Sydney University Surgical Society is proud to host Colorectal Surgical Grand Rounds.
Dr Cherry Koh will present cases in colorectal surgery with associated imaging and management. Dr Koh is a colorectal surgeon at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. She has a subspecialty interest in laparoscopic colorectal surgery, transanal resection techniques, IBD, pelvic floor disorders and pelvic exenteration for advanced pelvic malignancy.
The event will be particularly relevant to Stage 2 students reaching the end of their Gastrointestinal Block; however, students from all stages and clinical schools are welcome.
Please RSVP on the Facebook event.
Date: Monday, September 19
Time: 18:00 – 19:00
Venue: New Law Lecture Theatre 104, New Law Building
SUSS is proud to host a Transplant Symposium as part of its DonateLife Week activities. We will hear from four speakers on different aspects of the transplantation process:
Mr Max Mohr, Liver Transplant Recipient
Dr Nudrat Rashid, Intensive Care Specialist and Director of Organ and Transplantation Unit at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
Dr Jonathan Karpelowsky, Staff Specialist in Paediatric Surgery at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead
Dr Jerome Laurence, Upper GI, Hepatobiliary and Transplant Surgeon at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and Chris O’Brien Lifehouse
All are welcome to come along and hear about organ and tissue donation and transplant medicine and surgery.
Date: Wednesday, September 7, 2016
Time: 6.00 – 7.30 pm
Venue: KPEC Large Conference Room, RPA Hospital
Please RSVP on the Facebook event.
SUSS is proud to be collaborating with the UNSW Surgical Society to host a one-day intensive review of abdominal surgery. The program will include a comprehensive, high-yield overview of surgical anatomy and abdominal surgery, and is tailored to final year medicine exams.
This event will be valuable for senior medical students preparing for surgical barrier exams and long cases. Junior students are also welcome, but final and penultimate year students will be given preference.
Date: Saturday, July 30, 2016
Time: 9.00 am – 4.00 pm
Venue: Central Lecture Block 7, University of New South Wales Kensington campus
The schedule for the day is as follows:
9 – 10 am: GI Anatomy and Blood Supply Revision with Dr Tim Wang (SET trainee and Anatomy X course coordinator)
10 – 11 am: Oesophagogastric Surgery with Dr Steve Leibman (Oesophagogastric Surgeon at Royal North Shore Hospital)
11 – 11:30 am: Break
11:30 am – 12:30 pm: Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery with Professor David Morris (Surgical Oncologist, St George Hospital)
12:30 – 1 pm: Ventral Hernias
1 – 2 pm: Lunch
2 – 3 pm: Colorectal Surgery with Dr Andrew Gilmore (Head, Colorectal Unit Liverpool Hospital)
3 – 4 pm: Abdominal Trauma with Dr Jeremy Hsu (Director of Trauma, Westmead Hospital)
Registration for this event is essential:
Dear Members,
Notice is hereby given for the Annual General Meeting of the Sydney University Surgical Society, which will be held on Monday 27th June at 6:00pm in Bosch Lecture Theatre 1, University of Sydney.
The agenda will include:
1) President’s Report
2) Constitutional Amendments
All motions must be sent to the Society Secretary by 20th June (Kevin Phan, kpha5955@uni.sydney.edu.au). In the interests of time, only motions with notice will be considered at the meeting.
The current constitution is available here.
3) Elections
Nominations for positions will be taken from the floor or via proxy (see below). Candidates must be nominated by a third party, have their nomination seconded by another third party, and accept their nomination. Positions include and will be voted on in the following order:
Executive positions
1. President
2. Vice President
3. Secretary
4. Treasurer
Committee positions
5. Research Officer
6. Information, Communications and Technology (ICT) Officer
7. Skills Lab Coordinator
8. Community Officer
9. Stage 1 and 2 Representatives
10. Clinical School Representatives: 1 for each of Concord, RPA, Nepean, Northern, SAN, Westmead
Please RSVP on the Facebook event.
Yours sincerely,
Nathalie Rasko
President
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ADDENDUM 4/6/2016
We are pleased to announce that this year, for the first time ever, we are going to accept nominations from students who are unable to attend the AGM in person. If you can attend, please do so. However, if you are a Stage 3 student and currently on an out-of-town rotation, you are in luck.
**HOW TO NOMINATE YOURSELF IF YOU CANNOT ATTEND IN PERSON**
Email the President, Nathalie Rasko, at nras4398@uni.sydney.edu.au and include the following:
– Your name and SMP stage
– The position(s) you are running for (you will be nominated in the order of position, which is listed in the ‘About section’)
– Speech that will be read out on your behalf at the AGM: write 150 words about your previous experience and why members should vote for you. If you are running for an Executive position, you can write 250 words.
– A passport-style photo of yourself which will be included in the powerpoint in your absence (so people know who they are voting for).
SUSS and Level Medicine are very excited to present a special Grand Rounds on ‘Women in Surgery’.
Five surgeons have generously donated their time for the evening to discuss issues that face all genders. All are welcome to come to hear this diverse panel share their thoughts on work/life balance, surgical training and careers, future directions for the surgical profession, and of course their passion for surgery!
