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MONASH
CENTRAL
CLINICAL
SCHOOL
MONASH
SCHOOL OF
PUBLIC HEALTH &
PREVENTIVE
MEDICINE
Honours and Graduate Research
at Alfred Research Alliance
Thursday 11th August 2022
Information Evening
CCS and SPHPM

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Acknowledgment to Country

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Dean, Sub-Faculty Public Health and
Translational Medicine, Monash University
Director of Research, The Alfred
Professor Stephen Jane

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Sub-Faculty Public Health and Translational Medicine:
• Central Clinical School
• School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine
Who are we?

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What does ‘translational research’ mean? Why do it?
Translational Research

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Public Health & Translational Medicine
– where your research matters
biomarkers
drug discovery
devices
clinical trials
clinical registries
population studies
occupational &
environmental health
health economics
basic science
translational research

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Alfred Surrounds

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Clayton Surrounds

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• an awesome experience!
• immersion in world-class research
• opportunity to make a difference
• training and mentoring by
world-class researchers
• Wonderful “stepping stone” to a
research and/or health professional
career.
What will you gain?

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• Alfred Research Alliance Scholarships x 2 ($6000)
• www.monash.edu.au/study/scholarships/honours/
Scholarships

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Honours coordinators:
Prof Christoph Hagemeyer(CCS) A/Prof Margaret Hibbs (CCS) Dr Vilija Jokubaitis (CCS)
Dr Chris Barton (SPHPM) A/Prof Joanne Ryan (SPHPM)
Dr Darshini Ayton (SPHPM)
Who should you talk to?

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HOPE TO SEE YOU NEXT YEAR
MONASH
CENTRAL
CLINICAL
SCHOOL
MONASH
SCHOOL OF
PUBLIC HEALTH &
PREVENTIVE
MEDICINE

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Event Co-Host
Ms. Ruchi Umesh Chandra

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 Zoom Webinar 6:00PM – 6:45PM
 Use the Q&A Function on bottom of screen to ask
questions about any presentations you have seen.
 Assigned moderators will answer your Qs
– Prof Christoph Hagemeyer (Honours Coordinator)
– A/Prof Margaret Hibbs (Honours Coordinator)
– Ms. Sharon Gurry (SPHPM student services)
 Send email to ccs.honours@monash.edu or sphpm-
honours@monash.edu
Event Housekeeping - Webinar

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 Departmental Q&A Zoom Meetings 6:45PM – 8:00PM
– Individual zoom links sent via email, reposted in the chat
– Ask verbal questions and also type your questions
– Panel of enthusiastic academics in each of department
 Hope you enjoy the diverse research that will be shared
tonight and it inspires you to come and join us as this
great research precinct.
Event Housekeeping:
Departmental Q&A Zoom Meetings

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Head, Central Clinical School
Program Director, Alfred Brain
Prof. Terence O’Brien

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biomarkers
drug discovery
devices
clinical trials
clinical registries
outcomes research
population studies
occupational &
environmental health
health services research
health economics
Mechanisms
of disease
Imaging
CCS
SPHPM
CCS: Translational Research

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Neuroscience
Musculoskeletal
Diabetes
Cardiology
Haematology Infectious Diseases
Trauma
Mental Health
Sexual Health
Anaesthesia
Immunology
Respiratory
Allergy
Gastroenterology
Women’s Health
Ageing
Critical Care Imaging
Surgery
CCS: What Diseases Do We Research?

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Department/Centre & HOD
Head of School Terry O’Brien
ACBD/Haematology Harshal Nandurkar
Anaesthesiology & PM Paul Myles
Diabetes Mark Cooper
Gastroenterology Alex Boussioutas
Immunology & Path. David Tarlinton
Infectious Diseases Anton Peleg
Psychiatry Jayashri Kulkarni
MSHC Kit Fairley
Medicine - Alfred Terry O’Brien
Medicine - Peninsula Velandai Srikanth
Oncology Mark Shackleton
Neuroscience Helmut Butzkueven
NTRI Mark Fitzgerald
RACI Anne Holland
Surgery & CORE Wendy Brown
Med Education Fiona Bodey
Education (non Med) Robyn Slattery
Psychiatry
Anaesthesiology
& Perioperative
Medicine
CCS: School structure

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•An awesome experience!
•Immersion in world-class medical research environment
•Embedded in specialist clinical hospital
•Training and mentoring by world-class clinical &
translational researchers
– >30 NHMRC Investigator Grant Holders
What will you get?

