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Engaging Indigenous people within Higher Ed

CQUniversity's Office of Indigenous Engagement recently hosted a visit from the Oodgeroo Unit of Queensland University of Technology (QUT), at Rockhampton Campus.

Professor Anita Lee Hong, Director of the Oodgeroo Unit, and Lone Pearce, Project Officer, met with Office of Indigenous Engagement staff to discuss employment issues and best practice models for engaging Indigenous people within the higher education sector, including governance matters.

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Sebastian wins Health Informatics awards in Germany 

Published on 25 September, 2006 

CQU's Dr Sebastian Garde has been awarded with the Innovation Award of the Friedrich-Wingert Foundation and also the Certificate of \'Medical Informatics'.

The awards were presented at the 51st Annual Conference of the German Society of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology in Germany.

PhotoID:3440 Melbourne-based Dr Garde was presented with the Award of the Friedrich-Wingert Foundation for his outstanding linguistic and semantic approaches for optimizing health care and for his contributions to "managing openEHR archetypes for Semantically interoperable Electronic Health Records".

OpenEHR is an international not-for-profit Foundation, working towards making the interoperable, life-long electronic health record a reality and thus improving health care in the information society.

The Award of the Certificate of 'Medical Informatics' was presented to Dr Garde to honour his qualification as a leader in the field of Medical Informatics.

Dr Sebastian Garde has been a Postdoctoral Research Fellow for Health Informatics at CQU since 2004. He is based at the offices of CQU's research partner, Austin Centre for Applied Clinical Informatics.

He has a strong interest in electronic health records and (in cooperation with Ocean Informatics) has developed the openEHR Archetype Finder (http://www.dualitysystems.com.au/archetypefinder).

During 2005, Dr Garde was the co-convenor of a series of workshops on archetype development for clinicians in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney.

He has also contributed to the development of a prototype User Interface Generator for the openEHR-initiative based on archetypes.

Dr Garde is also Managing Editor of the recently founded electronic Journal of Health Informatics - eJHI (http://ejhi.net), hosted by CQU.

CQU’s Dr Carola Hullin, who also attended the event, said, “The closing ceremony was great. The presentation went well and we got lots of interest. More than 800 delegates attended".

Photo: Dr Sebastian Garde receiving awards at the 51st Annual Conference of the German Society of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology in Germany.