SCHOOL OF HEALTH SCIENCES HLS Newsletter Issue 04 September | October | November 2019 Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought - Dr Albert Szent-Gyorgyi There has been much happening within the School of Health Sciences. Here are some features…
• New Programs
• Research Week
• New HDR Graduands
• 2019 School of Health Sciences Inspire Award Winner
• NHMRC Investigator Grant
• Academic Promotions
• Conference Scholarship Reports
In This Issue
• Head of School Report
• Program Director Reports
• Research Director Reports
• Staff and Student Publications
• Library Report
• Events / Announcements
• Safety and Wellbeing
Sarena Jones, Director of Allied Health Support Services with • Contact Us 2019 Allied Health Educator of the Year, Assoc Prof Saravana Kumar
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Head of School Report Associate Professor Shylie Mackintosh
Greetings and welcome to our last edition of the School of Health Sciences newsletter for 2019. This year has certainly zoomed by and we have much to celebrate. We hope you enjoy reading about the achievements and activities of our staff and students over the past few months. Welcome to New Staff Academic Staff Senior Lecturer in Occupational Therapy: Dr Ann Kennedy-Behr, commenced 9 December Senior Lecturer in Speech Pathology: Stefanie Bucher, commencing 6 January 2020 Lecturer in Human Movement, Dr Samuel Chalmers, commencing 13 January 2020
Professional Staff Coordinator: Invictus Pathways Program: Mark Reidy, commenced 17 November
Research Staff Research Assistant: Dr Felicity Braithwaite, commenced 1 November Research Fellow: Dr Malcolm Brinn, commenced 2 December New Program Director The School is pleased to announce that Scott Adams has been appointed as Program Director: Human Movement from Monday 2 December. He will also remain the Program Director: Bachelor of Health Science (Nutrition and Exercise Science). Commencing at UniSA in 2005, Scott has significant and extensive experience within the Human Movement program having previously acted in the role of Program Director: Human Movement in 2016 and performing the role of Program Coordinator: Human Movement in 2016-2017. Since early 2018, Scott is also the Program Director: Bachelor of Health Science (Nutrition and Exercise Science) and responsible for providing academic leadership in the management, development and growth of our first online Health Science program. Please welcome and congratulate Scott as the new Program Director: Human Movement and continuing Program Director: Bachelor of Health Science (Nutrition and Exercise Science). Thank You Scott Polley I would like to take this opportunity to thank Scott Polley for his outstanding leadership and hard work in the role of Program Director for Human Movement since 2013. Scott has overseen growth and changes in the suite of programs including the development of an Exercise Science degree, two double degrees and closest to his heart, the recent approval of the Bachelor of Outdoor and Environment Leadership program. New Programs Speech Pathology We are well underway with preparations for our first cohort of students in the new Bachelor of Speech Pathology (Honours) commencing in 2020. We are pleased to welcome new staff member Stefanie Bucher starting with us in January to take on the teaching for the first semester in the program. Then in mid-2020 we will welcome Professor Maria Kambanaros, an internationally renowned academic in Speech Pathology. Further information regarding the program can be found here. Master of Research (Health Sciences) The School is delighted to announce the approval of a new Masters program, the Master of Research (Health Sciences), to be offered from 2020. This new program is replacing the Master of Research (Population Health Practice) and aims to provide foundational research skills and knowledge relevant to a wide range of health-related disciplines through the completion of a research program and four online research courses. The courses include two new courses in research methods and planning, a biostatistics course and an elective that provides the opportunity for students to tailor their program to best suit the needs of their research project.
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Testimonials regarding the benefits of the inclusion of coursework from two current students can be found below. If you’d like to discuss the program, please feel free to contact: Program Director: Dr Catherine Paquet | [email protected]. “As a Masters by Research Student I undertook the postgraduate coursework throughout the first half of my candidature. I felt that it really helped to set me up with the foundational knowledge and confidence I needed to start my research degree. I was initially overwhelmed by the idea of undertaking both coursework and a thesis with the workload. However, looking back at how much I have learnt over the course, from the basics of research methods and study designs, to biostatistics and analysis programs including SPSS, the coursework was such a great investment into my research career and I think it actually gave me a really good head start into my masters project” - Celine Northcott, Masters by Research Candidate. “Being a Human Movement graduate I was initially hesitant about transferring to the Master of Research (Population Health Practice) and was unsure about the relevance and necessity of undertaking further coursework. The courses however, particularly Biostatistics for Population Health Practice, established a foundation in research methods, practices and skills which furthered my understanding of research during the initial phases of my project, which has set me up for the remainder of my candidature. I would recommend the coursework to Masters students looking to develop a preliminary understanding of research, as a means to kickstart their research project” - Samuel Janetzki, Masters by Research Candidate. Bachelor of Outdoor and Environmental Leadership The Bachelor of Outdoor and Environmental Leadership capitalises on the strengths of the University of South Australia’s Health Science Outdoor Education suite and the Natural and Built Environments Environmental Science offerings to deliver a new and innovative program that will meet current unfulfilled demand for graduates, as well as emerging demand in the fields of wellbeing, outdoor education, adventure therapy, environmental education, environmental interpretation, adventure-based tourism and corporate learning. Students, through elective choices or studying a Minor or Sub-Major, will have the opportunity to tailor studies in areas such as Counselling and Interpersonal Skills, Indigenous Tourism, Biology and Environmental Systems. The program will commence in 2021. Research Week
Our 11th and final Research Week as the ‘School of Health Sciences’ was yet again a great success. The quality of presentations during the week was outstanding, with plenty of opportunities to take time out and network with colleagues. Congratulations to the winner of the Research Week HDR Poster Competition, PhD Candidate Hayley Leake.
The week was crowned by an entertaining Quiz, kindly created and compered by Professor Tim Olds. Thank you to Andy Te for an excellent job coordinating the week-long festival of research, and to all those who helped and supported with various sessions and activities!
During the wrap up of the week our Associate Head of School: Research Associate Professor Marie Williams presented a number of interesting statistics from the past 11 years, including: • Our HDR load has almost doubled, from 54 in 2009 to 107 in 2019, with the make-up of the cohort shifting from only PhD candidates in 2009 to 69 PhD/ 38 Masters by Research in 2019 • Over the time we’ve had 107 candidates graduate (103 PhD, 4 Masters by Research) • The format of the week has changed, as we introduced HDR Poster Sessions, HDR ‘5x5’ presentations, and Invited Presentations from our Early Career Research staff • During the 11 years of Research Week we’ve seen presentations from 157 ‘new’ HDR candidates, 90 candidates have presented Posters, and 86 candidates approaching completion have given a ‘5x5’ presentation • The ‘social’ side of the week has kept us on our toes, from Team Challenges and Mystery Events, to the ever- controversial ‘Great Debates’, to the boisterous Quiz of the last 2 years While the School of Health Sciences may be coming to an end, I’m sure the momentum we’ve built with Research Week over the years will continue on in to our new Academic Unit entity.
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Congratulations to our Newest HDR Graduands! We’ve had an impressive 15 candidates complete a PhD or Masters by Research in our School this year. Congratulations to the following graduands, who’ve had their degrees conferred since our last newsletter:
• Dr Amal Chakraborty, PhD (supervisors: Associate Professor Margaret Cargo, Professor Mark Daniel, Professor Alex Brown, Dr Natasha Howard): Identifying and evaluating community-level built and social environmental factors in relation to preventable disease outcomes: strengthening the evidence base for remote communities in the Northern Territory, Australia • Dr Sheena Davis, PhD (supervisors: Associate Professor Steve Milanese, Professor Karen Grimmer, Alistair Furnell): The Ergonomics of the Combat Helmet System (TECHS): a systems approach to developing an evaluation framework for combat helmets • Dr Sarah Edney, PhD (supervisors: Associate Professor Carol Maher, Professor Tim Olds, Dr Jillian Ryan): Social networking and gamification for health behaviour change • Stephanie Folley, Masters by Research (supervisors: Professor Elina Hypponen, Dr Ang Zhou): Physical activity, APOE genotype and cognitive function: exploring gene-environment interactions in the UK Biobank • Dr Anwar Gebremichael, PhD (supervisors: Professor Elina Hypponen, Dr Ang Zhou): Relationship between obesity and depression: evidence from observational and genetic studies • Dr Iordan Kostadinov, PhD (supervisors: Associate Professor Margaret Cargo, Professor Mark Daniel): Validation of process evaluation tools to assess community readiness and intervention dose: application to a multi-site community- based childhood obesity prevention program • Dr Peter Lekkas, PhD (supervisors: Professor Mark Daniel, Dr Catherine Paquet): The time-varying effects of neighbourhood social fragmentation on trajectories of mental health-related quality of life • Dr Maleshwane Pule, PhD (supervisors: Professor David Roder, Dr Liz Buckley, Associate Professor Theo Niyonsenga): Optimising measurement of comorbidity in South Australian cancer populations • Brian Pulling, Masters by Research (supervisors: Associate Professor Tasha Stanton, Professor Lorimer Moseley, Professor Mark Jensen, Dr Felicity Braithwaite): Adjunctive hypnosis for the treatment of pain • Dr MD Shafiqur Rahman (Jabin), PhD (supervisors: Professor Bill Runciman, Dr Tim Schultz, Dr Catherine Mandel, Associate Professor Farah Magrabi, Associate Professor Peter Hibbert): Identifying and characterising problems arising from interactions between medical imaging and health information technology as a basis for improvements in practice • Dr Brad Stenner, PhD (supervisors: Professor Jon Buckley, Dr Amber Mosewich): Participation in golf by older Australians: motivations for playing and evidence of health-related benefits UniSA Health Clinics Representing the UniSA Health Clinics, students from the Division of Health Sciences attended the recent Kids and Youth Disability Expo (KYD-X) on Saturday 12 October, and the Disability Ageing and Lifestyle (DAL-Expo) Showgrounds on Thursday 17 October. At the KYD-X Expo, the stalls were set up with lots of interactive toys and games which are actually used during therapy services at the City West Health and Medical Clinic. We were able to say hello to a lot of existing clients and interact with prospective families. UniSA Health is proud to have been a Supporting Sponsor of the Disability, Ageing and Lifestyle Expo. The Mobile Allied Health Clinic (MAHC) van was on full display and under supervision by a clinical nurse, students were able to undertake blood pressure UniSA staff and students at the Kyd-X and blood glucose tests for expo attendees. Staff and students talked to attendees about Expo at Priceline Stadium the services offered by the UniSA Health Clinics and also provided prospective students information on health-related programs. The expos allow individuals, families and carers to make informed choices about the equipment, therapies and treatments available to maximise the impact of their National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) funding. Our UniSA Health Clinics continue to provide valuable clinical placement experiences for Physiotherapy, Podiatry, Exercise Physiology and Occupational Therapy students. The clinics are open to the public, so we welcome all staff to book an appointment, or recommend our services to any family or friends who may need access to affordable and quality allied health services. UniSA Health Clinics booth and MAHC van Please give our friendly reception staff a call to book. More information and contact at the Disability, Ageing and Lifestyle details are available on our website. Expo at the Wayville Showgrounds Dr Kuan Tan, Manager: Health and Clinical Education
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Lunchtime Teaching and Learning Session 10 October - Examinations: Principles and Practical Applications In light of the phasing out of the ENTEXT provision, Nayia Cominos from the Teaching Innovation Unit facilitated an informative and interactive workshop on the principles of examination with helpful tips on the preparation of examinations in 2020. The workshop covered three parts - Principles and purpose of examinations, including academic integrity, Practical Applications, choosing the best format, effective question-writing, short-term strategies for the coming exam period and Longer term strategies, sign-posting, and professional development opportunities. Academics were encouraged to bring along examples of problematic examinations and share examples of where they’d made successful changes. A recording of this session can be found here. The sound of the recording does improve further into the presentation. Thank you to Nayia and all those that attended. UniSA Teaching and Learning Symposium 2019 The School of Health Sciences once again was active in attending and presenting at the annual UniSA Teaching and Learning Symposium. The event was held at City West Campus on Friday 8 November. This full-day Symposium showcased the work of academic staff across the themes of Interdisciplinarity, Research Informed, People & Programs, and Authentic Assessment. The School was well-represented in the program, with eight presentations and two panel sessions given by School of Health Sciences academic staff across all four Symposium themes. Most of these sessions represented the work of staff teams, speaking to the culture of teamwork and inter-professional collaboration within the School. It was a fantastic day hearing about the scholarship activities across the University, with lots of opportunity to connect and network over delicious food in the breaks. Aboriginal Content in Undergraduate Programs The School of Health Sciences staff are committed to progressing the intent and actions toward UniSAs Stretch Reconciliation Action Plan. Two programs within the School were selected to undertake a self-review in relation to the Aboriginal Content in Undergraduate Programs (ACUP), including the Bachelor of Occupational Therapy (Honours) and the new Bachelor of Health Science (Public Health). This self-review process was completed in October 2019, and has been shared informally with the Divisional Aboriginal Strategy Group. This self-review process will contribute to the university-wide ACUP agenda. Aboriginal Cultural Safety Workshop Alongside the ACUP review process, the School of Health Sciences is supporting the development of staff cultural safety and capability through a series of workshops. On Tuesday 19 November, Haydon Bromley, Executive Director: Bookabee Australia with support from Deanne Hanchant-Nicols, Consultant: Aboriginal Employment and Development at UniSA delivered a full day Aboriginal Cultural Safety training session to School of Health Sciences academic and professional staff. An advanced full day session will be delivered by Haydyn in February 2020, with a focus on working with Aboriginal peoples, students, families and communities. The workshop was challenging and at times quite confronting, however, it did raise our awareness and understanding of Aboriginal Australia from an Aboriginal perspective. The workshop gave everyone an opportunity to ask some sticky questions that we have always wanted to know the answers to but were too afraid to ask. We also engaged in culturally sensitive conversations and shared personal experiences with each other. In our groups we discussed ways we can identify, promote and engage Cultural Awareness and diversity activities across the School. Course Handover Tool Handing over a course to a new coordinator? Course Handover is a tool to identify the key information that should be communicated in the transitioning of courses from one course coordinator to the next to ensure consistency and completeness. More information can be found here. New Research Group with IIMPACT During October the School launched our new Research Concentration Innovation, Implementation And Clinical Translation in Health – or IIMPACT for short. IIMPACT’s vision is that people with chronic conditions will reach their full potential for recovery, independence and wellbeing The group will be led by Professor Lorimer Moseley, who will be supported by a leadership group consisting of Professor Susan Hillier, Professor Esther May and Associate Professor Marie Williams, along with a number of theme leaders within each challenge area.
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In Stage 1, IIMPACT will target five Big Challenges: • Persistent pain • Stroke recovery • Persistent breathlessness • Rural health & Training and supporting allied health professionals In Stage 2, IIMPACT will seek to expand to other areas of expertise within the School (and beyond) in 2020 – so watch this space!
Our High Achievers Let’s celebrate some of our best and brightest stars who don’t just shine at the University but on the local and world stage. Congratulations to these winners! 2019 Allied Health Educator of the Year At the 2019 Australian Allied Health Awards held on Saturday 21 September in Melbourne, Associate Professor Saravana Kumar was named the 2019 Allied Health Educator of the Year. With over 400 nominees across 17 award categories, it is wonderful to see Saravana receiving recognition for being such a passionate teacher, mentor and supervisor with a focus on embedding evidence base and research translation into practice.
Sarena Jones, Director of Allied Health Support Services presenting Assoc Prof Saravana Kumar with 2019 Allied Health Educator of the Year Award School of Health Sciences Inspire Award During Research Week we were delighted to announce that Dr Alexandra Wade (pictured right) was awarded the 2019 School of Health Sciences Inspire Award. This award recognises significant achievements in research impact from Higher Degree by Research (HDR) candidates within the School of Health Sciences. Applicants are reviewed by a panel of three judges external to the School, chaired by Professor Susan Hillier, Dean: Research, Division of Health Sciences. In accepting the award, Alex gave a great presentation, and you will see a report from her later in this newsletter. I would like to take this opportunity to once again congratulate Alex on this latest achievement!
School of Health Sciences Staff Shortlisted for UniSA Research Awards The School of Health Sciences was well represented in the 2019 UniSA Research Awards, with the following staff making the shortlist in the categories they were nominated in: • Supervisor of the Year – Associate Professor Carol Maher • Early Career Researcher – Dr Margarita Tsiros • Mid Career Researcher – Associate Professor Tasha Stanton • Professional Support (Team Award) – School of Health Sciences (Deb Williams, Andy Te, Emily Vaughton) A full list of the winners and those shortlisted can be found here.
NHMRC Investigator Grant Success Congratulations to Professor Lorimer Moseley who was recently awarded a $2.4 million Investigator Grant from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC). Professor Moseley will lead a five-year international team project to investigate the biological and cognitive processes involved in pain and how the brain can be trained to relieve suffering, aiming to help relieve one of the world’s leading causes of disability – chronic musculoskeletal pain. The grant will be used to trial innovative, experimental approaches to dealing with chronic pain, Australia’s third most costly health condition and a significant contributor to suicides. To read more, please click here.
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Peter Reizenstein Prize Associate Professor Peter Hibbert and his PhD supervisor, Professor Bill Runciman, was awarded the Peter Reizenstein Prize for best paper published in the International Journal for Quality in Healthcare during 2018. The award was announced at the International Society for Quality in Healthcare conference in Cape Town in October. The paper reviewed the effectiveness of 1137 recommendations from 227 investigations of serious adverse events in Victoria. The adverse events included medication incidents, patients committing suicides whilst in healthcare, missed diagnoses, and surgical items inadvertently left in patient’s bodies. The research found less than 1 in 10 recommendations were likely to lead to sustainable reductions in the risk of recurrence of the events. The paper also discussed ways to improve the recommendation’s effectiveness including increasing the independence of investigation teams and more aggregation and learning from the investigations across health services. The citation is: Hibbert P, Thomas MJW, Deakin A, Runciman W, Braithwaite J, Lomax S, et al. Are root cause analyses recommendations effective and sustainable? An observational study. Int J Qual Health Care. 2018;10.1093/intqhc/ mzx181.You can read the paper here. One of the World’s Most Cited Academics On Tuesday 19 November, The Web of Science Group released its annual list of Highly Cited Researchers. The list identifies scientists and social scientists who produced multiple papers ranking in the top 1% by citations for their field and year of publication, demonstrating significant research influence among their peers. This "who's who" of influential researchers includes our own human activity expert, Professor Tim Olds. While Australian researchers make up just 4.4% of the world’s most cited academics, this result is cause for celebration as it places Tim’s research in the top 1% of the most cited works in the field of social sciences. Tim recognises his work is not completed in a vacuum and thanks Dr Dot Dumuid, Associate Professor Carol Maher and PhD student Lisa Matricciani for their research and support.
International Organization for Medical Physics Professor Eva Bezak was recognised on Wednesday 13 November by a letter from the International Organization for Medical Physics (IOMP) that she is the recipient of the International Day of Medical Physics (IDMP) for 2019. The IDMP award recognises Eva’s excellent multidimensional contribution towards development of Medical Physics and patients internationally, which include education, awareness and clinical practices. South Australian Women’s Honour Roll Then on Wednesday 20 November, Professor Eva Bezak was included in the 2019 South Australian Women’s Honour Roll. The South Australian Women's Honour Roll is an important part of an ongoing strategy to increase formal recognition of women who contribute to the South Australian community. Held biennially, the Honour Roll acknowledges and celebrates the diversity of women in our community and their commitment to effecting change to ensure that we live in a safer and more inclusive society. Eva is a leader, educator and highly accomplished researcher in radiation physics. Her infectious enthusiasm inspires students and colleagues alike. A role model for women in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics), she is equally as passionate for all who achieve around her as she is for her own achievements. While Eva is deeply engaged in her research, she is keen to enlist and nurture the brightest and best students to join the quest to understand more about cancer and deliver new treatments. Eva has an enviable academic record, having authored and co-authored over 120 papers, made 200 conference presentations and co-authored many books on radiotherapy physics, radiation biology and novel therapies. She is actively involved in several development projects and organising committees, including the development of Prof Eva Bezak being presented by Prof Brenda Wilson AM, Lieutenant Governor national and state cancer plans for radiation oncology. Eva was nominated by her UniSA of South Australia colleagues: Kate Lamb, Brooke Osborne, Jane Shepherdson and Eileen Giles. Celebrating 25 Active Years of Service to UniSA On Thursday 14 November, UniSA hosted a celebration recognising staff who have given 25 or 40 years of service. Several staff from the School of Health Sciences were in the ranks of the 25-year awards and a couple that we might still claim as School of Health Sciences, as quite a few spent their 25 years with us. Congratulations to those who were recognised for their milestone of 25 years (pictured left to right with Professor Roger Eston and Andrew Beck from the School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences): Associate Professor Shylie Mackintosh, Dr Rose Boucaut, Associate Professor Sara Jones and Professor Esther May.
