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The inspiring women who are paving the way for better healthcare 11 February 2025 Across the Child and Adolescent Health Service (CAHS), women in scientific roles are helping improve the health and wellbeing of WA children and young people. On International Women and Girls in Science Day we shine a spotlight on four of these remarkable individuals and reveal the important contributions they are making to enhancing our services, and outcomes for those in our care. Dr Cayla Bellagarda At Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS), Senior Research Psychologist Dr Cayla Bellagarda has been leading a review of paediatric mental health services, notable among them an evaluation of its statewide emergency crisis service, CAMHS Crisis Connect. “Our goal was to measure the impact of CAMHS Crisis Connect; to see if it was making a real difference – and if so – how much of a difference," Cayla explains. The findings of that evaluation – currently...
Murdoch Community Hub – a one stop shop for CAHS consumers 23 December 2024 The Murdoch Community Hub is set to transform how community health and mental health services are provided for children, young people and their families in Perth’s southern suburbs. The Hub, at 48 Barry Marshall Parade, Murdoch is close to St John of God and Fiona Stanley Hospitals. Welcoming its first clients on 16 December, it brings together a multitude of child and adolescent health services, ...
Midland Community Hub opens its doors 28 November 2024 The Midland Community Hub (Midland Hub) is officially open and welcoming local families. Co-located with Landgate in the newly refurbished complex at 1 Midland Square, the Midland Hub is now a one-stop-shop for the community, providing easy access to child health, school health, community child and adolescent mental health and child development services. Aboriginal health and immunisation ser...
CAHS researchers take centre stage at WA Child Health Research Symposium 11 November 2024 Developments in research from across the Child and Adolescent Health Service (CAHS) took centre stage last week as part of the 2024 WA Child Health Research Symposium. Built around the theme, Empowering futures; advancing child health, the event showcased some of the exciting and diverse advances that are taking place across WA’s child health research sector that are improving outcomes for childr...
Our staff helping to further medical research via newly formed committee 25 October 2024 Congratulations and thank you to Professor Asha Bowen, Professor Britta Regli-von Ungern-Sternberg, and Professor Fiona Wood, who are all looking to cement WA as a global leader in health and medical research. Professor Asha Bowen and Professor Britta Regli-von Ungern-Sternberg have recently been appointed as members of the Western Australian Government’s new expert committee, which will provide...

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Premmies to test power of probiotics 01 January 0001 Some of Western Australia’s tiniest babies are helping to test the gut-boosting potency of probiotics, as part of exciting new research that will determine whether increasing supplementation enhances their gut health, thereby reducing their risk of serious health complications. A 2023 Telethon Trust Research Fellowship is enabling King Edward Memorial Hospital neonatal registrar Dr Chandra Rath to lead the project which could change the lives of the more than 500 Western Australians born at less than 32 weeks’ gestation every year. ‘These babies are our most vulnerable patients,’ he explains. ‘They are at high risk of poor nutrition, leaving them susceptible to a host of serious – and potentially life-threatening – health conditions such as late-onset sepsis and a devastating intestinal disease (necrotising enterocolitis) to which an imbalance of...

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