Health Check Issue 15 2007 ( PDF 439k) - Griffith University

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Griffith Health newsletter
Issue 15, 2007
Griffith Health vision
Promoting Health, Enabling Communities
Griffith Health will, through leadership and innovation in teaching, research and community
engagement, create sustained improvements in all aspects of health and health care for the
local, national and international communities.
Health check
Research holds the key to a
healthy future for all
First year medical student Jessica McKean had a
compelling story to tell as one of the guest speakers at
Griffith’s annual Thank You Day event.
Thank You Day is a national initiative organised by
Research Australia to celebrate the combined effort
and successes of Australia’s 15,000 health and medical
researchers.
Jessica was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic
leukaemia at the age of seven and endured two years
of chemotherapy and radiotherapy before her illness
was beaten.
Sixteen years later Jessica is a qualified radiotherapist
and studying medicine at Griffith. Not surprisingly,
Jessica and her family are grateful for the medical
research that underpins advances in areas such as
cancer treatment and management.
The theme for Thank You Day 2007 was Healthy Planet,
Healthy People – building awareness of the fact that there
are health implications from climate change and other
impacts of human activity on the natural environment.
Professor Pat Dale, from Griffith’s Centre for Innovative
Conservation Strategies, also spoke on the impact of
climate change on the distribution of mosquito-borne
disease.
“Major diseases such as Ross River fever, dengue and malaria
may spread as climate change impacts on mosquito habitats
such as salt marshes and mangroves,” she said.
She warned rising temperatures and sea levels, rainfall
changes and extreme weather events could increase
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Editorial Co-ordinator: Sue Gibbons
Email: s.gibbons@griffith.edu.au
mosquito development and range and affect our
capacity to respond to the new disease threats.
“There is also the potential for diseases such as
malaria which are endemic in our northern neighbours
to become established in Australia. We already have
the mosquito species that can transmit the disease,”
Professor Dale said.
Professor Dale’s field research has included some 25
years of monitoring the health of wetlands in Australia
and countries such as Indonesia.
Also present at Griffith on Thank You Day was local
sporting identity and Titans co-captain Luke Bailey and
Research Australia’s chief executive officer Rebecca James.
Research Australia is a not-for-profit national alliance
of more than 190 universities, research institutes and
other organisations with a common mission to make
health and medical research a higher national priority.
Professor Allan Cripps, medical student Jessica McKean and
Research Australia’s CEO Rebecca James say thank you.
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Inside this issue
3 CAM on the curriculum
3 Australian Teacher of the Year
3 First social work graduates
3 Innovation challenge win!
Research overview
Griffith Health’s research strengths
have been recognised by a best
ever outcome in the recent national
competitive research rounds.
Researchers in Health won 10 of
Griffith’s recently announced 36
grants across the ARC Discovery, ARC
Linkage, ARC Linkage International, and
NHMRC Project Grants.
Total funding awarded to health
researchers was $4,012,947 for
projects ranging across the biomedical
sciences, health services, psychosocial
and public health research.The funded
work will address a diverse range of key
health issues including understanding
basic biomolecular processes involved
in tumour formation, prevention of
infection in intravenous catheters, and a
randomised trial of counselling programs
to address post natal depression.
Our goal is to do research that will
benefit people’s health, and this year’s
success gives us the funding to push
ahead with that agenda. I congratulate
all our successful researchers on
gaining the crucial funding to support
their work.
Griffith Health’s success reflects a
combined effort to ensure researchers
develop the best possible applications.
Peers in our Schools and Research
Centres help each other develop and
refine the research ideas, training
sessions on the funding bodies and
application processes are offered by
the Office for Research, and feedback
on draft applications is provided.
Our processes are intended to make
sure our best creative ideas are
developed to quality applications. For
the forthcoming grant round we need
to make sure we keep building on our
current success.
Professor Kim Halford, Director of the
Griffith Institute of Health and Medical
Research.
Bone Research Team: Sebastien Stephens, Dr Alex Stephens, Rouha Granfar, Associate Professor
Nigel Morrison and Niki Koutifides
Bone research win
Bone cell research in the School of Medical Science has received a significant boost
with the awarding of two National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
grants to Associate Professor Nigel Morrison.
Together with another NHMRC funded study already underway into the regulation
of bone formation, the grants bring $1.4million over four years to a better
understanding of bone metabolism.
According to Associate Professor Nigel Morrison, his research group is one of
the few who investigate both the underlying drivers of bone formation and bone
resorption. The two processes need to be in careful balance to avoid bone disease
such as osteoporosis.
One of the new projects will investigate the internal chemical controls over the
development and activity of osteoclasts, the cells which resorb or destroy bone.
