Stars Events 2011

Each year the Women and Infants Research Foundation proudly hosts the Stars Events. These events are WIRF’s opportunity to showcase the most recent research findings in the fields of reproduction, women’s health and newborn medicine.  

Held over two consecutive evenings, the Stars Events bring together our finest medical experts and our top emerging medical researchers. They present on various topics relating to women’s and infants’ health to an audience consisting of researchers, and medical and health professionals from hospitals and clinics throughout WA.  

The Stars Event theme for 2011 focussed on Gynaecological Oncology and recent advances in prevention and cure. Our experts – Visiting Professor Andreas Obermair, Professor Yee Leung and Clinical Professor Ian Hammond presented and discussed controversies in surgical and post-surgical management of endometrial cancer, and the use of imaging techniques to diagnose and investigate cancers. Our keynote presentation focussed on what we’ll be doing in 2015 and the use of surgery or less invasive options to treat endometrial cancers. 

Stars Presentations:
What we do not know - Professor Yee Leung
I can see clearly now ....or can I? - Clinical Professor Ian Hammond
What will we be doing in 2015 - Professor Andreas Obermair

Our second event was the Rising Stars Symposium showcasing WA’s top emerging medical researchers in women’s and infants’ health and revealing their latest discoveries in short, sharp research reviews. Topics and researchers are listed below: 

‘Inflammation of the Fetal Skin’  
Dr Matt Kemp, Research Assistant Professor, School of Women’s and Infants’ Health, UWA, Manager WIRF/Lotterywest Perinatal Research Laboratories 

‘The effect of body temperature on susceptibility of the preterm newborn to ventilator induced lung injury’
Dr Peter Noble, Research Assistant Professor, School of Women’s and Infants’ Health, UWA

‘The Fit Mum Study: Investigating the benefits of supervised home-based exercise for glucose tolerance during pregnancy’
Dr Kym Guelfi, Assistant Professor, School of Sport Science, Exercise and Health, UWA

‘Pre-term birth in Chinese women – in China, Hong Kong and Western Australia’
Shaofu Li, Research Associate, Laboratory Manager, School of Women’s and Infants’ Health, UWA

‘Nebulised surfactant in moderately preterm infants with mild respiratory distress’
Dr Stefan Minocchieri, Neonatal Registrar, King Edward Memorial Hospital

‘Breastmilk stem cells: Fishing gems’ 
Dr Foteini Hassiotou, PhD Student, School of Biomedical, Biomolecular and Chemical Sciences, UWA  

‘Western Australian Pregnancy Cohort: fetal programming and stress hormones in adolescence’
Dr Helen Atkinson, Research Assistant Professor, School of Women’s and Infants’ Health, UWA

WIRF would like to thank our event sponsors:

• King Edward Memorial Hospital, Postgraduate Medical Education
• Olympus
• Cancer Council WA 
•  Western Australian Clinical Oncology Group (WACOG)

Stars Event Brochure 2011 - Gynaecological Cancer