ARGANZ is delighted to announce a collaboration with ESGAR, allowing us to bring more abdominal imaging educational content to our members. Free access to the recorded content of past ESGAR meetings will be available to ARGANZ members until the end of 2018. To access log into the ARGANZ website and go to the resources tab / education offers / ESGAR offer.
We thank ESGAR for their willingness to collaborate with ARGANZ.
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.
CT Colonography (CTC) is a very useful test which is currently underutilised in Australia. ARGANZ has provided an update on this topic which is available pdf here (104 KB) .
Current literature demonstrates that CTC is equivalent to OC for the detection of polyps with advanced histology and that no significant cancers are missed when cathartic and faecal tagging agents are used.
The ARGANZ website has been updated to provide a more relevant and easy to use format. Future ARGANZ meeting information will now be part of this website. Please explore the information available, including links to other relevant clinical societies and their meeting dates.
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.
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.
