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.
2017
AUGUST
7-8 ANZICS 2017 Safety and Quality Conference: The deteriorating patient, Sydney, NSW
10-11 AVHEC – Australasian Viral Hepatitis Elimination Conference 2017, Cairns, QLD
10-12 Pathology Horizons, Cairns, QLD
11-13 ACD 5th Rural Dermatology Meeting, Broome, WA
16 ANZCA Approved Anaphylaxis & CICO Emergency Response Workshop, Frankston, VIC
16 FUSE Vascular, Melbourne, VIC
16-19 NZDSI Annual Conference, Queenstown, NZ
17-18 11th Colorectal Cancer Conference 2017: A multidisciplinary approach, Melbourne, VIC
18-19 Medico-Legal Society of Queensland 2017 Annual Conference: When yes means no, Gold Coast, QLD
19 Perinatal Mental Health Symposium, Melbourne, VIC
19-20 iHeartScan Advanced, Melbourne, VIC
19-23 2017 Australia and New Zealand Society of Occupational Medicine ASM, Fremantle, WA
21-23 18th International Mental Health Conference, Gold Coast, QLD
21-23 National Indigenous Drug and Alcohol Misuse Conference, Brisbane, QLD
21-23 National Indigenous Colour of Justice Conference, Brisbane, QLD
21-25 CT-Acute Medical and Surgical Interpretation 2017, Queenstown, NZ
21-27 Be Medicinewise Week
22-23 Healthcare Leaders Forum, Sydney, NSW
23-25 27th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Stroke Society of Australasia 2017, Queenstown, NZ
24-26 2017 Annual Meeting of the Neurodevelopmental and Behavioural Paediatric Society of Australasia, Auckland, NZ
25-27 38th Australasian Dermatopathology Society ASM, Melbourne, VIC
28-30 DFTB17: Making a difference, Brisbane, QLD
29 CICM Communication course, Melbourne, VIC
29 Data and Innovation Collaboration Network Meeting, Brisbane, QLD
30 Aug-1 Sep 2017 Australian Diabetes Society/Australian Diabetes Educators Association Annual Scientific Meeting, Perth, WA
30 Aug-2 Sep 18th Asia-Pacific Prostate Cancer Conference, Melbourne, VIC
31 Aug-3 Sep 5th World Congress on Controversies, Debates and Consensus in Bone, Muscle and Joint Diseases, Gold Coast, QLD
SEPTEMBER
1 Epworth HealthCare 8th Obstetrics & Gynaecology Clinical Institute Symposium, Melbourne, VIC
1 QRME Ltd Cultural Safety Training: Developing positive, respectful relationships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, create a culturally safe practice, administer the PIP – Indigenous Health Incentive, Toowoomba, QLD
1-2 Australia and New Zealand Academy for Eating Disorders 2017 Conference, Darling Harbour, NSW
1-3 General Practice Conference and Exhibition, Brisbane, QLD
2-3 QRME Ltd Advanced Lift Support: build participants’ knowledge, skills and confidence when responding to rural general practice emergencies, Toowoomba, QLD
5-7 11th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Environmental Health Conference, Cairns, QLD
6-7 6th Annual International Emergency Care Conference, Melbourne, VIC
6-8 2017 Australian Palliative Care Conference: Connection with community, Adelaide, SA
6-8 10th ANZSIN Meeting, Darwin, NT
8 The Alfred Emergency and Trauma Centre Resuscitation Update, Melbourne, VIC
8-10 Joint Neuroanaesthesia and Trauma SIG Meeting, Byron Bay, NSW
8-10 International Cornea and Contact Lens 2017 Congress: See the light, Sydney, NSW
9-10 ANZCA/ASA SA NT Burnell Jose Visiting Professionals ASM: Anaesthesia and you: understanding human factors and optimising performance, Rowland Flat, SA
12-14 AACB 55th Annual Scientific Conference: Time sensitive testing, Melbourne, VIC
13-15 28th Annual Conference of the Australasian Society of Clinical Immunology and Allergy, Auckland, NZ
14 RUOK? Day
14 2017 Innovations in Cancer Treatment and Care Conference, Sydney, NSW
14-15 3rd Australian Nursing and Midwifery Conference, Newcastle, NSW
14-16 Australasian Doctors’ Health Conference, Sydney, NSW
14-16 Internal Medicine Society of Australia and New Zealand Annual Conference 2017, Hobart, TAS
14-17 Neuro-Ophthalmology Society of Australia 33rd Clinical and Scientific Meeting and NeuroVision Training Weekend, Sydney, NSW
