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Rosie Batty has turned her attention to the medical profession’s role on the front line of the battle against family violence. of the Year wants us to listen and learn.

HE cold hard facts about family violence make for ugly but “Having [a doctor with] a compassionate, Tnecessary reading. empathetic manner could be the difference Family violence can happen to anyone but, in 95% of reported between somebody coming back, and incidents, it is mainly committed by men against women, children and feeling comfortable in coming back, and at other vulnerable people. So far, in a time that’s right for them” 2015, two women have been killed Rosie Batty every week on average; one woman is hospitalised every 3 hours. The cost of , where the 11-year-old Simple message of violence against women and their was training. children to the Australian economy in Her message is simple — don’t try to fix the problem all by yourself, but 2009 was $13.6 billion. It’s calculated Ms Batty has been, since then, a know where the specialised services to rise to $15.6 billion by 2012–22 fierce advocate for the victims of are in the area of your practice and without the right preventive action.1,2 family violence, for both policy and Luke Batty how to connect your patient with the practical change, for finding ways One in three Australian women has people who can help her, even if that’s to keep women and children safe experienced physical violence since as simple as giving her one phone of 15 and 64% of them did not and supported. number … 1800 RESPECT. report it to the police.3 Of late, she has turned her sights on “Sometimes, it’s the right time to Rosie Batty, the 2015 Australian of the the medical profession, keen to let actually ask the question and not be Year, knows those numbers inside doctors and allied health care workers afraid of asking the question, ‘are you and out, not just because she lived understand the pivotal role they in a violent relationship’ ”, she says. them, but because her mission in life can play in helping victims through “The person may be so confused is about teaching others the hard facts their crises. that they actually don’t know that so they don’t have to suffer the way “It’s really important that the they are. Or they may not be ready. she has. [members of] medical profession, who They may be too frightened … but certainly having [a doctor with] a If people do not know Ms Batty as the are at the front line, and quite often , they certainly compassionate, empathetic manner are the first [people] that victims may know her for the tragedy of her son could be the difference between well visit, are as aware of the problem Luke’s death, on Wednesday 12 somebody coming back, and feeling [of family violence] as the rest of the February 2014. He was killed in front comfortable in coming back, and at a community”, Ms Batty tells the MJA. of horrified onlookers by his mentally time that’s right for them.” ill father, Greg, at Luke’s local “Engaging with the medical sector, cricket ground in Tyabb, southeast [which is] pivotal, is really important.” continued on page C2

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Family violence, she points out, guidelines for GPs with patients who “It’s not just about recognising may underpin many of the issues are victims — and perpetrators — of [symptoms], it’s about what’s that bring victims to a general family violence.4 happening socially and what practitioner’s surgery. In May of this year the Australian communities the doctor’s practising “Drug and alcohol abuse, mental Medical Association joined with the in, understanding different cultures.” illness … in a lot of cases those are Law Council of , to produce a In the end, Ms Batty says, it comes underpinned by family violence”, document called Supporting patients down to trust, respect, no judgement Ms Batty says. experiencing family violence.5 and plenty of empathy. “You’re not a specialist in this space. Are guidelines enough? “Right now, the journey of the victim You’re a referral point. What’s most “No”, says Professor Kelsey Hegarty, “It’s not leaves a lot to be desired”, she says. important is the safety of the victim. an academic GP who currently leads just about “That journey needs to be supported “It isn’t necessarily the right approach the Researching Abuse and Violence by people who don’t judge or criticise to ring triple zero and involve the in Primary Care program at the recognising or push or give unintended advice. police. So