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New virtual-reality technology and 3D printing techniques will create ‘digital patients’ to improve surgery for Queensland children with orthopaedic deformity.
This is the way of the future with new Australian-first work from Griffith University showing that virtual technology techniques can guide the way for orthopaedic surgeons to more accurately plan and undertake their surgery.
Aided by a $300,000 Advance Queensland Fellowship and working in collaboration with the Children’s Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service, Dr Chris Carty from Griffith’s Menzies Health Institute Queensland is at the forefront of the work, which aims to provide orthopaedic surgeons with the ability to provide personalised patient solutions including better surgical results and enhanced post-operative function.
“The personalisation of the ‘digital patient’ represents a step change in the treatment of children with lower limb deformity,” says Dr Carty. “Current treatment involves consultation with a doctor, then surgery followed by evaluation.
“Unfortunately the current methods ignore the fact that

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The troubled state of the Tasmania’s education system has been known for some time. What is less known is the role Griffith University is playing in helping the state and its schools turn the situation around.
Professors Tony Townsend and Greer Johnson from the Griffith Institute for Educational Research and Anne Bayetto from Flinders University have partnered with Tasmania’s Department of Education for a large-scale project to deliver professional development to school leaders with Griffith’s Principals as Literacy Leaders (PALL) program.
PALL is a unique University/industry partnership because its genesis came from industry seeking a solution. The Australian Primary Principals Association originally engaged Griffith researcher, Professor Neil Demspter, to develop a program designed to help principals lead literacy reforms in their schools in 2009.
The PALL solution helps school leaders develop literacy intervention activities, based on their better understanding of the processes involved in learning to read, better use and analyses of data,

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Griffith University has played a major role in the launch of an international mentoring initiative aimed at enhancing research and networking capabilities for Australian alumni.
The Alumni Professional Development Program (APDP) is funded by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and is led by Griffith University’s International Business Development Unit in a consortium with Charles Darwin University (CDU) and James Cook University (JCU).
APDP kicked off in Indonesia in May with interactive mentoring workshops in Jakarta and Makassar. Griffith University Adjunct Professor Colin Brown and CDU Associate Professor Greg Shaw presented mentoring principles to participants including high-achieving Indonesian research experts and business and community leaders.
The skills attained at the workshops will be applied towards advancing research and networking capabilities among Australian alumni mentees.
Griffith’s project team — Alumni Engagement Coordinator Ms Anni Bohn, Administrative Coordinator Ms Sharm Aboosally and Systems Specialist Ms Nicole Graham — presented on APDP expectations, online collaboration and the

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Griffith University has announced the opening of registrations, along with the first cohort of prominent program faculty members for next year’s Executive Education in Sustainability Leadership Program (EESLP).
The EESLP is an internationally renowned sustainability program to be hosted by the Griffith University EcoCentre from the 6th to the 9th of March 2018, currently delivered through the T.H. Chan School of Public Health at Harvard University in Boston.
It’s a selective, small-class program that helps executives across all sectors to integrate sustainability leadership into their organisations.
Founder of Harvard Green, EESLP Director and Australian expatriate, Ms Leith Sharp (M.Ed), will return to Australia and collaborate with the EcoCentre and peak body Australasian Campuses Towards Sustainability to deliver the four-day event in Brisbane, joined by a program faculty comprised of some of Australia’s leading sustainability leaders including:
Ms Kate Harris, CEO at Good Environmental Choice Australia and the Non-Executive Director of the Living Future Institute

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