SCS eNews

Tuesday, 19 July 2016

MONASH PSYCHIATRY ACADEMIC DAY 2016, 11 August

Academic Day showcases the multi-disciplinary research activities across the discipline of psychiatry.

Thursday 11 August, 8.30am-4.30pm
Monash Health Translation Precinct, TRF Seminar Room 1
Level 2, Monash Medical Centre

Please RSVP to Andrea Peres (andrea.peres@monash.edu) by 5 August.

Program attached here.

Music for the Valley - Monash Medical Orchestra's annual Gippsland tour, 13 August

With much thanks to the School of Rural Health, we will be continuing our annual tour of the Gippsland community, bringing music and warmth to many hearts to our friends in the east.

Save the date - R U OK? Day is on Thursday 8 September

Grand Round Presentation - Nephrology Unit - 20 July

Unit: NEPHROLOGY Unit

Presenters: Associate Professor John Kanellis and Dr Bill Mulley

Topic: "Tackling the Immune System in Kidney Transplantation"

Date: Wednesday 20^th July 2016

Time: 12.30pm to 1.30pm

Venue: Main Lecture Theatre, Monash Medical Centre, Clayton

Challenges in the analysis of registry data, 9 August

A/Prof Arul Earnest

1-2pm, Tuesday 9 August. MHTP, TRF Seminar Room 3

Presented by Associate Professor Arul Earnest from the Biostatistics Consulting Platform in conjunction with the Monash Centre for Health Resaerch and Implementation (MCHRI) “Challenges in the analysis of registry data”.

Due to the longitudinal and observational nature of data collection in registries, there can be many challenges in the analysis of such data, including missing data, spatial and temporal correlation in the data. This talk will highlight some potential remedies including multiple imputation techniques and Bayesian spatio-temporal models.

Arul is an Associate Professor with the Biostatistics Unit and senior Biostatistician with the Registry Sciences Unit in the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine. For close to 20 years, Arul has provided consultative and collaborative methodological input to various collaborators. The outcome for some of this work has been more than 125 publications in a variety of peer-reviewed international journals, including BMC Health Services Research, BMJ and JAMA. He is the author of the upcoming book “Essentials of a Successful Biostatistical Collaboration”. Arul was awarded the status of Chartered Statistician (C.Stat) by the Royal Statistical Society in London in 2003. He enjoys teaching courses on biostatistics and research methodology.

MIME Wearable and Point of Care Biodiagnostics Workshop, 15 August

You are invited to a seminar about Wearables and point of care biodiagnostics on Monday, 15 August.

Professor Wenlong Cheng has organised this seminar, which will focus on he latest developments in wearable technologies designed for point of care.

Further details regarding the seminar and RSVP information are available in the attached flyer here.

Hudson Seminars 2016 Winter Program

Hudson Seminar Winter program available here.

myResearch now live and accessible

The myResearch platform is now on-line and accessbile to all researchers using a single Monash University sign-on, which means that you do not need to login again if you are already in My Monash. The two modules available are: (1) Pure - this is the application, award, research output, and profile system; (2) Infonetica ERM - this is the ethics and compliance application and management system.

Some staff are experiencing difficulty in logging-in to the system. If you receive an error message when trying to login, please close the browser window and try logging-in again. Other options are to clear the cache and login again, or use a different brower. If none of those work, please try opening a private window.

A basic checklist for getting started with Pure:

1. Check and edit your external profile;

2. Check your data: research outputs, projects and activities;

3. Add or create your ORCID ID;

4. Link your projects, research outputs, and activities;

5. Familiarise yourself with how to lodget a funding application for internal approval;

6. Check your e-mail notification settings.

Please visit: www.monash.edu/myresearch for quick tips, user guides, and FAQs.

Global Health Innovative Technology (GHIT) Fund Product Development Platform - Request for Proposals

The Global Health Innovative Technology Fund (GHIT Fund) is a non-profit organisation focused on promoting the discovery and development of new health technologies, including drugs, vaccines, and diagnostics for infectious diseases prevalent in developing countries. The GHIT Fund aims to advance Japan’s wealth of health technology innovation for the discovery and development of new technologies for developing world patients and populations affected by infectious disease. To this end, the GHIT Fund will catalyse R&D partnerships between Japanese and non-Japanese organisations and support these partnerships through GHIT Fund investments.

Interested applicants must complete the Intent to Apply form (available at https://www.ghitfund.org/afag/grant/en) and submit this to the GHIT Fund via Editorial Manager® no later than 10:00am (Tokyo time) on 28 July 2016.

When submitting your Intent to Apply form on the Editorial Manager®, please list all the collaboration partners participating in the project; the name and details (including email address) of at least one representative from each organisation must be indicated.

Applicants who successfully submit the Intent to Apply document will receive a confirmation email. GHIT Fund staff will then perform an initial partnership and scope eligibility assessment. Only eligible applicants will be invited to submit the full proposal and will receive the proposal templates from the GHIT Fund.

Further information about the scheme is available at https://www.ghitfund.org/assets/attach/GHIT-RFP-PD-2016-002.pdf

Expression of interest for SCS Safety Officer and Lab Manager casual position

An expression of interest (EOI) is sought for a part-time, casual role as Safety Officer and Lab Manager for the School. At this stage, the role will be 0.5 FTE to the end of this year, but there may be scope to extend the role in terms of both FTE and duration. Please contact SCS School Manager, Eugene Fredericks (eugene.fredericks@monash.edu) for more details. The EOI will close at 5:00 pm on Friday 29th July.

Internal Vacancy - Casual Technical Assistants - The Ritchie Centre

Casual workers wanted in Embryology and Placental Biology Laboratory.

Duties include:

1. Processing human blood and urine samples ~2-3h / day Wednesday and Friday.

2. On call (rotating roster - can be out of hours) processing of human birth samples (placenta, cord blood and maternal blood and urine) ~2h / birth.

Some experience handling human tissues and excellent pipetting skills are required. Training in standard operating procedures will be provided. Positions available for immediate start.

Hourly rate - TAP 2 Step 3 - $24.94 plus 25% casual loading

Pleases email your CV to Hayley.Dickinson@hudson.org.au no later than this Friday 22 July 2016.

SCS staff performance conversations - only 5 places left!

You are invited to register for this half day workshop – Performance conversations. The aim of this program is to ensure that as an academic performance supervisor you understand the University’s performance development process and can facilitate effective and meaningful performance conversations with your staff.

During the session a range of resources, practical techniques and skills to encourage improved performance will be covered, including the use of the academic performance standards, feedback and strategies to effectively manage unsatisfactory work performance.

This workshop is open to paid academic staff employed through the School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health.

Session details

Date: Thursday 4 August

Time: 9:00am – 12:30pm
Location: Surgery seminar room on Level 5 (Block E at MMC)

To register please email selda.evci@monash.edu by COB Friday 22 July 2016.

Your Facilitator:

Dr Lyn Stavretis is the principal of Performance Wise Consulting® and an accomplished facilitator and coach with over 26 years freelance consulting practice supported by management practitioner and academic qualifications.

Lyn regularly conducts workshops for Monash around performance, career and development conversations in a university context, as well as working with a range of other organisations in these content areas.