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ARGANZ 2016 Fremantle
The Abdominal Radiology Group
Australia and New Zealand (ARGANZ)
annual scientific meeting was held at the
Rydges Esplanade Hotel in Fremantle
from 1 to 3 April. The meeting was very
well attended with over 260 registrants.
It was the first time that ARGANZ has
visited the West since its inception as a
Special Interest Group of the College in
2009—the trip was long overdue.
Professor Yves Menu from the
Department of Radiology at Saint
Antoine Hospital, Pierre and Marie
Curie University in Paris was our
international guest speaker. His
presentations were clear and precise
and leavened with humour. Prof Menu
is a master communicator, even in his
non-native tongue of English. He gave
six lectures of a very high standard
and an entertaining challenging case
presentation, putting Drs Mendelson,
Goodwin and Sutherland under the
microscope on Sunday.
Dr Nicole Harris from the Royal
Melbourne Hospital won this year’s
ARGANZ research prize for her research
on Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse
Imaging. She receives an all-expenses
paid trip (registration, airfare and
accommodation) to attend either
ESGAR 2016 conference in Prague or
ESGAR 2017 in Athens. The quality of
the various presentations was of a very
high standard and augers well for the
future of abdominal imaging research in
Australia.
For the first time, a 90-minute teaching/
examining session was conducted
for the radiology trainees on Sunday
morning by current abdominal imaging
examiners – ‘The School of ARGANZ’.
Cases were shown to the wider audience
by projection and to a pre-examination
candidate using a hot seat in front of
a desktop computer. The candidate
was thoroughly tested with the case
conducted as a mock viva after which
the candidate’s performance and the
case were discussed to the benefit of
the wider audience. It proved to be an
invaluable session for all who attended
and will become a feature of all future
meetings.
A/Prof Andrew Little
Chair, ARGANZ
ARGANZ News
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June 2016
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Clinical Radiology
Dr Nicole Harris receiving the
2016 ARGANZ Research Prize
from A/Prof Andrew Little
Looking Forward
to ARGANZ 2017
ARGANZ will return to Sydney on
11-12 February at the Four Points
by Sheraton in Darling Harbour.
We are very excited and privileged to
have as our guest speaker, Professor
Richard Baron, Chairman Emeritus of the
Department of Radiology, The University
of Chicago. Professor Baron is a highly
regarded researcher and educator in
the field of hepatobiliary imaging and
his research and exhibits have received
numerous awards worldwide. He is the
current President of the Radiological
Society of North America, past President
of the Society of Gastrointestinal
Radiology and the Society of Computed
Body Tomography and Magnetic
Resonance. Professor Baron will be
supported by a strong local and national
faculty. Mark the date in your diary.
We look forward to seeing you in
Sydney in 2017!
Professor Richard Baron,
University of Chicago