INVITED SPEAKERS
Check out our incredible line up of speakers joining us for the 2022 Tristate ASM
Emeritus Professor Bill Gibson AO
2022 Henry Windsor Lecture
William (Bill) Gibson studied medicine at The Middlesex Hospital and qualified in 1967. He held various appointments in teaching hospitals in London before becoming a consultant surgeon at The National Hospitals for Nervous Disease and The Royal National Throat Nose and Ear Hospital. In 1983, he immigrated to Australia with his family to become the inaugural professor of otolaryngology (ENT) at the University of Sydney. He has recently retired from The Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and has become an emeritus professor at the University of Sydney where he is still undertaking research into Meniere’s disease, cochlear implants and electrocochleography.
He began the adult cochlear implant programme using the 22 electrode Cochlear device in 1984 and began the children’s programme in 1987. He is the founder and past director of The Sydney Cochlear Implant Centres (SCIC); recently, rebranded as Nextsense Cochlear Implant Centres. There are now 14 centres in NSW, ACT, VIC and NT.
Despite some early opposition, he has taught many surgeons to perform cochlear implant surgery. All trainees at The Royal Prince Alfred Hospital were taught the surgery, and after an initial delay, the trainees at The Childrens Hospital, Westmead. He had the opportunity to travel intestate and had memorable trips to Canberra, and Darwin to teach the surgery. Overseas he travelled to China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Argentina and India teaching the surgery. Many overseas fellows, mostly from the UK, came to learn the surgery and now undertake the surgery in various leading centres in the UK.
Maggie Beer AO
Maggie Beer AO
Maggie Beer is not just an Australian food icon, she’s an essential ingredient in any discussion about food and flavour. Of all the highlights of Maggie’s career, it was being named Senior Australian of the Year in 2010 that led her on a new pathway. After giving a keynote speech at an Annual Conference of Aged Care Homes, Maggie visited many Homes and saw in so many a desperate need for change in the food and dining experience in the aged sector.
In April 2014 Maggie established the Maggie Beer Foundation with a Board of Industry Leaders, Professors, and Health Advisors, all with the belief that beautiful, seasonal food that gives pleasure and goodness is the key to wellbeing of residents in Aged Care.
From the outset, the Foundation’s strategy has been to advocate, educate, facilitate research, and share the latest knowledge and skills required with the Cooks and Chefs who are able to do so much to change the lives of the residents in their care.
Maggie, with her Foundation, has conducted educational Masterclasses for Cooks and Chefs Australia-wide and since the first in 2015 have influenced over 350 cooks and chefs, and over 160 CEO’s and Managers who care for over 28,500 residents.
In 2021, The Maggie Beer Foundation in partnership with Altura Learning concluded filming 11 online education modules for cooks and chefs working in aged care, which are due for release in late March 2022.
Maggie feels it is our responsibility as a society to ensure health and happiness for every older Australian and that flavourful, nutritious, seasonal foods that bring pleasure and joy are a key to quality of life.
Associate Professor Amal Abou-Hamden
Associate Professor Amal Abou-Hamden
Born in Beirut, Lebanon, where most of her childhood was spent whilst the civil war raged, she migrated to Adelaide with her family in 1988, completed the final 2 years of schooling at Norwood High School and started medical school at the University of Adelaide at the age of 16 years. She obtained her FRACS in 2008 after her Neurosurgery training in Adelaide and Melbourne and subsequently completed 3 post-FRACS fellowships - at the Austin Hospital, Melbourne, in epilepsy surgery, The Hospital for Sick Children in Paediatric Neurosurgery and Toronto Western Hospital in Vascular Neurosurgery.
Amal is the Chair of RACS, South Australia, Examiner at the RACS Neurosurgery Court of Examiners and SA representative at the RACS Neurosurgery Education and Training board and Research Committee.
She is the Vascular Neurosurgery Lead, Director of Neurovascular fellowship and Neurosurgery Education & Training programs at the Royal Adelaide and Women’s & Children’s Hospitals. She continues to be at the forefront of advancing surgical care, working within neuro-oncology and epilepsy surgery multidisciplinary teams, chairing the Neurovascular MDM, establishing and managing clinical specialty databases, and incorporating the latest evidence-based technology and clinical protocols to improve patient recovery and achieve the best possible outcomes. She is active in clinical research and post-graduate student supervision and has been Principal and Chief Investigator for a number of National and International Clinical Trials.
