The following is a brief summary of the research programs currently offered through the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences.
Ambulance
paramedic education, conducted over the past 30 years by the Ambulance Officers
Training Centre (AOTC), has gained a national and international reputation for
the quality of its courses and the performance of its graduates. In particular,
the MICA paramedic course is regarded as a national benchmark. As a result of a
state government decision to mainstream ambulance paramedic education, Monash
University sought and won the contract to provide ambulance paramedic education
for ambulance services in Victoria from 1 July 1998.
To meet these responsibilities, the university created the Centre for Ambulance
and Paramedic Studies (MUCAPS) within the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and
Health Sciences, which is located on the Peninsula campus in a purpose-built
building funded by the State Government. MUCAPS, in partnership with industry,
has developed integrated programs in ambulance and paramedic studies to meet
the needs of the industry.
Contact: andrea.wyatt@med.monash.edu.au, http://www.med.monash.edu.au/mucaps
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; using stem cells to
repair and make kidneys, protemics, gene arrays, confocal microscopy,
testicular function; testis development; neurodegeneration; regeneration of
motor neurones; neuroproteomics; spinal cord injury; neural stem cells;
remyelination; 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, bioinformatics and molecular
modelling, biomolecular interactions, cancer, cell cycle, connective tissue,
fluorescent proteins, gene therapy, hyaluronan metabolism, mammalian
mitochondria, membrane trafficking and diabetes, mitochondrial ATP synthase,
molecular mechanisms of thrombosis, nuclear-cytoplasmic transport, obesity and
diabetes, peptide/protein structure and drug design, plasma membrane redox,
platelets and leucocyte adhesion receptors, proteases, protease inhibitors,
protein crystallography, protein folding, protein tyrosine phosphatases, renal
disease, signal transduction, structural biology and virus protein
trafficking.
Contact: rod.devenish@med.monash.edu.au, http://www.med.monash.edu.au/biochem
All
aspects of the public health research and preventive medicine, including
chronic disease epidemiology (cardiovascular, respiratory and rheumatic
diseases); the clinical evaluation of drugs including physiological studies in
humans, drug trials and drug safety studies; clinical epidemiology (including
diagnostic tests, clinical measurement and systematic reviews); infectious
diseases; neuro-epidemiology; epidemiological modelling; and cost-effectiveness
studies; health services research; environmental health; including health risk
assessment, preventive medicine and occupational health.
Contact: rory.wolfe@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.vifm.org
Health
promotion; preventive care; evaluation of undergraduate and postgraduate
medical education; intellectual disability and psychiatric co-morbidity; mental
health; cardiovascular disease, rational prescribing; communication strategies
for medical practitioners; occupational stress; and GP secondary care
integration.
Contact: jeff.richards@med.monash.edu.au,
http://www.med.monash.edu.au/general-practice
Medical
ultrasound, sonography, vascular imaging, radiobiology and radiation
therapy.
Contact: marilyn.baird@med.monash.edu.au,
http://www.med.monash.edu.au/radiography
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 _IIb_3, RhoA, actin cytoskeleton, haemopoiesis;
serpins; 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
hatem.salem@med.monash.edu.au,
http://www.med.monash.edu.au/medicine/box_hill
Contact - Australian Centre for Blood Diseases
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 adhesions.
Contact: ben.adler@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; midwifery; mental
health; nursing informatics; gerontics and health services operation
management.
Contact: tony.barnett@med.monash.edu.au, http://www.med.monash.edu.au/nursing
Development
of workflow process and analysis communications (eg internet-based,
multidisciplinary) cost management (eg case mix) 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
Foetal
and neonatal physiology; foetal 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: wayne.hodgson@med.monash.edu.au,
http://www.med.monash.edu.au/pharmacology
Human
and animal physiology of cardiovascular and renal systems incl. 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; incl. 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 incl. 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 incl. 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 incl. 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 foetal neonatal physiology incl. lung
development, placenta, ovarian function, endocrinology of pregnancy and
parturition, foetal growth retardation, brain development, perinatal brain
damage, Cot Death Syndrome, endocrinology of foetal neonatal stress,
resuscitation of the newborn. Vertebrate developmental biology; incl. blood
cell and blood vessel development and differentiation, organisation of the body
plan, cancer genetics, genetics of the mouse, zebra fish and human.
