Volume 205 Issue 9

Digital transformation has started in Australian hospitals

Clair Sullivan · Andrew Staib · Stephen Ayre · Michael Daly · Renea Collins · Michael Draheim · Richard Ashby

Better care coordination, e-health tools and funding systems are essential for chronic disease management

Tim Fountaine · Christine C Bennett

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John R Attia · Michael P Jones

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John R Attia · Michael P Jones · Belinda Suthers

Older people need GPs who know them well

C Dimity Pond

Bookings of GPs have increased, particularly for people in residential aged care facilities

Angela Joe · Judy A Lowthian · Marianne Shearer · Lyle R Turner · Bianca Brijnath · Christopher Pearce · Colette Browning · Danielle Mazza

Changes to trauma systems may be benefiting patients in rural and regional NSW

Michael M Dinh · Kate Curtis · Rebecca J Mitchell · Kendall J Bein · Zsolt J Balogh · Ian Seppelt · Colin Deans · Rebecca Ivers · Saartje Berendsen Russell · Oran Rigby

Managing smoke should be integral to planning hazard reduction programs

Richard A Broome · Fay H Johnston · Joshua Horsley · Geoffrey G Morgan

Given current scientific evidence, public health management rather than prosecution should be considered where appropriate

Mark Boyd · David Cooper · Elizabeth A Crock · Levinia Crooks · Michelle L Giles · Andrew Grulich · Sharon R Lewin · David Nolan · Trent Yarwood

There is no convincing evidence that classic Lyme disease occurs in Australia

Peter J Collignon · Gary D Lum · Jennifer MB Robson

New immunotherapies are helping in the fight against advanced cancers but also present new adverse event management challenges

Jack M Bourke · Michael O'Sullivan · Muhammad A Khattak

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Albert S Reece · Gary K Hulse

In reply

Jennifer H Martin · Yvonne Bonomo

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Paul M Dietze · Brendan Quinn · Caitlin Hughes

In reply

Rebecca McKetin · Louisa Degenhardt · Wayne D Hall

Dr Liz Sigston is an ENT surgeon, breast cancer survivor, single mother of two, CEO, entrepreneur, coach, mentor and advocate. It’s a busy, balanced life …

