WOMEN IN HEALTH ELIGIBLE FOR LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT SCHOLARSHIPS

Available Now: Partial scholarships for women in Health ranging from $1,000 to $5,000 per person, for one of four leadership and workplace skill development programs. 

These scholarships are aimed at encouraging more women to increase their impact at work, progress their career, and step into leadership roles.

Registrations of interest close on 24^th November 2023. Via our website: www.wla.edu.au/industry/health

The Department of Health and Aged Care is seeking expressions of interest from suitably qualified and experienced individuals who would like to be considered for upcoming vacancies on national health technology assessment (HTA) committees and associated subcommittees. Upcoming HTA committee positions include:

Medical Services Advisory Committee (MSAC)

• Chair 
• Deputy Chair 
• Committee members (multiple, professional and consumer)

Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee (PBAC)

• Chair
• Committee members (multiple, professional)  

Medical Devices and Human Tissue Advisory Committee (MDHTAC)

• Committee member (consumer)

We would greatly appreciate your assistance in promoting the call for EOIs amongst your team, members, peers, or networks as you consider appropriate. The EOI and an information pack that provides advice on how to apply is available on the department’s HealthCareers website Department's job vacancies page.

Please note, the closing date for receipt of EOIs is 11.59 pm (AEST), Sunday 3 September 2023.

 If you have any queries, please contact  htamembership@health.gov.au.

Congratulations on behalf of all HSANZ to the following members who were honoured recently:

Professor Erica Wood AO from Monash University for distinguished service to transfusion medicine and haemovigilance, to haematology, and to national and international organisations,

Professor Harshall Nandurker AM from Australian Centre for Blood Diseases at Alfred Hospital for significant service to medicine, particularly as a haematologist 

Dr Ruth Spearing CNZM for services to haematology. Ruth offered a few words following acceptance of her honour.

I feel as if I am accepting this on behalf of all the NZ haematologists.

It was great being the NZ PI for most of the UK studies, especially AML ( though initially also CLL/MM etc) after Mike Beard stepped down in 1993. We managed to get our dreaded Pharmac to agree to pay for the mylotarg in 2015 for AML19 which meant we could take part in that trial which was probably my biggest single achievement!

I was very active in medical politics here in NZ for close on 20 years

HSANZ Scholarships, Fellowships and Awards

HSANZ continues to work with charity and industry partners to offer a range of Scholarships and Grants which are open This year we are offering:

3 x HSANZ / Leukaemia Foundation PhD Scholarships

1 x HSANZ / Arrow Foundation PhD Scholarship

1 x HSANZ / Leukaemia & Blood Cancer New Zealand PhD Scholarship

2 x HSANZ Clinical Fellowships

1 x HSANZ / Snowdome Mid-Career Award

1 x Baikie Award

All above programs close 20 August 2023

1 x HSANZ /ASH Abstract Achievement Award - closes 1 August 2023

All the details are here https://www.hsanz.org.au/scholarships-and-awards/

NHMRC Centre for Blood Transplant and Cell Therapies Webinar 5 July 2023

The Centre for Blood Transplant and Cell Therapies (CBTCT) brings together the largest allogeneic stem cell transplant units in Australia with a focus on identifying transplant and cell therapy strategies to reduce graft versus host disease and improve patient and disease outcomes after transplant. In this webinar series, speakers will review major topics in stem cell transplantation and cell therapy, highlighting how key advances are addressing the current challenges in stem cell transplantation. The second webinar of 2023 features Professor Robert Zeiser, who is a Professor of Medicine and Director of the Division of Tumour Immunology at the Department of Haematology, Oncology and Stem-Cell Transplantation at the Medical Center, University of Freiburg in Freiburg, Germany. His research group has focused on utilizing a range of cutting edge imaging techniques to monitor the fate of different cell types in living animals, leading to several publications in the New England Journal of Medicine, Nature Medicine, Science Translational Medicine, Blood, Nature Communications and the Journal of Clinical Investigation. Professor Zeiser has over 250 peer-reviewed publications and contributed to 14 book chapters. In this webinar, Professor Zeiser will outline the translational pathway of promising, novel therapies for graft vs host disease from murine models into clinical practice.  Flyer

Speaker:

Professor Robert Zeiser – University of Freiburg, Germany

When: Wednesday 5 July 2023, 5pm AEST

Link to webinar:

Link to CBTCT website for all webinar recordings:

At the recent very successful HSANZ New Zealand branch meeting in Palmerston North an AGM was held at which there was a discussion about paying tribute to contributors to haematology in NZ. It was agreed to name a session at the annual branch meeting after them in their respective field. It was decided after a vote that the morphology session could be re-named every 10 years after a respected colleague. Edward Theakston who died recently, was to be the new memorial session. An obituary by Anna Ruskova was included in the last HSANZ newsletter.

As New Zealand councillor, Annette Neylon was asked to write a letter to his widow explaining this and HSANZ Council endorsed the proposal unanimously.

• The Leukaemia Foundation Research Fellowship provides $1M in funding over five years and is primarily aimed at supporting applicants to undertake research.

  The Fellowships are open to researcher and clinicians who are 

  • Australian citizens or permanent Australian residents
  • Meet the NHMRC classification of Leadership Level 1 (between 10-15 years post-PhD or MD (or MBBS) on January 1 2023)

Full eligibility criteria and application details can be found on the Leukaemia Foundation website

https://www.leukaemia.org.au/research/current-funding-opportunities/research-fellowships/

You are cordially invited to attend the HSANZ New Zealand Annual Branch Meeting from 2-4 April 2023.

The program and registration information is attached or click www.spconferences.co.nz/hsanz-2023