“A number of proteins known as chemokines are involved in the early differentiation
of osteoclasts from their precursors. It appears that the first stage of differentiation
may be an inflammatory process, with these chemokines signalling and drawing in
other cells to form the giant, highly specialised osteoclast.”
Associate Professor Nigel Morrison said his primary motivation for the research was
intellectual curiosity. However chemokines have also been recognised as potential
targets for new therapies for disease such as arthritis.
“The basic science of this cell is fantastic. If osteoclast differentiation and activity
can be controlled, the skeletal side effects can be reduced and disease ameliorated.”
The other new project with colleagues Professor Ifor Beacham and Dr Ian Peak will
investigate the body’s response to infection with Burkholderia pseudomallei. The
bacteria causes the potentially fatal disease melioidosis, which is endemic in tropical
and subtropical regions.
“Immune cells known as macrophages would normally kill bacteria in the body by
absorbing the intruders and then committing cell suicide. Instead, Burkholderia
seems to avoid the immune system by turning the macrophage into an osteoclastlike
cell.”
He said bone was an unappreciated site of latent infection with B pseudomallei but
the way the bacteria appeared to subvert the normal host response was intriguing.
Associate Professor Nigel Morrison has been at Griffith for ten years and during that
time has mentored numerous undergraduates into promising research careers.
“The advantage of teaching is to recognise and encourage good students,” he said.
He describes his research and that of his team as ‘the green jungle of discovery’
where ‘every time time you go in, you find something new’.
“Interesting things are happening all the time. I like new discovery and having a
research group that are your intellectual equals and are constantly generating new
ideas. The mix of expertise in a group means people are seeing things differently and
can contribute in a synergistic way.”
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Nursing research to
review management of
peripheral catheters
Professor Claire Rickard
Painful, timeconsuming,
costly
and wasteful
– that’s what
some experts
think about
the practice of
routinely removing
and re-inserting
the peripheral
catheters that
provide patients
with life-saving
fluids.
Now a definitive study led by acute
and critical care specialist Professor
Claire Rickard, from Griffith’s Research
Centre for Clinical and Community
Practice Innovation, will help provide
the evidence on whether or not the
practice is ineffective and unnecessary.
“In Australia each year about ten million
peripheral catheters are inserted in
patients’ arms or in the backs of their
hands to administer blood products,
fluids or medications,” she said.
“Many of those catheters are routinely
re-sited every few days because we
thought that helped prevent infection,
however there is little evidence to
justify the practice.”
Professor Rickard said unless there was
a clinical reason for moving a catheter
such as a blockage or irritation of the
vein, it was probably more convenient
and cost effective to leave them alone.
“Our previous trials in subgroups of
patients in Queensland, Victoria and
Tasmania have found no difference in
infection risk with routine re-siting of
catheters.”
“Patients have to undergo the pain of
another needle, it is disruptive to their
therapy, and it wastes the time of both
doctors and nurses. Plus there is the
environmental costs of all that plastic
waste,” she said.
The study, to be conducted at the Gold
Coast, Princess Alexandra and Royal
Brisbane and Women’s Hospitals, will
involve more than 3,000 patients. It is
funded by a $428,750 grant from the
National Health and Medical Research
Council.
A healthy start to life
Accurately identifying women at risk of emotional distress
after childbirth and providing an effective and accessible
intervention to improve their mental health is the aim of
a new study funded by the National Health and Medical
Research Council.
Led by Professor Debra Creedy, Dean (Academic) of
Griffith Health, and Master of Midwifery Convenor Dr Jenny
Gamble, the study will support a more positive transition to
motherhood for many women.
“Previous studies have shown surprisingly high rates of
depression, anxiety and stress in women following childbirth,”
Professor Creedy said.
“More than 30 per cent of women experience distress as a
result of factors such as the pain, fear and even unexpected
medical interventions associated with childbirth.“
“Yet previous studies have found only 14 per cent of
new mothers report anyone asking them about their birth
experience. Sadly, there appears to be a gap in regards to our
emotional care of women at this important time.”
She said mental health problems in new mothers could also
contribute to problems with infant attachment, and tensions
in couple relationships and broader family interaction.
The randomised controlled trial will test the impact of brief
counselling by trained midwives for new mothers while in
hospital and four to six weeks after the birth of their babies.
A control group of mothers will receive the same level of contact
with a midwife but the content will focus on babycare.
“This study has the added advantage of improving the skill
base of midwives to support and promote the mental health
and wellbeing of women in their care.”
Happy, healthy mothers are best for babies.
She said a pilot study found that women who received
counselling were less depressed, less stressed, had less selfblame
and were more confident about a future pregnancy
than other women.
The new study, involving collaborators from Curtin University
of Technology, Charles Darwin University, University of
Melbourne and Karolinska Institute in Sweden, will recruit
some 1200 women in their third trimester of pregnancy from
public and private hospitals across Queensland and Western
Australia.
