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10 & 11 March 2012

Palazzo Versace

Gold Coast

CME/CPD accreditations:

11 RANZCR CME points

1 AIR CPD point per hour (appellation 25.4)

invitation

Advances in imaging technology and patient management are changing the way diagnostic imaging is utilised in acute injury and illness. We invite you to join us on the Gold Coast on 10th and 11th March for the 3rd Phoenix Conferencing Trauma & Acute Imaging Symposium. Renowned speakers from around the nation will present informative lectures on trauma, critical care, acute injury and illness, sports injury and more.

Latest news: The superior room accommodation block at Palazzo Versace has sold out. Contact Shan at Conference Link (shan@conferencelink.com.au) for alternate accommodation options at Palazzo Versace and surrounding hotels.

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faculty

David is the Director of Greenslopes Emergency Department and a Senior Staff Emergency Physician at the Royal Brisbane and Royal Women's Hospital. He has recently been appointed Director of the Metropolitan Emergency Department Access Initiative to tackle the problem of ambulance ramping in south east Queensland. Amongst other things he is also Chairman of the Queensland Emergency Medicine Research Foundation and Chair of the Queensland faculty of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine. He is a Senior Lecturer in Anaesthesiology and Critical Care at the University of Queensland School of Medicine and a Fellow of the Academy of Wilderness Medicine. In his spare time he tries to run an 800 acre cattle and timber property in Northern Rivers NSW.

Dr Rosengren has extensive remote medical experience including working for two years in remote Queensland Hospitals. He has experience in helicopter rescue and has worked as an expedition doctor to the Antarctic, Papua New Guinea, Mt Kilimanjaro and Everest Base Camp. He has completed research into exercise associated hyponatraemia on the Kokoda Track and just recently returned from a trip to one of the harshest environments on earth as the medic for a television documentary into a crystal cave in the northern Mexico desert. He assists one of Australia's leading adventure companies with his expert advice.

Sally has been working as a radiographer for eleven years and has spent the last five of those years at the Princess Alexandra Hospital. Over that time she has seen the change of work practice from film/screen radiography, to computed radiography and direct digital radiography. She has recently completed a Master of Health Science (Image Interpretation) through the University of Sydney. Sally takes a special interest in trauma imaging, CT and mammography, which is balanced by a passion for travel in her free time.

Sandeep Bhuta is a Staff Neuroradiologist at Gold Coast Hospital since 2007 and Associate Professor, Griffith University, School of Medicine, Gold coast.
He was trained in Queensland and Toronto; after finishing FRANZCR went to North America for a 2 year comprehensive Fellowship in Adult and Pediatric Neuroradiology and Head & Neck Imaging at University of Toronto, Canada. He has received numerous research awards at conferences such as the American Academy of Neurology, Chicago in 2007 and RANZCR conference research awards at annual scientific meetings in 2007 and 2009. Sandeep received prestigious ACE Award in Academic and Clinical Excellence by Griffith University in 2010. His major contribution includes establishing Stroke and Multidisciplinary Head and Neck Cancer Services at Gold Coast Hospital. His areas of interest and research are Susceptibility Weighted Imaging, Stroke CT Brain Perfusion, and Advanced Tumor Imaging.
 

Dr Gillian Long was born in England and trained in Medicine and Radiology in England and Wales. At the end of her registrar training Gillian completed a Paediatric Radiology Fellowship year in Vancouver at British Columbia’s Children’s Hospital before returning to England to work as a Consultant at the Sheffield Children’s Hospital. In 2001 Dr Long migrated to Australia, and initially worked at the Mater Children’s Hospital in Brisbane for 5 years before moving across the Brisbane river to the Royal Children’s Hospital where she is currently Director of Radiology.

Tom Snow is an interventional radiologist on the Gold Coast in Queensland. His interests are in endovascular surgery, vascular CT, and the management of haemorrhage by embolisation. He trained in Oxford, Brisbane, and Toronto. He heads up a public department of radiology for Queensland Health, and is part of a private radiology group based at Allamanda Hospital.

program

• 09:00 Trauma in the elderly - David Rosengren

• 09:30 Ultrasound help! We have pelvic pain - Cameron Moore

• 10:00 Morning tea

• 10:30 Paediatric emergencies - Gillian Long

• 11:15 Imaging of knee injuries in the weekend warrior - Paul O'Connell

• 12:00 Lunch

• 13:00 Amazing case studies - Lindsay Rowe

• 13:30 Focused bedside ultrasound: happening or hype? - David Rosengren

• 14:00 Digital radiography in the ED - Sally Ball

• 14:30 Afternoon tea

• 15:00 ED imaging: The rule-out agenda - David Rosengren

• 15:45 Penetrating injuries - Lindsay Rowe

• 09:00 Radiological intervention for acute injury and illness - Tom Snow

• 09:30 CT of variants that simulate spine fractures - Lindsay Rowe

• 10:00 Morning Tea

• 10:30 Ultrasound of the acute abdomen - Scott King

• 11:00 Imaging pathways for acute chest conditions - Tanya Wood

• 11:30 PE: Who cares? - David Rosengren

• 12:00 Lunch

• 13:00 High speed trauma - Lindsay Rowe

• 13:45 Wilderness medicine - David Rosengren

• 14:30 Afternoon Tea

• 15:00 Neurological emergencies - Sandeep Bhuta

• 15:45 Foot and ankle injuries - Paul O'Connell

venue

Main Beach

Gold Coast

Palazzo Versace is located in Main Beach at the northern of the Gold Coast, close to Sea World and the Broadwater. Room rates include breakfast*, complimentary valet parking, porterage, high speed broadband internet and daily bottled Italian water.

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*Single room rate includes 1 breakfast daily, twin and double room rates include 2 breakfasts daily

the fine print

Day registration inclusions: attendance at all sessions on the nominated day, catering (morning tea, afternoon tea and lunch) on the nominated day, access to speaker notes after the conference (subject to speaker approval).

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