29 October 2009
Former RACS President DG Macleish will be
launching George Adlington Syme - Master Surgeon and Founder of
the College of Surgeons of Australasia at Brennan Hall, St
Vincent's Hospital on Tuesday 24 November. The book's author,
Professor Ivo Vellar, is issuing an open invitation, with guests asked
to arrive at 4:30pm for a 5:00pm start. Read
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28 October 2009
The first edition of Surgical News Extra has been
released, with the audio files now available for download from the
RACS website. Read
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20 October 2009
Australian Respiratory Council is seeking to award several
one-year research grants of approximately $50,000 each in 2010. These
grants are named in honour of the late Dr Harry Windsor, a leading
Australian heart surgeon who played a key role in ARC for many years. Read
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19 October 2009
Donald Simpson has been the Honorary Curator
of the College's collection of historic instruments from the
Neurosurgical Society of Australasia. He will be visiting the
College on October 28. The Heritage & Archives Committee welcomes
you to attend what promises to be a most interesting evening. Read
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17 October 2009
The HMAS Kanimbla, stocked with medical supplies, mechanical equipment
and food, is en route to Indonesia, to provide assistance to residents
in the earthquake-ravaged village of Sei Geringging, north of Padang.
Since the 7.6-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Sumatra on 30
September, survivors have been in desperate need of medical care,
shelter, fresh water and food. Read
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22 September 2009
The College is committed to improving the well-being of Indigenous
people. The papers of the recent Injury in Indigenous Populations
Symposium have been published in a special supplement to the journal
Injury and these are available for viewing online. Read
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22 September 2009
While the existing Memorandum and Articles of Association have served
the College well for almost 80 years, they have some deficiencies
regarding compliance with modern corporations law and with the
operations of the today’s College. Therefore Council has proposed
this new draft Constitution for consideration by Fellows before it is
voted on at a referendum in 2010. Read
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15 September 2009
The Western Australian Audit of
Surgical Mortality (WAASM) is a voluntary review process of patients who
die in hospital and were under the care of a surgeon.The individual
cases are examined by one or two other surgeons who were not involved in
the case. Read
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One Fellow making his own
significant contribution to the objectives of the College on Indigenous
health is Associate Professor Chris Perry. Associate Professor Perry
founded the Indigenous ‘Deadly Ears’ program in 2006 because
he felt not enough was being done to target ear diseases in Aboriginal
communities. Since the program’s inception, Associate Professor
Perry and Deadly Ears have travelled to many communities to repair ear
damage and restore hearing for over 1200 children.
