Program
Saal Foley Lecturer
Workshops
All workshops will take place on either Thursday, 16 October and Friday, 17 October at St Vincent's Hospital, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and RMIT Bundoora. A detailed workshop schedule can be found on the timetable page.
Costs
Full day workshop: $150.00 (includes lunch)
Half day workshop: $ 80.00
Workshop Locations:
St Vincent's Hospital
Ground Floor
41 Victoria Parade
Fitzroy VIC 3065
Phone: 03 9288 2211
Please visit http://www.svhm.org.au/infofor/visitors/parkingtransport.htm
for directions and information on public transport.
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
St Andrews Place
East Melbourne VIC 3002
Phone: 03 9656 1015
Please visit http://www.petermac.org/petermac/ for directions and information on public transport.
RMIT Bundoora
Plenty Road
Bundoora VIC 3083
Phone: 03 9925 2000
Bus transfers will be provided for workshops held at RMIT Bundoora. Buses will depart and return to Sofitel Melbourne On Collins.
Please advise the Conference Office if you travel by own transport.
Please visit
http://www.rmit.edu.au/browse/About%20RMIT%2FRMIT%20Campuses%20and%20Sites%2FBundoora%20Campus/
for directions and information on public transport.
Professor Karen J.L. Burg
Presentation Title: Celebrate the Flat World
Professor Karen J.L. Burg, Hunter Endowed Chair and Professor of Bioengineering and Interim Vice Provost for Research & Innovation at Clemson University (Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, USA). A graduate of North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina, USA) and Clemson University (Clemson, South Carolina, USA), Dr. Burg completed a tissue engineering postdoctoral fellowship, at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, North Carolina before joining the faculty at Clemson University. Dr. Burg is the Executive Editor of Biomaterials Forum and the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Histotechnology. Honors to Dr. Burg include a U.S. Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the inaugural AO Foundation Research Prize, recognition as a Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s TR100 Young Innovator, an American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering Fellow, an American Council on Education Fellow, and a United States Department of Defense Era of Hope Scholar.
Mr Raymond John Dauer
Ass. Dip. RMIT (MLT), B.APP.SC. (MLS), MBA (Swinburne), FAIMS Affiliated with AIMS (Fellow), HSANZ, ANZSBT, ASTH, ISTH, ISLH
Raymond John Dauer is currently the Head of Haematology Laboratory Austin Pathology, Austin Hospital. His responsibilites include Automated Haematology and Coagulation, Blood Transfusion, Immunology, Stem Cell Cryopreservation and Specialised haematology and haemostasis.
His career in Medical Laboratory Science spans more than thirty years and has had a long background in clinical medicine. Have an extensive knowledge and experience in the area of haemostasis, particularly in the area of thromboembolic disease and bleeding disorders.
Raymond started his career in 1973 as a trainee Medical Laborory Technologist at the Peter MacCallum Hospital in Melbourne whilst studying at RMIT part time. Moved to St Vincents hospital in 1976 and completed his Diploma in 1978. In 1979 commenced at the Austin hospital and obtained his B App Sc (MLS) from RMIT in 1979 majoring in Immunohaematology.
In 1983 Raymond was awarded FAIMS by examination. Took up Haematology lecturship postion at RMIT in 1986 which held until 1988 when moved to Department of Diagnostic Haematology, Royal Melbourne Hospital. Tried to complete a part time PhD during this period but due to funding and other issues had to withdraw from this.
Raymond took up a position back at the Austin in 1994 in specialised Haemostasis. He completed an MBA at Swinburne University in 2001.
Raymond has formal involvement in teaching and training of students at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels and continue involvement at RMIT lecturing and demonstrating to undergraduate students. Active with training and teaching both scientific and medical (RCPA candidates) personnel. Professional, laboratory scientist and manager with a strong commitment to continuing education, professional development, change management and systems thinking.
Professor Peter Doherty AC FAA FRS
Presentation Title: Global Infectious Disease and What We Can Do About It
Professor Peter Doherty shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1996 with Swiss colleague Rolf Zinkernagel, for their discovery of how the immune system recognises virus-infected cells. He was Australian of the Year in 1997, and has since been commuting between St Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis and the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Melbourne. His research is mainly in the area of defence against viruses. He regularly devotes time to delivering public lectures, writing articles for newspapers and magazines and participating in radio discussions.
