annual report - O'Brien Institute

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 Institute 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 Institute’s drug-discovery program
Dr Mark Waltham
Victorian Breast Cancer Consortium , St Vincent’s
Institute 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 Institute
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 Institute
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
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