About
Austin Health
Austin Health provides
high quality patient care to the community and veterans and has achieved
national and international recognition in many fields.
Specialist services include treatment for heart
conditions, spinal and head injuries, rehabilitation services, cancer
and neurological disorders including epilepsy and stroke, liver and bone marrow transplant, aged care,
thoracic disease, stress disorders, vascular and orthopaedic surgery,
urology and psychiatry.
Austin
Health provides undergraduate and continuing education and training of
medical students, nurses and students training for allied health
professions as well as post graduate education and research.
The prestigious
University of Melbourne Departments of Medicine,
Surgery, Psychiatry
, Psychology and Physiotherapy
are based at
Austin Health. All of
Austin Health’s medical and surgical departments
are actively involved in research, often working closely with a number of prestigious research bodies also located at
Austin Health. All this makes Austin
Health one of the strongest
medical research precincts in Australia, offering our patients care which
is at the very forefront of medical technology.
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