Peter Doherty graduated from the University of Queensland in Veterinary Science and became a veterinary officer. Moving to Scotland, he received his PhD from the University of Edinburgh Medical School. He is the first person with a veterinary qualification to win a Nobel Prize.
Peter is also the author of several books, including “A Light History of Hot Air” and “The Beginners Guide to Winning the Nobel Prize”.
Dr Ngaire Elwood
Presentation Title: What Telomeres Reveal About Our Blood?
Dr Ngaire Elwood is the Director of the BMDI Cord Blood Bank at the Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne and also heads a Leukaemia / Stem Cell research group at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. She has a long-standing interest in the area of haemopoietic stem cells, leukaemia and telomere biology.
Dr Daniel Häusermann
Presentation Title: Medical Science Applications of the Australian Synchrotron
Dr Daniel Häusermann gained his PhD in x-ray optics and advanced synchrotron radiation techniques in the UK. After working at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility and the Advanced Photon Source in Chicago, he joined the Australian Synchrotron where he is responsible for designing and building the Imaging and Medical Therapy facility.
Dr David Haylock
Presentation Title: HSC Stem Cell Expansion for the Clinic
Dr David Haylock is best known for his pioneering work on blood stem cell mobilization and transplantation and long term interests in ex vivo manipulation of HSC. From 2000-2005, as Head of Experimental Cell Therapy at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, David lead Australia’s first clinical trial with ex vivo expanded CD34+ cells in the setting of repetitive high dose chemotherapy for metastatic breast cancer. David is now at the Australian Stem Cell Centre and continues to participate in fundamental research on HSC and the HSC niche in collaboration with Associate Professor Susie Nilsson.
Dr Charles Mullighan
Presentation Title: Insights into the Biology of Acute Leukaemia from high Resolution Genomic Approaches
Dr Charles Mullighan received his medical degree from the University of Adelaide in 1993. He studied immunogenetics in the University of Oxford, then trained in Haematology and Haematopathology at the Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science and Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide. Since 2004 he has been a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the laboratory of Dr James Downing at St Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee. His research interest is the genomic analysis of acute leukemia (Nature 2007;446:758 and Nature 2008: in press). He is funded by a NH&MRC (Australia) CJ Martin Fellowship, a St Jude Physician Scientist Fellowship, and is the recipient of American Society of Hematology Merit and Scholar awards.
Prof Emeritus Sir Gustav Nossal
Presentation title: Future Trends in Global Health
Gustav Nossal was born n Austria in 1931, and came to Australia in 1939. In 1965 he was appointed Director of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, a position he held from 1965-1996. Sir Gustav is currently a consultant for the World Health Organization and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He was formerly Chariman of the Global Foundation Advisory Committee. He was Deputy Chairman of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation from 1998 to 2000. He was knighted in 1977, made a companion in the order of Australia in 1989 and appointed Australian of the Year 2000.
Dr Sharon Wallace
Dr Sharon Wallace is Director of Anatomical Pathology for St John of God Pathology (Victoria) and has been working in regional Victoria for 13 years, in Ballarat and more recently in Geelong in addition. She has an interest in error reduction in the context of diagnostic Surgical Pathology.
Professor Bob Williamson
Presentation Title: The Human Genome Project: Was It Worth The $3 Billion?
Professor Bob Williamson became Professor of Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry at St Mary’s Hospital Medical School, Imperial College London, in 1976. In 1995 he moved to Melbourne as Director of the Murdoch Institute and Professor of Medical Genetics, retiring in 2004. He identified or cloned genes for thalassaemia, craniofacial abnormalities, cystic fibrosis, myotonic dystrophy and Alzheimer disease. He takes a major interest in national science policy and ethics. He is an Honorary Fellow of the RACP, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, Fellow of the Royal Society and Officer of the Order of Australia.
Mr Ken Worth
Presentation Title: Handy Hints to Improve your Lab using Lean 6 Sigma
Mr Ken Worth has over 20 years experience working in, and running pathology laboratories. He has used the combined the knowledge of a degree in science with an MBA to develop quality improvement methods that work in real labs. Ken has spent most of his career applying and refining these techniques to make real improvements in the way pathology laboratories operate.