Wednesday, 27 August - Provisional Program


Wednesday, 27 August 2025 | Provisional Program


7:30amREGISTRATION OPEN
8:30am Welcome
Bernard Carney - RACS SA State Chair

Welcome to Country
Uncle Mickey

8:45amSession 1 - Why History Matters
Chair: 
8:45amStephanie Clota, CEO RACS - College Update
9:00amChris Picton, SA Health Minister
9:20amAssociate Professor Diego Garcia-Bellido, Adelaide University - 
10:05amAssociate Professor Gillian Farrell - A Woman of Substance, Dr Lena McEwan
10:25amPanel Discussion
10:35am8 x Sponsor Presentations
10:55amMORNING TEA WITH INDUSTRY
11:20amSession 2 - Scholar to Scalpel - Training & the History of Medicals Schools in South Australia 
Chair: 
11:20amProfessor Glyn Jamieson - How to build a surgical career and the value of Fellowship
RP Jepson - Adelaide's first Professor of Surgery
11:40amDr Ravi Mahajani -The hub and Spoke Model
12:00pm
Professor Michal Wozniak, Director Medical Program, Flinders University 
Professor Karen Lower, Dean of Education, College of Medicine & Public Health, Flinders University
Regional training hubs, expansion of MD into rural SA and what's new in medical education
12:20pmProfessor Martin Bruening, Programme  Director Medicine, Adelaide University - History of medicine at Adelaide University & the merger
12:40pmPanel Discussion
12:50pm7 x Sponsor Presentations
1:05pmLUNCH WITH INDUSTRY
1:45pmSession 3 - Raising the Bat and Why Milestones Matter
Chairs: Professor Chris Pyke and Dr Sue Mei
1:45pmSharon Kendall, Regional CEO Calvary Group - 125 years
2:00pmBill Seppelt - 100 years of unbroken lineage of Seppeltsfield Tawny Port
2:20pmDr Owen Ung, RACS President - The College Centenary 2027
2:40pmAssociate Professor Peter Cundy - Celebrating a century of the MG and my sabbatical year driving around the UK
2:55pmJonathon Pollock - History of Neurosurgery and the SA link (Pre-recorded)
3:05pmPanel Discussion
3:20pm6 x Sponsor Presentations
3:35pmAFTERNOON TEA WITH INDUSTRY
3:55pmSession 4 - Surgeon Health and Women in Training
Chair: 
4:10pmDr Ben Teague - Mental Health in Surgeons
4:25pmDr Dan Short - psychiatrist. Moral injury and PTSD
4:40pmDr Amanda Foster - 
4:55pmDr Christine Lai - Current statistics of Women in Surgery and the changes in training
5:00pmPanel Q&A
5:10pmEND OF DAY ONE
6:30pmASM Dinner
John Halbert Room, Adelaide Oval
6:30pm - 10:30pm

Anstey Giles Lecture - Commissioner Dale Agius
Sir Henry Newland Award recipients - Dr David Hamilton and Dr Andrew Hunter