SPEAKERS
Session 1
Stephen Bacchi
Stephen is a Neurology Advanced Trainee at Flinders Medical Centre with an interest in translational research.
Rob Fitridge
Rob Fitridge is Professor of Vascular Surgery at the University of Adelaide and a Vascular Surgeon at CALHN. He co-leads the Multi-Disciplinary Foot Service at The Queen Elizabeth and Royal Adelaide Hospitals.
His research focusses on improving wound healing in diabetes and avoiding amputations in diabetes-related foot complications. He has recently been appointed co-Chair of the International Working Group for the Diabetic foot- Peripheral Arterial Disease Working Group and was a member of the steering committee of the Global Vascular Guidelines for Chronic Limb-threatening Ischaemia.
He has recently been supporting the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Diabetes-related Foot Complications Program led by Prof Alex Brown at SAHMRI. Improving the quality of, and access to telehealth is a key component of that program.
Tarik Sammour
Tarik Sammour is a colorectal surgeon at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, and an Associate Professor of Surgery at the University of Adelaide. He returned to Adelaide in 2017 after completing a CSSANZ fellowship in colorectal surgery and spending a year working at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston where he received additional training in robotic colorectal surgery and advanced colorectal surgical oncology.
Tarik has authored over 180 peer reviewed publications and 8 book chapters. Having completed a PhD in Surgery in 2011, he continues to pursue an active research program, focusing specifically on clinical trials to improve patient outcomes after colorectal surgery.
Research program details can be found here: https://www.colorectalresearch.org/
Andrew Kurmis
A/Professor Andrew Kurmis is an Adelaide-based and trained orthopaedic surgeon with international subspecialty fellowship expertise in primary, complex and revision hip and knee arthroplasty. He holds professorial appointments at both Adelaide and Flinders Universities, is a longstanding member of the RACS EMST National Committee and also currently sits of the RACS SA State Committee. Having won numerous awards for clinical, research and teaching excellence, he was the 2021 RACS Surgical Educator of the Year, 2020 RACS Gordon Trinca medalist and the 2019 RACS Pickard Robotic Surgery Training Scholar. With a PhD in Orthopaedic Surgery, he has published over 60 peer reviewed papers and book chapters, and has delivered more than 100 local, national and international presentations. Professor Kurmis holds active research interests in technology-assisted orthopaedic surgery, periprosthetic pseudotumour development and genetic-testing applications in orthopaedics.
Sanjeev Khurana
Sanjeev Khurana is paediatric surgeon based at Women’s and Children’s Hospital (and Flinders Medical Centre).
Sanjeev is also a certified health informatician (Australian Institute of Digital health) and co-founder of Data Dissect Pty Ltd – an Adelaide based health informatics ‘start up’. Sanjeev and his colleagues have worked on implementation of the ‘Learning Healthcare System’ approach for clinical quality improvement in paediatric surgery at WCHN, and are currently collaborating with ANZ Hernia Society in setting up a national ‘virtual’ clinical quality registry for patients undergoing hernia surgery.
Hemi Patel
Dr Hemi Patel is the current Chair RACS NT Regional Committee. In 2015 he became Head of ENT at the Royal Darwin Hospital and is the director of Darwin ENT at Darwin Private Hospital.
He completed his medical degree in the UK at the Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School, University of London in 1996 and a Master of Surgery degree at Imperial College London. Dr Patel holds a Fellowship in General Surgery with the Royal College of Surgeons of England and a Fellowship in Otorhinolaryngology and Head & Neck Surgery with the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow (UK).
In 2007, fuelled by his passion to learn about the challenging ear conditions in the territory, Dr Patel moved to Darwin, Australia. He was awarded his AMC Certificate by the Australian Medical Council in 2009 and became a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 2013. He has expertise in all areas of paediatric ENT, surgical oncology, laryngology, otology, and rhinology. He regularly sees patients with a broad range of symptoms and conditions, including obstructive sleep apnoea, tonsillitis, thyroid problems, swallowing difficulties, head & neck cancer, voice problems, smell disorders and allergies. Dr Patel is driven by his goal to provide a dedicated and high-quality healthcare service for his patients, guided by medical evidence and placing the patient at the centre.
