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HBPRCA
Email Newsletter
May
2007
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A very brief e-news
but an important one with information about World Hypertension Day on May 17,
Paul Korner’s Book Launch on May 16 as well as Cardiovascular and Lipid
Research Grants, closing May 25. Don’t forget the
ASM this year will be in Adelaide 5-7 December. This will be a joint
HBPRCA-ASCEPT-SEAWP meeting and thus a wide audience particularly in the
joint sessions are anticipated. Last minute reminder: Lindon
Wing’s Festschrift on the 24 – 25 May 2007 in
Adelaide. With best wishes, Associate Professor
Geoffrey A Head |
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WORLD
HYPERTENSION DAY: 17 MAY 2007 World Hypertension Day is rapidly approaching on May 17 and the High Blood
Pressure Research Council of Australia is taking a pro-active role in
publicising this important event. The publicity firm Professional Public
Relations in Sydney (PPR) has been made available to the Council to help with
publicity on the day, all of which will be under the Council's banner. PPR
are also planning publicity through television, radio and press around the
country. Major
happenings include 24-hour blood pressure measurements on notable folk
including the Federal Minister for Health Tony
Abbott, Sunrise host David Koch and
other media identities in the various states Invitation to Council
Members to Participate To help
on the day, it would be terrific if there were members of the Council who
were prepared to make themselves available on the day for the local
State-based media. Given the nature of the event, it is probably best that
our Council expert volunteers are medically qualified to handle the questions
about prevention and treatment, but that doesn’t mean that it wouldn’t be
great to have stories with research aspects also available for the media. It
would be even better if there were patients (for example a young person with
high BP who had recovered from a stroke and was now well-controlled) who
might be prepared to make themselves available to provide a human-interest
angle for the media. If you
would be happy to be listed as a media contact and/or you have a willing
patient or 2, could you let Athina at Meetings First know the details as soon
as possible? It should be a memorable WHD! From your President Stephen Harrap |
World Hypertension also coincides with our "Take the Pressure Down" initiative supported by an Educational Grant
from sanofi aventis that aims to ensure Australians are aware of their blood pressure |
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PAUL KORNER’S BOOK LAUNCH On behalf of the Board of Management & Staff, Professor
Garry Jennings AM, Director of the Baker Heart Research Institute and Professor
James Angus, Dean of Medicine, the University of Melbourne, have pleasure
inviting you to the launch of Essential
Hypertension and Its Causes: Neural and Non-Neural Mechanisms, by
Paul Korner.
On Wednesday 16th May 2007, 5pm – 7pm
Baker Heart Research Institute
Habersberger Family Suite
7th Floor, 75 Commercial Road, Melbourne RSVP 11th May 2007 Phone: 61 3 8532 1111 Email: reception@baker.edu.au In this remarkable book, Professor Korner has provided a
unique synthesis of the pathogenesis of essential hypertension, which will
provide an invaluable resource for hypertension researchers, cardiovascular
physicians and neuroscientists. The normal operations of the brain and
peripheral components of the circulatory control system have been described
in relation to the changes observed in hypertension. An integrative analysis,
in the context of genetic and environmental contributions to high blood
pressure leads to a new, clinically relevant, hypothesis of the causes and
mechanisms that are responsible for the rise in blood pressure. About the author: Paul Korner graduated in Science and Medicine at the
University of Sydney over 50 years ago. He was Foundation Professor of
Physiology at the University of NSW (1960-1968), Scandrett Professor of
Cardiology at the medical school of the University of Sydney (1968-1974) and
Director of the Baker Medical Research Institute and Professor of Medicine at
Monash University (1974 – 1990) and now holds emeritus positions in both the
latter institutions. He is an outstanding figure in hypertension research and
his eagerly awaited monograph will influence those working in the field
throughout the world. Copies of the book will be for available for
purchase on the night at the special price of $144.50 |
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REMINDER –
FESTSCHRIFT FOR LINDON WING 24 – 25 May 2007, Adelaide
To celebrate Lindon Wing’s lifetime of marvellous achievements
we are holding a scientific meeting and dinner on May 24-25 at the Art Gallery
in Adelaide. We would welcome any one who would like to celebrate with us.