what is that step? Who are University of Melbourne. [symptoms], “If we can unpack some of the myths you going to refer [the victim] to? “The RACGP guidelines are excellent, and misconceptions around family Who are the specialised services in but we need a systems approach.” it’s about violence and treat it as it should your immediate area? Or do you keep be treated, as violence, as totally Professor Hegarty testified before it very simple … 1800 RESPECT does unacceptable, then it will go a long the Victorian Royal Commission into what’s refer them to the correct services.” way towards the victim being able Family Violence in Melbourne on happening to feel that they can, not just speak Information in waiting rooms is 12 August about a study in which out, but actually feel supported by another key area where doctors can she and her colleagues taught GPs a socially” the community that in the past has make an impact with victims of first-line response recommended by condemned them. family violence, she says. the World Health Organization once “I would love to see more information a patient is identified as a victim of “Doctors have to play their part.” available in practices. It may be a family violence.6 1. The Luke Batty Foundation. http:// key way to introduce the topic to The mnemonic LIVES — listen, lukebattyfoundation.com.au/family- somebody who may not be ready to inquire about their needs, validate violence. acknowledge the position they’re in. their experience, enhance their safety Pamphlets that describe violence — and ensure ongoing support — gave 2. Never Alone. http://www.neveralone. what is family violence? What are the GPs an easy-to-remember protocol com.au/family_violence. the different forms of violence? What for dealing with patients. 3. Australia’s National Research can you do? And what can you do However, Professor Hegarty told the Organisation for Women’s Safety. to support someone? It’s a whole-of- Violence against women: key statistics. Commission that she did not agree community approach.” http://www.anrows.org.au/sites/ that GPs should identify victims default/files/Key%20statistics%20 Mandatory reporting by doctors is and then just move them on to -%20all.pdf. not a solution, Ms Batty says. specialised services. 4. Royal Australian College of General “I’m hesitant to recommend “There has to be obviously more than Practitioners. Abuse and violence: [mandatory reporting]. We need the that and there has to be a basic safety working with our patients in general infrastructure to be able to support assessment”, Professor Hegarty said. practice. http://www.racgp.org.au/your- that, and we don’t. “So when we taught GPs that as practice/guidelines/whitebook/. “What we’ve got to understand is well, to — under the mental health 5. Australian Medical Association, Law that if people knew that they would care plans that exist — see them Council of Australia. Supporting be forced to report, it would certainly in an ongoing way, we found that patients experiencing family violence. make a difference to whether I spoke women were less depressed. So we https://ama.com.au/article/ama- about it or not. It takes away that certainly know that we can … and family-violence-resource. trust, that confidentiality, and it’s when women are less depressed they 6. Victorian Royal Commission into Family taken out of [the victim’s] hands. take further actions often to keep Violence. Transcript of proceedings: “It’s more important that doctors are themselves and their children safe.” Wednesday 12 August 2015. http:// better trained, and understand that One area of encouragement for Rosie www.rcfv.com.au/MediaLibraries/ they don’t have to be experts, but Batty has been the response from RCFamilyViolence/Transcripts/ they do need to know how to refer medical students to her campaign. Transcript-RCFV_Day-018_12- Aug-2015_Public.pdf. properly, why it is important to link a “I have had great interest from woman in.” medical students”, she tells the MJA. The full interview with Rosie Batty is “I spoke to the students at Flinders Guidelines available as a podcast at www.mja. University in Adelaide [recently] at com.au/multimedia/podcasts and The Royal Australian College of the students’ request. It was very iTunes, and as a video at www.mja. General Practitioners has its “white powerful. It was really inspiring to com.au/multimedia book” — Abuse and violence: me to realise that medical students working with our patients in general want to understand the social issues practice — which provides clinical behind the symptoms. doi: 10.5694/mja15.0907C1

