreshments at 11.45)
Tim Gill
Writer on Childhood
"No Fear: Growing up in a risk averse society"
October 29
Dr Maqsood Ali Siddiqi
Chairman, Cancer Foundation of India
"Cancer Prevention and Control Activities in India"
November 26
MS McLeod Medal for Research Excellence Presentations
A/Prof Allison Cowin (WCHRI)
Dr Jennifer Fereday (CYWHS)
Dr Cuong Tran (CYWHS)
Function of the Flightless I Protein in wound repair
Using student, parent and staff perspectives and experiences of managing continence problems at school as a research basis for service improvement
Absorption of zinc and small bowel integrity in children with Coeliac Disease