Panel: Challenges along the way – NSW Life as a Clinician-Scientist 2023

Clinician-scientists at various career stages discuss challenges and opportunities they have encountered throughout their career in a panel discussion at the 2023 Life as a Clinician-Scientist NSW symposium. Speakers: Associate Professor Justin Skowno, Paediatric Anaesthetist and Researcher, Children’s Hospital at Westmead Dr Noemi Fuentes-Bolanos, Paediatric Oncologist and Clinical Cancer Geneticist, Kids Cancer Centre; Researcher, Children’s […]

Professor Cheryl Jones: Where medicine meets science

Professor Cheryl Jones at the 2023 Life as a Clinician-Scientist NSW event

Professor Cheryl Jones FAHMS is Dean and Head of School, Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney. She discusses her career and research in infectious disease, paediatrics and antimicrobial resistance at the 2023 Life as a Clinician-Scientist NSW symposium.

Associate Professor Sue Woolfenden: The why, who and what of a paediatrician-scientist

Associate Professor Sue Woolfenden at the 2023 NSW Life as a Clinician-Scientist event

Associate Professor Sue Woolfenden discusses the “why, who and what” of her work as a paediatrician-scientist, combining research with clinicial work in community paediatrics, at the 2023 Life as a Clinician Scientist NSW symposium. Speaker: Associate Professor Sue Woolfenden, Director of Community Paediatrics, Sydney Local Health District; Senior Research Fellow, UNSW Sydney

Panel: Enhancing the clinician-scientist pathway (2022)

What can be done to improve pathways for emerging and established clinician-scientists in Australia? Experts at various career stages discussed this issue at the 2022 South Australian Life as a Clinician-Scientist symposium. Chair: Professor Steve Wesselingh FAHMS Panellists: Professor Susan Hillier, Dean of Research, University of South Australia Professor Benjamin Kile FAHMS, Executive Dean, University […]

Professor Melissa Wake: Keep your feet on the ground and your eyes in the sky (2019)

Professor Melissa Wake describes the path that led her to become a developmental behavioural paediatrician, and how she built her international collaborations. She also talks about the benefits of having three lives: a clinician, a researcher and an individual with your family or your own interests outside of work.   Presented at LACS in Melbourne, […]

Professor John Christodoulou: How to give a killer talk (2018)

Professor Christodoulou shares his expertise in engaging an audience. Learn how to correctly pitch to your audience, prepare visually interesting slides, use humour, acknowledge collaborators and funding sources, and finish with a conclusion.  Presentation delivered at the LACS event in Melbourne in 2018.

Professor Kathryn North: How to never be bored (2021)

“One thing I love about my job and my career is that I’m never, ever bored.” Professor Kathryn North AC, Director of the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and the David Danks Professor of Child Health Research at the University of Melbourne. She speaks at the Academy’s Victorian Life as a Clinician-Scientist 2021 symposium.

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