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•Formal training in research methods
•Publications
What will you get?

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Honours coordinators:
Who should you talk to?
Speak to potential supervisors:
Prof Christoph Hagemeyer(CCS) A/Prof Margaret Hibbs (CCS) Dr Vilija Jokubaitis (CCS)
Webpage:
https://www.monash.edu/medicine/ccs/education/future-
students/honours
Link to CCS project booklet:
https://www.monash.edu/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/2210556/2021-
CCs-Honours-and-postgrad-research-project-booklet.pdf
CCS Honours Student Services:
E: ccs.honours@monash.edu

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MONASH
MEDICINE, NURSING &
HEALTH SCIENCES
Deputy Head of School (Education)
Head, Medical Education and Research Quality Unit
School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine
Prof. Dragan Ilic

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We are Australia’s largest School of Public
Health
WORLD #30

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School of Public Health and Preventive
Medicine
 Alfred Precinct – 553 St Kilda Rd
 Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine
(Southbank)
 Cabrini Hospital
 Monash Medical Centre
 Monash Caulfield Campus
 Other clinical sites and partners (including
Burnet Institute, Baker IDI)

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The big picture

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Careers in Public Health
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3f76uCJQs4&list=PL3C_6vEl3O5SzpzQ1Ca-
zyF1oa7dEztc8&index=2

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The Honours Experience (CCS)
Former Honours student
Current PhD student
Department of Immunology and Pathology
Central Clinical School
Ms. Alexandra Dvorscek

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• Bachelor of Biomedical Science and Bachelor of Science
– Majors: Immunology and Genetics and Molecular Biology
– IMM3990- Jacobson laboratory (B cell and antibody memory)
• 2019- Bachelor of Biomedical Science (Honours)
– Tarlinton Laboratory (Immune Memory Laboratory)
– Prof David Tarlinton & Dr Isaak Quast
• 2020- PhD (translational research)
– Immunology- Tarlinton Laboratory
A little about me…
Past Honours Experience

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• Research project and coursework
– Original research
• Lab based, you will perform experiments and then
present your data in a seminar and as a thesis
• Whole new university experience
• A lot of independence
• Hard work but rewarding
What is Honours?
Past Honours Experience

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• Meet with potential supervisors based on your
interests/the projects offered
• Ask about the lab work- make sure it’s something you
could spend the year doing
• Make sure you and your supervisor are on the same
page
– Hours, workload, communication, etc.
• Speak to past/present students from that lab
Choosing your project
Past Honours Experience

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• You will be left on your own
– Your supervisor will help you learn all techniques you will use
– Everyone around is really helpful and supportive
• You’ll be expected to know everything
– Not the case, you’ll be taught everything from square one
– You’ll learn as you go (lab work/theory)
• Honours takes over your life
– If you’re organised, you can have a great work/life balance
Misconceptions
Past Honours Experience

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Honours at ARA
• Collaborative
• Plenty of opportunities to learn about other topics
(seminars, journal clubs)
• Real lab experience
• Great mix of staff and students
• Opens up opportunities for the future
• Great culture
Past Honours Experience

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Any further questions I’m happy for you to
email me!
Alexandra.Dvorscek@monash.edu
Thank you!
Past Honours Experience

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The Honours Experience (SPHPM)
Former Honours student
Current PhD student
Sustainable Mobility and Safety Research
School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine
Ms. Georgina Lau

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• Bachelor of Biomedical Science
• Honours
-Patterns of personal responsibility for injury events
• PhD
-Alcohol and other drug use in injury events
Past Honours Experience
A little about me…

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• Year of research after your degree
• An opportunity to give research a go
• Transition year from university to the
workplace
Past Honours Experience
What is Honours?

