This calendar will be updated each month. If you have an event you would like to add, please include relevant details in an email to cswannell@mja.com.au
ALM = active learning module
ASM = annual scientific meeting
CPD = continuing professional development
CT = computerised tomography
ECHO/echo = echocardiography
EMAC = effective management of anaesthetic crises
MRI = magnetic resonance imaging
OSCE = objective structured clinical examination
SAT SET = supervisors and trainers for surgical education and training
MARCH
2 Bipolar disorder in adults, London, UK
2–4 ANZCA Ultrasound in anaesthetics and critical care, Gold Coast, QLD
2-4 1st International Brain Stimulation Conference, Singapore
4-6 Australian and New Zealand Addiction Conference, Gold Coast, QLD
4-7 International Conference on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, Vancouver, Canada
4-7 25th AGES ASM in conjunction with the ISGE 24th Annual Congress, Melbourne, VIC
5-6 International conference of attachment and trauma informed practice 2015, Melbourne, VIC
5-7 67th Annual Wills Eye Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
5-7 16th World Congress of Pain Clinicians, Miami Beach, Florida, USA
6 RACP Australasian Sexual Health Conference and ASM, Sydney, NSW
6-7 International Symposium about Current Issues and Controversies in Psychiatry 2015, Barcelona, Spain
6-8 LCANZ 2015 Breastfeeding Conference: More than milk, Brisbane, QLD
8-13 Tropical Infectious Diseases 2015, Galveston, Texas, USA
9-12 International Conference on Urban Health, Dhaka, Bangladesh
12-14 5th International Neonatology Conference, Abu Dhabi, UAE
12-14 Advanced Prostate Cancer Consensus Conference, St Gallen, Switzerland
12-14 3rd International Congress on Controversies in Rheumatology and Autoimmunity, Sorrento, Italy
13 International Medical Symposium: The future of the medical profession, Melbourne, VIC
13-14 2015 UroGynaecological Society of Australasia ASM and AGM, Sydney, NSW
13-17 ISN World Congress of Nephrology, Cape Town, South Africa
15-17 6th Association of South-East Asian Pain Societies Congress, Manila, Philippines
15–18 35th Australian Pain Society ASM: Managing Pain from Mechanisms to Policy, Brisbane, QLD
15-18 3rd International One Health Congress, Amsterdam, Netherlands
17-20 35th International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, Brussels, Belgium
17-21 World Conference on Tobacco or Health, Abu Dhabi, UAE
18-21 9th World Immune Regulation Meeting, Davos, Switzerland
18-21 Australasian Society of Infectious Diseases ASM, Auckland, NZ
18-21 5th Biennial Congress of the Asian-Pacific Hepato-Pancreatic-Biliary Association, Singapore
18-22 12th International Conference on Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Diseases, Nice, France
19-20 24th Annual Medico Legal Congress, Sydney NSW
19-20 4th International Conference on Vitamin D Deficiency, Abu Dhabi, UAE
19-21 International Society for Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health Inaugural Meeting, Tempe, Arizona, USA
19-22 4th Global Congress for Consensus in Pediatrics and Child Health, Budapest, Hungary
20 Australian Disease Management Association’s Primary and Secondary Prevention of Chronic Disease seminar, Melbourne, VIC
20-22 International Meeting in Indigenous Child Health, Ottawa, Canada
20-22 International Medicine in Addiction Conference, Melbourne, VIC
21-25 6th World Congress on Sleep Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
22 Symposium on Fetal Therapy, Shatin, Hong Kong
22-25 6th World Congress on Women’s Mental Health, Tokyo, Japan
22-27 Cardiac Arrhythmia Mechanisms 2015, Lucca, Italy
24-26 International TB Summit, London, UK
24-26 International Symposium on Medical Information and Communication Technology, Hayama, Japan
25-26 Superbugs and Superdrugs, London, UK
25-28 13th Aesthetic and Anti-Ageing Medicine World Congress, Monaco, Monaco
25–29 New Zealand Pain Society 40th ASM, Auckland, New Zealand
26-27 2nd Gulf Liver Summit, Dubai, UAE
26-28 Rehab Tech Asia, Singapore
26-28 9th World Congress on Controversies in Neurology, Budapest, Hungary
26-28 Consortium of Universities for Global Health 2015 Annual Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
26-29 7th International Congress of the Asia Pacific Society of Infection Control, Taipei, Taiwan
26-29 6th World Congress in Controversies in Ophthalmology, Sorrento, Italy
26-29 6th International Conference on Fixed Combination in the Treatment of Hypertension, Dyslipidemia and Diabetes Mellitus, Berlin, Germany
27-29 4th Asia-Pacific Breast Cancer Summit, Brisbane, QLD
28-29 Master Class Ophthalmic Oncology Conference, Mumbai, India
29-2 Apr Gram-Negative Resistance, Tahoe City, California, USA
30-Apr 1 15th Australian Cell Cycle meeting, Sydney, NSW
APRIL
1-4 30th Asia-Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology Congress, Guangzhou, China
7-11 17th International Neuroscience Winters Conference, Soelden, Austria
8-10 Interprofessional Health, Education and Practice International Conference, Melbourne VIC
10-12 Asian Oncology Summit, Shanghai, China
10-12 Viral Hepatitis 2015, Shanghai, China
10-12 9th Annual Update in Paediatric Emergencies, Noosa, QLD
11-12 World Congress on Angiogenesis 2015, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
11-14 Urological Society of Australia and New Zealand 68th ASM, Adelaide, SA
12–15 RCOG/RANZCOG Joint World Congress, Brisbane, QLD
12-16 International Congress of the Immunology of Diabetes Society, Munich, Germany
14-16 Obesity Summit, London UK
15-17 World Cornea Congress VII, San Diego, California, USA
15-17 International Medical Forum, Kyiv, Ukraine
15-18 13th World Rural Health Conference 2015, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia
15-18 30th International Conference of Alzheimer’s Disease International, Perth, WA
15-18 14th Asian Australasian Congress of Neurological Surgeons, Jeju, Republic of Korea
15-18 International DIP Symposium on Diabetes, Hypertension, Metabolic Syndrome and Pregnancy, Berlin, Germany
15-18 International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation 2015, Nice, France
16 Sydney Diabetic Foot Conference, Sydney, NSW
16-18 4th World Congress of Dermoscopy, Vienna, Austria
16-19 2nd World Congress on Controversies in Pediatrics (CoPedia), Budapest, Hungary
17-20 4th International Congress on Dual Disorders and Dual Psycho-Pathology, Barcelona, Spain
19-22 Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand 18th Annual Congress, Melbourne, VIC
21-25 World Conference on Disaster and Emergency Medicine 2015, Cape Town, South Africa
22-26 50th International Liver Congress 2015, Vienna, Austria
23-25 6th IVI International Congress – Reproductive Medicine and Beyond, Alicante, Spain
23-26 3rd World Congress on Controversies, Debates and Consensus in Bone, Muscle and Joint Diseases, Montreal, Canada
24-25 10th International Kidney Cancer Symposium, Lyon, France
26-29 2015 International Symposium on Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care: Improving the Outcomes, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
27-29 2015 Diabetes Summit, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
27-30 World Medical Innovation Forum: Neurosciences, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
29 Apr-2 May 13th International Symposium on Myelodysplastic Syndrome, Washington DC, USA
29 Apr-2 May 6th NWAC World Anaesthesia Convention, Vancouver, Canada
29 Apr-2 May Asian Pacific Society of Cardiology Congress, Abu Dhabi, UAE
- Cate Swannell