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.
June
6 RACGP Tas: Let’s talk women’s health: Menopause, HRT and dysmenorrhea, TBC
6-9 2018 Port Douglas Heart Meeting and Expo, Port Douglas, QLD
7 6th Mabel Research and Policy Forum, TBC
7-8 2018 International Dementia Conference: Mission Impossible: truth and lies in the age of choice Sydney, NSW
7-9 Rural Doctors Association of Queensland 29th Annual Conference, TBC
8 RACGP WA: Clinical cases and conversations, Perth, WA
8-10 AOA Queensland 2018 Annual Scientific Meeting, Noosa, QLD
9 RACGP WA: Addiction medicine, Fremantle, WA
9-10 RANZCO Tasmanian Branch ASM, Hobart, TAS
9-10 Critical Care Imaging Interpretation 2018, Brisbane, QLD
14-16 2nd International Conference and Expo on Cataract and Advanced Eye Care, Melbourne, VIC
15 RACGP Social Network, Alice Springs, NT
15-16 ANZCA Rural SIG Meeting, Ayers Rock Resort, NT
15-16 RACGP Vic Women in GP Committee: A sexual health medley: detect, prevent and treat, Melbourne, VIC
15-17 Australasian Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery Non-Surgical Symposium 2018, Gold Coast, QLD
16-17 Rehabilitation Medicine Society of Australia and New Zealand Snapshots 2018, Melbourne, VIC
18 World Continence Week
21-23 Renal Society of Australasia annual conference: Lighting the path to success, Adelaide, SA
22-23 ASOHNS Head and Neck Cadaver Dissection Course, Brisbane, QLD
22-24 2018 Australasian Orthopaedic Trauma Society meeting, Noosa, QLD
23-24 Australasian Gynaecological Endoscopy and Surgery Society Trainee Workshop, Sydney, NSW
23-24 Oncology Imaging Interpretation 2018, Sydney, NSW
24-28 Missioncraft 2018 Leadership in Disaster Relief Workshop, Melbourne, VIC
27-29 Australian & New Zealand Society for Geriatric Medicine Annual Scientific Meeting 2018, Sydney, NSW
27-29 SimGHOSTS 2018, Sunshine Coast, QLD
28-29 Introduction to Healthcare Research, Melbourne, VIC
29 Essential Biostatistics, Melbourne, VIC
JULY
TBA AMSA National Convention 2018, Perth, WA
1-4 Australian & New Zealand Association for Health Professional Educators Conference, Hobart, TAS
1-4 Australian Society for Microbiology ASM 2018, Brisbane, QLD
4-5 Sax Institute: Knowledge mobilisation 2018, Sydney, NSW
4-7 Australian Society of Gynaecologic Oncologists ASM 2018, Taupo, NZ
8-10 Australian and New Zealand Urogenital and Prostate Cancer Trials Group 10th Anniversary ASM 2018, Sydney, NSW
9-11 20th Asia Pacific Diabetes Conference: Therapeutic Approaches for Diabetes Management and Endocrine Complications, Sydney, NSW
12-13 Hematologists Global Summit 2018, Sydney, NSW
12-14 RANZCO Paediatrics SIG ASM, Noosa Heads, QLD
13-15 Society of Obstetric Medicine of Australia and New Zealand ASM 2018, Cairns, QLD
13-15 RANZP Section of Child and Adolescent Forensic Psychiatry Conference, Brisbane, QLD
15-19 25th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development 2018, Gold Coast, QLD
16-18 21st World Nursing Education Conference, Melbourne, VIC
20 AOA South Australia/Northern Territory Branch Annual Scientific Meeting, Darwin, NT
22 ASOHNS 2018 Robert Guerin Memorial Annual Trainees Meeting, TBA
23-24 AGES Trainee Workshop, Sydney, NSW
23-29 National Pain Week
26-28 Australian and New Zealand Head and Neck Cancer Society 20th and the International Society for Maxillofacial Rehabilitation Joint ASM 2018, Melbourne, VIC
27-28 WA TSANZ Annual Scientific Meeting, Floreat, WA
27-28 SWAN 2018: Trauma, Critical Care and Emergency Surgery Conference, Sydney, NSW
27-29 Pharmaceutical Society of Australia PSA 18 Conference, Sydney, NSW