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• Explore your options
• Take the time to meet potential supervisors
• Pick a topic that interests you
Past Honours Experience
Choosing your project

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georgina.lau@monash.edu
Past Honours Experience
Contact

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Head, Undergraduate Courses
Head, Medical Education and Research Quality Unit
School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine
Prof Basia Diug

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The big picture

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Acute and Critical Care
Prof Jamie Cooper & Prof Erica Wood
Focuses on improving outcomes for people experiencing serious or life-threatening
illness or medical emergency. This team works closely with Australian and
international health services, relevant health authorities, clinical registries,
government agencies and other third parties to access relevant health data and run
clinical trials.

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Chronic Disease and Ageing
Prof Susan Davis & Prof Sophia Zoungas
Focused on health and healthcare delivery across the lifespan.
This team explores ways to keep people living long, healthy and
productive lives.

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Cancer Research
Multi-disciplinary team of clinicians and allied
health staff, primary care practitioners, not-for-
profit organisations, patients & caregivers.
Integrate patient-reported outcomes into clinical
care to improve:
 quality of life
 symptom burden and unmet needs
 survival
Prof. John Zalcberg
3D imaging technology for:
 early diagnosis of
melanoma
 surveillance of high-risk
individuals
A/Prof. Victoria Mar Dr. Liane Ioannou
For further details: liane.ioannou@monash.edu

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Promoting healthy ageing in older individuals
ASPREE Clinical Trials STAREE Clinical Trials
• Ground breaking community-based trial of the effects of
statins on health outcomes in older individuals.
• Recruiting >10,000 participants aged 70+ years across
Australia
• Collecting information on numerous health outcomes,
lifestyle and quality of life.
• Contribute to this exciting study and join our team of
clinicians, study managers, field officers, data officers,
post doctoral researchers and PhD students.
• The impact of social isolation and
loneliness
• How physical activity can modify health
outcomes
Dr. Rosanne Freak-Poli Dr. Danijela Gasevic Prof. Sophia Zoungas Dr. Andrea Curtis A/Prof. Ingrid Hopper
For further details: andrea.curtis@monash.edu

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Forensic Medicine
A/Prof Richard Bassed & Prof Noel Woodford
Manner of fatal injury classification and certification of death by
medicolegal death investigators in common law legal systems:
a literature review.
Main Supervisor: Dr Reena Sarkar - Reena.Sarkar@vifm.org
Survey of forensic pathologists in the Asia-Pacific region
regarding forensic pathology education and professional
training in their regions.
Main Supervisor: Dr Reena Sarkar - Reena.Sarkar@vifm.org
Sentencing principles in judicial outcomes of fatal and nonfatal
one punch violence in Australia - a socio-political-legal
approach.
Main Supervisor: Associate Professor Jennifer Schumann -
Jennifer.Pilgrim@monash.edu
Evaluation of the Mothers Legal Help program: an initiative to
provide legal advice to women/mothers experiencing family
violence
Main Supervisor: Associate Professor Lyndal Bugeja -
Lyndal.Bugeja@monash.edu

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General Practice
Prof Danielle Mazza
Focus on issues that impact on general practice and delivery of
health care services in this setting.

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Health Systems, Services and Policy
Prof Alex Collie & Prof Helena Teede
Focus on issues that influence the effective, efficient, equitable
and ethical delivery of health services. This team works across
domains including women’s health, occupational health and
work disability

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Planetary Health
Prof Jane Fisher & Prof Karin Leder

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Clinical and Health Data Outcomes Innovation and Research
Prof Susannah Ahern and Prof Belinda Gabbe
Clinical Outcomes Data Reporting and Research Program
Victorian Cardiac Outcomes Registry
 time-trends in outcomes following Percutaneous Coronary
Intervention (PCI)
 management & outcomes of patients with Acute Coronary
Syndrome
National Gynae-Oncology Registry
 ovarian cancer outcomes
Burns Registry of Australia & New Zealand
 burns injuries during school holidays
 profile of young adult patents with burn injuries
Australian Cystic Fibrosis Data Registry
 Patient reported outcomes in CF patients
Over 30 Clinical
Registries!

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Evidence Synthesis, Qualitative and Implementation Methods
Prof Sally Green and Prof Helen Skouteris
Cochrane Australia - Health and Social Care
Prof. Helen Skouteris
Dr Briony Hill
Dr Darshini Ayton
Health and Social Care Unit
Our research across health
and social care improvement
includes:
 lifestyle health and
wellbeing from
preconception to
adulthood;
 early childhood education
and care;
 child and family welfare;
parenting;
 aged care and ageing.