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Associate Professor Elizabeth Kendall
Community health partnership
wins major research dollars
Associate Professor Elizabeth Kendall will lead a
$1.35 million Australian Research Council (ARC)
project in partnership with Queensland Health
focusing on community-based chronic disease
research in the Logan-Beaudesert area.
Associate Professor Kendall said she was
delighted the project had received support
since there was clearly a lack of integrated
health services in the face of high rates of
chronic diseases in the community.
“People with chronic diseases such as diabetes,
respiratory and cardiovascular disorders are
currently supported by too many dispersed
service providers leading to delays, gaps and
duplication of services.”
Associate Professor Kendall said the project
would help to manage and prevent chronic
diseases in the region by creating sustainable
partnerships with existing service providers in
the Logan and Beaudesert areas.
“This is the largest single initiative to date bringing
together academics, GPs, community health
carers, non-government agencies, and both local
and state governments, to plan for local health
needs,” Associate Professor Kendall said.
“We are gathering chronic disease-related data
and developing an information platform, so
critical knowledge is shared and available to
those who need it for health planning.
“We are also investigating processes to improve
service providers’ decision-making and enable
better services for chronic disease patients.”
Deputy Vice Chancellor Research Professor
Lesley Johnson, said the project demonstrated
the University’s strength in collaborative and
socially engaged research.
“Griffith researchers have recently attracted
$14.3 million from ARC, industry and National
Health and Medical Research Council for
projects which will ultimately benefit the
community.”
Conflict in customer relations comes under
the spotlight
Everyone has stories of frustrating or difficult interactions with call centres,
banks, telcoms or government agencies but spare a thought for the
employees on the other side of the conflict.
They may also feel dissatisfied, angry or emotionally exhausted at the end
of the dispute and are then expected to deal with the next customer in a
calm and professional manner.
School of Psychology’s Dr Graham Bradley leads a new research project
that aims to tease out the factors that can escalate or otherwise retrieve
situations of alleged failures in service delivery.
“We want to know what people say and do that gets the other person’s
back up and too often leads to cycles of incivility. On the other hand, what
are the skills that can lead to brilliant recoveries from difficult situations?”
“Given that 75 per cent of people work in a service industry and many
face these encounters on a daily basis, there is enormous potential for
cumulative stress and burnout.”
He said chronic workplace stress can have health implications for
individuals, affect relationships at home and at work, and have financial
implications for employers in terms of absenteeism, workers’ compensation
and the costs associated with rehiring or retraining staff.
Dr Bradley said it was sometimes unrealistic to expect front line employees
to keep the customer happy at all costs within the context of time and
workload pressures.
“It is very hard to provide 100 per cent error-free, good humoured and
efficient service throughout an entire shift,” he said.
Strategies often used to defuse conflict included offers of compensation,
empowering the customer to suggest solutions and offering them choices.
Excuses, shifting the blame, counter-arguments and defensiveness were
rarely successful.
“We want to help create win-win solutions – strategies that will leave the
customer satisfied and are good for business, but will not drain the service
provider.”
Dr Bradley said the project, which brings experts in marketing and
customer loyalty together with experts in organisational stress, hopes to
identify new and unexpected strategies for improving interactions with
customers.
The research is funded by the Australian Research Council and involves
collaboration with the University of Queensland and the Wolfgang Goethe
University in Germany.
Dr Graham Bradley leads research that will reduce conflict in customer service encounters.
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Research supports CAM education
Dr Evelin Tiralongo has a passion for the inclusion of
complementary and alternative medicines (CAM) training in
core teaching curricula for pharmacy, nursing and medical
students around the country.
The School of Pharmacy lecturer believes health professionals
have a responsibility to understand CAM, given that more than
half of the population already use herbal medicines, vitamins
and minerals, and therapies such as acupuncture.
“Our National Medicines Policy for example covers prescription
and non-prescription medicines as well as complementary
medicines.”
“Given pharmacists’ ethical and legal responsibility to counsel
patients on medicines they supply, we need to ensure
graduates have a reasonable knowledge of CAM and the
ability to evaluate evidence for its effectiveness.”
research component of the Graduate Certificate in Higher
Education which she completed at Griffith last year.
“The program gave me an opportunity to explore qualitative
research about our teaching, and generate data to support the
professional debate about CAM education for students in the
health professions.”
The results of the study have been presented at the Association
for Health Professional Education annual conference and,
co-authored by Professor Marianne Wallis from the School of
Nursing and Midwifery, submitted to pharmacy education and
complementary medicine journals for publication.
The findings will also be presented at the Australasian
Pharmaceutical Science Association conference later this year
where Dr Tiralongo will renew her call for the development
of a national strategy for integrated CAM education in all
pharmacy schools in Australia.
