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NEWSLETTER NOVEMBER 2009
HPBASA 2009 Congress
Our recent 3rd Annual Congress held at The Forum proved
to be very successful with a good turnout and an
excellent academic program. Our overseas visitors,
Pierre-Alain Clavien from Zurich and Kevin Conlon from
Dublin were excellent and the feedback we have received
has been uniformly positive.
The talks given at the congress are available to paid-up
members at the HPBASA website in the
Library/Presentations section.
Committee
At the HPBASA EXCO meeting and the AGM elections were held and the committee is as follows:
| President |
Jose Ramos |
| Past-President |
Martin Smith |
| Secretary |
Jones Omoshoro-Jones |
| Treasurer |
Anthony Beeton |
| Academic Program Chairman |
Sandie Thomson |
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| Elected councillors |
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Schalk van der Merwe
Alistair Millar
Chris Ziady
Chris Kassianides
Charles Sanyika |
| Co-opted members |
Georgia Demetriou (Oncology)
Simon Naylor (Pathology)
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Further members may be co-opted as required
Future meetings
2010 – Consensus Meeting to be held in Durban and
organised by Prof S Thomson
2011- European HPBA (EHPBA) Cape Town 12 – 16 April
2011, at the ICC
Website
Please visit the HPBASA website at www.hpbasa.co.za for
ongoing developments, membership application and
contributions to registries
Chronic Pancreatitis Patient Registry
You are invited to add patients with chronic
pancreatitis to this Registry which has been developed
with the generous support of Solvay Pharma and George
Dempster of E2 Solutions. This is an exciting venture
aimed at developing a comprehensive national database of
patients with this disease that will provide opportunity
for further academic initiatives. Other HPB diseases
will be added to the Registry in future. The registry
can be accessed via the www.hpbasa.co.za website –
registration and HPBASA membership is required.
Solvay-HPBASA Travelling Fellowship
Following an initiative by Martin Smith, Solvay Pharma
has generously awarded an Annual Travelling Fellowship
valued at R30 000.00 aimed at assisting HPBASA members
to visit overseas units to further their knowledge of
HPB disease. Interested members are urged to contact the
Secretariat for further information. Applications for
2010 are invited.
Chronic Pancreatitis Guidelines
Under the chairmanship of Prof P Bornman, a committee
has been developing guidelines for the management of
chronic pancreatitis for the benefit of doctors and
funders alike. These are currently in the final phase of
preparation and will be announced in the near future
Membership issues
You are urged to keep your annual contributions up to
date to allow the Association to cover its running
costs. Membership fees have been set at R350 per year
for members and R200 for junior doctors. I urge you to
encourage your colleagues who practice in the field of
HPB disease to join this unique and exciting
Association.
Please submit any suggestions and queries to the
Secretariat or to me at
jramos@wbs.co.za
Secretariat
The HPBASA secretariat is being run by Yvonne Pyne-James
and her team at RSVP. Yvonne can be contacted at rsvp@yebo.co.za.
Telephone number is (011) 463 4064 and fax is (011)
463104
Jose Ramos
President HPBASA
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