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Barbara Dalwood (pictured right) was also recognised for her significant anniversary of 25 years of service but unfortunately was unable to attend the celebration.
Staff Recognition Awards Twenty-five academic and professional staff from across the Division attended the Staff Recognition Awards at the Division’s Celebrating Success event hosted by the Pro Vice Chancellor and other colleagues on Thursday 3 December held at the Hilton Adelaide. This peer-nominated award is given to staff who are perceived by colleagues to go above and beyond the call of duty. A total of 48 individuals received nominations from within the Division, with 30 from the School of Health Sciences. From our School the following 9 staff were shortlisted for this award with Brooke Osborne (pictured below) winning the Academic Staff Recognition Award and Kim Jackson from Nursing & Midwifery winning the Professional Staff Recognition Award. Congratulations to all nominees, including our longlisted nominees below, for your contribution to the ongoing success of the School across 2019 through research, teaching and cultural initiatives and a special congratulations and cheers to our well-deserved winner Brooke!!
Shortlisted Nominees for Staff Recognition Award Brooke Osborne Donna Matthews Gillian Carr Grant van der Ploeg Max Nelson Raewyn Todd Ryan Higgins Sharyn Martin Ziggy Gniadek Longlisted Nominees for Staff Recognition Award Andy Te Angela Farley Anna Phillips Bec Perry Carol Deroulette Emma Jonnek Harsha Wechalekar Helen Creedon Jackie O’Flaherty Jeanette Cordwell Jessie Childs Judy Barnes Kate Lamb Kelly McFarlane Kristin King Mark Matheson Mathew Van Hees Narelle Korotkov Sandy Maranna Tanya Simmonds Terri Matthews
Academic Promotion Announced on Monday 25 November, congratulations to the following successful Academic Promotions in 2019. It is wonderful to see such a high number of academics achieve this well-deserved recognition. Well done!
Danielle Girard Teaching & Research Academic Brad Stenner Level B Cristina Blefari Teaching Academic Katrina Li John Arnold Research Academic Brenton Hordacre Angela Berndt Teaching & Research Academic Katia Ferrar Level C Tom Wycherley Katherine Baldock Teaching Academic Caroline Fryer Emily Ward Level D Teaching & Research Academic Shylie Mackintosh Research Academic Gaynor Parfitt Level E Teaching & Research Academic Alison Coates
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HLS Industry Relationships September - November 2019 Industry Sport Forum The end of the year has been a very busy and productive time for industry engagement within the School of Health Sciences. In October, we were pleased to host the inaugural Industry Sport Forum which showcased to industry, not just the capabilities of the School of Health Sciences but included all disciplines across the University. The event included an information session and the launch of our collaborative brochure and website, followed by an opportunity for industry groups to interact with staff from the areas of the University they wanted to partner with. The morning was a complete success, with many new conversations and partnerships taking place already and we look forward to making this an annual event. This is the first time that such a collaborative approach to engage with industry sectors has been attempted by UniSA and we were very proud to have been the main drivers of Industry Sports Forum this initiative. For more information, please visit our website. Invictus Pathways Program The School is very excited to announce that UniSA are now the official owners of the Invictus Pathways Program (IPP). After a successful partnership with The Road Home, the IPP, including all of the adaptive sport and wellbeing programs and the official trademark have now been transferred to the capable hands of UniSA. This transfer will provide many new opportunities for our students to be involved in a number of wellbeing activities that are on offer to the veteran and first responder community. This transfer coincided with a visit from many delegates from around the globe, including David Wiseman from the Royal Foundation, who were in Adelaide for the Global Alliance Conference on Post Traumatic Stress. The UniSA Invictus staff were lucky enough to host these delegates at Pridham Hall for a VIP tour of the facilities and a meet and greet Invictus Pathway Program VIP Tour with the students and participants. Other activities in the Invictus Pathways Program recently have seen us hosting both the ADF swimming and cycling national selection camps for the 2020 Invictus Games set to be held in The Hague. Our students were on hand to provide high performance testing and support at trainings. Our staff have also been collaborating with Matt Opie, Director of Defence for UniSA to launch a Veterans Accelerator Education Program (VEAP) for 2020, which will include student placements for our School through the IPP. Both programs were represented at a recent defence transitions event at Adelaide Oval where our staff provided information to veterans who are looking to return to civilian life.
ADF Swimming Camp ADF Transitions Event
Podiatry Basic Foot Care Workshop Industry engagement in the rural communities continues to be strengthened by the Podiatry team, who recently lead a group of students to present a workshop on Basic Foot Care to nurses in the GP and health clinics in the Broken Hill and outreach communities. The aim of the workshop was to upskill the nurses to provide basic treatments themselves and reduce the waiting times for podiatry services. The students did an outstanding job and the workshop was well received by all attendees. We look forward to making this an ongoing program in the future.
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Presenter: Podiatry Student Jaydn Marold L to R: Podiatry Students Jaydn Marold, Cindy Diep and Damien Staunton
Norwood Football Club Our strong partnership with Norwood Football Club continues with the commencement of the final two PhD students. Edward O’Connor and Henry Blake have now commenced their studies with Norwood and will be looking at mindfulness and resilience and Men’s Health respectively. Aboriginal Cadetship The School would like to welcome Jonty Doudle, who is a first year Human Movement student undertaking an Aboriginal Cadetship in the High Performance Sport Centre. The cadetship is an initiative through AFL Sports Ready to provide the student with opportunities to build on their university learnings and further engage them in their studies. So far, Jonty has been learning a variety of tasks including high performance testing, observation in the EP clinic, event preparation and equipment maintenance. We are all enjoying his contribution to the team and look forward to teaching him further skills in 2020 that will compliment his studies.
We look forward to building on this productive year in 2020 and engaging with even more industry partners to provide opportunities for our students. If you have any ideas for industry engagement, Jonty Doudle, Cadet: High are looking for someone to direct an industry enquiry to, please contact: our Industry Liaison Performance Sport Centre Officer: Ashlee Munro | [email protected]. Staff Sport and Recreation City to Bay Erika Espinoza recently accepted the challenge to run in the City to Bay held in September. “Do the run!” they said! “It’ll be awesome”, they said ………. and …… it was exactly that! AWESOME! Thanks to a colleague of mine for planting the seed to do the City to Bay run, I set myself the challenge, for no reason other than to see if I could do it. I initially registered to do the 6km run because, well, I was being a tad over ambitious. I then dropped to 3km simply because I’d never done any form of running. The day itself was filled with emotion, from getting ready at the start to reaching the finish line. I ran for the most part with fast paced walking in between. I did it! I loved it! I’ll be doing it again, this time, with sufficient training, I can see about pushing myself to do the full 12kms! Thank you to all my colleagues in Health Sciences for your encouragement and support. Mmmwah! ’Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory’ - George S. Patton. Erika Espinoza Australian Masters Games During the recent 17th Australian Masters Games held in Adelaide in October, Jason Placanica had the opportunity to compete in the Amateur Boxing tournament. The competition consisted of 89 bouts, fought over 3 action packed days at the Adelaide Convention Centre. I had two of those fights (out of the blue corner), for 2 wins, to take out the Gold in the 75kg (Middleweight), Novice, 46-50 year category. The first fight was against an opponent from Western Australia going the full 3 x 2 minute rounds and the second on the
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following day, was against an opponent from South Australia, which I won by a second round technical knockout (TKO). I had been training for the past twelve months and hadn’t intended to fight competitively but the Masters Games gave me an opportunity to test my skills and my ‘mettle’. I found the experience to be very rewarding, as I had to work through blood, sweat and injuries to hop into that ring and do what it takes to see it through. It’s the preparation that sets you up to win and to quote the great Muhammed Ali, ‘The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses, behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.’ If you know that, you have honestly put in the hard work, and that will give you the self-belief to RISE to any challenge! I would like to thank all of the people that have supported me along my journey (you know who you are), as I couldn’t have done it without you! Jason Placanica Yo Ho Ho!! Students and staff spotted welcoming the festive season!! Despite November being a busy month for both students and staff in the School, some managed to make time to join in the joy of the annual Christmas Pageant, which took place in Adelaide on Saturday 9 November. Bachelor of Podiatry and Exercise and Sport Science students, Eleanor Fulton and Monique Lymn (pictured right) sang their way along the route as members of Young Adelaide Voices.
And spotted at the start line were staff, Ali Bell and Gill Carr (pictured below), ready to smile and wave their way through Adelaide’s streets.
Farewell We wish to acknowledge and thank Professor Bill Runciman, Professor of Patient Safety, for his contribution to the University of South Australia and his stellar Australian and international research achievements as he is “retiring” at the end of this year. He will, however, be continuing on in an adjunct role with ACPreH for one day per week. Bill has worked at the University of South Australia since 2007 and since then has been a first author of the first national study into the delivery of evidence-based care in Australia (CareTrack) and has won the university’s Leading Researcher Award in recognition of his research. Bill is a world pioneer in patient safety research. He established the world’s first national patient safety organisation, the Australian Patient Safety Foundation in 1988, and was an author of the most cited study in the Medical Journal of Australia, the Quality in Australian Health Care Study. In 2014, he was awarded the Robert Orton Medal Award, which is the highest honour awarded by the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists. Bill will continue to explore leading edge health services research, primarily into the ethics of artificial intelligence and aims to write a book on the physiology of animal flight. We wish Bill well and look forward to continuing to collaborate with him.
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In the Media Many of our staff and students from the School of Health Sciences have shared their knowledge in the media recently, and you’ll find below and throughout the Newsletter just a few highlights.
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Newsletter Contributions Thank you to all who have contributed to the School of Health Sciences newsletter and a special thanks to the Program and Research Directors for their specific reports. Any feedback and suggestions for further improvements would be most appreciated. The HLS Newsletter is available on the School of Health Sciences website. News on research, national appointments, community engagements, awards, achievements, sporting endeavours, etc. are welcome. Tell us your news! Please email your articles and photographs for the newsletter to Terri Matthews | PA to Head of School | [email protected].
On behalf of the School, sincere thanks for your valued support in 2019 and I wish you and your families a safe and wonderful Christmas break. I look forward to working with you in 2020, which is sure to be an interesting and energising year! Best Wishes and Happy Holidays! Shylie
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PROGRAM DIRECTOR REPORTS
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Bachelor of Health Science (Nutrition and Exercise), UniSA Online Scott Adams, Program Director
It has been another fast-paced and successful year for the XBNE: Bachelor of Health Science (Nutrition and Exercise) program. Steady growth has resulted in approximately 500 current student enrolments and we remain the most popular UniSA Online (UO) degree offering. Notably, the ambition of extending UniSA’s reach to new, non-traditional cohorts of students has been maintained: over 70% of XBNE students reside outside of South Australia, 80% are female and 50% are aged 30 or older. Staff Changes Staff have now settled into their larger physical space in Catherine Helen Spence building at City West campus, which is purpose-finished to support quality online teaching. We are very sad to say goodbye to Kristy Gray who is leaving UO from December to relocate with her family in Washington DC. Kristy has done an amazing job as an Online Course Facilitator (OCF) teaching advanced nutrition courses in her time with us and we wish Kristy and her family all the very best, professionally and personally, in Washington. As one door closes another door opens and we are thrilled to welcome Sara Forbes as an Online Course Facilitator to our teaching team. Sara won the position among a pool of outstanding candidates in our most recent round of hiring and comes to us with teaching experience at the University of Otago and a wealth of industry experience as a food service dietitian across a range of hospital/ health and elite sport settings. Sara will fill the teaching void left by Kristy and lead a number of nutrition-specific courses within the XBNE program. In response to our growth we are also delighted to have recently welcomed Dr Mel Hull as a new Online Course Facilitator within UniSA Online’s team. Whilst Mel will predominantly teach courses in UO’s Bachelor of Public Health program, she has a background in Human Movement and possesses recent course coordination experience within UniSA’s Human Movement and Exercise and Sport Science programs and will teach the Lifespan Growth and Motor Development (HLTH 1055) course within the XBNE program. We are very excited to have both Mel and Sara join us – welcome! Current Courses As we finish the second year of our program offering we now regularly teach the entire scope of first and second year courses as well as some third year courses. We are now in the final weeks of our last term for the year and currently teaching the following suite of courses: First Year • Foundations of Human Biology 1 (156 students) • Health and Society (75 students) • Health Promotion (114 students) • Foundations of Nutrition and Health (103 students) Second Year • Nutrition and Exercise Biochemistry (45 students) • Theory of Exercise Testing and Prescription 2 (31 students) • Lifespan Nutrition (13 students) • Theory of Exercise Testing and Prescription 2 (31 students) Student Feedback Staff continue to receive consistently positive feedback from students and exceptional MyCourseExperience results and we always like to showcase examples of these in our newsletter reports: “I would like to take this opportunity to thank you and your amazing team for your ongoing guidance and support. This online degree is structured and organized very well and I really appreciate the coordinators and tutors always staying connected with their students.” “This is my first course with UniSA and while I was very overwhelmed to begin with, I have found the content delivery exceptional.” The teaching team “were very engaged with the students and communication between us all was excellent. Faultless! The content of the course flowed extremely well, which made learning that little bit easier.”
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Individual Course Enrolment Initiative In the previous newsletter I presented details about UO’s Individual Course Enrolment (ICE) initiative which enables on- campus UniSA students to enrol into selected individual UniSA Online courses. Health Promotion is the nominated XBNE course to take part in the ICE pilot program this study period and I am pleased to report that it is going well. Approximately 10% of students enrolled in Health Promotion (n=11) belong to on-campus UniSA programs, including Bachelor of Health Science, Bachelor of Human Movement and Bachelor of Occupational Therapy. Informal feedback from these students so far suggests that they are pleased with the level of support provided which is certainly a consistent message received at UO and a standard that we are very proud of. Well done to all teaching and support staff involved with this ICE initiative. The year has passed quickly and we are pleased with the ongoing success of the XBNE program and excited to enter our third year. By this time next year we will be celebrating our first ever graduates from the program and in the meantime we continue our dedication to providing high quality online teaching and learning and student support. For those interested to learn more about the Bachelor of Health Science (Nutrition and Exercise) program you may wish to access our degree information. Merry Christmas and a safe and happy new year to all. Term 1 courses commence on Monday 13 January 2020.
Scott Adams Program Director: Bachelor of Health Science (Nutrition and Exercise), UniSA Online
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Bachelor of Health Sciences Associate Professor Saravana Kumar, Program Director
Well, with the festive season upon us and the summer holidays just around the corner, I think many will agree that 2019 has been an incredible, jam-packed year. This year has been particularly unique and pivotal for the Bachelor of Health Science program as we have now transitioned to the new Bachelor of Health Science (Public Health) and commenced the UniSA Online (UO) Bachelor of Public Health. While the Bachelor of Health Science program will be closed and no longer take on any new students, I am proud to say that this program has a long and rich history of helping students broaden their opportunities, and scope of work, across a range of health care sectors. By offering students foundational knowledge and skills across diverse fields, the Bachelor of Health Science program also provided students with opportunities to chase their dream of becoming health care professionals by undertaking further studies. As we move towards to the new Bachelor of Health Science (Public Health), we believe that in a changing health care environment, this new program, while still offering similar benefits of the previous program, will also empower students to tackle health care challenges within the Australian and global community. Thank you! On that note, I wish to thank a number of people who work tirelessly to make our programs a great success. The teaching team comprising of skilled and experienced educator’s Dr Janette Young, Dr Richard McGrath, Dr Caroline Adams, Associate Professor Katherine Baldock, Dr Catherine Paquet, Dr Terry Boyle, Dr Beben Benyamin and Dr Danni Post who spearhead a number of courses. Supporting these course coordinators are tutors, facilitators and invited lecturers who continue to contribute to our program. Last but not least are the amazing professional staff including Carol Deroulette, Jeanette Cordwell, Helen Creedon and Gill Carr who support us every day to do our best. Collectively, this group of academic and professional staff have contributed immensely over the course of 2019 to develop, tailor and deliver programs and courses which develop our students to be industry-ready, real-world change-makers. Welcome The UniSA Online (UO) Bachelor of Public Health commenced in September 2019 and the team (course writers, academic developers, online educational designers etc) did a marvellous job of hitting the ground running with three impressive courses already underway (Introduction to Public Health Practice and Research, Health Systems and Services and Sociological Perspectives in Public Health). We are thrilled to have the UniSA Online (UO) Bachelor of Public Health up and running and even more thrilled to have Dr Mel Hull appointed as the Online Course Facilitator. Mel needs no introduction as she is an experienced educator at UniSA over the past few years and recently graduated with a PhD in Public Health. We are thrilled to welcome and have Mel onboard and looking forward to her contributions to our program.
L to R: Dr Alex Wade, Dr Mel Hull, Dr Scott Weeks and Assoc Prof Saravana Kumar
2019 Graduation I attended the October graduation ceremony and was thrilled to see several Bachelor of Health Science students complete their studies and graduate with their degrees. As educators, nothing pleases us more than to see our students succeed and I was proud as punch to witness our students’ hard work and persistence rewarded with their degrees. On behalf of all the team, congratulations on your success and best wishes for the future. We can’t wait to hear about your achievements!
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2019 Student Conference Talk about being overjoyed, what an awesome event the 2019 Health Science student conference was! Shireen de Souza and Rebekah Ciui, final year Health Science students, led the 2019 conference which was held on the Thursday 14 November at the Magill Campus. The conference was opened by Sarah Sutter (pictured below left), CEO NaturePlay SA and the conference showcased student works from our 2nd and 3rd year students. It was a wonderful showcase of the diverse and interesting projects students had undertaken during their studies and it was an ideal opportunity to come together and celebrate their success. My thanks to Shireen and Rebekah for spearheading this conference and to all the supporters and staff for making it happen.
In the Media The good news doesn’t stop there! Dr Janette Young’s research work continues to make wide-spread impact.
Since our media release in August 2019 regarding Dr Janette Young’s formal submission to the Aged Care Royal Commission, calling on more aged care homes to be accepting of animals, Janette has been interviewed several times about the topic and the media release has been republished multiple times, including overseas. On Monday 7 October, Dr Janette Young was interviewed by Channel 7’s Today Tonight in relation to the submission and the negative impact not allowing pets in most aged care facilities can have on older people at a time of great stress. Janette’s important work will help to lobby for creating happier later lives for people at what is commonly a very vulnerable time in life. The interview can be viewed here. On Thursday 24 October, The Guardian published an article that featured Janette and her Adelaide University colleague, Dr Susan Hazel in relation to research around designer dogs and whether rescue dogs are better. You can read the article here. Keep up the good work, Janette and we are proud of your achievements! New Year As with any new year, 2020 will bring opportunities and challenges but knowing that we have such a terrific nucleus of staff, I am confident that we can seize these opportunities and tackle any challenges and continue to produce work-ready graduates for a changing health care environment. In the meantime, as 2019 ends, on behalf of the teaching and professional team from the Health Science/Public Health program, I want to wish everyone a wonderful, safe and joyous festive season and summer holidays.
