Business Lunch - Insight into your business future
This is an opportunity not to be missed. Please come and join us for an enjoyable and informative day at our business lunch featuring guest speaker Seven’s Sunrise Program presenter Mr. David Koch. David, regularly speaks about small business, finance and investment issues, and will be appearing at the Lakes Resort Function Centre, at 1pm on Friday 22 August. Tickets are $100 per person which includes a three course meal and quality beverages.

Proudly Sponsored by SPRING GULLY FOODS PTY TLD. For your booking please download form and fax to (08) 8232 4311 or email georgia.kantilaftas@nsf.org.au

Eagles Mutual Lottery Helps the Foundation
Neil would like to thank everyone who bought tickets for our lottery. The allocation to the Foundation had a great result with five tickets drawn and two were winners.

CONGRATULATIONS!

1st Prize $10,000 00227 C Brunt
2nd Prize: $1,000 02669 K Clough
3rd Prize: $500 15712 R Holt
4th Prize: $100 18344 D Coombe
5th Prize: $100 10629 G Oatway
6th Prize: $100 10487 M Larnder
7th Prize: $100 02300 W Drew
8th Prize: $100 15064 C Rashleigh

The much needed money raised will go to research for spinal cord injury and return of DIGNITY!

Neil Sachse Foundation Hosts Neurotrauma Forum
On Tuesday 27 November 2007 the Neil Sachse Foundation held a discussion forum “The First Step to Curing Neurotrauma” in conjunction with the Neurosurgical Research Foundation and PARAQUAD SA at Parliament House.  The evening was an opportunity for us to highlight the need for funding to develop improvements in treatment for neurotrauma (spinal cord and brain injury).  The evening was a great success with all parties agreeing that neurotrauma has become a silent epidemic and it is important that South Australia is better funded in this area of research as it is currently significantly under-resourced. Photo Gallery>

Visiting the Western Bulldogs
Neil was recently given the opportunity to visit his old stomping ground in Victoria where he played football for Footscray in 1975.  While Neil was
there he was shown a large scale redevelopment project at Whitten Oval –
a jewel which is expected to re-ignite the Western suburbs.  It was exciting
to hear that there will be a display about Neil in their Hall of Fame once it is completed.  The Bulldogs have been long-time supporters of the Neil
Sachse Foundation and we look forward to their continued help with promoting the need for SCI research.

Society for Neuroscience Conference 2007
In November 2007 our CEO Neil Sachse attended the Society for Neuroscience 2007 conference in San Diego, California.  It was a great opportunity to find out what spinal cord injury research is taking place at the moment and to ensure that our research is cutting edge.

During the conference Neil also attended a meeting of the International Campaign for Cure of Spinal Cord Injury Paralysis (ICCP) of which we are a member.  We are joining forces again on another project for SCOPE.  The mission of SCOPE is to enhance the development of clinical trials that accurately validate therapeutic interventions for spinal cord injury.

The Australian Workers Union Helps Raise Funds
On Saturday 25 August 2007, Wayne Hanson and the Australian Workers Union (AWU) held a dinner at Allan Scott Park Morphettville.  Guests were asked to donate to the Neil Sachse Foundation and the AWU kindly matched their contributions to raise almost $9000 for the Foundation.

SANFL President’s Lunch
Our CEO, Neil Sachse, was invited to speak at the SANFL President’s lunch on Friday 13 July 2007 at AAMI stadium.  Neil was interviewed by Corey Wingard as a “Champion of the Past” and was also given the opportunity to talk about the Neil Sachse Foundation.  Neil’s 1974 State football jumper (No. 13) was also raffled off at the event, raising $2,000 for our organisation. The SANFL was wonderfully supportive in helping to raise awareness of the Foundation and our cause and kindly donated an extra $1,000. 

Inaugural Neil Sachse Foundation Race Day at Morphettville
The inaugural Neil Sachse Race Day was held on Saturday 23 June 2007.  It was an amazing day with over 200 guests attending and nearly $60,000 was raised.  The weather and atmosphere on the day, along with a fabulously entertaining compare (5aa’s Ian “Pilko” Pilkington) made it a great day.  Photo Gallery> (small photo link of Race 4). Photo Gallery>

BBQ the Minister Lunch
On Friday May 4 the Hon Bob Sneath held a barbecue at Parliament House in aid of the Neil Sachse Foundation. The special guest minister was Hon Michael Wright, the Minister for Industrial Relations, the Minister for Finance, the Minister for Government Enterprises and the Minister for Recreation, Sport and Racing. The day was a great success with the sun managing to keep shining. For pictures of the day please go to our photo gallery >

The Foundation visits the Adelaide Produce Market
As you can read in the latest edition of Stand Up, the Foundation is currently organising a race day at Allan Scott Park, Morphettville.  A number of races will be sponsored as part of this day and on Wednesday, March 21st, the Foundation went to see three of our sponsors in action – at the Adelaide Produce Market. 

As part of this visit, some photos were taken – please take a look in our photo gallery:

If you would like more information on the Market, please visit this site: http://www.adelaidemarkets.com.au/

BREAKTHROUGH: The ICCP have released the first ever guide to clinical trials - what you should know.

After 2 and a half years of collecting and collaborating research, writing and discussion, the ICCP is proud to present six papers on experimental clinical trials – two regarding what you should know when considering participation in clinical trials and four outlining the guidelines to follow when conducting clinical trials.

These papers represent a wealth of knowledge from around the world, as they have been developed through consultation and collaboration across the eleven members of the ICCP and have also been published in the academic journal, Spinal Cord.

If you or someone close to you is considering participation in a clinical trial, then the Neil Sachse Foundation recommends that you read the following documents. The summary document is ten pages, giving you an overview of the risks and benefits involved, while also giving an overview of the industry and how far along the path to a cure we actually are (click here to download 1.1MB PDF ). The 40 page document provides a more in-depth assessment of what to look for and the questions to ask the medical practitioners. You can read about the ASIA scale, spontaneous recovery and the risks involved in participating in unapproved trials. In addition, it will explain the processes involved in a clinical trial and explain terms such a bias, control and blinding (click here to download 2.4MB PDF ). Both of these papers also give you a checklist of questions to have answered to help make your decision to participate in a clinical trial.

The other four papers describe the guidelines to abide by for medical practitioners to conduct ethical clinical trials in spinal cord injury. Therefore, these are targeted at medical practitioners and are designed to be read and understood by these professionals.

Click here to be transferred to the Spinal Cord journal’s website, where you can download the following four papers:

• Spontaneous recovery after spinal cord injury and statistical power needed for therapeutic clinical trials
• Clinical trial outcome measuresClinical trial inclusion/exclusion criteria and ethics
• Clinical trial design