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Welcome to the April 2008 issue.
In this issue:
QUEENSLAND REGIONAL COORDINATOR APPOINTED FOR THE WOMBAT
COLLABORATION
The WOMBAT Collaboration extends a warm welcome to
Linda Murray, recently appointed regional coordinator for Queensland.
RECENT
AND UPCOMING WOMBAT WORKSHOPS
Developing a protocol
The WOMBAT "Developing a protocol for a randomised trial in maternal and
perinatal healthcare" Collaboration Workshop was held in conjunction
with the IMPACT Network meeting prior to the recent PSANZ conference on
the Gold Coast. A multidisciplinary group of 15 participants developed
many interesting clinical questions into the basic framework for a
randomised trial. Once again, feedback was very positive and we hope
that participants will continue to develop their protocols into high
quality randomised trials.
We will be holding the workshop again prior to PSANZ in Darwin in April
2009.
Women's and babies’ health
and wellbeing - improving outcomes.
Agnes Walsh House, King Edward Memorial Hospital, Subiaco, WA
Participants will focus on an important question in maternal or
perinatal healthcare. Working in small groups they will examine how this
question could be addressed using the clinical trial research framework.
The workshop will cover important issues in the design and conduct of
clinical trials. Including: getting the question right, determining the
sample size and ethical considerations.
Please note: This Perth workshop has been moved to late May or early
June (exact dates to be advised).
To register your interest (essential), please contact:
Claire Parker on: +61 8 9340 1369;
cparker@obsgyn.uwa.edu.au
or
Jo Blacker on: +61 89340
7003;
joanne.blacker@health.wa.gov.au or
Rebecca Tooher on: +61 8 8161 7660;
rebecca.tooher@adelaide.edu.au
What are the roles of the various
trial committees and their members?
Trial committees include: Steering, Management, Writing, Data Monitoring
and Adverse Events/Safety.
Are you interested in this or another topic related to improving the
quality of maternal and perinatal RCTs?
We aim to offer a workshop style session or day in mid November 2008 in
Melbourne.
Contact any of the following people for more information:
Lex Doyle:
lex.doyle@rwh.org.au
Michelle Kealy:
m.kealy@latrobe.edu.au
Rebecca Tooher:
rebecca.tooher@adelaide.edu.au
Philippa Middleton:
philippa.middleton@adelaide.edu.au
Caroline Crowther:
caroline.crowther@adelaide.edu.au
Other workshops,
meetings and conferences relevant to maternal and perinatal health
Australian meetings
Women’s Hospitals Australasia (WHA) Scientific Meeting: Maternal
Obesity - Implications for Pregnancy and Birth Outcomes.
The purpose of this meeting is to share knowledge and identify best
practice in the management of overweight and obese women who are
pregnant and prevention strategies for overweight/obese women planning
pregnancy.
Royal Hospital for Women Lecture Theatre
Barker Street, Randwick, NSW
Thursday, May 15, 2008 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM
For more information:
http://guest.cvent.com/i.aspx?1Q,P1,4BBDD305-36A6-425D-902E-0154F77FB463
The Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine (DEPM) at
Monash University offers a short course program specialising in public
health and clinical research introductions, updates and certificates.
Some short courses are accredited as units in existing courses.
For details, venue, fees and registration see
http://www.med.monash.edu.au/epidemiology/shortcrs/.
Enquiries can be made to:
Suzy Giuliano
Email
shortcrs@med.monash.edu.au
Tel +61 3 9903 0555
Fax +61 3 9903 0181.
All courses are eligible for RACGP QA&CPD Program for Category 1 and 2
points. Attendance earns CNE points as part of the RCNA Life Long
Learning Program (Australia and New Zealand).
The courses coming up in May and June are:
Monday May 26, 9am-5pm Common Problems in Clinical
Research
Ass Prof Max de Courten, DEPM
The course is suitable for PhD candidates and health professionals
currently conducting or planning to undertake clinical research. The
course gives an introduction to design, implementation, analysis,
interpretation and reporting of clinical research information. The
course complements "Ethics and Good Research Practice", offered May
27. If both courses are booked there is a discount of 10% from the
second course fee. Tuesday May 27 Ethics
and Good Research Practice
Mr Bradley Crammond LLM/Ass Prof Bebe Loff, Human Rights and
Bioethics Unit, DEPM. The course is suitable for HREC members and
people conducting, overseeing or evaluating health research
involving humans. Mon-Fri Jun 2-6
Research with Vulnerable Populations
Dr Deborah Zion, Human Rights and Bioethics Unit, DEPM. Topics will
cover research ethics with vulnerable populations such as children,
refugees, asylum seekers, those with mental illness, substance
abusers, sex workers, indigenous populations. At the end of the
course students will understand the relationship between
vulnerability and exploitation in research, and ways in which
ethical research partnerships might be constructed.
Twilight forum: Evaluation in Maternity Care.
Presented by Dr Delwyn Goodrick, 5-7pm 4 June 2008.
RANZCOG 254-260 Albert St East Melbourne.
For information and registration contact:
Catherine Chamberlain
catherine.chamberlain@southernhealth.org.au
or ph 95947734.
International meetings
28th International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) Triennial
Congress
June 1-5, Glasgow, UK.
For further information:
www.midwives2008.org
Perinatal Medicine 2008
The Executives of the British Maternal and Fetal Medicine Society (BMFMS),
British Association of Perinatal Medicine (BAPM), the Neonatal Society
(NNS) and the Neonatal Nurses Association (NNA) would like to invite
its members and colleagues to attend this Joint Conference.
