Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences

Australia is the only developed country in the world with an indigenous population suffering from trachoma. Although it disappeared from mainstream Australia over a hundred years ago, rates of this major blinding infection in Aboriginal communities are the highest in the world, matched only by some of the most remote mountain villages in Ethiopia.

Dr Sarah Wilson, together with Professor Ingrid Scheffer and PhD graduate Dr Natasha Brown have been awarded the Pfizer Neuroscience Grant, 2007 for their project on “Family and community study of the genetics of Autism Spectrum Disorder”. Dr Wilson is also the convenor of a new Graduate Diploma in Psychology and will be available at the expo to answer your questions.

Professor Hugh R Taylor AC graduated MBBS from the University of Melbourne in 1971 and until recently headed the University's Department of Ophthalmology and Centre for Eye Research Australia.

What do you get when you send a fake recall for a repeat final year exam to 200 Melbourne MBBS graduates from 1977?

Initially, transient palpitations, sweatiness, even a momentary chest pain…followed swiftly by 50 new dresses, 90 trips to the barber, 51 bottles of hair dye, 100 gym memberships, 140 name badges in size 72 font and…one noisy, happy reunion!

We are very pleased to be able to congratulate Professor Trevor Kilpatrick, Director of the University's Centre for Neuroscience, and