Major Achievement by Associate Professor Johanna Westbrook: Election to the American College of Medical Informatics as an International Fellow

2005 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 67-67
Keyword(s):  
Medical Informatics ◽  
Health Informatics ◽  
Medical Research Council ◽  
New South ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
South Wales ◽  
One Year ◽  
The University

Congratulations to Associate Professor Johanna Westbrook PhD, MHA, GradDipAppEpi, BAppSc (Medical Record Administration), who has been elected to the American College of Medical Informatics as an International Fellow. The Fellowship is the highest recognition possible in the health informatics discipline. Based upon peer election from current College Fellows, no more than two Fellowships are offered in any one year, and there are currently only two other Australian Fellows. This is a wonderful honour as it marks the highest peer recognition possible from the international community, reflecting Johanna's outstanding research work. Johanna is currently Deputy Director of the Centre for Health Informatics at the University of New South Wales and is an honorary Associate Professor at the School of Health Information Management at the University of Sydney. Johanna has published over 80 refereed journal articles and has received numerous research grants, the most recent of which is a National Health and Medical Research Council Project Grant of $583 000 for a study investigating the safety and effectiveness of hospital e-prescribing systems.

scholarly journals Editorial

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura D'Olimpio ◽  
Andrew Peterson
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Strong Argument ◽  
Convincing Argument ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
South Wales ◽  
International Authority ◽  
The University ◽  
Sydney Australia

This year the Journal of Philosophy in Schools kicked off with a special issue, volume 5 number 1, comprising seven invited articles that addressed the foundational question of why philosophy should be taught in schools. Deftly guest edited by Michael Hand from the University of Birmingham, the papers make a cumulative and convincing argument for why philosophy should be taught across the pre-tertiary educational curriculum. The issue makes a strong argument that may be used to defend and propagate the philosophy in schools movement. We hope it will be used pragmatically, politically, and persuasively by our readers to raise awareness and further the cause of teaching philosophy to young people and extending philosophy beyond the Academy.This issue honours one person who has dedicated his career to furthering this cause. Philip Cam is an international authority on philosophy in schools who has been a pioneer in introducing philosophy and ethics into schools in Australia. Phil completed his MA in Philosophy at the University of Adelaide and his DPhil at the University of Oxford. He is Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Humanities and Languages at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, where he has been for over 30 years. In the various positions Phil has held at UNSW, in the Philosophy in Schools Association for NSW, and for the Federation of Australasian Philosophy in Schools Associations (FAPSA), he has worked hard, inspired and taught many, and contributed much to the shape of philosophy in schools across Australasia. This year, a little bird informed the JPS that Phil was retiring and turning 70, even while he continues to be productive, publishing, presenting and assisting with philosophy in schools projects and events. The opportunity thus presented itself to publish a collection of papers critically engaged with Cam’s work. Two further articles are included in this issue.  

William Noel Benson (1885-1957): Insights into the Life and Work of an Eminent Geologist

2013 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wolf Mayer
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
New South ◽  
Tectonic Setting ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Volcanic Rocks ◽  
Ultramafic Rocks ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Serpentine Belt ◽  
The University ◽  
Classical Mode

William Noel Benson was one of the most renowned geologists in Australia and New Zealand during the first half of the twentieth century. He studied geology at the Universities of Sydney and Cambridge and occupied the Chair of Geology at the University of Otago with great distinction for thirty-three years. His research work extended across the greater part of the geological spectrum and gained him world-wide recognition and a reputation as a scholar in the classical mode. His name is today most closely associated with his pioneering work on the composition, origin and tectonic setting of the mafic and ultramafic rocks of the Great Serpentine Belt of New South Wales, and with his unfinished study of the Tertiary volcanic rocks of the Dunedin district, in New Zealand. He also made important contributions in such diverse fields as palaeontology, geomorphology, engineering geology and medical geology. Benson was a highly respected teacher and a compassionate man with deep religious convictions.

scholarly journals Introduction—Atomic and Electron Fluids

1996 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Mukunda P Das ◽  
David Neilson
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
The United States ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
Theoretical Physics ◽  
Physical Sciences ◽  
South Wales ◽  
National University ◽  
The University

This volume contains the lectures given at the fourth international Gordon Godfrey workshop held at the University of New South Wales in Sydney from 26 to 28 September 1994. This time our lecturers came from Germany, Italy, Japan, the United States and Vietnam, as well as of course from Australia. There was a total of seventeen lectures. The workshops are jointly organised by the School of Physics at the University of New South Wales and the Department of Theoretical Physics, Research School of Physical Sciences at the Australian National University and are held annually at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. Each workshop concentrates on a different and novel research area of current interest in condensed matter physics. The late Gordon Godfrey was an Associate Professor of Physics at the University of New South Wales who bequeathed his estate for the promotion and the teaching of theoretical physics within the university.