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Bachelor of Human Movement Scott Polley, Program Director
Another big year for Human Movement with continued development and initiatives to support our students. Program numbers for Human Movement have, as expected, declined over the last few years as the recently introduced Bachelor of Exercise and Sport Science gains traction. as does the Bachelor of Health Science (Nutrition and Exercise). What is concerning is the significant reduction between those that commence the program and those that graduate. No single cause can be found but those that are leaving Human Movement are primarily transferring or commencing professional degrees such as Exercise and Sport Science, Clinical Exercise Physiology, Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Podiatry, Education, Nursing etc., to name but a few. These students we count as success stories as students use Human Movement as a stepping stone to their preferred career. We remain concerned about those that leave the university and don’t continue their study. A surprise when analysing our trend patterns is the number of students that complete second year but do not go on to third year. A number of initiatives have been put in place (mid-year first year meeting, follow-up students with poor initial results of low learnonline engagement, one-on-one counselling) that have tried to support those students considering departing university altogether but it is difficult to measure how effective this has been. So far the signs are promising for 2020 with general increases in the percentage of students continuing to study in 2020 but compared to the rest of the school and national benchmarks, we still have a lot of work to do. We hope that recent initiatives to focus on professional outcomes will assist with retention but we know the solution is multifactorial and is an on-going challenge for the program team and leadership. New Program Director As reported by the Head of School earlier in the newsletter, a major staff change within our program is that Scott Adams will be replacing Scott Polley as Program Director: Human Movement. Scott A has earned a reputation as a fantastic teacher, administrator and is a well-respected and liked colleague in the School. Scott A will oversee continued Program and quality development in the Human Movement space and will work collaboratively in the School of Health Sciences with the Program Director: Bachelor of Exercise and Sport Science, Dr Alyson Crozier and the Program Director: Clinical Exercise Physiology, Dr Danielle Girard. Although I have enjoyed the role, the reduced administration load will allow me to finally complete my PhD studies (all being well!) and I will revert back to my substantive teaching role. Sport Industry Forum The first UniSA wide Sport Industry Forum was held on Friday 18 October 2019. As reported on page 9, the forum was an important milestone for the whole University to invite the spectrum of the Sport Industry to come and hear what we can do. A great job by the Health Science Industry Liaison Officer, Ashley Munro in putting this forum together. There have been many benefits to the University from this forum with a high proportion of our current and new Industry partners not aware of the full capability of the University. A great success that hopefully is replicated in 2020 to build on our learning from this year’s forum. For more information, please contact: Ashlee Munro | Industry Liaison Officer | [email protected] | 8302 1879. Human Movement Student Conference The second annual Human Movement and Exercise and Sport Science Conference took place on Friday 8 November and you can read Dr Crozier’s report on the Exercise and Sport Science component elsewhere in the newsletter. In the wake of outstanding student conferences in the School, it was pretty daunting knowing that the bar had been set extremely high by our colleagues and their students but hopefully we will continue to build each year. An Outdoor Education Conference was run concurrently and we had 34 students and 15 Industry representatives attend. The growth in this conference from last year was both on a participation level but also on a professionalism level. A big thanks to the Exercise and Sport Science Conference organising team who did the lion’s share of managing the infrastructure including catering, grants, sponsorship, etc. Speakers at the Outdoor Education Conference included Wayne Enright who spoke about effective Adventure Therapy practices when working with youth at risk, Sean Meredith and Bec Rice who shared their journey as exchange students for 6 months at Agder University, Norway, Lauren Walker from Wilderness School who shared her perspectives about the school’s extended stay year 9 program on the Coorong. Professional practice students also spoke about their experiences on placement with either school groups or as mentors to UniSA students on the Introduction to Group and Team Psychology camp. The day finished with a careers fair with representatives from Mercedes School, Operation Flinders, West Lakes Aquatic Centre, Wilderness Escape Adventures, The Outdoor Education Group, Active Education, Survive First Aid, Camp Counsellors USA, Paddle SA, Prince Alfred College, Mylor Baptist Camp and Unley High School. The wind put paid to the open air fair as planned but we all muddled on in the foyer of H202. Feedback so far from the conference has been extremely positive. One Industry attendee commented: ‘It was wonderful hearing all the young people's presentations. Enthusiastic and professional. The Industry is in good hands.’ Student response has also been extremely positive,
Page 20 School of Health Sciences (Issue 4 — September | October | November 2019 Newsletter) particularly from second years to prepare for their final year of student as well as final year students able to imagine a broad and positive future from completing their degree: ‘… there is so much more to Outdoor Education….’. Farewell 2019 Final Year Students As the Human Movement and Exercise and Sports Science students contemplated what to wear at their end of year Gala on the Saturday 30 November, no doubt they are also contemplating the ‘what next’ for their future. Human Movement provides a ‘degree of opportunity’ for our graduates with most going on to post graduate study. The most common programs include Teaching (Primary and Secondary), Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy. However, many also pursue other programs such as Social Work, Management, Occupational Health and Safety, Medical Sonography, Strength and Conditioning, Medicine, Psychology, Masters by Research, Prosthetics, Paramedics and others. Those doing the Exercise Science strand often complete their practicum hours and apply for individual accreditation as Exercise Scientists and have access to Exercise Science roles or go on to do post grad Clinical Exercise Physiology. Many graduates choose to work for a few years and then pursue further study – this is particularly common for the Outdoor Education students where industry demand is strong. The program team and Industry advisory group are turning their attention to those that seek employment directly on graduation and do not intend to undertake further study in the short term. The statistics available suggest their employment rate and average pay is below the national average for University graduates, but likely on par with similar graduates from other Universities. The Human Movement Program team have been working hard to improve Human Movement graduate professional identity, improve Industry connection and increase the awareness of the diversity of opportunities open to them. This process is on-going and there is still much work to be done but we hope the current crop of graduates are able to harness some of our efforts at continuous improvement. We wish them all the very best for their future. Best wishes for the festive season and 2020!
Yours in movement Scott
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Bachelor of Medical Radiation Science Jane Shepherdson, Program Director
The academic year is drawing to a close and with it the business increases with stressed students preparing for exams and staff busy marking. There is, however, still time to pause and reflect on the achievements of students and staff. Let’s Celebrate We congratulate one of our PhD students, Ashleigh Hull (pictured left), who has been awarded a Vice Chancellor and President’s Scholarship in recognition of her excellence in research and relevance of that research to her chosen career. Some of you may remember Ashleigh as a graduate with honours from the nuclear medicine program in 2018. It is great to see Ashleigh pursuing her research career and choosing to enrol in a PhD. The future is looking bright for higher degrees by research as Ashleigh will join a growing number of PhD candidates in medical radiation. Whilst we congratulate students, we are also happy to congratulate Professor Eva Bezak who has been recognised for her leadership by being inducted into the 2019 South Australian Women’s Honour Roll as an outstanding nominee. Eva was recognised formally at a reception at Government House on Wednesday 20 November. A well-deserved recognition for all of Eva’s hard work and leadership not only within our medical radiation program, but also within the state. Further congratulations should go to Professor Eva Bezak, Ashleigh Hull (PhD student on the project), Dr Judy Li (molecular biologist), Associate Professor Dylan Bartholomeusz (Director, Nuclear Medicine, SAMI) and William Hsieh (Principal Radiochemist, Nuclear Medicine, RAH), who were awarded a $100,000 2019 Innovation Grant from the Anver Pancreatic Cancer Foundation. On Thursday 21 November, which is World Pancreatic Cancer Day, the Foundation announced that a grant funding of $600,000 will be shared equally between six talented pancreatic cancer research teams from leading research institutions around Australia to research a new pancreatic cancer treatment using high energy particles or radio-immunotherapy. Based in Sydney, the Avner Pancreatic Cancer Foundation is a small, but passionate group of people dedicated to dramatically lifting survival rates and improving the journey of those diagnosed with Pancreatic Cancer. Well done team! Our final congratulation, as the year draws to a close, is reserved for the graduating fourth year student cohort who completed their formal education requirements with the now traditional student conference on Friday 29 November. The student conference has now been in place for a number of years and each year provides a great opportunity for students to demonstrate not only presentation skills, through being selected by their peers to present at the conference, but also the opportunity to develop different skills through being involved in the committee that organises the conference. They have developed organisational and professional skills through the various tasks that they have been involved in across the year. The staff involved in the Professional Entry Practice 2 course, Cristina Blefari, Donna Matthews and Jo Oldfield, and our wonderful and tireless administration support person Kelly McFarlane, have guided and assisted where necessary. However, much of the hard work is down to the committee from gaining sponsorship to inviting guests and selecting and negotiating with the invited speaker. Catering for the day is also organised by the students who need to keep a careful eye on the budget. This is an open event and well worth thinking about attending in 2020 as by the time you receive this newsletter it will be completed for 2019. It is held annually in late November. The staff of the Medical Radiation Science Program would like to thank you for your continued involvement and support of the program and the students. Your guidance and support of the students, particularly in the clinical environment, is very much appreciated, and we look forward to continuing to work with you for the remainder of the year and into 2020. Best wishes! Eva Bezak, Amber Bidner, Cristina Blefari, Greg Brown, Shayne Chau, Lisa Cunningham, Nadine Ellis, Eileen Giles, Kathy Guerrero, Kelly McFarlane, Joanne Oldfield, Jane Shepherdson and Michala Short, the Medical Radiation Team
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2019 Australian Society of Molecular Imaging Scientific Meeting The Australian Society of Molecular Imaging recently held its sixth annual scientific meeting in Adelaide. The meeting was well attended by researchers and clinicians from a range of disciplines, with a great mix of local and interstate plenary and invited speakers, including our very own Professor Eva Bezak. The topics presented covered an array of molecular imaging approaches including total body PET scans, novel radiotracers, microscopy and mass spectrometry. The Medical Radiation group was well represented with three staff members (Eva Bezak, Amber Bidner and Dr Judy Li) and a PhD candidate (Ashleigh Hull) all in attendance. Eva and Ashleigh both presented at the meeting. Eva was the final plenary speaker and gave an insightful overview of the use of in silico approaches to modelling treatment responses for cancer cells. As always, her presentation was well received and generated considerable interest from the audience. Contributing to the multi-disciplinary approach of the meeting, Ashleigh delivered a presentation on the current status of radioimmunotherapy for the treatment of pancreatic cancer. This was Ashleigh’s first conference presentation for her PhD work. All other presenters gave fascinating talks and provided several insights into the future of molecular imaging across the various disciplines. As medical radiation professionals, it was valuable to see other evolving molecular imaging techniques which do not utilise radiation. All UniSA representatives actively engaged with other attendees to form connections and discuss the research presented. As the meeting was multi-disciplinary, it was a great opportunity to meet and connect with researchers from different backgrounds. The variety of disciplines sparked many interesting conversations between attendees and allowed new connections to form which may be valuable in the future. Thank you to the School of Health Sciences HDR stipend for funding Ashleigh’s attendance at this conference.
Ashleigh Hull PhD Candidate
Prof Eva Bezak delivering the final plenary talk on in silico approaches to cancer therapies
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School of Health Sciences Conference Scholarship Amber Bidner Masters of Research Supervisors: Professor Eva Bezak and Associate Professor Nayana Parange
17th World Federation of Ultrasound and Biology (WFUMB) Congress The World Federation for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (WFUMB) and the Australasian Society for Ultrasound in Medicine (ASUM) hosted the 17th World Federation for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology Congress in Melbourne this year. The event was held from Friday 6 September to Monday 9 September at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre in Victoria, Australia. The congress provided an international platform for over 2000 delegates to hear from world renowned speakers, share experiences and network with other Ultrasound professionals and enthusiasts. Associate Professor George Condous convened this, the largest ultrasound assembly in Australia for 5 years, which offered 9 concurrent session options to delegates throughout the 4-day proceedings. As an academic and research staff member (Medical Radiation Sciences) I was fortunate to be present at this world class conference where I attended Point-of-Care Ultrasound (PoCUS) and the ‘Education and training’ focused sessions which will greatly benefit me in my teaching, research and student roles at UniSA. It was great to see an entire stream of the concurrent sessions dedicated to ‘Education and training’ as well as a strong focus on Point-of-Care Ultrasound. PoCUS is an area of Ultrasound that is receiving growing attention and research interest. Defined as ultrasound imaging performed and interpreted by the healthcare practitioner at the bedside, PoCUS are generally more focused, limited studies aimed at assisting a procedure or answering a specific diagnostic question to direct care. One of the focuses of my research is on the efficacy of training antenatal PoCUS in rural and remote Australia and I was thrilled to be able to share some of my preliminary research results at such a prestigious event. The Congress provided me with an opportunity to witness the current state of PoCUS in practice and research. I was fortunate to meet many clinical educators and researchers from all over Australia and overseas, particularly in workshop sessions which proved to be a very practical and worthwhile experience involving role playing with other delegates. The themes of some of the education and training sessions I attended where- ‘Developing scholarly skills’ (Journal review and publishing), ‘Mastering the provision of verbal feedback’, ‘Use of Digital media’, and ‘Novel approaches to teaching anatomical sciences’. Also in attendance at the congress was Medical Radiation Sciences Honors Student Mikaela Doig and PhD candidate Alison Deslandes. Mikaela, Alison and I all submitted abstracts which were accepted and presented as ePosters at the congress. From this exposure of our research, Mikaela and I were contacted by a representative from the PoCUS Certification Academy (www.POCUS.org), an online global community of POCUS users, to request a webinar interview which is set to be recorded in January 2020. I was delighted to run into past colleagues from my Clinical days in Sydney and to convey to them the worthwhile contribution the Healthy Newborn Project Research team (Amber Bidner, Associate Professor Nayana Parange and Professor Eva Bezak) at UniSA are making to rural and remote Australian clinicians and their pregnant patients. To date the project has provided 50 fully funded (including training, flights and accommodation) weekend antenatal PoCUS training positions to remotely located Midwives and General Practitioners from all over Australia. Several follow-up online teaching sessions have been provided to further support these isolated and under resourced clinicians. All this training and research would not have been possible without generous funding from the Hospital Research Foundation (THRF). The University was well represented by both staff and students at this exciting international event and I offer my thanks for the generous UniSA Conference Scholarship that funded my attendance. Numerous posters were submitted and remain open access to national and international clinicians and researchers.
Left: Amber Bidner (UniSA staff member and masters candidate) E Poster station at the World Federation of Ultrasound and Biology Congress, Melbourne 2019
Right: Amber Bidner (UniSA staff member and masters candidate) and Mikaela Doig (UniSA Medical Radiation Sciences Honors student) at the World Federation of Ultra- sound and Biology Congress, Melbourne 2019
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Graduate Diploma and Masters of Medical Sonography Brooke Osborne, Program Director
How do the years keep getting shorter and shorter…? The Medical Sonography team are happy to have made it to the end of the year relatively unscathed. The last 18 months have been busy, but fruitful, with the development and accreditation of the new Cardiac and Vascular streams starting in 2020. But we’ve celebrated that one enough now. In addition to our strong teaching and development work, we thought it was time for us to highlight the research work being done across the team, as well as by our students. It turns out the list is quite extensive, but it just goes to show the increasing collaborations we are building from our small team down here. Masters of Medical Sonography (Research Pathway) and HDR Student Projects Debbie Kang has just completed her Masters thesis: The effect on image accessibility and dilation of the gallbladder with 3 hours fasting prior to an abdominal sonography examination. Alice Barnett is currently undertaking a project entitled: Assessing short-term shoulder pain outcomes with and without physiotherapy exercise in patients undergoing ultrasound guided corticosteroid injection into the subacromial bursa: a two group comparison. Her study will look at whether physiotherapy intervention combined with corticosteroid injection is more effective at pain relief than injection alone. Alice is supervised by Dr Bec Perry, Dr Jessie Childs, Angela Farley and Mark Matheson. Catherine Cohen is developing her Masters project: Working behind closed doors: Sonographer survey on burnout at workplace in private practices across Australia. Catherine is supervised by Sandy Maranna and Dr Jessie Childs. Alison Deslandes has started her MRes investigation of Ultrasound accuracy in the diagnosis of deep infiltrating endometriosis under the supervision of Professor Eva Bezak, Associate Professor Nayana Parange, Dr Jessie Childs and Brooke Osborne. Catherine Miller is doing a PhD incorporating the use of ultrasound by nurses to assist in paediatric cannulation under the supervision of Professor Adrian Esterman, Dr Rebecca Sharp, Dr Jessie Childs and Michelle Muncaster. Larissa Smart is doing a PhD incorporating the use of ultrasound looking at the ability of clinical health nurses to screen for paediatric hip dysplasia. Larissa’s supervisors are Professor Adrian Esterman, Dr Lemuel Pelentsov, Dr Jessie Childs and Dr Nicole Williams. Medical Sonography Staff Research Skills Development Mark Matheson is currently working on his MRes candidature which is looking to assess the possible associations between liver size, elastography and the B-Mode Ultrasound characteristics of the Liver and possible associated changes with weight. It is being run in conjunction with the Almond Weight Loss study, and Mark is being supervised by Dr Jessie Childs, Dr Alison Hill and Professor Alison Coates. Sandy Maranna is a current PhD candidate with PMB, building her project: Developing cross-disciplinary essential skills using learning analytic methods in students across health disciplines. Brooke Osborne continues to chip away at her PhD, investigating the accuracy of Medical Radiation student self-efficacy of clinical skills. Medical Sonography Staff Projects and Collaborations Jessie Childs What are the observable behaviours, knowledge, skills and attitudes that should be demonstrated by sonographers?. This project is funded by the Australian Sonographers Accreditation Registry, and contains one representative from each of the institutions across Australia that teach sonography as well as one representative from each of the professional bodies. Can bedside ultrasonography accurately predict liver volume in patients following a very low calorie diet (VLCD) prior to laparoscopic anti-reflux surgery? This is in collaboration with Dr Sarah Thompson and Professor Adrian Esterman. Testing the validity of a newly developed equation to measure the liver using ultrasound with Professor Adrian Esterman, and Dr Kerry Thoirs.
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Kate Lamb and Brooke Osborne Do current angiographic assessment methods accurately identify significant dissections during treatment of peripheral arterial disease?. This project is funded by a successful AHP Collaborative Grants SA Health application. The project is led by Dr Richard Allan at FMC, in collaboration with Associate Professor Steve Milanese, Brooke Osborne and Kate Lamb. Brooke Osborne Evaluation of sonographer administered ultrasound-guided musculoskeletal injections. This project is funded through iCAHE by the Australasian Sonographers Association. Project team members are Associate Professor Steve Milanese, Brooke Osborne, Associate Professor Nayana Parange and Dr Janine Dizon. Bec Perry Through the cardiac imaging research group at SAHMRI, Dr Bec Perry is currently looking into predictors of sudden cardiac death using an advanced cardiac sonography technique known as strain imaging. Strain imaging may be able to detect cardiac fibrosis which is linked to dangerous cardiac arrhythmias. This may then enable clinicians to decide who would benefit from an implantable cardioverter defibrillator, designed to shock someone out a dangerous cardiac rhythm and prevent sudden cardiac death. Bec is also looking at cardiac adaptations in elite athletes to determine if extreme levels of exercise are ultimately detrimental to the heart. It is well known that the heart adapts to high levels of exercise and in fact can give an athlete an extra edge as there is more cardiac reserve, however extreme cardiac remodelling may predispose the athlete to future cardiac problems, particularly if this adaptation is irreversible. This is particularly important in older athletes or those who compete in extreme endurance competitions. In addition to the range of Honours students the team supervise across various programs, as well as a wide range of conference and workshop presentations, this has at least helped us to understand the level of satisfied weariness the team is feeling at this end of the year. We wish everyone a Merry Christmas and happy and safe holidays!!
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Bachelor of Occupational Therapy Dr Angela Berndt, Program Director
Occupational Therapy Week Occupational Therapy Week is held in October each year, with the 2019 theme from Occupational Therapy Australia being #This is OT. We celebrated OT week on the plaza with a stall encouraging people to reflect on their meaningful occupations. Thank you to Sarah McMullen-Roach, the OT Student Committee, USASA and everyone who participated.
