2017 Conferences in Australia and New Zealand

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

2017

September

1              Epworth HealthCare 8th Obstetrics & Gynaecology Clinical Institute Symposium, Melbourne, VIC

1              QRME Ltd Cultural Safety Training: Developing positive, respectful relationships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, create a culturally safe practice, administer the PIP – Indigenous Health Incentive, Toowoomba, QLD

1-2          Australia and New Zealand Academy for Eating Disorders 2017 Conference, Darling Harbour, NSW

1-2         Australasian Academy of Facial Plastic Surgery (AAFPS) & Blepharoplasty Australia 3^rd Triennial Masters Symposium on Blepharoplasty and Facial Rejuvenation, Sydney, NSW

1-3          General Practice Conference and Exhibition, Brisbane, QLD

1-3          Australian Society of Cosmetic Dermatologists Symposium, Melbourne, VIC

2-3          QRME Ltd Advanced Lift Support: build participants’ knowledge, skills and confidence when responding to rural general practice emergencies, Toowoomba, QLD

4              Mental Health in Education Summit, Sydney, NSW           

5-7          11^th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Environmental Health Conference, Cairns, QLD

6              Paediatric Nephrology Update, Darwin, NT

6              VicFEAT: Paediatrics Further Education and Training 2017, Melbourne, VIC

6-7          6^th Annual International Emergency Care Conference, Melbourne, VIC

6-8          2017 Australian Palliative Care Conference: Connection with community, Adelaide, SA

6-8          10^th ANZSIN Meeting, Darwin, NT

8              The Alfred Emergency and Trauma Centre Resuscitation Update, Melbourne, VIC

7-9          New Zealand Sexual Health Society 39^th Annual Conference, Christchurch, NZ

8-10       Joint Neuroanaesthesia and Trauma SIG Meeting, Byron Bay, NSW

8-10       International Cornea and Contact Lens 2017 Congress: See the light, Sydney, NSW

9-10       ANZCA/ASA SA NT Burnell Jose Visiting Professionals ASM: Anaesthesia and you: understanding human factors and optimising performance, Rowland Flat, SA

12-14     AACB 55^th Annual Scientific Conference: Time sensitive testing, Melbourne, VIC

13-15     28^th Annual Conference of the Australasian Society of Clinical Immunology and Allergy, Auckland, NZ

14           RUOK? Day

14           2017 Innovations in Cancer Treatment and Care Conference, Sydney, NSW

14-15     3^rd Australian Nursing and Midwifery Conference, Newcastle, NSW

14-16     Australian Doctors’ Health Conference, Sydney, NSW

14-16     Internal Medicine Society of Australia and New Zealand Annual Conference 2017, Hobart, TAS

14-17     Neuro-Ophthalmology Society of Australia 33^rd Clinical and Scientific Meeting and NeuroVision Training Weekend, Sydney, NSW

15-17     RANZP Faculty of Psychotherapy Conference 2017, Ayers Rock, NT

15-17     ASBDD Biennial Conference: Better treatments, better outcomes, Melbourne, VIC

15-17     ANZAAG Symposium: Perioperative drug hypersensitivity – working together to keep patients safe, Auckland, NZ

16           Epworth Healthcare Perioperative Medicine Symposium, Melbourne, VIC

17-20     2017 Rehabilitation Medicine Society of Australia and New Zealand 2^nd ASM, Canberra, ACT

20           11^th Florey International Postgraduate Research Conference, Adelaide, SA

20-22     6^th APAC Forum: Lead the change you want to see, Gold Coast, QLD

20-23     AIDA Conference 2017: Family, unity, success, 20 years strong, Pokolbin, NSW

21-22     Big Data and Analytics Innovation Summit: Maximise the Potential of Your Big Data Initiatives, Sydney, NSW

22-23     Practical Management for Clinicians with Leadership Responsibilities, Queenstown, NZ

23           Trauma Radiology Course, Brisbane, QLD

25-27     RANZP New Zealand National Conference 2017: Uniting the pathways, Tauranga, NZ

25-27     9^th International Global Virus Network Meeting, Melbourne, VIC

27-29     Joint 2017 ACHSM/ACHS Asia-Pacific Congress: The winds of change, adjust your sails, Sydney, NSW

