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Celebrating our Churchill Fellows and their focus on robotic innovation, telerehabilitation and pharmacogenomics 13 February 2023 Two PCH staff – Rae Robinson and Zeyad Ibrahim – have been awarded prestigious Churchill Fellowships to pursue further research in their respective fields -
Maximising potential by understanding the link between childhood vision impairment and development 13 February 2023 Dr Alison Salt, Consultant Paediatrician in Kids Rehab WA at Perth Children’s Hospital and Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Western Australia, has co-authored a book “Children with Vision Impairment”, incorporating more than 4 decades of experience from clinician researchers in collaboration with leading experts around the world. -
Celebrating our team on International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2023 11 February 2023 International Day of Women and Girls is a United Nations initiative designed to achieve full and equal access to and participation in science for women and girls. CAHS is fortunate to benefit from the talent and dedication of so many women working across the organisation. We caught up with 6 women who work in diverse roles across CAHS to learn more about what they do, and what inspires their love of science.
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Inaugural CAHS Aboriginal Child Health Immersion Program 08 February 2023 From January 16–20, CAHS extended a very warm welcome to 11 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander student doctors taking part in the inaugural CAHS Aboriginal Child Health Immersion program. This extra-curricular week of face-to-face learning provided an in-depth introduction to Aboriginal child health, with clinical placements, tutorials, mentoring, reflective supervision, student networking opportunities and meetings with senior CAHS staff. Whilst busy meeting the CAHS team, a number of students were also meeting each other for the first time, coming from different year groups across all three local medical schools. They were highly engaged and enthusiastic - two students even managed to cross the flooded Kimberley to arrive in time! Departments involved in hosting and teaching students were Koorliny Moort, General Paediatrics, Cardiology, ENT, Infectious Diseases and Neonatol... -
World First: Perth Children’s Hospital to be first in the world to trial new brain cancer treatment 01 February 2023 A world-first cancer treatment trial, tackling a rare and debilitating paediatric brain tumour, has commenced at the Perth Children’s Hospital. Adam Demb, the first Australian patient, will be joined by more than 30 other children across the world to trial a treatment for Adamantinomatous Craniopharyngioma (ACP) over the next two years.
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22/06/2021