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Flinders University researcher Robyn Flook achievements of Victoria’s early-career Scientia Professor Henry Brodaty, Co- was named the Unsung Hero of South health and medical researchers. Director of the Centre for Healthy Brain Australian Science at the state launch Ageing, will receive $6.5 million to http://newsroom.melbourne.edu/news/university- of National Science Week. Ms Flook has conduct the largest dementia clinical melbourne-early-career-researchers-honoured- managed the South Australian Brain Bank trial in the world for people aged 55–75 victorian-premier%E2%80%99s-awards since its inception in 1993. She is now years. The Maintain Your Brain trial, will battling cancer which has spread to her A multi-institute research team led by recruit 18 000 people to test whether an own brain. She began working at Flinders Laureate Professor Rob Sanson-Fisher internet coaching tool can reduce the risk in Professor Bill Blessing’s Neurology from the University of Newcastle has of dementia. Half of the trial participants Laboratory within the departments of been awarded $3.38 million in federal will be given information on managing Medicine and Human Physiology at funding to improve dementia care and dementia risk factors, while the rest will Flinders in May 1989. In spite of her own outcomes. The project titled “Australian get extra support through online tools challenges, Ms Flook said that she had Community of Practice in Research in connecting them with medical specialists much more to do and that there was still Dementia” (ACcORD) will bring together and tailored health interventions. UNSW too much to learn at the SA Brain Bank for an experienced multidisciplinary team over Professor of Neuroscience Glenda her to give up now. the next 5 years to improve the health and Halliday has received $6.5 million to http://blogs.flinders.edu.au/flinders- quality of life for people with dementia improve diagnostic detection of non- news/2015/08/07/flinders-inspirational-unsung- and their carers, according to Professor Alzheimer disease forms of dementia, hero-recognised/ Sanson-Fisher, a behavioural health which are commonly underrecognised or scientist. ACcORD will explore barriers to misdiagnosed. The research will focus on Dr Janet Bray, a Monash University emergency service delivery, evaluate the current legal new detection methods and pilot novel care expert, has been recognised as Young impediments and look at implementing treatments for frontotemporal dementia Researcher of the Year by the Bethlehem new measures for consistently assessing and dementia with Lewy bodies. Griffiths Research Foundation for her drive unmet needs. Clinicians, biostatisticians, to improve outcomes for cardiovascular health economists, legal experts and http://med.unsw.edu.au/news/unsw-researchers- patients. The award also included a $5000 consumer representatives will take part, receive-13-million-help-fight-dementia grant towards research-related travel. Dr some of whom have previously worked Two medical professionals are among six Bray is a Senior Research Fellow within the outside the field. winners of the University of Queensland’s Pre-hospital, Emergency and Trauma Unit http://www.newcastle.edu.au/newsroom/ of the Monash School of Public Health and 2015 Alumni Awards. Professor Peter featured-news/$3.3m-grant-to-improve- Donnelly, Director of the Wellcome Trust Preventive Medicine. She was selected for dementia-care-and-quality-of-life her work in improving the outcomes for Centre for Human Genetics, and a Professor of Statistical Science at the University of stroke and heart attack patients. For her New South Wales’s top honour for cancer Oxford, and Dr James Morton, AM, Medical doctoral thesis exploring factors related research has been awarded to University to prehospital delay in stroke, Dr Bray was of Newcastle researcher, Professor John Director of Haematology-Oncology Clinics awarded a National Heart Foundation Forbes AM, a pioneer in breast cancer of Australasia and Chairman and founder Scholarship and received the Alfred Deakin research. Professor Forbes, founder of of the AEIOU Foundation, a non-profit Medal for Best Doctoral Thesis. She the Newcastle-based Australian and organisation for children with autism, currently serves on a number of state and New Zealand Breast Cancer Trials Group were presented with the Vice-Chancellor’s national committees and working groups, (ANZBCTG), received the 2015 Premier’s Alumni Excellence Awards. society conference committees and grant Award for Outstanding Cancer Research. https://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2015/08/ review boards. The breakthrough research revealed that community-and-business-leaders-celebrated-uq- tamoxifen could prevent half of new breast http://www.med.monash.edu.au/news/2015/dr- alumni-awards?