While Griffith has integrated CAM throughout its
undergraduate and postgraduate pharmacy programs, Dr
Tiralongo said the inclusion of CAM into pharmacy curricula in
Australia is currently not mandatory nor consistent.
“It is handled quite differently at various institutions –
sometimes offered as an elective or ‘stand-alone’ sessions –
an option that undermines its importance.”
Yet there is some evidence that CAM education helps develop
practitioners with a broader and a more balanced approach to
finding the best options for patient care.
Dr Tiralongo said a survey and interviews of more than 100
pharmacy students in second, third and fourth years at Griffith
showed CAM education rationalised rather than marginalised
attitudes to CAM.
“Students with a more positive attitude to CAM at the start
of their degree changed to a more careful assessment of CAM
therapy, whereas students with a more negative attitude
at first, realised that some CAM therapies are based on
significant evidence,” she said.
“We found that CAM education encouraged students to look
for evidence, evaluate that evidence, and then make informed
decisions in the best interests of their patients,” she said.
Overall 96 per cent of pharmacy students believed they need
to be equipped to advise patients about CAM and 90 percent
said it should therefore be a core part of their education.
The study also highlighted opportunities to support and
strengthen CAM education for pharmacy students during their
clinical placements.
Dr Tiralongo, whose research includes the clinical efficacy of
CAMs and the pharmacological potential of medicinal plants
and macrofungi, said the student survey evolved from the
Dr Evelin Tiralongo
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Teaching talent richly rewarded
Innovative and dedicated teachers in the Health Group
continue to be recognised by the Carrick Institute for Learning
and Teaching in Higher Education and numerous Griffith
Awards for Excellence in Teaching.
School of Psychology’s Associate Professor Keithia Wilson
backed up from her Carrick Citation for Outstanding
Contribution to Student Learning earlier in the year to win a
prestigious Carrick Award for Teaching Excellence in the Social
Sciences.
She then won the Prime Minister’s Award for Australian
University Teacher of the Year, ahead of the other 23 Carrick
Award winners nation wide.
Vice Chancellor Professor Ian O’Connor said the award was a
testament to the high standards of innovative teaching and
learning embraced by Griffith staff.
“These highly competitive national awards are a hallmark
of the importance of teaching in universities,” Professor
O’Connor said.
“I congratulate Associate Professor Wilson for this award
representing due recognition for her sustained commitment
and skill in teaching and mentoring students across all years of
Griffith’s psychology program.
Dean (Teaching and Learning) for the Health Group Associate
Professor Nick Buys said Associate Professor Wilson had an
impressive understanding of the research and evidence base
that underpins quality teaching and learning.
“Keithia has demonstrated exemplary work as a first year
advisor herself and provided leadership to others in the Health
Group through her work in this area and on the Group’s
Learning and Teaching Committee.”
“She has also taken this capacity university wide through her
position as chair of the Education Excellence Committee.”
Associate Professor Wilson’s motivational approach to student
successes has seen her voted ‘Lecturer of the Year’ by her
students for the past five years. She was also the inaugural
recipient of the Individual Teacher Award in the Griffith
Awards for Excellence in Teaching in 2005.
Associate Professor Wilson’s approach to teaching is
deliberately interactive — her lectures are less about ‘delivery’
and more about ‘conversation’.
“Experience has taught me that if we wish our students to
engage in ‘deep dialogue’ with us, with the curriculum and
with each other, then we need to create the conditions that
will facilitate these goals,” she said.
“Deep learning is predicated on both the open and respectful
exchange of ideas in an environment of intellectual safety and
the expectation of active participation — put another way,
trust and openness are the invisible social capital supporting
collaborative critical inquiry.
“We need to be able to say to students when we ask them to
learn in new and challenging ways ‘don’t just take my word for
it…here is the evidence’.
“I seek to contribute to the development of a learning
environment that acknowledges and engages with students as
‘whole people’. “I keep in the forefront of my mind that I am
working with people not just students.”
Associate Professor Nick Buys also commended the efforts
of the many Health Group recipients of this year’s Griffith
Awards For Excellence In Teaching.
“The Health Group featured strongly in the awards this
year, reflecting the depth of teaching talent in our Group
and sending a strong message that quality teaching is an
important part of our strategic direction.”
“These awards also recognise that students are ultimately the
reason we are here, that their needs are important to us, and
we have focussed on ensuring they receive the best possible
learning opportunities.”
Individual Teacher Awards in the Biological Sciences, Health
and Related Studies category included Dr Gregory Reddan
from the School of Physiotherapy and Exercise Science.
Dr Ricardo Simeoni, also from Physiotherapy and Exercise
Science, was highly commended.
