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 = computed 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
X = conferences in Australia
AUGUST
2-7 Angiogenesis 2015, Newport, USA
4-5 7th Annual Operating Theatre Management Conference, Melbourne, VIC X
8-11 HGSA 39th ASM: Rare diseases and indigenous genetics, Perth, WA X
10-13 Translational Medicine 2015, Cairns, QLD X
11-14 IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics, Singapore
13-14 National Acquired Brain Injury Conference, Melbourne, VIC X
16-21 Hormone-Dependent Cancers 2015, Newry, USA
17-20 Molecular and Cellular Basis of Breast Cancer Risk and Prevention 2015, Cairns, QLD X
21-24 Medical Innovations for the Future and Beyond, London, UK
23-26 Congress of the Asian Society for Transplantation, Singapore
23-29 12th WHO/IDF/EASD Cambridge Seminar on the epidemiological and public health aspects of diabetes mellitus, Cambridge, UK
24-25 6th Annual Correctional Services Healthcare Summit, Melbourne, VIC X
24-27 Global Forum on Research and Innovation for Health 2015, Manila, Philippines
26-29 International Society of Hypnosis Congress: Roots and Future of Consciousness, Paris, France
27-28 Hospital Costing and Health Coding Forum, Melbourne, VIC X
29 Aug-2 Sep Congress of the World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
30 Aug-2 Sep 12th International Conference on Chitin and Chitosan 2015, Münster, Germany
31 Aug-1 Sep International Symposium on Critical Bleeding 2015, Copenhagen, Denmark
31 Aug-3 Sep OESO 13th World Conference “The Esophagiome”, Emerging Issues in Health and Disease, Monaco, Monaco
SEPTEMBER
1-3 International Conference of Medical and Health Sciences 2015, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
2-4 International Meeting on Respiratory Pathogens 2015, Singapore
3-4 7th International Conference on Ocular Infections, Barcelona, Spain
3-5 7th World Congress on Ovulation Induction, Bologna, Italy
3-5 4th FFN Global Congress 2015, Rotterdam, Netherlands
3-6 World Society for Functional and Stereotactic Neurosurgery Interim meeting, Mumbai, India
3-6 2nd World Congress on NeuroTherapeutics Dilemmas, Debates, Discussion, Prague, Czech Republic
6-9 Population Health Congress: One vision, many voices, Hobart, TAS
6-9 17th Asia Pacific League of Associations for Rheumatology Congress, Chennai, India
6-10 16th World Congress on Lung Cancer, Denver, USA
6-10 9th European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health, Basel, Switzerland
9 International Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Disorder Awareness Day
9-10 NFMRI Medical Research Innovation Conference, Sydney, NSW X
9-11 2015 RACMA Conference — Inequality and Healthcare: recognising the healthcare costs of inequality, Auckland, NZ X
9-11 International congress on addiction science, Tehran, Iran
10-11 11th Annual Australian Diseases Management Conference — Count me in: partnerships in chronic care, Brisbane QLD X
10-11 3rd International Oncology Conference, Abu Dhabi, UAE
10-11 4th Annual International Medical Conference — More awareness of chronic pelvic pain in women, Cairo, Egypt
10-12 International Society for Vascular Surgery 2015 Congress, Athens, Greece
10-12 The Viral Hepatitis Congress 2015, Frankfurt, Germany
10-12 2nd International Symposium on Clinical and Basic Investigation in Glioblastoma, Toledo, Spain
11-12 Innovation in Medicine and Healthcare 2015, Kyoto, Japan
13-16 International Society for Hemodialysis Congress 2015, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
15-16 18th International Conference of Functional Food Center, 6th International Symposium of Functional and Medical Foods for Chronic Diseases, Boston, MA, USA
17-20 22nd World Congress on Controversies in Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Infertility, Budapest, Hungary
17-21 30th International Papillomavirus Conference, Lisbon, Portugal
16-19 Australian Indigenous Doctors Association annual conference — Collaborate, communicate and celebrate, Adelaide, SA X
21-23 RACGP Conference GP15, Melbourne, VIC
24-26 3rd International Students’ Association of Robotic Urologic Surgery Conference, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
27-30 17th Annual International Meeting of the Institute of Human Virology, Baltimore, MD, USA
28-30 World Congress on Interventional Therapies for Type 2 Diabetes and DSS II, London, UK
29 Sep-2 Oct 11th Australasian Conference on Vibrational Spectroscopy and 5th Asian Spectroscopy Conference, Sydney, NSW
30 Sep-3 Oct International Congress of Innate Immunity, Marbella, Spain
OCTOBER
1-3 Regional Congress of the World Federation for Mental Health, Singapore
1-5 Asia Pacific Rim International Counselling and Psychotherapy Conference, Perth, WA
2-3 Singapore Health and Biomedical Congress 2015, Singapore
2-4 Inaugural Scientific Conference of the Asia Association of Medical Laboratory Scientists 2015, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
4-8 43rd Annual Meeting of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery, Izmir, Turkey
4-9 21st FIGO World Congress of Gynaecology Obstetrics, Vancouver, Canada
5-6 16th International Conference on Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery, Jersey City, USA
5-7 Interprofessional Health, Education and Practice Conference, Melbourne, VIC X
5-8 15th International Nutrition and Diagnostics Conference, Prague, Czech Republic
5-9 18th International Conference on Medical Imaging Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention
6-8 15th International Conference on Progress in Vaccination Against Cancer, Tübingen, Germany
6-9 45th Annual Meeting of the International Continence Society, Montreal, Canada
8-10 6th International Symposium on Microsurgical Anatomy, Istanbul, Turkey
8-10 20th World Congress on Advances in Oncology and 18th International Symposium on Molecular Medicine, Athens, Greece
8-11 47th Congress of the International Society of Paediatric Oncology, Cape Town, South Africa
9-11 Australasian Military Medicine Association Conference 2015, Hobart, TAS
11-13 11th International Congress on Coronary Artery Disease, Florence, Italy
13-14 5th Annual Next Generation Sequencing Asia Congress, Singapore, Singapore
13-16 2015 International Psychogeriatrics Association International Congress, Berlin, Germany
14-16 International Congress of the International Neuropsychiatric Association, Jerusalem, Israel
14-17 International Conference on e-Health Networking, Application and Services, Boston, USA
15-17 International Symposium on Obstetric Anaesthesia: Effect on Mother and Newborn, Budapest, Hungary
16-19 RANZCOG ASM, Perth, WA
18-23 15th International Thyroid Congress, Orlando, USA
19-22 10th Asia/Oceania Congress of Gerontology and Geriatrics 2015, Chiangmai, Thailand
21-22 26th World Congress on Videourology, Izmir, Turkey
21-23 International Conference on Healthcare Informatics, Richardson, USA
21-23 World Conference on Regenerative Medicine, Leipzig, Germany
21-24 6th International Conference on Nutrition and Physical Activity 2015, Taipei City, Taiwan
22-24 3rd International Congress on Controversies in Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapies, Berlin, Germany
22-25 World Organization of Family Doctors Europe region conference, Istanbul, Turkey
31 Oct-4 Nov 47th ASM Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists, Wellington, NZ
31 Oct-5 Nov 22nd World Congress of Neurology, Santiago, Chile
- Cate Swannell