ANZCA Bulletin 2007 Dec - Australian and New Zealand College of ...

2009 SIMULATION/EDUCATION GRANT
Applications are invited from Fellows and
registered Trainees for the Simulation/Education
Grants for 2009. Projects that will be considered
may be in the field of medical simulation and
education of relevance to anaesthesia, intensive
care or pain medicine. The total quantum of
funding for 2009 is $35,000.
An Application Guide and Form will be available from the
College website (www.anzca.edu.au) from 1 December 2007
CLOSING DATE FOR
APPLICATIONS IS
29 FEBRUARY 2008 at 5 PM
Further information can be obtained by contacting:
Ms Jill Humphreys
Executive Officer (Professional Areas)
Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists
630 St Kilda Road
Melbourne, Victoria 3004
Tel: 03 9510 6299
Fax: 03 9510 6931
Email: jhumphreys@anzca.edu.au
Schug, Stephan A
$27,590
Identifying clinical predictors of long-term
pain outcomes among severe physical
trauma survivors.
Cohen, Jeremy
$15,000
Tissue cortisol activity in critical illness.
Cooper, David J
$15,000
Permissive Hypercapnia and Alveolar
Recruitment with Limited Airway Pressures
(PHARLAP): a phase II randomised trial in
ARDS patients.
RESEARCH AWARDS
That the Harry Daly Research Award be
awarded to Professor Michael Cousins
for his project “Regulation of serotonin
receptors by anti-migraine drugs.” (08/010)
That the Mundipharma ANZCA Research
Fellowship be awarded to Dr Anita Sumpter
for her project ‘Age related changes in
effects of sedatives and analgesics on
quantative EEG monitoring in paediatric
intensive care’. (08/011)
That the Pfizer ANZCA Research
Fellowship be awarded to Dr Paul Wrigley
for his project ‘Cortical and fibre tract
changes in subjects with neuropathic pain
following spinal cord injury’. (08/014)
That the ANS ANZCA Research Fellowship
be awarded to Dr Charles Brooker for his
project ‘Radiofrequency neurotomy for
chronic lumbar zygapophyseal-joint pain:
A randomised double-blinded investigation
of diagnostic lumbar medical branch nerve
blocks’. (08/009)
That the Aspect ANZCA Research
Fellowship be awarded to Professor
Stephan Schug for his project ‘Identifying
clinical predictors of long-term pain
outcomes among severe physical trauma
survivors’. (08/030)
That the Organon Research Award be
awarded to Professor Michael Cousins
for his project ‘Experimental strategies for
preventing persistent post surgical pain’.
(08/022)
2008 Novice Investigator Grants
Scurrah, Nicholas
$8,000
Postoperative analgesia after liver resection:
a clinical trial with intravenous morphine
and interpleural analgesia.
Panwar, Rakshit
$11,050
Utility of protein C levels in
immunocompromised septic patients.
2007 Academic Enhancement Grant
Professor Alan Merry
$89,282.93
Enhancing the fidelity of modelling
in simulation.
2008 Simulation/Education Grant
Awards
Fraser, John
$21,650
Practical Simulation of the Human
Cardiovascular System for Education
and Training.
Pinder, Mary
$13,350
Teaching clinical skills: evaluation of
information transfer during medical
handover at change of shift in the ICU.
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