2020 Meetings

ANZSOM/AFOEM branch meetings are held throughout the year.  
Meeting dates for 2020 are as follows (more to come):

• Annual General Meeting - 3rd March
• Winter Scientific Meeting - Saturday 29th August (refer below)
• ANZSOM AFOEM joint Christmas Meeting - Wednesday 2nd December, 6pm
  Northbridge Golf Club

In case you missed it....

• Return to Work after Traumatic Brain Injury, presented by Sumitha Gounden at the NSW/ACT weekend meeting, Aug 2019

• Determining fitness to drive in occupational health and medicine – screening and maintaining driver health, presented by Dr Joan O’Donnell at the NSW/ACT weekend meeting, Aug 2019

• Q fever update, presented by Associate Professor James Branley at the NSW/ACT weekend meeting, July 2017

NSW/ACT Branch Council Members

Chairperson: Dr Sarah Moss

Secretary: Dr Prasad Abeydeera

Treasurer: Dr Tom Rosenthal

Event Organiser: Ms Amanda Tompson

Nurse Representative: Ms Amanda Tompson

Council Members: Dr Victoria Oey, Dr Catherine Field, Dr Maggie Goldie, Robyn Dye, Dr Louise Crowle

Branch AGM documents 
(member login required)

The NSW/ACT Branch of ANZSOM is pleased to invite you to the 2020 Winter Scientific Meeting on Saturday 29th August. This much anticipated event is a highlight of our Branch’s educational calendar and we’re excited to be "Back to Quarantine" at the Q Station in Manly. Featuring topical presentations, a "Quarantine Wander" around the Q Station Wharf Precinct and a two-course lunch.

• The risks and rewards of practising medicine in quarantine
  by Dr Peter Hobbins, Medical Historian
• COVID-19 and occupational risk management of hospital staff
• by Dr Ian Cheng, Occupational Physician, Royal North Shore Hospital
• Nobby's story: the personal impact of COVID-19 & keeping a large petrochemical plant safe in the COVID era
  by Dr Louise Crowle and Amanda Tompson

The day will also include a "Quarantine Wander" around the Q Station Wharf Precinct

Date:  Saturday 29th August 2020, from 10am

Venue: Governor Bourke Ballroom, Q Station, 1 North Head Scenic Drive, Manly NSW 2095

Cost: Members $150, Non-member $180, Partner $100, Child $50
Includes full program, morning tea and 2-course lunch
(Excludes accommodation)

Optional overnight stay at Q Station
Book directly through the hotel to get 10% off the best available rate 
Email: H8773@accor.com

Download meeting flyer and program

Dr Peter Hobbins 
Medical Historian and Honorary Associate, Department of History, School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry, The University of Sydney

Dr Peter Hobbins is a professional historian with research interests in the history of science, technology and medicine. Trained as a pharmacologist, his publications have spanned snakebite and its remedies, infectious diseases, quarantine and immunisation. Peter is an honorary affiliate in the Department of History at the University of Sydney and a Visiting Scholar at the State Library of NSW. His book on Sydney's Quarantine Station, Stories from the Sandstone, won a Premier's History Award in 2017.

Dr Ian Cheng
Occupational Physician, Royal North Shore Hospital

Ian is a Staff Specialist in Occupational & Environmental Medicine based at Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney. He also conducts a private practice in Aviation and Occupational Medicine. Ian previously held fractional specialist appointments at QANTAS Aviation Medical Services, IBM and CASA Aviation Medicine. Ian is a Fellow of the Australasian Faculty of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, a Foundation Fellow of the Australasian College of Aerospace Medicine, an academician of the International Academy of Aviation and Space Medicine and a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society.

Ms Amanda Tompson 

Amanda Tompson is a registered nurse who has been the occupational health coordinator at the Botany Industrial Park (BIP) for over 10 years. She is responsible for injury management / return to work management, health surveillance activities and health & wellbeing activities for the companies on site. 

Dr Louise Crowle 

Occupational physician Dr Louise Crowle works in private practice and consults to a number of organisations providing occupational health advice / services including companies at the BIP site.