The following is a brief summary of the research programs currently offered through the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences.
Pain;
antinociception; spinal cord mechanisms; chronic pain syndromes; and
epidemiology.
Contact: colin.goodchild@med.monash.edu.au,
http://www.med.monash.edu.au/anaesthesia/
Kidney
development; kidney disease in Aborigines; renal scarring; testicular function;
testis development; neurodegeneration; regeneration of motor neurones;
cardiovascular cell biology; hypertension; thalassaemia; repair of ligaments;
bone and cartilage biology; stereology; transgenic mice/molecular biology and
cell biology.
Contact: nigel.wreford@med.monash.edu.au,
http://www.med.monash.edu.au/ anatomy/
Autoimmune
diseases, autophagy and mitochondrial turnover, bioprocess technology, cancer,
connective tissue, cyclosporins/immunophilins and apoptosis, renal disease,
hyaluronan metabolism, interferons, mammalian mitochondria, membrane
trafficking and diabetes, Mitochondrial ATP synthase, molecular parasitology,
neutrophils, nuclear-cytoplasmic transport, obesity and diabetes,
peptide/protein structure and drug design, proteases, protease inhibitor,
protein tyrosine phosphatases, signal transduction, and yeast.
Contact: rod.devenish@med.monash.edu.au,
http://www.med.monash.edu.au/ biochem/
All
aspects of the clinical evaluation of drugs including physiological studies in
animals and man, drug trials and drug safety studies; public health research;
asthma and respiratory disease; epidemiology neuro-epidemiology; clinical
epidemiology, including clinical measurement and systematic reviews; infectious
disease epidemiology; cost-effectiveness studies; health services research;
environmental health; preventive medicine; occupational health; and arthritis
epidemiology.
Contact: michael.abramson@med.monash.edu.au,
http://www.med.monash.edu.au/epidemiology/
All
aspects of the interface between law and medicine including forensic pathology,
clinical forensic medicine, forensic toxicology, molecular biology and tissue
banking; intravenous drug abuse, death, injury and prevention; adverse events
in hospital practice; patterns of injury; sexual assault; traumatic
neuropathology; ageing of injuries; traffic medicine including drugs and
driving; post mortem drug redistribution; wound ballistics; SIDS; tissue
banking including allograft incorporation and tissue engineering.
Contact: olaf.drummer@med.monash.edu.au,
http://www.vifp.monash.edu.au/
Health
promotion; preventive care; medical education by distance education;
intellectual disability and psychiatric comorbidity; rational prescribing;
communication strategies for medical practitioners; occupational stress; and GP
secondary care integration.
Contact: leon.piterman@med.monash.edu.au,
http://www.med.monash.edu.au/ general-practice/
Apoptosis;
asthma and airways disease; anticoagulants; bioethics, bowel cancer; liver
disease; cardiovascular disease, especially atherosclerotic and cardiac failure
as well as hypertension; clinical and public health nutrition; cytotoxic
lymphocytes; diabetes; gene regulation; haemostasis; oncology; inflammatory
disease (joints, skin and kidneys); infectious diseases; intensive care
medicine; intracellular signalling; movement disorders; osteoporosis;
osteoarthritis; peptic ulcer; proteases and protease inhibitors; platelet
biology; renal disease; rheumatology, serine proteinase inhibitors; skin
cancer; psoriasis; clinical pharmacology; gerontology; palliative care;
neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer's disease; neuro-otology;
clinical and basic research in cardiology, vascular and respiratory areas
including vascular biology, physiology and pharmacology of the peripheral and
coronary vasculature; metabolic vasodilation; vascular effects of hormone
replacement, vitamin therapy, hypercholesterolaemia; pathophysiology of left
atrial thrombus; mitral stenosis; atrial fibrillation; pulmonary circulation;
pulmonary hypertension; cardiac function, coagulation activity; acute coronary
syndromes; inotropic agents; asthma; bronchiectasis; sleep disorders;
thrombosis; platelets; Von Willebrand factor; fibrinogen; intracellular
signalling; glycoprotein [alpha]IIb[beta]3, RhoA, actin cytoskeleton,
haemopoiesis; serpins; yeast-2-hybrid; fibrinolysis; tissue plasminogen
activator; urokinase plasminogen activator; plasminogen activator
inhibitor-2.
