Overview

Keynote Speakers

Adult Medicine

Paediatrics

Public Health

Occupational Medicine

Rheumatology

Internal Medicine
- IMSANZ Day

Occupational Medicine

Australasian Faculty of Occupational Medicine (AFOM)
See:  What's New for 2002   |    MOPS Points


 Tea Break      Lunch      Social Event      Keypad     


OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE
Sunday 5 May                      
SUNDAY  |  MONDAY  |  TUESDAY  |  WEDNESDAY
6.30am onwards On-site Registration begins on Sunday during open hours of the Registration and Information Desk
6.00pm - 7.30pm   Welcome Reception
Cocktails, canapes, jazz trio - bookings essential


 

OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE
Monday 6 May                      
SUNDAY  |  MONDAY  |  TUESDAY  |  WEDNESDAY
9.00 - 10.30  Plenary: Cottrell Memorial Lecture: World health revisited after 11th September 2002 - Emeritus Prof Sir Gustav Nossal
10.30 - 11.00

11.00 - 12.30

Health aspects of synthetic vitreous fibres and asbestos substitutes - a review - David Douglas

Risk control for Legionella - Gary Chaplin

 W1 Using the Internet for CE (Beginner) - John Gillies, Kate Wartho
12.30 - 2.00

 Women in Medicine Forum

2.00 - 3.30 Ramazzini Prize Finalists' Presentations

 Staying out of the legal line of fire: physicians and duty of care - Amanda Adrian and Fiona Tito

 W2 Using the Internet for CE (Beginner) - John Gillies, Kate Wartho

3.30 - 4.00

4.00 - 5.30 Australia's Fire Ant Invasion.... an OH&S sentinel - Case report - Greg Knight

 Physician Health Issues

5.30 - 7.00

 Ceremony - Arthur E Mills Memorial Oration: Mechai Viravaidya
(Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre)

7.00 - 8.00

 Ceremony Reception
(Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre)



 

OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE
Tuesday 7 May                     
SUNDAY  |  MONDAY  |  TUESDAY  |  WEDNESDAY
9.00 - 10.30 Ferguson-Glass Oration: Gene-environment interactions in occupational carcinogenesis - Professor Paul Brandt-Rauf

 Who owns the genome? Scientific and ethical issues
- Andrew Blattman, Paul Komesaroff and Fiona Tito

 Getting Evidence into Practice - Napier Thomson, Paul Long and Ian Scott

 W3 Using the Internet for CE (Beginner) - John Gillies, Kate Wartho

10.30 - 11.00

11.00 - 12.30

(TBA): Kathy Tucker
(TBA): Warwick Benson
(TBA): Michael Tooma

 W4 Using the Internet for CE (Advanced) - John Gillies, Kate Wartho
12.30 - 2.00

 RACP AGM

Pfizer Advanced Trainee Presentations
Please Note: originally scheduled for Wednesday

Poster Presentations

2.00 - 3.30 Military Medicine in Australia - some current Occupational Medicine Issues - Ian Gardner
Aviation Medicine - John Turner
Co-distillation Of 2,3,7,8-TCDD And Other Persistent Organic Pollutants In Evaporative Distillation - Keith Horsley

 Priscilla Kincaid-Smith Oration (sponsored by CSL)
Multi-drug resistant malaria: research on antimalarials and where do we go from here? Prof Sornchai Looareesuwan

 Quality Assurance Workshop: Clinical Practice Improvement - Chair: Peter Greenberg

 W5 Using the Internet for CE (Beginner) - John Gillies, Kate Wartho

3.30 - 4.00

4.00 - 5.30  Clinical Epidemiology Workshop: Translating Research into Practice - Ian Scott, Peter Greenberg and Paul Glasziou
 Being an expert witness - Michael Gorton
 W6 Genetics on the Web - David Sillence
5.45 - 7.15

 W7 Using the internet for CE (Advanced) - John Gillies, Kate Wartho



 

OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE
Wednesday 8 May                  
SUNDAY  |  MONDAY  |  TUESDAY  |  WEDNESDAY
9.00 - 10.30

Q Fever

  • Q Fever - an update - Paul van Buynder
  • Worksite dilemmas: A panel of speakers including Keith Adam, Ki Douglas

 Rural Workforce Issues

 Informed consent - Michael Gorton

 W8 Using the Internet for CE (Beginner) - John Gillies, Kate Wartho

10.30 - 11.00

11.00 - 12.30

Fitness for work:

 Rural Workforce Issues (cont.)

 Asylum Seekers Workshop - Sharon Goldfeld, Jonathan Phillips, Shanti Raman and Jill Sewell

 W9 Using the Internet for CE (Advanced) - John Gillies, Kate Wartho

12.30 - 2.00

2.00 - 3.30 The occupational health aspects of the accidental release of Freon 22 (chlorodifluoromethane) in a shopping centre - Ki Douglas
Quality Assurance in Occupational Medicine - Bernadette Trifiletti
Carpal tunnel syndrome - Margaret Cook
 W10 Using the Internet for CE (Advanced) - John Gillies, Kate Wartho
 Aslyum Seekers Workshop - Justice Marcus Einfeld, Dr Jonathan Phillips and Dr Louise Newman
3.30 - 4.00

4.00 - 5.30 Compensable injuries - Robin Chase
Back pain EBM - Brian McGuirk
 Publishing a paper...how to get past an editor - Martin Van Der Weyden