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OK, we got completely sucked in by this Facebook Ad from The University of Melbourne, but it is for a good cause! The 3dMedLab at Austin headlines this promotion. Make sure you check it out — and if you want to learn more about studying health sciences including medicine at Unimelb then click here!
https://www.facebook.com/unimelb/videos/963288887479810
It’s been a big month for 3dMedLab. Apart from presenting at multiple meetings recently, as well as organising our own — 3dMed 2019 Nov 15-16 at AAMI Park, in case you didn’t know — today was the official launch of the Australian Research Council Centre for Medical Implant Technologies, which we have conveniently abbreviated as ARC-CMIT.
This brings together 24 organisations across hospital clinicians, academics, and industry in order to develop an integrated framework for 3d printed prostheses, implants, and personalised surgical devices, including The University of Melbourne, Epworth Healthcare, Flinders University and Griffith University.
Austin Health 3dMedLab is proud to have been a key partner of this application from its inception and we will be delivering the key grass-roots clinical component of this centre, helping industry, academics, and engineers gain experience in and understand how this technology will function in a real-life, working hospital environment. Given the expertise that is in this research team, you would be hard pressed to find a problem we can’t solve if we put our collective minds to it!
Special thanks to Ali Moore for hosting this event and Katie Allen MP for visiting.
We are getting closer and closer to the Medical 3D Event of the Year!
3dMed 2019 will formally open on Friday 15 November at AAMI Park with our special guests Frank McGuire MP and Prof Guy Maddern.
Secure your tickets now — and if you have registered for our pre-conference workshops or tours then please check your email for details!
In the lead-up to our presentations at the RACS Annual Scientific Congress #RACS18 we were interviewed by Georgia Main and Hope Wilson from Seven News Melbourne about our work in pre-surgical 3D printing. Our papers identified how medical 3D printing improves patient and carer understanding of their disease, leads to better satisfaction and engagement in medical care, assist surgeons to train for and plan complex surgery, and improve outcomes by reducing operating time, and blood loss.
Great to see our team featured like this — special thanks to Jas, Judy, Shanan and Nathan as well as Julia, David and Julie for working behind the scenes.
It was only 7 minutes of fame, so Andy Warhol might have been a little disappointed. We managed a short TV interview on Sky News with Danica DeGiorgio after #3dMedAu17 finished.
Sadly, our recording isn’t very high quality, but if you have a HD copy then please let us know!
UPDATE: Interview now available on our Youtube Channel!
We hope you enjoy reading about the future of medicine and the potential impacts of 3D printing. Many thanks to Andrew Trounson from Pursuit at Unimelb for taking the time to interview us for this article. Make sure you come to the 3dMed Symposium to hear more!
Our researcher Jas and her review of 3d Printing in Medicine last week in the Medical Journal of Australia has been featured on the Austin Health Website and Facebook page. More of our publications are available here. Enjoy!