School of Psychology’s Dr Analise O’Donovan received an
Individual Teacher Award in the Social Sciences category,
while her colleagues Dr David Neumann and Angela Morgan
received an Early Career Award and Casual Academic Staff
Award respectively.
Ramon Shaban, from the School of Nursing and Midwifery,
and Dr Julie Clark, from the School of Human Services, were
highly commended in the Individual Teacher Awards in the
Social Sciences category. Dr Stephen Larmar, from the School
of Human Services, was highly commended in the First Year
Advisor Award.
The dual degree program offered by the School of Nursing
and Midwifery at Logan and Metropolitan South Institute of
TAFE was recognised in the list of Programs that Enhance
Learning Awards. Led by Dr Marion Mitchell, the program
encourages enrolled nurses to progress into the Bachelor
of Nursing by incorporating one university course into each
semester of the TAFE nursing diploma.
Associate Professor Nick Buys said Faculty Learning And
Teaching Citations were also awarded to Dr Rod Barrett
(Physiotherapy and Exercise Science), Associate Professor
Keithia Wilson (Psychology), Ramon Shaban (Nursing and
Midwifery), and Dr Alison Haywood (Pharmacy).
Dean’s Certificate of Commendations were awarded to
Nicola Shapland (Pharmacy), Ramon Shaban (Nursing and
Midwifery), Dr Ricardo Simeoni (Physiotherapy and Exercise
Science), and Dr Shawn Somerset (School of Public Health).
Australian University Teacher of the Year Associate Professor Keithia Wilson.
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Bree Somer (pictured with Lifeline placement supervisor Lin Reilly) will
graduate as one of Griffith’s first social workers.
Griffith graduates its first social
workers
Bree Somer is one of a handful of students to graduate with
a Bachelor of Social Work on Monday, 17 December at the
Logan Entertainment Centre.
Bree spent 12 years working in customer service roles in
various welfare agencies becoming increasingly frustrated
with the limited ways she was able to assist people.
Realising she wanted to explore alternative ways of helping
people, Bree started on a four-year pathway to a professional
career in social work.
“I was frustrated in my previous roles – having to refer people
on and not being able to assist them myself with the issues
that kept them returning for support.”
“I look forward to really being of assistance to people,
ultimately in counselling roles where I can help facilitate
change for individuals,” she said.
Bree studied behavioural science at Griffith for two years
but transferred across to social work when the new program
started at the Logan campus last year.
She describes the last two years as a ‘steep learning curve’ but
has particularly enjoyed the four-days-per-week, 18-week
placements in agencies such as Lifeline.
“I had developed a cynicism about the culture in many
organisations but my placement at Lifeline offered a refreshing
experience. Everyone is so respectful of each other and of our
clients.”
She worked as part of the counselling team, which includes
both psychologists and social workers, helping children and
adults with issues such as depression, relationship problems,
grief and loss, domestic violence and sexual abuse.
Her supervisor Lin Reilly, an experienced social worker who has
worked at Lifeline Ipswich for more than 15 years, said the
satisfaction in social work is seeing people get back up again
and having a go at life.
“There is a shortage of social workers on the front line and
I want to help develop students who are excited about the
prospect of becoming a practitioner and assisting people in
their lives. Bree is a self starter who has that enthusiasm and
will take responsibility for her work.”
Slow start to uni no barrier to success
Studying sharks on Heron Island seems an unlikely stepping stone
to a career in medicine but Adrian Castelli never imagined he had
the ability to become either a scientist or a doctor.
However the 23-year-old, who failed maths at high school
and didn’t study ‘serious’ science subjects like chemistry,
is now about to graduate from Griffith with a degree in
biomedical science and has been accepted into the medical
program for next year.
It’s a significant turn around for Adrian - from the boy who
left high school with an ‘unremarkable’ OP and no firm career
ambitions, to the young man with a passion for scientific research
and now a highly sought after place as a medical student.
“I liked the science I did at school but I never thought I
was smart enough to study medicine. My best subjects
were drama and English so the guidance officer at school
recommended I study journalism,” he said.
After six months he knew he was in the wrong program
and returned home to the Gold Coast for a couple of years
working in the hospitality industry before flirting with the idea
of studying medicine.
“I needed an undergraduate degree before I could apply to
medicine but because I didn’t have a high OP or the necessary
maths or science, I first needed a bridging course,” he said.
A 12-month Certificate IV in Tertiary Access offered by
Metropolitan South Institute of TAFE at Logan provided the
turning point he needed.
“All I needed to do was pass for a guaranteed entry into uni
but I graduated from TAFE with honours in seven of my eight
subjects. Since then, everything seems to be falling into place.”
By the end of his first year in biomedical science at Griffith,
Adrian’s natural curiosity in the lab had attracted the interest
of researchers who needed an assistant.