28 Sydney Eye Hospital Alumni Association 12th Biennial Meeting, Sydney, NSW
28 Annual ANZCA/ASA Combined CME Meeting, Melbourne, VIC
28 Australian ADHD Professionals Association 2nd Annual Conference, Sydney, NSW
28-29 General Practice Conference and Exhibition, Perth, WA
29 Jul-1 Aug Health Informatics Society of Australia HIC 2018, Sydney, NSW
30-31 ANZICS Safety and Quality Conference, Melbourne, VIC
30 Jul-1 Aug Australian Cardiovascular Health and Rehabilitation Association 28th ASM, Brisbane, QLD
AUGUST
1-3 Medical Oncology Group of Australia ASM 2018, Adelaide, SA
1-5 International Society for Heart Research 2018 ISHR-AUS Section Meeting, Brisbane, QLD
2-4 Australasian Gynaecological Endoscopy and Surgery Society Pelvic Floor Symposium, Brisbane, QLD
2-4 Australian Society for Psychosocial Obstetrics and Gynaecology 44th ASM: Women’s Health, Lives and Rights, Sydney, NSW
2-5 CSANZ 2018: 66th ASM of the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand, Brisbane, QLD
2-5 RANZCO Queensland Branch ASM, Main Beach, QLD
3-4 AGES XIX Pelvic Floor Symposium 2018, Brisbane, QLD
3-5 12th Annual Australia and New Zealand Endovascular Therapies Meeting, Brisbane, QLD
4-7 Human Genetics Society of Australasia 42nd ASM 2018: Building bridges, Sydney, NSW
7-10 Stroke Society of Australasia 28th ASM, Sydney, NSW
8-10 Australian and New Zealand Mental Health Association 19th International Mental Health Conference 2018, Gold Coast, QLD
10-12 Stoller: A Comprehensive Review in Musculoskeletal Imaging 2018, Melbourne, VIC
14-16 Otitis Media Australia 2018: Closing the gap with hearing, Darwin, NT
15-17 TSANZ NZ Branch Annual Scientific Meeting, Queenstown, NZ
15-18 17th World Congress on Cancers of the Skin, Sydney, NSW
16-17 Colorectal Cancer Conference 2018, Melbourne, VIC
16-19 16th International Congress of Therapeutic Drug Monitoring and Clinical Toxicology 2018, Brisbane, QLD
17-19 Endocrine Society of Australia Clinical Weekend 2018, Adelaide, SA
17-19 RANZP Section Electroconvulsive Therapy and Neurostimulation 2018 Conference, Yarra Valley Lodge, VIC
18 3rd Update in Paediatric Gastroenterology, Sydney, NSW
19-22 Endocrine Society of Australia and the Society for Reproductive Biology ASM 2018, Adelaide, SA
22-24 Australian Diabetes Society and Australian Diabetes Educators Association ASM 2018, Adelaide, SA
24-26 Australasian Diabetes in Pregnancy Society 2018, Adelaide, SA
24-26 Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists Faculty of Psychotherapy Annual Conference 2018, Adelaide, SA
24-26 Seminars in Paediatric Neuroimaging 2018, Adelaide, SA
26-29 Don’t Forget the Bubbles Acute Paediatric Conference 2018: Science + story, Melbourne, VIC
27 ANZICS 9th Annual Winter Research Forum, Sydney, NSW
27-31 14th International Congress of Neuroimmunology 2018, Brisbane, QLD
28-30 Australian College of Nursing National Nursing Forum, Gold Coast, QLD
28-31 The MHS Conference 2018: Hear the whisper, not the roar: reform, reflect and review, Adelaide, SA
29-31 GeneMappers 2018, Noosa Heads, QLD
29-31 Neurosurgical Society of Australasia ASM 2018, Gold Coast, QLD
29 Aug-2 Sep Society for Paediatric Anaesthesia in New Zealand and Australia 2018 Annual Conference, Darwin, NT
30 Aug-1 Sep 2018 Annual Conference of the Neurodevelopmental and Behavioural Paediatric Society of Australasia, Melbourne, VIC
30 Aug-1 Sep Frontiers 2018 - The Art, Science and Future of Otorhinolaryngology, Cairns, QLD
31 Aug-2 Sep 22nd Australasian Menopause Society Congress 2018, Brisbane, QLD
SEPTEMBER
3-5 11th World Congress on Endocrinology and Metabolic Disorders, Auckland, NZ