Dr Pecky de Silva is a Vascular Surgeon working at Hornsby Hospital and the Sydney Adventist Hospital. She finished her training in January 2013. During training she went to Singapore for a year and Edinburgh for a year. She started in private practice in November 2013 and in public practice September 2105. She works part time: 3-4 days a week usually, but she is on call 1 in 2, so she can end up working on a day off! She works part-time because she has a gorgeous 3-year-old girl who was born in June 2013. Pecky loves being a surgeon and has a great work-life balance!
Dr Carolyn Jameson (MBBS BSc(Hons) PhD(Med) FRACS) is a qualified bariatric and advanced laparoscopic surgeon with experience across a number of subspecialty areas. She is a Staff Specialist General Surgeon at Auburn Hospital, surgeon with Sydney Bariatric Clinic, Clinical Lead in Surgery for the eMeds/eMR project at RPA and VMO at Westmead Private Hospital, Norwest Private Hospital and HSS. She completed her surgical training through St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney, Royal Darwin Hospital and RPA. She undertook post-fellowship training in head and neck surgery, surgical oncology, renal and pancreas transplantation and bariatric surgery at the Westmead Hospitals. Dr Jameson is an examiner for RACS, faculty member for the HETI GDESS, tutor for the University of Notre Dame medical school, member of the Racesafe medical motor racing retrieval team and a member of the Kolling Institute of Medical Research. She has worked in regional NSW and overseas in the Solomon Islands and Nepal. Outside her surgical life, Dr Jameson is busy with her family and 3 children.
Dr Henry Woo is a urological surgeon with a sub-specialised practice in prostate disease. He has particular research interests in novel treatments for BPH and prostate cancer. He is a board director of the Australian and New Zealand Uro-genital and Prostate Cancer Trials Group (ANZUP) and the Australian Urological Foundation (AUF). He has published extensively and is on the editorial boards of several international journals. He is the Professor of Surgery at the Sydney Adventist Hospital Clinical School of the University of Sydney. Outside of medicine, his interests lie with ‘retro stuff’, vinyl records, live music, travel industry, social media activism and fitness.
Dr Mifanwy Reece is a SET 4 General Surgical Registrar currently doing Colorectal Surgery at Concord Hospital. Her subspecialty interests include Colorectal and Upper GI Surgery. She lives in Sydney during the week but her home is on the Central Coast, where she hopes to work in the future. Her partner is a Colorectal Surgeon and they have a beautiful 2 year old son who they say is their greatest achievement. Dr Reece loves her job and surgery was an easy career choice to make – but her life is far from easy! She gets a lot of help (a nanny, an au pair, cleaners, parents who visit often and fill the freezer with food, and most importantly, a very supportive partner and devoted father to her son). Dr Reece believes she is a better mother because she has a fulfilling career and she is a better doctor because she is a Mum. She looks forward to a time when surgical training is more flexible so trainees can achieve greater work-life balance – for family, research or whatever they choose.
Dr Amanda Cuss (B Med Sci Hons, MBBS Hons, B Health Sci) is a SET 3 trainee currently doing Breast Oncoplastic Surgery at Chris O’Brien Life House. Breast Surgery is her area of interest as she enjoys open surgery, the patient dynamics and the ongoing interaction with patients and the multidisciplinary care. It’s also probably slightly more malleable in terms of career and life balance. Dr Cuss has trained at multiple places: Blacktown Hospital, Canterbury Hospital, Concord Hospital, and RPA Hospital, as well as Lismore Base Hospital, Prince of Wales Hospital and Royal Hospital for Women. She has a research background in Immunology from the Centenary Institute and the Garvan Institute. She has just come back from maternity leave and returned to work with a 7.5 month old baby boy. She looks forward to chatting with the medical students and providing an honest view of life as a surgical trainee.
Date: Thursday, June 23, 2016
Time: 6.00 – 7.30 pm
Venue: Kerry Packer Education Centre Auditorium, RPA Hospital
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Sydney University Surgical Society is pleased to host Orthopaedic Surgical Grand Rounds.
Dr Sanjeev Gupta will present his perspectives as an orthopaedic surgeon, discussing several cases.
Dr Gupta is a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. He specialises in lower limb surgery, focusing on hip and knee arthroplasty, as well as reconstructive foot and ankle surgery. He also is responsible for the management of major complex trauma at RPAH. Dr Gupta graduated from Sydney University in 1999 and completed his orthopaedic training in Sydney. He has undertaken fellowships at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York, Harvard University in Boston, and Johns Hopkins and Mercy Hospitals in Baltimore, all of which are leading international orthopaedic centres.
Apart from clinical practice Dr Gupta is actively involved in education, and is the Director of Training at RPAH.
This event will be particularly relevant to Stage 1 students in MSK block; however, students from all stages and clinical schools are welcome.
Date: Tuesday, May 17, 2016
Time: 6:30 – 7:30pm
Location: Kerry Packer Education Centre Auditorium, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
Please RSVP on the Facebook event.
