Panel: Building a career in translational research – perspectives across career stages (2021)
Chaired by Professor David Whiteman, this panel included: A/Prof David Cavallucci (hepato-pancreatico-biliary surgery) Dr Michelle Roets (anaesthetics) Dr Cameron Snell (pathology) It was recorded at our QLD LACS 2021 event.
Dr Eamonn Eeles: Ageing. Challenges, opportunities and innovations (2021)
Dr Eeles is a consultant physician and geriatrician and a keen researcher in the field of dementia and delirium. Dr Eeles is research council chair at TPCH, Head of research IMS, statewide advisor to the Queensland Brain Institute, member of Statewide Dementia Network and Australasian Delirium Association committees. He spoke at our QLD LACS […]
Professor Tammy Hoffman: The ‘other’ type of translational research (2021)
Professor Tammy Hoffman is Professor of Clinical Epidemiology and NHMRC Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Evidence-Based Health Care, Bond University, and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences. Her research spans many aspects of shared decision making, evidence-based practice, and maximising the translation of evidence to assist clinicians, patients, […]
Prof Bala Venkatesh: Building capacity and culture in translational intensive care research (2021)
Professor Bala Venkatesh shares his international experiences as a clinician-researcher and discusses running clinical trials in India during the COVID-19 pandemic. He spoke at our 2021 QLD LACS event. Professor Venkatesh is Director of Intensive Care at the Wesley Hospital, Pre-Eminent specialist in Intensive Care Medicine at the Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, Professor of Intensive […]
Panel: Victorian early and mid-career clinician-scientists share their stories (2019)
Discover how our early and mid-career panel members got into research, the challenges and successes they have encountered and what motivates them. The panel included: Dr Sarah Price; Associate Professor Peiro Perucca; Associate Professor Sebastian King; and Dr Sylvie Picker Minh. This panel discussion was part of the LACS event in Victoria in 2019 and […]
Panel: Early and mid career clinician-scientists (2016)
Find out how our early and mid-career panel members got into research, the challenges and successes they have encountered and what motivates them. The panel included: Dr Ken Meyers; Dr Kylie Mason; Dr Peter van Wijngaarden; and Professor Michelle Leech. The early and mid-career panel discussion was part of the LACS VIC 2016 event
Panel: Early and mid-career clinician-scientist pathways and opportunities (2018)
Discover how our early and mid-career panel members got into research, the challenges and successes they have encountered and what motivates them. Panellists included: Dr Ruth Mitchell Dr Joseph Doyle Dr Kirsten Perrett Associate Professor Justin Denholm This panel discussion was part of the LACS VIC 2018 event and was chaired by Professor Ingrid Scheffer.
Professor Robyn Guymer: More than meets the eye (2018)
Professor Robyn Guymer outlines how spending time with the patient can focus the research question. She explains how being a ‘simple clinician’ can really have a big impact on patient outcomes. Presented at the LACS event in Melbourne in 2018.
Dr Glenn Begley: how can a clinician-scientist also be a bioentrepreneur and a science sleuth? (2018)
Dr Glenn Begley poses the important questions – how can a clinician-scientist also be a bioentrepeneur and a science sleuth? His talk covers why getting involved in research is important; his personal perspectives on Australian training; his lessons for a professional life outside of clinical medicine; delivering to patients and the challenges to the partnership […]
Panel: Early and mid-career clinician-researchers share their insight (2019)
Learn how our early and mid-career panel members got into research and the challenges and successes they have encountered. The panel discussion was part of the NSW LACS event in Sydney in 2019. This panel includes: Associate Professor Tri Phan; Dr Vita Birzniece; Dr Vincent Ho; and Dr Tom Guy.
Allied Health Life as a Clinician-Scientist (2021)
Featuring some of the leading allied health clinician-scientists in Australia, this online event will explore the many pathways in this rewarding career. Clinician scientists bring together the fields of clinical medicine and scientific research, and are typically clinically trained health professionals who also include research as a major part of their career. This event was […]
Professor Peter McCluskey: Getting the red out – 35 years of research scleritis research as a clinician-scientist (2019)
Professor Peter McCluskey shares his story about how he came to be a clinician-scientist in the field of ophthalmology. Presented at the NSW LACS event in Sydney in 2019.
Professor Mark Harris: How might a clinician scientist be best placed to reshape primary care? (2019)
Professor Mark Harris shares his personal experiences as a clinician-researcher throughout his life and the journey he has gone on. Professor Harris also shares some lessons he has learnt about being a clinician-scientist. Professor Harris has a focus on the prevention and management chronic diseases especially diabetes cardiovascular disease, in primary care. He also conducts […]
Professor Gemma Figtree: Lessons from across the world and getting to the heart of disease mechanisms (2019)
Professor Gemma Figtree discusses her career in cardiology, the places it has taken her, explains some of her major career decisions and how she combined fundamental research with clinical training. She also offers advice about the best timing to undertake a PhD. Presented at the NSW LACS event in Sydney in 2019.
Professor Louise Baur: How I went from clinical physiology to global health public policy without even realising it (2019)
Professor Louise Baur looks back over her career and the pathways that led her to becoming a bariatric paediatrician. She also talks about ways of treating those affected by obesity and the best prevention strategies. Presented at the NSW LACS event in Sydney in 2019.
Professor Alex Hewitt: A Tale of Two Cities (2021)
Professor Alex Hewitt spoke from his Tasmanian office at our 2021 Victorian Life as a Clinician-Scientist symposium. Professor Alex Hewitt is a Principal Research Fellow at the Menzies Institute for Medical Research at the University of Tasmania, as well as a Principal Investigator at the Centre for Eye Research Australia. His major research interests lie […]
Professor Stephen O’Leary: The life of a surgeon-scientist (2021)
“If you’ve been trained as a clinician, you know the best will come out if you combine a deep fundamental knowledge, but also if you follow your heart in terms of motivation. It’s really important, early in your career, to have a broad curiosity across your discipline.” Professor Stephen O’Leary, William Gibson Chair in Otolaryngology […]
Professor Eric Morand: I wonder what I’ll be when I grow-up? (2021)
“I never wanted to become a specialist, nor a researcher, and certainly not an administrator. Now I am all three and wouldn’t change a thing.” Professor Eric Morand, Head of the School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, and Head of the Monash Health Rheumatology Unit. He spoke at the Victorian Life as a Clinician-Scientist […]
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.
Associate Professor Jonathan Karpelowsky: Why being a scientist makes me a better surgeon (2019)
Associate Professor Jonathan Karpelowsky covers a range of topics in his talk, such as how being a clinician helps him be a better surgeon, and his top tips for delivering a great talk to share your science and your story.