Australasian Sexual Health Conference

2007 Conference

The Australasian Sexual Health Conference 2007 theme was "Venus & Mars at Jupiters" and the venue, fittingly, was Conrad Jupiters on the Gold Coast.

The photos from the conference can be viewed by clicking on the following link:

http://www.pixoncall.com.au/thumb.php?event=240&category=0&page=1

If this does not work the photos can be viewed by clicking on this link: www.pixoncall.com.au

and typing in the following login details:

• Username: ashc
• Password: jupiters

All photos from the conference and the gala dinner are online and copies can be ordered directly through the website. The photos will stay online for 90 days (as of 16 October).

Please click on this link to view the gala dinner room

Invited Speakers

Ron Ballard, sponsored by QLD Health, is Head of the Laboratory Reference and Research Branch within the Division of Sexually Transmitted Disease Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

Ron Jones has been a member of the consultant staff of the National Women's Hospital in Auckland for more than 30 years and Honorary Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Auckland.

David Lewis is Head of the Sexually Transmitted Infections Reference Centre at the National Institute of Communicable Diseases in Johannesburg.

Lorraine Dennerstein holds a Personal Chair at The University of Melbourne, Australia, where she is Foundation Director of the Office for Gender and Health and Professor in the Department of Psychiatry.

Suzanne Garland established and developed the research infrastructure of the Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases.

Ruth Sapsford is a physiotherapist who has worked in the area of pelvic floor function and dysfunction for more than 25 years.

Angela Williams is a Senior Forensic Physician at the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Forensic Medicine at Monash University.

Patricia Weerakoon is Senior Lecturer and Academic Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Sexual Health, Faculty of Health Science, The University of Sydney.

2007 Committee

• Convenor: Darren Russell Cairns Sexual Health Service
• Stuart Aitken Gold Coast Sexual Health Clinic
• Natalie Edmiston Gold Coast Sexual Health Clinic
• Mano Haran Logan Hospital
• Jane Howard Lillian Cooper Centre
• Stephen Lambert QLD Sexual Health Society
• Suzanne Marks Australasian Chapter of Sexual Health Medicine
• Maree O'Sullivan Sexual Health Service Tasmania
• Di Rowling Brisbane Sexual Health & AIDS Service
• Kevin Sesnan North Coast Area Health Service
• David Smith North Coast Area Health Service
• Christopher Fairley Melbourne Sexual Health Centre

Prizes

• The Jan Edwards Prize Dr Richard Teague- For best proffered paper presented orally by a Chapter Trainee
• The Sexual Health Society of Victoria Prizes Rebecca Guy - For Best Poster Presentation on Clinical/Epidemiological Research 
  Janet Groves - For Best Poster Presentation on Social/Behavioural Research
• The sexual Health Prize  David Templeton - for Best written abstract
• Sexual health medicine awards for commitment to education and training in sexual health
  Dr Lynne Wray 
• Outstanding contribution to research in sexual health medicine award Prof Suzanne Garland

2007 Abstracts 

Please click on this link to view abstracts from the 2007 conference: http://secure.ashm.org.au/ei/rs.esp?id=32&scriptid=SPPP1  

More information
The Conference Secretariat
phone: +61 2 8204 0770
email: info@sexualhealthconference.com.au

 

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