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NEWSLETTER AUGUST 2010
Annual Meeting
HPBASA
Multi-Disciplinary 2010 Spring Update on
Topical Aspects of Hepatic, Biliary and Pancreatic
Diseases Saturday 9 October 10h00 - Sunday 10 October
13h30 at the Inkosi Albert Luthuli Central Hospital,
Cato Manor, Durban, KZN.
This promises to be a
stimulating and entertaining meeting, focusing on
specific topics in depth. I urge you all to try to
attend and spread the word to your colleagues.
Registrar and Fellow support to attend the meeting has
been generously offered by The Gastroenterology
Foundation and those wishing to apply for this are asked
to contact Karin Fenton at
kfenton@mweb.co.za
Future meetings
2011- European HPBA (EHPBA) Cape Town
12 – 16 April 2011, at the ICC
Congress Co-Chair
Professor Martin Smith has put in a huge effort to
arrange what will be a major international meeting here
in South Africa. We are indeed fortunate to be able to
host such an important event. The participation of
HPBASA, ASSA, SAGES, SASES, TSSA, VSSA, SAGINS. SASA,
and SASSIT will further ensure that this will be a
landmark event for our Association and for academic
medicine in our country.
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 which 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 is required and HPBASA or SAGES
membership encouraged. A presentation on the Registry
will be given at the October Spring Update meeting in
Durban
Abbott Laboratories
(Solvay)-HPBASA Travelling Fellowship
Following an initiative by Past-President Martin Smith,
Abbott Laboratories (previously 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
2011 are invited.
Thus far no applications for
2010 have been received and instead, travel grants of
R5000.00 were awarded to three members to help with
registration fees for the IHPBA Congress held in Buenos
Aires in April 2010.
I encourage you to spread the
word about this Travelling Fellowship to juniors in any
of the disciplines dealing with HPB disease.
Chronic Pancreatitis Guidelines
I am
pleased to report that this recent HPBASA initiative is
almost finalised. Under the chairmanship of Prof P
Bornman, a committee made up of Johan Botha, Jose Ramos,
Martin Smith, Schalk van der Merwe, Gill Watermayer and
Chris Ziady, have prepared 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 released in the near future.
These will be presented in Durban and will also be
published in the national medical press. The invaluable
support of Abbott Laboratories (formerly Solvay Pharma)
is much appreciated as is the hard work and efforts of
the committee chairman and members.
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)
4631041.
Best regards
Jose Ramos
President
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