Engaging Innovation for Health
Monash Institute of Medical Engineering (MIME) Affinity Meeting
Friday 29th August 2014, AMREP Seminar Room 1:30pm – 4:30pm
13:30
Opening by Professor Jeffrey Rosenfeld, Director of MIME
13:35
Welcome - Professor Stephen Jane, Head of Central Clinical School
13:45
Introduction to MIME - Professor Jeffrey Rosenfeld, Director of MIME
- Dr. Heather St. John, Chief Operating Officer of MIME
- Professor Murray Rudman, Faculty of Engineering
Session 1: Researchers Capabilities and Collaborative Needs
14:00
Professor Jeffrey Rosenfeld – Director of Neurosurgery and Director of MIME
Topic: Bionic Vision Device
14:02
A/Professor Michael Leung – Director of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Alfred
Topic: Application of Osseo-Integration Techniques (presenter Prof Jeffrey Rosenfeld)
14:04
Professor Mark Fitzgerald – Director of Trauma Services, Alfred
Topic: Computer Assisted Trauma Care (presenter Prof Jeffrey Rosenfeld)
14:06
A/Professor Heather Cleland – Director of Burns Unit, Alfred
Topic: Skin Replacement in Burns
14:08
Professor Paul Myles – Director of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine, Alfred
Topic: Anaesthesia Research
14:10
Dr. Marcus Kitchen –ARC Australian Research Fellow; School of Physics
Topic: Soft Tissue X-ray Imaging
14:12
Professor Paul Bonnington – eReserach Centre, Office of Provost
Topic: New Horizons in Visualisation: The CAVE2 Immersive Visualisation Platform
14:14
A/Professor Andreas Fouras –Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Topic: BioImaging in Engineering
14:16
A/Professor Bruce Thomson – Head of Physiology Services, Respiratory Medicine, Alfred
Topic: Applied Respiratory Physiology (presenter A/Prof. Andreas Fouras)
14:18
Professor Frank Rosenfeldt – Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Alfred
Topic: How to Access More Donor Hearts for Transplantation: a Medical Engineering Challenge
14:20
A/Professor Silvana Marasco – Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Alfred
Topic: Rib Fixation Device
14:22
Professor Robert Medcalf – Molecular Neurotrauma and Haemostasis, ACBD
Topic: Nerotrauma and the Blood Brain Barrier
14:24
Professor Ann Nicholson –Associate Dean, Faculty of Information Technology
Topic: Probabilistic Computational Modelling for Medicine
14:26
A/Professor John Forsythe – Department of Materials Engineering
Topic: Biomaterials Capabilities
14:28
A/Professor Adrian Neild – Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Topic: Microfluidics and Microsystems
14:30 – 14:45
Tea break
Engaging Innovation for Health
Monash Institute of Medical Engineering (MIME) Affinity Meeting
Friday 29th August 2014, AMREP Seminar Room 1:30pm – 4:30pm
Session 1: Researchers Capabilities and Collaborative Needs
14:46
Dr. Stephen Ting – Haematology, ACBD
Topic: Blood Stem Cells
14:48
Dr. Elizabeth Gardiner – Platelets and signalling, ACBD
Topic: Medicine meets Mathematics
14:50
Professor Paul Fitzgerald – Deputy Director of Monash Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre
Topic: Developing Novel Device based Treatments for Psychiatric Disorders
14:52
Professor Murray Rudman on behalf of Prof. Mehmet Yuce – Mechanical and Aerospace
Engineering
Topic: Wirless Bio-medical Sensors
14:54
Dr. Josie Carberry – Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Topic: Computations in Medical Flows
14:56
Prof. Frada Burstein – Centre for Organisational and Social Informatics
Topic: ICT for Health and Wellbeing
14:58
Professor Manoj Gambhir – Head of Mathematical modelling and epidemiology
Topic: Predictive Modelling in Population Health
15:00
Professor Rory Wolfe – Biostatistician, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine
Topic: Methodology and Collaborative Research
15:02
Professor Anthony Dart – Director of Cardiovascular Medicine Services, Alfred
Topic: Clinical and Experimental Cardiology
15:04
Professor John Wilson – Head of Cystic Fibrosis Service, Alfred
Topic: Converging Technology in Healthcare (presenter Dr. Dominic Keating)
15:06
A/Prof. WenLong Cheng– Chemical Engineering
Topic: Plasmonic Nanoparticles for Biomedical Application
15:08
Professor Falk Schreiber– Information Technology
Topic: Immersive Analytics & Computational Biology
15:10
Dr. Chao Chen – Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Topic: Application of Robotics in Medical Research in Engineering
15:12
Dr. Robert Bryson-Richardson – Biological Sciences
Topic: Bio-sensors and in vivo imaging and screening
15:14
Professor Magdalena Plebanski – Immunology, Central Clinical School
Topic: Engaging nanoparticle properties to design vaccines and therapeutics
15:16 – 16:30
Session 2:
Group or common theme researchers interaction and discussion
Facilitators - Prof. Magdalena Plebanski, Prof. Murray Rudman and Dr. Heather St. John