Cate Swannell

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. The full version of the calendar is available online at www.mja.com.au November 2016 8-10 Lowitja Institute International Indigenous Health and Wellbeing Conference, Melbourne, VIC 8-10 HIMAA NCCH National Conference, Health Information Management: At The Heart of Healthcare, Melbourne, VIC 8-11 2016 Asia Pacific Coroners Society Conference, Perth, WA 9 National Health Summit on Obesity Run by The RACGP, Melbourne, VIC 9 RACGP Perform CPR – A Workshop for GPs, Melbourne, VIC 9-11 Effective Management of Anaesthetic Crises (EMAC), Wellington, NZ 11 Emergency Response Updates – Managing Emergencies in Obstetrics, St Leonards, NSW 11-12 1st Australia and New Zealand Conference on Sarcopenia and Frailty (Australian Institute for Musculoskeletal Science, Melbourne, VIC 11-13 General Practice Conference and Exhibition, Melbourne, VIC 11-13 Australia and New Zealand Vulvovaginal Society Biennial Scientific Conference and Education and Update Day, Melbourne, VIC 12 RACGP Psychodynamic principles workshop for GPs (Part 2), Melbourne, VIC 12-13 RACGP Clinical Emergency Management Program: Advanced, Brisbane, QLD 13 RACGP Procedural Skills for IMGs Preparing for RMO Roles, Sydney, NSW 13-15 55th Australian Society for Medical Research Scientific Conference: Next Generation Healthcare: Merging Biology and Technology, Gold Coast, QLD 13-16 HAA 2016 ASM, Melbourne, VIC 14-16 2016 Australasian Sexual Health Conference, Adelaide, SA 15 Futile Care and End of Life Matters Symposium, Perth, WA 15-17 43rd ASM of the Clinical Oncology Society of Australia and the 38th ASM of the Australia and New Zealand Breast Trials Group, Gold Coast, QLD 16-17 2016 Advance Care Planning National Conference, Melbourne, VIC 16 RACGP CPR Certification Course, Perth, WA 16 Panel discussion – The Role of Women in the Future of Health Care NSW, Sydney, NSW 16-18 2016 Australasian HIV & AIDS Conference, Adelaide, SA 16-18 Australia and New Zealand Spinal Cord Society ASM, Adelaide, SA 17-19 Paramedics Australasia International Conference (PAIC 2016), Auckland, NZ 17-19 EMAC, Melbourne, VIC 18 Perioperative Medicine Symposium 2016, Melbourne, VIC 18 RACGP Clinical Emergency Management Program: Intermediate, Melbourne, VIC 18-20 Australian Menopause Society 20th Congress, Perth, WA 19 2016 Perioperative Medicine Symposium, Melbourne, VIC 19 2016 Sydney Colorectal Surgical Meeting, Sydney, NSW 19-20 8th Multidisciplinary Breast Cancer Conference, Perth, WA 19-20 RACGP Clinical Emergency Management Program: Advanced, Melbourne, VIC 19-20 Annual Australian Clinical Genomics Symposium, Sydney, NSW 19-23 48th RANZCO Annual Scientific Congress: Where Innovation and Culture Meet, Melbourne, VIC 20-24 33rd Australian College of Emergency Medicine ASM, Queenstown, NZ 21-22 16th Clinical Nursing and Nurse Education Conference, Melbourne, VIC 21-22 9th Global Neuroscience Conference, Melbourne, VIC 21-23 18th Asia-Pacific Dental and Oral Congress, Melbourne, VIC 23 5th Annual NHMRC Symposium on Research Translation: Embedding Research Into Health Care: Building A Culture of Quality, Melbourne, VIC 23 RACGP Grand Round Series 2016 – Session 4, Perth, WA 23-25 National Primary Health Care Conference, Melbourne, VIC 24-25 World Ophthalmology Conference, Melbourne, VIC 24-25 12th Asia Pacific Global Summit and Expo on Vaccines and Vaccination, Melbourne, VIC 25-27 Queensland Hand Surgery Society Conference, Gold Coast, QLD 26 2016 RACP Northern Territory Annual Scientific Meeting, Darwin, NT 26 Symposium on Retinopathy of Prematurity, Crawley, WA 26-27 RACP WA Rural Physicians’ Workshop 2016, Nedlands, WA 28-29 9th International Conference on Obesity Medicine, Melbourne, VIC 28-29 10th Asia-Pacific Dermatology Conference, Melbourne, VIC 27-29 Australian and New Zealand Falls Prevention Society Conference 2016, Melbourne, VIC 