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The Meeting will include keynote lectures, symposiums on movement disorders and neuropathology, workshops on multiple sclerosis, epilepsy and stroke.
Again we will present the young investigator and advanced trainee awards, as well as the EG Robertson lecture, the Leonard Cox award, and the Mervyn J. Eadie lecture. The popular neurological grand rounds will again be featured.
Notification emails have been sent to abstract contact people. If you have not received your email, please contact the Meeting Office.
ANZAN James McLeod Advanced Trainee Award
The ANZAN James McLeod Advanced Trainee Award is for work conducted during a clinical year of advanced training, and presented at the Annual Scientific Meeting on Tuesday, 22 May 2007 from 10.30am.
ANZAN James Lance Young Investigator Award
The ANZAN James Lance Young Investigator Award is for work performed during the pursuance of a higher degree in the neurosciences, and presented at the Annual Scientific Meeting on Tuesday, 22 May 2007 from 10.30am.
Neurological Grand Rounds
A presentation of interesting cases will be presented in the Neurological Grand Rounds held on Tuesday, 22 May 2007 from 2.00pm.
Leonard Cox Award
The Leonard Cox Award is designed to recognise investigators who have contributed significantly to Neuroscience Research during early post FRACP years. The award will be presented at the Annual Scientific Meeting on Wednesday, 23 May 2007 from 1.30pm.
Posters
All posters will be displayed in the exhibition area at Annual Scientific Meeting from 5.30pm on Sunday, 20 May 2007 until 3.30pm on Wednesday, 23 May 2007.
Travel Day
A coach exclusively for ANZAN delegates and families is available on Thursday, 24 May 2007. The coach will depart from Alice Springs and travel one way to Uluru to enable delegates to attend the Friday sessions.
Light snacks and lunch will be provided.
If you register for the full 5 days the coach transfer is included in your registration. Alternatively the cost is $130.00 per seat for adults and $80.00 per seat for children. Seats are limited.
Travel from Uluru is at your own arrangements and expense. Limited flights are available from Ayers Rock airport to most Australian capital cities. Please see CTM Travel or Qantas for flight schedules.
To book your space, please include this in your registration.
Accommodation
ANZAN has secured accommodation at various hotels in Alice Springs and Sails in the Desert at Uluru at special negotiated prices for ANZAN delegates. To secure your accommodation, please advise your requirements when you register.
ALICE SPRINGS
Lasseters
Set amongst the stunning MacDonnell Ranges and adjoining the Alice Springs Convention Centre, Lasseters offer superior accommodation. The international standard casino, Irish pub, restaurant and range of bars make Lasseters the centre of entertainment in Alice Springs.
Crowne Plaza
Crowne Plaza Alice Springs combines luxury, elegance and resort style facilities. The hotel offers a wide range of services for the leisure and business traveller in a relaxed and stylish environment
Novotel Outback
The Novotel Outback Alice Springs is an oasis in the rugged heart of Australia's Red Centre. Situated adjacent to the Convention Centre this international hotel provides intrepid outback travellers with all they could wish for in creature comforts.
All Seasons Oasis Hotel
Just a few minutes walk from the town centre, this hotel is a perfect base to explore the attractions of Alice Springs, including Flynns Memorial, the Old Ghan Train, Desert Park and the Botanical Gardens. Alice Springs is the gateway to Ayers Rock, The Olgas and Kings Canyon.
ULURU
Sails in the Desert (Ayers Rock Resort)
Named after the soaring white sails that crown its roof, this hotel is exquisitely furnished and designed, the interior decor focuses on Aboriginal heritage and culture, with a gallery in the lobby and significant artworks featured throughout the public areas and in the private rooms. Room rate includes return airport shuttle transfer.
