This year, our theme is “Research and the Anti-Research” and our program will attempt to tackle this daunting area. After listening to experts in their fields, the program may inspire future researchers. Equally possible, the program may make us question the role and relevance of research today in its current guise. At the very least, the weekend promises to be thought-provoking and help us reflect on our own practice.

Our lecture series will run on Saturday October 5. Leading the exploration of this theme will be the Editor-In-Chief of Anaesthesia, Professor Andrew (Andy) Klein from Cambridge, UK as one of our invited international speakers. Professor Klein will focus on the role of the journal in 2019 as well as the murky world of research fraud. Our other international speaker is Professor Jamie Sleigh from Waikato, NZ. Both international speakers will be complemented by our interstate speakers – Associate Professor Alicia Dennis, Dr David Highton, Ms Ianthe Boden, Dr Christine Ball AM and Dr Danielle Volling-Geoghegan. Prominent local orthopaedic surgeon Professor Paul Smith will explore the growing issue of big data, with local (and vocal) anaesthetists Dr Vida Viliunas OAM and Dr Mark Skacel ending the day debating whether anaesthetic research has lost the plot.

On Sunday October 6, we will conduct three workshops. There will be the mandatory CPD Advanced Life Support (ALS) workshop and, along for the first time, the new mandatory CPD Acute Severe Behavioural Disorder workshop. In addition, Professor Klein will run a research and publication preparation workshop which will complement his talks given a day earlier.

Program and Registration

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