Please contact Jill Richards – jillian.richards@flinders.edu.au, telephone (08) 8204
4039 for further information. |
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CARDIOVASCULAR AND LIPID RESEARCH GRANTS up to $50,000 available The
Pfizer Cardiovascular and Lipid Research Grants program is looking for
Australian medical graduates who have entered the field of research (or have
returned to research after an appropriate break) within the last 5 years. The grants are available for
clinical research across the fields of (but not necessarily confined to): ·
Cardiovascular
Disease ·
Stroke ·
Lipid
Disorders Applications close May 25, 2007. For more information or to obtain an application form
visit: www.cvlgrants.com.au
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THE AUSTRALIAN SOCIETY FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH News March 2007 Newsletter To view the ASMR March 2007 Newsletter, please click here. The ASMR Research Awards The
Australian Society for Medical Research invites applications for “The ASMR
Research Awards”. Each award ($5000 international or $2000 domestic) will
support a postgraduate student member of the Society nearing completion of
their studies or a recently graduated postdoctoral member to undertake a
short period of research in a laboratory outside their home city. The
award specifically excludes support for conference attendance and travel for an
extended period of postdoctoral studies. Applicants
for “The ASMR Research Awards” must have been members of the ASMR for at
least 12 months immediately preceding the year in which the Award application
is to be considered. Applicants must have no more than 3 years active
research post their highest degree (career interruptions will be considered).
The Award must be taken up during the first 6 months of the following year. The
recipients of the Award will be announced at the National Scientific Conference
of the Society. A condition of receipt of the Award is that the recipients
will be available to present their data at the National Scientific Conference
of the Society in the year of the Award. Further, the recipients will provide
an article about their research for inclusion in the November issue of the
newsletter of the Society in the year of the Award. Any publications
resulting from work supported by the Award should acknowledge the financial
contribution of “The ASMR Research Award”. APPLICATION DETAILS
The award will be judged on the following
criteria -
One International and one Domestic Award is
offered annually. ASMR reserves the right not to offer an Award in either category in any given year The original application and four copies should
be sent to: The Honorary Secretary, ASMR, 145 Macquarie Street, Sydney, NSW,
2000. Applications must be received by the closing date (5:00pm, Friday
September 28, 2007). Facsimiles will not be accepted. Please click here for
application form. |
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______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Athina Patti at Meetings First t 61 3
9739 7697 f 61 3 9739 7076 |
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CORPORATE
MEMBERS HBPRCA would like to acknowledge the ongoing support of
the following sponsors:
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MEETINGS IN
2007 |
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Society
for Endocrinology BES 2007 5 – 8
May 2007 Birmingham Click here for
meeting website |
XVIIth Scientific Sessions of the Inter-American
Society of Hypertension (IASH) 6 – 10 May 2007 Miami Beach, Florida, USA Click here for
meeting website |
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Lipids in Clinical Medicine Section: Obesity and
adipose tissue biology 10 May 2007 Click here for meeting website |
American
Society of Hypertension 19 – 23 May 2007
Chicago
Click here for
meeting website |
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Lindon Wing Festschrift 24 – 25 May 2007 Adelaide, Australia Click here for more information. |
Metabolic Syndrome: fatty livers and arteries Royal College of Physicians, London Click here for meeting website |
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Heart Failure 2007 9– 12 June 2007 Hamburg - Germany Click here for
meeting website |
17th European Meeting on Hypertension 15 – 19 June 2007 Milan Click here for meeting website |
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Europace 2007
24 – 27 June 2007 Lisbon – Portugal Click here for
meeting website |
H.E.A.R.T UK 21st Annual Medical & Scientific
Meeting 27 – 29 June 2007 Edinburgh Click here for
meeting website |
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Key Advances in the Management of Hypertension
(joint RSM/BHS Meeting) 4 July 2007 Click here for meeting website |
ESC Congress 2007 1 – 5 September 2007 Vienna – Austria Click here for
meeting website |
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Annual Scientific Meeting of the British
Hypertension Society Click here for meeting website |
61st High
Blood Pressure Research Conference 2007 26 – 29 September 2007 Tucson, AZ, USA Click here for
meeting website |
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2007 Cardiometabolic Health Congress 27 – 29 September 2007 Boston, MA, USA Click here for meeting website |
High Blood Pressure Research Council of Australia’s
Annual Scientific Meeting 5 – 7 December 2007 Adelaide, South Australia Click here for
meeting website |
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MEETINGS IN
2008 |
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Western Pharmacological Society Meeting 27 – 31 January 2008 Kona Coast, Hawaii Further information coming soon! |
2nd International Conference on Hypertension,
Lipids, Diabetes and Stroke Prevention 6 – 8 March 2008 Prague, Czech Republic Click here for meeting website |
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ISH 2008 – The 22nd Scientific Meeting of the
International Society of Hypertension 14 – 19 June 2008 Click here for meeting website |
Annual Scientific Meeting of the British
Hypertension Society Click here for meeting website |
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2nd International Symposium on Pheochromocytoma 17 – 20 September 2008 Click here for meeting website |
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