3-5 Australasian Association of Clinical Biochemists 56th ASM 2018, Sydney, 2018
4-8 Australasian Society of Clinical Immunology and Allergy 29th ASM 2018, Canberra, ACT
5-6 International Emergency Care Conference, Melbourne, VIC
6-7 Australian Association of Developmental Disability Medicine 2018 Conference, Sydney, NSW
6-7 Australian and New Zealand Metabolic and Obesity Surgery Society ASM 2018, Melbourne, VIC
6-8 Triennial Masters' Symposium on Functional and Aesthetic Rhinoplasty, Sydney, NSW
6-8 Internal Medicine Society of Australia and New Zealand (IMSANZ) Conference 2018, Queenstown, NZ
6-8 RANZCP Faculty of Forensic Psychiatry Conference 2018: Torts and chains: adventures in Forensic Psychiatry, Sydney, NSW
6-9 Australian and New Zealand Society for Palliative Medicine 2018: New frontiers, Sydney, NSW
8-10 Australian Gastroenterology Week 2018, Brisbane, QLD
8-12 Australian and New Zealand Society of Nephrology 54th ASM 2018, Sydney, NSW
9-12 Fertility Society of Australia Annual Conference 2018, Melbourne, VIC
10-12 BMJ International Forum on Quality & Safety in Healthcare, Melbourne, VIC
11-13 GPTEC 2018: Switch on, Adelaide, SA
12-14 Australia and New Zealand Child Neurology Society 7th ASM 2018, Perth, WA
13-14 NOSA Annual Meeting 2018, Melbourne, VIC
13-15 57th Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM) of the International Spinal Cord Society (ISCoS), Sydney, NSW
13-16 Neuro-Ophthalmology Society of Australia (NOSA) 34th Clinical & Scientific Meeting and NeuroVision Training Weekend, Melbourne, VIC
14 ASID/ESCMID Course on Infectious Diseases in Pregnant Women, Fetuses and Newborns, Sydney, NSW
14-16 Internal Medicine Society of Australia and New Zealand (IMSANZ) Conference 2018, Hobart, TAS
14-16 General Practice Conference and Exhibition, Brisbane, QLD
14-16 39th Australasian Dermatopathology Society ASM, Adelaide, SA
14-16 Australian Psychosis Conference, Sydney, NSW
15-16 Neurovision, Melbourne, VIC
16-19 RANZCOG 2018 Annual Scientific Meeting, Adelaide, SA
17-18 PharmaAus18, Canberra, ACT
20-23 Australasian Society of Cosmetic Dermatologists Symposium, Melbourne, VIC
21 Pain Interest Group Nursing Issues Professional Development Day, Sydney, NSW
21-23 ANZCA Combined SIG Meeting, Byron Bay, NSW
24 The 6th Australian Health Economics Doctoral Workshop, Hobart, TAS
24-26 Australasian HIV and AIDS Conference 2018, Sydney, NSW
25-26 The 40th Annual Australian Health Economics Society Conference, Hobart, TAS
26-28 AIDA Conference 2018: Vision into action, Perth, WA
OCTOBER
2-5 SSEM 2018: Peripheral Hospitals Emergency Medicine Conference, Daydream Island, QLD
2-6 32nd International Papillomavirus Conference, Sydney, NSW
4-6 International Society for Hip Arthroscopy 2018 ASM, Melbourne, VIC
5-6 ANZCA Cardiac Thoracic Vascular and Perfusion SIG Meeting, Adelaide, SA
5-6 Australasian Melanoma Conference 2018, Melbourne, VIC
5-7 Australasian Trauma Society 22nd ASM, Perth, WA
6-8 MRI – Upper and Lower Limb Interpretation Workshop 2018, Sydney, NSW
6-9 Australian Society of Anaesthetists National Scientific Congress 2018, Adelaide, SA
7-10 Australian and New Zealand Society of Occupational Medicine (ANZSOM) Annual Scientific Meeting 2018: Perspectives in Occupational Health, Melbourne, VIC
7-11 Australian Orthopaedic Association ASM 2018: Better Patient Outcomes, Perth, WA
10-12 IHF World Hospital Congress 2018, Brisbane, QLD
10-13 Sports Medicine Australia 2018, Perth, WA
11-12 Sydney Cancer Conference, Sydney, NSW
11-13 ANZICS/ACCCN Intensive Care ASM, Adelaide, SA
