Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes

Head of Unit : Professor Peter Ebeling

Chairman, Victorian State Committee Royal Australian College of Physicians

Councillor, Endocrine Society of Australia,  Honorary Medical Director, Osteoporosis Australia

Phone:  (61 3)  8345-6429   Facsimilie:  (61 3)  9318-1157

Head of Unit - Diabetes : Associate Professor Shane Hamblin

CONSULTANTS IN ENDOCRINOLOGY UNIT
Dr Deepak Dutta Dr. Rosemary Wong
Dr. James Gome

Dr. Jane Tran

Dr. Leo Rando

Dr. Mary-Anne Papalia
Dr. Sylvia Lim-Tio
CLINICS - WESTERN HOSPITAL

Endocrinology      Friday 9-12pm

Diabetes               Wednesday 2-5pm

Obesity                 Friday 2-5pm

Metabolic Bone Disease to start soon

CLINIC - SUNSHINE HOSPITAL Gestational Diabetes      Friday 2-5pm
ADVANCED TRAINEES  2008

Sybil Macauley

Ying Chen

DIABETIC INSULIN PUMP AND DIABETES EDUCATORS

Ms Cheryl Steele

Ms Melinda Peckham

HMO One Position
ENDOCRINOLOGY PROGRAMS

Outreach Diabetes Care HARP

Melton Super Clinic, Melton.

Western Region Health Centre, Paisley Street, Footscray.

Deer Park ISIS Health, Station Road, Deer Park

RESEARCH PROJECTS

1. A study to compare the effectiveness and safety of oral low dose and megadose vitamin D treatment regimens.

2. Bone turnover markers in mastocytosis.

3. Fracture Intervention Study with Denusomab in Postmenopausal Osteoporosis (FIRST study)

4. Zoledronic Acid for Prevention of Bone Loss after Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation

5. Double blind multicentre randomised study to assess the effects of strontium ranelate and alendronate on bone histomorhometry in women with postmenopausal osteoporosis

6. Health Literacy and effective health promotion with vulnerable communities: Health literacy in newly arrived African communities

7. Cultural competence in Diabetes Management.

8. Vertebroplasty study. Multicentre Australian NH&MRC funded study to compare vertebroplasty with a sham procedure in safely reducing pain following acute vertebral compression fractures.

9. Smoking Cessation study. An NH&MRC funded study to examine the effect of smoking cessation on bone health in twins and a Quitline population

LINKS OF INTEREST

 

http://www.medrmhwh.unimelb.edu.au/research/endocrinology.html