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The Quiet Achiever Award is given to a staff
member to reward and recognise their achievements and contribution to the
School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health. A $200 shopping voucher will be awarded to the
winner. Please
return nomination form to jinleng.graham@monash.edu.
Our in-house professional photographer will be in the medicine seminar room on Friday to take your photo. If you don't have a recent photo (or any photo), please come and have your photo taken so we can update your profile page as well as the photo board on level 5. No need to book, just come along between 11.30am - 2.30pm with your best smile! Please ask Katherine or Alissa if you have any questions.
Two
talented SCS scientists were recently acknowledged for their significant contributions
to the advancement of renal medicine at the Australian and New Zealand Society
of Nephrology (ANZSN) annual meeting last month in Melbourne.
A world-first clinical trial and research into a new drug
class to fight blood cancers has earned Dr Jake Shortt a competitive Victorian
Cancer Agency (VCA) Fellowship worth $750,468 over four years.
You are invited to register for the upcoming ICIS Satellite Symposium 'Yin - Yang of the
Interferon System' to be held in Lorne, Victoria, October
30 to November 1, 2014. 
Unit: Oncology 
For all
Monash University students intending to submit their PhD between 1 Sept
and 30 Nov 2014, you may apply for the Postgraduate Publication
Award.
R U OK? Day is a national day of action that reminds us that every person and
every conversation counts. Here’s some ways to get
involved:
Mindfulness involves a series of simple meditative practices
and cognitive strategies to help change unproductive thought and behaviour
patterns. Mindfulness can also be described as an attitude to living and may
enhance:
In conjunction with the Monash Wellbeing Team, we invite you
to participate in the following Staff Wellbeing and Activity Programs (SWAP)
being held for University staff based at Monash Medical Centre. 
As
you may be aware, new PDF application forms were introduced for human ethics in
June 2014. We would like to remind you that, as stated in the Monash Memo of 11
June 2014, all applications should now be submitted on the most recent version
of the form, which is available on the human ethics web page. 
All new staff,
students, visitors and contractors to the School are required to do an OHS induction
as soon as they start. The induction is to highlight the hazards, risks, rules and
emergency procedures associated with their work/study environment. 