‘Wistful Remembrancer’: the Historiographical Problem of Macqueen-Popery

2001 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 299-309 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jim Davis ◽  
Victor Emeljanow
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
First World War ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
World War ◽  
Melting Pot ◽  
South Wales ◽  
The First World War ◽  
The University ◽  
First World

The theatre shelves of secondhand bookshops testify to the sometime popularity and prolific output of the theatre publicist and would-be historian Walter Macqueen-Pope. Yet even by the time Macqueen-Pope was publishing his later volumes in the 1950s, the rise of academic theatre scholarship was questioning such anecdotally based and unverified accounts of the theatre and its past. Today, we can look at Macqueen-Pope, and at the period immediately before the First World War which was so often the focus of his attention, not so much for evidence of flawed scholarship as for his revealing attitude towards his subject and its social context. For anecdotage and nostalgia have inevitably to be taken into account in any historical approach to so ephemeral an art as the theatre, and, as the authors here conclude, while Macqueen-Pope may not tell us the whole truth about his many subjects, such a ‘wistful remembrancer’ remains significant to any investigation of a theatrical past ‘that must always be a melting pot of imperfect recognitions and unattainable desires’. Jim Davis is Associate Professor of Theatre and Head of the School of Theatre, Film and Dance at the University of New South Wales. victor Emelijanow is Professor of Drama and Head of the Department of Drama at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales. Both have written extensively on nineteenth-century British theatre and are the joint authors of Reflecting the Audience: London Theatregoing 1840–1880, which has just been published by the University of lowa Press.

scholarly journals Foreword

1993 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 327
Author(s):  
David Neilson ◽  
Mukunda P Das
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
Condensed Matter ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
Theoretical Physics ◽  
South Wales ◽  
National University ◽  
The University ◽  
Topical Interest

This volume contains lectures given at the second of the series of international Gordon Godfrey workshops. These workshops have been held annually since 1991 at the University of New South Wales, each covering a novel research area in condensed matter physics that is of topical interest. They are jointly organised by the School of Physics at the University of New South Wales and the Department of Theoretical Physics at the Australian National University. The late Gordon Godfrey was an Associate Professor of Physics at the University of New South Wales. He bequeathed his estate for the promotion and teaching of theoretical physics within the university.

Health and Medical Informatics Education

1994 ◽  
Vol 33 (03) ◽  
pp. 246-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Haux ◽  
F. J. Leven ◽  
J. R. Moehr ◽  
D. J. Protti
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Medical Informatics ◽  
Health Informatics ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Management Program ◽  
Science Program ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Academic Degree ◽  
The University

Abstract:Health and medical informatics education has meanwhile gained considerable importance for medicine and for health care. Specialized programs in health/medical informatics have therefore been established within the last decades.This special issue of Methods of Information in Medicine contains papers on health and medical informatics education. It is mainly based on selected papers from the 5th Working Conference on Health/Medical Informatics Education of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA), which was held in September 1992 at the University of Heidelberg/Technical School Heilbronn, Germany, as part of the 20 years’ celebration of medical informatics education at Heidelberg/Heilbronn. Some papers were presented on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the health information science program of the School of Health Information Science at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Within this issue, programs in health/medical informatics are presented and analyzed: the medical informatics program at the University of Utah, the medical informatics program of the University of Heidelberg/School of Technology Heilbronn, the health information science program at the University of Victoria, the health informatics program at the University of Minnesota, the health informatics management program at the University of Manchester, and the health information management program at the University of Alabama. They all have in common that they are dedicated curricula in health/medical informatics which are university-based, leading to an academic degree in this field. In addition, views and recommendations for health/medical informatics education are presented. Finally, the question is discussed, whether health and medical informatics can be regarded as a separate discipline with the necessity for specialized curricula in this field.In accordance with the aims of IMIA, the intention of this special issue is to promote the further development of health and medical informatics education in order to contribute to high quality health care and medical research.

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