L to R: Amelia Beamish, Grace Mak, Caitlin O’Connell and Miriam Hobson (Divisional Manager OTA SA & NT)
Congratulations! We congratulate UniSA graduate Kimberley Hunter on another outstanding career milestone, which was announced by Indigenous Allied Health Australia to coincide with Occupational Therapy Week. Kimberly is the newest Board Director of IAHA. In the announcement IAHA wrote “Kimberley is from the West Kimberley Region of Western Australia. Kimberley was born and raised on Kaurna Yerta in Adelaide, South Australia and currently lives and works on Gadigal Country in Sydney, New South Wales. Kimberley has a Bachelor of Applied Science (Occupational Therapy) and a Graduate Certificate in Public Health and works at the Australian Human Rights Commission within the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Unit as a Research and Policy Officer. Much of Kimberley’s work at the Commission has involved the coordination of the Wiyi Yani U Thangani (Women’s Voices) project- the first national consultation with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Kimberley Hunter captured on IAHA’s Facebook Page women and girls in 32 years. Kimberley was the winner of the 2015 Future Leader in Indigenous Allied Health Award at the IAHA National Conference.” We have 22 International students currently studying in our two programs. A special mention goes to Grace Mak Ting Kun, who is the International Student Rep on the Occupational Therapy Student committee. Grace has demonstrated boundless energy and commitment to her role. We thank her very much. Grace was presented with the International Student Award - Sport Excellence by Study Adelaide at a ceremony held at Government House. Grace received the award from His Excellency the Honourable Hieu Van Le AC (pictured left with Grace). Grace said, “The ceremony was memorable as I felt really surprised and honoured to receive the International Student Award as the only Sport Excellence winner from the Governor! I got to meet some judges and brilliant international students. I am planning to promote this award to the international students in the next cohort. Hope this will encourage more people to step out of their comfort zones and make UniSA proud! ”
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Tracy You Wu and Grace Mak Ting Kun (MOT students pictured right) presented their Participatory Community Practice project titled 'Self Regulation and Technology' at the Australian Association of Social Workers Conference in Adelaide. Their project was hosted by Yarrow Place which is part of the Youth Women's Safety and Wellbeing Division of the Women's and Children's Health Network. Their project included the development of a resource manual which provides information on apps that can assist people with self- regulation, which is a part of the complex set of issues people living with the effects of assault and trauma may be working on with their health team. Undergraduate 4th year student Yong En Soon (pictured below) presented her Honours research study titled 'Consumer Involvement in Tertiary Education Programs in the Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professions: A scoping review’ at the Higher Education Research Group Adelaide Conference in September. Her supervisors are Dr Carolyn Murray, Dr Ali Aguilar and Dr Kobie Boshoff.
Self-Study The OT programs were invited to participate in an Aboriginal Content in Undergraduate programs (ACUP) self-study for this first time, which was extremely beneficial. The process enabled us to identify and reflect on the strengths and areas for improvement for this important aspect of our student learning and competency. We thank Professor Irene Watson and the senior leadership team for inviting us and for their feedback to our self-study. Thank You This time of year, we always extend our thanks to the Occupational Therapy profession who support practice learning of our students. As I report every year, but bears repeating, each of our students must complete 1000 hours of placement in their degree. The end of 2019 year placement report indicates a conservative estimate of 102k hours of placement was facilitated, conducted and evaluated for our 493 actively enrolled students. This number reflects that we have taught two courses twice (Occupational Therapy Practice Education and Field Practice 2), as we transition across from our previous Bachelor to our Bachelor with Honours. It has been a monumental effort and we give thanks to all involved. However, we also have a big group of student heading to 3rd and 4th year, so our placement hours will remain high, with innovation on everyone’s minds. Vale Professor Ann Wilcock With great sadness we inform our community of the passing of Professor Ann Wilcock in Adelaide on Wednesday 16 October. Her funeral was a small private, family ceremony. Ann was a lecturer in the then Occupational Therapy School at the South Australian Institute of Technology, now known as UniSA, and the second Head of School. She taught many occupational therapists in South Australia at under-graduate and post-graduate levels before moving to Deakin University to establish the occupational therapy program in Geelong. Ann’s early work as an occupational therapist was in stroke rehabilitation and she contributed significantly to occupational therapy practice in that area. She was a pioneer of the discipline of occupational science in Australia and established the Journal of Occupational Science in 1993. The journal has grown from humble beginnings to become an established respected quality publication. Indeed it is still the only journal in occupational science. L to R: Bruce (Ann’s Husband), Ann Wilcock and Hugh Stewart. Photo taken at Occupational Therapy Program 40th Anniversary Gala Dinner in 2011
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Ann would have to be one of the most, if not the most, cited authors in occupational science and occupational therapy internationally. All occupational therapy students know that you need at least one Wilcock reference in any assignment. Her contribution to occupational therapy and occupational science has been immense. Whilst she may no longer be with us in person she leaves an incredible legacy through her teaching, her writing, her research supervision and mentoring, and her passion for the role of occupation in health, well-being and occupational justice. Her mark on occupational therapy has been indelible. (Words by Associate Professor Mandy Stanley on behalf of all who have studied and worked within the SAIT / UniSA Occupational Therapy Program) Professor Roger Eston has given his support for the Occupational Therapy program to host a Memorial for Ann in early 2020. This will be a public event, hopefully live streamed to enable her wide and extensive international colleagues to view the service. Holiday Explorers Several of our Occupational Therapy students volunteered to assist Holiday Explorers with their clients at their AGM again this year held at Bounce on Saturday 26 October. The students had a unforgettable day and provided some fantastic feedback about their volunteering experience. “Holiday Explorers are an organisation which provide holidays with a wide range of activities to people with intellectual disability from 16-100 years of age. On Saturday 26t October, the company booked out Bounce for the afternoon where they held their AGM. The area was organised into different activities, purposefully constructed to see all group members, or ‘tourists’, as they refer to them, capable and excited to participate. We were able to get to know, assist and encourage the tourists throughout the afternoon. It was great to be able to gain some invaluable experience through such a positive and fun environment. Thanks!” - Ellen Jones.
“The entire experience was really fun! We started off by directing the tourists into the meeting area, and provided them with their ‘bounce’ socks. After, we were split off into groups of around eight, with one of the OT students and a lovely Holiday Explorers member as the ‘advisers’. All the tourists were really excited to participate, which too, heightened my spirits. We all had the opportunity to participate in the obstacles, that were set up and cheered each other on. Everyone was very supportive of one another, which made the experience that much better. Whilst, it only went for a couple of hours, it was very insightful, as I had not much experience working with people with disabilities. I highly recommend OT students of any year to participate. It was not only fun, but eye opening. Also, as a range of different ages were involved, it made me consider other areas in OT I could perhaps work in after graduation. I would like to thank Holiday Explorers, for giving me the opportunity to participate in such a lovely event” - Amelia Marchese. “I had a very memorable day volunteering for the Holiday Explorer. After learning about the company, which they host a variety of fun activities for people with disability, I was motivated to attend their AGM and help with the event. The experience was very rewarding because I was able to gain practical interaction with people with disability, learn about their needs and apply my OT knowledge in grading up/down the activity to accommodate different abilities. All the activities and arrangement were well organised. Everyone had so much fun bouncing on the trampoline! Thank you Holiday Explorer!” - Grace Kun.
L to R: Occupational Therapy students: Sarah Hughes, Ellen Jones, Amelia Marchese, Mikaela Britten, Grace Kun, Tracy You Wu
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Bachelor of Physiotherapy Dr Gisela Van Kessel, Program Director
Physiotherapy Student Conference The third student conference was held on Wednesday 13 and Thursday 14 November providing final year students with the opportunity to celebrate and connect with each other at the end of the program. The conference was an outstanding success again due to the excellent organising skills of the student committee (Beatrice Ling, Aleisha Robinson, Rhiannon Butt, Lea O’Brien, Christopher Smart, Sarah Nguyen, Chloe Boundy, Zen Ngui) and the commitment and support from Ali Bell, Associate Professor Saravana Kumar, Dr Julie Walters, Dr Maureen McEvoy and Dr Katia Ferrar. The conference was generously supported with presenters and catering by Practitioner Supplies (Gold) NorthCare (Silver) and Positive Rehab and Vivir. The conference was opened by Catherine Turnbull, Chief Advisor at SA Health who provided thought provoking context for the physiotherapy profession. She was followed by a showcase of honours research student work. This was followed up by a series of peer reviewed student presentations showcasing all areas of the program including the international placements. Students were also able to listen and ask questions of guest presenters who covered the new graduate experience (Kira Eliseo, Harry Gaston, Fran Mansfield, Kelly Roberts), working in rural regions (Nigel Young, Jonathon Eske), working in the return to work field (Cassandra Zaine), working in aged Care (Vivir and Postive rehab). Michel Wilson and James Schomburgk, Harry Truong, Annette Innes and Daniella Zalunardo are experienced physiotherapists who were kind enough to share their personal insights and stories. The 2 day program finished with the presentation of a number of awards that included first prize for individual presentation awarded to Ashlyn Johnson and for group presentation to the students who presented on their trip to Brunei.
Grant Success A Women’s & Children’s Hospital - UniSA paediatric rehabilitation research team have been successful recipients of Channel 7 Research Foundation grant funding ($94,724). Professor Susan Hillier and Dr. Sophie Lefmann (Physiotherapy), Associate Professor Ray Russo (Head - Paediatric Rehabilitation Research, WCH /Chief Investigator) and Chris Innes-Wong (HDR candidate, UniSA, and principal robotics physiotherapist, WCH) will be investigating the influence robotic rehabilitation devices may have on the therapeutic outcomes of children with cerebral palsy who are receiving Botox management. It expands on robotic rehabilitation work already being investigated by the team in children with cerebral palsy and youth with acquired brain injury.
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Team Manilla 2019
A new international placement was initiated this year between the University of South Australia and the University of the Philippines-Manila. Four final year physiotherapy students enrolled in the Advanced Physiotherapy Practice course were able to undertake a 5- week clinical placement across 4 sites in Manila from Monday 30 September to Friday 1 November. This experience was an eye-opener for our students, but they were all up for the challenge of dealing with traffic, an unfamiliar healthcare system and minimal to no resources in the community clinics. Language was not an issue as most Filipinos speak and understand English. The students acclimatised in no time as after the first week, they were experts in crossing the streets, catching public transport, haggling at the markets and one even mastered singing a Tagalog song at the local karaoke bar!
All the patients loved and benefitted from our students’ input. Most shed a tear or two when the students said goodbye, some even took the students out to lunch or dinner and spoiled them with snacks and gifts to take back to Australia. Our students also got a taste of working collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary setting as they co- treated patients with the physiotherapy, occupational therapy and speech pathology students. All four placement sites were either non-government organisations or religious charities providing services to the community.
We are hoping that this collaboration between the two universities would continue in the coming years. The Chancellor of the University of the Philippines-Manila was very keen in exploring possible projects and opportunities and mentioned that UniSA students would always be welcomed in UP-Manila.
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Students attended the National Physio Conference and met members of the Board of Physical Therapy
Physio Student Chloe teaching her patient how to roll in bed
Physio Student Jasmin’s patient was just amazed at SnapChat!
Farewell Halloween party organised by the UP-Manila Physical Therapy Students Association
Physio students even met a local celebrity—Jollibee!
Mary-Anne shows her patient how to wax on and wax off
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Department of Rural Health Supports Empathy Learning Students and staff from the University of South Australia Nursing, Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy programs were recently introduced to the Empathy Simulation Training Suit Program. This training opportunity was made possible at the Whyalla Campus by the University of South Australia Department of Rural Health (DRH), and was an important component of second year physiotherapy rural clinical placement. The Empathy Suit Program was developed by the University Department of Rural Health in Broken Hill, and the training provided by staff from this Department. The Suit is a low cost simulation tool designed to provide participants with an opportunity to gain experiential understanding of the challenges faced by some older adults or people with disabilities in their day-to-day lives through an experiential learning activity. The Suits, and associated equipment, have the flexibility to simulate a wide variety of impairments. The Program, designed to be delivered in an interprofessional setting, provides learning opportunities to those wearing the suits, to those in a carer role and to members of the community (as the experiences in the community are highly visible due to Suit colour and labelling). In Whyalla, the experience involved the students (in Suits), with their carers, engaging with the public and businesses in the centre of town. Students experienced the challenges of getting in and out of a bus, navigating streets and building entrances, and operating in shopping centres and public bathrooms. Students reported learning about the impact of their various impairments on their ability to undertake these activities. They also reported experiencing extreme fatigue and secondary discomfort, as well as an appreciation of the way in which community attention was drawn to them associated with their ‘difference’. Members of the community were supported to understand the depth to which student learning is supported by UniSA. A rich and valuable experience for all!! DRH has provided further support to Health Science programs through the purchase of six Suits, and plans are underway to engage the Suits in further learning activities in both the classroom and clinical placement settings.
L to R: Senjleen Chetty (Nursing and Midwifery) and Tam Dandridge, Dr Gisela van Kessel, Alison Bell, Dr Michelle Guerin and Joyti Zwar (Physiotherapy) experiencing the Suits
Michelle Guerin (Lecturer) supporting 2nd physiotherapy students wearing empathy physiotherapy student ‘patient’ and ‘carer’ Suits navigate the streets of Whyalla with their learning, using Empathy Suits ‘carers’ under supervision of Jess Muller, DRH Physiotherapists From Across Australia UniSA has recently welcomed registered physiotherapists, who are already experts in management of pelvic health, into the third cohort enrolled in the Professional Certificate in the Conservative Management of Pelvic Organ Prolapse. Most of the course is delivered online, but students are required to attend City East Campus for two days of workshop activity twice during delivery. As students in the current cohort met each other for the first time, they realised that they come from far flung corners of the country so they marked up a map in order to make the point!! The map represents the potential for women across Australia, in both rural and metropolitan settings, who experience the often distressing consequences of pelvic organ prolapse, to benefit from the comprehensive learning opportunities that the short course provides to practitioners. Conservative management involves comprehensive assessment of prolapse, and prescription of lifestyle changes, appropriate pelvic floor muscle exercise and pessaries (devices designed to support pelvic organs). The role of conservative management of pelvic organ prolapse has recently been brought into sharp focus with the landmark decision in favour of women who have experienced injury associated with surgically implanted mesh against companies involved in the provision of the devices.
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Conservative management represents first line treatment for pelvic organ prolapse according to the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Healthcare. Dr Trish Neumann and Dr Rebekah Das, as the main educators involved in the design and delivery of the course, have based content and teaching on assessment and management of risk, in order to optimise safety and effectiveness of the management approaches that are taught. They both actively engage in the community of alumni of the short course through an active Facebook website. In turn, for the women in Australia who consult graduates of the short course, there is reassurance that practitioner learning is both comprehensive and ongoing. Developing Culturally Responsive Practice Skills in a Remote Setting In collaboration with, and rich support from the University of Notre Dame, four final year UniSA physiotherapy students were provided with the opportunity to undertake Advanced Physiotherapy Practice clinical placement in Broome at the Marjarlin Kimberley Centre for Remote Health during the latter part of this year. As the placement came at a time when students were nearing the end of their program of study, the opportunity allowed for interprofessional clinical practice learning across the lifespan, in rural and remote settings. The generosity of the University of Notre Dame Department of Rural Health in providing clinical supervision, accommodation and pastoral care to the students was extraordinary, and very much appreciated. …………….and the student experience?………… “We have loved every minute of this placement and will miss it dearly.” “It was one of the best experiences I have had, one of the best opportunities provided through my degree and my favourite placement.”
Final year physiotherapy student, Jessica Gourlay, whilst on clinical placement in Broome Physiotherapy Students Go Rural A new initiative involving the Department of Rural Health support for clinical supervision and student experience has allowed a large cohort of final year physiotherapy students to experience rural placement in Whyalla throughout 2019. A newly appointed gym in the UniSA Rural Health Clinic has proven an excellent venue for a fit for surgery program. This program has been designed as a student led service aimed at optimising health prior to orthopaedic surgery for the local community. Each group of students has been supported during their respective five week stay in Whyalla through the provision of accommodation, travel assistance and exposure to rural specific professional development. And why this initiative within the Physiotherapy Program?...... to best prepare physiotherapy practitioners to work in, and with the rural health workforce in Australia.
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A word from Ali Bell……. Course Coordinator Advanced Physiotherapy Practice
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School of Health Sciences Conference Scholarship Georgia Gosse Bachelor of Physiotherapy with Honours Supervisors: Dr Emily Ward, Dr Helen Banwell and Auburn McIntyre Johnston, Dr Hayley Lewthwaite and Dr Terry Boyle
Australian Physiotherapy Association Research Conference – Transform 2019 From 16 to 19 October, I had the pleasure of attending the Australian Physiotherapy Association Research Conference Transform 2019 at the Adelaide Convention Centre. Supported by the University, I was able to represent my cohort and the Physiotherapy with Honours program. I attended with other members of the University staff including Dr Emily Ward, Dr Margarita Tsiros and Dr Sophie Leffman within the pediatric stream. The theme of the conference was “Transform”, in particular, how current research is able to transform clinical practice. My honours research investigating the reliability and validity of the weight bearing lunge test was able to share within one of the pediatric presentation times. This allowed me to share how my research was able to transform clinical practice to clinicians. I began the conference at a pediatric workshop. Here, I begun to network with other physiotherapists and researchers. The following two days were spent moving between presentation rooms at the convention center, immersing myself in the variety of presentations, and scoring a free pen or stress ball where I could. During these sessions I was able to immerse myself in further learning opportunities within many fields as well as networking with of Physiotherapists. At this particular point within my degree, just weeks from finishing and currently job searching, I found this an invaluable opportunity. Not only was I able to network but I was able to gain further insight into areas of Physiotherapy and try and determine what I may be most interested in. Finally, on the Saturday, I was able to present my research findings. This presentation sparked conversation with other physiotherapists present from across Australia. I demonstrated the use of the technique to some clinicians, including some from Queensland and Victoria. Another clinician also approached to ask about using our methodology for future studies with myself involved. Not only did this spread the word of our findings but allowed me to network with other researchers and continue future studies recommended from this project. Excitingly, I was awarded “Best Student Research Paper” award for the pediatric stream. I was incredibly humbled to be presented such an award and something I am very proud of. This opportunity allowed me to gain experience in presenting as well as beginning the networking process so when I decide to undertake a PhD I may have some connections to discuss research topics with. I would like to thank my supervisors involved with this research; Dr Emily Ward, Auburn McIntyre and Dr Helen Banwell for their support throughout the entire honours process. I would also like to thank Dr Margarita Tsiros for her support within the honours project and whilst at the conference. Overall, the experience to represent the University at the Australian Physiotherapy Conference was invaluable to me and exciting opportunity present my honours project findings. Georgia Gosse
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Bachelor of Podiatry Dr Ryan Causby, Program Director
Not to sound cliché, but where did that year go? I hope everyone will reflect on the year as a success. I definitely feel that way for the Podiatry Program. In addition to the expected acquisition of knowledge and development of skills, the staff and students successfully undertook approximately 5,000 occasions of service in the University Clinics, further to this there were 14 trips to Broken Hill, 3 visits to the APY lands and 2 visits to the country of Kiribati. We provided ongoing services to Diabetes Australia, Open Door clinic (Salvation Army) and many others. Most notably, we have successfully educated and welcomed 34 young professionals into the Podiatry workforce. Our job is done, you all now have the tools to negotiate your pathway into employment and hopefully success as a clinician. As always, we are here if ever you decide you want to come back to undertake further study…a master’s perhaps?! The Podiatry students held their final hurrah in the form of a student-tutor function, held at the Stag Public House. I think much (more) was learnt by the staff about the various students, as they let their hair down and celebrated their completion. Unfortunately for us, the academic year is not completely over, we still have some clinics running (at City East campus) and have one final trip to Broken Hill to ensure all the patients are appropriately managed leading into the Christmas closure. Thanks to the students that are involved, whilst many of their friends are already hitting holiday mode. Recent activities, which the staff were involved in, was hosting a Total Contact Casting (TCC) workshop for the Central Adelaide Local Health Network; Brendan Nettle and David Visockis also held a local anaesthetic upskilling day for some of our industry partners. Dr Ryan Causby and Dr Helen Banwell were also recipients of grant funding to investigate the use of antimicrobial dressings in chronic foot ulcers. This will definitely keep them busy over the Christmas period.
Looking forward, we are already planning for what we hope will be a busy yet CALHN staff upskilling on Total Contact Casting successful year in 2020. We will have our largest cohort of honours students at a workshop hosted at UniSA commencing in January. Seven students have been successful in applying to the honours program and have been selected to undertake a number of projects, varying from research into the patient experience of living with a particular condition, gait changes associated with walking a dog, and occupational burnout, to name a few. Congratulations and good luck to them all! Now, for the sad part. It seems like just yesterday we welcomed back Hayley Uden from maternity leave. However, after 11 years, Hayley has made the tough decision to resign from the University to focus on her own business and family. Hayley will be a massive loss to our team, we will miss her sparkling personality and enthusiasm, and also what she was able to achieve from a workload perspective. Hayley managed to maintain a high teaching load, publish several high impact articles and produce three beautiful human beings during her time with us, all whilst maintaining a busy clinical practice life as well. It is hoped that this isn’t completely goodbye and that we can have her back for casual work, and call upon her expertise in the paediatric podiatry area. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from the Podiatry team.
