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CASE 2 John McKinnon Hope Fatherhood Protecting the community One autumn morning John was gardening, tidying up as he went, using a mulcher, feeding branches into its maw. Without warning John’s right hand and arm were caught and savaged by the machine. Hearing John’s anguished cries, a neighbour called the ambulance which rushed John from Torquay, first to the Geelong Hospital then on to Melbourne, where a team of microsurgeons waited to reconstruct his hand and crushed forearm. John remained conscious from the time of the accident until the operation began, and distinctly remembers thinking to himself that he would never nurse his 2 year old daughter, Maggie, again. John has now undergone a total of 9 separate operations which have restored movement and function to his hand and arm. John has not only nursed Maggie again, he proudly held his new son Gus in his arms just a few months ago and has returned to his work as a policeman. Visitors Visiting Lecturers - July 1999 - July 2000 Bernard O’Brien <strong>Institute</strong> of Microsurgery - Lunchtime Seminars Congenital pseudarthritis of the tibia in children Defects in hypopharanx - oesophagus after tumor resection Dr Ingemar Fogdestam Department of Orthopaedic Surgery University of Gothenberg, Sweden Aging and muscle function Dr Gordon Lynch Department of Physiology, The University of Melbourne A microarray expression database for the National Cancer <strong>Institute</strong>’s drug-discovery program Dr Mark Waltham Victorian Breast Cancer Consortium , St Vincent’s <strong>Institute</strong> of Medical Research, St Vincent’s Hospital Patent protection: a primer for the scientist Dr Vivien Santer Griffith Hack, Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys Model systems for the study of human breast cancer invasion and metastasis Associate Professor Erik Thompson Head, Victorian Breast Cancer Research Consortium, St Vincent’s Hospital Omega-conotoxin in the modulation of chronic neuropathic pain Dr David Scott Department of Pharmacology, The University of Melbourne Current research in surgical oncology Professor Robert Thomas Department of Surgery Oncology Peter MacCallum Cancer <strong>Institute</strong> The role of beta-cells in diabetes Dr Sof Andrikopoulos University Department of Medicine, Royal Melbourne Hospital PTHrP and the breast Mr Michael Henderson Deputy Director, Department of Surgery, The University of Melbourne St Vincent’s Hospital Hyaluronan as a drug delivery vehicle in the treatment of breast cancer Dr Tracey Brown Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Monash University Breast cancer in developing countries Professor David Watters Head, Department of Surgery, The University of Melbourne, Geelong Hospital Axillary dissection - should it be avoided for tubular cancers & DCIS? Mr Paul Kitchen Department of Surgery, The University of Melbourne, St Vincent’s Hospital MICROSURGERY FOUNDATION Gastrointestinal cancer research in Surgical Oncology Dr Wayne Phillips Department of Surgical Oncology, The University of Melbourne Peter MacCallum Cancer <strong>Institute</strong> Hyaluronan: something for everybody Dr Robert Fraser Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Monash University Visitors Dr Paul Rosenberg, Melbourne Fi & Dudley Drew, Wonga Park, Victoria Dr Yang Kwang Lim, Hospital Kuala Terenggany, Jalan Sultan Mahmud, Malaysia Victorian Ladies Bowling Association: Valmai Lewis, State President Dawn Berner, Vice President Moira Cumming, Vice President Margaret Walker, Immediate Past President Joyce Larkin, Vice President Eunice Putch, State Treasurer Gwen Arnold, Mirboo North Lisa Koch, Industry Research Analyst, Australian Expert Group in Industry Studies Sydney Eleanor Dreger, Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospitals, London Dr Declan & Mrs Emer Meagher, St Vincent’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland Robert Fraser, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University 4 37
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