Phillip Low
Dr Phillip Low was born in the Fiji Islands and obtained his medical education and neurologic training at University of Sydney, St Vincent's Hospital and RPAH prior to joining the Mayo Clinic. Phillip is an autonomic neurologist and clinician-investigator. Dr Low is the author of over 300 publications and 3 books, including the classic text, "Clinical Autonomic Disorders," with a pending third edition. His research and practice is focused on autonomic and peripheral nerve disorders. Phillip heads an NIH funded Autonomic Disorders Program Project and is Principal Investigator of another Program Project focused on multiple system atrophy (MSA). Phillip has mentored 40 research trainees, including 5 Australians. The NIH has funded Phillip continuously since 1984, his main research streams have been on 1. Peripheral nerve ischemia and oxidative injury; 2. Autonomic neuropathies; 3. Development of autonomic function tests in humans; 4. Development of novel treatments of autonomic failure. 5. Postural tachycardia syndrome (POTS). Highlights include: a. Named Professorship (Robert D and Patricia E Kern Professor of Neurology; b. First recipient of the Mayo Foundation Clinical Research mentorship award; c. Peter Bancroft Prize for research, University of Sydney; d. Jacob Javits Research Award, NIH; e. President, International Neurovegetative Research Society and American Autonomic Society; f. Honorary FRCP on the basis of international renown. His greatest achievement is having a happy family consisting of a loving wife (Maureen) of 39 years, 3 daughters (Yvette, Rachele, Victoria), a son (Phillip Andrew) and 7 grandchildren.
Bruce Miller
Bruce L. Miller, M.D. is a Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) where he holds the A.W. & Mary Margaret Clausen Distinguished Chair. Dr. Miller is the clinical director of the aging and dementia program at UCSF, which links comprehensive patient evaluations to basic research in neuropsychology, neuropsychiatry, neuroimaging, and genetics. Bruce has a special interest in neuroimaging and cortical function. Bruce also has an interest in frontotemporal dementia and has organized research studies into a large cohort of patients with this condition. His work with frontotemporal dementia populations has emphasized both the behavioral and emotional deficits that characterize these patients while simultaneously noting the visual creativity that can emerge in the setting of frontotemporal dementia. Dr. Miller is the author of a recent book The Human Frontal Lobes. His work has been published in the journals of Neurology, Archives of Neurology, Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, Brain, Lancet and British Journal of Psychiatry.
Raad Shakir
Raad Shakir trained in Neurology at the Institute of Neurology, Glasgow and qualified in 1971. Raad then went to work in the Middle East, as the Academic Dean of the then new Medical School in Kuwait and also spent one year as a Lecturer at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.
Professor Shakir moved back to the United Kingdom to work as a Consultant Neurologist in Middlesbrough and in 1995 moved to his current position as Chief of Service Neurology at Charing Cross Hospital, London. Over the years he has developed an interest in CNS infections and Tropical Neurology, with publishing papers on Epilepsy and CNS infection and the work on Brucellosis is still perhaps the most widely cited paper on the neurological complications of the disease.
Professor Shakir's first book was on Tropical Neurology was published in 1996, putting this topic on the agenda of Neurologist across the world. Raad followed this up with a second book on Tropical Neurology which was published in 2003.
Professor Shakir's national involvement includes duties for the Royal Colleges of Physicians, including being the regional RCP advisor for Neurology, Northwest Thames London and examiner for the MRCP London since 1992. Raad also has international affiliation with the ILAE as member of their education committee and a longstanding involvement with the World Federation of Neurology. Other involvements include being Secretary and Chairman of the Tropical and Infectious Neurology Research Group of the WFN since 1984, a member of various committees at the WFN and in September 2006 elected Secretary-Treasurer General of the World Federation of Neurology.
Bart Currie
Bart Currie is an Infectious Diseases Physician at Royal Darwin Hospital and Professor in Medicine at the Northern Territory Clinical School, Flinders University. Bart is also Head of the Tropical and Emerging Infectious Diseases Division of the Menzies School of Health Research at Charles Darwin University. Bart's areas of interest include clinical and epidemiological aspects of tropical and emerging infections, development of treatment guidelines and clinical toxinology.
