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President’s Spring Communique No. 2

Sep 10, 2024 | | 0 Comments

Dear ANZSCTS Members, As the end of the year approaches probably one of the most important issues for RACS comes to a head. As you are aware, the college has spent a significant amount of time and effort over the last 2 years trying to achieve AMC re-accreditation....

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President’s Spring Communique No. 1

Sep 2, 2024 | | 0 Comments

Dear ANZSCTS members, Presidents Spring Communique: Back to Noosa! The ANZSCTS annual scientific meeting is approaching. This year’s conference returns to Noosa, from Thursday 7th November till Saturday 9th November. The theme of the conference is Cardiothoracic...

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2024 BAXTER Travelling Educational Grants

Aug 23, 2024 | | 0 Comments

BAXTER for the third year have generously offered ANZSCTS members a prestigious education initiative, the ‘Baxter Travelling Educational’ awards for our ANZSCTS SET Trainees/Younger Fellows/Unaccredited Trainees. ANZSCTS will provide up to 4 awards to recipients from...

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Jacob Goldstein AM – King’s Birthday Honours

Jun 15, 2024 | | 0 Comments

Dear Members, ANZSCTS is honoured to inform members that the late Jacob Goldstein has been appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the King’s Birthday 2024 Honours list. This is for significant service to medicine as a cardiothoracic surgeon, and as...

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President’s Winter Newsletter 2024

Jun 12, 2024 | | 0 Comments

Dear ANZSCTS members, The year is well underway and Cardiothoracic Surgery has a way of never being boring! From the “ramping up” of surgical demand, to the usual constraints of the health system combined with “ramping up” of the cold and flu season, our membership...

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ANZSCTS ASM 2023 abstracts published online

Jun 5, 2024 | | 0 Comments

The 2023 ANZSCTS ASM conference abstracts have now been published. Please see links below. ScienceDirect: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/heart-lung-and-circulation/vol/33/suppl/S1 HLC: https://www.heartlungcirc.org/issue/S1443-9506(24)X0008-6

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President’s Autumn Newsletter 2024

Mar 24, 2024 | | 0 Comments

Dear ANZSCTS members, This newsletter is an update for members on the current challenges facing the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. These areas are significant, and interlinked: AMC/MCNZ accreditation RACS Governance reform Financial stability of RACS As...

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President’s Summer Newsletter 2024

Jan 18, 2024 | | 0 Comments

Dear ANZSCTS members, Happy New Year to all! As hospitals re-open elective Theatre lists and Cath Labs increase their workload we are all returning to the “coal face” (except those lucky individuals who drew the short straw and covered the Christmas New Year on call...

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ANZSCTS Position On CALS-ANZ Guidelines

Dec 14, 2023 | | 0 Comments

At our recent AGM the CALS-ANZ guidelines were discussed. Concerns were raised by several members about the “Australasian ANZSCTS/ANZICS guidelines on Cardiothoracic Advanced Life Support (CALS-ANZ)” published in Critical Care and Resuscitation 24(3) 5 September 2022....

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ANZSCTS President’s Awards

Nov 23, 2023 | | 0 Comments

Presented at the ASM Conference Dinner, Wellington New Zealand 11 November 2023 These 3 recipients embody the ANZSCTS President’s award. All have not only contributed to the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, but also to the specialty and society. The awardees...

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