Mater Research Senior Research Fellow Professor John Hooper is on a mission to change the game when it comes to ovarian cancer diagnosis and treatment.

He's edging closer to launching a clinical trial, which has been more than 20 years in the making.

Tune into this week's episode of sMater to learn more. 

GP Education activity log:

•   Podcast title - sMater: Women's Health: Ovarian Cancer Research
•   Provider - Mater Misericordiae Ltd 
•   Date published - February 26, 2024
•   Certificate of completion - Download here

To learn more about Mater, visit https://www.mater.org.au/

This week on sMater, Gynaecological Oncologist Dr Nisha Jagasia explains how Mater is using hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) to treat tumours, and how the HyNOVA study - which looks at the treatment's efficacy based on the temperature of the chemotherapy drug - is progressing. 

GP Education activity log:

•   Podcast title - sMater: Womens Health: Ovarian Cancer
•   Provider - Mater Misericordiae Ltd 
•   Date published - February 16, 2024
•   Certificate of completion - Download here

To learn more about Mater, visit https://www.mater.org.au/

In recognition of Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month, Mater Private Hospital Townsville Gynaecologist Dr Sally Aubrey shares her insights into the signs and symptoms to be aware of as well as the effects of menopause.

GP Education activity log:

•   Podcast title - sMater: Women's Health: Gynaecology
•   Provider - Mater Misericordiae Ltd 
•   Date published - February 13, 2024
•   Certificate of completion - Download here

To learn more about Mater, visit https://www.mater.org.au/

This week on sMater, we meet Mater Private Hospital Townsville General and Bariatric Surgeon, Dr Scott Whiting. 

Dr Whiting discusses the role medication plays in weight loss, and the surgical alternative medication may not be enough.

GP Education activity log:

•   Podcast title - sMater: Bariatric Surgery
•   Provider - Mater Misericordiae Ltd 
•   Date published - February 06, 2024
•   Certificate of completion - Download here

To learn more about Mater, visit https://www.mater.org.au/

Mater is home to Queensland's only biobank program using live collections of gynaecological tissue samples to improve treatments of aggressive cancers.

Keen to learn how it works?

Senior Specialist Anatomical Pathologist Dr Rohan Lourie gives us a sneak peek in this week's sMater episode.

GP Education activity log:

•   Podcast title - sMater: Women's Health: Pathology
•   Provider - Mater Misericordiae Ltd 
•   Date published - February 02, 2024
•   Certificate of completion - Download here

To learn more about Mater, visit https://www.mater.org.au/

This week on sMater, we take a step back and begin to look at broader specialty areas at Mater's sites across the state, and begin by meeting James Cook University Senior Lecturer and Mater Cardiologist, Dr Soniah Bigie Moloi. 

Dr Moloi shares his insights with host Glenn 'Minty' Mintern on atrial fibrillation, left atrial appendage closures, and the role ageing plays in the number of patients presenting with heart diseases.

GP Education activity log:

•   Podcast title - sMater: Cardiology
•   Provider - Mater Misericordiae Ltd 
•   Date published - January 23, 2024
•   Certificate of completion - Download here

To learn more about Mater, visit https://www.mater.org.au/

For the final episode in sMater's special series on preterm births, we take a look at a preterm birth through a mother's eyes.

Sophie Ballinger's fourth child, Xanthe, was unexpectedly born at 25 weeks gestation at Mater Mothers' Hospital.

Sophie is now sharing her story to help other expectant mums, as well as clinicians, understand what it can be like.

GP Education activity log:

•   Podcast title - sMater: Preterm Births: Through a mother's eyes
•   Provider - Mater Misericordiae Ltd 
•   Date published - January 10, 2024
•   Certificate of completion - Download here

To learn more about Mater, visit https://www.mater.org.au/

Did you know 1 in 10 babies are born preterm, or before 37 weeks gestation?
That's around 26,000 each year.

Mater is part of breakthrough national collaborative working to safely reduce the rate of preterm and early term births across Australia.

Mater's Assistant Director of Clinical Services, Ambulatory and Birthing, Kathleen Goldsmith, joins us on sMater to share more about what's being done and why.

GP Education activity log:

•  Podcast title - sMater: Preterm Births: National Preterm Birth Prevention Collaborative
•  Provider - Mater Misericordiae Ltd 
•  Date published - January 05, 2024
•  Certificate of completion - Download here

To learn more about Mater, visit https://www.mater.org.au/

Babies born at 24 weeks of pregnancy or earlier are extremely preterm.

When babies are born this early, their heart, lungs, brain and other organs haven't fully developed.

Mater's Deputy Director of Neonatology, Dr Luke Jardine, joins us on sMater to explain more about the intricacies of caring for an extremely premature baby, and share his insights from inside Mater Mothers’ Hospitals’ Neonatal Critical Care Unit.

GP Education activity log:

•   Podcast title - sMater: Preterm Births: Handling extreme prematurity
•   Provider - Mater Misericordiae Ltd 
•   Date published - December 22, 2023
•   Certificate of completion - Download here

To learn more about Mater, visit https://www.mater.org.au/

Meet Mater's Director of Neonatology, Dr Pita Birch.

On this week's episode of sMater, he talks about how to care for a preterm baby, from the specialised wrap babies are cloaked in, to the benefits of delayed cord clamping.

Tune in to find out more.

GP Education activity log:

•   Podcast title - sMater: Preterm Births: Caring for a premature baby
•   Provider - Mater Misericordiae Ltd 
•   Date published - December 16, 2023
•   Certificate of completion - Download here

To learn more about Mater, visit https://www.mater.org.au/