Contact: marcello.rosa@med.monash.edu.au,
http://www.med.monash.edu.au/physiology
Current research interests of the department include:
Consultation-liaison psychiatry; impact of psychological factors on physical illness; psycho-oncology; depression in the medically ill; psychosomatic medicine; mental health during pregnancy; post-natal mental health; attitudes to neo-natal death; psychological aspects of IVF; psychiatric complications of Parkinson's Disease; health psychology; frontal dementias; eating disorders; movement disorders; anti-androgen therapy and cognition; effects of trauma.
Clinical and experimental psychoneuro-endocrinology; schizophrenia phenomenology, classification and treatment; treatment-resistant schizophrenia; community treatment and epidemiology of psychoses; neurophysiological and neuropsychological studies in schizophrenia and Alzheimer's disease; neuronal growth and transmitter function; first onset psychosis in adolescents; women and psychosis; substance abuse and psychosis; gender issues in schizophrenia; menstrual cycle abnormalities and schizophrenia; neurochemical changes in schizophrenia; low prevalence psychosis.
Measurement of quality of care in nursing homes; non-pharmacological management of behaviour disorders in persons with dementia; management of behaviour disorders in elderly general practice patients with dementia; outcome of depression in elderly general practice patients; kinematics in Alzheimer's disease.
Database development; individual service plan development; service organisation; mental disorder in general practice; general practitioner education; recognition and treatment of depression by GPs; public attitudes to psychiatric disorders; general practice shared care; evaluation of deinstitutionalisation of long-stay psychiatric patients; disaster studies.
Psychoanalytic theory; mother-infant interaction; psychodynamics of transition in individual, group, community and organisational developments; religion and psychiatry; group and organisational behaviour and structures; history, theory and practice of psychoanalysis with children; cross-cultural factors in mother-infant interaction; Winnicott; psychoanalytic practice; applications of psychoanalysis.
Eating disorders; depression and suicide; Tourette's syndrome; school refusal; infant psychiatry; ethics and child psychotherapy; obsessive compulsive disorder; adolescent mental health; psychopathology and intellectual disability; anxiety disorders in children; autism; compliance with treatment of serious renal disease in children; child psychoanalytic psychotherapy; outcome of training in child psychoanalytic psychotherapy; psychopathology of sexual abuse in children.
Relationship between mental disorder and violent behaviour; stalkers and impact of stalking on its victims; mortality among those with severe mental illness; assessment and treatment of sex offenders; abuse of benzodiazepines among offender population.
Medical
education; compliance with medication; survivor psychology; ethnic psychiatry;
gender issues; forensic psychiatry; psychopharmacology; outcome measures in
therapy.
Contact:
jenny.dsouza@med.monash.edu.au,http://www.med.monash.edu.au/psychmed/courses, http://www.med.monash.edu.au/psychmed
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 manager, Postgraduate Studies, School of Psychology,
Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine.
Contact: psychology.enquiries@med.monash.edu.au,
http://www.med.monash.edu.au/psych/student/pgrad/
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.
Contact: gil.han@med.monash.edu.au, http://www.med.monash.edu.au/mrh
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: rosemary.sheehan@med.monash.edu.au,
http://www.med.monash.edu.au/socialwork
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
julian.smith@med.monash.edu.au, http://www.med.monash.edu.au/surgery/mmc
Molecular
reproduction and endocrinology; genetics of male infertility;
immunocontraception; 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; foetal
physiology; neonatal intensive care, sleep physiology and medicine; animal
research program; functional genomics; genetics and human disease; cancer
biology and genetics; tumour immunity; cytokine signalling, 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; evidence-based health
promotion; empowerment of consumers participation in health, provision of
reliable information to consumers of health care; methodology and impact of
systematic reviews of research evidence; cost-effectiveness and economic
modelling of health care interventions; internet, networking and
telecommunications in health, educational technology, health databases;
evaluation of information technology in general practice, health informatics,
models of electronic support for clinical decision-making; and knowledge
management.
Contact: donald.campbell@med.monash.edu.au,
http://www.med.monash.edu.au/healthservices
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