The Sports Analytics Innovation Summit will be held this week on Tuesday 23 and Wednesday 24 February at the Park Hyatt in Melbourne. "Push the Boundaries with Data"  "Push the Boundaries with Data" is the theme of the Summit, which will see leading experts and senior sports professionals come together to showcase current trends and best practices in sport-oriented analytics and data.  The challenge for sports experts today is not so much on obtaining the...

Are you involved in writing clinical scenarios or reporting on clinical data or undertaking similar projects that require you to use abbreviations, dose expressions and symbols for medication? Read this article from the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Healthcare (ACSQH) and you will feel like you have just found a long lost jewel of the Nile! Click on the title shown here to access the article: Recommendations for Terminology, Abbreviations and Symbols used in Prescribi...

One shouldn't take the art of writing for granted. It is a powerful tool, which can influence social and scientific fabrics.   That is why I am very proud to be a mentor for the fabulous organisation, Author Aid. Supporting developing country researchers in developing their work. Supporting researchers from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds to get published in academic journals that make an impact is essential if we really want to create a diverse knowledge po...

Recent conversations I've had around cultural sensitivity and clinical practice have inspired me to revisit this fabulous piece of literature first published in 1997. The story of Lia Lee, a Hmong child diagnosed with severe epilepsy in the United States, is a tragic account of how cultural misunderstandings can be so very detrimental to a patient's well being. Both Lia's family and her treating Western doctors wanted only the best for Lia. However, their different perspective...

You might not be an elite athlete but you probably count yourself as a fairly competitive age-grouper. Did you know that Triathlon is breaking new ground in the war on drugs in sport? The world governing bodies in Triathlon are now targeting age-group competitors for drug testing, not simply elite athletes. Regardless of your status as an elite or age-group athlete, if you are a member of a national governing body (e.g., Triathlon Australia), and/or compete in a World Anti-Doping Agency (WAD...