JUST ANNOUNCED! 2024 Lunch with Speaker - Anne Tudor OAM
On Wednesday, May 29 at 12.00 noon, well known Ballarat-based Dementia Awareness advocate, Anne Tudor OAM will address the Coates Trust's Lunch with Speaker function. The lunch will be held at the Selkirk Stadium, 989 Norman Street, Ballarat. Bookings are essential. Booking arrangements and payment details are provided on the Events page. The lunch is $30.00 per person.
ANNE T TUDOR OAM
Anne Tudor OAM, and with her wife, Edie Mayhew contributed locally, nationally and internationally to increasing dementia awareness and understanding about the importance of inclusion, empathy and service provision in the community.
Edie was diagnosed at age 59 in 2010 and died from complications related to dementia in 2020.
They were partners for 36 years. Anne’s mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and Vascular dementia in the late 80’s and died in 2005, the same year Edie first started showing signs of memory loss. They moved to Ballarat in 1992 to support Anne’s parents.
Their advocacy began in 2011 and included local, national and international presentations of their personal journey with dementia, to support others impacted by dementia and to provide community education, through social media, film making, print, radio and TV interviews. They wanted to offer an honest and balanced view of dementia and challenge the stigma and discrimination associated with it.
Anne was a secondary school teacher for 20 years before embarking on studies to qualify as a Clinical Psychologist and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist. She worked at Ballarat Health Services for 10 years as well as in private practice. She retired in 2014 to focus on Edie and their advocacy.
Anne and Edie received the Outstanding Achievement by a Volunteer: Supporting Diversity, at the Minister for Health Awards in 2016 and was the recipient of the Mayor’s Ballarat Senior of the Year Award in 2017. She was also awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia and the Premiers Victorian Senior of the Year in 2021. In 2023 she received the Zonta Award as one of Ballarat’s Great Women and was honoured with a Damascus College Shining Light Award for her service to our community this year.
2023 Coates Oration
Associate Professor Misty Jenkins AO presented the 2023 Oration on Thursday, November 9 at Federation University Australia's Mount Helen Campus, Ballarat. The Oration was entitled: The power of the immune system: From humble beginnings to personalised approaches to treating cancer.
Dr. Misty Jenkins AO is an NHMRC fellow and laboratory head in the Immunology Division at Walter and Eliza Hall Institute for Medical Research. Misty leads the immunotherapy program within the Brain Cancer Centre and is dedicated to discovering novel immunotherapy targets for high-grade gliomas in adults and children. Her research focuses on developing novel chimeric antigen receptor T cells for brain cancer. Her group also uses cutting-edge two-photon microscopy combined with mouse models of brain cancer to investigate the tumour microenvironment and uncover the unique biology of brain tumours.
Misty has a PhD in Immunology from The University of Melbourne, followed by postdoctoral positions at The Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre.
Prof Jenkins was awarded the L’Oreal for Women in Science Fellowship (2013), was Tall Poppy of the Year (2015), was awarded the Top100 Women of Influence award (2016), and was inducted onto the Victorian Honour Roll of Women in 2020.
In addition to her research career, Prof Jenkins is experienced in governance and strategy as a company Director, co-chairs a Federal Health Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF), and is a passionate advocate for gender equity and Indigenous Health and education.
Sir Albert Coates Oration 2023
The Trust will be arranging a link to the 2023 Oration. Watch this space for details.
Text of the 2022 Coates Oration
LINK For the FULL TEXT of the 2022 Coates Oration by Laureate Prof. Peter Doherty.
Click Here for the full text of the 2022 Oration
Rural Emergency Nursing Scholarships
2025 - Geelong and Barwon Region Applications Invited from July 2024
The application round of the Victorian Department of Health Victoria Regional Nursing Scholarships for 2025 will be conducted in the Barwon region next year. The Barwon Health Region encompasses Geelong and the western coastal communities in Victoria. Application details will be advised in mid-2024 with applications required between July and September 2024. Funds are dispersed in late 2024 or early 2025 for the 2025 calendar year.
MENTOR Newsletter
The Autumn 2024 issue of the Mentor newsletter will be sent to all on our mailing and email lists in April. If you would like to be emailed a copy don't hesitate to get in touch with the Coates Trust. Details are provided below or on our contact page. To read earlier newsletters go to the Publications page for the link.
|