As well as some regular work in the research labs on campus, Adrian
has enjoyed a number of field trips to Heron Island to help Associate
Professor Gillian Renshaw with research into the epaulette shark – a
shark that can tolerate low oxygen conditions.
“Research is a huge part of medicine anyway and I’m so looking
forward to both. This research has possible application for
patients who have had a stroke or heart surgery, for example.”
After graduating with a Credit average in his Bachelor of Biomedical
Science, Adrian Castelli will study medicine next year.
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Safety award an early career boost
for graduate
Losing a friend through a fatal workplace accident some years
ago was a compelling justification for Kathleen Crow’s interest
in workplace health and safety.
Now the Griffith graduate has been recognised with a Safety
Institute of Australia (SIA) medal for her knowledge and
commitment to the practice of occupational health and safety.
Ms Crow, who completed her Bachelor of Behavioural Science
with a double major in Work & Health and Psychology last
year, is employed as a graduate health and safety officer with
the Queensland Department of Main Roads.
“The construction industry is one of the most hazardous and I feel
strongly that everyone has the right to be safe – to go home at
the end of the day in the same way they went to work.”
She said Main Roads was an organisation that aims to
implement best practice, above and beyond the minimum
compliance with health and safety legislation.
“Health and safety is not just about theory, following the
rules and ticking the boxes. It’s also about understanding the
pressures such as time constraints on a job and the group
dynamics that influence human behaviour.”
Her job includes desktop audits of likely risks and hazards as
well as site inspections and consulting with the people at all
levels of the organisation.
“Some of the most successful health and safety initiatives in
an organisation come from the bottom up,” she said.
The SIA medal rewards a recent graduate who can best
demonstrate a high level of technical skills, the ability to use
their knowledge in practical applications, good communication
skills and professional initiative.
Ms Crow was nominated for consistent high achievement in
her study and for going above and beyond what was expected
during her work-based projects.
“As part of my study, I had to work with a range of organisations
doing assignments such as internal safety audits.”
She said small businesses in particular can grow quickly without
any awareness of health and safety obligations and the initiatives
they could implement to keep their workforce safe.
“So I approached the managers at two small businesses and offered
to provide them with a full workplace health and safety system
including templates for incident reporting, how to train a workplace
health and safety officer, useful contacts and websites.”
“I had the knowledge and was happy to donate some of my
time to encourage a safe working culture in those businesses.”
Kathleen Crow (right) consults with supervisor Mark Kimber on a road construction site.
Queensland consortium to lead national medical students’ association
Griffith medical students have teamed with colleagues at the University of Queensland and Bond University in a successful bid to lead
the Australian Medical Students’ Association (AMSA) in 2008. Griffith students on the new AMSA executive team are third year
student Chad Donnelly (Vice President - education and training), first year student Faisal Khan (Treasurer), third year student Sarah
Cash and second year student Chantelle Berenger (sharing the Sponsorship and Marketing portfolio), and second year student Mark
Friel (Community Liaison Officer).
Mr Donnelly said the consortium was an experienced team who had already worked together on other Queensland committees. One
of the important issues for AMSA was to lobby for adequate infrastructure in the health system to cope with the increasing number of
medical graduates in future years. “We will need jobs but importantly, we need to preserve the clinician/graduate ratio so the standard
of education for medical graduates is not compromised.”
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Dental implant specialist
Professor Saso Ivanovski, from the School of Dentistry and Oral Health, has been elected president of the Australasian Society for
Osseointegration (AOS). The Society aims to improve the standards and promote the clinical applications of dental implantology,
offer continuing professional development, and support research in this relatively new area of dentistry. The discovery that
titanium will integrate with the jawbone has opened up many dental restorative options that simply were not available in the
past. The ability for patients to receive fixed prosthesis to replace existing removable dentures and plates is greatly improving
patients’ quality of life. Professor Ivanovski, who helped establish and was president of the Queensland branch of the AOS, will be
responsible for organising and hosting the Society’s national biennial conference on the Gold Coast in 2009. Professor Ivanovski
said implantology was already incorporated into Griffith’s undergraduate and postgraduate curriculum and offered as a specialist
service in the dental clinic. However research and clinical practice in the area is set to expand from next year with the start of
Griffith’s new Doctorate of Clinical Dentistry - Periodontology. Candidates in the three-year, full-time program have a minimum
of two years professional practice and will specialise in the treatment of all conditions associated with the gums and other
supporting structures for teeth. The speciality area of periodontics is increasingly important given the links between infection of
the gums and systemic diseases such as cardiovascular disease, he said.
