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Dr Ketaki Sharma is a staff specialist at the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance (NCIRS), whose role involves anything and everything relating to vaccines. She helps summarise the latest evidence on COVID-19 vaccines for the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI) and occasionally for other countries in the region. "I...
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Kiya Shipley is an Aboriginal Population Health Trainee (APHTI), which involves working in various areas and undertaking a range of work placements. She is currently working with the team at the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance (NCIRS) in the Surveillance Coverage Evaluation and Social Science (SuCESS) team. "I am passionate about my people, community and...
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Dr Paula Bray is the Acting Director of Research for the Sydney Children's Hospitals Network (SCHN). As a member of the executive team, she works to lead, monitor and evaluate research ensuring careful alignment with SCHN strategic and operational plans and is responsible for leading research strategy, research governance, policy and operations. With a drive for solving complex problems, resea...
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Dr Michelle Lorentzos is a paediatric neurologist, meaning she looks after children who have conditions affecting their brain, nerves or muscles. She has a particular interest in finding treatments for Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a progressive and life-limiting neuromuscular disease affecting boys in childhood.   She also works in the very exciting...
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International Women's Day
Today on this International Women's Day we are recognising the incredible achievements of women in all of their diversities. This day of celebration is also a day of action, where we can raise awareness about the inequalities faced by women and girls and acknowledge what needs to be done. This year we are being challenged to break the bias and imagine a gender equal world. We've spok...
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International Women's Day
Sarah Alshammery is a PhD student at the Westmead Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney. She is based at the Kids Neuroscience Centre, Kids Research at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead. Her role involves investigating the immune response and epigenetics in children with neurodevelopmental and neuropsychiatric disorders and she does this through de...
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International Women's Day
Wendy Gold is an Associate Professor at the University of Sydney in the School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health and a Neurobiologist based in the Kids Neuroscience Centre, Kids Research at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead. She teaches third year Medical Science students on the subject of translating medical discoveries into the clinic and leads a research team who...
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CMT Guidelines
The first ever clinical practice guidelines for children with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT) have been published after a decade of work by an international team. CMT is a group of degenerative genetic disorders affecting the peripheral nervous system, the nerves stretching from the spinal cord to the muscles. It’s a lifelong condition which usually starts in childhood and progresses into ad...
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Rare Disease Day
The benefits of a new precision medicine initiative, being piloted at Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network (SCHN), are already being seen in children and families with rare genetic diseases. The program, Gene2Care, aims to improve the standard of care, including enhanced diagnoses and access to management and treatment. The family-centred program, funded by Luminesce Alliance, combines the effo...
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Genetic Testing
A new test for genetic diseases is successfully providing the sought-after answers for families of sick children. RNA diagnostic testing has already achieved a diagnosis for more than 70 families, with hopes it can be implemented in everyday clinical practice. Current methods using DNA sequencing are only able to diagnose half of the children and families with suspected genetic disorders. Prof...
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