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Teaching and Learning
Prof Dragan Ilic and Prof Basia Diug
Postgraduate & Undergraduate Courses – Professional Education Program –
Medical Education Research Quality

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Find out more:
https://www.monash.edu/medicine/sphpm/study/honours

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Any questions?
Meet our honours coordinators
Dr Chris Barton Dr Darshini Ayton A/Prof Joanne Ryan

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Honours Coordinator, Neuroscience
Central Clinical School
Dr Vilija Jokubaitis

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Honours at the Central Clinical School
 Divided into three streams (administrative split only)
Human Pathology
– Prof Christoph Hagemeyer (christoph.Hagemeyer@monash.edu)
– Deputy Dr Omer Gilan
Immunology
– A. Prof Margaret Hibbs (margaret.hibbs@monash.edu)
– Deputy A.Prof Menno van Zelm
Neuroscience (enroll via HUP)
– Dr Vilija Jokubaitis (vilija.jokubaitis@monash.edu)
– Deputy A.Prof Caroline Gurvich

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Honours at the Central Clinical School
BSc (Hons) and BMS (Hons) streams
• Honours is composed of:
 75% research project
 25% course work
• The research project is individual - each student’s
experience of Honours will be unique!
• Course work designed to understand and be critical of
scientific data & literature, and communication – these
are generic skills and graduate attributes

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Honours at the Central Clinical School
 Research Project – 75%
• Literature Review 10%
• Seminar 1 – 10 mins Pass/feedback
• Seminar 2 – 15 mins 10%
• Thesis (& Thesis Defence) 80%
 Course work – 25%
• Lectures with MCQ & Poster presentation 40%
• Biostatistics workshops, MCQ and assignment 30%
• Written Critique Exam 30%

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Entry requirements
• You must have completed all the requirements for the award of the
pass degree of Bachelor of Biomedical Science or Bachelor of
Science
• You need a Distinction (70%) average over a total of 24 points of (or
four) 3rd year units –depends on entry degree Biomedical Science or
Science.
• NO MID-YEAR ENTRY at the CCS

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Finding a project – Things to consider
 The Research Project: Does it interest and inspire you? Is it feasible
to complete? Are all resources available? Is ethics in place?
 The Supervisor/s: will you be able to get on with your supervisor
when the pressure is on? Who else will be involved, co-supervisors,
lab group?
 The Environment: does the laboratory look happy? Ask the students
& staff!

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Finding a project
Departments and Research Areas
 Pre-Clinical, Clinical and Translational Research Programs
• Allergy, Immunology and Respiratory Medicine
• Anaesthesia, Perioperative Medicine and Surgery
• Diabetes
• Gastroenterology
• Haematology & Australian Centre for Blood Diseases
• Immunology and Pathology
• Infectious Diseases
• MAPrc/HER – Psychiatry and women’s mental health
• Neuroscience and Neurology

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MONASH
CENTRAL
CLINICAL
SCHOOL
MONASH
SCHOOL OF
PUBLIC HEALTH &
PREVENTIVE
MEDICINE
Honours and Graduate Research
at Alfred Research Alliance
Thank you for attending!
Let’s continue the discussion at the
Departmental Q&A Zoom Meetings @6:45PM

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Reminders
• This webinar will close at 6:45PM
– Please copy Q&A links from the chat if needed
– Please wait until 6:45pm to log into departmental Q&A session
• Honours application deadline: 11th November 2022
• Please fill in our survey
• Any further questions please email
– CCS : ccs.honours@monash.edu
– SPHPM: sphpm-honours@monash.edu

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Acknowledgments
Special thanks to …
 Professor Terence O’Brien, Head of CCS
 Professor Dragan Ilic, Deputy Head of SPHPM
 Speakers – Dr Vilija Jokubaitis, Prof Basia Diug, Ms
Alexandra Dvorscek, Ms Georgina Lau
 Moderators - Professor Robyn Slattery, Prof Christoph
Hagemeyer, A/Prof Margaret Hibbs, Ms Sharon Gurry
 Honours coordinators
 Research managers and all supporting staff