11-14 RACGP: GP18, Gold Coast, QLD
12-14 Australasian Military Medicine Association 27th Conference: Armistice to Afghanistan: Evolution of military healthcare, Canberra, ACT
16-19 71st Annual General and Scientific Meeting of the New Zealand Society of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Queenstown, NZ
16-19 Australian and New Zealand Burn Association ASM 2018, Brisbane, QLD
17-20 Australasian Sleep Association Sleep DownUnder 2018, Brisbane, QLD
17-20 Australasian Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons 22nd Annual Conference 2018, Noosa, QLD
17-20 Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists’ Faculty of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Conference 2018, Perth, WA
18-20 Australian and New Zealand Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons Annual Meeting 2018, Perth, WA
19-20 2018 RACS Victorian Annual Scientific Meeting, Melbourne, VIC
20-21 Australasian College of Legal Medicine 2018 ASM: Personal injury law, Sydney, NSW
22-24 Australasian Epidemiological Association 31st ASM, Fremantle, WA
24-27 27th National Conference on Incontinence, Hobart, TAS
24-27 General Practice and Acute Medicine Update Refresher, Melbourne, VIC
25-26 Emergency Nurse Leadership Program, Melbourne, VIC
25-27 ANZCA Perioperative Medicine SIG Meeting, TBA
25-27 Colorectal Surgical Society of Australia and New Zealand and the Colon and Rectal Surgery Section of the RACS Spring Colorectal Meeting 2018, Fremantle, WA
25-27
25-28 2018 RANZCR 69th ASM, Canberra, ACT
25-28 Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine and Rural Doctors Association of Australia: Rural Medicine Australia 2018, Darwin, NT
26-28 Australian Anaesthesia Allied Health Practitioners 3rd National Conference, Sydney, NSW
28 Oct-1 Nov Cutaneous Biology 2018, North Stradbroke Island, QLD
31 Oct-2 Nov 20th Australasian Gastro-Intestinal Trials Group ASM 2018, Brisbane, QLD
NOVEMBER
1-4 General Practice and Acute Medicine Update Refresher, Brisbane, QLD
2-3 Australasian Gynaecological Endoscopy and Surgical Society Focus Meeting, Canberra, ACT
3-4 14th National Laser and Cosmetic Medicine Conference 2018, Brisbane, QLD
7-9 Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District Together Achieving Better Health Conference, Penrith, NSW
7-10 RANZCP Faculty of Psychiatry of Old Age and the Asian Society Against Dementia Conference 2018, Melbourne, VIC
8-10 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
9 Health Information Technology, Perth, WA
10-17 2018 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, Sydney, NSW
11-14 11th International Conference on Frontotemporal Dementias, Sydney, NSW
13-15 Clinical Oncology Society of Australia 2018 ASM, Perth, WA
16-18 General Practice Conference and Exhibition, Melbourne, VIC
17-18 Critical Care Imaging Interpretation 2018, Noosa Heads, QLD
17-21 50th Annual Scientific Congress of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists, Adelaide, SA
18-22 Australasian College for Emergency Medicine, 35th ASM, Perth, WA
21-22 2nd Australasian FASD Conference 2018, Perth, WA
21-23 11th Hospital in the Home ASM: LEARN: Lead, engage, aspire, research, negotiate, Brisbane, QLD
21-23 Australian Association of Gerontology Conference 2018, Melbourne, VIC
21-24 6th Asia-Oceanian Conference of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine combined with the Rehabilitation Medicine Society of Australia and New Zealand's 3rd Annual Scientific Meeting, Auckland, NZ
21-24 Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law 2018 Annual Conference: Sins of the past: reflections and future directions, Hobart, TAS