29-30     Annual Scientific and Education Meeting of the Paediatric Society of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD

October

3              RACP member seminar: Obesity, Canberra, ACT

3-4          2017 NDARC Annual Research Symposium, Sydney, NSW

4-6          Global Alcohol Policy 2017 Conference: Mobilising for change: Alcohol policy and the evidence for action, Melbourne, VIC

4-6          Australasian Gastro-intestinal Trials Group 19^th Annual Scientific Meeting, Cairns, QLD

4-6          2017 Obesity Surgery Society of Australia and New Zealand Conference, Adelaide, SA

5-7          The Ramesh Nagappan Acute Care Medicine Course, Melbourne, VIC

6-8          AORA ASM 2017, Adelaide, SA

6-8          ASUM 47^th Annual Scientific Meeting, Melbourne, VIC

7-8          RACMA Management for Clinicians – Rehabilitation for Physicians workshop, Brisbane, QLD

7-10       ASA National Scientific Congress 2017, Perth, WA

8-12       AOA 77^th ASM and AGM, Adelaide, SA

9-11       Cancer Council Victoria Clinical Consultation Skills Education Retreat for Oncology Clinicians, Torquay, VIC

9-13       Activity Based Funding Conference 2017 and 33rd Patient Classification Systems International Conference 2017, Sydney, NSW

10           ASSBI 2017 webinar series: Digital health and e-health technology for ill and injured children and their families

11-13     42^nd Australian and New Zealand ASM in Intensive Care and the 23^rd Annual Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care Conference: ICU: Thinking outside the flags, Gold Coast, QLD

12-14     The Australian and New Zealand Head and Neck Cancer Society ASM, Brisbane, QLD

12-15     2017 Combined Orthopaedic Knee Societies Meeting, Noosa, QLD

13-14     Neonatal Organ Donation Workshop, Sydney, NSW

13-15     21^st AMS Conference: Menopause: exploring the evidence, Sydney, NSW

13-16     RCPA 47^th Annual Scientific and Business Meeting, Canberra, ACT

12-14     APELSO 2017: ECMO and beyond (the future of mechanical support), Gold Coast, QLD

14-15    RANZCP Victorian Branch Conference, Marysville, VIC

16-18     3^rd International Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, Melbourne, VIC

18-19     7^th National Borderline Personality Disorder Conference 2017: From stigma, to strength, Perth, WA

18-21     9th World Congress of Melanoma and 14^th International Congress of the Society for Melanoma Research, Brisbane, QLD

18-21     RACMA 2017 Conference: Past reflections, future directions, Melbourne, VIC

19           Neurodevelopmental and Behavioural Paediatric Society of Australasia Leadership Development Workshop, Sydney, NSW

19-21     Rural Medicine Australia Conference, Melbourne, VIC

19-22     RANZP Faculty of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 2017: Growing minds: The early origins of mental health and disorder, Adelaide, SA

19-22     2017 RANZCR ASM: Explore the extraordinary, Perth, WA

20           Crisis Management in Obstetric Anaesthesia and Neonatal Resuscitation, Sunshine, VIC

20          

20-21     ASID Introduction to infection control and antimicrobial stewardship 2-day course, Melbourne, VIC

21-22     Australasian College of Legal Medicine Annual Scientific Meeting: The Law and Ethics of Therapeutics, Perth, WA

21-22     Update on Cardiac Arrhythmias and Devices, Sydney, NSW

22           Epworth HealthCare Seventh Cardiac Sciences Clinical Institute Symposium, Melbourne, VIC

23           10^th Asian Conference on Pharmacoepidemiology, Brisbane, QLD

23-24     10^th COGNO Annual Scientific Meeting, Melbourne, VIC

24-27     Australian Association of Practice Managers National Conference: The magic of management, Perth, WA

26-28     GP17 RACGP Annual conference, Sydney, NSW

26-28     SPANZA 2017 Conference, Perth, WA

27-28     6^th Annual Neuropsychiatry and Behavioural Neurology Conference, Sydney NSW

