Successful ANZSNR 2015 meeting concludes

Dr Frank Gaillard of Royal Melbourne Hospital delivering the first Radiopaedia session of the meeting, on brain tumours

The Diagnostic Neuroradiology Weekend refresher Course, hosted by ANZSNR at the Crown Promenade Hotel in Melbourne, VIC, concluded on Sunday 22nd March with plaudits from the 200+ attendees. An excellent Faculty delivered content which was interesting, relevant and at times highly entertaining.  Speakers kept to their brief of delivering concisely presented information with key take-home points, and keeping to time. Many speakers gave helpful 'how I do it'  insights into how they would approach particular imaging scenarios.

The Radiopaedia sessions reinforced the didactic lecture content with excellent case-based material, presented using the Radiopaedia software, which allows images to be presented in a non linear way, more accurately mimicking the way radiologists review cases when reporting. 

The feedback from attendees so far suggests that the Society has a wealth of world class presenters it can call upon to deliver high quality educational material, and ANZSNR should maintain a commitment to radiological education in addition to presenting more 'leading edge' material at its meetings.

The next annual meeting of the ANZSNR will be held in March 2016 in the Hunter Valley, NSW. 

Welcome to the 2015 ANZSNR Meeting

The ANZSNR 2015 Diagnostic Neuroradiology refresher course takes place this weekend 21st and 22nd March at the Crown Promenade Hotel, Melbourne. Currently we have over 200 registrants. 

The 2015 meeting marks a change for ANZSNR. Our traditional annual meeting is a two or three day event with a “scientific” focus - the ANZSNR Annual Scientific Meeting. In 2011 we appended a didactic course to our Canberra ASM, with Ric Harnsberger as key speaker. The course was very popular and well attended, and since then we have been looking to do something similar. Last year the ANZSNR Council resolved to include more ‘educational’ meetings in the ANZSNR Calendar. The ANZSNR 2015 Diagnostic Neuroradiology refresher course is the first of these. Later this year the ANZSNR will host the World Federation of Interventional and Therapeutic Neuroradiology meeting at the Gold Coast Convention Centre (WFITN) and next year we will host an didactic teaching course for Head and Neck Radiology.

We hoped that this meeting would appeal in particular to radiologists with an interest in diagnostic neuroradiology and registrars in training. We have an outstanding team of ANZ and international presenters. The lecture material is up to date and relevant, and each lecture should highlight a number of useful ‘take home points’. In addition, we have been fortunate to collaborate with the highly popular Radiopaedia team in bringing several case based interactive sessions to the meeting. We have  produced an accompanying Radiopaedia/ANZSNR 2015 iOS app just for this meeting, so that you may keep all of the case material for later review.

My thanks go to Pramit Phal as our principal convenor, ably abetted by Peter Mitchell; thanks to all of our generous sponsors, and thanks to NC Events for organising this meeting.

Prof Alan Coulthard
President, ANZSNR

Radiopaedia ANZSNR app fully loaded

The Radiopaedia ANZSNR 2015 iOS app commissioned for the forthcoming meeting in Melbourne in a few weeks  is now fully loaded up with all the case material that will be presented at the meeting.

As previously advised, this app and its content is available absolutely free of charge, courtesy of Culpan Medical.

Radiopaedia ANZSNR 2015 App available for free download now!

Radiopaedia have produced an excellent FREE app for ANZSNR2015, available for download now for iOS devices at the iTunes store. Once downloaded, you should be able to download free content relating to the Case-based sessions at the forthcoming ANZSNR2015 meeting at the Crown Promenade, Melbourne on the 21st and 22nd of March 2015. 

The Radiopaedia ANZSNR2015 app has been kindly sponsored by Culpan Medical

Australian Stroke Study presented at International Stroke Conference (ISC)

Researchers from the Royal Melbourne Hospital, including ANZSNR Secretary General Associate Professor Peter Mitchell, presented the results of the Extend-IA study this week at the International Stroke Conference in Nashville, Tennessee. Extend IA compared endovascular clot extraction plus intravenous lysis with IV lysis alone in patients presenting with ischaemic stroke. The study was stopped early because of significant benefit in the endovascular arm. Two other studies presented at the same meeting (ESCAPE and SWIFT-PRIME) also supported endovascular treatment, adding to the positive results reported in the recent MR-CLEAN trial.

The news was widely reported in the mainstream media, including the ABC in Australia.