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Upcoming Council meetings and events
In 2024 and 2025 both Council Executive and Council meetings will be conducted virtually and face-to-face.
Remaining dates for 2024:
Council 2024
Thursday 17 and Friday 18 October 2024
Council Executive 2024
Friday 26 July 2024 - virtual
Friday 30 August 2024 - virtual
Friday 29 November 2024 - virtual
Dates for 2025
Council 2025
Thursday 20 and Friday 21 February 2025
Thursday 26 and Friday 27 June 2025
Thursday 23 and Friday 24 October 2025
Council Executive 2024
Thursday 31 January 2025 - virtual
Friday 28 March 2025 - virtual
Friday 17 April* 2025 - virtual *Friday 18th April - Good Friday; 25th April - Anzac Day
Friday 23 May 2025 - virtual
Friday 25 July 2025 - virtual
Friday 29 August 2025 - virtual
Friday 28 November 2025 - virtual
2025 Annual Scientific Congress
Saturday 3 to Tuesday 6 May 2025 (Sydney)
Annual General Meeting - date TBC
Office bearers
President and Chair of Council and Council Executive
Associate Professor Kerin Fielding
NSW Fellowship Elected Councillor
Orthopaedic surgeon
Vice President
Professor Owen Ung
QLD Fellowship Elected Councillor
General surgeon
Censor-in-Chief
Dr Adrian Anthony
SA Fellowship Elected Councillor
General surgeon
Treasurer
Dr Rebecca Jack
QLD Fellowship Elected Councillor
Vascular surgeon
Chair, Professional Standards and Fellowship Services Committee
Dr Christine Lai
SA Fellowship Elected Councillor
General surgeon
Office holders
Chair, Committee of Surgical Education and Training
Dr Phillip Morreau
AoNZ Specialty Elected Councillor
Paediatric surgeon
Chair, SIMG Assessment
Dr Sarah Coll
QLD Fellowship Elected Councillor
Orthopaedic surgeon
Chair, Court of Examiners
Professor Raymond Sacks
NSW Specialty Elected Councillor
Otolaryngology Head and Neck surgeon
Chair, Health Policy and Advocacy
Professor Mark Frydenberg AM
VIC Specialty Elected Councillor
Urologist
Chair, Professional Standards
Professor Henry Woo
NSW Fellowship Elected Councillor
Urologist
Chair, Professional Development
Dr Richard Bradbury
NT Fellowship Elected Councillor
General surgeon
Chair, Fellowship Services
Professor Mark Ashton
VIC Specialty Elected Councillor
Plastic & Reconstructive surgeon
Chair, Research, Audit and Academic Surgery
Dr Nicola Hill
AoNZ Fellowship Elected Councillor
Otolaryngology Head & Neck surgeon
Chair, Global Health
Dr Mark Dexter
NSW Specialty Elected Councillor
Neurosurgeon
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Chair, Prevocational and Skills Education Committee
Dr David King
SA Fellowship Elected Councillor
Vascular surgeon
Deputy Treasurer
Associate Professor Andrew Cochrane
VIC Specialty Elected Councillor
Cardiothoracic surgeon
Chair, ASC Conference & Events
Professor Deborah Bailey
QLD Fellowship Elected Councillor
Paediatric surgeon
Fellowship elected councillors
(in alphabetical order)
Dr Ruth Bollard
VIC General surgeon
Dr Ailene Fitzgerald
ACT General surgeon
Dr Annette Holian
VIC Orthopaedic surgeon
Professor Christopher Pyke
QLD General surgeon
Dr Richard Wong She
AoNZ Plastic & Reconstructive surgeon
Specialty elected councillors
Dr Greg Witherow
WA Orthopaedic surgeon
Dr Gregory Keogh
NSW General surgeon
Dr Roxanne Wu
QLD Vascular surgeon
Co-opted councillors
Ms Souella Cumming
AoNZ Expert Community Adviser (non FRACS)
Mr Shane Solomon
VIC Expert Community Adviser (non FRACS)
Dr Will Blake
VIC Plastic & Reconstructive Surgeon,
representing Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery Fellows
Dr Nishanthi Gurusinghe
TAS General Surgeon, representing Tasmanian Fellows
Dr Sue Hui Ong
RACS Trainees' Association representative
Invited observers
Dr Shehnarz Salindera
Younger Fellows representative
Dr Chris Cokis
President, Australian & New Zealand College of Anaesthetists
Principal advisers to Council
Dr John Quinn AM
Executive Director for Surgical Affairs Australia
Dr Sarah Rennie
Surgical Adviser Aotearoa New Zealand
Professor Guy Maddern
Surgical Director of Research & Evaluation