International reputations
Professor Diego De Leo, director of the Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention, has been awarded a Gold Medal
from the northern Italian city of Padua. The Medal recognises former Paduans whose achievements on the world stage have honoured
both Padua and Italy. Professor De Leo grew up in Padua and trained as a psychiatrist at the University of Padua. Vice Chancellor
Professor Ian O’Connor said Professor De Leo has demonstrated a long history of excellence in suicide research. “His substantial and
ongoing contribution to many international studies helps provide the evidence for suicide prevention strategies that will ultimately help
reduce the tragic toll associated with this major public health problem,” he said.
Professor Don Stewart, School of Public Health has been appointed 2007-2009 Regional Vice-President, South Western Pacific,
International Union for Health Promotion & Education and 2007-2009 External Examiner, Faculty of Office Management and
Technology, Universiti Teknologi Mara, Selangor, Malaysia. He has also been appointed guest editor of Health Education.
Health team wins innovation
challenge
Developing an innovative business plan has
scored HOPE4HEALTH student team $10,000
and personal laptops. Marty Brewster, David
Rawson, Linda Dalic and Claire Cuscaden beat 39
other teams, including five finalists to take out
first place in the Griffith Innovation Challenge.
The competition was designed to give students
the skills required to create a new business and
the opportunity to put their ideas into action.
HOPE4HEALTH is a non-profit organisation which
aims to improve health outcomes for local, rural,
Indigenous and international communities. Medical
student and team spokesperson Marty Brewster
said the competition was very well organised by
the Griffith Business School and taught the team
valuable skills. “The competition has given us a lot
of skills in business planning, as well as presentation
and public speaking skills and helped us set up our
foundation for the next five years,” Mr Brewster
said. “We plan to focus on one project each year,
with next year’s project involving fund-raising for
the Royal Flying Doctors 80th anniversary.” The
annual Innovation Challenge is open to all second,
third and forth year and postgraduate students at
Griffith. It began in 2005 through financial support
from the Australian Government’s Innovation
Awareness Strategy.
Marty Brewster, Linda Dalic, Claire Cuscaden and David Rawson celebrate their win.
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Psychology honours
Professor Kim Halford, Director of the Griffith Institute for Health and Medical Research
and Dean (Research) for the Health Group, has been honoured with an Australian
Psychological Society President’s Award for Distinguished Contribution to Psychology
in Australia. Professor Halford, a clinical psychologist, is internationally recognised for
his research in the area of relationship education and couples therapy. His research also
encompasses the dynamics of relationships in supporting people through major life
events such as parenthood and serious illness.
School of Psychology’s Dr Heather Green has been elected national president
of the Australian Association for Cognitive and Behaviour Therapy (AACBT). The
interdisciplinary association is concerned with maintaining standards of clinical
practice and providing professional development for all health disciplines interested
in changing human behaviour and/or cognitions. Dr Green has been state president
of the AACBT’s Queensland branch for the last three years.
Dr Paula Brough, School of Psychology is guest editor for a special issue of Work-
Family Balance for Journal of Organizational Behavior.
Former School of Psychology lecturer Professor Paula Barrett, a specialist in child
and adolescent anxiety and depression, is a finalist for Queensland Australian of the
Year. National judging for the Australian of the Year Awards will be announced at
Parliament House in Canberra on 25 January, 2008.
Sports physiotherapist awarded Fellowship
Maria Constantinou, from the School of Physiotherapy and Exercise Science, has been
awarded a Fellowship of the Australia Sports Medicine Federation. The Fellowship recognises
her sustained contribution to the Federation and the discipline of sports medicine
through clinical practice, research and other professional activity. Ms Constantinou,
an accredited Australian Physiotherapy Association (APA) sports physiotherapist, has
worked as a volunteer sports physiotherapist at events such as the Sydney and Athens
Olympics and the Melbourne Commonwealth Games. She currently chairs the professional
education committee of Sports Medicine Australia (Queensland branch) and the
Queensland branch committee of Sports Physiotherapy Australia. She was also recognised
by the Australian Physiotherapy Association (Qld) for her contribution to promoting
the profession, in particular Sports Physiotherapy.
Stopping the pain of tennis elbow from bouncing back
Corticosteroid injections are the gold standard treatment for short term relief from
the pain of tennis elbow but new research is aiming to optimise management of the
condition with physiotherapy.
Leanne Bisset, from the School of Physiotherapy and Exercise Science, is collaborating
with University of Queensland colleagues in a randomised controlled trial to test the
effectiveness of a physiotherapy component to tennis elbow management.
Ms Bisset said while steroid injections provided immediate relief and were effective in the
short term, about 72 per cent of patients report a recurrence of pain after three months.
“We hope to show that adding in exercises targeting the affected muscles of
the forearm and providing an upper arm conditioning program will reduce the
recurrence rate and improve long term recovery.”
Ms Bisset said at present there was no evidence that anything was more effective
in the long term over a ‘wait and see’ approach.