New Graduate Ruth Quick back to learn Total Contact Casting at a workshop hosted at UniSA
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Continuing and Casual Podiatry staff celebrating with the completing class at The Stag Public House
Graduating Podiatry Students in 2019
Podiatry Clinic - UniSA City East Campus Corner of North Terrace and Frome Road, Centenary Building, Adelaide, SA 5000 Telephone (08) 8302 2269 Email [email protected]
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Bachelor of Clinical Exercise Physiology Dr Danielle Girard, Program Director
Welcome to the final Clinical Exercise Physiology (Honours) program update for 2019. 4th year students whom recently submitted their Honours thesis for marking have presented their project findings to their peers and other teaching staff. This year is the programs inaugural ‘all with honours’ year whereby students have conducted either a professional industry-based or more traditional research-based project related to clinical exercise physiology over the 3rd and 4th year of their degree. Some excellent, informative project outcomes have been presented which will assist in informing future practice. Well done to all the students who presented and good luck to those that will be presenting in the coming weeks. Conference weekend kicked off with a Pre-conference day held on Friday 1 November. The day started with an interactive session hosted by the non-for-profit organisation satyr Australia exclusively for the 3rd an 4th year students. satyr Australia is a for purpose organisation that focuses on preventative education in the area of youth mental health. Their goal is to engage, educate and empower the audience to learn from the experiences of others and to reach out. The session was well received by the students with feedback including: “I enjoyed learning that you're not alone and that there are a number of ways to seek help and a number of people who listen," "Love the practical steps to take. Love hearing personal stories. Great that you were breaking stigmas," "The program allowed me to feel, that some of the things I sometimes feel are normal and that I'm not alone in feeling these." Thank you to batry for taking the time to support our students through the delivery of this session. The day continued with our Rural Placement Special Interest Group meeting, aimed at providing 3rd year students whom are interested in completing a rural placement in 2020 the opportunity seek insight and advice from 4th year students whom having undertaken a rural placement in 2019. Special thanks you to Alison Burford for hosting this session on behalf of the UniSA Department of Rural Health. Next up several students provide short presentations on their recent 4th year Placement Experiences. Then Professor Steve Selig from Deakin University, provided an informative session on Working with clients with cardiac and vascular conditions: a case and evidence-based approach. Four more 4th year students provide short presentations on their Industry projects. The final session of the day was our Where are they now? panel session consisting of five UniSA CEP graduates: Alison Burford, Jordan Cabinet, Clair Nylon, Michael Nicholls and Pip Woodard. Thanks for sharing with us your experiences since graduating and providing our soon to be graduating 4th year students with sound advice heading into next year. We then finished the day off with some light nibbles and refreshments at Peter Rabbit. On Saturday 2 November the program held its 4th annual UniSA Clinical Exercise Physiology Industry Conference at our City West campus. We had over 170 delegates, consisting of both CEP students, staff and Industry, our biggest conference to date. This event is organised by a group of 3rd and 4th year volunteers CEP students. The conference provides a unique opportunity for networking across the AEP profession, through the provision of engagement, collaboration and discussion of current and exciting areas of growth within the Clinical Exercise Physiology Industry. This year’s conference included a variety of engaging presentations by national and local SA presenters. Cardiovascular Disease was a key theme of this year’s conference, led by our keynote speaker, Professor Steve Selig who presented on The value of AEP skills and knowledge in managing complex cardiovascular disease, which shined a light on professional standards and how these link with applied practice. Other presentations included: a panel of industry professionals discussing the Pros and cons of positioning yourself as a specialist or generalist in AEP practice; and the Challenges and successes across different AEP funding schemes; Four 4th year students provide short presentations on their Traditional Research Honours and The Great Debate between 3rd and 4th year students. The 2019 UniSA Clinical Exercise Physiology Conference Committee wishes to sincerely thank everyone involved for supporting this year’s event, with gratitude to:
• All our invited presenters: Tahlia McIntosh, Tom Gehling, Fiona Belton, Jacinta Brinsley, Professor Steve Selig, Holly Evans, Elisio Neto, Max Martin, Bethany Gower, Ben Turner, Dr Tim Henwood, Peter Wilson with special thanks to Professor Roger Eston for his opening address and Karlee Naumann for moderating The Great Debate. • Gold Sponsors: Inform Health and Fitness Solutions, Exercise Movement Professionals, UniSA Department of Rural Health, Return to Work SA, and the School of Health Sciences. • Silver Sponsors: UniSA EP Clinic and Goodlife Health Clubs. Bronze Sponsors: AEP Health Group, ESSA SA Chapter and Movement in Mind Exercise Physiology. This conference would not be as successful as it is without their generous donations. • Volunteers: Shalina Furtado, Zoe Toland, Silvia Scattolini, Daniel Aplin and Brooke Allen. • Student presenters: Chloe Blacket, Daniel Johnson, James Murray, Kara Moore, Lisa Rowley, Brad Harvey, Josh Proeve, Carla Roocke, Ciaran Hollingworth-Hughes, Sarah Andrews and Joey Awwad and Natalya Zupan.
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• Debate teams: 3rd years James Martin, Geo Kapalungan, Lauren Blake and Dr Max Nelson (Team Leader), and 4th years, Ben Schofield, James Murray, Cathy Rowe and Patrick Faulkner (Team Leader). • Everyone who attended including CEP students, UniSA staff, Placement Supervisors and Industry. • Special thanks to Patrick Faulkner who assisted in supporting the conference committee in organising the conference activities. Congratulations to the following award winners at this year’s conference:
• Highest GPA of the 2019 graduating CEP Cohort Award was awarded to two students including: James Murray and Kara Moore. • Most Valuable Player Award was awarded to James Murray. • 3rd year Best Honours Poster Award was awarded to Jenny Tran. • ESSA SA Chapter Best Student Presenter Award was awarded to Chloe Blacket. • the 4th year Debate team for winning the debate on "the Primary Goal of EP Practice is Client Self-Management. A huge thanks and congratulations to this year’s conference committee members Chloe Blacket, Cathy Rowe, Sarah Andrews, Jessie Drewery, Daniel Johnson, Alicia Payne, Cathy Rowe, James Murray, James Martin, Lauren Blake and Stephanie Curnow, for staging a marvellous event. Lastly, I would like to extend my best wishes to the 2019 4th year cohort. After 4 years of solid studies the staff wish you all the very best with your future endeavours. We look forward to hearing and seeing all the great things that you each go onto achieve in the coming years. Remember to keep in touch and congratulations on making it through the program. Wishing you all a great night out celebrating your program completion in mid-December. Until 2020…
th Student Sarah Andrews Presenting her Project Findings at a 4th Students at a 4 year Honours Presentation Session year Honours Presentation Session
Conference Volunteers Shalina Furtado, Zoe Toland, Silvia 2019 4th Year Graduating Cohort!!! Scattolini and Daniel Aplin (sans Brooke Allen)
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ESSA SA Chapter Best Student Presenter Chloe Blacket with 2019 UniSA CEP Conference Committee Members L to R: Chloe Blacket, Jacinta Brinsley, the Chair of the ESSA SA Chapter Cathy Rowe, Alicia Payne, Jessie Drewery, Daniel Johnson, Stephanie Curnow, Sarah Andrews, James Martin Lauren Blake and James Murray
3rd and 4th Year Debate Teams L to R: Patrick Faulkner (sans Cathy Equal winner of the highest GPA of the 4th year graduating cohort Rowe), Ben Schofield, James Murray, Dr Max Nelson, James Martin and of 2019 Award and Most Valuable Player Award James Murray with Geo Kapalungan Program Director, Dr Danielle Girard
Equal winner of the highest GPA of the 4th year graduating cohort 4th Year Student Presenters L to R: Chloe Blacket, Daniel Johnson, James Murray, of 2019 Award Kara Moore with Program Director, Dr Danielle Kara Moore, Lisa Rowley, Brad Harvey, Josh Proeve, Carla Roocke, Ciaran Hollingworth-Hughes, Sarah Andrews and Joey Awwad (sans) Natalya Zupan Girard
Exercise Physiology Clinic - UniSA City East Campus Corner of North Terrace and Frome Road, Centenary Building, Adelaide, SA 5000 Telephone (08) 8302 2078 Email [email protected]
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Bachelor of Exercise and Sport Science Dr Alyson Crozier, Program Director
Many of you have successfully completed another “race” that is a year in university! That deserves many accolades and you should be proud of your efforts and achievements. With my reports, I tend to include a reference to recent pop-culture, in this case, The Amazing Race. While students don’t all get to travel to different countries (unless you are on an international exchange!), there are some similarities between university and the Amazing Race (AR):
• Students decipher complex problems and translate them into real-world solutions (this must be done in a very timely fashion by AR contestants). • Some courses are harder than the others, so choose wisely when picking electives (AR contestants must choose between one of two “detours”, some tasks much harder than others). Top 20 Program at UniSA! The year of 2019 has just flown by! With the popularity of the Bachelor of Exercise and Sport Science, our numbers have been increasing steadily, and we look to a larger cohort of first years in 2020. Given this rise, the Bachelor of Exercise and Sport Science is considered one of the top 20 programs at UniSA based on enrolment numbers. This is likely to continue, given the high volume of individuals who attended the Open Day Presentation on Exercise Science, with the presentation with fourth most attendees across the University! A number of initiatives were implemented this year to improve student engagement within the Exercise and Sport Science program. One example is the “Orientation For All” initiative, where Program Directors (including myself) held Orientation meetings separately for upper year students, to orient them to what students should expect within that particular year of university. This initiative will be continued in 2020, so students, keep an eye out on your calendars for next year’s date (during O-Week). Human Movement, Exercise and Sport Science Conference The 2nd annual Human Movement, Exercise and Sport Science conference took place on Friday 8 November at City East campus. The conference saw approximately 65 3rd year students attend, with another 50 students, staff and industry representatives in attendance. It was especially rewarding to see 1st and 2nd years in attendance, as they would have gained valuable insight into their future. Keynote speakers at the conference included Dr. Tim Henwood (Southern Cross Care), who spoke about the growing opportunities for exercise scientists in the aged care sector, and Stephen Schwerdt (SACA), who spoke about working in high performance sport settings.
We also had two HDR students, Emma Moore and Noah D’Unienville speak about their research experiences, and how they went from undergraduate study to research. Final year students then spoke about their placement experiences, and I would like to congratulate Josh Molenaar, Spencer Ng, Tara Jackson, Brooke Jenner, Silvia Scattolini, and Joanna Arnold for having the courage to stand-up in front of a large crowd in order to provide insight to their peers about their roles and responsibilities and what they learned within their placement opportunities. The conference ended with an industry panel Q&A session, where students were able to ask any questions they wished to professionals working in the fitness or sport industry, some of which were graduates of our program. I would like to thank Claudio Caruso (Invictus Pathway Program), Sean Baker (PEAQ Performance), Taylah Jack (SANFL), Sonja Davey (SASMA), James Wiseman (Glenelg Football Club), and Scott Bumpstead (Fitness Australia) for taking the time to speak to our students about their experiences.
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I would also like to thank our sponsors, who kindly donated funds or prizes to help us run a successful event, with esteemed keynote speakers and experienced industry guests for the event. Gold sponsors included Goodlife Health Clubs, the South Australian Sports Medicine Association, Fitness Australia, FMA Strength Institute, and the School of Health Sciences, with JT Performance as a silver sponsor, and Bulk Nutrients as a bronze sponsor.
Lastly, a big thanks (and congratulations) to the student organising committee for their hard work and effort that went into the planning and preparation for the day. A big shout out to 3rd year’s Izac Clifton, Stephen Comley, Jessie Edwards, Keegan Hall, Silvia Scattolini, Chloe Otte and Branson Palmer for their time and dedication to ensuring a successful event took place. Also, a big thanks to Dr Tom Wycherley for helping support and guide the committee alongside me throughout the year.
USA Sport Science Tour 2020 A plan is in the works to organise an Exercise and Sport Science study tour to the USA in September 2020. A team of 2 staff members will take approximately 20 students to three Division 1 Colleges, including Colorado State University, Oklahoma State University and the University of Cincinnati. With state-of-the-art training facilities, and connections to state and national teams, students will have access to both collegiate and professional athletes, as well as experience the roles and responsibilities of sport professionals working in these settings. Details are still vague at this stage (we are waiting to hear about a funding application), but keep an eye out for an email that will outline when the information session will be held in early 2020. So long, farewell… To those graduating at the end of 2019, we are sad to see you go but very excited about your future! Congratulations on completing a degree that is competitive and difficult, and we wish you all the very best. Please keep in touch as we always love to hear what our graduates are up to in the future.
Cheers!
Alyson
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Master of Advanced Clinical Physiotherapy Associate Professor Steve Milanese, Program Director
The Masters of Advanced Clinical Physiotherapy Sports and Musculoskeletal streams are drawing to an end and students will have finished their end of placement clinical placements and be finally enjoying some time off after a hectic year by the time this newsletter is published. The students will now go out and continue to uphold the great reputation of the program internationally being great ambassadors for the UniSA program. All IMAP teaching staff wish them the best for the future.
Endeavour Mobility (Asia Postgraduate Program) Grant Mark Jones has once again been successful in winning a 2019 Australia Awards Endeavour Mobility (Asia Postgraduate Program) Grant for the Master of Advanced Clinical Physiotherapy (IMAP) program students, that provides $3,500 per student for travel, accommodation and meal expenses for four domestic postgraduate students to have a supervised clinical placement in Mumbai, India. The students participating this year include Megan Halbach, Henry Czupryn, Ellen O'Callaghan and Jayne Rossiter. The students will be supervised locally by two of our IMAP Alumnus, Anuja Dalvi Pandit and Shruti Kshirsagar. The clinical placement will be for two weeks (20 hours per week) at LiveActive Physiotherapy & Sports injury Clinic, owned by Anuja Dalvi Pandit and Niranjan Pandit. Next Year As we start to prepare for 2020 we see a number of changes to the program:
• There has been a significant change in the program timetabling, with a mid-year start rather than the traditional SP1 commencement. This will see the Masters of Advanced Clinical Physiotherapy program appeal, even more, to our international colleagues.
• We now offer a Graduate Certificate of Advanced Clinical Physiotherapy (Sports and Musculoskeletal) which should appeal to those clinicians who want to undertake a coursework qualifications but can’t commit to a Masters degree or who want to combine coursework with a research subject as preparation for a PhD application.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all from the Masters of Advanced Clinical Physiotherapy team.
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RESEARCH DIRECTOR REPORTS
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Alliance for Research in Exercise, Nutrition and Activity (ARENA) Professor Jon Buckley, Director
Awards Winnovation Awards On Thursday 3 October 2019 ARENA’s Dr Dot Dumuid was awarded the Winnovation Maths and Data Award. The award acknowledges her work using data and statistics to optimise health and wellbeing. She is pictured here at the Winnovation Awards ceremony at the Adelaide Wine Centre with Flavia Tata Nadini, CEO and co-founder of Fleet Space Technologies.
Australian Physiotherapy Conference The Australian Physiotherapy Conference was held in Adelaide from Wednesday 16 to Saturday 19 October 2019. Dr Emily Ward, Dr Margarita Tsiros and Dr Sophie Lefmann were on the scientific committee for the paediatric stream, with Emily serving as the chair of the committee. Congratulations to Dr Margarita Tsiros who received an award for the best Early Career Researcher Presentation. (Title: Girls with overweight or obesity have more difficulty with postural control, but only during challenging balance tasks. Authors: Tsiros MD, Brinsley J, Mackintosh S, Thewlis D). Georgia Gosse (final year Physiotherapy Honours Student) received an award for the Best Student Presentation. Georgia is supervised by Dr Emily Ward, Auburn McIntyre and Dr Helen Banwell. (Title: The use of the weight bearing lunge test in a paediatric congenital talipes Award winning Physiotherapy equinovarus population). Honours Student, Georgia Gosse
Sarah Schwetlik, a MRes Candidate with ARENA, was recently awarded Best Paper Overall (Musculoskeletal stream) at the Australian Physiotherapy Association Conference, and Best Clinical Presentation at the Australian Rheumatology Association (SA Chapter) Annual Scientific Meeting, for her oral presentations entitled “Stress and arthritis: a scoping review”. Sarah’s review uncovered a surprisingly large body of literature investigating relationships between chronic stressors and the development of arthritis. The next study in her MRes project will extend these findings by using population data to examine cross-sectional relationships between allostatic load, a measure of chronic physiological stress, and osteoarthritis. Sarah is supervised by Dr Katia Ferrar, Associate Professor Katherine Baldock and Professor Catherine Hill.
Sarah Schwetlik (right) with Assoc Prof Jennifer Walker, Director - ARA SA Branch
Media 2019 Science Awards Winner Watch 2019 Science Awards Winner for PhD Research Excellence - Dr Dorothea Dumuid, taking about time trade-offs and health here.
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Five reasons we should walk every day (and how many steps to do) In November ARENA’s Professor Tim Olds was interviewed in the Sydney Morning Herald about the benefits of walking everyday from a better night’s sleep to brain health and reduced risk of cardiovascular disease to better mood and improved longevity. ‘A stroll benefits our body and brain in an abundance of ways, which is no doubt why Hippocrates called it "man's best medicine", but: why exactly is walking so good for us?’ Read the full article here. Holidays the highest risk time for family weight gain In October ARENA’s Associate Professor Carol Mayer was interviewed by Chloe Byrne and Annabel Mansfield In UniNews about her teams research tracking changes in weight, activity and diet of parents and their children and seeking to identify higher risk time-periods for weight gain and the most critical moments for intervention. “Seasons, work patterns, and special events – like school holidays, Easter, or Christmas – certainly contribute to weight gain,” Associate Professor Maher says. “But to date, most research has been based in the US or Europe, which doesn’t reflect Australia’s lifestyle or culture. Australia has a unique climate – harsh summers and relatively mild winters – which affect how people eat and exercise. Australia’s obesity rates have continued to skyrocket over the past decade, which suggests we need a solution that is specific to our environment and lifestyle.” Read the full article here. HDR News Congratulations to ARENA’s Newest PhD Graduate! ARENA would like to extend a huge congratulations to its newest HDR graduate Dr Sarah Edney on her PhD conferral and new post-doc position at the National University of Singapore. Sarah’s thesis examined Social networking and gamification for health behaviour change. Her supervisors were: Associate Professor Carol Maher, Professor Tim Olds and Postdoctoral Research Fellow Dr Jillian Ryan (CSIRO). Grant Success NHMRC Partnership Grant Congratulations to Associate Professor Carol Maher and the team for a NHMRC Partnership Grant ($3.4m) for a project focused on improving access to cardiac rehabilitation and clinical outcomes in rural and remote patients. It involves partnering with SA Health, Country Health SA, Country Primary Health Network, Heart Foundation, AstraZeneca, Novartis, Flinders Foundation, Cardiac Society of Australia & New Zealand, Royal Australian College of General Practice, Australian Cardiac Rehabilitation Association, and Exercise Scientists Society of Australia. Clark, Nicholls, Brown, Chew, Beltrame, Maeder, Maher, Versace, Hendriks, Tideman. “The Country Heart Attack Prevention (CHAP) Project: A four step model of care and clinical pathway for the translation of cardiac rehabilitation and secondary prevention guidelines into practice for rural and remote patients” NHMRC Partnership Project APP1169893. $3,388,234 (comprising NHMRC $1,495,845; Partner contributions $1,892,389). NHMRC MedWalk Trial Dr Karen Murphy from the School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences and Alliance for Research in Exercise, Nutrition and Activity (ARENA) was recently awarded a competitive grant from the Nutricia Research Foundation to explore the effect of a 2–year Mediterranean diet and lifestyle intervention (NHMRC MedWalk Trial) on the gut microbiome. Karen is working with the team at University College Cork – Professor John Cryan and Swinburne University’s Professors Andrew Pipingas and Andrew Scholey. Australia-Germany Joint Research Co-operation Scheme Professor Jon Buckley and Dr Clint Bellenger have secured $24,544 funding through the Australia-Germany Joint Research Co-operation Scheme to support visits to Germany in 2020 and 2021 for collaboration with colleagues on a number of research projects. Our German colleagues also received the same amount for them to visit us in Australia.
