Multidisciplinary Ultrasound Workshop (MDW)

Invitation

We warmly invite you to participate in this, ASUM’s tenth Annual Multidisciplinary Ultrasound Workshop. Since its inception, in 2003 this meeting has been a major success and is a feature of ASUM’s Ultrasound Education program.

The goal of the program is to provide practical education relevant to all practitioners of medical ultrasound. To achieve this, practitioners from leading clinical teams and academic institutions in Australia and New Zealand have developed a program covering aspects from all major ultrasound modalities.

The program features a high level of interactive content including live scanning in the context of lectures and workshops. Enrolment numbers are restricted to ensure that the live-scanning workshops are accessible to all delegates.

We are grateful to our sponsors for providing equipment and staff for the live scanning workshops. We encourage you to take the opportunity to consult with the trade representative regarding the supply of their equipment and it’s optimised use.

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Speakers

An exciting line up of well- respected speakers shall be presenting at the Workshop. We are delighted to confirm the following:

International Keynote Speakers:

Dr Gina Allen

Dr Allen is a Radiologist and Sports medicine Physician also in Oxford, England. She works at the  Oxford Soft Tissue Injury Clinic (OSTIC)which  provides a ‘one-stop’ specialist service treating pain and swelling in joints, muscles, ligaments, tendons and nerves. She is a member of the London Olympics medical imaging committee.

Dr David Wilson

Dr Wilson is a consultant Radiologist at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Oxford, England. His primary interest is in the application of modern imaging techniques to disorders of the locomotor system. He has undertaken original work in the application of diagnostic ultrasound to joint, muscle, and soft tissue disease with particular attention to joint effusion and congenital dysplasia of the hip.

National and Local Speakers

Darren Curtis

Darren started out as a radiographer in the country setting before speciallising in ultrasound in Adelaide some 12 years ago. Completed the post grad dip in ultrasound at the Uni of SA and began turning my attention to MSK, working closely with Neil Simmons in this endeavor.

Currently working at Dr Jones and Partners in Adelaide, spending the majority of time scanning MSK , where we see a wide range of work and sports related injuries.

I have presented workshops previously at ASA and I-MED national conferences, with a particular interest in ‘hands-on’ approach to learning.

Sue Farnan

Sue is a Senior Sonographer with Dr Jones & Partners in Adelaide, South Australia. She completed her ultrasound training in 1985, and developed a keen interest in musculoskeletal ultrasound in the late 1980’s working alongside Dr Neil Simmons.

Sue has also developed and convened 3 dedicated musculoskeletal conferences for the I-Med Network (Dr Jones & Partners is a member company) in 2006, 2007 and 2008, and was co-convener for the ASA National Conference in Adelaide 2009. She has presented also numerous papers and workshops at WFUMB, ASUM and ASA national and local meetings.

One of her career highlights was working as a volunteer in the medical imaging team for the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne.

Whilst continuing to develop her knowledge within this field, she is also interested in looking beyond imaging to consider the dynamic nature of the structures we investigate and how we can utilize clinical interpretation and dynamic motion to improve diagnosis.

Matthew Gourlay

Matthew is a Senior Sonographer with Dr Jones and Partners in Adelaide, South Australia. He has gained a keen interest in musculoskeletal ultrasound from working alongside some exceptional musculosketal sonographers and radiologists in the practice.

Prof. Richard Mendelson

Richard Mendelson is a consultant gastrointestinal radiologist at Royal Perth Hospital, Clinical Professor at the University of Western  Australia and at theNotre DameUniversity.

His current main areas of interest are CT Colonography, MRI of the small intestine and liver, and contrast-enhanced ultrasound examination.

He is Director of  the WA Radiology Training Programme,  founding chairman of the Abdominal Radiology Group of Australia and New Zealand (ARGANZ) and he has a career-long interest in the appropriate use of diagnostic imaging
being Editor of  ‘Diagnostic Imaging Pathways’ (an on-line clinical decision support and educational tool for referrers to diagnostic imaging).

Troy Morrison

Troy is a tutor sonographer for I-Med SA and is experienced in most areas of sonography.  He has special interests in musculoskeletal ultrasound and the development of student sonographers.

Tom Walsh

Tom Walsh is a podiatrist based in Adelaide. He works in both the public and private sector. He has completed a Masters in Health Science and has a special interest in the diabetic foot, enthesopathies and flatfoot. He will present on the  significance of the talocalcaneonavicular joint in a normal and pathological setting.

Dr Matthew Sampson

Dr Sampson is a Partner Radiologist at Benson Radiolgy.  In 2007/8 Dr Sampson completed a 12 month fellowship in Musculoskeletal Imaging at the Sports Surgery Clinic, Dublin, Ireland.

His interests include musculoskeletal/sports injury MRI and image guided musculoskeletal procedures. He currently holds a Staff Specialist position at the Repatriation General Hospital and is a member of the Sports Medicine Association (SA).

Dr Sampson also has publications in ‘American Journal of Radiology’ and ‘Clinical Radiology’.

Dr Gabrielle Todd

Dr Gabrielle Todd holds a NHMRC Career Development Award and is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of South Australia. Dr Todd investigates how the human brain controls movement and the mechanisms that underlie movement disorders such as Parkinson’s disease. Her aim is to identify risk factors that predispose people to developing movement disorders and to improve early diagnosis of movement disorders.

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