Contact -- Alfred Hospital
napier.thomson@med.monash.edu.au
http://www.med.monash.edu.au/medicine/alfred/
Contact -- Box Hill Hospital
robert.medcalf@med.monash.edu.au
http://www.med.monash.edu.au/medicine/box_hill/
Contact -- Monash Medical Centre
peter.tipping@med.monash.edu.au
http://www.med.monash.edu.au/medicine/mmc/
Immunity;
pathogenesis; gene probes; transposons; gonococci; meningococci; repetitive
DNA; gonorrhoea; pili; regulon; environmental microbiology; molecular
microbiology; dengue; coronavirus; measles virus; fungal viruses; molecular
virology; respiratory syncytial virus; rubella virus; clostridial genetics;
transposable genetic elements; two-component signal transduction; footrot;
antibiotic resistance; calicivirus; viral gastroenteritis; Plasmodium
falciparum; malaria; vaccines; DNA vaccination; transgenic plants as vaccines;
malaria antigens; biorheology of malaria infected red blood cells;
seroepidemiology of malaria infection; tuberculosis; genome databases; cell
wall synthetic pathways; bioinformatics; protein-protein infections in
malaria-infected cells; signal transduction regulation; mycoviruses;
leptospirosis; pasteurella pathogenesis and vaccines; shigella virulence;
bacillary dysentery; Buruli ulcer; Bairnsdale ulcer, diarheagenic E. coli;
bacterial adhesins.
Contact: andrew.davidson@med.monash.edu.au,
http://www.med.monash.edu.au/microbiology/
Community
nursing; nurse education; acute care; palliative care; ethical/ moral issues;
legal issues; rural health care practice issues and models; health care
management in a range of settings; paediatric/child health; family health;
women's health; sexual health and adolescents; nursing informatics; gerontics
and health services operation management.
Contact: tony.barnett@nursing.monash.edu.au,
http://www.nursing.monash.edu.au/
Centre for Health Services Operation Management -- development of
workflow process and analysis communications (eg internet-based,
multidisciplinary) cost management (eg casemix) systems analysis and design
systems optimisation (utilisation review) and simulation use of IT tools for
clinical/financial decision support.
Contact liza.heslop@nursing.monash.edu.au,
http://www.med.monash.edu.au/ chsom/
Reproductive
endocrinology; reproductive hormones; menstruation; implantation; infertility;
labour; trophoblast function; regulation of placental blood flow; preterm
labour; low birth weight; prenatal diagnosis; models of antenatal care;
endometriosis; preeclampsia; ovarian cancer; molecular obstetrics; molecular
gynaecology; angiogenesis (control of blood vessel growth); and factors in
fibroid growth and development, investigating why these common benign tumours
develop and grow.
Contact: peter.rogers@med.monash.edu.au,
http://www.med.monash.edu.au/ob-gyn/
Fetal
and neonatal physiology; fetal surgery; adaptation at birth; cot death studies
(SIDS); sleep studies; lung growth and development; neonatal neurological
outcomes; growth disorders; childhood diabetes and endocrinology; pathogenesis
of viral infections; antiviral agents (clinical trials); developmental
disability; adolescent medicine; clinical and interventional cardiology.
Contact: rosemary.horne@med.monash.edu.au,
http://www.med.monash.edu.au/ paediatrics/
Autoimmunity;
allergy; thymus biology; NK cells; exocytosis; endocytosis; cell division;
plasma membrane proteins; transferrin receptor; obesity gene; gastric proton
pump development; and acid secretion.
Contact: richard.boyd@med.monash.edu.au,
http://www.med.monash.edu.au/ path/
Anti-obesity
drugs; autacoids; diabetes; drug development; drug receptor mechanisms;
hypertension; molecular pharmacology; neuropharmacology; neurotransmitters;
endocrine pharmacology; peptides; confocal microscopy; pharmacology of
potassium channels.
Contact: phil.beart@med.monash.edu.au,
http://www.med.monash.edu.au/ pharmacology/
Human
and animal physiology of:
Cardiovascular and renal systems -- including hypertension,
renin-angiotensin system, renomedullary vasodperessor substances, renal
vascular growth, neural and hormone control of kidney, kidney development,
cardiac function and vascular physiology.
Cell physiology -- ion channels, ion channel function, cell surface
receptors and second messengers, membrane transport, erythropoiesis, genetics
of cell determination, endothelial and pancreatic cell physiology.
Muscle physiology -- including motility, energetics and mechanics of
striated, cardiac and smooth muscle, exercise physiology and muscle metabolism,
exercise and muscle damage, development of muscle, intestinal and urinary tract
motility, vascular and uterine muscle physiology.
Nervous system -- including sense organs, processing of sensory
information, proprioception, reflexes, hearing, vision, neurobiology of memory
and learning, autonomic nervous system, neurogenesis and neurodegeneration,
brain development and brain aging, physiology of the cerebellum, control of
body movement, sleep and circadian physiology.
Neuroendocrinology -- including hypothalamatic and pituitary
physiology, physiology of stress, stress and reproduction, sex differences and
stress, steroid actions in the brain, endocrine control of gonadal function,
appetite and growth.
Reproductive and fetal neonatal physiology -- including lung
development, placenta, ovarian function, endocrinology of pregnancy and
parturition, fetal growth retardation, brain development, perinatal brain
demage, cot death syndrome, endocrinology of fetal neonatal stress,
resuscitation of the newborn.
