Thursday 8 September

Bayside Auditorium
1600 - 1700

Professor Nigel Bunnett

Nigel Bunnett received his Ph.D. degree from Cambridge University in 1981 and spent the next thirty years of his career on the West Coast of the United States, as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of California Los Angeles, an Assistant Professor at the University of Washington in Seattle, and the past twenty five years at the University of California San Francisco. Until recently he was Professor of Surgery and Physiology and Vice Chair of Surgery at UCSF. In June of this year he joined the Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences as Professor of Pharmacology and Medicine and an NHMRC Australia Fellow.

Nigel's research focuses on mechanisms of signalling of inflammation and pain by G-protein coupled receptors for neuropeptides, proteases and steroids, and by transient receptor potential ion channels. This work is funded by the NIH and the NHMRC, and has been reported in over 250 publications.

Friday 9 September

Arterial pressure cardiac output - theory and case based applications
Bayside Auditorium
0800-0845

Dr Neal Fleming

Dr Fleming received his undergraduate degree from Grinnell College in Iowa and his MD from the University of Kansas. He completed his internship, residency in anaesthesiology and fellowship in cardiovascular anaesthesiology at Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC. He then went on to obtain his doctoral degree in pharmacology also from Georgetown University before joining the faculty of the University of California, Davis. He currently serves as the Vice-Chair for Education and the Director of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Anaesthesiology in the UC Davis Department of Anaesthesiology and Pain Medicine.

Saturday 10 September

Innovation and IT integration: considerations for future anaesthesia workstations
Bayside Auditorium
0800-0845

Professor Tony Gin

Professor Gin is Chair of the Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Chief of Service for Anaesthesia and the Operating Theatres, Intensive Care Unit and Central Sterile Supply Unit at Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong. His main professional interests are clinical anaesthetic pharmacology, anaesthesia during pregnancy and neuroanaesthesia. Tony is the current Section Editor for Clinical Pharmacology in Anaesthesia & Analgesia, and has contributed to committees of the Hong Kong College of Anaesthesiologists and Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists.

Sunday 11 September

Is informed consent a fairy tale?
Bayside Auditorium
0800-0845

Dr Daniel Sokol

Daniel Sokol (PhD GDL MSc MSc MA) is Honorary Senior Lecturer in Medical Ethics at Imperial College London and Editor of the Postgraduate Medical Journal. He sits on committees for the Ministry of Defence, the Ministry of Justice and the Royal College of Surgeons. He has published over 150 articles and writes a monthly column for the BMJ, under the soubriquet 'Ethics Man', which was a finalist in the Medical Journalists' Association 'Best Medical Column of the Year' in 2011. He is the author of the award-winning textbook 'Medical Ethics and Law: Surviving on the Wards and Passing Exams', and has lectured on medical ethics around the world. He appears regularly on television and radio.