Alliance for Research in Exercise, Nutrition and Activity (ARENA) Telephone (08) 8302 6558 Email [email protected]
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School of Health Sciences Inspire Award Dr Alexandra Wade
It’s a huge honour to receive the 2019 Inspire Award. I had so much fun during my PhD, and I was incredibly lucky to be supported by a fantastic team of researchers and supervisors, including Dr Karen Murphy, Associate Professor Hannah Keage, and Professor Jonathan Hodgson. My PhD focused on the Mediterranean diet, and whether it can be modified for non- Mediterranean populations like Australia. A traditional Mediterranean diet involves eating lots of extra virgin olive oil, fruits and vegetables, nuts and seeds, fish, legumes and wholegrains. However, it doesn’t meet calcium recommendations for older Australians. A traditional Mediterranean diet is also low in red meat. Yet Australians are among the biggest consumers of meat in the world. This means that following the Mediterranean diet in Australia could be difficult over the long-term. To address these issues, I ran two randomised controlled trials. The first trial evaluated a Mediterranean diet with additional dairy foods, to meet the calcium needs of older Australians. The second trial examined a Mediterranean diet including 2-3 weekly serves of fresh, lean pork, to increase variety in protein sources. I found that a Mediterranean diet with additional dairy foods improved blood pressure, cholesterol, cognitive function and mood over an 8-week period. A Mediterranean diet supplemented with pork did not deliver the same benefits for cardiovascular health. However, it still led to improvements in cognitive function. These findings were really exciting, as our studies were the first to show that Mediterranean diet could be modified for a non-Mediterranean population, and still produce positive health outcomes. During my PhD I was awarded the Maurice de Rohan International Scholarship. This gave me the opportunity to travel to the US and spend time at the University of Maine, working with lead researchers and observational data from the Maine- Syracuse Longitudinal Study. In my analyses, I found that habitual adherence to a Mediterranean diet was associated with improvements in cognition over a 5-year period, corroborating the findings from our clinical trials. From these projects I published 8 peer-reviewed papers and presented at conferences in Australia and overseas. I also shared my work with the wider community through the 3 Minute Thesis, and presentations delivered to the Australia Dementia Forum and the Healthy Ageing Symposium. The results of my research have since received national and international attention. I have been interviewed by news and radio stations, and our findings have been reported by news and health websites, including Nine News, KidSpot and Healthline. I also had the opportunity to write about my work and the benefits of the Mediterranean diet in the Multicultural Communities Council of South Australia magazine. I’m now working to translate my PhD research into practice. I’m currently collaborating with Helping Hand to evaluate the feasibility of changing diets in residential aged care. I’m really proud of what I was able to achieve during my PhD. I’m equally thankful for the support and encouragement I received from my supervisors, peers, and school staff, without which this wouldn’t have been possible. Alexandra Wade
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School of Health Sciences Conference Scholarship Elisio Pereira Neto PhD Candidate Supervisors: Associate Professor Marie Williams, Dr Kylie Johnston, Dr Hayley Lewthwaite and Dr Terry Boyle
Australian Physiotherapy Association Research Conference – Transform 2019 The Australian Physiotherapy Association Research Conference – Transform 2019 is the biggest national conference in the field of Physiotherapy in Australia, which happened from 17 to 19 October 2019 in the Adelaide Convention Centre. The conference held more than 1800 attendees and 100 sponsors and exhibitors and explored the latest clinical research and its impacts in practice with a program composed by sessions in all areas of Physiotherapy (i.e. cardiorespiratory, orthopaedics, pain, paediatrics). A number of University of South Australia (UniSA) staff/students attended to the conference including Associate Professor Marie Williams, Dr Kylie Johnston and myself, Elisio Pereira Neto (HDR student). I am a current PhD candidate (Physiotherapy) at the School of Health Sciences and I presented work regarding a novel exercise methodology (blood flow restricted exercise) that uses low-intensity exercise for the improvement of exercise capacity in people with chronic pulmonary conditions. The research presented is in accordance to the research goals of the University of South Australia and the Australian Technology Network, which are supporting the HDR student with a scholarship, in regards researching innovative ideas that are relevant for the academic field, but also that can be translated to the real world in the industry. Thus, that was an opportunity to acknowledge the University of South Australia during the presentation and show its commitment with high- quality research. The presentation was important for the development of my presentation skills. It was a 12-minute oral presentation with follow-up questions by the audience. That also matches another University of South Australia policy, the Transformed PhD, where an oral defense in a similar model of the presentation given at this conference will be required to award the degree. The conference had national and international keynote speakers who develop research worldwide and have a great contribution to the Physiotherapy field. Academics from Monash University, University of Melbourne and KU Leuven (Belgium) and some current National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) fellows presented in the conference. The conference also provided a good opportunity to increase my network and meet academics from various research groups who are potential future collaborations for UniSA. I was able to meet a lot of people from different national and international universities, such as Dr Norman Morris who introduced me to another researcher at Griffith University in Brisbane who is also interested in researching blood flow restricted exercise. Besides attending the conference and presenting, I also co-chaired one of the sessions at the conference. The invitation was made by Dr Claire Baldwin from Flinders University, who was the scientific chair of the cardiorespiratory program at Transform 2019, which is the field where my current PhD research is allocated. Co-chairing a session with Associate Professor Marie Williams was a real challenge because it was my first time doing it. However, it was the perfect opportunity for me to develop my chairing skills and I’m confident now about doing it again when another opportunity appears. The outputs from this conference were significant for myself and UniSA. Even though I had participated in other conferences before, this was by far the biggest one and one of the most exciting experiences of my PhD up to this point. I was able to hear a lot about high quality research being performed in Australia and overseas, develop even more my presentation skills, experience for the first time the challenge of chairing a session and share my research with other academics. Also, I could acknowledge on the presentation and during the entire conference the support provided by the University of South Australia and my supervisory team, highlighting the commitment of the institution with the support and development of high quality research that is at a world level. Elisio Pereira Neto
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Australian Centre for Precision Health (ACPreH) Professor Elina Hypponen, Centre Director
It’s been a busy time for ACPreH. We continue to produce quality research in high profile journals, apply for and win funding, be invited to speak at events and conferences, deliver informative internal seminars as well feature in various forms of media. We warmly welcomed new staff; Dr David Banham who joined Prof David Roder’s group to work on an external NHRMC grant with the Cancer Institute NSW. We were also delighted to welcome Dr Saifei Liu who joined us to work with Associate Professor Kristin Carson-Chahhoud on the project “Define the impact of server chemotherapy-induced cardiotoxicity on health care delivery among the Australian population”. Our cross disciplinary collaboration approach provided an opportunity to invite Prof Markus Stumptner and Dr Jan Staneck both from School of IT and Mathematical Sciences to become affiliated members. With research expertise in Health Informatics, Artificial Intelligence, Interoperability and Intelligent systems in Medicine their knowledge sharing, and expertise will be a great complement to our work. We initiated the formation of a new student and early-mid career group. The group co-led by Joshua Sutherland (HDR candidate) and Dr Zoe Kopsaftis (ECR) plan to meet regularly to provide peer to peer support for members as they grow their research career. We had lots to celebrate as well! MD Shafiqur Rahman Jabin completed his PhD studies and Stephanie Folley her MRes degree, both joining our growing list of ACPreH Alumni.
In addition, we were delighted to hear Kelsey Sharrad’s news of the safe arrival of her little girl, Arden Jayne Sharrad (pictured left) on 1 October!
L to R: Prof Bill Runciman, MD Shafiqur Rahman Jabin, Assoc Prof Peter Hibbert, Dr Tim Schultz and Anita Deakin
As the year ends, we welcome the party season, Christmas and New Year break and are determined to come back in 2020 with refreshed vigour! News Arising from Publications In September, research from our Nutritional and Genetic Epidemiology team ( Professor Elina Hypponen, Dr Anwar Mulugeta, Dr Ang Zhou and Dr Catherine King) “Association between major depressive disorder and multiple disease outcomes: A phenome-wide Mendelian randomization study in the UK Biobank” in Molecular Psychiatry, was featured in News Wise. The article “Depression breakthrough” explains the study found a causal relationship between depression and a range of respiratory heart and digestive diseases. The researchers assessed data from 337,536 UK Biobank participants to confirm the range of diseases affected by depression. Professor Elina Hypponen says “appreciating the link between depression and distinct comorbidities has important implications for individuals, practitioners and policymakers”. The Nature Scientific paper “The genetic relationship between female reproductive traits and six psychiatric disorders” by Associate Professor Hong Lee, Dr X Zhou et al, enjoyed widespread media attention when more than 20 media outlets reported on the UniSA media publication “Young mums more likely to have kids with ADHD”. Associate Professor Hong Lee says the finding could help to improve reproductive health in women and deliver better outcomes for their children. “By understanding the links between becoming a mother at a young age and having a child with ADHD, we’re able to better educate and support families sooner.” The research paper by Dr Ming Li, Prof David Roder, et al, “Pre-diagnostic colonoscopies reduce cancer mortality- results from linked population-based data in South Australia” was published in BMC Cancer. The study shows just how effective bowel cancer screening is in helping to reduce the number of bowel cancer deaths by up to 45 per cent. The UniSA media article “Scientific proof that bowel cancer screening reduces death”, was featured on the AMA website and LinkedIn.
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In the UniSA media article “Flawed evidence underpins approval of new cancer drugs,” Dr Agnes Vitry et al argues that flawed evidence underpinning new cancer drugs can cause “direct harm if patients risk severe or fatal adverse effects without likely benefit or forgo more effective and safer treatments”. Conferences and Other Presentations Prof David Roder attended the COSA 2019 conference in Adelaide and was a panel member for the session “What is needed to ensure optimal care and outcomes for older people with cancer”. He also presented “Cancer Epidemiology across age spectrums”. Associate Professor Hong Lee presented at two conferences in Sydney. The first “Improved polygenic risk score accuracy for 50 traits in biobank scale data by exploiting phenotypes on inferred relatives” at the Australian Polygenic Risk Symposium, followed by “A Whole-Genome Approach Discovers Novel Genetic and Non-Genetic Variance Components Modulated by Lifestyle for Cardiovascular Health” at the 14th Gene Mappers Conference 2019. Dr Chenglong Yu also presented “Detecting genotype-population interaction effects by ancestry principal components” at the 14th Gene Mappers Conference“. Dr Louise Wiles gave an oral presentation “A tale of two wikis: the user perspective of an online method for developing guideline-based quality indicators” to the Guidelines International Network (G-I-N)/Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) conference 2019 in Adelaide. Dr Xuan Zhou presented a poster “A Whole-Genome Approach Reveals Novel Genetic and Non-Genetic Variance Components Modulated by Lifestyle for Cardiovascular Health” at The American Society of Human Genetics annual meeting in Houston. Dr David Foster presented a SAHMRI Scientific Seminar “Pharmacometrics and precision health: enabling informed decisions” in the SAHMRI auditorium. Highlights and Achievements Professor Leonie Segal was in Melbourne recently as a participating Key Stakeholder in Workshop 3 for “Healing the Past by Nurturing the Future” project, auspiced by La Trobe University at the Aborigines Advancement League, Thornbury. The project aims to develop perinatal (pregnancy to two years after birth) strategies for identifying and supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Aboriginal) Parents who have experienced complex trauma in their own childhoods. Then at Deakin University Professor Leonie Segal presented her current iCAN (Impact of Child Abuse and Neglect) project ”Consequences of child maltreatment in South Australian: A 30-year longitudinal linked-data study”. Dr Zoe Kopsaftis was a finalist in the Thoracic Society of Australian and New Zealand SA/NT branch New Investigators Award on 7 November. She presented her PhD intervention mapping research, which was very well received with opportunities for new collaborations. Associate Professor Kristin Carson-Chahhoud presented four talks at The Alfred in Melbourne for a ‘Smoking Cessation Update’ to clinical staff. Presentations will be on “Smoking cessation in people with mental health issues and managing the tricky client”, “Cultural issues in smoking cessation workshop”, “Review of marketing strategies for smoking cessation and marketing by tobacco companies” and “E-cigarettes and chop chop”. Dr Beben Benyamin was one of 57 Indonesian scientists working overseas selected to participate in a one-week World Class Scholars Symposium organized by the Indonesian Ministry of Research and Higher Education. As reported by the Head of School, Associate Professor Peter Hibbert lead a paper which won the Peter Reizenstein Award for best Paper published in the International Journal for Quality in Health Care in 2018. The award was formally announced at ISQua’s 36th International Conference in Cape Town in October. ACPreH joined with Health Translation SA to showcase our Health and Medical research areas at a Higher Degree Research Open Night at SAHRMI (pictured right). The annual event provides an opportunity for prospective Masters and PhD students to meet with some of our researchers to explore their HDR options for research projects with a translational focus.
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Indonesian Visit In September, Dr Beben Benyamin visited Surabaya, Indonesia following an invitation from the Faculty of Public Health, Airlangga University (UNAIR) to give a series of lectures to research students and academic staff on research methods, biostatistics and scientific writing. He shared his expertise and experience in these areas to stimulate and boost health research activities within the Faculty of Public Health.
Dr Beben Benyamin with research students and academic staff from the Faculty of Public Health, Airlangga University (UNAIR)
Dr Benyamin was also invited by the Faculty of Pharmacy to give a lecture on his latest research on genomics and their applications to pharmacogenomics, especially in ethnically and genetically diverse Indonesian populations. The lecture was met with enthusiasm by the faculty members and students to consider applying genomic approach in their pharmacy research.
Dr Beben Benyamin with research students and academic staff from the Faculty of Pharmacy, Airlangga University (UNAIR)
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In Surabaya, Dr Benyamin was also extended an invitation by a neighbouring university, Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology (ITS), where he gave a lecture on the application of statistics and big data in health and medical research to undergraduate students at the Department of Statistics.
Dr Beben Benyamin with undergraduate students from Department of Statistics, Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology (ITS)
Both UNAIR and ITS are among the top ten universities in Indonesia. At both universities, Dr Benyamin had the opportunity to promote the great things about studying and doing research at the Australian Centre for Precision Health and the School of Health Sciences. He also discussed a number of research collaboration and academic staff exchanges between UniSA and both universities. Internal Seminars Associate Professor Hong Lee’s Statistical Genetics group presented 3 topics covering “Genetic correlations and complex traits”, “Whole-Genome approach discoveries” and “Improved polygenic risk score accuracy for traits exploiting phenotypes on inferred relatives”. Dr Amanda (Mandy) Lumsden from Professor Elina Hypponen’s Nutritional and Genetic Epidemiology group presented, “Differential disease risk profiles associated with apolipoprotein E (APOE) genotypes, as determined by PheWAS analyses utilising UK Biobank data“ followed by Dr Anwar Mulugeta’s presentation “Relationship between obesity and depression: evidence from observational and genetic studies”.
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Lastly, Associate Professor Kristin Carson-Chahhoud and Dr Zoe Kopsaftis presented “Research overview from the Translational Medicine and Technology Group” New Funding Professor Leonie Segal’s Health Economics Group secured $40,000 RTIS seed funding for the project “Social welfare income support following child abuse and neglect: A South Australian linked data study”. In addition, the group has been awarded $139,997 from Channel 7’s Research Foundation to deliver two projects “Early in life outcomes of children of mothers with child protection system involvement. What factors are protective and what factors predict poorer infant outcomes?” and “Social welfare dependency and receipt of welfare benefits following child abuse and neglect: A South Australian linked data study”. The Australian & New Zealand College of Anaesthetists Research Foundation awarded Professor David Roder, and others $60,000 for the project “Biological predictors of ketamine to reduce chronic postsurgical pain”. Finally, Associate Professor Craig Williams, Associate Professor Katherine Baldock and others were successful in being awarded $90,000 from SA Health Office for Ageing Well, for the project “Citizen Science Impacts on Wellbeing Outcomes for Older South Australians”.
Australian Centre for Precision Health (ACPreH) Telephone (08) 8302 1135 Email [email protected]
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Angie Wilcox Degree: PhD Project: Maternal diet quality, depression, anxiety, and the moderating role of life stress in the perinatal period Supervisors: Dr Natalie Parletta, Dr Dorota Zarnowiecki, Professor Mary Steen and Associate Professor Theo Niyonsenga
I am a psychologist who has been working with clients for nearly 15 years now. I came to psychology through a slightly unusual route (which I am not sure is possible anymore...!) whereby I started with a Health Science degree from University of Adelaide. Doing my undergraduate psychology through a Health Science degree meant that as well as the psychology subjects I was also lucky enough to take courses in Public Health, Anatomy, Physiology etc., which was a perfect complement to the psychology courses and my interests. I have always been very interested in what I call ‘normal psychology’: why some people cope well with the usual transitions of life (such as adolescence, becoming a parent, and ageing) and some people don’t. This interest led me (after completing Honours Psych at Uni of Adelaide) to move to Sydney to complete a Masters of Counselling Psychology at Macquarie University. My interest in ‘normal psychology’ combined with my clinical placement settings and my own life stage (having children) led me to become particularly interested in perinatal psychology which I have specialised in since completing that Masters in 2006. Over the years I have worked as a psychologist, I have developed an interest in a wholistic approach to mental health. I believe it's important that psychologists consider dietary and lifestyle factors in developing a treatment plan to improve client’s emotional and physical wellbeing, but these factors are barely considered in mainstream psychology. After becoming sick of hearing the same old things at conference after conference I decided to take the bull by the horns and start a PhD looking at the role of diet and perinatal mental health. I am due to complete next year and have really valued the opportunity to research something that I am so passionate about. Plus, my research confirmed that diet is indeed important for the mother’s mental health! Angie Wilcox
Angie Wilcox PhD Candidate School of Health Sciences
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IIMPACT Professor Lorimer Moseley, Director
IIMPACT arrives! This is the first newsletter we have had since the formation of a new research concentration called Innovation, Implementation And Clinical Translation (IIMPACT) in Health. We are excited at the scale and focus IIMPACT will offer and we are starting off by focussing on four Grand Challenges in which we are already strong but see great opportunity for cross pollination, growth and greater ‘oomph’: Persistent pain, persistent breathlessness, stroke recovery and the health gap between the cities and the country, broadly captured under ‘rural health’. So, from the IIMPACTers, we will start with some… Congratulations! Pain Revolution was a finalist for a Shared Values award alongside our Platinum sponsor, AIA Australia. The Shared Value Project recognises organisations who work on projects that seek to solve social issues profitably. Pain Revolution is a proud to partner with AIA Australia to further our shared mission of creating a revolution in how we talk about, and treat, persisting pain. You can read more about the shortlist here. Congrats also to Dr Brenton Hordacre who received $20,000 funding from the Honda Foundation in partnership with UniSA, to purchase equipment for a novel brain stimulation clinical service. We anticipate the service will be available early 2020 and operate out of the City West UniSA Health Clinic. A massive congrats goes to Dianne Wilson who received her Honoured Member Award at the Australian Physiotherapy Association meeting. This is the highest honour the APA has and we are all thrilled that such a deserving member has been honoured in this way. The APA meeting was a great one for IIMPACT on other fronts too, taking out some best paper awards.
• Williams MT, Lewthwaite H, Brookes D, Abdallah S, Jensen D, Johnston KN. International consensus for chronic breathlessness explanations and research priorities: Delphi survey of expert health professionals. ** Best Research Paper in Chronic Disease (Cardiorespiratory stream)
• Braithwaite FA, Walters JL, Williams MT, Moseley GL & McEvoy MP. A randomised controlled experiment testing patient and therapist blinding: innovative blinding strategies for physical treatments. ** Best Research Paper (Pain stream)
• Travers M, Gibson W, Darlow B, Stanton T, Moseley GL, Palsson T, Hince D, Hugosdottir T, Jeffries S, Murray J, Tikoft E, Wand B. My back is fragile and it is never getting better. ** Best ECR Research Paper (Pain stream) Conferences and Meetings We have been busy at other Conferences too! Associate Professor Tasha Stanton gave a Keynote talk at the 2019 Sports Medicine Australia Conference at the Sunshine Coast: Pain in Athletes – Integrating New Insights From Pain Neuroscience into Assessment and Treatment, and Masters Student, Brendan Mouatt presented a poster: The use of virtual reality to influence engagement and enjoyment during exercise: A scoping review. Professor Lorimer Moseley gave Keynote talks at the European Pain Congress in Valencia, the Queensland Return to Work Congress, the Australasian Gynaecological Endoscopy & Surgery Symposium, the 2019 Stephen E Straus Distinguished Lecture at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, and two invited talks at the APA National Congress. Lorimer gave extramural lectures and made research visits to collaborators at Oxford, Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles, Shenandoah University and Boston University. Finally, we have put on a couple of meetings. First, Why am I still breathless? How to reduce breathlessness: the Lung Foundation Australia Live Well, Breathe Better Education Seminar. Lung Foundation Australia hosts an annual public seminar in each capital city for people with lung conditions, carers and families. Dr Kylie Johnston (IIMPACT, UniSA) and Mary Young (Nurse Practitioner, CALHN), team members on the Community Breathlessness Intervention Services project (supported by the MRFF through Health Translation SA), presented this Adelaide seminar on Thursday 7 November 2019 at the Mitcham RSL Club. Over the morning we communicated eight important messages from current research about chronic breathlessness; shared stories about experiences of managing breathlessness with the 30 attendees and interacted about which messages were felt to be most important and valuable. While all messages were rated as important by more than two thirds of the audience, here’s the top 3:
• Breathlessness is not only one sensation.
