The 18th Annual Matthew Campbell Memorial Evening (MCME) was held at Monash University Clayton Campus during April, with this year\u2019s theme \u201cIndigenous Health in the 21st Century: New challenges and new\u00a0successes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Guests participated in an Aboriginal traditional smoking ceremony performed outside the Lecture Theatre by Bill Nicholson, a Wurundjeri Elder and educator. Bill also delivered the Welcome to Country on the night.<\/p>\n
The evening is held annually in memory of Matthew Campbell, a medical student deeply interested in Indigenous health issues who was one of the prime movers in organising the first indigenous health forum for students. Matthew tragically died in a car accident after the first event and it now continues in his memory.<\/p>\n
John Clark and Elyssia Bourke, co-chairs of the WILDFIRE Council, opened this year\u2019s evening and Matt Dentry, WILDFIRE\u2019s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Advocate performed superbly as MC on the night.<\/p>\n
Professor Judi Walker delivered a pre-recorded welcome address <\/a>where she talked about the history of the MCME and Matthew\u2019s dedication to raising awareness of Indigenous health issues. She also outlined the events which are planned for 2012 as part of the School of Rural Health\u2019s 20th Anniversary celebrations.<\/p>\n Associate Professor Daryl Pedler, who is leaving the School of Rural Health to take up a professorial position with Deakin University in Warrnambool, delivered a thought provoking presentation reflecting on his time as a general practitioner, director of emergency medicine and medical education academic with Monash.<\/p>\n Other guest speakers this year included:<\/p>\n It was pleasing to see around 200 attendees on the night, including students and staff from both the School\u00a0of Rural Health and the faculty enjoy themselves and be inspired by all of the wonderful speakers on the night.\u00a0The School of Rural Health and WILDFIRE look forward to welcoming you all to the 19th Annual MCME in 2013.<\/p>\n – Laura Major, Manager, Rural Education Programs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The 18th Annual Matthew Campbell Memorial Evening (MCME) was held at Monash University Clayton Campus during April, with this year\u2019s theme \u201cIndigenous Health in the 21st Century: New challenges and new\u00a0successes.\u201d Guests participated in an Aboriginal traditional smoking ceremony performed outside the Lecture Theatre by Bill Nicholson, a Wurundjeri Elder and educator. Bill also delivered […]<\/p>\n Read More...<\/a>","protected":false},"author":656,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1525],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1236,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions\/1236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n