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        • Psychology Services within the Clinical Research Unit for Anxiety and Depression (CRUfAD)
        • Inner City DBT Skills Group
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        • Psychology within Mental Health Services
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        • Postgraduate Perioperative Nursing Course
        • Postgraduate Cardiothoracic and Heart Lung Transplant Nursing Course 2021
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      • Changes to research personnel
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      • Resources for researchers
      • Requests for authorised prescriber endorsement
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      • Intellectual property
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      • Use of human tissue / material / biobanking
      • Contact us
      • St Vincent's Hospital HREC Constitution and Members
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      • St Vincent’s Centre for Applied Medical Research (AMR)
      • The Cunningham Centre
      • The Kinghorn Cancer Centre
      • Garvan Institute of Medical Research
      • Kirby Institute
      • Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute
      • Nursing Research Institute
      • David Cooper Fellowship
    • Participating in Research Trials
      • The LiMA Study for the treatment of methamphetamine dependence
      • HIV & the Brain
      • Technology based research for those at risk of falls
      • Gout Self-Management
      • Early Screening for Lung Cancer
      • Exercise and Pulmonary Hypertension
      • Chronic Pain Program
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      • ADAPT Study
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        • Psychology within Mental Health Services
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