29 RACGP CPR Workshop, Brisbane, QLD 30 RACP Victorian Further Education & Training for Paediatricians & Advanced Trainees (VicFEAT) 2016, Melbourne, VIC December 2016 1 World AIDS Day 1 mHIVE World AIDS Day Symposium 2016, Melbourne, VIC 1 HSRAANZ AGM and Symposium: Health Services Research – Where to From Here?, Canberra, ACT 1-2 IIC Perth: Hot Topics in Infection & Immunity in Children – The Perth Course, Crawley, WA 1-2 Current Concepts in Critical Care, Brisbane, QLD 1-3 Global Obstetric Update 2016, Melbourne, VIC 1-3 2016 International Indigenous Allied Health Conference, Cairns, QLD 3 RACGP Psychodynamic Principles Workshop for GPs (Part 3), Melbourne, VIC 3 RACGP Clinical Emergency Management Program: Intermediate, Sydney, NSW 3 RACGP CPR Certification Course, Perth, WA 4 Neuropathology in Research, Hobart, TAS 5-7 The STOP Domestic Violence Conference, Brisbane, QLD 7-10 International Congress of Behavioural Medicine, Melbourne, VIC 8 RACGP Perform CPR – A Workshop for GPs, Melbourne, VIC 10 Ovarian Cancer Symposium: What You Need to Know, Sydney, NSW 15 RACGP CPR Certification Course, Perth, WA January 2017 14-15 Yardsticks in Surgical Pathology, Macquarie Park, NSW February 2017 3-6 MRI in Practice, Sydney, NSW 4-5 ANZGIG Scientific Meeting, Brisbane, QLD 5-8 ARVO – Asia, Brisbane, QLD 7-14 Australasian College of Sport and Exercise Physicians ASM: Keeping You Active, Gold Coast, QLD 11-12 ARGANZ 2017, Darling Harbour, NSW 20-21 Conflict Resolution and Motivation, Rotorua, NZ 23 Research in Routine Diagnostic Laboratory, Darling Harbour, NSW 23-25 26th ASM of the Australasian Brachytherapy Group, Melbourne, VIC 24-25 Australia and New Zealand Strabismus Society – Squint Club Annual Meeting, Graft, NZ 24-26 Pathology Update 2017, Sydney, NSW March 2017 1-3 ACEM Evidence Review in Emergency Medicine 2017, Wollongong, NSW 2-4 Annual Scientific Meeting of the New Zealand Pain Society, Nelson, NZ 3-5 Managing Obstretric Emergencies and Trauma, Wellington, NZ 6-9 TROG ASM, Auckland, NZ 10 International Medical Symposium, Melbourne, VIC 15-17 Sydney International Endoscopy Symposium 2017, Incorporating the Westmead Endoscopy Symposium Nurses’ Workshop, Sydney, NSW 24-26 2nd International Conference on Chest, Melbourne, VIC 24-26 International Medicine in Addiction Conference 2017, Sydney, NSW 24-28 International Society of Ocular Oncology Biennial Conference and the RANZCO-NSW ASM, Sydney, NSW 26-28 2017 Queensland AOA ASM, Noosa, QLD 26-29 12th International Congress on Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (LUPUS 2017) and the 7th Asian Congress on Autoimmunity (ACA 2017), Melbourne, VIC 29 A Day with Dan Siegel: the New Frontiers of Interpersonal Neurobiology, Newcastle, NSW April 2017 3-7 15th World Congress on Public Health: Voices, Vision, Action, Melbourne, VIC 4-7 LIME Connection VII: The Future of Indigenous Health Education: Leadership, Collaboration, Curriculum, Melbourne, VIC 7-8 2nd International Lymphoma Radiation Oncology Group Educational Conference: Radiotherapy in Modern Lymphoma Management, Melbourne, VIC 8-9 Neuromodulation Society of Australia and New Zealand 12th Annual Scientific Meeting, Adelaide, SA 9-12 2017 Australian Pain Society 37th ASM, Adelaide, SA 21-23 Trauma 2017 Conference: Bridging the Gaps in Trauma Care, Melbourne, VIC 26-29 14th National Rural Health Conference: A World Of Rural Health, Cairns, QLD 30 Apr-3 May A World of Rural Health Conference 2017, Cairns, QLD May 5 Vitiligo Master Class, Sydney, NSW 6-7 21st ASM of the Australasian Musculoskeletal Imaging Group, Melbourne, VIC 6-9 Australasian College of Dermatologists ASM, Sydney, NSW 8-10 RACP Congress 2017: Bringing specialists together, sharing knowledge, building skills, Melbourne, VIC 8-12 Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Annual Scientific Congress 2017, Adelaide, SA 10-12 Airway