1. Advanced Networking at Flinders University - Flinders Medical Centre, South Australia Colin Carati … on behalf of Flinders University colin.carati@flinders.edu.au

4. Academic Programs Graduate Entry, Problem Based Medical Course Nutitrition and Dietetics Speech Pathology and Audiology Biotechnology Environmental Health Community Health Biomedical and Health Sciences Postgraduate programs School of Medicine, Flinders University Research Centres include: Centre for Neuroscience Research Centre for Injury Studies Immunology and Inflammation Centre for Ageing Studies National Centre for Education and Training on Addiction Heart, Lung and Circulation Orthopaedic and Musculoskeletal Cancer Digestive Sciences Environmental Health Biotechnology Drugs and Toxicology Paediatric Nutrition

5. closely associated with Flinders Medical Centre 400 bed hospital largest Emergency Centre in Southern Australia part of major health care region adjacent to private hospital

6. VideoConferencing facilities ISDN and IP Access Grid Virtual Reality, 3-D

7. medical students learning in remote sites in hospitals in general practices regular videoconferenced lessons using DSL access to on-line resources maintained at FU personal and professional interactions with others at remote site administration

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9. Medical Applications Clinical interactions with remote sites Psychiatry Renal Cardiac Nursing Education to Remote Hospitals Consulting Services Administration Southern Adelaide Health Services

10. Preadmission advice → mobile networking

11. partnership between Flinders University University of Adelaide University of South Australia Australia's Academic and Research Network

12. Current and Future Projects Nanotechnology, teaching and research - remote control of significant research equipment Neuroscience research collaborations using VR Biomedical Engineering - training programs in Malaysia and China Postgraduate and Specialist Training Bariatric Surgery

13. Advanced Networking for Training in Bariatric Surgery training of practising surgeons 1-2 day seminars using Access Grid, 3-4 times per year followup – mentoring / guidance by real-time HDV of first few operations Kyushu University, Japan and Flinders University, Australia

14. Three paths from Australia AARnet Southern Cross Australia Japan Cable SEAMEWE3 or New Cable APCN2

15. We welcome collaborations ! colin.carati@flinders.edu.au http://som.flinders.edu.au/som.flinders.edu.au/ www.flinders.edu.au