SUMS and SUSS are proud to be hosting the ultimate medical turf war, pitching six of Sydney’s brightest minds against one another with the hopes of answering medicine’s eternal question: which specialty is better, surgery or medicine?
The topic up for debate is “to cut is to cure”, with the surgeons arguing the affirmative and physicians arguing the negative. The winning team will be decided by audience vote, so we’re anticipating (and encouraging) plenty of light-hearted banter between the two teams.
DEBATERS – SURGEONS:
– Professor Mohamed Khadra, Staff Specialist (Urology) at Westmead and Nepean Hospitals, Clinical Director of Surgery and Anaesthetics and Head of Urological Surgery at Nepean Hospital, and Best-selling author and playwright
– Dr Angelina Di Re, Surgical Research Fellow (Colorectal) at Westmead Hospital
– Dr Richard Hanney, Clinical Senior Lecturer at Western Clinical School and Staff Specialist (General Surgery) at Westmead and Mount Druitt Hospitals
DEBATERS – PHYSICIANS:
– Associate Professor Hasantha Gunasekera, Academic Leader and Paediatrician at Westmead Children’s Hospital
– Professor Stephen Twigg, Head of Dept of Endocrinology and Medical Head of the Diabetes and Endocrinology Research Laboratories at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, and Kellion Professor of Endocrinology and Stan Clark Chair in Diabetes at University of Sydney
– Professor Stephen Clarke, Medical Oncologist at Royal North Shore Hospital and Professor of Medicine at the University of Sydney
Entry is a gold coin donation, being collected at the door to be donated to the Refugee Clinic at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead on behalf of the winning team
Date: 3 Jul 2019
Location: KPEC Auditorium, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
Time: 5:30 – 7:30pm