The Warren Jones Oration provides an opportunity to bring a speaker of international significance to Fremantle Hospital each year.

We were exceptionally fortunate that the first Warren Jones Orator was Nobel Laureate Professor Barry Marshall, Patron of the Fremantle Hospital Medical Research Foundation, on the topic of his 2005 Nobel Prize-winning research, Helicobacter pylori.

The second Warren Jones Oration in 2006 was provided to a capacity crowd by Bruce R Bacon, Professor of Gastroenterology at St Louis University and co-discoverer of the haemachromatosis gene.

The third Warren Jones Oration was given by Prof Bernard J Gersh MD of the esteemed Mayo Clinic on the topic "A Clinical Perspective of Cardiac Stem Cell Repair Therapy: Challenges and Pitfalls" on 15 May 2008 at the University of Western Australia.

The 2009 Oration was given by Prof Michael Good, Chairman of the NHMRC and Director of the Queensland Institute of Medical Research on the topic developing Vaccines for the World's Poorest".

The 2010 Oration will be given by Nobel Laureate Prof Peter Doherty. Topic to be advised.

The Oration will be held at the University Club, University of Western Australia, 6pm 16 November 2010. Registration is free but bookings are essential. 9431 2133 or email MRF@health.wa.gov.au