• Something else can be done. Although it might not be possible to change what is happening in the lungs or heart, we can always influence how we think, feel and behave.
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• Making yourself moderately breathless by being active is not harmful, in fact it’s good for your breathing in the longer term. Fuelled by a generous morning tea and the warm support of the Lung Foundation Australia, it was clear from participant comments this was a topic of interest and relevance to many: “Found very informative knowing that you will recover from your breathing. To stay calm-self talk and plan.” “Very helpful and supportive presentations. Thank You! Particularly helpful for me is the validation of how fearful and panicked I can become when very breathless. Encouraging to be shown these feelings are normal and I can learn to manage them. We were also able to publicly acknowledge the consumer representatives on our project team (Greg Ward and Elaine Ward) and our research team members: Debra Kay (Consumer Researcher); Dr Sara Booth (Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK) and Associate Professor Marie Williams (IIMPACT, University of SA).”
Dr Brenton Hordacre spoke at the 4th Annual Stroke Forum, facilitated by the Peter Couche Foundation. Brenton was invited to speak about ‘A Critical Window of Enhanced Neuroplasticity After Stroke’. Professor Susan Hillier is on the organising committee for this annual event which has an equal mix of consumers/carers, clinicians and researchers. Susan presented on the longitudinal data set for hyperacute and stroke unit care. There were three consumer talks, 3 ECR talks, Stroke Foundation and a key note from Professor Geoff Donnan (Stroke Ambulance). The event is hosted by Peter Couche and his family. The forum brings together clinicians, researchers, community advocacy groups, stroke survivors and their families. It aims to address key issues, concerns and challenges faced by people who have had a stroke and their supporters. This year the theme was ‘Transforming the dialogue into innovation’. There was overviews of current SA research, national initiatives and local updates on changes in SA Stroke care and advocacy. There was also discussions for action and innovation arising from the presentations with the additional aim of forming short term working groups to ‘take action’. Professor Esther May attended the Australian Allied Health Leadership Forum (AAHLF) meeting in Canberra on Monday 18 November. AAHLF is a group of five national allied health organisations looking to raise profile and understanding of the impact and value of Allied Health to the health of Australia. Esther was there as Chair of the Australian Council of Deans of Health Sciences. Agenda items included a deep dive into allied health and aged care, disability and workforce data (lack of). Esther also met the Commonwealth Department of Health to continue work toward the establishment of a Commonwealth Chief Allied Health Officer to represent allied health in health policy, research, and workforce. The unique strength of the Australian Allied Health Leadership Forum (AAHLF) is its ability to provide a single collective view for allied health by bringing together key aspects and stakeholders of the Australian allied health sector and services. Members provide perspectives of:
• Professional associations through Allied Health Professions Australia (AHPA) • Public allied health workforce and service through the National Allied Health Advisors and Chief Officers committee (NAHAC) • The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander allied health sector through Indigenous Allied Health Australia (IAHA) • Rural and remote allied health professionals and services through Services for Australian Rural and Remote Allied Health (SARRAH) • Education and the university allied health sector through the Australian Council of Deans of Health Sciences (ACDHS)
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We have also successfully run the 2019 Colour the World Orange in November. IIMPACT’s Dr Valeria Bellan, Dr Carolyn Berryman, Caitlin Howlett and Erica Wilkinson organised the 3rd Colour the World Orange event to help raise awareness about Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) - a debilitating pain condition affecting 5 in every 100,000 people. We had the pleasure of being joined by some incredible guest speakers including Dr Allan Cyna, a Senior Consultant Anaesthetist from the Women’s and Children’s Hospital with an interest in communication and hypnosis as an adjunct to patient care - particularly in the management of anxiety and pain; Carolyn and Brendan Mouatt, an exercise physiologist and Masters student with IIMPACT, both spoke. We feel very privileged to have had Mia Ringsparr and Carolyn Papworth speak to us and share their lived experiences with CRPS, and to have had Professor Lorimer Moseley welcome everybody to the event. The event was a major success, with over 100 attendees joining us to work towards our mission, that is to raise awareness in our community and to bring multiple research fields together to better understand this condition in the hope of improving the lives of those living with CRPS.
IIMPACT Telephone (08) 8302 2454 Email [email protected]
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International Centre for Allied Health Evidence (iCAHE) Associate Professor Steve Milanese, Co-Director, Dr Helen Banwell, Co-Director, Dr Kobie Boshoff, Co-Director
iCAHE conducts Evidence Based Practice Series Training for the Hong Kong Hospital Authority iCAHE continued its work internationally in the area of evidence translation into practice and quality improvements in healthcare with Associate Professor Steve Milanese and Dr Janine Dizon returning to Hong Kong in October to run the iCAHE professional development courses on Health Research Methods, Quality Improvement and Clinical Audits and Systematic Reviews and Clinical Practice Guidelines for allied health professionals. iCAHE and the Hong Kong Hospital Authority (HKHA) have been partners in this professional development activity for 11 years now. As an indicator of the success of Associate Professor Steve this training program, iCAHE has expanded its work with HKHA and in addition to the Milanese trainings, iCAHE is running a Quality Improvement Project with HKHA on developing, implementing and evaluating locally relevant guidance for the practice of podiatrists and dietitians for patients with diabetes. This work will continue to see UniSA play an increasing role in promoting research evidence translation and quality healthcare in Allied Health internationally.
Dr Helen Banwell
Dr Janine Dizon and Associate Professor Steve Milanese with HKHA colleagues
Interdisciplinary Journal Clubs for Professional Development Journal clubs (JC) are mediums for knowledge and information sharing. At UniSA, JCs targeting the needs of their specific members are being run by UniSA Online, School of Dr Kobie Boshoff Education and the International Centre for Allied Health Evidence (iCAHE). Panel members from these three groups engaged in a formal discussion about their JCs at the Higher Education Research Group of Adelaide (HERGA) Conference (Wednesday 25 September) and the UniSA Teaching and Learning Symposium (Friday 8 November). Katrina McLachlan, Nayana Parange, Diana Hodge and Fletcher Clarke represented the UniSA Online JC, Simon Leonard represented the Education JC and Janine Dizon represented the iCAHE JC. The panel members presented their JC models, purpose, target audience, mode and format of delivery and impact to audience. The discussion provided guidance to the audience in identifying models, components and strategies suited to their needs. iCAHE is continuing to develop a new model of Journal club that will aim to overcome some of the current barriers to journal club participation for clinicians and ensure that this powerful tool for translating evidence into practice can be maximised in practice.
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Guidelines International Network (GIN) and Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) 2019 Conference Dr Janine Dizon, presented the iCAHE Journal Club (JC) model and impact in a long oral presentation on Education for Evidence Based Healthcare session and co-delivered a special session on Evidence Based Healthcare for Low Resource Settings at the GIN and JBI 2019 conference held last Thursday 31 October to Saturday 2 November at the Adelaide Convention Centre. In the iCAHE JC session, Janine discussed the iCAHE JC model and processes, its focus on contextualising evidence into local practice and the impact based on feedback from different groups. There was a lot of interest from the attendees about the model and components of the JC which was needed to guide them in setting up a JC in their workplace. In the Evidence Based Healthcare for Low Resource Settings session, Janine and colleagues Dr Patrick Okwen and Joseph Mathew, discussed the issues faced in implementing evidence in low resource settings and provided strategies with examples on how to address the issues. Development of a State-wide Sports and Recreation Injury Surveillance System iCAHE has teamed up with the South Australian Sports Medicine Association and the State Government to develop a state- wide sports and recreation injury surveillance system to help collect evidence to understand the prevalence and severity of injuries related to sports or recreational activities. This project is working towards the development of an App to allow trainers, managers, coaches and participants to upload data about injuries to a central database. This database promises to be a goldmine of data for future research projects and will help us to understand and measure the effectiveness of injury prevention measures in the community. This is always a major hurdle when exploring the evidence associated with injury prevention and community wellbeing initiatives and hopefully this database will go some way to help reduce this. In the Media Dr Kobie Boshoff presented at a Healthy Development Adelaide event on 30 October and was interviewed on Channel 9 News on Monday 28 October. 149 other media outlets around the nation, including Channel Seven, SBS and the News Corp Australia network, reported on research by Kobie suggesting Australian parents struggle to get a diagnosis for children with autism and are left feeling ignored by health professionals. "Parents said they felt confused, stressed and frustrated at the lack of support and understanding," Dr Boshoff says. You can listen to the SBS interview here.
International Centre for Allied Health Evidence Telephone (08) 8302 2072 Email [email protected]
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Focus on PhD Research Alvin Atlas, PhD Candidate, School of Health Sciences Supervisors: Associate Professor Steve Milanese, Dr Sarah Barras and Dr Jacqueline Stephens
Understanding the Impact of Health Literacy on the Use of Elective Surgery in Private Hospitals Personal, environmental and systems related factors contribute to health literacy, which refers to the degree to which individuals can obtain, process, and understand the basic health information and services they need to make appropriate health decisions. Low health literacy is a significant problem in Australia affecting 60% of adults and has been linked to poor health outcomes. Limited health literacy is prevalent among the elderly, minorities, individuals who have not completed high school, adults who spoke a language other than English before starting school and people living in poverty. Differences in health literacy have been associated with increased hospitalisation, greater emergency care use, poorer ability to interpret labels and health messages and among seniors, poorer overall health status and higher mortality. My PhD journey started in 2016 with the objectives of identifying the right type (quality and quantity) of information to empower the consumer to make the most appropriate (informed) choices in relation to their elective admissions. My PhD research is under a scholarship grant from the Capital Markets Cooperative Research Centre (CMCRC) and the Australian Health Service Alliance (AHSA). Initial phase of my research involved a systematic and scoping review on health literacy and framework domains which found considerable variability regarding the types of information patients use in their decision to undergo elective surgery. The most common source of health information (face-to-face interaction with medical personnel) raises the question that the information provided could be incomplete and/or biased, and dependent on what their health provider knew or chose to tell them. The next phase was a Delphi survey that explored the opinions of experts in healthcare quality and patient safety, and patients to generate a consensus on what is health care quality from a patient-centred approach. Phase III included the development, validation and administration of questionnaire to determine the potential sources of health information and its corresponding weight in the final decision making prior to elective surgery. The last phase of the research utilised an exploratory research design using secondary data from private health insurance companies, to determine the factors (personal, environmental and surgery related) affecting the decision of the patient to undergo elective surgery. Given the complexity of the healthcare system, making any decision on medical care and preventive measures require the understanding and use of health information. The research outcome will help to inform decisions regarding the quality and quantity of information to help the consumers make informed choices relative to having elective surgery.
Alvin Atlas
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Staff and Student Publications
First Publications Chau, M. (2019). Dual Energy computed Tomography can replace the Standard Triphasic Protocol in follow-up Imaging of Endovascular Aneurysm Repair: A review. Asian Society of Cardiovascular Imaging, 3 (3), 68-73 Abstract Impact factor N/A
Cooper, L., Johnston, K., Williams, M. (2019). Airway clearance services (ACS’s) in Australia for adults with chronic lung conditions: scoping review of publicly available web-based information. BMC Health Services Research 19, article 808 Abstract Impact factor 1.932, 5 yr IF 1.712, Ranking 54/98 ( Health Care Sciences & Services)
Crago, D., Bishop, C., Arnold, J.B. (2019).The effect of foot orthoses and insoles on running economy and performance in distance runners: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of Sport Sciences 37(22): 2613-2624 Abstract Impact factor 2.811, 5 yr IF 2.246, Ranking 20/83 (Sport Sciences)
D’Unienville, N.M.A., Hill, A.M., Coates, A.M., Yandell, C., Nelson, M.J., Buckley, J.D. (2019). Effects of almond, dried grape and dreid cranberry consumption on endurance exercise performance, recovery and psychomotor speed: protocal of a randomised controlled trail. BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine. 5:e000560. doi: 10.1136/bmjsem-2019-000560 Abstract Impact factor N/A
Leake, H.B., Heathcote, L.C., Simons, L.E., Stinson, J., Kamper, S.J., Williams, C.M., Burgoyne L.L., Craigie, M., Kammers, M., Moen, D., Pate, J.W., Szeto, K., Moseley, G.L. (2019).Talking to Teens about Pain: A modified Delphi Study of Adolescent Pain Science Education. Canadian Journal of Pain 3(1): 200-208 Abstract Impact factor N/A
Mouatt, B., Kamper, S.J. (2019). Common challenges in managing neck and upper limb pain in office works. Australian Journal of General Practice, 48:11, doi: 10.31128/AJGP-07-19-4986 Abstract Impact factor n/a
Sharrad, K., Sanwo, O., Carson-Chahhoud, K.V., Pike, K.C. (2019). Psychological interventions for asthma in children and adolescents. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews Issue 9, DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD013420 Abstract Impact Factor 7.755, 5 yr IF,6.035, Ranking 11/160 (Medicine, General and Internal)
Williams, L.J., Braithwaite, F.A., Leake, H.B., McDonnel, M.N., Peto, D.K., Moseley, G.L., Hillier, S.L. (2019). Reliability and validity of a mobile tables for assessing left/right judgements. Musculoskeletal Science & Practice 40:45-52 Abstract Impact factor 1.725, 5 yr IF n/a, Ranking 30/65 (Rehabilitation)
Recent Staff and HDR Publications Amarasena, N., Gnanamanickam, E. S. and Miller, J. (2019). Effects of interdental cleaning devices in preventing dental caries and periodontal diseases: a scoping review. Aust Dent Journal. In Press Abstract Impact Factor 1.282, 5 yr IF, 1.104, Ranking 66/91 (Dentistry, Oral Surgery & Medicine)
Braz Sousa, L., Fricker, S.R., Doherty, S.S., Webb, C.E., Baldock, K.L., Williams C.R. (2019). Citizen science and smartphone e-entomology enables low-cost upscaling of mosquito surveillance. Science and the Total Environment. In press Impact Factor n/a
Carson-Chahhoud, K.V., Livingston-Banks, J., Sharrad, K., Kopsaftis, Z., Brinn, M.P., To-A-Nan, R., Bond, C. (2019). Community pharmacy interventions for smoking cessation. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Issue 10, Art. No, CD003698 Abstract Impact Factor 7.755, 5 yr IF,6.035, Ranking 11/160 (Medicine, General and Internal)
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Chalmers, K.J., Catley, M.J., Evans, S.F., Moseley, G.L. (2019). The Impact of Female Chronic Pelvic Pain Questionnaire (IF-CPPQ): A Validation Study. Clinical Journal of Pain, 35(11):923. doi: 10.1097/AJP.0000000000000753 Abstract Impact factor 2.893, 5 yr IF 2.527, Ranking 13/31 (Anesthesiology), 82/199 (Clinical Neurology)
Chan, S., Giles, E., Newmarch, L., Short, M. (2019). Effect of patient size on image quality in radiotherapy kV planar verification imaging: a phantom study. Journal of Medical Radiation Sciences, online, pp. 1-9 Abstract Impact factor N/A
Churruca, K., Ellis, L. A., Long, J. C., Pomare, C., Wiles, L. K., Arnolda, G., Ting, H. P., Woolfenden, S., Sarkozy, V., de Wet, C., Hibbert, P., Braithwaite, J. (2019). The quality of care for Australian children with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 49 (12):4919-4928. Abstract Impact factor 2.786, 5 yr IF, 3.665 Ranking 0.76 (Psychology, Developmental)
Ellis, L. A., Wiles, L. K., Selig, R., Churruca, K., Lingam, R., Long, J. C., Molloy, C. J., Arnolda, G., Ting, H. P., Hibbert, P., Dowton, B., and Braithwaite, J. (2019). Assessing the quality of care for paediatric depression and anxiety in Australia: A population-based sample survey. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 53(10): 1013-1025 Abstract Impact factor 5.000, 5 yr IF 3.407, Ranking 19/146 (Psychiatry)
Graham, K., Dipnall, J., Van Hooff, M., Lawrence-Wood, E., Searle, A., McFarlane, A. (2019). Identifying clusters of health symptoms in deployed military personnel and their relationship with probable PTSD. Journal of Psychosomatic Research 127:109838. Abstract Impact factor 2.722, 5 yr IF 2.736, Ranking 66/146 (Psychiatry)
Harrison, S.L., Dyer, S.M., Milte, R., Liu, E., Gnanamanickam, E.S., Crotty, M. (2019). Alternative staffing structures in a clustered domestic model of residential aged care in Australia. Australasian Journal on Ageing 38(32): 68-74 Abstract Impact factor 2.786, 5 yr IF 3.665, Ranking 20/76 (Psychology, Developmental)
Harvie, D.S., Smith, R.T., Moseley, G.L., Meulders, A., Michiels, B., Sterling, M. (2019). Illusion-enhanced Virtual Reality Exercise for Neck Pain: A Replicated Single Case Series. Clinical Journal of Pain, doi: 10.1097/AJP.0000000000000780. [Epub ahead of print] Abstract Impact factor 2.893, 5 yr IF 2.527, Ranking 13/31 (Anesthesiology), 82/199 (Clinical Neurology)
Ho, K.C., Stapleton, F., Wiles, L., Hibbert, P., Alkhawajah, S., White, A., Jalbert, I. (2019). Systematic review of the appropriateness of eye care delivery in eye care practice. BMC Health Services Research 19:646 Abstract Impact factor 1.932, 5 yr IF 1.712, Ranking, 54/98 (Health Care Sciences & Services)
Hordacre, B., Ghosh, R., Goldsworthy, M.R., Ridding, M.C. (2019). Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation-EEG Biomarkers of Poststroke Upper-Limb Motor Function. Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases 28(12): 104452 Abstract Impact factor 1.646, 5 yr IF 1.669, Ranking 49/65 (Peripheral Vascular Disease), 227/267 (Neurosciences)
Huang, T., Wang, T., Zheng, Y., et al. Zhou, A., … Hyppönen E, et al. Cashman, I. (2019). Association of Birth Weight with Type 2 Diabetes and Glycemic Traits: A Mendelian Randomization Study. JAMA Network Open 2(9): e1910915 Abstract Impact factor N/A (Jama Open Network launched in 2018)
Karamzad, N., Maleki, V., Carson-Chahhoud, K.V., Azizi, S., Sahebkar, A., Gargari, B.P. (2019). A systematic review on the mechanisms of vitamin K effects on the complications of diabetes and pre-diabetes, BioFactors DOI: 10.1002/biof.1569 Abstract Impact factor 3.598, 5 yr IF 4.592, Ranking 111/299 (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology), 52/145 (Endocrinology and Metabolism)
Lam, M., Chen, C-Y., Li, Z., Martin, A.R., Bryois, J., Ma, X., Gaspar, H., Ikeda, M., Benyamin, B., et al. (2019). Comparative genetic architectures of schizophrenia in East Asian and European populations. Nature Genetics 51: 1670-1678 Abstract Impact factor 25.455, 5 yr IF 29.352, Ranking 2/174 (Genetics & Heredity)
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Li, M., Olver, I., Keefe, D., Holden, C., Worthley, D., Price, T., Karapetis, C., Miller, C., Powell K., Buranyi-Travarton, D, Fusco, K., Roder, D. (2019). Pre-diagnostic colonoscopies reduce cancer mortality – results from linked population-based data in South Australia. BMC Cancer 19: 856 Abstract Impact factor 2.933, 5 yr IF 3.362, Ranking 121/230 (Oncology)
