SPEAKERS
DR MICHAEL SEAN MCMANUS
Sean has had over twenty years’ experience with health services in Far North Queensland, first arriving in Cairns in 1993 as a medical student and then returning to Innisfail in 1996 as a junior doctor. Sean pursued a career in rural general practice before switching to anaesthesia training, gaining a specialist position in Cairns in 2002. In 2015 he completed Intensive Care Specialist Training. In 2017 he was selected for the Health Service Board and completed the AICD Company Director’s course.
He has been on the Board of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists since 2014, which has given him valuable experience in financial management and governance of not-for-profit companies. He has been the lead for ANZCA’s Perioperative Medicine Project for the last three years and will outline the work the College has been doing and its vision for Perioperative Medicine training in Australia and New Zealand. He believes the biggest gains in patient care lie bringing the improvements in anaesthesia and intensive care to the wider hospital environment. .
PROF DAVID A SCOTT
David A Scott is Director of Anaesthesia and Acute Pain Medicine at St. Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne and is a Professor at the School of Medicine, University of Melbourne. He has a PhD in the neuropharmacology of neuropathic pain. He is also President of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists and is a strong advocate for a collaborative multidisciplinary approach to perioperative care.
Over the last decade, his research has focussed on outcomes - including blood management, safety of postoperative opioids, and the cognitive effects of anaesthesia and surgery – particularly delirium and dementia. His clinical and research interests more broadly include cognitive change, regional anaesthesia, acute pain management, and cardiac and vascular anaesthesia. He has been a Chief Investigator on a number of nationally funded research grants particularly focusing on cognition in the elderly, and has presented nationally and internationally on many of these topics with over 90 published papers and book chapters.
DR COSTA KARIHALOO
Costa Karihaloo is a Consultant Gastrointestinal Surgeon specialising in endoscopic, laparoscopic & minimally invasive techniques, as well as Bariatric Surgery and has published and presented internationally in this area. He is the current Director of the Department of General Surgery at John Hunter Hospital, Newcastle, NSW.
