Taking our place at global health research table The flagship Flinders Health and Medical Research Building is paving the way for partnerships between clinicians, researchers, other global research institutions, as well as the South Australian community. ‘If you look at some of the best medical research centres in the world – such places as Johns Hopkins and the Mayo Clinic – they have strong relationships between a university and a well-respected teaching hospital,’ says Professor Peter Eastwood, Matthew Flinders Fellow, Dean (Research) and Director of the Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute. Flinders University and Flinders Medical Centre have traditionally had a strong relationship, which Professor Eastwood is working to extend. ‘There’s no reason a Flinders health precinct could not replicate the activities of the big international medical research centres, whereby collaborative research between scientists and clinicians results in improved patient care,’ says Professor Eastwood. Central to that ambition is the $255 million new research building, just over 50 metres away from the Flinders Medical Centre, which Professor Eastwood sees as an enormous opportunity to ramp up the collaborative clinical base.
Render of the Health and Medical Research building Flinders University, Bedford Park
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