Liu, X., Helenius, D., Skotte, L., et al. Hyppönen, E., Jacobsson, B., Jarvelin, M.R., Muglia, L., Murray, J., Freathy, R., Werge, T., Melbye, M., Buil, A., Feenstra, B. (2019). Variants in the fetal genome near pro-inflammatory cytokine genes on 2q13 associate with gestational duration. Nature Communications 10: 3927 Abstract Impact factor 11.878. 5 yr IF 11.470, Ranking 5/69 (Multidisciplinary Sciences)
Mancini, F., Wang, A.P., Schira, M.M., Isherwood, Z.J., McAuley, J.H., Iannetti, G.D., Sereno, M.I., Moseley, G.L., Rae, C.D. (2019). Fine-Grained Mapping of Cortical Somatotopies in Chronic Complex Regional Pain Syndrome. Journal of Neuroscience 39(46):9185-9196 Abstract Impact factor 6.074, 5 yr 6.334, Ranking 29/267 (Neurosciences)
Marcu, L., Forster,J., Bezak, E. (2019). The potential role of radiomics and radiogenomics in patient stratification by tumor hypoxia status. Journal of the American College of Radiology 16(9): 1329–1337 Abstract Impact factor 3.785, 5yr IF 3.549, Ranking 25/129 (Radiology, nuclear medicine and medical imaging)
Mintzes, B., Vitry, A. (2019). Flawed evidence underpins approval of new cancer drugs. BMJ 366:l5399 doi: 10.1136/ bmj.l539 Abstract Impact factor 27.604, 5 yr IF 17.445, Ranking 5/160 (Medicine, General & Internal)
Moezzi, B., Madhuri Pratti, L., Hordacre, B., Graetz, L., Berryman, C., Lavrencic, L.M., Ridding, M.C., Keage, H.AD., McDonnell, M.D., Goldsworthy, M.R. (2019). Characterization of young and old adult brains: An EEG functional connectivity analysis. Neuroscience, doi: 10.1101/495564 Abstract Impact factor, 3.244, 5 yr IF 3.357, Ranking 114/267 (Neurosciences)
Mulder, H. A., Lee, H., Clark, S., Hayes, B. J., Van Der Werf, J. H. J. (2019). The impact of genomic and traditional selection on the contribution of mutational variance to long-term selection response and genetic variance. Genetics, 213(2): 361-378 Abstract Impact factor 3.564, 5 yr IF 5.963, Ranking 53/174 (Genetics & Heredity)
Mulugeta A., Zhou A., Dickson C., Vimaleswaran, K.S., Hyppönen E. (2019). Depression increases the genetic susceptibility to high body mass index: Evidence from UK Biobank. Depression Anxiety DOI: 10.1002/da.22963 Abstract Impact factor 4.935. 5 yr IF 4.407, Ranking 21/146 (Psychiatry), 8/77 (Psychology)
Mulugeta, A., Zhou, A., King, C., Hyppönen, E. (2019). Association between major depressive disorder and multiple disease outcomes: A phenome-wide Mendelian randomization study in the UK Biobank. Molecular Psychiatry doi. 10.1038/ s41380-019-0486-1 Abstract Impact factor 11.973, 5 yr IF 14.496, Ranking 10/267 (Neurosciences), 6/146 (Psychiatry), 11/298 (Biochemistry & Molecular Biology)
Murray, C., Edwards, I., Jones, M., Turpin, M. (2019). Learning thresholds for early career occupational therapists: A grounded theory of learning-to-practise. British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 10.1177/0308022619876842 Abstract Impact factor 0.779, 5 yr IF 0.636, Ranking 61/65 (Rehabilitation)
Ni, G., Amare, A.T., Zhou, X., Mills, N., Gratten, G., Lee. H. (2019). The genetic relationship between female reproductive traits and six psychiatric disorders. Nature Scientific Reports 9:1-12 Abstract Impact factor 4.116, 5 yr IF 4.445, Ranking n/a
O'Keeffe, M., Maher, C.G., Stanton, T.R., O'Connell, N.E., Deshpande, S., Gross, D.P., O'Sullivan, K. (2019). Mass media campaigns are needed to counter misconceptions about back pain and promote higher value care. British Journal of Sports Medicine 53(20): 1261-1262 Abstract Impact factor 11.645, 5 yr IF 5.025, Ranking 1/83 (Sport Sciences)
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Peukert,D., Kempson,I., Douglass, M., Bezak, E. (2019). Gold Nanoparticle Enhanced Proton Therapy: Monte Carlo Modeling of Reactive Species’ Distributions Around a Gold Nanoparticle and the Effects of Nanoparticle Proximity and Clustering. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 20:4280 Abstract Impact factor 4.183, 5y IF 4.331, Ranking 78/299 (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)
Peukert,D., Kempson,I., Douglass, M., Bezak, E. (2019). Gold nanoparticle enhanced proton therapy: A Monte Carlo simulation of the effects of proton energy, nanoparticle size, coating material and coating thickness on dose and radiolysis yield. Medical Physics doi 10.1002/mp.13923 Abstract Impact factor 3.177, 5 yr IF 3.087, Ranking 35/129 (Radiology, nuclear medicine and medical imaging), 83/2108 (Clinical Medicine)
Prentice, B., Moloney, S., Hort, J., Hibbert, P., Wiles, L., Molloy, C., Arnolda, G., Ting, P., Jaffe, A., Braithwaite, J. (2019). Assessing the adherence to guidelines in the management of croup in Australian children: a population-based sample survey. International Journal for Quality in Health Care, In press Impact factor 1.829, 5 yr IF 1.753, Ranking 194/2231 (Social Sciences, General), 58/98 (Health Care Sciences and Services)
Roder, D., Karapetis, C. S., Olver, I., Keefe, D., Padbury, R., Moore, J., Joshi, R., Wattchow, D., Worthley, D., Miller, C., Holden, C., Buckley, E., Powell, K., Buranyi-Trevarton, D., Fusco, K., Price, T. (2019). Time from diagnosis to treatment of colorectal cancer in a South Australian clinical registry cohort: How it varies and relates to survival. BMJ open, 9:e031421 Abstract Impact factor 2.376, 5 yr IF 2.271, Ranking 50/160 (Medicine, General & Internal)
Santos, A.M.C., Gowda, R., Bezak, E., Afshar, S. (2019). Evaluation of a real-time optically stimulated luminescence beryllium oxide (BeO) fibre-coupled dosimetry system with a superficial 140 kVp X-ray beam, Physica Medica, 65:167-171 Abstract Impact factor 2.532, 5 yr IF 2.404, Ranking 53/129 (Radiology, nuclear medicine and medical imaging)
Schmidt, A.F., Holmes, M.V., Preiss, D,…. Hyppönen, E. (et al.), Hingorani, A. (2019). Phenome-wide association analysis of LDL-cholesterol lowering genetic variants in PCSK9. BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 19:240 Abstract Impact factor 1.947, 5 yr IF 1.878, Ranking 86/136 (Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems)
Segal, L., Nguyen, H., Mansor, M. M., Gnanamanickam, E., Doidge J.C., Preen D.B., Brown, D.S., Pearson, O., Armfield, J.M. (2019). Lifetime risk of child protection system involvement in South Australia for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children, 1986–2017 using linked administrative data. Child Abuse & Neglect 97:104145 Abstract Impact factor 2.845, 5 yr IF 2.574, Ranking 6/46 (Family Studies), 12/63 (Psychology, Social), 3/43 (Social Work)
Stasinopoulos, L., Zhou, A., Hypponen, E. (2019). Association of supplemental calcium and dairy milk intake with all- cause and cause-specific mortality in the UK Biobank: a prospective cohort study. British Journal of Nutrition, In press doi 10.1017/S0007114519003076 Abstract Impact factor 4.416, 5 yr IF 3.875, Ranking 15/87 (Nutrition & Dietetics)
Sunderland, N., Westbrook, J., Urwin, R., Knights, Z., Taitz, J., Williams, H., Wiles, L.K., Molloy, C., Hibbert, P., Ting, H.P. and Churruca, K. (2019). Appropriate management of acute gastroenteritis in Australian children: A population-based study. PLoS One 14(11):e0224681-e0224681. Abstract Impact factor 2.776, 5 yr IF 3.234, Ranking 24/69 (Multidisciplinary Sciences)
Vallance, J. K., Johnson, S. T., Thompson, S., Wen, K., Lam, N. N., Boyle, T., Juárez, I. & Shojai, S. (2019). Prevalence and Correlates of Accelerometer-Based Physical Activity and Sedentary Time Among Kidney Transplant Recipients. Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease doi 10.1177/2054358119882658 Abstract Impact factor N/A
Wiles, L., de Wet, C., Dalton, C., Murphy, E., Harris, M.F., Hibbert, P.D., Molloy, C.J., Arnolda, G., Ting, H.P., Braithwaite, J. (2019). The quality of preventive care for children in Australian general practice. BMC Medicine, In Press Impact factor 8.285, 5 yr IF 7.356, Ranking 10/160 (Medicine, General & Internal)
Zurynski, Y., Churruca, K., Arnolda, G., Dalton, S., Ting, H.P., Hibbert, P., Molloy, C.J., Wiles, L.K., de Wet, C., Braithwaite, J. (2019). Quality of care for acute abdominal pain in children. BMJ Quality & Safety, In Press doi 10.1136/bmjqs-2019- 010088 Impact factor 7.043, 5 yr IF 3.988, Ranking 2/98 (Health Care Sciences & Services)
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Zhou, A., Morris, H.A., Hyppönen, E. (2019). Health effects associated with serum calcium concentrations: evidence from MR-PheWAS analysis in UK Biobank. Osteoporosis International 30(11): 2343-2348 Abstract Impact factor 3.830, 5 yr IF 4.169, Ranking 43/145 (Endocrinology & Metabolism)
Books and Book Chapters Selig, S., Cameron, M., Rawlings, K. (2019). Clinical Exercise Physiology in the Australian Health Care System in Willis, E., Reynolds, L. & Rudge, T. (eds) Understanding the Australian Health Care System (4ed), Elselvier, Chatswood NSW, pp. 295 -310
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Staff Changes Farewell After 8 years working at the City East Campus with the Division of Health Sciences, Anthony Stevens is moving on. From December 2019 Anthony will be based at the UniSA Mawson Lakes Campus as Manager: Library Services, working with the Division of ITEE. "I’ve really enjoyed my time here at City East and believe that the Library team is in a good place, ready to support you into the future. You have all been incredible to work with: ready to collaborate; open to new ways of doing things; and willing to include the Library in your future planning. That’s meant a lot and made it a pleasure to be the Manager: Academic Library Services for the Division of Health Sciences." - Anthony
New Manager: Library Services Commencing from 2 December, Katrina Gillespie will be leading the Library team at the City East Campus as Manager: Library Services. Katrina is currently Manager: Career Services with the Student Engagement Unit at UniSA but has also worked in People Talent Culture and Transnational Support. Katrina won the UniSA Vice Chancellor’s Award for Professional Staff Excellence in 2018 and is passionate about the student experience and outcomes for UniSA graduates. Please make her feel welcome as she settles into her new role and works with you all to support your teaching and research.
New Library team Members During September, we farewelled Hayley Leaver and welcomed Lorien Delaney as Academic Librarian. Lorien has moved across from the Library team supporting the Division of EASS and brings with her a depth of experience in delivering quality teaching and research support and in supporting systematic reviews. Following the resignation of Heather Dutney, we also recently welcomed two new Reference Librarians, Jeph Ko and Emma Hamilton. Jeph and Emma have been working across the Library as Graduate Library Officers, bringing broad-ranging skills, enthusiasm and experience to their roles. They will be invaluable in supporting your teaching and developing resources to support your students. Correct your Lynda.com/LinkedIn Learning videos before Study Period 2 Why? Following the change from Lynda.com to Linked in Learning, the links to your Lynda.com videos have now changed. We have put in place redirects, which will function only until March. As a result, you will need to check and/or update all of your Lynda.com links to ensure they continue working after this date. How do I correct my existing links?
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For each link: 1. Select to access the video. 2. You should be taken to the new LinkedIn Learning Interface. If you are taken to the Lynda.com Interface instead, select the Lynda.com > LinkedIn learning icon at the top of the screen . 3. Search for the video by title, and click to open it. -This is important even if your video is already displaying, as the correct URL may be different from the one you have saved. 4. Copy the URL at the top of the screen 5. Add &auth=true to the end of the URL (eg https://www.linkedin.com/learning/autocad-2018-essential-training/welcome- 4?u=58640609&auth=true ) 6. Use this in your course page How do I add new videos from LinkedIn Learning? 1. Follow steps 3-6 above What if I can’t sign in? One of the differences between Lynda.com and LinkedIn Learning is the way it integrates with the LinkedIn platform. If you have an existing LinkedIn account you may have elected to connect LinkedIn Learning to your LinkedIn Profile.
• If you connected your LinkedIn Profile, you will need to use your LinkedIn username/password when accessing any UnISA Linked in Learning resources.
• If you have not connected your LinkedIn Profile, or do not have one, use your UniSA log in credentials instead. Note that UniSA staff cannot disconnect your LinkedIn profile from your LinkedIn Learning on your behalf. However you can request this by contacting LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/help/learning/ask Want to learn more? Visit our LinkedIn Learning website. BrowZine™, LibKey™ and LibKey Nomad™ Trial As part of our initiatives to improve the visibility, access and usage of UniSA subscribed and open access journal content, the Library has commenced a 3-month trial of three new products— BrowZine™, LibKey™ and LibKey Nomad™. The benefits and features of each product are outlined below. We invite you to explore BrowZine™, LibKey™ and LibKey Nomad™ during the trial period to see how they can make it easier to discover and access UniSA and open access journal content. Your feedback is welcomed and can be provided through the Library website. BrowZine™ BrowZine™ is a product designed to improve access to UniSA subscribed and open access journals, and replaces the A-Z Journals list on the Library website. BrowZine™ allows you to search for known journals by title, subject or ISSN, browse titles by subject, view the table of contents of current and past issues, and create a personal bookshelf of favourite journals.
Click here to explore BrowZine™ or access anytime by visiting the Library Catalogue and selecting Journals from the top banner.
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LibKey™
LibKey™ allows you to access the full text PDF of journal articles with one click, straight from the search results page in the Library Catalogue. By adding the LibKey™ enhancement to our catalogue you’ll enjoy faster access to PDF versions of journal articles related to your research. LibKey Nomad™ LibKey Nomad™ is a browser extension for Chrome that provides direct links to full text journal articles when browsing sites outside of the Library such as Wikipedia, PubMed and journal publisher websites. You can install the LibKey Nomad™ extension on your device by visiting the Chrome webstore and searching for ‘LibKey Nomad’. For more detailed installation instructions, please visit the Library news website.
New Streaming Video Database The UniSA Library now subscribes to Academic Video Online - a database of 68,000 streaming videos spanning subject areas such as anthropology, business, counselling, health, history, music and more. Curated for the educational experience, Academic Video Online provides a breadth of content-types (including documentaries, interviews, news programs, demonstrations and more), making it a useful resource for all educators and students. These videos can be included in your course readings through the eReserve reading list management system.
Contact Us The Library welcome your feedback and comments on the service and support we provide. Please feel free to contact us if you need any support. E: [email protected] T: 1300 137 659
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Capstone Editing provide grants and scholarships to invest in the future of academia Want to find and reward academic excellence, while easing both the financial burden of study for out how students and the inequities experienced by academic women in the workplace. Capstone Editing offer six annual academic grants of between $3,000 and $5,000 you can get each—two for female academics and four for students. The Capstone Editing Early Career Academic Research Grant for Women yourself a $5,000 for one female academic per year to assist with the costs associated with a research project leading towards a publication. Applications are open scholarship from 5 August 2019 to 3 June 2020.
or grant? The Capstone Editing Carer’s Travel Grant for Academic Women $3,000 for one female academic per year to assist with childcare costs in relation to travel to conduct research or present a paper at a conference. Talk to one of our friendly Applications are currently closed.
Program Directors or go The Capstone Editing Conference Travel Grant for Postgraduate Research online and check it out Students yourself at http:// $3,000 for one postgrad student per year to assist in covering the costs of attending a conference in relation to their degree. Applications are open www.unisa.edu.au/ from 15 July 2019 to 20 May 2020. scholarship The Capstone Editing Laptop Grant for Postgraduate Coursework Students $3,000 for one postgrad student per year to purchase a computer or laptop and software for their studies. Applications are currently closed.
The Capstone Editing Research Scholarship for Honours Students $3,000 for one Honours student per year to assist with covering the costs associated with the research for their thesis. Applications are open from 29 July 2019 to 27 May 2020.
The Capstone Editing Textbook Grant for Undergraduates $3,000 for one undergrad per year to assist with covering the cost of their textbooks for the duration of their degree. (The recipient will receive one $1,000 gift voucher per year for three years.) Applications are open all year. The grant will be awarded on 1 February every year. Applications are open from 4 March 2019 to 6 January 2020.
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Safety and Wellbeing
Off shore Travel Risk Management Any staff member participating in an overseas University business trip must be aware of any potential hazards and measures to eliminate or minimise risk of injury/illness. The WHS14 form has been designed to assist workplaces with identifying hazards and controlling risk when planning travel arrangements and itineraries. Please complete this form and submit to Head of School prior to completing your booking travel. Completed copies of this form are to be retained locally on SharePoint or shared drive and made accessible for audit purposes. Identified hazards and their risk controls must be recorded in the local hazard register and reviewed regularly. Risk management
• Obtain advice from the UniSA Health Medical Clinic on health, fitness and the necessary vaccinations
• Seek travel advice from the Director: International and Smartraveller DFAT warnings
• Prepare communication and ground transportation plans
• Download the University's emergency travel International SOS Assistance App that includes services and supports available to you while travelling offshore
• Ensure pre-arranged UniSA personnel contacts are accessible
• Plan travel/work schedules/itinerary and accommodation plans to avoid hazards
• Select appropriate luggage and equipment that is manageable For details and booking of travel arrangements contact the University Central Travel Team. Awareness Week Monday 25 November kicked off National Asbestos Awareness Week, and SafeWork SA is calling on South Australians not to be complacent about the dangers of harmful asbestos fibres. It is estimated that 4,000 Australians are dying from asbestos-related diseases every year. At the height of its use, asbestos was in over 3,000 products and many of these products are still contained in our homes and workplaces. Inhalation of asbestos fibres can cause a range of deadly diseases including mesothelioma, a rare and aggressive cancer. There is no cure and prognosis is extremely poor. Most people diagnosed with mesothelioma die from it. For some time now, Do-It-Yourself (DIY) home renovators have been a group at risk of exposure. To prevent exposure to asbestos fibres, it is crucial that workers do not work with asbestos, except as allowed under the laws. Importantly, anyone handling asbestos in the workplace must be properly trained. Please keep this in mind! Work-related Violence Work-related violence is any incident in which a person is abused, threatened or assaulted in circumstances relating to their work. Examples of work-related violence include:
• Biting, spitting, scratching, hitting, kicking
• Throwing objects
• Pushing, shoving, tripping, grabbing
• Verbal threats, armed robbery, sexual assault
• Attacking with knives, guns, clubs or any type of weapon.
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Work-related violence is most common in industries where people work with the public or external clients. It often causes physical or psychological injury, and sometimes can be fatal. Managing the risks of work-related violence is a planned, systematic process. It involves:
• Identifying hazards and assessing risks to determine: – what could harm workers – how likely it is that harm may occur e.g. not very likely, very likely – how serious the harm could be e.g. minor, serious, fatal
• Controlling risks, which focuses on determining the most effective risk control measures for any given circumstance
• Reviewing and improving the effectiveness of control measures, to ensure prevention measures are working as planned and, when necessary, improved. Work systems and procedures are administrative controls and should be part of the overall work health and safety prevention strategies. Immediately after an incident, a range of actions may be taken which include:
• Ensuring that everyone is safe
• Providing first aid or urgent medical attention if required
• Providing individual support where required, including practical and emotional support
• Reporting what happened via online “Report a hazard or incident” link on myUniSA portal
• Calling Security on extension 8888.
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