21-24 General Practice and Acute Medicine Update Refresher, Sydney, NSW
23-25 Queensland Hand Surgery Society Conference, Noosa, QLD
26-28 1st International Motor Impairment Conference, Sydney, NSW
27-28 7th Annual NHMRC Symposium on Research Translation: Ensuring value in research, Sydney, NSW
DECEMBER
1 Australasian Gynaecological Endoscopy and Surgery Society Pelvic Anatomy Dissection Cadaveric Workshop, Brisbane, QLD
2-6 Australasian Society for Immunology 47th ASM 2018, Perth, WA
2019
JANUARY
TBA 12th Australasian Conference on Health Informatics and Knowledge Management
14-16 31st Australian Council for Health, Physical Education and Recreation International Conference, Canberra, ACT
FEBRUARY
TBA The Australian and New Zealand Glaucoma Society ASM
8-10 Australasian College of Sport and Exercise Physicians Annual Scientific Conference, Queenstown, NZ
25 Feb-1 Mar Leadership and Innovation in Health, Melbourne, VIC
MARCH
TBA Medical Parents of Australia and New Zealand Conference, Gold Coast, QLD
TBA Australasian Academy of Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine 10th Biennial Scientific Conference, Perth, WA
1-2 Australia and New Zealand Strabismus Society Meeting (Squint Club), Parkville, VIC
7-10 New Zealand Pain Society ASM, Christchurch, NZ
17-20 Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand Annual Congress, Gold Coast, QLD
22-24 ASOHNS 69th Annual Scientific Meeting, South Brisbane, QLD
25-30 International Neuromodulation Society 14th World Congress, Sydney, NSW
27-28 9th Annual Australian Healthcare Week, Sydney, NSW
27-30 8th World Glaucoma Congress, Melbourne, VIC
29 Mar-2 Apr Annual Scientific Meetings of The Australia and New Zealand Society of Respiratory Science and The Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand, Gold Coast, QLD
APRIL
7-10 2019 Australian Pain Society 39th ASM, Gold Coast, QLD
11-13 Biennial meeting of the Asia Pacific Society of Sexual Medicine, Brisbane, QLD
12-15 ISN World Congress of Nephrology 2019, Melbourne, VIC
13-16 Urological Society of Australia and New Zealand 72nd ASM, including the ANZUNS 24th annual meeting, Brisbane, QLD
MAY
TBA RACP Congress 2019, Auckland, NZ
18-21 Australasian College of Dermatologists Annual Scientific Meeting, Melbourne, VIC
25-30 International Neuromodulation Society 14th World Congress, Sydney, NSW
JUNE
18-20 Global Health Security 2019, Sydney, NSW
25-28 International Society on Early Intervention Conference 2019: Research to practice in early intervention: an international perspective, Sydney, NSW
JULY
27-30 Transplantation Society of Australia and New Zealand PGC and ASM, Sydney, NSW
AUGUST
12-16 17th Deaf Blind International World Conference 2019, Gold Coast, QLD
SEPTEMBER
7-8 Rural Dermatology Meeting, Orange, NSW
15-19 14th World Congress on Inflammation, Sydney, NSW
29 Sep-2 Oct 18th Biennial Clinical Neurophysiology Workshop, Gold Coast, QLD
OCTOBER
TBA RACGP conference, GP19
14-18 World Congress of Intensive Care, Melbourne, VIC
20-23 11th Development Origins of Health and Disease World Congress, Melbourne, VIC
NOVEMBER
17-19 10th World Congress of Itch, Sydney, NSW
2020
APRIL
2-4 Exercise and Sports Science Australia Research to Practice 2020, Perth, WA
MAY
16-18 Australasian College of Dermatologists Annual Scientific Meeting, Adelaide, SA
2021
NOVEMBER
10-13 XIII International Congress of Dermatology, Melbourne, VIC
DECEMBER
TBA FIGO World Congress of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Sydney, NSW
- Cate Swannell