AMSANZ/ANZSOM Conference

Annual Scientific Conference

Wairakei

August 22^nd to 24^th 2008

Friday 22^nd August :

Registration available from 10am.

ANZSOM :        

1230pm             Toll Rail doctors meeting – Heritage Room

1400pm             Worksite visit -  Geothermal -      Contact Energy steam field & drilling sites – meet  at hotel –

transport provided          (required to bring own overalls, hard hat & enclosed boots)

 AMSANZ :         

1330pm             Civil Aviation lecture session (Claude Preitner) – Night Club room

Social :              Hotel golf course $12 per round; tennis courts; spa’s etc

2pm                  Wairakei International golf course  (approx $140) – meet at registration desk 1pm

6pm :                Welcome drinks and Presidential speeches – hotel bar area

8pm :                Dinners by own arrangements – suggestions at registration desk.

Saturday 23^rd August :

Separate society plenary sessions.           

Start time  8.30am      

AMSANZ :

O830 :        Opening remarks:          Chair :

0845 :         Dr. James VanderPloeg - John Lane lecturer, Virgin Galactic        

0945 :         Dr Paul Drury – Diabetes update

1030 :         coffee

1100 :         Alan Baker - Aviation psychology                        

1130 :         Dr Frederique Vanholsbeeck – Optical Coherence Tomography      

1200 :         Would you fly with this pilot ?  (Tim Sprott & Dave Powell)

1300 : lunch

ANZSOM :        

0830 :         Opening remarks :         Chair :

0840 :         Dr. Peter Stormer – What’s new in Traumatic Brain Injury

0935 :         Dr. Sandy MacLeod – managing RTW after TBI – a psychiatrists view                                  

1030 :         coffee

1100 :         Dr Kris Fernando – neuropsychological testing – a psychologists view                                                                 

1200 :         Dr. Mike Anderson – chronic pain management update

1300 :         lunch

Afternoon plenary sessions -

AMSANZ –          Chair :

1400 :         Dr. Sara Souter – Airline passenger health                                                                        

1430 :         ALPA viewpoint – (Ron Woodward or John Roberts) – (pilot health, non-disclosure) 

1500 :         Erenstrom prize presentations

1530 :         Graham Robinson - recreational licence concerns

1600 :         afternoon tea    

1630 :         AMSANZ AGM

ANZSOM –         Chair :

1400 :         Dr Andrew Hilliard – When Docs need the Doc

1445 :         Prof. Grant Gillett – Ethical dilemmas for the occupational physician

1600 :         Afternoon tea

1615 :         Des Hall prize presentations       

1700 :         ANZSOM AGM

Social :

9.30am :           bus tour to Aratiatia rapids, Lava Glass complex, art appreciation tour of Taupo

including morning tea at Lava Glass and lunch at either Huka Falls Resort

or L’Arte café Acacia Bay.

6.30pm :           pre-dinner drinks

8pm :                Combined Societies dinner                      

Sunday 24^th August :

Combined society plenary session (Waikato room or Karapiti room) 9am

                        Chair :

0900 :         Dr James VanderPloeg, Virgin Galactic lecture – sub-orbital space travel

1000 :         Dr John Petrie – Rheumatoid arthritis update

1045 :         morning tea

1115 :         Prof Grant Gillett (Otago) -  Ethical dilemmas in Medicine 2008 and beyond – an interactive workshop

1200 :         Captain Mike Allsop – Patterson lecturer - Everest

Buffet lunch