“With the right ergonomic advice and modifying their activities, about 80 per cent
of patients with tennis elbow get better within 12 months. However we want
patients to have that relief earlier and this study will help develop the evidence
base for additional treatments.”
The project is funded by a grant from the National Health and Medical Research Council.
Ms Bisset has just been recognised by the Queensland branch of the Australian
Physiotherapy Association with an award for her contribution to research.
FUNDING:
Beck B. An investigation of comparative hip
fracture risk in indigenous Australians in the
Brisbane and Gold Coast regions. Brisbane
Southside Population Health Service and Logan
Beaudesert Community Health. $9,500.
Barrett R, Hall R, Scott-Young M.
Fluoroscopic assessment of lumbar
functional spinal unit kinematics in total disc
replacement. dePuySpine. $78,000.
Haseman BC, Stewart DE, Parker EA,
Hickling-Hudson A. Sexual health promotion
in Papua New Guinea: a community capacity
building approach using drama based
experiential learning methods. ARC Linkage.
$260,950.
Stewart D, Rowe F, Lee V, Robertson B.
Partnerships into Public Health. Cross Sectoral
Lighthouse Project. DEST. $220,000.
Aitken L, Mitchell M, Venkatesh B, Duce B.
Exploration of factors associated with sleep
disruption, Australian College of Critical Care
Nurses Hospira Grant. $10,000.
Rickard CM, Webster J, Wallis M, Gowardman
J, McCann D. The DRIP Trial: Developing a
research base for intravenous peripheral
cannula re-sites. NHMRC. $428,750.
Chaboyer W, Wallis M, McMurray A.
Clinical handover initiative – Identification
and development of standardised clinical
handover initiatives. DHA. $242,000.
Chaboyer W, McMurray, A, Wallis M.
Bedside nursing handover and whiteboard
multidisciplinary handover; An exploration of
strategies to improve communication and
teamwork in acute care hospitals. ACSQH.
$266,000.
Conrick M. Minimising the inappropriate and
unnecessary hospital admissions of frail older
people. ARC Linkage. $356,284.
De Leo D. Beyond psychopathology:
Pathways to suicide in mentally well young
adult males. ARC Discovery. $284,987.
Hutchinson L. Primary Health Care research
evaluation and development writing bursary.
DHA. $1,000.
Headrick J, Peart J, Ashton K, Pepe S.
The importance of p38 MAPK signalling
in ageing-related intolerance and failed
cardioprotection. NHMRC. $476,250
Khanna K. Understanding the role of the
corepressor protein KAP1 in DNA damage
response pathway. ARC Discovery.
$401,500.
Morrison N, Beacham I, Peak I. Host/
pathogen interactions in Burkholderia
infection. NHMRC. $471,000.
Morrison N. Chemokines in osteoclast
differentiation. NHMRC. $407,125.
Neuzil J, Ralph SJ. Developing efficient cancer
therapies by targeting of vitamin E analogues
to mitochondria. ARC.: $360,000
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Nesdale A. School Bullies and Victims:
The Influence of Children’s Groups. ARC
Discovery. $131,000.
Nissen M, Sloots T, Cripps A, Perry C.
Microbial pathogenesis of otitis media. Royal
Children’s Hospital Foundation. $75,000.
Whitelaw E, Chong S. The role of epigenetics
in the early gestational programming
of adult phenotype by ethanol. ARC
Discovery. $201,000.
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LB, Swanson C, Bellamy N. Health outcomes
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2007;38(1):19-26.
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2007;6:105-111.
Chaboyer W, Thalib L, Alcorn K, Foster M.
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2007;23(6):362-369.
Chu F-Y, Wallis M. Taiwanese nurses’
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Deverill JE, Aitken LM. The treatment
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Endacott R, Chaboyer W, Edington J.
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of patient deterioration in a regional hospital:
A multi-method study. Aust Crit Care
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Fernandez F, Curtain RP, Ovcaric M,
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Foxwell AR, Cripps AW, Kyd JM. Optimization
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Gillespie BM, Chaboyer W, Wallis
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Halcomb EJ, Davidson PM, Patterson E.
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Hattingh H, Smith N, Searle J, King MA,
Forrester K. Regulation of the pharmacy
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2007;37(3):174-177
Haupt L, Irving RE, Weinstein SR, Irving
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Johnson MP, Fernandez F, Colson N, Griffiths
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Marshall AP, Currey J, Aitken LM, Elliott D.
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McAuliffe D, Chenoweth L, Stehlik D.
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Mills PM, Morrison SM, Barrett RS.
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and the effect of walking speed. Gait Post
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Mills PM, Morrison SM, Lloyd DG, Barrett RS.
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Neuzil J, Widen C, Gellert N, Swettenham
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