Scholarships / Grants

ANZSGM SCHOLARSHIP FUND

Applications are currently open for the ANZSGM Scholarship

The Scholarship Fund is designed to encourage overseas experience for advanced trainees in geriatric medicine who are members of the ANZSGM and to promote and foster in Australia, future excellence in clinical geriatrics and research.

An amount of $10,000 is available to assist trainees with any purpose which facilitates travel, relocation or employment expenses in an overseas site.

Priority will be given to trainees moving to research positions.

Application forms are available from the Secretariat: 92565460, admin@anzsgm.org
OR you can download from the Website

Applications are now sought from suitable trainees.

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Nominations open for 2011 Victoria Prize and Fellowships

Minister for Innovation, Services and Small Business Louise Asher has urged leading and emerging innovators and researchers in science, engineering and technology to apply for the prestigious Victoria Prize and early-career Victoria Fellowships. The $50,000 Victoria Prize from the Victorian Coalition Government will recognise an individual whose discovery or innovation has significantly advanced knowledge or has the potential to produce commercial and/or community benefits. Six Victoria Fellowships worth $18,000 will also be awarded to early-career professionals to undertake specialist training overseas.
Applications close 3 August 2011. For more information visit www.business.vic.gov.au/vicprize or www.business.vic.gov.au/vicfellows
Media contact: Lauren Bradley 0409 658 977
Further Information

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CERA (Centre for Education and Research on Ageing)

A full-time PhD scholarship for Dementia Epidemiology Research Study is currently available from CERA (Centre for Education and Research on Ageing), attached to Concord Hospital and University of Sydney. For a suitablyy qualified Geriatrician or Advanced Trainee in Geriatric Medicine to work with the Concord Health and Ageing in Men Project (CHAMP).
The scholarships (approximately $30,000 p.a. untaxed.
This is a great opportunity for any of you thinking about doing a higher degree starting next year. The CHAMP study is an on going study. The men have been recruited.
We are now collecting 5 year data. With the help of someone doing specific assessment for dementia we think we can do some great analysis of the data to look at the risk factors for dementia.
We can also look at other outcomes such as hospital admission and risk factors for delirium. Apart from offering a scholarship for someone to do a Phd we would also be happy to pay for the course fees so that our Phd student can also
do subjects in the Syd Uni Masters of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostats course. The course provides great training for doing clinical research and while is additional work does make the prospect of doing a Phd less scary.
Feel free to contact me. See attached document
Regards

Vasi

Associate Professor Vasi Naganathan
MBBS,FRACP, MMed (Clin Epi),Phd, Grad Cert Med Ed
Centre for Education and Research on Ageing
Academic Sydney Medical School
University of Sydney
Consultant Geriatrician
Concord Hospital
Telephone: (61-2) 9767 7212
Fax: (61-2) 9767 5419
E-mail: vasi.naganathan@sydney.edu.au
www.cera.usyd.edu.au

Graham Felton scholarship
Blue Sands scholarship

The research projects would preferably be related to cognitive function/dementia and epidemiology, but we welcome inquiries from people with interests from basic biology, pharmacology, clinical research and epidemiology.

Please contact Professor David Le Couteur: David.lecouteur@sydney.edu.au or 0407250823

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ANZSGM-Lundbeck Fellowship - Will not be offered in 2010

The ANZSGM-Lundbeck fellow for 2009 is Associate Professor Renuka Visvanathan, Director of the Aged and Extended Care Service at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Adelaide.

The Fellowship, which is entirely non-promotional, is funded by Lundbeck and involves a week long course at the Lundbeck Institute in Skodsborg, Denmark on Dementia and Late Life depression, with a small number of other delegates from Australia and New Zealand and groups from four other countries. Following the Institute course, the Fellow is subsidised to attend a centre of excellence in Geriatric Medicine in Europe. Dr Visvanathan is planning to spend her second week visiting the Clinical Gerontology Unit at King’s College Hospital, London, hosted by Professor Stephen Jackson.

Dr Visvanathan, the sixth Fellow, from the Society to be selected, is congratulated on her selection and we look forward to seeing a report of her Fellowship in a subsequent edition of the Newsletter. The Fellowship is available to full members of the Society who are within ten years of receiving the FRACP.