ANZSGM Annual Scientific Meeting 2008
8-10 September 2008
Crown Entertainment Complex
Melbourne VIC
INVITATION TO ATTEND
Dear Colleagues,
On behalf of the organising committee, it gives me great pleasure to invite you to attend the Australian and New Zealand Society for Geriatric Medicine 2008 Annual Scientific Meeting. Taking place in Melbourne between 8 - 10 September 2008, the meeting will showcase the city in all its spring glory.
The theme of the ASM is "Living Smarter, Stronger, Longer." With our ever-ageing population, the program hopes to explore the journey so far and to help plot the challenges ahead. Topics will range from matters of the mind and heart to those that sit at the core of human frailty and longevity.
In a break from the alternating trans-Atlantic tradition, our international speaker, Prof. Rudi Westendorp, hails from the Netherlands. He has been described as "one of those rare individuals whose work unites geriatrics, clinical epidemiology and the biology of ageing" and has previously been a keynote speaker to the British Geriatric Society.
Our Australasian visiting professor is Emeritus Prof. Lindon Wing. Recently retired as the Dean of the School of Medicine, Flinders University, SA, Prof Wing has an international reputation in research and clinical management of hypertension. He has led national projects such as the Australian Medicines Handbook and the Second Australian National Blood Pressure Study.
As an added bonus to delegates, we have been able to include entry into the Transition Care Forum that follows on from our event. Prof. Howard Bergman, (Professor of Geriatric Medicine, McGill University, Canada) who is the keynote speaker for that forum, will additionally present a plenary session to the delegates of the ANZSGM.
Education, variety, excitement and inspiration - what more can you ask from a meeting! I trust that you will be able to join us.
Ronald Leong
Convenor, Organising Committee
ANZSGM 2008 ASM
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