Podcasts

The need for speed in treatment of stroke - Associate Professor Helen Dewey

Helen Dewey is head of the Stroke Unit at Austin Health and Associate Professor of Neurology at The University of Melbourne.

In this podcast, Ms Dewey discusses the importance in detecting and treating stroke quickly to improve recovery and survival. She speaks about the physiological nature of stroke, the significant risk factors that can cause stroke, and the variety of methods in current treatment. 

Reducing the risk factors for perinatal depression - Professor Anne Buist

Hear Anne Buist, Professor Director of Women's Mental Health, speak about her research into the risk factors and latest treatments for perinatal mental health problems, and the work she is doing using mother-infant interaction to improve long-term mental health outcomes for the baby.

Advancing treatments for heart disease - Associate Professor Omar Farouque

Austin Health's Department of Cardiology has a strong research focus, looking at finding better ways of predicting people's risk of heart attack.

Here, head of the department, and Associate Professor at the University of Melbourne, Omar Farouque, speaks about his department's research as well as advances in cardiology that are just around the corner.

The latest work and research of the Victorian Liver Transplant Unit - Professor Peter Angus

The Victorian Liver Transplant Unit at Austin Health provides liver transplant services to all of Victoria, Tasmania and parts of Southern New South Wales. Its researchers also engage in innovative work to both increase the transplant services available to its community and improve survival outcomes and quality of life for transplant recipients.

In this podcast, hear Professor Peter Angus, medical director of the Victorian Liver Transplant Unit, and director of gastroenterology and hepatology at Austin Health and Professor of Medicine at the University of Melbourne, discuss liver disease and the unit's important research work.

Developing a new understanding of eating disorders - Associate Professor Richard Newton

Associate Professor Richard Newton is Austin Health's medical director of Mental Health and a lecturer at the University of Melbourne.

In this podcast, he explains current approaches to the treatment of eating disorders and discusses plans to start an international research group that will look at finding better techniques for treating these disorders, within the community.

Preventing the decline of our ageing population – Professor Chris Rowe

Professor Chris Rowe’s Centre for Positron Emission Tomography leads the world in research into early diagnosis of dementia.

Here, the director of the Department of Nuclear Medicine and Centre for PET and Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne tells of his groundbreaking new methods for identifying people likely to develop symptoms of dementia, and the potential for this research to lead to therapies that could slow or prevent its development.

All in the mind: unlocking the mystery of epilepsy - Laureate Professor Samuel Berkovic AM

Australia leads the world in research into the genetics of epilepsy, and Austin Health's Professor Samuel Berkovic is at the forefront.

Professor Sam Berkovic is the Director of both the Comprehensive Epilepsy Program at Austin Health and the Epilepsy Research Centre of the University of Melbourne.

He led the team that discovered the first gene for epilepsy and that has gone on to discover several more, proving that many types of epilepsy are genetic.

Hear Professor Berkovic speak to podcast moderator Professor Jeffrey Zajac about his achievements in understanding epilepsy and why it runs in families - and how that knowledge could lead to better treatments in the future.

The hope for an end to cancer begins with research - Professor Jonathan Cebon

Professor Jonathan Cebon is Director of the joint Austin Ludwig Oncology Unit at Austin Health, heads the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research's Cancer Vaccine Group in Australia and holds the title of professor from the University of Melbourne.

Author of 128 papers, Professor Cebon discusses his internationally-recognised melanoma vaccine research and speculates on where cancer research is heading.  

Osteoporosis: a life's work to slow the breakdown of bones - Professor Ego Seeman

Clinical invesigator, endocrinologist and raconteur, Professor Ego Seeman is internationally renowned as a man of science. He is Professor of Medicine and the University of Melbourne as well as deputy director of Austin Health's Endocrine Centre for Excellence.

He became a researcher for a simple reason: It's fun. He says that there is beauty in exploration. "I love the scientific method. It is creative and incredibly exciting."

This podcast explores the science of osteoporosis in an entertaining and enlightening way.

A growing concern: treatment of obesity at Austin Health - Professor Joseph Proietto

Endocrinologist, Professor Joseph Proietto, is Professor of Medicine at The University of Melbourne and Chair of the Edward Dunlop Medical Research Foundation. Professor Proietto heads the Weight Control Clinic at Austin Health.

Author of over 100 articles, Professor Proietto's research seeks to unlock the secrets of the genetic and biochemical causes of obesity and type 2 diabetes. His conclusions suggest that obese people are often wrongly blamed for their weight gain and describes the process of our bodies "defending" their weight.

This is a fascinating insight into a contemporary issue of great concern.

Desire to help drives doctor-detective - Professor Lindsay Grayson

Professor Lindsay Grayson is director of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology at Austin Health; Professor of Medicine, The University of Melbourne and Honorary Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University.

In this podcast, Professor Grayson discusses some of the hospital-acquired infections that his department seek to reduce and their implications for the health of patients. Professor Grayson is recognised for his outspoken and uncompromising approach to patient care through effective infection control.