ANZCA Bulletin - March 2006 - Australian and New Zealand College ...

34 Bulletin March 2006
Report
9th Annual Registrars Meeting
On Saturday 29th October the 9th Annual
Registrars Meeting was held at 50 Water Street
Spring Hill. The 15 presentations included 14
from in Queensland and one from New Zealand.
In total, 45 people were in attendance on the day
and it was a great success.
Adjudicators this year were, Dr Genevieve
Goulding, Dr Michael Fanshawe, Dr Martin
Wakefield and Dr Tim O'Brien. These doctors
were representative of our 3 major tertiary
hospitals, Royal Brisbane and Womens' Hospital,
the Princess Alexandra Hospital and the Mater
Public Hospital, as well as Dr Michael Fanshawe
who is in private practice. Dr Diana Webster
generously donated her time as Time Keeper and
did a great job of ensuring the day ran to time.
All presentations were of high quality and the
winner of the "Tess Cramond Award" was Dr
Frank Phillips, with his presentation titled
"Syringe Injection of Blood and Haemolysis of
Red Blood Cells".
Axxon Health generously sponsored the second
place award and named it in honour of Dr
Michael Beem in recognition of his contribution
to anaesthesia in Queensland. Michael and his
wife Sylvia were able to join us in the afternoon
for presentations with Dr Beem presenting his
talk on welfare of anaesthetists to the group. The
adjudicators agreed the winner to be Dr David
Trappet who presented "The Effects of an
Epidural Blood Patch on CSF Absorption"
We were delighted that Professor Tess Cramond,
Dr Michael Beem and Dr Chris Beem Chairman of
Axxon Health, were able to attend to present the
awards for first and second place and thanked
them for their continued support of Anaesthesia
Education in Queensland
The day was opened by the Queensland ASA
Chairman, Dr Martin Culwick and closed by our
Queensland Regional Committee Formal Projects
Officer Dr Pal Sivalingam.
On behalf of everyone I would again like to thank
Ms Anne Strasburg & Ms Sharon Miethke for their
organisation and administrative assistance.
Dr Pal Sivalingam
Formal Projects Officer (Qld)
Queensland Regional Committee
Award Winners (L-R) -Martin Culwick, Peter Chong (Cecil Gray Award) Michael Beem, Jack Huang (Merit Award), Cindy Ding (Merit Award) and Ben Zugai (Merit Award)