Phil Worley
Dr Phil Worley is the inaugural Clinical Lead for the Statewide Surgical and Perioperative Clinical Care Network, under the auspices of the Commision on Excellence and Innovation in Healthcare. A general surgeon working in both the public and private sectors and metropolitan and regional hospitals, he, as is the case with many of his medical forebears, is also an ‘enthusiastic amateur’ when it comes to the study, crafting and consumption of wine. As this ASM is being held in one of the world’s most famous wine regions, it seems only right to present an update on the Network’s progress in three areas and draw comparisons with the ancient art of oenology.
Session 2
Michael Cusack
Chief Medical Officer, Department for Health and Wellbeing – SA Health
Dr Michael Cusack is from the UK and moved to Adelaide in 2017 initially as the EDMS for the Northern Adelaide Local Health Network and subsequently took on the role as Chief Medical Officer for SA Health in 2020. A Cardiologist by background, Michael held a number of leadership roles in the NHS before coming to South Australia including Clinical Director of Cardiothoracic Services, Divisional Director for Surgery and Medical Director of a large acute NHS Hospital Trust. Since taking up the role of CMO he has had considerable involvement in the state COVID response while maintaining a focus on patient safety, system performance and service delivery.
Caroline McMillen
Professor (Hon) Caroline McMillen AO FAHMS
Lauren Oakden-Rayner
Dr Lauren Oakden-Rayner (FRANZCR, PhD) is the Director of Research in Medical Imaging at the Royal Adelaide Hospital and is a senior research fellow at the Australian Institute for Machine Learning. Her research explores the safe translation of artificial intelligence technologies into clinical practice, both from a technical and clinical perspective.Hon Chris Picton
Chris is the South Australian Minister for Health and Wellbeing and the Member for Kaurna in the southern suburbs of Adelaide.He is passionate about improving health care outcomes for all South Australians.Chris has previously served as Minister for Police, Correctional Services, Emergency Services and Road Safety.Before election to Parliament he served as Senior Adviser and Chief of Staff to former state and federal Health Ministers and an Associate Director at Deloitte Access Economics. His areas of policy work included tobacco plain packaging and national public hospital funding reforms.He was educated at public schools in Adelaide and graduated from Flinders University with a Bachelor of Laws and Legal Practice and a Bachelor of Arts.Chris is the lucky husband to Connie and proud dad of two young kids. When has free time he enjoys walking his dog on the beach, volunteer surf life saving at Moana and barracking for the Crows.
Session 3
Cathy Ferguson
Cathy Ferguson is an Otolaryngologist, Head and Neck Surgeon from Wellington New Zealand. She was a generally elected Councilor for the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons for 9 years and was the College Vice President for the final 2 years.Over the time of her tenure, she held the portfolios of Chair of the Professional Development and Standards Board, (which has oversight of the Professional Standards, Fellowship Services, Professional Development, Research and Academic Surgery and External Affairs portfolios), Chair of Professional Standards, Chair of Fellowship Services and Chair of the Post Fellowship Education and Training Committee. She was NZ Censor for the College from 2009 – 2016, and prior to that served 9 years on the New Zealand National Board of the College, with 2 years as its Chair. She is currently the New Zealand Deputy Chair of the Court of Examiners for the College, and is the New Zealand member on the Surgical Directors Section Committee.Dr Ferguson has served on RACS Expert Advisory Group (EAG) appointed by the College in 2015 and 2021 - 2022 to investigate and advise the College on the issues of discrimination, bullying and sexual harassment. The most recent EAG review has resulted RACS adopting wide ranging recommendations and the launch of the 2022 Building Respect and Improving Patient Safety Action Plan. Dr Ferguson continues to champion the College ‘Lets Operate with Respect’ program of works to improve the culture of surgery and promote respectful workplaces.
