This calendar will be updated each month. If you have an event you would like to add, please include relevant details in an email to cswannell@mja.com.au
ALM = active learning module
ASM = annual scientific meeting
CPD = continuing professional development
CT = computerised tomography
ECHO/echo = echocardiography
EMAC = effective management of anaesthetic crises
MRI = magnetic resonance imaging
OSCE = objective structured clinical examination
SAT SET = supervisors and trainers for surgical education and training
FEBRUARY
1-28 Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month
1-28 Raynaud’s Awareness Month
2-4 Ramanbhai Foundation 7th International Symposium on Current Trends in Pharmaceutical Sciences “Advances in new drug discovery and development”, Ahmedabad, India
2–5 ANZCA Ultrasound in intensive care, Gold Coast, QLD
2-6 22nd Annual Mayo Clinic Arryhthmias and the Heart: A cardiovascular update, Hawaii, USA
6-8 12th International Winter Arryhthmia School, Blue Mountain, Canada
10-12 Ageing Summit, London, UK
12-15 MRI in the management of breast disease: past, present and future, San Francisco, California, USA
12-15 5th Meeting of the Interoperative Imaging Society, Gurgaon, India
15–19 Australian College of Sports Physicians annual conference, Coffs Harbour, NSW
16-19 Asia-ARVO 2015, Yokohama, Japan
16-22 Australia’s Healthy Weight Week
17-18 2nd World Innovation Summit for Health, Doha, Qatar
17-18 11th Annual Update Conference on Clinical Neurology and Neurophysiology, Tel Aviv, Israel
17–20 20th Annual Radiation Oncology Conference, Hawaii, USA
18 RACS VASM seminar: Perioperative care: how can we do better? Melbourne, VIC
18-21 8th International Conference on Advanced Technologies and Treatments for Diabetes, Paris, France
18-21 American Academy of Orthotists and Prosthetists 41st Annual Meeting and Scientific Symposium, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
19-20 6th Annual National Dementia Congress, Melbourne, VIC
21 Obstetric Intensive Care Symposium, Adelaide, SA
21–23 Australian Symposium on Ultrasound and Regional Anaesthesia, Perth, WA
23–27 ANZCA Basic echocardiography workshop, Gold Coast, QLD
23 Feb-2 Mar DonateLife Week
25-26 Measuring to meet NSQHS standards, Melbourne, VIC
25-28 15th Annual Minimally Invasive Surgery Symposium, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
26-27 Clinical Applications for Stem Cells, Singapore
26-28 Fetal Medicine, Paediatric Gastro, Hepatology and Nutrition Conference, Abu Dhabi, UAE
26 Feb-1 Mar PESI-IAPSCON 2015, Jaipur, India
28 International Rare Disease Day
28 ANZCA X-ray – chest emergency interpretation, Brisbane, QLD
28 Feb–1 Mar ANZCA Critical care imaging interpretation, Brisbane, QLD
MARCH
1-31 National Epilepsy Awareness Month
1-31 Melanoma March
2–4 ANZCA Ultrasound in anaesthetics and critical care, Gold Coast, QLD
2-4 1st International Brain Stimulation Conference, Singapore
2-8 Lymphoedema Awareness Week
2-16 Infectious Diseases Far East Discovery Cruise, Hong Kong, China
4-6 Australian and New Zealand Addiction Conference, Gold Coast, QLD
4-7 International Conference on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, Vancouver, Canada
4-7 25th AGES ASM in conjunction with the ISGE 24th Annual Congress, Melbourne, VIC
5-6 International conference of attachment and trauma informed practice 2015, Melbourne, VIC
5-7 16th World Congress of Pain Clinicians, Miami Beach, Florida, USA
5-7 XII International Workshop of Lower Genital Tract Pathology, Rome, Italy
6 RACP Australasian Sexual Health Conference and ASM, Sydney, NSW
6-7 International Symposium about Current Issues and Controversies in Psychiatry 2015, Barcelona, Spain
6-8 LCANZ 2015 Breastfeeding Conference: More than milk, Brisbane, QLD
8 Narcolepsy Awareness Day (Suddenly Sleepy Saturday)
8-13 Tropical Infectious Diseases 2015, Galveston, Texas, USA
8-14 World Glaucoma Week
8-14 Multiple Birth Awareness Week
9-12 International Conference on Urban Health, Dhaka, Bangladesh
9-15 International Brain Awareness Week
12 World Kidney Day (Australia)
12-14 5th International Neonatology Conference, Abu Dhabi, UAE
12-14 Advanced Prostate Cancer Consensus Conference, St Gallen, Switzerland
12-14 3rd International Congress on Controversies in Rheumatology and Autoimmunity, Sorrento, Italy
13 International Medical Symposium: The future of the medical profession, Melbourne, VIC
13-14 2015 UroGynaecological Society of Australasia ASM and AGM, Sydney, NSW
13-17 ISN World Congress of Nephrology, Cape Town, South Africa
13-20 Coeliac Awareness Week
14–15 ANZCA Ultrasound in critical care, Sydney, NSW
15 ANZCA x-ray emergency interpretation, Sydney, NSW
15-17 6th Association of South-East Asian Pain Societies Congress, Manila, Philippines
15–18 35th Australian Pain Society ASM: Managing Pain from Mechanisms to Policy, Brisbane, QLD
