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.

South Western Sydney Clinical School's Professor Ken Hillman has spent the past 20 years developing the Medical Emergency Team system to reduce the number of deaths in Australian hospitals.

Please join the School in congratulating Professor Jeremy Wilson who has been named as the inaugural recipient of the Outstanding Commitment to Pancreatology Award established by the Australasian Pancreatic Club (APC).

Please join the School in congratulating two of our colleagues who have recently received awards.

At last weeks End of Year Dinner, the School also presented the three School Paper of the Year.

Last Thursday the South Western Sydney Clinical School held its annual end of year dinner and awards evening in the CBD. The dinner was attended by final year students along with a number of academic and conjoint staff and representatives from the Local Health District.