Centre of Research Excellence in Ear and Hearing Health

02/03/2022

Happy 1st Birthday to the 2020 Otitis Media Guidelines and the OMapp! 🥳🎂 Both officially launched 1 year ago today.
Go to http://otitismediaguidelines.com to access the app and request a hard copy of the Guidelines

28/02/2022

Register here https://bit.ly/3h1uHTf for Stephen O'Leary's FREE webinar about the OM Guidelines app marking World Hearing Day this Thursday 3 March 2022.

16/03/2021

Registration deadline for our free training workshop has been extended to 31 March. Please share this great opportunity to come to Darwin and learn from the fantastic Kelvin Kong. For more information email cre_ichear@menzies.edu.au or check out the website https://earandhearinghealth.org.au/opportunities/training-and-implementation-2020-otitis-media-guidelines-and-omapp-workshop

03/03/2021

CRE-ICHEAR is proud to be part of the WHO World Hearing Forum and to have contributed to this fantastic video in celebration of

Celebrate World Hearing Day and Hearing Care for All.http://www.mq.edu.au/

25/02/2021

The countdown is on to WHO World Hearing Day - 3 March 2021. How will you be marking the occasion? We will be officially launching the 2020 Otitis Media Guidelines and app! https://otitismediaguidelines.com/ #/start-main

16/02/2021

Look what arrived at Menzies today! Pictured is just a few of the many boxes of hot off the press "2020 Otitis Media Guidelines for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children". We can't wait to get these out into the communities!

15/02/2021

One of many events happening for WHO World Hearing Day on Wednesday 3rd Mar 2021 (7-8pm AEDT)
Academy of Child and Adolescent Health Webinar with A/Prof Kelvin Kong “Special WHO Hearing Day presentation: Aboriginal ear health” chaired by Hasantha Gunasekera
https://events.humanitix.com/a-professor-kelvin-kong

Kelvin is an amazing Australian and part of Australian medical history as the first Aboriginal surgeon, other than the tens of thousands of years of Ngangkari healers. He is one of Australia's leading ear health experts as part of the Centre of Research Excellence in Indigenous Children's Healthy Ea...

15/02/2021

Virtual meeting - 21st International Symposium on Recent Advances in Otitis Media 11-12 June 2021.
FREE REGISTRATION!
Please forward to your networks – and join in!
Abstract submission deadline: 28th March 2021
Registration & abstract submission: http://bsms.ac.uk/OM21

28/01/2021

CRE-ICHEAR are thrilled to be celebrating Director Prof Amanda Leach AM being made Member in the Order of Australia for significant service to ear disease research, and to Indigenous child health.
https://www.earandhearinghealth.org.au/blog/cre-ichear-director-professor-amanda-leach-am-made-member-order-australia

The CRE-ICHEAR is proud to announce that on January 26th 2021 CRE Director Professor Amanda Leach AM was made a Member in the Order of Australia in the General Division for her significant service to ear disease research, and to Indigenous child health.

23/12/2020

Wishing you a happy and healthy Christmas break from CRE-ICHEAR!
Why not give yourself an early Christmas present and download the Otitis Media Guidelines app to use in 2021! https://otitismediaguidelines.com/ #/start-main

18/11/2020

We had some fun last week shooting some practice promo footage for our Otitis Media Guidelines and OMApp with Assoc Prof Kelvin Kong when he
was up visiting us from the HMRI, Newcastle. What do you think of this great story?
The OMApp is available for free via the Apple App store and Google Play (search for Otitis Media Guidelines) or see the desktop version at http://otitismediaguidelines.com/ #/start-main.

11/11/2020

A friendly reminder that the deadline for our Round 6 of funding is this Friday! For more details so https://www.earandhearinghealth.org.au/opportunities

08/11/2020

Happy NAIDOC week everyone!

04/11/2020

"These analyses will inform future clinical trial designs that combine vaccines and antibiotics to maximise clinical impact"

Check out out latest blog post catching up with one of our PhD students, Jemima Beissbarth, who is creating and analysing a combined dataset consisting of 25 years of otitis media and respiratory bacteria research.
https://www.earandhearinghealth.org.au/blog/catch-one-our-phd-scholarship-awardees-jemima-beissbarth

19/10/2020

Find the latest Otitis Media Guidelines here http://otitismediaguidelines.com/ #/start-main. Also available at your fingertips as an app via the Apple App store https://apps.apple.com/au/app/otitis-media-guidelines/id1498170123 and Google Play https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.otitismediaguidelines.guidelines

19/10/2020

New Systematic Review now available from Kaspar and Leach "Hearing loss among Australian Aboriginal infants and toddlers"
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhip.2020.100048

15/10/2020

The CRE_ICHEAR Round 6 funding round for Project Grants is now open! We will be funding up to $40K per project that focuses on research translation and can be completed before May 2021.
Application submission details are available via https://www.earandhearinghealth.org.au/opportunities/creichear-project-grants. Deadline to apply is 13th November 2020.

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08/10/2020

Great to see the Hearing for Learning graduates profiled in Menzies' latest newsletter, as well as one of our Investigators Dr Robyn Marsh

It is undeniable that COVID-19 has had an immense impact on us all. In the NT we have been fortunate to avoid the large case numbers experienced elsewhere in Australia, however the effects of the pandemic have still been felt. Here at Menzies we have had to reconsider our approach to many aspects of...