Conference Details

The Australasian Sexual Health Alliance seeks to use the Australasian Sexual Health Conference to achieve its purpose of acknowledging and building on the specific expertise of sector partners in our common aims of improving national and local responses to sexual health in Australasia, in supporting and collaborating with close neighbouring countries to achieve these objectives. This conference will be held from 9-11 October 2014.

The Australasian Sexual Health Conference has previously been run by the Australasian Chapter of Sexual Health Medicine of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) with the conference having been run for over 20 years. The conference regularly attracts over 500 delegates from Australia and the region.

Delegates to the conference come from a range of professional backgrounds including doctors, nurses and counsellors, as well as those involved in public health, Indigenous health and health promotion aspects of HIV and STI control. The Conference focuses on key public health issues which have dominated media coverage.

In 2012 the 13th IUSTI World Congress was incorporated with over 850 delegates that attended. Since 2005 the Conference has been held back-to-back with the Australasian HIV&AIDS Conference with one full day of overlap, providing a unique opportunity to look at HIV in the broader context of sexual health. Together, the conferences attract more than 1000 delegates from across the region.

You can view the website at - www.sexualhealthalliance.org.au

Make sure you don’t miss out on this important event.

During his triennium (1988-1991) as inaugural President of the Australasian College of Venereologists Dr Morris Gollow and his wife Suzette endowed funds for an honorarium to be given to the invited presenter of the Gollow Lecture, delivered at the annual scientific meeting of the College.

DR MORRIS M GOLLOW

AM, MRCS (Engl.), LRCP (Lond.), DepVen (Lond.), PPACSHP

Dr Gollow was born in London in 1925 and trained there, graduating in 1949.

He emigrated to WA in July 1956 and after two years in a remote area moved to Perth. In 1974 he left general practice and joined the Health Department of WA as a venereologist in the Royal Perth Hospital.

One of the organisers of the First National Conference on STDs in Australia, held in Perth in August 1978, he was also President of the WA Venereal Diseases Society from 1980 until his retirement in 1986.

In 1981 he became a Foundation Member of the National Venereology Council of Australia and in 1987 a Founding Fellow of the Australasian College of Venereologists.

He was awarded the Member of the Order of Australia for services to Medicine, particularly in the field of venereology.

THE GOLLOW LECTURES (1990-2010)

Date	Location	Title	Presenter
22 April 1990	The inaugural lecture was given at the first scientific meeting of the ACVen at Sydney Hospital following the first College AGM on 21 April.	Molecular Biology in Medicine	Professor Yvonne Cossart Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Sydney
26 April 1991	Sydney	The Natural History and Medico-social Complications of IDU	Dr Alex Wodak Director, Drug and Alcohol Service, St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney
8 May 1992	Adelaide	Recent Advances in Virology	Professor Chris Burrell Professor of Microbiology, University of Adelaide
1 May 1993	Melbourne	Overview of Herpes simplex Infections	Professor Adrian Mindel Academic Unit in Sexual Health Medicine, University of Sydney
21 April 1994	Gold Coast	Challenge & Response: The global burden of STD infections	Professor Frank Judson Director Denver Department of Public Health, Denver Colorado USA
1995	No lecture
13 June 1996	Auckland	Review of Bacterial Vaginosis	Dr Sharon Hillier Associate Professor, Dept of Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Reproductive Services University of Pittsburgh USA
1997	No lecture
12 June 1998	Cairns	Sexual Healing in Indigenous Communities	Kerry Arabena Co-ordinator of the North Queensland Sexual Health Strategy
14 May 1999	Adelaide	The role of Human Papillomaviruses in Anogenital Malignancies and Prospects for HPV Vaccines	Professor Denise Galloway Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre, Seattle Washington USA
22 June 2000	Darwin	The Role of STDs in HIV Transmission and for the Control of the HIV Epidemics: Available evidence from African studies and present state of discussion	Dr Heiner Grosskurth London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine UK
3 May 2001	Sydney	HPV Epidemiology	Professor Laura Koutsky University of Washington Seattle USA
31 May 2002	Perth	Interventions for Prevention of Sexual Transmission of HIV and other STIs	Professor King Holmes Director, Center for AIDS and STD University of Washington Seattle USA
5 June 2003	Christchurch	HIV Update: the state of the art	Professor Brian Gazzard Chelsea and Westminster Hospitals London UK
April 2004	Adelaide	Response to the HIV global pandemic: treatment and prevention strategies in Africa	Professor Thomas Quinn Senior Investigator and Head of Section on International AIDS/STD Research, Laboratory of Immunoregulation, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, MD USA
22 August 2005	Hobart	Social Policy, STIs and HIV	Dr Graham Neilsen Associate Director of Prevention, Care & Treatment, Insitute for HIV/AIDS, Family Health International, Bangkok, Thailand
9 October 2006	Melbourne	HSV Recent Advances	Professor Connie Celum Professor of Medicine and Adjunct Professor, Epidemiology Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases University of Washington School of Medicine Seattle USA
8 October 2007	Gold Coast	Sex and Cancer	Professor Ron Jones Professor, Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Otago Medical School, New Zealand
15 September 2008	Perth	Diagnostics in STIs	Dr David Smith Clinical Director, Microbiology, Department of Health WA
7 September 2009	Brisbane	Controlling HPV associated disease: A glass half full?	Professor Ian Frazer Director, Diamantina Institute of Cancer, Immunology and Metabolic Medicine
18 October 2010	Sydney	Challenges for Sexual Health Medicine	Professor Michael Kidd AM Executive Dean of Health Sciences, Flinders University, South Australia and Chair of the Ministerial Advisory Committee on Blood Borne Viruses and Sexually Transmissible Disease
28 September 2011	Canberra		Mr James Ward Program Head, Senior Lecturer, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Program, The Kirby Institute, Sydney, NSW, Australia
15 October 2012	Melbourne	‘Will Herpes ever be curable?’ A review of the problems , the science and the reasons for study failure	Dr Raj Patel President- IUSTI, Genito Urinary Medicine, The Royal South Hants Hospital, England
24 October 2013	Darwin	The Evolution of Sexual Health in Australia	Professor Basil Donovan Professor and Head of the Sexual Health Program, The Kirby Institute, The University of New South Wales, NSW, Australia
10 October 2014	Sydney	The many facets of Haemophilus ducreyi infection: a multidisciplinary look at an evolving pathogen	David Lewis Head of the Sexually Transmitted Infections Reference Centre, National Institute of Communicable Diseases, Johannesburg, Regional Director IUSTI, Africa

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