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Royal Perth Hospital,Perth,Australia

Royal Perth Hospital was the first Hospital established in Western Australia, and is its largest teaching hospital.

It is one of Australia's largest and busiest hospitals, with the second largest trauma workload in the country and one of the busiest Emergency Departments in Australasia.

It has a distinguished international record in patient care, teaching and research, hosting Nobel Prize-winning research and world-leading experts in areas such as stroke, burns care and HIV research.

RPH employs about 7000 staff members (about 4,700 full-time equivalent), which includes world and national leaders in several areas, as well as more than 500 volunteers in the Friends of RPH service.

The Hospital has on average 530 medical and surgical day and multi-day beds, with another 49 intensive/high dependency beds (with another 190 at the Shenton Park Campus).

The Hospital treats about 77,000 in-patients a year, receives about 298,000 outpatient attendances a year, and has one of the busiest Emergency Departments in Australia, with more than 58,000 presentations a year.

RPH provides services to adults in all clinical fields (except obstetrics) and provides state-wide services in several areas, including:

burns treatment
major trauma
heart and lung transplant
bone-marrow transplant
refractory epilepsy
haemophilia
spinal rehabilitation
head injury rehabilitation, and
interventional neuroradiology

RPH's world-leading medical contributions include:

The 2005 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine awarded to Professor Barry Marshall and Dr Robin Warren for their groundbreaking research at Royal Perth Hospital between 1979 and 1984. Dr Warren was the first person to identify the spiral bacterium, Helicobacter pylori and Professor Marshall discovered that it caused gastritis-associated dyspepsia and ulcers, which also increased the risk of stomach cancer. Further studies by Dr Warren, Dr Barry Marshall and colleagues in the Departments of Anatomical Pathology, Microbiology and Gastroenterology between 1981 and 1987 determined that antibiotic treatment reduced ulcer recurrence.
The first electron microscopy demonstration of virus particles in patients with HIV infection, in 1983, by Dr John Armstrong and Mr Robert Horne of the Department of Anatomical Pathology.
The creation of one of the world's first Intra-aortic Stents, with Imaging Radiographer David Hartley and Vascular Surgeon Michael Lawrence-Brown, in 1994.
The world's first longitudinal stroke survivor research project, The Perth Community Stroke Study in 1989/1990.
In 1994, RPH started the first true Domiciliary Bone Marrow Transplant Service in the world.
In 2003, the discovery that every person with HIV has a different form of the virus and that it tailors itself to the individual's immune response. In 2005 RPH's Centre for Clinical Immunology and Biomedical Statistics Executive Director, Professor Simon Mallal, and his team, received a grant of US $9.8 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to continue this research world wide.

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