Prof McLean honoured with prestigious award
It is with great pride that we share pathologist Prof Catriona McLean AO has been awarded the prestigious Bethlehem Griffiths Research Foundation medal for her remarkable contribution to neuropathology.
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It is with great pride that we share pathologist Prof Catriona McLean AO has been awarded the prestigious Bethlehem Griffiths Research Foundation medal for her remarkable contribution to neuropathology.
When Natalie started experiencing involuntary jerks in 2020, she had no idea the journey she had begun. Following a tonic-clonic seizure and a misdiagnosis of epilepsy, Natalie eventually discovered she had functional neurological disorder (FND). Daily, she was experiencing clusters of jerks – about 50 at a time – and as a busy professional, Natalie felt her body was out of her control.
Earlier this year, Steven Fletcher-Jones underwent a lung transplant at The Alfred, thanks to the generosity of an anonymous organ donor. It's Donate Life Week, and we're urging everyone to register to become an organ donor so that you too could have the chance to save a life.
Hundreds of disposable insulin pens will be kept out of landfill thanks to a campaign headed by endocrinologist Dr Shoshana Sztal-Mazer.
Doctors are issuing a warning to people using hot water bottles after seeing a significant increase in patients suffering severe burns admitted to the Victorian Adult Burns Service at The Alfred.
The Alfred is the home for clinical trials and translational health practice. Of all clinical trials happening in Australia, one in five occur on site at The Alfred. The Alfred does two thirds of all first-in-human clinical trials conducted in Australia. That's why, this World Clinical Trials Day, we are celebrating the researchers, partners and collaborators who choose to conduct their trials with Alfred Health.
Hear from some of our incredible nurses about why that do what they do, as we celebrate International Nurses Day 2023.
The stroke team at The Alfred is delighted to be the first in Victoria to receive Australian Stroke Coalition Stroke Unit Certification.
When 43-year-old Melbourne dad Mark Wohlers suffered a cardiac arrest last year, it was the swift emergency response and an Australian-first clinical trial that gave him a second chance at life.
Each year, thousands of Australian women undergo invasive and life-altering hysterectomies to treat debilitating pain and blood loss caused by uterine fibroids. But there’s another option: a very safe, pin-hole procedure that cures the symptoms, yet leaves the uterus intact.