10th Annual ARGANZ Meeting a Success
We would like to thank everyone who contributed to the success of the recent ARGANZ meeting in Melbourne. Our two international speakers, Prof Anwar Padhani and Prof Paul Sidhu provided us with thought provoking lectures and the quality of presentations by ANZ speakers was world class. The Friday workshops were also a valuable learning experience. We hope you were able to attend and enjoyed a stimulating weekend.
Save the date for next year's ARGANZ Meeting in Auckland, New Zealand from 9 - 10 March 2019. Our Keynote speakers will be Assoc. Prof Koenraad Mortele from Boston and Asst. Prof Alessandro Furlan from Pittsburgh.
ARGANZ working for you
In 2018 ARGANZ is redefining our role with RANZCR as a special interest group (SIG). This will improve our awareness of current issues affecting abdominal radiology and enable us to provide opinions and consult with our members.
We are also exploring ways to formalise links with other international abdominal imaging organisations, and the best ways to provide you with relevant information.
Mendelson Research Prize 2018
The winner of the 2018 Mendelson Research prize was Dr Danielle Richmond from Austin Health in Melbourne, for her presentation on, "Incidental hepatic steatosis on unenhanced computed tomography performed for renal colic in the emergency department: prevalence and reporting trends”. Dr Richmond receives an ARGANZ sponsored trip to ESGAR 2018 (Dublin) or ESGAR 2019 (Rome) to further her interest in abdominal imaging and research.
The runner up was Dr Jonathan Hall whose research presentation was entitled, "Renal abscess: Clinical factors and associated radiological features”, and will be entitled to free registration at ARGANZ 2019 in Auckland. Many thanks also to Dr Alastair Eason and Dr Julia Williams whose entries were also shortlisted for oral presentation at the meeting.
Vale - Professor Richard Baron
It is with great sadness that we've learned of Professor Rich Baron's recent sudden passing. Rich was our invited international guest speaker at this year's ARGANZ conference in Sydney (2017).
He was one of the world's greatest radiology educators and an inspiring mentor to many of us who knew him. He was also a skilled administrator, having been Chairman of the Department of Radiology at The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, and later at The University of Chicago.
We're pleased we all had a chance to welcome him to Australia and to introduce him to our ARGANZ community in February.
His passion for teaching, his generosity of spirit and his love of company touched us all that weekend.
He will be greatly missed.