Mahiban Thomas
Mahiban Thomas is the Executive Director of Integrated Surgical Services for the Top End, a role he has held since it’s inception in 2016.A General surgeon with extensive training and experience in Head & Neck surgery, including facial trauma, he has worked in several countries. Dr Thomas is Deputy Chair of the RACS Surgical Directors Section.Amy Touzell
Dr Amy Touzell is an orthopaedic surgeon with international subspecialty training in trauma, foot and ankle, knee and hip surgery. She has a special interest in arthroscopic and minimally invasive surgery of the foot and ankle.Dr Touzell attended the University of Newcastle, Australia to complete her medical degree in 2005. In addition to a Masters of Public Health majoring in health economics and medical education, she qualified with a fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 2015. Dr Touzell then completed two additional years of training with England's Oxford University Hospitals and the North Bristol Trusts in both trauma and foot and ankle surgery before returning to public and private practice on the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria. Dr Touzell is a member of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and the Australian Orthopaedic Association. She is director of training in orthopaedic surgery at Frankston public hospital and she also has a statutory appointment with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA). She is passionate about encouraging junior doctors to pursue a career in surgery and is actively involved in the teaching and training of surgical trainees at Peninsula Health and in particular is a strong advocate the role of mentorship in surgery.Dr Touzell is a member of The Australian Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society, Australasian Trauma Society and the Australian Limb Lengthening and Reconstruction Society. She is also a mum to two energetic children and when not chasing after them, will be found trying to keep up with her anaesthetists cycling around the hills of the Mornington Peninsula.
Christopher Pyke
Dr Chris Pyke is Professor of Surgery at the University of Queensland, based at the Mater Hospital in Brisbane. After completing his General Surgery training in Queensland, Chris worked in the Nottingham Breast Unit in the UK and then as a Fellow in Endocrine Surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester USA.On retuning to Australia, he took up a role as Senior Lecturer at UQ and completed a PhD in Breast Cancer Risk Quantification. He has run a private practice for 31 years, and also continues to work in Public at BreastScreen and the Mater, where he is now also Director of Medical Services.Chris has been training committee Chair in General Surgery, President of BreastSurgANZ, Chair of the Court of Examiners and is now Vice President of the College.Session 4
Ashani Couchman
Dr Ashani Couchman is a urological surgeon who is a sub-specialist in Transitional (adolescent) urology, Neuro-ology and Paediatric Urology (over 5 years of age). She graduated from Auckland Medical School in 2003 and completed her surgical training in New Zealand. This was followed by high profile Fellowships at the Institute of Urology (London), Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (London) and National Hospital for Neruology and Neurosurgery (London) and Western General Hospital (Edinburgh). She worked with world leader of sub-specialties of Transitional urology, Neuro-ology and Paediatric urology during this time. As a consultant urologist at Kingston Hospital UK, she set up at the Albany unit, which streamlined paediatric assessment and investigation of blood in the urine. Ashani has published clinical research in her sub-specialty fields and edited a reference textbook on urinary continence. She continues to be a reviewed of the Journal of Paediatric Urology, a peer reviewer of the British Journal of Urology International and a member of the Cochrane Collaboration. She is also appointed at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, Hampstead Rehabilitation Centre and the Women's and Children's Hospital. Ashani is Chair of the RACS SA Younger Fellows Advisory Group.
Amy Jeeves
Dr Amy Jeeves holds an MBBS and a BMedSci (Hons) from the University of Adelaide and is a Fellow in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. She is a Senior Visiting Medical Specialist at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, Women’s and Children’s Hospital and Broken Hill Base Hospital. Dr Jeeves has particular interests in aesthetic and reconstructive breast surgery, paediartic burns surgery and melanoma. She partners in a breast cancer reconstruction clinic for oncoloplastic breast surgery, autologous fat grafting, immediate and delayed mastectomy reconstruction and combined hernia/abdominoplasty surgery. Amy is an advocate for equity in medicine and is the current South Australian Chair of Plastic Surgery Training, sits on the ASPS Rural Committee and the State RACS Committee.Robert Padbury
Prof Robert Padbury is an experienced Clinical Executive who has extensive experience in clinical surgery, clinical leadership and executive engagement. He is the Clinical Director of Surgery at Flinders Medical Centre (appointed 2001), and has had significant achievements highlighted through the establishment of the SA Liver Transplant Unit at Flinders Medical Centre in 1992, the development and introduction of clinical protocols and the adoption of clinical practice improvement programmes. He was the foundation President of the ANZHPBA (Australian and New Zealand Hepatic, Pancreatic and Biliary Association) and the Chairman of the SA Surgical Taskforce. His current clinical practice is in the area of general surgery with a subspecialist interest in surgery of the liver, gallbladder and pancreas.
