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MELANOMA CONFERENCE 2012 Hosted by the Scott Kirkbride Melanoma Research Centre, the inaugural National Melanoma Conference will be held on 23-24 October at the Esplanade Hotel in Fremantle, Western Australia. The conference program brings together the world’s leading melanoma researchers to talk about the very latest in melanoma clinical trials and outcomes, molecular signalling pathways, radiology therapy breakthroughs and much more. Distinguished guest speakers include Professor Charles Balch (Professor of Surgery at John Hopkins Medical Institute), Professor Boris Bastian (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center), Professor John Thompson (Melanoma Institute Australia), Professor Grant McArthur (Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre), Professor Graham Mann (MIA, University of Sydney) and Professor Nick Hayward (Queensland Institute for Medical Research). To register please email carolyn.williams@waimr.uwa.edu.au. For more information visit www.skmrc.org.au. WOOLDRIDGE FACES BAN The former Health Minister Michael Wooldridge faces a ban from corporate life over his stint as chairman of the company that ran the failed retirement village group Prime Retirement and Aged Care Property Trust. Dr Wooldridge, who was Federal Health Minister between 1996 and 2001 and now sits on the boards of two listed companies, faces the ban as one of five former directors of Australian Property Custodian Holdings (APCH) targeted in legal action brought by the corporate watchdog. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission alleges Dr Wooldridge and other directors of APCH breached their duties to investors by authorising the payment of a $33 million fee to managing director Bill Lewski when the trust listed on the ASX in 2007. Investors pumped $550 million into the float, only to see Prime Trust collapse into administration in October 2010 after nervous lenders, led by the Queensland bank Suncorp, appointed receivers over its retirement villages. RESEARCH NETS RCPA SCHOLARSHIP research project which investigated and analysed cases of thyroid A carcinoma in patients has earned a fourth-year medicine student on Notre Dame’s Fremantle Campus an academic scholarship from the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia (RCPA). Keith Potent, who is currently completing a Bachelor of Medicine/ Bachelor of Surgery (Honours), said he was “honoured, humbled and overjoyed” to have received the scholarship. The scholarship will provide financial assistance for Mr Potent to present his research at future medical conferences and to have it published online. His research project covered a retrospective analysis of cases of carcinoma of the thyroid gland. While not as aggressive and malignant as other cancers, men and women who have been exposed to high levels of radiation or who have a family history of goitre are more susceptible to contracting thyroid carcinoma. Achievement: Professor Theo Gotjamanos presents Keith Potent with the RCPA scholarship. CONGRESS CALLS FOR WIDER USE OF TYPHOID VACCINES On the back of the recent Coalition against Typhoid (CaT) congress, Australian immunisation specialists are calling on all healthcare professionals to encourage patients to consider typhoid vaccinations before travelling to developing and endemic countries. The CaT congress which took place in Bangkok brought together global health leaders from across South and South- East Asia, to discuss the high burden of endemic typhoid and the growing number of typhoid outbreaks in the region. The CaT Congress recognised the serious impact of typhoid, particularly the rising and widespread threat of drugresistant typhoid. Panelists Dr Jeremy Farrar, Director of the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Vietnam, and Dr Christopher B. Nelson, Director, Coalition against Typhoid, emphasised that typhoid vaccination efforts must be implemented in conjunction with other public health programs, such as access to safe drinking water and the promotion of good hygiene practices. The congress has served as a timely reminder to Australian Healthcare Professionals that many Australians who are preparing to travel would not have necessarily considered being vaccinated, even if they were travelling to a country where typhoid fever was common. According to the World Health Organisation, typhoid impacts an estimated 21 million people and causes more than 200,000 deaths across the globe per year. August MEDICUS 43
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