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Dr Stephanie Yiallourou, Baker Heart & Diabetes Institute

We Are The Alliance: Dr Stephanie Yiallourou, The Baker Heart & Diabetes Institute

To mark Sleep Awareness Week 2019, we spoke to Dr Stephanie Yiallourou, a scientist at The Baker Heart & Diabetes Institute who is investigating the role of sleep in cardiovascular disease risk.   How did you become interested in sleep and its role in cardiovascular disease risk? “I completed my PhD investigating mechanisms of Sudden… Read More

Professor Tracey Bucknall, Deakin University

Deakin Nursing Researcher Inducted into International Hall of Fame

Professor Tracey Bucknall from the Deakin University School of Nursing and Midwifery has been inducted into the International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame at the Sigma 30th International Nursing Research Congress in Calgary, Canada. Decision scientist Prof Bucknall, who is also the foundational chair of clinical nursing and director of nursing research for Alfred Health,… Read More

Dr Joseph Doyle

Alliance Researchers in the Running for Club Melbourne Fellowship

Two researchers from the Alfred Research Alliance have been named as 2019 Club Melbourne Fellowship Finalists. Dr Joseph Doyle from Burnet Institute and Dr Quan Huynh from the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute were two of six finalists selected from across Victoria. The Club Melbourne Fellowship was created to support the next generation of Melbourne’s… Read More

NAIDOC Week 2019

Voice. Treaty. Truth. Let’s Work Together: NAIDOC Week 2019

This year’s NAIDOC Week was marked with a series of events across the precinct, celebrating the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. On Tuesday 9 July, Alfred Health and Alfred Research Alliance hosted a special NAIDOC 2019 presentation in the A+ Lecture Theatre. Boon Wurrung elder N’Arweet Carolyn Briggs AM… Read More