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Monash professor rewarded for outstanding medical achievement

14 December 2005

Monash academic Professor Hatem Salem has been given the Victorian Health Minister's Award for outstanding individual achievement.

Ms Pike congratulates Professor Salem on his achievement.

Professor Salem, Director of Monash's Australian Centre for Blood Diseases, received the award from Health Minister Ms Bronwyn Pike at the Victorian Public Healthcare Awards.

Ms Pike said Professor Salem stood out for driving cultural change within the Eastern Health group and his commitment to training junior doctors.

He was instrumental in leading Box Hill Hospital from a general community hospital to a tertiary referral hospital with a reputation for excellence in clinical care, she said.

"Professor Salem has made an outstanding contribution to the Box Hill Hospital community for some 15 years and had a wide impact over 30 years of medical education, training and research," Ms Pike said.

"During his time at Box Hill Hospital, Professor Salem established specialty training programs for junior doctors, proving himself a supportive and generous teacher."

Professor Salem is President of the Australasian Society of Hemostasis and Thrombosis and has had more than 140 articles published in medical journals.

The Public Healthcare Awards are judged by 95 experts from the Victorian healthcare industry.

Professor Salem said he was honoured to receive the award and thanked the Minister for establishing them. He acknowledged the importance of the healthcare awards in ensuring the commitment of medical practitioners to the public health sector.