Vertebrate developmental biology -- including blood cell and blood
vessel development and differentiation, organisation of the body plan, cancer
genetics, genetics of the mouse, zebrafish and human.
Contact: david.walker@med.monash.edu.au,
http://www.med.monash.edu.au/ physiology/
Psychiatric
aspects of general medicine; general practice psychiatry; psychotic illnesses;
psychogeriatrics; developmental forensic, community, child and adolescent
psychiatry; psychoanalytic studies; behavioural neurobiology;
psychopharmacology; health psychology; and medical education.
Contact: nicholas.keks@boxhill.org,au,
http://www.med.monash.edu.au/ psychmed/
The
PhD and MSc programs offered by the Department of Psychology involve a research
project supervised by a member of staff and regular attendance at and
participation in seminar programs. Current areas of active interest and inquiry
in the department include analysis of human skill, animal and human
interaction, animal and human learning, animal welfare, animal-assisted
therapy, attachment theory, attentional and movement disorders, behavioural
medicine, biochemistry of memory, clinical psychology and clinical
neuropsychology, chronobiology (circadian rhythms), counselling psychology,
cross-cultural psychology, developmental psychopathology, emotional
development, engineering psychology, environmental psychology, families and
parenting, health psychology and health behaviours, human evolution, human
information processing, human memory and cognitive processes, nature and
psychological well-being, neuropsychology and neuroscience, organisational
psychology, personality, play and aggression in children, psycholinguistics,
psychology of ageing, psychometrics, road user behaviour, sensory processes and
perception, sound localisation, stress management, vocational psychology.
Graduates interested in pursuing research in these or related areas of
interdisciplinary studies involving human or animal behaviour towards a higher
degree should consult the postgraduate studies officer, Department of
Psychology.
Contact: psychology.enquiries@sci.monash.edu.au,
http://www.sci.monash.edu.edu.au/psych/
Contact: marilyn.baird @med.monash.edu.au, http://www.med.monash.edu.au/radiography/
Rural
health workforce (recruitment and retention issues, education and training, the
roles and functions of health practitioners, and gender issues), sustainable
health services in rural and remote areas (self-sufficiency, sustainability,
community development and capacity building, service delivery models, workforce
support); determinant of health and population health issues; rural nursing;
rural general practice; rural health service delivery, rural health quality
assurance, pre-hospital care; rural and gender issues in rural medicine, rural
health policy, pre-hospital care, rural mental health and mental illness
services, sexual diversity in rural places, complementary therapies, migrant
health and health services needs in rural/urban Australia, farm injuries and
rural rehabilitation.
Contact: gil.han@med.monash.edu.au,
http://www.med.monash.edu.au/crh/
Casework;
child abuse; child protection; community health; community services;
corrections; ethnic welfare; Family and Children's courts; family intervention;
family violence; globalisation; management; policy development; poverty;
residential care; women and social work; the welfare lobby; drug law reform;
child abuse and the media; aged care.
Contact: http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/social_work/
Experimental
colorectal cancer; liver metastases; the vascular response to inflammation;
ulcer healing; surgical education; laparoscopic surgery; cultured epithelial
grafts; organ transplantation; microsurgery; gastrointestinal motility and
endovascular stents and grafts.
Contact -- Alfred Hospital
paul.obrien@med.monash.edu.au
http://www.med.monash.edu.au/surgery/alfred/
Contact -- Monash Medical Centre
http://www.med.monash.edu.au/surgery/mmc/
Molecular
reproduction and endocrinology; genetics of male infertility;
immunocontrception; inflammation biology cell-based therapies and
transgene/gene knockout technology; prostate development; prostate disease;
endometrial physiology and angiogenesis; early human development; human
infertility and fertility, fertilisation and embryogenesis; multipotential stem
cells (embryonic stem cells); nuclear transfer, cloning and transgenesis in
animals, gene expression in oogenesis and development, primate reproductive
biology, developmental biology; molecular embryology and birth defects; fetal
physiology; neonatal intensive care, sleep physiology and medicine; animal
research program; functional genomics; genetics and human disease; cancer
biology and genetics; tumor immunity; cytokine signaling, transcription
factors; apoptosis and inflammatory diseases.
Contact: gail.risbridger@med.monash.edu.au,
http://www.med.monash.edu.au/ird/
Clinical
decision-making and decision support systems, evaluation of the impact of
evidence-based practice in clinical environments; community-based lifestyle
interventions (especially in disadvantaged communities); innovative
evidence-based health promotion; empowerment of consumers in health care
decision-making; and cost-effectiveness and economic modelling of health care
interventions.
Contact: jeremy.anderson@med.monash.edu.au,
http://www.med.monash.edu.au/publichealth/
Centre for Medical Informatics -- internet, networking and
telecommunications; educational technology; databases; evaluation of
information technology in general practice, health informatics via distance
education, standards, knowledge management, electronic health record, the
interface between computers and people, change management, project management
in the health arena.
Contact: cmi@med.monash.edu.au
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