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Monash Alumni eNews: Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences edition
November 2008

In this issue


News
Monash forum to explore doctors and state control
Stressed managers err during global financial crisis
Campaign Committee member receives honorary degree
Alumnus creates new megafauna stamp series
Demand for Monash University courses continues to grow

Events
Exhibition: Monash Art & Design Degree Show
Dinners in Africa: celebrating Monash's 50th anniversary
Exhibition opening: Brook Andrew - Eye to Eye

Lifelong learning
Dean's Lecture: global challenges in child survival
Vivian Bullwinkel Lecture: the ABC of nursing
Conference for GPs: midlife women
Forum: doctors and state control, from Nazi medicine to the present
Symposium: clinical nursing and midwifery research
Seminar in Hong Kong: climate change
Seminar: cartels and criminal penalties

50th anniversary events
Public lecture: the cost of an emissions trading scheme


News

 

Monash forum to explore doctors and state control
The boundary between doing no harm and participating in state-sponsored crime is the theme of an upcoming forum at the Jewish Holocaust Centre on Sunday 23 November.

     
 

Stressed managers err during global financial crisis
A Monash psychology expert says Australian businesses are under threat from the poor psychological state of their own stressed managers during the world financial crisis.

     
 

Campaign Committee member receives honorary degree
Monash University recently conferred Sam Lipski AM, a Monash University Campaign Committee member, with an honorary Doctor of Laws degree.


More alumni news


Events

 

Exhibition: Monash Art & Design Degree Show
The work of final year Monash Art & Design students will be on display at the Caulfield campus from 15 to 28 November. Artwork will include ceramics, painting and interior architecture.

     
 

Dinners in Africa: celebrating Monash's 50th anniversary
Alumni are invited to celebrate Monash's 50th anniversary in Gaborone, Botswana, on 11 November and in Johannesburg, South Africa, on 20 November.

     
 

Exhibition opening: Brook Andrew - Eye to Eye
Opening on Friday 7 November at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in Singapore, this exhibition interrogates the politics of difference and the implications of 'the gaze'.


More alumni events


Lifelong learning

 

Dean's Lecture: global challenges in child survival
Dr Peter Salama, chief of health for UNICEF, will speak about global trends in maternal and child mortality at The Alfred Hospital on Thursday 27 November.

     
 

Vivian Bullwinkel Lecture: the ABC of nursing
Professor Simon Stewart, Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, will speak about 'rediscovering the ABC of nursing' at the Nurses Memorial Centre on Tuesday 18 November.

     
 

Conference for GPs: midlife women
'Midlife women: bodies, bones and sex' will provide GPs with up-to-date, accurate and unbiased information to help them and their patients make informed health decisions. Saturday 22 November at Monash Caulfield campus.


More lifelong learning opportunities


50th anniversary events

 

Public lecture: the cost of an emissions trading scheme
Professor Philip Adams, director of Monash's Centre of Policy Studies, will explore the costs and benefits of an emissions trading scheme in Australia. Thursday 27 November at Federation Square.

 

 

Alumni profile

Working smart
Rusli Nordin (MBBS 1980) is one of just a few experts in Malaysia teaching, researching and promoting health in the workplace.

Professor Nordin has spent years conducting research into workplace-related illness and studying the effects of job stress upon nurses, doctors, lecturers, policemen and corporate executives.

Read more alumni profiles on the 'Classnotes' pages of the alumni website.


The Chancellor's column

What is green chemistry?
The University's leading-edge Centre for Green Chemistry and its activities aimed at reducing waste are the topic of the November column by Chancellor Dr Alan Finkel AM (BE 1976, PhD 1981).

Read the Chancellor's column

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