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Waikato Doctors Take Out Science Awards
Waikato Doctors Take Out Science Awards
Dr
Harvey, an Emergency Department doctor, won the Waikato
DHB-sponsored medical science award while Dr Elston, an
endocrinologist, received the Orbit-sponsored emerging
scientist award. Waikato DHB chief executive Craig Climo
presented Dr Harvey with his award saying Waikato DHB
sponsored it to recognise, support and promote medical
research and to support the event and the Waikato science
community. "You have just seen the tip of the iceberg
though," he said. "Millions of dollars is spent on
research at Waikato DHB. It pushes the frontier of what
medicine delivers." In accepting the award Dr Harvey said
it was an honour to win and thanked his wife Caitlin, Grant
Cave and Rick Broadhurst. Dr Elston said researchers and
scientists did not do their work in isolation. She thanked
the Waikato Medical Research Foundation and acknowledged her
friend and mentor Dr John Conaglen. Two Waikato Hospital
cardiologists were finalists in the Kudos medical science
awards. They were: Martin Stiles and Sanjeevan
Pasupati. Dr Harvey's research and work focused on
bringing intravenous lipid emulsion from laboratory bench
top to the clinical area. His work led to lipid emulsions
now being recognised as integral to the management of severe
local anaesthetic toxicity and increasingly used in non
local anaesthetic toxicity and increasingly used in non
local anaesthetic toxicity with lipids being proven to be
life-saving in a number of cases.
Dr Elston's work
concerns the identification of genes involved in the
development of pituitary tumours. These tumours are usually
clinically benign, but can lead to significant morbidity due
to their size and resulting hormonal dysfunction. Of the
genes found to have altered expression in pituitary tumours,
WIF1 was identified as a novel pituitary suppressor gene
associated with the development of these tumours. In
addition, nuclear expression of E-cadherin was identified to
be a new marker for the identification of invasive pituitary
tumours. Both of these findings provide potential new
targets for the treatment of pituitary
tumours. ends
Healthy People. Excellent Care Waikato District Health Board (DHB) employs over 6500 people and plans, funds and provides hospital and health services to more than 391,770 people in a region covering eight per cent of New Zealand.
Waikato
Hospital doctors Martyn Harvey and Marianne Elston took out
Kudos science awards at the annual awards ceremony in
Hamilton tonight.
(www.thekudos.org.nzWaikato District Health Board
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