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_ cancers and significantly reduce the rates janet-bray-crowned-young-researcher-of-year. medium=Email&utm_content=Nov2013&utm_ of secondary cancer and the development html campaign=Newsletter of tumours in the other breast. Among his many career highlights, Professor Forbes The University of Melbourne’s Dr Peter De doi: 10.5694/mja15.0907C4 Cruz has been awarded the 2015 Victorian chaired the Australian and New Zealand Premier’s Award for Health and Medical arm of the International Breast Cancer National Australia Bank Research at a ceremony at Government Intervention Study (IBIS I) clinical trial, Finance ���Inside front cover House. Dr Cruz’s award recognises his which established that tamoxifen could research on optimising Crohn’s disease be used for more than just successfully Novo Nordisk management and research into the treating breast cancer — it could also be NovoMix® 30 ������������������p207 cause of disease recurrence. Other used in prevention of the disease. 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24-26 3rd International Students’ Association of 13-16 2015 International Psychogeriatrics ALM = active learning module Robotic Urologic Surgery Conference, Cluj- Association International Congress, Berlin, ASM = annual scientific meeting Napoca, Romania Germany CPD = continuing professional development 27-30 17th Annual International Meeting of the 14-16 International Congress of the International CT = computed tomography Institute of Human Virology, Baltimore, MD, USA Neuropsychiatric Association, Jerusalem, Israel ECHO/echo = echocardiography 28-30 World Congress on Interventional Therapies for 14-16 5th EAI International Conference on Wireless EMAC = effective management of anaesthetic crises Type 2 Diabetes and DSS II, London, UK Mobile Communication and Healthcare MRI = magnetic resonance imaging 29 Sep-2 Oct 11th Australasian Conference on Vibrational (MobiHealth), London, UK OSCE = objective structured clinical examination Spectroscopy and 5th Asian Spectroscopy 14-17 International Conference on e-Health Conference, Sydney, NSW ▲ SAT SET = supervisors and trainers for surgical education Networking, Application and Services, Boston, USA 30 Sep-2 Oct Neurosurgical Society of Australasia Annual and training 15-16 ART World Congress Symposium on Safe and Scientific Meeting, Auckland, New Zealand ▲ ▲ = conferences in Australia Efficient IVF, New York, USA 30 Sep-3 Oct International Congress of Innate Immunity, 15-17 International Symposium on Obstetric Marbella, Spain SEPTEMBER Anaesthesia: Effect on Mother and Newborn, OCTOBER Budapest, Hungary 8-11 World CDx Boston 2015, Boston, USA 16-19 RANZCOG ASM, Perth, WA ▲ 8-12 15th Interim Meeting of the World Federation of 1-3 Regional Congress of the World Federation for 17-18 2nd USIM International Conference on Medicine Neurosurgical Societies, Rome, Italy Mental Health, Singapore and Health, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 9-10 NFMRI Medical Research Innovation 1-5 Asia Pacific Rim International Counselling and 18-23 15th International Thyroid Congress, Orlando, USA Conference, Sydney, NSW ▲ Psychotherapy Conference, Perth, WA ▲ 19-20 World Anti-Microbial Resistance Congress USA 9-11 2015 RACMA Conference — Inequality and 2-3 Singapore Health and Biomedical Congress 2015, Washington DC, USA Healthcare: recognising the healthcare costs of 2015, Singapore inequality, Auckland, NZ ▲ 19-22 10th Asia/Oceania Congress of Gerontology 2-4 Inaugural Scientific Conference of the Asia and Geriatrics 2015, Chiangmai, Thailand 9-11 International congress on addiction science, Association of Medical Laboratory Scientists Tehran, Iran 2015, Yogyakarta, Indonesia 19-22 6th World Antibody Drug Conjugate Summit 2015, San Diego, USA 10-11 11th Annual Australian Diseases Management 4-8 43rd Annual Meeting of the International Conference — Count me in: partnerships in Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery, Izmir, Turkey 19-25 Medicres 5th World Congress on “Good Medical ▲ Research”, New York, USA chronic care, Brisbane QLD 4-9 21st FIGO World Congress