15-17 RANZP Faculty of Psychotherapy Conference 2017, Ayers Rock, NT
15-17 ASBDD Biennial Conference: Better treatments, better outcomes, Melbourne, VIC
15-17 ANZAAG Symposium: Perioperative drug hypersensitivity – working together to keep patients safe, Auckland, NZ
16 Epworth Healthcare Perioperative Medicine Symposium, Melbourne, VIC
17-20 2017 Rehabilitation Medicine Society of Australia and New Zealand 2nd ASM, Canberra, ACT
20-22 6th APAC Forum: Lead the change you want to see, Gold Coast, QLD
20-23 AIDA Conference 2017: Family, unity, success, 20 years strong, Pokolbin, NSW
21-22 Big Data and Analytics Innovation Summit: Maximise the Potential of Your Big Data Initiatives, Sydney, NSW
25-27 RANZP New Zealand National Conference 2017: Uniting the pathways, Tauranga, NZ
25-27 9th International Global Virus Network Meeting, Melbourne, VIC
27-29 Joint 2017 ACHSM/ACHS Asia-Pacific Congress: The winds of change, adjust your sails, Sydney, NSW
OCTOBER
4-6 Global Alcohol Policy 2017 Conference: Mobilising for change: Alcohol policy and the evidence for action, Melbourne, VIC
4-6 Australasian Gastro-intestinal Trials Group 19th Annual Scientific Meeting, Cairns, QLD
4-6 2017 Obesity Surgery Society of Australia and New Zealand Conference, Adelaide, SA
6-8 AORA ASM 2017, Adelaide, SA
7-10 ASA National Scientific Congress 2017, Perth, WA
8-12 AOA 77th ASM and AGM, Adelaide, SA
9-13 Activity Based Funding Conference 2017 and 33rd Patient Classification Systems International Conference 2017, Sydney, NSW
11-13 42nd Australian and New Zealand ASM in Intensive Care and the 23rd Annual Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care Conference: ICU: Thinking outside the flags, Gold Coast, QLD
12-14 The Australian and New Zealand Head and Neck Cancer Society ASM, Brisbane, QLD
12-15 2017 Combined Orthopaedic Knee Societies Meeting, Noosa, QLD
-16 RCPA 47th Annual Scientific and Business Meeting, Canberra, ACT
12-14 APELSO 2017: ECMO and beyond (the future of mechanical support), Gold Coast, QLD
14-15 RANZCP Victorian Branch Conference, Marysville, VIC
16-18 3rd International Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, Melbourne, VIC
18-19 7th National Borderline Personality Disorder Conference 2017: From stigma, to strength, Perth, WA
18-21 9th World Congress of Melanoma and 14th International Congress of the Society for Melanoma Research, Brisbane, QLD
18-21 RACMA 2017 Conference: Past reflections, future directions, Melbourne, VIC
19-22 RANZP Faculty of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 2017: Growing minds: The early origins of mental health and disorder, Adelaide, SA
19-22 2017 RANZCR ASM: Explore the extraordinary, Perth, WA
20 Crisis Management in Obstetric Anaesthesia and Neonatal Resuscitation, Sunshine, VIC
22 Epworth HealthCare Seventh Cardiac Sciences Clinical Institute Symposium, Melbourne, VIC
24-27 Australian Association of Practice Managers National Conference: The magic of management, Perth, WA
26-28 GP17 RACGP Annual conference, Sydney, NSW
26-28 SPANZA 2017 Conference, Perth, WA
27-28 6th Annual Neuropsychiatry and Behavioural Neurology Conference, Sydney NSW
28 Oct-1 Nov 49th RANZCO Annual Scientific Congress, Perth, WA
29-31 ISPE’s 10th Asian Conference on Pharmacoepidemiology, Brisbane, QLD
29 Oct-1 Nov RANZCOG Annual Scientific Meeting, Auckland, NZ
NOVEMBER
1-3 10th Health Services and Policy Research Conference: Shifting priorities: balancing acute and primary care services, Gold Coast, QLD
1-3 Epilepsy Society of Australia 31st Annual Scientific Meeting, Perth, WA
2-4 Perioperative Medicine SIG Congress 2017: Cancer surgery and perioperative medicine: prehab to rehab, Sydney, NSW
3 Swinburne Body Image and Related Disorders (BIRD) Conference, Hawthorn campus, Melbourne, VIC
8-11 NZ Anaesthesia ASM 2017: Fear and excitement, Rotorua, NZ
9-10 RANZP Faculty of Psychiatry of Old Age Conference 2017, Queenstown, NZ
