When Bianca thinks back to the year her daughter Addison underwent treatment for Severe Aplastic Anaemia, she says simply: “I didn’t live in the real world for a year. A whole year, missing in action.” For families facing bone marrow…
You don’t expect to have to wear nappies and learn to walk again when you’ve been successfully adulting for decades. And you don’t expect to follow that up with having to watch your 19-year-old learn to walk again either. But…
Thanks to the generous support of the Hartog family and Jazz Pharmaceuticals, we were able to help two dedicated health professionals attend the Asia-Pacific Blood and Marrow Transplantation Group meeting in Singapore: Simone Jensen (who received the Sylvia Hartog Nursing…
In a commitment to advancing the education and professional development of nurses in the haematology field, the Arrow Bone Marrow Transplant Foundation, in collaboration with Jazz Pharmaceuticals, proudly offered eight nursing professionals travel scholarships to attend the 2024 Blood Conference…
Regional nurses may not see many actual stem cell transplants happen, because most stem cell transplants are performed in our major capital cities. But that doesn’t mean that regional nurses aren’t involved in the process. Many of the patients and…
Victoria Okey is a Registered Nurse at the Royal Hobart Hospital, where she has worked in haematology and oncology for the past four years. As a graduate nurse, Victoria gained vital experience caring for acutely unwell patients on the oncology…
Arrow’s board members pictured L to R: Stuart Snell, Kim Mouret, Yvonne Panek-Hudson, Richelle Koller (CEO), David Maywald, Chris Murray, Roberto Trinchero Last week, we gathered for our Annual General Meeting (AGM) 2024 at our rooms in Chippendale headquarters, and…
Katherine Robertson, pictured in 1999, not long before her diagnosis with acute lymphocytic leukaemia. Anne Robertson Anne Robertson was a refined lady, always impeccably presented, with a love for history and family. Anne had a love of the arts enjoying…
The Vital Role of Pro Bono Partners in Supporting Our Charity’s Mission At the core of every successful charity lies a network of dedicated partners who provide crucial support, allowing us to focus on our mission of helping those in…
The 2024 Hawkesbury Classic Paddle, held over the weekend, marked a successful 45th edition with 107 paddlers participating. Organized by the Hawkesbury Canoe Classic Association Inc., the event is a charity fundraiser for medically-based organizations, and this year, it raised…
At Arrow, we are incredibly grateful to the ASX Refinitiv Charity Foundation for their unwavering support of Australian-based children, disability, and medical research charities. Through a variety of fundraising events and auctions, the Foundation has raised over $36 million, making…
This year we launched our inaugural Paint the Town Red campaign, and had people painting the town red the whole of September during Blood Cancer Awareness month. In fact, there was some kind of event happening each and every week…
We would like to congratulate Simone Jensen from St Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney on being awarded a Sylvia Hartog Scholarship to attend the Asia Pacific Blood and Marrow Transplantation Group (APBMT) meeting in Singapore. Simone is a highly skilled and…
Courtney Hughes’ pathway to her nursing career is not your average one, but then Courtney probably isn’t your average kind of girl. Courtney was leading an active life, busy working as a prison officer doing lots of physically demanding work…
The people of the village together again at ANZTCT 2024 Earlier this month we had the privilege of partnering with the Australia and New Zealand Transplant and Cellular Therapies (ANZTCT) to present their Annual Scientific Meeting in Brighton-Le-Sands, Sydney. An…
In April we announced the four most recent recipients of our Arrow Jazz Pharmaceutical Conference Travel Scholarships, among them Emma Munro, from the Royal Brisbane and Womens Hospital, & Priscilla Gates from Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre. Emma & Priscilla both…
Ritika Saxena, recipient of an Arrow Hawkesbury Canoe Classic PhD Scholarship, is excited to be on the home stretch of her third and final year of her PhD candidature. Throughout Ritika’s PhD, she and her team of supervisors have been…
Nurse Practitioner, Yvonne Panek-Hudson was among this year’s recipients of the Jazz Pharmaceuticals Conference and Travel Scholarships. She was awarded the scholarship to support her attendance at EBMT 2024 in Glasgow . Yvonne hit quite a few goals while she was there: She gave…
“My bone marrow transplant was the worst and the best time of my life.” That’s how Jordan Lambropoulos describes her ground-breaking stem cell transplant now that she has another year of living under her belt. Bone marrow or stem cell…
In 2023 Trista from Wallace Wilkinson and Webster made the lifesaving decision to donate her bone marrow to an unknown recipient in the UK. A year later she received a letter of gratitude from the lady she helped and her…
Meet Sam Sheehan, an Aussie living and working in Vietnam with his partner. Sam, with his ever-positive outlook on life, put a lot of his seemingly innocent health woes down to travel bugs and a difference in health care systems,…
