Registration and Housing Now Open for Kidney Week 2015 in San Diego, California

EXPERIENCE THE LATEST ADVANCES IN KIDNEY CARE

Registration and housing are now open for ASN Kidney Week 2015. Join more than 13,000 kidney professionals from across the globe in San Diego, CA, November 3-8, at the most exciting nephrology meeting of the year. Register today for the annual meeting and for one of 13 early programs to reserve your spot.

The theme of this year's Kidney Week is Found in Translation: Connecting Research and Patient Care. This theme honors the commitment and dedication of kidney health professionals worldwide who focus time and expertise to advance the lives of millions of people with kidney disease.

More here.

Essence of Health program available to university staff at Dandenong Hospital

Delivered by Dr Craig Hassed, the Essence of Health program is a model for enhancing wellbeing and sustainable performance as well as the prevention and management of chronic illness. Essence is an acronym standing for Education, Stress management, Spirituality, Exercise, Nutrition, Connectedness and Environment and is a comprehensive lifestyle program underpinned by enabling strategies such as mindfulness, enhancing motivation, goal setting and behaviour change.

The program has been delivered within the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences for a number of years in training doctors and allied health practitioners in stress and lifestyle management.

Program dates: Friday 31 July, 7,14,21 August, 4 September

Time: 1:00-2:00

Venue: Seminar Room 1, Dandenong Hospital

Cost: Free only Monash University staff members.

How to register:  SWAP ID 322015: Dandenong Hospital (Monash Staff) 5 Week ESSENCEof Health program

HR and Research & Revenue Finance staff on Level 5

Research and Revenue staff are no longer located in the office in the Hudson Institute Building and will now be at SCS on Thursdays and Fridays. They will be in Katherine Greenberg's office in Rm 5.MC.30. It is anticipated that after the new research building opens, the R&R staff will be accommodated here at SCS HQ on a full-time basis. Co-location on Level 5 of E Block will make it easier for research staff to interact with R&R personnel.

The new Senior HR Business Partner for the SCS, Ms Selda Evci, will be located on Level 5 of Block E every Thursday starting on 2nd July. Selda will be located in Rm 5.SS.20.

Decommissioning of Legacy RMS

As the final pieces of functionality from Legacy RMS are created within RMS 2.0, access to Legacy RMS will no longer be required.

At 5.00pm (​AEST)​ on Tuesday 30 June 2015, access will no longer be available to Legacy RMS.

As a result, any information currently held in Legacy RMS that you may like to retain (e.g. Proposals) should be downloaded by this date. These pieces of information will not be transferred to RMS 2.0 and will not be accessible following the removal of access to Legacy RMS.

PLEASE NOTE: Final Reports within Legacy RMS will be transferred to RMS 2.0 and due to be available in the new system by late July.

If there is any information that you are having difficulty downloading, please email RMS2updates@arc.gov.au.

Diversity and Inclusion Committee - seeking new Members

The Diversity and Inclusion Committee is seeking new members to join our dedicated team.   This committee is vital in promoting a culture of equality, diversity and inclusion within the Faculty supporting the University's social justice values. Currently several Schools and Departments have no representation on this Committee, so I encourage you to consider becoming an active member.

If you are interested, please email Associate Professor Jenny Newton (Chair) for further details.  Jenny's email - jenny.newton@monash.edu

Car parking charges at Monash Health 15/16 financial year

Please be advised that the hourly rate for staff car parking at Monash Health will increase from $.69 to $.71 per hour, effective from 1 July 2015.

These charges are needed to ensure parking revenue helps cover the costs of existing facilities, as well as our parking infrastructure program.

Monash Health's car parking charges remain substantially lower than many comparable health services, and we are comparable with public transport fees.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Director Support Services, Sharon McNulty (sharon.mcnulty@monashhealth.org).

Concur goes paperless

Continuing Finance’s commitment to improving processes and services, we are happy to announce that from today physical copies of receipts for transactions processed via Concur only need to be kept until the transaction has been finalised by the Travel and Expense Management Team.

This means you can now dispose of any old receipts for Concur transactions included in an expense report that have been fully approved by the Approver and finalisation has occurred by the Travel and Expense Management Team. These reports will appear with the status: Approved, and Payment Status: Finalised for Accounting/Payment.

If you have any questions, please contact the Travel and Expense Management Team.  More information about Concur is available on the Concur intranet.

Ironman Triathlon events can cause intestinal leaks and blood poisoning: Monash University research

Dr Ricardo Costa

Department of Nutrition and Dietetics' Dr Ricardo Costa in the International Business Times.

Read story here.

Early developmental brain injury/interference: moving on from cerebral palsy

Michael Fahey published in Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology.

Read article here.

Couples coping with cancer: exploration of theoretical frameworks from dyadic studies

Professor Kissane

David Kissane published in Psycho-Oncology.

Read article here.

Sleep apnoea in the child

Gillian Nixon and Margot Davey published in Australian Family Physician

Read article here.

Quantification of Normative Ranges and Baseline Predictors of Aortoventricular Interface Dimensions Using Multi-detector Computed Tomographic Imaging In Patients Without Aortic Valve Disease

Ian Meredith et al. published in the European Journal of Radiology.

Read article here.

Very Preterm Infants Failing CPAP Show Signs of Fatigue Immediately after Birth.

Stuart Hooper published in PLoS One.

Read article here.

PD-1 and its ligands do not limit experimental foreign antigen induced immune complex glomerulonephritis.

Joshua Ooi et al. published in Nephrology.

Read article here.

Myeloperoxidase Peptide-Based Nasal Tolerance in Experimental ANCA-Associated GN.

Poh Yi Gan et al. published in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.

Read article here.

Immunosuppressive potential of human amnion epithelial cells in the treatment of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis.

Graham Jenkin and Euan Wallace published in the Journal of Neuroinflammation.

Read article here.

Higher Dietary Calcium Intakes Are Associated With Reduced Risks of Fractures, Cardiovascular Events, and Mortality: A Prospective Cohort Study of Older Men and Women

Peter Ebeling published in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research.

Read article here.

Dietary α-Linolenic Acid and Total ω-3 Fatty Acids Are Inversely Associated with Abdominal Aortic Calcification in Older Women, but Not in Older Men.

Dr David Scott

David Scott and Peter Ebeling published in The Journal of Nutrition.

Read article here.

Fall and Fracture Risk in Sarcopenia and Dynapenia With and Without Obesity: the Role of Lifestyle Interventions

Dr David Scott

David Scott and Peter Ebeling published in Current Osteoporosis Reports.

Read article here.

Health-related quality of life after stroke: reliability and validity of the Duke Health Profile for use in Vietnam

Velandai Srikanth published in Quality of Life Research.

Read article here.