by Sarah Keenihan | 29 Feb, 2024 | Articles, Central Adelaide LHN Staff, RAH, Research
Commitment to public service is clear at Central Adelaide Local Health Network (CALHN). Four CALHN entries to the 2023 Premier’s Excellence Awards have been announced as finalists. Dr Griffith Perkins is a finalist in the category Emerging Young Talent – Individual....
by CALHN | 1 Aug, 2021 | Central Adelaide LHN Staff, Community, COVID-19, RAH
Ground-breaking faecal transplants is the latest treatment option being trialled for people living with Parkinson’s to help manage symptoms by replenishing healthy gut bacteria, led by Dr Robert Bryant (pictured) and Dr Thomas Kimber. With increasing evidence...
by CALHN | 28 Sep, 2020 | Central Adelaide LHN Staff, RAH
After becoming critically ill and needing a battery-powered device to keep him alive for 12 months, Graeme Klemm “couldn’t be happier,” 18 months on from receiving a new heart. It’s been a long road for the 57-year-old father of three. Now after getting through the...
by CALHN | 25 Sep, 2020 | Central Adelaide LHN Staff, RAH
Patient Daniel Alexander and his partner Elaine are now contemplating a major celebration – a wedding, her 50th birthday and marking the successful transplant of his new kidney. When the 47-year-old salesman from Darwin got a call at 4am to tell him he had a match, he...
by CALHN | 7 Sep, 2020 | Central Adelaide LHN Staff, RAH, Research
South Australia’s first islet cell transplant recipient has marked an incredible milestone – 10 years since the surgery which effectively “cured” her diabetes. Margaret Harrigan marked the occasion sharing her favourite dessert – something she couldn’t do previously –...
