ANZGITA Information
ABOUT ANZGITA - Helping Save Lives
Our team has developed a short 10-slide Powerpoint presentation to inform people about the good work we do and, for those that have been on a training program, to use it as a platform to share your training experiences. We would like to ask you to connect with your colleagues for as little as 10 minutes at a work event or meeting, during lunch breaks, in a teaching session or with any other interested party such as Gut Clubs. It is available as a slide deck, as well as a Flipbook for easy iPad access in smaller groups.
We want to make it as easy as possible for you to share how we help save lives by building gastroenterology capacity in the Indo-Paciific region. You may view the Flipbook below. A pdf file version is here.
Request the PowerPoint slide deck with notes here.
Let us know how you go, or better yet, send us a link to the recording of your presentation.
ANZGITA in Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology
A paper by Desmond Leddin (ANZGITA Advisory Group Member) and Finlay Macrae (ANZGITA Chair) was published in the May/June Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology which documents the need for the gastroenterology community to consider the implications of climate change on Gastrointestinal Health and Disease. We invite you to read it here.
Pacific Programs Leader, Chris Hair, Interviewed at Radio NZ
Read a short introduction by Radio NZ and hear Chris' interview on digital apps being used to assist Pacific doctors in their work through secure real-time communications and regular tele-education sessions here.
Video Lectures to Pacific Hospitals
Chris Hair delivers a monthly teleconference lecture with Q&A that is watched in about 10 different Pacific Island Nations including Marshall Islands, Palau, Samoa, American Samoa and Fiji. Chris worked with Dr Payne Perman in Micronesia to organise this first of a series of gastroenterology lectures using the ECHO facilities of the Pacific Basin Telehealth Resource Center at the University of Hawai’i. The topics vary and included COVID in early 2020. The connection across nearly all participating centres was very good and there was a Q&A session at the end. Congratulations to Chris and colleagues for this initiative. It opens up potential for use in supporting all our partners beyond intensive training program visits. Check out our Webinar page for upcoming 2021 sessions.
North Pacific
Dr Payne Perman met with Australian Foreign Minister, Julie Bishop, when she visited the Federated States of Micronesia recently. Payne practises endoscopy at Pohnpei Hospital. He asked Ms Bishop for more Australian assistance and we support his effort.
Currently, Payne is an attendee at Chris Hair's tele-education endoscopy lectures which are presented in real time with Q&A sessions to a number of hospitals in the Pacific.
Chris met Payne and Dr Kabiri Tun of Kiribati when they were in Melbourne recently and discussed the needs of the "North" Pacific. The idea of a one or two week intensive training program in Pohnpei, which has good air links to other North Pacific nations, with doctor and nurse trainees from the four Federated States of Micronesia, Palau, Marshall Islands, Kiribati and perhaps other nations was discussed. This program has consolidate what would otherwise be individually funded and delivered outreach visits.
Currently, Payne is an attendee at Chris Hair's tele-education endoscopy lectures which are presented in real time with Q&A sessions to a number of hospitals in the Pacific.
Chris met Payne and Dr Kabiri Tun of Kiribati when they were in Melbourne recently and discussed the needs of the "North" Pacific. The idea of a one or two week intensive training program in Pohnpei, which has good air links to other North Pacific nations, with doctor and nurse trainees from the four Federated States of Micronesia, Palau, Marshall Islands, Kiribati and perhaps other nations was discussed. This program has consolidate what would otherwise be individually funded and delivered outreach visits.
| celia_santos_fellowship.pdf |
On page 4 of the December 2016 Newsletter of the New Zealand Society of Gastroenterology is an article by Alan Fraser on ANZGITA and his training work in Myanmar earlier in the year.
| nzsg_dec_newsletter.pdf |
At the AGM on 9 October, 2016, the Annual Report was accepted by the Members.
| anzgita_annual_report_2016.pdf |
In March 2016 The Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Foundation (JGHF) awarded ANZGITA a Special Project Grant. Details are in the attached document.
| jghf_grant.pdf |
In the Australia Day Honours Professor Finlay Macrae was made an Officer (AO) in the General Division of the Order of Australia for distinguished service to medicine in the field of gastroenterology and genomic disorders as a clinician and academic, and to human health through the Human Variome Project. The full citation is in the file below.
| finlays_ao_award.pdf |
Below is our first newsletter for members and others who are interested in our activities and latest news
| anzgita_newsletter_jan_2016.pdf |
The following article appeared in the Old Scotch Collegians Association magazine produced by the Scotch College Melbourne Alumni in December 2105.
| osca_dec_15_article.pdf |
A note by Greg Lockrey, an ANZITA member, on his involvement in the Fiji 2015 program appeared in the RACP News in November 2015
| racp-news-nov-2015_extract.pdf |
The following article by Finlay Macrae appeared in the October 2014 edition of the World Gastroenterology News.
| wgo_article_102014.pdf |
