Please join the School in congratulating our colleague Professor Michael Barton who will be presented with a Gold Medal by the Royal Australasian and New Zealand College of Radiologists at their annual meeting in late October.

Please join the School in congratulating our colleague A/Professor Jeff Flack who has been recognised with an award in the Australia Day Honours List announced yesterday.

Please join the School in congratulating all of the South Western Sydney Clinical School students who graduated last week. We have had exceptional results this year with SWSCS contributing 30% of all those students who achieved a Weighted Average Mark (WAM) in the top cohort.

UNSW will lead Australia’s first medical cannabis trial to assess whether cannabis products can enhance the quality of life for adults with terminal cancer in the final stages of their life.

Please join me in congratulating our colleague Professor Minoti Apte OAM - who has today been awarded the NSW Premier's Award for Woman of the Year at a ceremony at Parliament House.

UNSW researchers have developed an assessment tool that helps doctors and caregivers more accurately identify elderly patients whose death is imminent and unavoidable at the time of hospital admission.

Stroke is Australia’s second biggest killer after coronary heart disease, but rates of a common type of stroke, intracerebral haemorrhage (ICH), appear to be falling, according to a UNSW study that is the largest of its kind in Australia.

Please join the School in congratulating a number of our colleagues who have received awards as part of the Ingham Institute for Applied Medical Research Awards Night held last evening.