ANZCA Bulletin June 2011 - Australian and New Zealand College of ...

The 11th Biennial Cardiothoracic,
Vascular and Perfusion Special
Interest Group Conference
October 2-5, 2011
Hamilton Island, Queensland
The CVP SIG Executive takes great
pleasure in inviting you to its 11th
Biennial Continuing Education
Meeting to be held at Hamilton Island
Resort from October 2-5, 2011. The
program will deliver a host of expert
speakers from within the CVP SIG
membership and several invited guest
speakers.
We will be covering a broad range
of topics with a specifi c focus on the
upcoming challenges for the next
decade. Several sessions will be
structured to include audience
participation in order to bring the
many expert registrants into the
discussion of diffi cult and
controversial issues.
Our keynote speaker this year is
Professor Marco Ranucci who is the
Head of Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia
and Director of Clinical Research at
the Istituto Policlinico S.Donato Italy.
Professor Ranucci is the current
President of the Italian Association of
Cardiothoracic Anaesthesiologists
and the Past-President of EACTA.
We look forward to welcoming
Marco to Australia.
Professor Paul Myles is well known
to many of us, he is arguably one
of the most influential anaesthesia
researchers in the southern
hemisphere. His passion for
evidence based medicine and
large randomised controlled trials
has legitimised the anaesthesia
community into mainstream medical/
scientifi c practice. Dr Neville Gibbs is
the current Editor of Anaesthesia and
Intensive Care and will speak to the
meeting once again.
The meeting will encourage Fellows
and registrars to submit posters for
assessment. A signifi cant prize is on
offer and all researchers will have the
unique opportunity to discuss their
projects with Professor Ranucci, Dr
Gibbs and Professor Myles, all of
whom have signifi cant experience as
journal reviewers. The CVP SIG
Executive welcomes posters from all
Fellows and in particular from younger
Fellows and registrars. It is a great
opportunity for Fellows to have their
work reviewed by experienced
reviewers.
Other invited speakers include
Dr Stephen Webb, a cardiothoracic
anaesthetist from Papworth, Dr Tony
Walton, an interventional cardiologist
from Melbourne and Dr Trevor Fayers,
a cardiac surgeon from Brisbane.
We plan to have breakout sessions
covering perfusion simulation, Fellow
training and 3D echocardiography.
The last day of the meeting will be
devoted to an echocardiography
symposium.
It all promises to be a great meeting
at a good venue.
I look forward to seeing you all in
Hamilton Island in October.
Regards,
David Daly
For further information, please contact
the conference organiser:
Kirsty O’Connor
T: +61 3 8517 5318
E: ko’connor@anzca.edu.au
Or visit the meeting website:
www.internal.anzca.edu.au/fellows/
sig/cvp-sig/cvp-2011-meeting/
the-11th.html
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