UNSW Medicine Events

Professor David Nutt - Addiction: From brain mechanisms to new treatments

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Lecture Room 122, Building R1, 22 - 32 King St Randwick, NSW 2031

"This seminar will explore what I believe is the greatest challenge in addiction treatment today – keeping people who have become abstinent drug free when they experience pressures to resume drug-taking," Professor David Nutt. Addiction is a complex...

SoMS Seminar Series. NAD Deficiency, Congenital Malformations and vitamin B3 Supplementation

Level 6 Kirby Seminar Room, Wallace Wurth Building

School of Medical Sciences 2019 Seminar Series Professor Sally L Dunwoodie , Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute  Head, Embryology Laboratory, Developmental and Stem Cell Biology Division  Head, Chain Reaction Program in Congenital Heart Disease...

Associate Professor Renee Bittoun: A Protocol for a Tobacco Free Detox Unit

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Lecture Room 122, Building R1, 22 - 32 King St Randwick, NSW 2031

Though it has become mandatory for public health facilities to be smoke-free it has been difficult to implement this policy in detox, drug and alcohol, and mental health units. Particularly complex, in-patients in detox units have smoking patients...

FLUX Study team – Sex, drugs, and PrEP in Flux: How PrEP is changing the ways in which Australian gay and bisexual men approach sex and risk

Berg Family Foundation Seminar Room, Level 6, Wallace Wurth Building, Kensington Campus, UNSW Sydney

Kirby Institute Seminar Series presents Mo Hammoud Senior Research Manager, HIV Epidemiology and Prevention Program, Kirby Institute Mo Hammoud is a Senior Research Manager at the Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney where he currently runs the Flux...

Professor Richard Taylor: Confluence of suicide and drug overdose epidemics in young Australian males

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Lecture Room 122, Building R1, 22 - 32 King St Randwick, NSW 2031

Young adult males experience higher mortality than females, and in age groups immediately younger and older, and with considerable variation in death rates over time. Trends in mortality and the cause structure of deaths among young adult Australian...

MedEd Seminar: Collaborative curriculum design and delivery - how the Library can support you

Collaborative curriculum design and delivery - how the Library can support you Presenter: Emma McLean, Team Leader, Academic Engagement (Medicine), UNSW Library UNSW Library has developed an integrated collaborative model of support for curriculum...

Professor Shane Darke - Learning from the dead: how death provides insights into alcohol-related harm

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Lecture Room 122, Building R1, 22 - 32 King St Randwick, NSW 2031

The study of alcohol-related death provides crucial information as to how, and why, people die from alcohol. Such information is also of critical importance in measuring the burden of disease alcohol imposes upon the living. There are two...

Cell death signaling at the single molecule level

Level 6 Seminar Room, Wallace Wurth Building, UNSW

Single Molecule Science Seminar Speaker: Prof. Ana J. García-Sáez, Interfaculty Institute for Biochemistry (IFIB), Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany Abstract: Bax and Bak are key regulators of apoptosis and mediate the permeabilization of the...

Ms Erin Madden - Assessing Nasal Structure and Flow in Children with Autism: The Validity of Acoustic Rhinometry and Rhinomanometry

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Lecture Room 122, Building R1, 22 - 32 King St Randwick, NSW 2031

There is growing interest in intranasal therapies as a tolerable and acceptable delivery route for medications proposed to treat Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Nasal geometry and flow represent two factors that may moderate bioavailability and...

Professor Emmanuel Kuntsche - In the heat of the moment: Ecological momentary assessment of alcohol use

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Lecture Room 122, Building R1, 22 - 32 King St Randwick, NSW 2031

The majority of existing knowledge on patterns of alcohol consumption is based on retrospective-recall methodologies. These are cost-efficient and convenient but are limited in their capacity to record data on the circumstances of alcohol...

GP Mental Health Forum

Tyree Room - John Niland Scientia Building

The University of New South Wales (UNSW), School of Psychiatry, in partnership with Central and Eastern Sydney Primary Health Network (CESPHN), proudly presents the first GP Mental Health Forum. The Forum aims to enhance awareness of mental health...

Molecular Control of Cholinergic Interneuron Activity

Wallace Wurth LG02

Neuroscience & Non-Communicable Diseases Seminar Series Speaker: Dr Nathalie Dehorter, Eccles Institute for Neuroscience, The John Curtin School of Medical Research, ANU Dr Nathalie Dehorter obtained a PhD in Neuroscience in 2010 in France and...