Prior Scientific Meetings
2022
Scientific Meeting & Dinner – ‘Off field behaviour; is a professional ever off duty’
Guest Speakers: Prof Tony Eyers and Cameron Jackson
Scientific Meeting Webinar “COVID; Where we have come from and where we are going”
Wednesday 17 November 2021 6pm – 7pm
Guest speakers: Dr James Mackie and Alexandra Shields
The Webinar Recording is available to view until 30 November 2021. After that time please contact executive@medicolegal.org.au if you would like to view the recording.
Scientific Webinar ‘Wrongful Birth – Prenatal screening and diagnosis’
15 September 2021
Guest speakers: Dr Philippa Ramsay and Kylie Agland
The Webinar Recording is available to view until 30 September 2021. After that time please contact executive@medicolegal.org.au if you would like to view the recording.
Meeting Recording
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Scientific Meeting “Telehealth Panel Discussion“
16 June 2021
Guest Speakers: Karen Keogh, Georgie Haysom and Margaret Daley
For a copy of the audio recording from the meeting please contact executive@medicolegal.org.au
Scientific Meeting & Dinner ‘Covid 19 Vaccine, Medico-Legal Issues’
17 March 2021
Guest speakers: Prof Bill Rawlinson and Anne Horvath
For a copy of the audio recording from the meeting please contact executive@medicolegal.org.au
Scientific Webinar “The impact of COVID-19 on the Medico Legal Environment.”
June 2020 Biography of Speakers
Meeting Recording (Available to view until 30 June 2020). After this time please contact Executive@medicolegal.org.au. Access Password: Covid-19
Scientific Webinar “Aged Care Royal Commission”
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Scientific Webinar “Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Medical Practice”
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Scientific Webinar “The impact of COVID-19 on the Medico Legal Environment.”
June 2020 Biography of Speakers
Meeting Recording (Available to view until 30 June 2020). After this time please contact Executive@medicolegal.org.au. Access Password: Covid-19
Scientific Meeting – Defamation and Social Media
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For a recording of the meeting or copy of Andrew Miers’ talk please email executive@medicolegal.org.au
Networking Cocktails ‘Concussion in Sport’ 29th October 2019
‘Low value’ and ‘inappropriate’ medical care – what is the difference and how widespread is it?’ 18th September 2019
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‘Overwork – Medical & Legal Risks: Real or Perceived?’, 19 June 2019.
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Click here for Sian Gilbert’s presentation, click here for Dr Rosa Canalese’s presentation, and click here for the transcript.
Reform of the NSW Coronial System, 20 March 2019
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Click here for Dr Robert Day’s presentation, and click here for Mr Hugh Dillon’s presentation.
Assisted Dying, 14 November 2018
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Click here for Kate Gillman’s presentation.
‘My Health Record’, 30 October 2018
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‘Media & Medicine’, 19 September 2018
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Click here for Richard Bean’s slides, and click here for the video URLs.
Click here for a video on the Mackenzie Casellar story. Sophie Scott is an investigative health reporter and keen to hear about story ideas. Get in contact scott.sophie@abc.net.au or follow her on Twitter and Instagram @sophiescott2
Prescription overdoses – drugs of addiction’, 06 June 2018
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‘Human error or criminal culpability? The line is blurring’, 11 April 2018
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‘Complaints against doctors are on the rise! Why are patients complaining and what can you do’, 14 March 2018
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Pitfalls of an Expert
Ms Kylie Agland & Dr Lisa Brown
‘Navigating privacy in the healthcare sector’ Q&A Panel Discussion
‘missing body murders, forensic profiling’
Professor Bob Peckitt, Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist and Forensic Physician visiting from Britain.
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Please click here for the photo gallery from the event.
Please note that as Prof Peckitt doesn’t own the copyright to most of the pictures, they can only be used for teaching and these slides are shared only with delegates for academic study, and for the purpose of publication.
Medical Cannabis – Are they just blowing smoke?
Pushing the limits of parenthood: law and practice around gamete donation and surrogacy
Patient Centred Care and Patient Advocacy – Strengths and Weaknesses
The Case for Sham Surgery
Clinical Governance and Patient Safety for NSW Health Services
Fitness to Practice Medicine – Have we got the balance right?
Are Catastrophphes in Mental Health Foreseeable?
Contact Sport: Watch your Head Legal Exposures for Doctors of Concussion Injuries in Sport
Introduction to Mr Allan Sullivan SC
Ageing in the Professions
Social Media
Multidisciplinary Teams
Medical Tourism
Sexual boundaries – violating and changing outcomes
The Opioid Epidemic – a Doctor Caused Crisis?
Diagnostice Systems Manual (DMS5) – Is Everybody Diagnosable?
Mandatory Reporting – A Hypothetical
MR AMEER TADROS, Executive Officer Medical Council of
NSW; Assistant Director Health Professional Councils Authority
DR JO KARNAGHAN, Area Director, Medical Workforce
The National Disability Insurance Scheme
Public Protection – Therapeutic Agents. What are the standards?
Breaking the Cycle: Anti-doping in Professional Cycling
Late Term Abortion
Expert Witness Immunity – Continuing Relevance
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
- Wrongful birth, wrongful life
- Hepatitis C
2003
- Bias in the expert witness – Understanding medical error (November 2003)
- Reducing adverse outcomes (June 2003)
- Reasonable prospect of success (March 2003)
2002
- Economy class syndrome (November 2002)
- A medically supervised injection centre (September 2002)
- Criminal profiling – a psychiatric confession (June 2002)
- The right to maintain silence (March 2002)
2001
- Corporatisation of the medical profession (November 2001)
- Patenting of medical procedures (September 2001)
- Reliability of the expert witness (June 2001)
- Withdrawing and withholding treatment (March 2001)
2000
- Junk science: Medicine and the law (November 2000)
- The Health Insurance Act – Medicare investigations (June 2000)
- The new professional negligence list (March 2000)
1999
- Competition law, policy and the medical profession (November 1999)
- Evolving perspectives in professional sexual misconduct cases (September 1999)
- Expert evidence (June 1999)
- The sale of professional standards (March 1999)
1998
- The Belanglo enigma (November 1998)
- Child sexual abuse (September 1998)
- Causation (June 1998)
- Restructuring Australia’s Health Care (March 1998)
Should you be wanting further information on any meetings that have occurred please email: executive@medicolegal.org.au
Please note that views of the speakers do not necessarily represent the views of the Society or their members.