June 2-4 Harrogate, UK.
Further information:
http://www.perinatalmedicine2008.ukevents.org/default.htm
Fetal and Neonatal Physiological Society 35th Annual Meeting
June 22–25, Maastricht, Netherlands.
For more information:
http://www.fnps-society.org
International Lactation Consultants’ Association (ILCA)/USLCA
Conference and Annual Meeting “One Voice, Uniting the Profession -
Practice, Professionalism, Policy”
July 23-27, 2008 Nevada, USA
For more information:
www.ilca.org/conf2008.html
28TH Annual Society for Reproductive and Infant Psychology (SRIP)
Conference, London, England
8-10th September 2008.
For further information:
http://www.srip.ac.uk/
European Lactation Consultants' Association (VELB) “A World Wide
View on Breastfeeding”
October 1-3 2008 Austria Center, Vienna, Austria
Information: www.velb.org or
www.ilca.org
2008 International Stillbirth Conference
A joint conference of ISA and WHO hosted by the Norwegian Society of
Perinatal Medicine. Co-hosted by Norwegian SIDS and Stillbirth Society
and Perinatal Research Center, Rikshospitalet University Clinic
November 5-7, Oslo, Norway
Go to:
http://www.stillbirthalliance.org/conference/2008/ for more
information and to submit your abstracts electronically (open from
March 15)
Advance notice: 2009
International normal birth research conference in Grange over Sands
June 10-12th 2009.
For further information, contact:
Soo Downe
email: sdowne@UCLAN.AC.UK
The 9th World Congress of Perinatal Medicine in Berlin, Germany
October 24-28, 2009.
For further information: www.wcpm9.org
Other related courses, seminars and meetings
Australasian Cochrane Symposium
May 22 - 23, Hobart.
Each year the Australasian Cochrane Centre hosts a meeting for
Australasian contributors to the Cochrane Collaboration. This year, we
will be hosting a Symposium for Australasian review authors in Hobart.
For further information:
http://www.cochrane.org.au
Professional Grant Proposal Writing Workshop
(1) Fundamentals of Program Planning
This course is centred on the belief that "it's all about the
program."
This intensive course will teach professional program development
essentials and program evaluation.
(2) Professional Grant Writing
Designed for both the novice and experienced grant writer, this course
will make each student an overall proposal writing specialist. In
addition to teaching the basic components of a grant proposal,
successful approaches, and the do's and don'ts of grant writing, this
course is infused with expert principles that will lead to a mastery
of the process.
(3) Grant Research
At its foundation, this course will address the basics of foundation,
corporation, and government grant research. However, this course will
teach a strategic funding research approach that encourages students
to see research not as something they do before they write a proposal,
but as an integrated part of the grant seeking process. Students will
be exposed to online and database research tools, as well as
publications and directories that contain information about
foundation, corporation, and government grant opportunities.
Registration
$997.00 USD tuition includes all materials and certificates.
The Grant Institute
Grants 101: Professional Grant Proposal Writing Workshop will be held
at the University of Technology, Sydney June 23 - 25, 2008 8:00 AM -
5:00 PM Complete the online registration form at
www.thegrantinstitute.com
under Register Now. We'll send your confirmation by e-mail.
Systematic Reviews Courses
Continuing Professional Development Centre, University of Oxford
Dates: 28, 29 May, 2, 3, 4 June 2008
Courses will also be offered in October and in 2009
Fees: £1650 (in 2008)
The course is led by Mike Clarke who is Cancer Research UK Staff
Scientist at the Clinical Trial Service Unit at the University of
Oxford, Director of the UK Cochrane Centre in Oxford, and Adjunct
Professor at the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College,
Dublin.
This module is relevant both to people who will conduct systematic
reviews and to those who will use knowledge from the ever-increasing
number of systematic reviews being done by others.
For further information:
www.conted.ox.ac.uk/cpd or email:
cpdhealth@conted.ox.ac.uk
General Practice & Primary Health Care Research Conference
June 4-6, Hobart.
For further information:
www.phcris.org.au/conference/2008/?promoid=131
New Resource for Western Australian researchers
The University of Western Australia has a Research Hub – A Critical
Space for All Researchers and Research-Active Academics – to foster
ongoing staff development in research through the Organisational and
Development Service. See
http://www.osds.uwa.edu.au/research_hub/ for further
information.
Trials requiring more centres & more recruits
BOOST II: Benefits of Oxygen Saturation Targeting Study
If you would like more information on becoming involved in this trial:
visit perinatal trials page or email
boost2@ctc.usyd.edu.au
PROGRESS Trial: Progesterone after previous preterm birth for the
prevention of neonatal respiratory distress syndrome
If you would like more information on becoming involved in this trial:
visit perinatal trials page or email
progress@adelaide.edu.au
PPROMT Trial: Preterm Pre-Labour Rupture of Membranes Close to Term
Trial
If you would like
more information on becoming involved in this trial:
visit perinatal trials page or email
ppromt@med.usyd.edu.au
TWINS: Timing of Birth at Term – a randomised controlled trial (ACTOBAT)
If you would like
more information on becoming involved in this trial:
visit perinatal trials page or
http://www.health.adelaide.edu.au/og/research/mpctu.html or email
twins@adelaide.edu.au
Further Information
For more information on WOMBAT
initiatives, please contact the WOMBAT Collaboration national
co-ordinator:
p.middleton@WOMBATcollaboration.net
The WOMBAT Collaboration is funded through a NHMRC enabling grant.
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