Sue Taylor
Sue Taylor trained in Perth as a general surgeon, and has been interested in making workflow more efficient and improve record-keeping and communication since the early years of surgical training, when she plugged her Apple Newton into phone sockets to book theatre lists at Fremantle Hospital in 1995. She makes use of Real World Data to improve her own practice, and has recently upskilled in health informatics and health service leadership to inform and direct her expertise to the broader health landscape. She is passionate about patient-centred, value-based care and currently works for the WA Department of Health Clinical Excellence Division.
Session 5
Al-Rahim Habib
Dr Al-Rahim Habib is an ENT Unaccredited Registrar at Westmead Hospital and a PhD candidate at the University of Sydney. Al-Rahim is exploring the role of artificial intelligence (AI) for paediatric Indigenous ear disease screening in rural and remote areas of Australia. Al-Rahim’s research is supported by the Garnett Passe and Rodney Williams Memorial Foundation, Microsoft’s AI for Humanitarian Action grant, and the Avant Mutual Foundation Doctor-In-Training research grant.
Rajvinder Singh
Rajvinder Singh is a Professor of Medicine with the University of Adelaide and the Director of Gastroenterology at the Lyell McEwin & Modbury Hospitals, South Australia. Professor Singh is an internationally renowned Endoscopist. To date, he has published a total of 162 peer reviewed papers and 11 book chapters including being a chief editor of 2 textbooks. He has been successful in obtaining close to $AUD 1,000,000 in grants cumulatively including grants from the Cancer Council and Cancer Australia to further investigate the utility of novel endoscopic imaging techniques in the detection of dysplasia and early cancer in Barrett’s Oesophagus. In 2015, work on the investigation of the utility of serum biomarkers for colon cancer was selected as the top 10 best medical research initiatives in the country by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC, Australia). In 2019, work on Artificial Intelligence in the diagnosis of colorectal polyps was selected as 1 of 3 nominees for the Minister’s Innovation Award. He is actively involved in teaching undergraduate and postgraduate students. Further testament to this resulted in Teaching Awards at the Lyell McEwin Hospital, Australia in 2008 and 2009. He is also frequently invited to conduct basic and advanced endoscopy workshops having participated in more than 150 workshops/symposiums. He has had speaking engagements and ‘live’ endoscopy demonstrations around the world including in the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, Korea, India, Singapore, New Zealand, Indonesia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Thailand, Malaysia, Myanmar, UAE, Brazil and the Philippines amongst other countries. He is an Editorial Board member of Clinical Endoscopy and was a past Editorial Board member of Digestive Endoscopy, Endoscopy and Endoscopy International Open. He is a committee member of the Standards of Practice and Publications committee with the World Endoscopy Organisation (WEO). He was the past International committee member of the American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE) and was tasked by the ASGE with organising the first joint ASGE-Australia program for the Digestive Diseases Week (DDW) in 2016 and again in 2017, 2019 and 2020. He was a Councillor with the Gastroenterological Endoscopic Society of Australia (GESA) and past chair of the Australian Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Association (AGEA).
Joshua Kovoor
Joshua Kovoor is a medical intern working across the Queen Elizabeth Hospital and Royal Adelaide Hospital within central Adelaide. He is undertaking a PhD and founded the Information in Surgery Journal Club with Professor Guy Maddern, which has grown rapidly this year. He has a future interest in general surgery, academic surgery, and the use of information in healthcare.