of Gynaecology 10-11 3rd International Oncology Conference, Abu Obstetrics, Vancouver, Canada 21-22 26th World Congress on Videourology, Izmir, Dhabi, UAE 5-6 16th International Conference on Alzheimer’s Turkey 10-11 4th Annual International Medical Conference Drug Discovery, Jersey City, USA 21-23 International Conference on Healthcare — More awareness of chronic pelvic pain in 5-7 Interprofessional Health, Education and Practice Informatics, Richardson, USA women, Cairo, Egypt Conference, Melbourne, VIC ▲ 21-23 World Conference on Regenerative Medicine, 10-12 International Society for Vascular Surgery 2015 5-8 15th International Nutrition and Diagnostics Leipzig, Germany Congress, Athens, Greece Conference, Prague, Czech Republic 21-24 6th International Conference on Nutrition and 10-12 The Viral Hepatitis Congress 2015, Frankfurt, 5-9 18th International Conference on Medical Physical Activity 2015, Taipei City, Taiwan Germany Imaging Computing and Computer Assisted 21-24 8th International Congress of Arthroscopy and 10-12 2nd International Symposium on Clinical and Intervention, Munich, Germany Sports Medicine, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia Basic Investigation in Glioblastoma, Toledo, Spain 6-8 15th International Conference on Progress in 22-24 3rd International Congress on Controversies 11-12 Innovation in Medicine and Healthcare 2015, Vaccination Against Cancer, Tübingen, Germany in Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellular Kyoto, Japan 6-9 45th Annual Meeting of the International Therapies, Berlin, Germany 13-16 International Society for Hemodialysis Continence Society, Montreal, Canada 22-25 World Organization of Family Doctors Europe Congress 2015, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 8-9 Medical Deans Annual Conference 2015, Hobart, region conference, Istanbul, Turkey 14 Improving Physical Health for People with TAS ▲ 24-27 2015 International Meeting of the European Mental Health Conditions, London, UK 8-10 6th International Symposium on Microsurgical Society of Gynaecological Oncology, Nice, 14-15 2nd International Congress for Joint Recon- Anatomy, Istanbul, Turkey France struction Southeast Asia, Georgetown, Malaysia 8-10 20th World Congress on Advances in Oncology 24-27 2nd International Conference of Traditional and 18th International Symposium on 15-16 18th International Conference of Functional and Complementary Medicine on Health, Taipei, , 6th International Symposium Molecular Medicine, Athens, Greece Food Center Taiwan of Functional and Medical Foods for Chronic 8-11 47th Congress of the International Society of 26-27 Safe and Secure Hospitals Conference, Diseases, Boston, MA, USA Paediatric Oncology, Cape Town, South Africa Melbourne, VIC ▲ 16-17 4th Annual Cancer Vaccines Conference, 9-11 Australasian Military Medicine Association 26-27 Future of Health Policy Reform Forum, Sydney, London, UK Conference 2015, Hobart, TAS ▲ NSW ▲ 16-19 Australian Indigenous Doctors Association 9-12 7th Trends in Medical Mycology, Lisbon, Portugal 28-29 3rd International Systems Biomedicine annual conference — Collaborate, communicate 9-13 Abu Dhabi Ambulatory Healthcare Symposium “Big Data in Health Care – and celebrate, Adelaide, SA ▲ International Congress 2015, Abu Dhabi, UAE 17-20 22nd World Congress on Controversies in Challenges, Innovations and Implementation”, 11-13 11th International Congress on Coronary Artery Munsbach, Luxembourg Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Infertility, Budapest, Disease, Florence, Italy Hungary 28-30 ACHS/ACHSM Joint Asia-Pacific Congress 11-14 The Brain Conferences: The Neurobiology of 2015: Health leadership: odds-on favourite, 17-20 iMed Conference 2015, Lisbon, Portugal Sleep and Circadian Rhythm, Copenhagen, Melbourne, VIC ▲ 17-21 30th International Papillomavirus Conference, Denmark 31 Oct-4 Nov 47th ASM Royal Australian and New Zealand Lisbon, Portugal 11-15 Australian Orthopaedic Association 75th College of Ophthalmologists, Wellington, NZ ▲ 21-23 RACGP Conference GP15, Melbourne, VIC ▲ Annual Scientific Meeting, Brisbane, QLD ▲ 22-24 6th World Bispecific Antibody Summit, Boston, 12-16 South Africa Meeting on Translational Cancer 31 Oct-5 Nov 22nd World Congress of Neurology, Santiago, USA Research, Cape Town, South Africa Chile 23-25 2015 Australasian Schizophrenia Research 13-14 5th Annual Next Generation Sequencing Asia Conference, Melbourne, VIC ▲ Congress, Singapore, Singapore doi: 10.5694/mja15.0907C5

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