27-28     RACP Northern Territory ASM, Alice Springs, NT

28-29     ASID Clinical research network spring meeting, Melbourne, VIC

28 Oct-1 Nov      49^th RANZCO Annual Scientific Congress, Perth, WA

29-31     ISPE’s 10^th Asian Conference on Pharmacoepidemiology, Brisbane, QLD

29 Oct-1 Nov      RANZCOG Annual Scientific Meeting, Auckland, NZ

November

1-3          10^th Health Services and Policy Research Conference: Shifting priorities: balancing acute and primary care services, Gold Coast, QLD

1-3          Epilepsy Society of Australia 31^st Annual Scientific Meeting, Perth, WA

2-4          Perioperative Medicine SIG Congress 2017: Cancer surgery and perioperative medicine: prehab to rehab, Sydney, NSW

3              Swinburne Body Image and Related Disorders (BIRD) Conference, Hawthorn campus, Melbourne, VIC

4              APS/ISPAD 10^th Annual Diabetes Workshop, Gold Coast, QLD

5-6          Hepatitis C in Drug and Alcohol Settings Education Program, Canberra, ACT

7-8          20^th Anniversary Showcase: National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance, Sydney, NSW

8              Hammersmith Infant Neurological Examination (HINE) workshop, TBA

8-11       NZ Anaesthesia ASM 2017: Fear and excitement, Rotorua, NZ

9-10       RANZP Faculty of Psychiatry of Old Age Conference 2017, Queenstown, NZ

9-10       Hot topics in cerebral palsy research forum, Brisbane, QLD

10-12     General Practice Conference and Exhibition, Melbourne, VIC

12-15     22^nd Australian and New Zealand Prevocational Medical Education Forum: Singing from the same songsheet, Brisbane, QLD

13-14     Global Experts Meeting on Gastroenterology, Melbourne, VIC

13-15     Clinical Oncology Society of Australia 2017 ASM: Immunotherapy: molecules and mountains, Sydney, NSW

13-19     Antibiotic Awareness Week

14-15     6^th Annual NHMRC Symposium on Research Translation, co-hosted with the Lowitja Institute, Brisbane, QLD

14-16     2017 Annual Scientific Meeting of the Paediatric Society of New Zealand, Christchurch, NZ

15-17     Hospital in the Home Society of Australasia ASM: Changes, challenges and opportunity, Melbourne, VIC

15-17     2017 Australian & New Zealand Spinal Cord Society Annual Scientific Meeting, Brisbane, QLD

16-17     National NDIS Mental Health Conference, Sydney, NSW

16-18     ASID NZ 2017 Annual Meeting, Dunedin, NZ

17           RACP Victoria Family Christmas Lecture: Changing face of medicine as reflected in the cardiovascular health of US Presidents since World War II, Melbourne, VIC

17-18     Annual Australian Clinical Genomics Symposium 2017, Melbourne, VIC

17-18     Placebo Mechanisms Symposium, Sydney, NSW

17-19     National Histology Conference, Hobart, TAS

18           ACLM Cause of Death Certificate Workshop: Death on the Riviera, Brisbane, QLD

18-19     WA Rural Physicians’ Workshop 2017, Nedlands, WA

18-19     2017 Australasian Custodial Health Medical Officers Conference, Sydney, NSW

19-23     Australasian College for Emergency Medicine 34th ASM: Impossible is just a perspective, Sydney, NSW

20-21     11^th International Conference on Immunopharmacology and Immunotoxicology: Novel development and applications in immunology and immunopharmacology, Melbourne, VIC

20-22     28^th International Conference on Psychiatry and Mental Health 2017: Modernising and accomplishing mental wellness through psychology and psychiatric empathy, Melbourne, VIC

20-24     Psychiatry Update 2017, Christchurch, NZ

22-24     Rapid Stimulation Training and Essential Procedural Skills (STEPS) Course, Frankston, VIC

23-26     Asian Pacific Society of Respirology Congress 2017, Sydney, NSW

24-25     Practical Management for Clinicians with Leadership Responsibilities, Sydney, NSW

25           Monash Medicine and the Media Workshop, Melbourne, VIC

25-26    Investigations in medicine course for RACP trainees 2017, Melbourne, VIC

26-29     APCCN 2017 – Asia Pacific Conference on Clinical Nutrition, Adelaide, SA

27-29     6^th National Closing the Gap Indigenous Health Conference, and 2017 National Indigenous Mental Health Conference, Cairns, QLD

