News In Brief
Making international impact on child abuse and neglect
Professor Dorothy Scott of the Australian Centre for Child Protection was recently invited to write a commentary for the internationally renowned Lancet medical journal's current child maltreatment series.Professor Scott's contribution entitled The landscape of child maltreatment discusses the factors contributing to child abuse and neglect and emphasises the need for a public health approach in finding solutions to this complex issue in the 21st century.
The Lancet's child maltreatment series is aimed at clinicians and other professionals responsible for caring for children, giving an up -to-date summary of scientific evidence and conceptual work.
Leader in patient safety awarded
UniSA Professor William (Bill) Runciman has won this year's Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association (AHHA) Sidney Sax medal. Prof Runciman joined UniSA in March this year as Professor of Patient Safety and Healthcare Human Factors and has been at the vanguard of patient safety research for many years.The peak national body representing public hospitals, area health services, community health centres and public aged care providers, the AHHA awards the annual Sidney Sax Medal to an individual who has made an outstanding contribution in the field of health services policy, organisation, delivery and research.
Announcing the award AHHA Executive Director, Prue Power said Professor Runciman has provided outstanding leadership and made fundamental contributions to patient safety and quality research both in Australia and internationally.
"Patients around the world are safer today when they receive health care because of his efforts," Power said.
A graduate in medicine specialising in anaesthesia and intensive care, Prof Ruciman was Foundation Professor of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care at the University of Adelaide and Head of Department at the Royal Adelaide Hospital from 1988 to 2007
In 1988 he founded the Australian Patient Safety Foundation (APSF), the first national body of its kind anywhere in the world. Together with APSF colleagues, he conceptualised and implemented the AIMS Incident and Risk Management Program - in the form of a nationwide paper-based anaesthesia incident monitoring project. Today, the AIMS incident management software is in use at more than 1000 facilities in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and the United States.
His impressive record of research focused on risk management, patient safety, quality assurance, cost-benefit analysis and resource allocation has delivered more than 200 scientific papers and chapters, and a textbook.
UniSA awarded for tourism education
UniSA's School of Management won the Tourism Education and Training Award at the South Australian Tourism Awards on Saturday November 22.The award recognised innovative management degrees offered in tourism, events, hospitality, and sport and recreation at UniSA.
Associate Professor Stephen Boyle, lecturer in arts management, said the award demonstrated to the industry that UniSA is an innovator in the field, and a leading national provider of tourism and hospitality management education since 1993.
The School of Management will now go on to the national Qantas Australian Tourism Awards to be held in February.