South Australia & Northern Territory

2025 Meetings

Tuesday 8 April - SafeWork SA Health Monitoring Forum
Tuesday 1 July - ReturnToWorkSA meeting

Details of other 2025 SA/NT Branch educational meetings TBC

In case you missed it....

Recordings from previous presentations can be accessed below

SA Branch Council Members

Chairperson: Dr Bill Panayiaris (anzsom.sant@gmail.com)

Secretary: Navneeth Rajgopalan

Treasurer: Dr Bill Panayiaris

Nurse Representative: Tamara Whitehead

UPCOMING MEETINGS

EXTERNAL EVENT: Occupational injury rehabilitation evening

ANZSOM and AFOEM members are invited to attend an Occupational injury rehabilitation evening at Sportsmed Stepney on Tuesday 10 June 2025 - SAVE THE DATE!

Topic: The current use of technology for professional sport rehabilitation and its use in occupational injury rehabilitation
Date/time: Tuesday 10th June 2025, 6.00PM
Venue: Sportsmed Healthcare Hub (physio gym), 32 Payneham Road, Stepney SA

Registration: Please email Bill Panayiaris (bgpany@gmail.com) or the AFOEM Secretary (afoemsecretary@gmail.com) if you would like to attend.

Topic summary

Michael Heynen (Clinical Director Physiotherapy), Ryan Kelly (Principal Physio) and Matt Muir (Head of Exercise Physiology) will discuss and demonstrate the use of technology (including force plates and dynamometers) to accurately measure a patient’s strength, balance and agility and the use of hard data to construct a tailored treatment plan.

SA/NT Branch meeting with ReturnToWorkSA

Our next Branch meeting with ReturnToWorkSA will be held on Tuesday 1 July 2025. This will include a presentation by psychiatrist, Dr Michael Schirripa, who has kindly agreed to present on Common work related psychiatric presentations.

Date: Tuesday 1 July 2025
Time: 5.30pm for a 6pm start
Venue: RTWSA Building, 400 King William St, Adelaide
Cost: Free

Registration: Please email Bill Panayiaris (bgpany@gmail.com) or the AFOEM Secretary (afoemsecretary@gmail.com) if you would like to attend.

ANZSOM has a strong partnership with ReturnToWorkSA, with our annual meetings providing an excellent opportunity to discuss legislative changes and updates and project status reports, as well as the opportunity to speak one-on-one with representatives from RTWSA.