Anthony Porter
Anthony Porter is a Plastic Surgeon who practices at Adelaide Plastic Surgery mainly in the areas of skin cancer and hand surgery. He was awarded a PhD for his research into the neuroscience of human enteric nervous system in Prof Marcello Costa’s lab at Flinders. He also performed a year of postdoctoral research at the Child Health Research Institute into the molecular biology of craniosynostosis. A combination of his interest in consciousness research and mathematical modelling of human behaviour led him to commencing a Graduate Diploma in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at the Australian Institute for Machine Learning at Adelaide Uni. He hopes to be able to be a bridge between hospital clinicians, machine learning engineers and administrators. Committee.
Session 6
Adrian Anthony
Dr Adrian Anthony is a General Surgeon based at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Adelaide. Dr Anthony is the current Censor in Chief of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. As the Censor in Chief, Dr Anthony is responsible for overseeing educational governance, maintenance of accreditation for surgical education and training programs and implementation of strategic educational initiatives for the College. Dr Anthony’s practice as an educator incorporates undergraduate and post-graduate curriculum design, developing work-based assessments, supporting trainee performance, promoting educational practice of clinicians and improving the culture around education and training in the workplace.
Guy Maddern
Professor Guy Maddern is the RP Jepson Professor of Surgery at the University of Adelaide, Director of Research at the Basil Hetzel Institute for Translational Health Research at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital and Director, Surgical Research and Evaluation (incorporating ASERNIP-S) of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. He was trained at the University of Adelaide and became a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 1989. He has also published widely on new surgical techniques and their introduction into surgical practice. He has over 600 publications in scientific journals. The evaluation of new technologies and in particular surgical technologies is another area of focus and interest.Alkis Psaltis
Professor Alkis Psaltis MBBS, PhD FRACS, is the Head of Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Adelaide, Australia and Professor of Surgery at the University of Adelaide in South Australia. He is currently the Vice President of the Australian and New Zealand Rhinological Society. He has authored over 190 peer-reviewed journal articles and 19 book chapters and delivered over 300 national and international presentations. He sits on the editorial board 5 major international ENT journals. He has served on the board of training for ENT in South Australia and currently serves on the Board of Training for the Australian Society of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery and the Research and Scholarships Committee for the Royal Australian College of Surgeons.
Talia Shepherd
Talia is a SET 5 General Surgery Registrar in Perth and an Adjunct Research Fellow for the University of Western Australia. She completed a Bachelor of Science (Pathology) in 2009, a post-graduate MBBS in 2013 and a Masters in General Surgery (University of Edinburgh) in 2022. Her current research interests are in the field of Colorectal Surgery.
Gavin Nimon
Dr Gavin Nimon is an Orthopaedic Surgeon who holds a Senior Lecturer post at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital and the University of Adelaide.He specializes in Upper Limb, (Shoulder, Elbow Hand and Wrist Surgery) and is a fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh, as well as the Australian Orthopaedic Association.He is co-ordinator of the 4th year MSK training of the undergraduate program of the University of Adelaide and supervisor of training for the Australian Orthopaedic Association (and past director of training of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital).He has held appointments on the executive for the Shoulder and Elbow Society of Australia, Australian Orthopaedic Association (SA Branch) and SA Hand Surgical Society.Session 7
Yu Chao Lee
Dr Yu Chao Lee is a fellowship trained Orthopaedic Spinal Surgeon who consults and treats all spinal conditions including degenerative spine disease of the lumbar and cervical spine, spinal deformity, spinal tumour and spinal trauma. He has special interests in minimal invasive surgeries and utilise muscle sparing techniques for treating adult degenerative spinal disease and spinal deformity. He graduated from the University of Adelaide and obtained specialist qualification in Orthopaedic Surgery from Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. Following conclusion of surgical training, he completed subspecialist fellowship training in adult and paediatric spine locally in Adelaide before travelling to the United Kingdom to undertake another year of subspecialist fellowship training in complex adult spinal deformity, revision spinal surgery and spinal tumour surgery in Europe’s largest spine deformity surgery centre at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in London. He has extensive experience in the latest minimal invasive techniques for spinal fusion and proficient with computer navigated spine surgery. He is committed to providing high quality clinical care of patients through evidence based practice. He has published numerous research articles in the field of spinal surgery in peer-reviewed journals and presented at national and international conferences. He constantly strive to refine surgical techniques and adopt new evidence-based techniques to improve patient outcomes. He is a visiting medical specialist at the Spinal Unit, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Memorial Hospital and St Andrews Hospital, South Australia.