Tom Gordon
Tom Gordon is a graduate of the University of Adelaide and Professor and Director of the Department of Immunology, Allergy & Arthritis at the Flinders Medical Centre. Tom is a rheumatologist and immunopathologist with an interest in systemic autoimmune diseases, particularly lupus and Sjögren's syndrome. Tom has worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the Scripps Clinic in California and a Greenberg fellow at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation. Tom is an International Fellow of the American College of Rheumatology, a member of the ANA Committee of the International Union of Immunological Societies and on the Editorial Board of several international journals. Tom has over 20 years of continual funding from the NH & MRC for his experimental research program on autoimmune diseases and has published extensively in the Journal of Immunology, PNAS, Journal of Experimental Medicine, Journal of Clinical Investigation, Lancet, Arthritis and Rheumatism and Gastroenterology. Tom was awarded the Parr Prize in Rheumatology in 1995 and the International Ethel Baxter award of the American College of Rheumatology in 1998 and 1999 for his work on functional and anti-Ro/La autoantibodies in Sjögren's syndrome.
John Mackenzie
Formerly a Professor of Microbiology at the University of Queensland from 1995-2004, Professor John Mackenzie is currently the Professor of Tropical Infectious Diseases at Curtin University, and inaugural holder of a Premier's Fellowship.
Some of his elected honours include Secretary-General of the International Union of Microbiological Societies (IUMS), Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, Past President of the Australian Society for Microbiology, and Past President of the Asian-Pacific Society for Medical Virology. In 1995 John was the recipient of the D I Ivanovsky Medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences, followed by receiving the Distinguished Service Award of Australian Society for Microbiology in 1999 and the Excellence in Virology Award by the Asian-Pacific Society for Medical Virology in 2000.
Throughout his career Professor Mackenzie has received some outstanding awards such as being the joint recipient of The Medical Journal of Australia/Wyeth Research Award, for the best original research paper published in The Medical Journal of Australia during 1996 and co-recipient of James H Nakano Citation of the US National Center for Infectious Diseases for an outstanding scientific paper published in 1999.
In 2002, Professor Mackenzie was appointed as Officer in the Order of Australia for services to public health research and to education and in 2003 led the WHO team into China on SARS, and while working in Geneva, convened the SARS Research Advisory Committee. John serves on a number of international committees with the World Health Organization and other Non-Government Organizations, and on the Board of Directors of Panbio Ltd (ASX:PBO).
Professor Mackenzie the inaugural recipient of the Academy of Science Malaysia's Mahathir Science Award for Excellence in Tropical Research in 2005. His recent research interests have been in mosquito-borne virus diseases and emerging zoonotic viruses, and has published over 275 major papers and chapters on these and other research topics concerned with humans and animal diseases.
Jason Mattingley
Professor Jason Mattingley is Foundation Chair of Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Queensland, where he holds a joint appointment between the Queensland Brain Institute and School of Psychology. He received his PhD in neuropsychology from Monash University in 1994, and subsequently spent several years as a research fellow in Cambridge, England, where he was also elected a Fellow of King's College. His research spans the broad field of cognitive neuroscience, with particular emphasis on the behavioural effects of brain injury caused by stroke. His research team also employs brain imaging and brain stimulation techniques to investigate various aspects of cognition in healthy individuals.
Professor Mattingley's work has helped to elucidate the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying selective attention and motor control. He has published more than 100 articles in scholarly journals, including numerous papers in Nature, Science and Nature Neuroscience. He has also co-authored a major textbook on clinical neuropsychology. Professor Mattingley currently sits on the editorial boards of several major international journals, including Brain & Cognition, Cortex, Neurocase, and Neuropsychologia. His research is funded by grants from the Australian Research Council, the National Health and Medical Research Council, the British Stroke Association, and through collaborations with industry. Professor Mattingley has received Early Career Awards from the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and the Australian Psychological Society. He currently sits of the Australian Academy of Science's National Committee for Psychology.