15-18 3rd International One Health Congress, Amsterdam, Netherlands
17-20 35th International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, Brussels, Belgium
17-21 World Conference on Tobacco or Health, Abu Dhabi, UAE
18-20 MEDLAB Asia Pacific, Singapore
18-21 Australasian Society of Infectious Diseases ASM, Auckland, NZ
18-21 5th Biennial Congress of the Asian-Pacific Hepato-Pancreatic-Biliary Association, Singapore
18-22 12th International Conference on Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Diseases, Nice, France
19-20 24th Annual Medico Legal Congress, Sydney NSW
19-21 International Society for Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health Inaugural Meeting, Tempe, Arizona, USA
19-22 4th Global Congress for Consensus in Pediatrics and Child Health, Marrakesh, Morocco
20 World Oral Health Day
20 National Close the Gap Day
20-22 International Meeting in Indigenous Child Health, Ottawa, Canada
20-22 International Medicine in Addiction Conference, Melbourne, VIC
21–22 ANZCA x-ray chest emergency interpretation, Melbourne, VIC
21–22 ANZCA Ultrasound in critical care, Melbourne, VIC
22 Symposium on Fetal Therapy, Shatin, Hong Kong
22-25 6th World Congress on Women’s Mental Health, Tokyo, Japan
22-27 Cardiac Arrhythmia Mechanisms 2015, Lucca, Italy
24-26 Australian Healthcare Week, Sydney, NSW
24-26 International TB Summit, London, UK
25–29 New Zealand Pain Society 40th ASM, Auckland, New Zealand
26 Purple Day for Epilepsy Awareness
26-27 2nd Gulf Liver Summit, Dubai, UAE
26-28 Rehab Tech Asia, Singapore
26-28 9th World Congress on Controversies in Neurology, Budapest, Hungary
26-29 6th World Congress in Controversies in Ophthalmology, Sorrento, Italy
26-29 6th International Conference on Fixed Combination in the Treatment of Hypertension, Dyslipidemia and Diabetes Mellitus, Berlin, Germany
28-29 Master Class Ophthalmic Oncology Conference, Mumbai, India
30-Apr 1 15th Australian Cell Cycle meeting, Sydney, NSW
APRIL
1-4 30th Asia-Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology Congress, Guangzhou, China
2–4 ANZCA Process communication course Part 2, Adelaide, SA
7-11 17th International Neuroscience Winters Conference, Soelden, Austria
8-10 Interprofessional Health, Education and Practice International Conference, Melbourne VIC
9 Wear Green for Premmies Day
10-12 Asian Oncology Summit, Shanghai, China
10-12 Viral Hepatitis 2015, Shanghai, China
10-12 9th Annual Update in Paediatric Emergencies, Noosa, QLD
11 World Parkinson’s Day
11-12 World Congress on Angiogenesis 2015, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
11-14 Urological Society of Australia and New Zealand 68th ASM, Adelaide, SA
12–15 RCOG/RANZCOG Joint World Congress, Brisbane, QLD
12-16 International Congress of the Immunology of Diabetes Society, Munich, Germany
14-16 Obesity Summit, London UK
15-17 World Cornea Congress VII, San Diego, California, USA
15-18 13th World Rural Health Conference 2015, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia
15-18 30th International Conference of Alzheimer’s Disease International, Perth, WA
15-18 14th Asian Australasian Congress of Neurological Surgeons, Jeju, Republic of Korea
15-18 International DIP Symposium on Diabetes, Hypertension, Metabolic Syndrome and Pregnancy, Berlin, Germany
16 Sydney Diabetic Foot Conference, Sydney, NSW
16-17 Burjeel Medicine Update Conference, Abu Dhabi, UAE
16-18 4th World Congress of Dermoscopy, Vienna, Austria
16-19 2nd World Congress on Controversies in Pediatrics (CoPedia), Budapest, Hungary
17-18 Multidisciplinary Spine Oncology Symposium, New York City, New York, USA
17-19 4th Malaysian Reproductive Medicine Congress, Penang, Malaysia
19-22 Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand 18th Annual Congress, Melbourne, VIC
21-25 World Conference on Disaster and Emergency Medicine 2015, Cape Town, South Africa
22-24 Spring 2015 Conference National Council on Rehabilitation, venue TBA
23-25 6th IVI International Congress – Reproductive Medicine and Beyond, Alicante, Spain
23-26 3rd World Congress on Controversies, Debates and Consensus in Bone, Muscle and Joint Diseases, Montreal, Canada
24-25 10th International Kidney Cancer Symposium, Lyon, France
26-29 2015 International Symposium on Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care: Improving the Outcomes, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
27-29 2015 Diabetes Summit, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
27 Apr–1 May ANZCA Basic echocardiography workshop, Gold Coast, QLD
28 Apr-4 May Pneumonia Awareness Week
29 Apr-2 May 13th International Symposium on Myelodysplastic Syndrome, Washington DC, USA
29 Apr-2 May 6th NWAC World Anaesthesia Convention, Vancouver, Canada
29 Apr-2 May Asian Pacific Society of Cardiology Congress, Abu Dhabi, UAE
- Cate Swannell