Media Alert - AMA National Conference 2014 - Saturday Highlights

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9.00am             POLICY SESSION:  Practising Globally: Regional Challenges

Chair:               Ms Anne Trimmer, AMA Secretary General

Speakers:         Dr Margaret Mungherera, President, World Medical Association

Sir Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, President, British Medical Assoc

Professor Teerachai Chantarojanasiri, Vice President, Thailand Medical Association

 

10.00am           POLICY SESSION: Global Health Vocational Training: has its time come?

Chair:               Dr Lloyd Nash – Founding Director, Global Ideas Forum

Speakers:         A/Prof Rosemary Aldrich

Dr Georgina Phillips

Dr Suman Majumdar

Dr Vincent Atua, Madang General Hospital, PNG

 

12 Noon          POLICY SESSION:   The Health Budget

A discussion of the major health announcements in the 2014 Federal Budget

Chair:               AMA President, Dr Steve Hambleton

Speakers:         Professor Elizabeth Geelhoed, Professor in health economics

Dr Brian Morton AM, Chair, AMA Council of General Practice

 

2.15pm            POLICY SESSION: Variation in Medical Practice: are Australians getting world class health care

Chair:               Dr Stephen Parnis, AMA Executive Councillor

Speakers:         Professor Anne Duggan

Professor Michael Buist

Dr Rob Grenfell

 

3.45pm ****Presentation of President’s Award

To be awarded posthumously to Dr Bernard Hazelden Quin, for his work as a civilian doctor in World War 2 in Nauru, where he was executed along with four other Australians.

More than 50 of Dr Quin’s family, friends and supporters will be in attendance for the presentation.

 

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