Staff Updates
Presentations and Meetings
Professor Stan Sidhu 1. Endocrine Section Visiting Professor for the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons meeting in Melbourne.
This was a hybrid meeting, with face-to-face attendance mainly by Melbourne surgeons and interstate surgeons attending virtually.
As the only Section Visitor attending in person, Professor Sidhu was responsible for: • Assessing the registrar’s oral abstracts
• Being a panel member on ‘how I do it’ sessions • Challenging early and mid-career presenters
2. Keynote lecturer at the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Annual Scientific Congress in May 2021: “Total Thyroidectomy - What’s Old is New Again”. 3. International Association of Endocrine Surgeons (IAES) State of the Art lecture: “RNA-based therapeutics in disease and cancer: Is there a role in Endocrine malignancy?” The IAES State of the Art lecture is the highest honour for a member, giving them the opportunity to present their original work to the Association. This lecture encompassed more a decade’s worth of translational research in this field. Clinical Associate Professor Mark Sywak 1. Invited lecturer at the General Surgeons Australia National Surgical Education and Training Course: Management of Thyroid Nodular Disease. 2. Invited lecturer at the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners and Manly Warringah Division of General Practice: “Investigation of hypercalcemia and surgical techniques in parathyroidectomy”. A/Prof Sywak was admitted to the Court of Examiners of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS) and participated in College examinations in May, June and November 2021. He was also elected to the Executive of the Endocrine Surgery Section of the RACS in December 2021. A/Prof Sywak continues his roles as Public Officer for the Australian and New Zealand Endocrine Surgeons Association and as a member of the Scientific Committee for the International Association of Endocrine Surgeons postgraduate course. Associate Professor Anthony Glover 1. Invited lecturer at the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Annual Scientific Congress (RACS ASC) Endocrine Section: “Recognising and managing unusual parathyroid conditions”. 2. Invited lecturer at the RACS ASC Surgical Oncology Section: “Applying novel circulating biomarkers to the clinic for patients with cancer”.
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Endocrine Surgery Annual Report 2021
Endocrine Surgery Annual Report 2021
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