Special guest speaker Dr Norman Swan will address a room of up to 250 ophthalmologists on the relationship between medicine, doctors and the media at Ophthalmology Updates! Conference in Sydney this month.
Swan co-hosts ABC Radio National’s Health Report and Coronacast, a podcast on the coronavirus.
Swan is also a reporter and commentator on ABC’s 7.30, Midday, News Breakfast and Four Corners. He is a past winner of the Gold Walkley and has won other Walkleys including one with his Coronacast colleagues in 2020.
Ophthalmology Updates! Conference convenor, Sydney retinal ophthalmologist Professor Adrian Fung, said it was timely to invite Dr Norman Swan, a multi-award winning producer, broadcaster and investigative journalist, as guest speaker this year.
“There has been a lot in the media about Medicare fraud, ongoing issues regarding the Medicare rebate, and issues about unprofessional practice of doctors,” Fung said.
“I was interested in exploring that idea, and Dr Swan is both a doctor and well known in the media, getting his understanding of how these stories make it into the media, who controls that narrative, and what are the politics behind it.”
Started in 2016, Ophthalmology Updates! is returning as a stand-alone event in August 2023, following a hiatus in 2020 and 2021 due to COVID, and was combined with RANZCO’s NSW conference in 2022.
Taking place on 26-27 August at Fullerton Hotel in Sydney, the event is designed for general ophthalmologists who want to consolidate their knowledge and learn about new advances in a range of subspecialties; for subspecialty ophthalmologists who want a refresher on other subspecialties; and for registrars preparing for RANZCO examinations.
Invited speakers prepare a three-part presentation, each lasting 15 minutes, on a common subspecialty condition, a ‘frontier’ topic on a topical subject (but not in trials or experimental), and a case-based discussion.
The conference is approved for 12 Level 1 RANZCO and 10 Orthoptic Australia CPD points.
For more information, visit www.ophthalmologyupdates.com.
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