Victoria & Tasmania
2019 Meetings
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Thursday 11 April - Educational Meeting
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Wednesday 17 July - Educational Meeting and AGM (refer details below)
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Wednesday 27 November - Christmas Scientific Meeting
For more information contact Hilary Oakley (anzsom.victas@gmail.com).
VIC/TAS Branch Council Members
Chairperson: Ms Sally Kane
Secretary: Ms Hilary Oakley
Treasurer: Ms Sandra code
Council members: Nathan Pastor, Elizabeth Keating and Robyn Laurie
VIC/TAS Branch Educational Meeting & AGM
Wednesday 17 July 2019
Topic: Drug and Alcohol Management Awareness in the Workplace / Drivers
Speaker: Professor Edward Ogden, Forensic Physician
Date: Wednesday 17 July 2019
Time: 6.00pm for 6.30pm
Venue: The Emerald Hotel, 415 Clarendon Street, South Melbourne
Cost: ANZSOM members $75; non-members $85
Includes 2 course dinner and beverages – wine, beer and soft drinks, tea/coffee
Position: Deputy Director (Addiction and Forensic Medicine), Centre for Human Psychopharmacology, Swinburne University, staff specialist in addiction medicine at St Vincent’s Hospital in Melbourne and Addiction Medicine Specialist at Goulburn Valley Health.
Professor Ogden obtained his degrees from the University of Melbourne. He is a Fellow of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, a Fellow of the Chapter of Addiction Medicine of the Royal Australian College of Physicians and a Fellow of the Faculty of Clinical Forensic Medicine of the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia. He was awarded the Public Service Medal for services to Forensic Medicine on Australia Day 2005.
His research interests focus on the role of alcohol and drugs in traffic safety and development of treatments for alcohol and drug abuse based on applying current understanding of the neurobiology of addiction into meaningful clinical treatments.