Management SIG Meeting 2017, Brisbane, QLD 10-12 Australian and New Zealand Society for Geriatric Medicine ASM 2017, Rotorua, NZ 12-13 RANZCO New Zealand Branch ASM 2017, Paihia, NZ 19-20 Australian Symposium organised by the Falk Foundation: Mucosal Microbiome and Mucosal or Systemic Dysfunction: Mechanisms, Clinical Manifestations and Interventions, Brisbane, QLD 20-21 Neurorad 2017, Melbourne, VIC June 1-2 NSW branch of Australian Resuscitation Council and Take Heart: Resus @ the Park, Sydney, NSW 2-4 41st ASM of the Australasian Division of the International Academy of Pathology, Darling Harbour, NSW 3-4 EMCORE 2017, Melbourne, VIC 15-17 Cancer Nurses Society of Australia Annual Congress, Adelaide, SA 20-22 Tinnitus 2017, Melbourne 2017 26-27 2017 No More Harm National Conference, Brisbane, QLD July 6-9 ANZSNR ASM 2017, Darwin, NT 7-8 2017 Rural SIG Meeting, Broome, WA 11-13 Interventional Radiology Society of Australasia ASM 2017, Port Douglas, QLD 13-15 RANZCO Paediatric Special Interest Group Scientific Meeting, Sydney, NSW 17-19 12th Asian Obesity Specialists and Endocrinologists Annual Meeting, Melbourne, VIC 23-26 Cardiac Thoracic Vascular and Perfusion SIG Meeting, Queenstown, NZ 24-25 17th International Conference and Exhibition on Nanomedicine and Nanotechnology in Health Care, Brisbane, QLD 24-26 8th World Conference on Pharmacology and Toxicology, Melbourne, VIC 26-29 Australasian College for Emergency Medicine Winter Symposium, Barossa Valley, SA 31 Jul-2 Aug World Congress on Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Melbourne, VIC August 11-13 ACD Rural Dermatology Meeting, Broome, WA 16-19 NZDSI Annual Conference, Queenstown, NZ September 8-10 Joint Neuroanaesthesia and Trauma SIG Meeting, Byron Bay, NSW 9-10 ANZCA/ASA SA NT Burnell Jose Visiting Professionals ASM, Rowland Flat, SA 14 RUOK? Day 14-17 Neuro-Ophthalmology Society of Australia 33rd Clinical and Scientific Meeting and NeuroVision Training Weekend, Sydney, NSW 16-17 ANZAAG Symposium, Auckland, NZ October 2-4 16th Global Pathologists Annual Meeting, Melbourne, VIC 4-6 Global Alcohol Policy Conference, Melbourne, VIC 8-12 AOA 77th ASM and AGM, Adelaide, SA 16-18 3rd International Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, Melbourne, VIC 18-21 9th World Congress of Melanoma and 14th International Congress of the Society for Melanoma Research, Brisbane, QLD 24-27 Australian Association of Practice Managers National Conference, Perth, WA 26-28 GP17 RACGP Annual conference, Sydney, NSW 28 Oct-1 Nov 49th RANZCO Annual Scientific Congress, Perth, WA November 1-3 10th Health Services and Policy Research Conference, Gold Coast, QLD 2-4 Perioperative Medicine SIG Congress 2017 8-11 NZ Anaesthesia ASM 2017, Rotorua, NZ 17-19 National Histology Conference, Hobart, TAS 19-23 Australasian College for Emergency Medicine, 34th ASM, Sydney, NSW (provisional dates) 20-22 9th International Conference on Immunopharmacology and Immunotoxicology, Melbourne, VIC 20-22 Psychiatry and Mental Health 2017, Melbourne, VIC 20-24 Psychiatry Update 2017, Christchurch, NZ 23-26 Asian Pacific Society of Respirology Congress 2017, Sydney, NSW February 2018 9-10 4th International 4 Corners of Cardiology Meeting, Melbourne, VIC March 2-4 Pathology Update 2018, Sydney, NSW 8-11 APSCVIR 2018, Auckland, NZ April 11-13 2nd International Selection in the Health Professions Conference, Melbourne, VIC May 7-11 Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Annual Scientific Congress 2018 with the ANZ College of Anaesthetists, Sydney, NSW 18-22 Australasian College of Dermatologists ASM, Gold Coast, QLD November 18-22 Australasian College for Emergency Medicine, 35th ASM, Perth, WA November 2021 10-13 XIII International Congress of Dermatology, Melbourne, VIC December TBA FIGO World Congress of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Sydney, NSW

Cate Swannell