UPCOMING EVENT

ANZSOM & AFOEM NSW/ACT Branch
Dr Steven Ng Memorial Christmas Meeting
Wednesday 27 November 2024

The NSW/ACT Branch of ANZSOM and AFOEM are pleased to invite you to the Dr Steven Ng Memorial Christmas Meeting at the Royal Automobile Club of Australia on Wednesday 27 November.

The evening will include drinks and canapes, followed by a
2-course dinner with wines, as well as a presentation by A/Prof David Heslop, on 'The implications of anticipated future climate change on occupational and emergency health systems supporting deployed, remote and offshore, and austere conditions'.

Date: Wednesday 27 November
Time: 6.00PM (AEDT)
Venue: Royal Automobile Club, ISC Room, 89 Macquarie Street (corner of Alfred Street), Sydney
Cost: $95 per person
RSVP: by 20 November

Click here to register

Meeting proudly sponsored by

About the presenter

Dr David Heslop is an Associate Professor at the School of Population Health at UNSW Sydney and is a clinically active GP and Occupational and Environmental Physician. He has deployed to a wide variety of military and humanitarian assistance environments, and has deep knowledge and skills in Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and Explosive (CBRNE) Medicine, policy development and advice. He was Senior Medical Officer for Special Operations Command, the Officer Commanding and Senior Medical Officer to the ADF CBRNE medical incident response team, now providing specialist advice and support to senior military and industry partners Since 2016 he has worked as a full time Associate Professor at the School of Public Health and Community Medicine, with a key focus on developing collaborative research opportunities between military and industry, developing computational models of health systems under emergency and crisis conditions and changing conditions such as climate change and resource scarcity, and health system optimisation such as Digital Twin models and Agent Based Modelling and Simulation. 

PREVIOUS EVENT

ANZSOM NSW/ACT Branch Weekend Meeting
Friday 23 to Sunday 25 August 2024
Bowral

The NSW/ACT Branch of ANZSOM had their Weekend Meeting in Bowral from Friday 23 to Sunday 25 August 2024.

The weekend included:

• A site visit on the Friday afternoon, to Australian BioResources, a state-of-the-art laboratory animal facility, owned and operated by the Garvan Institute of Medical Research.

• Wine tasting with grazing boards by an open fire, followed by dinner, on the Friday night

• NSW/ACT Branch Annual General Meeting

• Talks and peer review of cases qualifying for Category 2 CPD points - please bring a case to discuss

• Golf and local activities on Sunday morning 

PREVIOUS PRESENTATION RECORDINGS

A Turbulent Flight - a personal and professional reflection on a doctor's role inside the airline industry during the COVID-19 pandemic
Dr Sara Souter, Medical Officer at Qantas Airways

ANZSOM & AFOEM NSW/ACT Christmas Meeting
Date: Wednesday 8th December 2021

Recording available

This educational meeting was proudly sponsored by Blugibbon:

Medicinal cannabis occupational implications
Dr Bill Isles

ANZSOM & AFOEM NSW/ACT Branch Christmas Meeting
Date: Wednesday 2nd December 2020

Recording available

This educational meeting was proudly sponsored by Blugibbon:

Update on the NSW coal industry health surveillance scheme
Dr David Meredith

NSW/ACT Branch AGM
Date: Wednesday 20 October 2021

Recording available

NSW/ACT Branch Winter Scientific Meeting
Dr Peter Hobbins, Dr Ian Cheng, Dr Louise Crowle & Amanda Tompson

NSW/ACT Branch Winter Scientific Meeting

Saturday 29th August 2020

Topics included:

• The risks and rewards of practising medicine in quarantine
  by Dr Peter Hobbins, Medical Historian
• COVID-19 and occupational risk management of hospital staff 
  by Dr Ian Cheng, Occupational Physician, Royal North Shore Hospital
• Nobby's story: the personal impact of COVID-19 & keeping a large petrochemical plant safe in the COVID era
  by Dr Louise Crowle and Amanda Tompson

Recordings available