The RCH Annual Celebration and Staff Awards
The first annual general meeting of The Royal Children's
Hospital (formerly the Hospital for Sick Children) was held in
1870.
From 1995 to 2000 RCH and The Royal Women's Hospital formed
Women's & Children's Health and during that time the
annual meeting became an event to celebrate staff
achievements.
The RCH now holds The RCH Annual Celebration and Staff Awards, where staff
awards and scholarships are presented and staff
who have worked at the hospital for more than 25 years are
congratulated and presented with a memento of service.
Vernon Collins Oration
Vernon Collins was the first Medical Director of the Royal
Children's Hospital, Melbourne from 1949 to 1960. He later became
the foundation professor of Child Health in the University of
Melbourne.
The first Vernon Collins Memorial Oration was given in 1981
under the auspices of the hospital's Board of Management and
Medical Staff Association. From 1998 to 2006 the
Oration has been presented at the annual meeting of the Royal
Children's Hospital.
In 2006 the RCH Alumni proposed that the oration become a stand
alone event once again and in 2007 the Oration returned to its
original format under the auspices of The Royal Children's
Hospital, the University of Melbourne, the RCH Medical Staff
Association and the RCH Alumni.
Vernon Collins Orators
- Professor Sandra Eades, Associate Dean Indigenous Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics School of Global and Population Health, The University of Melbourne (2018)
Responding to contemporary challenges in
Indigenous child and adolescent health
- Professor Shitij Kapur, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Services, The University of Melbourne (2017)
Improving health
in the era of biomedical revolutions
- Professor Dinah Reddihough AO, Director of Child Development and
Rehabilitation, The Royal Children’s Hospital (2016)
Disability at the crossroads
- Professor John Daley, Grattan Institute Chief Executive Officer (2015)
The Politics of health
- Dame Quentin Bryce, Former Governor General (2014)
The best we have to give
- Professor Frank Oberklaid, Director, Centre for Community Child Health, The Royal Children's Hospital and Professorial Fellow, Department of Paediatrics, The University of Melbourne (2013)
Child Health in the 21st Century: Challenges,
opportunities, and a leadership role for the RCH
- Professor James Angus AO, Dean of the Faculty
of Medicine Dentistry and Health Sciences, The University of Melbourne (2012)
From
hay, corn and horses to building a world class medical precinct
- Professor Graeme Barnes, Senior Gastroenterologist, The Royal Children's Hospital and Professor, Department of Paediatrics, The University of Melbourne (2011)
RCH on the Move, Looking forward….looking back
- Professor Peter Doherty,
Laureate Professor,
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of
Melbourne (2010)
Evidence-based reality and our children’s future
- Professor Kerr Graham,
Professor of
Orthopaedic Surgery (2009)
As the twig is bent,
the tree’s inclined
- Professor Des Gorman, Head School of Medicine
The University of Auckland (2008)
The role of the doctor in the future - Professor Graeme Barnes, Gastroenterologist, The Royal Children's Hospital (2007)
reseaRCH matters: "it's just a touch of gastro". Rotavirus
revealed. - Pru Goward, Sex Discrimination Commissioner;
Commissioner Responsible for Age Discrimination (2006)
Finding time to care - Professor Lou Landau, The University of
Western Australia (2005)
- Professor Graeme Clark AC, Director, The
Bionic Ear Institute (2004)
The story of the bionic ear - Professor Henry Ekert, Oncologist RCH
(2003)
Past, present and future diseases of blood and in
cancer (PDF 101KB) Sir GustavNossal
(2001)
Australian biotechnology & global health
challenges
Dr John McNamara, Paediatrician RCH
(2000)
Just a farmer's son
Dr Ian Hopkins (1999)
Professor Richard Larkins
(1998)
Dr Norman Swann, Broadcaster (1997)
Health care and the new millennium
Professor Peter Phelan, Stephenson Professor,
University of Melbourne
The future for paediatrics
The Hon Marie Tehan, Minister for
Health
The RCH & the government's role in children's
health
Professer David Danks, Chair Murdoch
Institute
Healthy people, not custom made people: future use of genetic
knowledge
Mr Brian Burdekin, Federal Commissioner for
Human Rights
The rights of the child
Professor Fiona Stanley
Technology seduction, lost opportunities for
children
Professor Arthur Clark
Children's hospitals
Dr John Court
What is the use of children
Emeritus Prof Geoffrey Blainey
A glimpse of vanished children
Professor Roger Short
Breastfeeding, birth spacing, infant health
Ms Joan Montgomery, Headmistress PLC
Education: the greatest gift
Mr Peter Jones, surgeon RCH
The coming of age of paediatrics in Victoria.
The Hon Mr Justice Asche
The rights of the child