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Professor Terry Dwyer
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Terry Dwyer with Pres Greg Handley
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Terry Dwyer with Exchange Students
Anja Rosenfelder and Patricia Zafutta |
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DG Alan Anderson with
Pres Greg Handley
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DGE David Anderson
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Presentation by Terry Dwyer AO, PHF
For what has become a permanent fixture in the District calendar, at least at the southern end, Strathmore's 14th Annual Combined Meeting, on Wednesday 12th January, hosted 100 attendees, yet again this year. Professor Terry Dwyer AO, PHF was an inspirational guest speaker and gave us some insight in to the working of the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute.
Fourteen Clubs were represented from two Districts. These included, Brimbank Central, Craigieburn, East Keilor, Eltham, Essendon, Keilor, Moonee Valley, North Essendon, Pascoe Vale, Preston, Riddells Creek, Strathmore, Sunbury and Yea.
Strathmore sits right on the District boundary with 9800.The Rotary Club of Yea, a regular over many years, was the most distant Club attending.
Professionally, Professor Terry Dwyer was a member of the National Health & Medical Research Council’s Research Advisory Committee, the National Chair of the Gulf War Veterans Study Scientific Advisory Committee, the Chair of the World Health Organisations Western Pacific Region Advisory Committee on Health Research and a member of the World Health Organisations Global Advisory Committee on Health Research.
In 1994 Terry Dwyer was a fellow of Green College Oxford. In 2000 he received a Global Health Leadership Fellowship from the World Health Organization, and in 2003 was the Australian Society for Medical Research medallist.
Professor Dwyer explained that major hospitals worldwide contribute significantly to medical research and the association of a private research institute like the Murdoch with the government funded Royal Children's Hospital has significant benefits to both parties and is a model reflected at other major research institutes around the world.
Terry Dwyer also explained some of the ground breaking research the institute was working on and filled us in on the significant impact research had made on the incidence of various illnesses and conditions but also that as incidence of some conditions were reducing, such as polio and others were becoming more prevalent, such has allergies. One hot news item is that a new cheap rotavirus vaccine is almost ready to be released in developing countries.
Professor Dwyer was one of the very first recipients of a Australian Rotary Health Research Fund grant back in the late 1980's which culminated in the groundbreaking work that found the major cause of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). To this day he is still a strong supporter and advocate of Rotary.
The night was given a special focus with PDG and 2012-13 National Director of Australian Rotary Health (ARH), Terry Grant gave a short presentation to promote the upcoming Australian Rotary Health mental health awareness day, "Hat Day" on May 20th. Many Rotarians brought along hats and entered in to the spirit of the night. Some of the photos taken on the night will be used for publicity purposes in Rotary Health publications.
The surprise of the night came with a short presentation from DGE David Anderson, when he lauded Strathmore's great ongoing service, promptly inviting the Club to partner Yea, as a Host Club, for the 2012 District Conference in Moonee Valley, specifically in arranging the Sportsman's Night Dinner and the Sunday Lunch.
Prepared by:
Pres. Greg Handley, Peter Dunn PP, PHF, David Meller PP, PHF
Rotary Club of Strathmore
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