30 Nov-2 Dec     Mercy Perinatal Global Obstetrics Update 2017, Melbourne, VIC

December

1-2          International Summit on Infectious Diseases and Antibiotics, Brisbane, QLD

1-3          ResHealth2017: 3rd International Respiratory and Sleep Medicine Conference, Adelaide, SA

2-3          ACLM Expert Witness Training Program, Brisbane, QLD

3-6          Australasian Neuroscience Society annual meeting, Sydney, NSW

3-8          MICROMON Molecular Biology Techniques 2017, Melbourne, VIC

6              AHHA Data and Innovation Collaboration Network Meeting, Dubbo, NSW

6-8          Sydney Cardiovascular Symposium 2017, Sydney, NSW

7-8          CPET and Prehabilitation Symposium: Incorporating POETTS (UK) accredited CPET course, Melbourne, VIC

7-12       Melbourne Neuro and Orthopaedic MRI Course, Melbourne, VIC

8-10       Entheogenesis Australis Outdoor Psychedelic Symposium, Eildon, VIC

12           ASSBI 2017 Webinar Series - Rare and Unusual Syndromes

2018

February

4-8       World Congress on Phlebology, Melbourne, VIC

7-9       National Indigenous Men’s Health Conference, National Indigenous Women’s Wellbeing Conference, Sydney, NSW

9-10     4^th International 4 Corners of Cardiology Meeting, Melbourne, VIC

17           4^th Australian Paediatric Society Allergy Masterclass, Melbourne, VIC

23-24   PICET Obstetric Intensive Care Symposium, Adelaide, SA

25-28   World Psychiatric Association 2018 Thematic Conference: Innovation in Psychiatry: Effective interventions for health and society, Melbourne, VIC

26 Feb-2 Mar  Leadership and Innovation in Health 2017, Melbourne, VIC

March

2-4          Pathology Update 2018, Sydney, NSW

2-4          Medical Parents of Australia and New Zealand Conference, Melbourne, VIC

8-11       APSCVIR 2018, Auckland, NZ

25-28     12^th International Symposium on Medical Information and Communication Technology, Sydney, NSW

28-30     7^th National Indigenous Domestic Violence Conference, Gold Coast, QLD

April

7-8          2018 Neuromodulation Society of Australia and New Zealand 13^th ASM, Sydney, NSW

11-13    2^nd International Selection in the Health Professions Conference, Melbourne, VIC

18-20     New Zealand Population Health Congress 2018, Auckland, NZ

22-27     Hunter Paediatric Society Conference, Palm Cove, QLD

May

7-11       Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Annual Scientific Congress 2018: Reflecting on what really matters, Sydney, NSW

13-17     RANZP Congress 2018: Becoming well together: Partnerships in health, Auckland, NZ

18-22     Australasian College of Dermatologists ASM, Gold Coast, QLD

20-23     5^th Asian and Oceanic Regional Congress on Radiation Protection, Melbourne, VIC

30 May-1 Jun     National Medicines Symposium, Canberra, ACT

June

7-9 Rural Doctors Association of Queensland 29th Annual Conference, TBC

August

15-18     World Congress on Cancers of the Skin, Sydney, NSW

September

13-14 NOSA Annual Meeting 2018, Melbourne, VIC

15-16 Neurovision, Melbourne, VIC

October

6-9          ASA National Scientific Congress 2018, Adelaide, SA

10-12     IHF World Hospital Congress 2018, Brisbane, QLD

25-28     2018 RANZCR ASM, Canberra, ACT

November

8-10       New Zealand Anaesthesia Annual Scientific Meeting 2018, Auckland, NZ

8-10       RANZCP Faculty of Psychiatry of Old Age and the Asian Society Against Dementia Conference 2018, Melbourne, VIC

13-15     Clinical Oncology Society of Australia 2018 ASM, Perth, WA

18-22     Australasian College for Emergency Medicine, 35th ASM, Perth, WA

26-28     1^st International Motor Impairment Conference, Sydney, NSW

2019 November

17-19 10th World Congress of Itch, Sydney, NSW

2021 November

10-13 XIII International Congress of Dermatology, Melbourne, VIC

December

TBA FIGO World Congress of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Sydney, NSW