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Colorectal Surgery Sponsors Special Olympics
February 2010
The Colorectal Surgery have undertaken an exciting partnership with the organisers of the
Special Olympics 2010 National Games, set to take place in Adelaide from 19-24 April 2010,
by taking on the role of official sponsor for the Golf Competition at Adelaide Shores Golf Course.
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New Zealand Cancer Council's Cancer Update Week 2009.
September 2009
Dr Andrew Luck had a successful trip to New Zealand as Guest Internationa Speaker for the New Zealand Cancer Council's Cancer Update Week 2009. Please look at the link of Andrew's breakfast Television interview. Andrew also gave a series of public lectures and these can be viewed in our Multimedia section.
Single Incision Laparoscopic Right Colectomy
September 2009
Associate Professor Nicholas Rieger has had his paper "Single Incision Laparoscopic Right Colectomy" accepted for publication in the Journal of Surgical Endoscopy. Download article.
43rd World Congress of Surgery in Adelaide
September 2009
Associate Professor Nick Rieger and Mr Peter Hewett are both presenting and chairing sessions at the 43rd World Congress of Surgery in Adelaide September 2009
Single incision laparoscopic (SIL) assisted right colectomy using standard laparoscopic instrumentation
N. Rieger, F. Lam; The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Adelaide, Australia
The splenic flexure mobilization: from above or below?
P. Hewett, Australia
Award of Appreciation
May 2009
Mr Peter Hewett has, in May 2009, been presented an Award of Appreciation for 6 years of dedicated service as Associate Editor of Diseases of the Colon and Rectum by Anthony J Senegore President of the American Society of Colorectal Surgeons and Robert Madoff Editor in Chief Diseases of Colon and Rectum.
Dr Andrew Luck Announced as International Speaker at New Zealand Cancer Council's Cancer Update Week 2009
30 April 2009
Dr Andrew Luck has been invited to attend the Wellington, New Zealand Cancer Council's Cancer Update Week 2009 as their International Speaker. This is a prestigious and exciting invitation.
The week will be a busy one, starting with an interview on national breakfast television and including Cancer Workshops and a Journal Club with local cancer clinicians as well as radio interviews and talkback at both national and local level. Public Lectures will be held in Wellington and Lake Wairarapa on the North Island and at Nelson and Marlborough at the northern tip of the South Island on the topic "From behind closed doors - getting to the bottom of bowel cancer". The Wellington lecture is the Annual Cancer Society (NZ) Lecture.
The week will conclude with an all day Professional Education Seminar for local nurses, GPs and other health personnel, discussing the screening, surveillance and diagnosis of colorectal cancer, the 21st Century management of colorectal cancer and the latest guidelines for follow- up after Colorectal Cancer.
