2018 MHTP Research Symposium success

Prof William Sievert, Prof Eric Morand,
Prof Ian Frazer AC, Prof Paul Hertzog

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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MHTP Research Symposium 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 (1st prize $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 (3rd prize $100)

Nicole Free, winner of the Moash Univesrity 3MT final, won best oral presentation at the MHTP PhD student showcase symposium.  Dr Jasna Aleksova took out second prize, while Gloria Leung received the People’s Choice award.