10-12 General Practice Conference and Exhibition, Melbourne, VIC
12-15 22nd Australian and New Zealand Prevocational Medical Education Forum: Singing from the same songsheet, Brisbane, QLD
13-14 Global Experts Meeting on Gastroenterology, Melbourne, VIC
13-15 Clinical Oncology Society of Australia 2017 ASM: Immunotherapy: molecules and mountains, Sydney, NSW
13-19 Antibiotic Awareness Week
15-17 Hospital in the Home Society of Australasia ASM: Changes, challenges and opportunity, Melbourne, VIC
16-17 National NDIS Mental Health Conference, Sydney, NSW
17-19 National Histology Conference, Hobart, TAS
19-23 Australasian College for Emergency Medicine 34th ASM: Impossible is just a perspective, Sydney, NSW
20-21 11th International Conference on Immunopharmacology and Immunotoxicology: Novel development and applications in immunology and immunopharmacology, Melbourne, VIC
20-22 28th International Conference on Psychiatry and Mental Health 2017: Modernising and accomplishing mental wellness through psychology and psychiatric empathy, Melbourne, VIC
20-24 Psychiatry Update 2017, Christchurch, NZ
23-26 Asian Pacific Society of Respirology Congress 2017, Sydney, NSW
26-29 APCCN 2017 – Asia Pacific Conference on Clinical Nutrition, Adelaide, SA
27-29 6th National Closing the Gap Indigenous Health Conference, and 2017 National Indigenous Mental Health Conference, Cairns, QLD
30 Nov-2 Dec Mercy Perinatal Global Obstetrics Update 2017, Melbourne, VIC
DECEMBER
3-6 Australasian Neuroscience Society annual meeting, Sydney, NSW
6 AHHA Data and Innovation Collaboration Network Meeting, Dubbo, NSW
7-8 CPET and Prehabilitation Symposium: Incorporating POETTS (UK) accredited CPET course, Melbourne, VIC
8-10 Entheogenesis Australis Outdoor Psychedelic Symposium, Eildon, VIC
2018
FEBRUARY
4-8 World Congress on Phlebology, Melbourne, VIC
7-9 National Indigenous Men’s Health Conference, National Indigenous Women’s Wellbeing Conference, Sydney, NSW
9-10 4th International 4 Corners of Cardiology Meeting, Melbourne, VIC
23-24 PICET Obstetric Intensive Care Symposium, Adelaide, SA
25-28 World Psychiatric Association 2018 Thematic Conference: Innovation in Psychiatry: Effective interventions for health and society, Melbourne, VIC
MARCH
2-4 Pathology Update 2018, Sydney, NSW
8-11 APSCVIR 2018, Auckland, NZ
28-30 7th National Indigenous Domestic Violence Conference, Gold Coast, QLD
APRIL
7-8 2018 Neuromodulation Society of Australia and New Zealand 13th ASM, Sydney, NSW
11-13 2nd International Selection in the Health Professions Conference, Melbourne, VIC
22-27 Hunter Paediatric Society Conference, Palm Cove, QLD
MAY
7-11 Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Annual Scientific Congress 2018 with the ANZ College of Anaesthetists, Sydney, NSW
13-17 RANZP Congress 2018: Becoming well together: Partnerships in health, Auckland, NZ
18-22 Australasian College of Dermatologists ASM, Gold Coast, QLD
20-23 5th Asian and Oceanic Regional Congress on Radiation Protection, Melbourne, VIC
JUNE
7-9 Rural Doctors Association of Queensland 29th Annual Conference, TBC
AUGUST
15-18 World Congress on Cancers of the Skin, Sydney, NSW
SEPTEMBER
13-14 NOSA Annual Meeting 2018, Melbourne, VIC
15-16 Neurovision, Melbourne, VIC
OCTOBER
6-9 ASA National Scientific Congress 2018, Adelaide, SA
10-12 2018 World Hospital Congress, Brisbane, QLD
25-28 2018 RANZCR ASM, Canberra, ACT
NOVEMBER
7-10 New Zealand Anaesthesia Annual Scientific Meeting 2018, Auckland, NZ
8-10 RANZCP Faculty of Psychiatry of Old Age and the Asian Society Against Dementia Conference 2018, Melbourne, VIC
13-15 Clinical Oncology Society of Australia 2018 ASM, Perth, WA
18-22 Australasian College for Emergency Medicine, 35th ASM, Perth, WA
2019
NOVEMBER
17-19 10th World Congress of Itch, Sydney, NSW
2021
NOVEMBER
10-13 XIII International Congress of Dermatology, Melbourne, VIC
DECEMBER
TBA FIGO World Congress of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Sydney, NSW
- Swannell