Celebrating 50 Years since Australia’s First Bone Marrow Transplant
St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney has marked a remarkable milestone: the 50th anniversary of Australia’s very first bone marrow transplant. The commemoration began with Associate Professor Anthony Dodds, who reflected on that groundbreaking moment in 1975 when the first bone marrow transplant was performed. He paid tribute to the extraordinary teamwork and donor generosity that made […]
Transplant Talk LIVE: CAR-T Therapy
Join us as we launch our second season of our FREE webinar Transplant Talk LIVE. We are kicking off this season with a focus on CAR-T Therapy. Episode one will see our host Yvonne Panek-Hudson joined by Prof. Nada Hamad from St Vincent’s Hospital and Nicole O’Leary, CAR T-cell therapy Nurse Practitioner at the Peter […]
Hardship can happen to anyone
“How are you doing today?” It’s an innocuous question for most of us, something we ask often without really listening to the answer. But hardship can happen to anyone. “I’ll tell you on Tuesday,” was the answer I got when I asked this of Josee. Tuesday is the day Josee and her husband Joseph will […]
A novel intervention in haematology: Chasing Grannies at the 2023 Blood Conference
We are proud to have supported two nurses to attend Blood 2023, a haematology focused conference in Melbourne: Serafina Levak from St Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney who received the Shaun Rosen Scholarship and Kylie Sih from Royal Hobart Hospital who received funding through the Professor Geoffrey Driscoll Nursing Scholarship. Both nurses had valuable experiences at […]