Arjun Iyer
Arjun Iyer is a Cardiothoracic and Heart Lung Transplant Surgeon at St Vincent's Hospital Sydney, as well as an honorary VMO at Flinders Hospital in Adelaide. Arjun graduated from Adelaide University Medical School in 2007, and did his internship/residency at the Royal Adelaide Hospital where he found his calling in Cardiothoracic Surgery. He was trained at St Vincent's Hospital in Sydney with particular focus on transplantation; here he also completed his PhD at the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute. His fellowship was at St Paul's Hospital in Vancouver in 2018, and this was kindly supported by the Marjorie Hooper Scholarship. He returned to South Australia as a VMO at Flinders Hospital. In 2020, he returned to St Vincent's Hospital Sydney. He now performs the full spectrum of cardiothoracic surgery, heart & lung transplants and implantation of durable ventricular assist devices. He continues to treat patients from SA with transplant needs, and is part of the visiting team in providing this care. His hope is to one day help develop a heart failure surgical service in South Adelaide.Session 8
David King
David King is a vascular surgeon at the Royal Adelaide Hospital and in the private sector. He has experience and expertise in open and endovascular approaches to vascular disease and an interest in trauma surgery- he is the Chair of the Early Management of Severe Trauma Committee for Australia and New Zealand and has taught as an EMST instructor for 20 years. He is an active supporter of many RACS activities and sits on a number of other committees including the RACS Trauma Committee, he is the Deputy-Chair of the Prevocational and Skills Education Committee and is the immediate Past Chair of the RACS South Australian State Committee. He is also a supporter of several non-surgical charities, notably as a Director of the Wyndham Richardson Scholarship Fund for the last 10 years and as a member of the Australian Government Leadership Group of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and is a passionate advocate for diabetes funding and technology.
Cay Kailis
Cay Kailis born 1954 in Perth. The product of a Greek Saw Miller and a German Pin up Girl.
Educated at Scotch College.
Completed Fellowship in 1985 in Head and Neck Surgery. Post Grad Fellowship in Glasgow and London in Cosmetic Surgery 1986.
Private Practice for 35 years. Specialising in Facial Plastic and breast cosmetic surgery.
Special Interests: Cars, Fishing, Flying, Vineyard Ownership and Management.
Still married after 30 years to “current” wife Tanja, who is here today.
David Hall
David Hall is a graduate of the University of Adelaide Medical School (1980) and undertook post-fellowship training in Spinal Surgery in Nottingham (1989). He was Head of the Spinal Unit 2005 to 2008 and continues as a Senior Visiting Specialist.
Whist very much aware that the medical profession features prominently in the Australian wine story, a series of serendipitous moments and chance encounters led to David and his wife Mardi purchasing the Avon Brae property along with its historic homestead in the Eden Valley in 1996,. Avon Brae had been home to a vineyard of Cabernet Sauvignon, Malbec and Riesling prior to the vine pull in the 1970’s. It was subsequently a diary and then a sheep grazing property. While still maintaining sheep and wool production, David and Mardi set about re-establishing the vineyard. It now has over eighty acres of plantings including the red varieties Cabernet Sauvignon, Shiraz, Merlot and Cabernet Franc, and the white varieties of Riesling, Viognier, and Grüner Veltliner. The fruit from the Eden Hall vineyard has consistently made exceptional quality wines, with the first commercial production from the outstanding 2002 vintage released in 2004. It was pleasing for Eden Hall to enter the James Halliday Wine Companion in 2006 as a five-star winery from the outset, however it was even more gratifying to be awarded “The Young Gun of Wine” Australian Vineyard of the Year in 2021 as testament to our guiding principles of the pursuit of excellence and sustainability.
In addition to our Eden Hall label we also produce wines under the Stage Door Wine Company label and I am one of the twelve “Saviours” of the Eden Valley Wines label. We also sell fruit to other wineries.
It has always been the expectation that Eden Hall wines would sit comfortably and proudly at any table in the world. As a boutique wine producer, the Eden Hall brand is now becoming recognised, appreciated, and understood – a source of great pride for David and Mardi Hall.
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