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| Australasian Military Medicine Conference | |
|---|---|
| Name | Australasian Military Medicine Conference |
| Genre | Medical conference |
| Frequency | Biennial |
| Location | Rotates across Australasia |
| First | 1990s |
| Organizer | Defence medical services |
| Participants | Military medical personnel, civilian clinicians, researchers |
Australasian Military Medicine Conference The Australasian Military Medicine Conference is a regional professional meeting that gathers defence medical services, emergency medicine clinicians, trauma surgeons, public health authorities, disaster medicine researchers and humanitarian organisations to share research, clinical practice, education and policy. Delegates include representatives from the Australian Defence Force, Royal Australian Army Medical Corps, Royal New Zealand Army Medical Corps, United States military medical units, NATO medical teams and civilian academic institutions like the University of Sydney, Monash University, University of Auckland and the Australian National University.
The conference convenes personnel from the Australian Defence Force, Royal Australian Army Medical Corps, Royal Australian Navy, Royal Australian Air Force, New Zealand Defence Force, Royal New Zealand Army Medical Corps, United States Department of Defense, United States Army Medical Research and Development Command, United States Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, NATO Medical Corps, World Health Organization, International Committee of the Red Cross, Médecins Sans Frontières, Royal College of Surgeons of England, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, Royal Australasian College of Physicians, Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists, Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists, Australian Society for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institutes of Health, Australian Defence Force Academy, Defence Science and Technology Group, Australian Institute of Tropical Medicine, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, St John Ambulance Australia, Australian Red Cross, New Zealand Red Cross and academic centres such as Oxford University, Cambridge University, Harvard Medical School, Johns Hopkins University, Imperial College London.
Origins trace to cooperative exercises and symposia involving the ANZAC medical corps, South Pacific relief operations after cyclones, and multinational operations like Operation Restore Hope, Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Iraqi Freedom, INTERFET, East Timor intervention, Bougainville conflict and Falklands War medical exchanges. Early meetings included presenters from Royal Society of Medicine, Australian Medical Association, New Zealand Medical Association, Australian War Memorial, Imperial War Museum, National Museum of Military Medicine and specialist units such as Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia, Australian Rescue Coordination Centre, Singapore Armed Forces Medical Corps and Canadian Forces Medical Service. Evolution incorporated lessons from historic campaigns like the Gallipoli Campaign, Battle of the Somme, Battle of Arnhem, Korean War, Vietnam War and contemporary crises like the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, 2009 Victorian bushfires, 2019–20 Australian bushfire season, COVID-19 pandemic and 2011 Christchurch earthquake.
The conference aims to advance clinical care, expeditionary surgery, combat trauma systems, aeromedical evacuation, preventative medicine, infectious disease control, prosthetics and rehabilitation, mental health care, forensic medicine and humanitarian logistics. Common thematic sessions reference the work of Nightingale Hospitals, Royal Army Medical Corps, US Army Institute of Surgical Research, British Military Rehabilitation Centre, US CENTCOM Medical Directorate, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Global Health Security Agenda, Coalition Forces Land Component Command, Allied Joint Medical Committee and research programmes from Massachusetts General Hospital, Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic, Karolinska Institutet, John Radcliffe Hospital and Addenbrooke's Hospital.
Governance typically involves defence health branches, academic partners and professional colleges such as the Australian Medical Association, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, Royal Australasian College of Physicians, Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists and the Defence Health Services Branch. Steering committees have included liaison with Australian Federal Police, New Zealand Police, State Health Departments of New South Wales, Victoria (Australia), Queensland, Western Australia, South Australia, Tasmania and territorial authorities like the Australian Capital Territory. Funding and sponsorship have been provided by organisations including Defence Science and Technology Group, Australian Research Council, Wellcome Trust, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Bupa Foundation, WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific and defence contractors such as BAE Systems, Boeing Defence Australia, Thales Group, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon Technologies.
Proceedings publish abstracts and full papers in partnership with journals and repositories like the Journal of Military Medicine, BMJ Military Health, The Lancet, New England Journal of Medicine, PLoS Medicine, BMC Medicine, Emergency Medicine Journal, Injury, Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery, ANZ Journal of Surgery, New Zealand Medical Journal and conference supplements indexed in databases such as PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science and Google Scholar. Past keynote speakers have included representatives from Sir Michael Marmot, Dame Sally Davies, Professor Peter Doherty, Dr Anthony Fauci, General David Hurley, Lieutenant General John Frewen and international figures from World Health Organization, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.
Delegates encompass military surgeons, battlefield medics, flight medics, preventive medicine officers, psychiatrists, rehabilitation specialists, infectious disease researchers, epidemiologists, nurses and allied health professionals from institutions like Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, The Alfred Hospital, Auckland City Hospital, Middlemore Hospital, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Princess Alexandra Hospital (Brisbane), Royal Melbourne Hospital, Royal Hobart Hospital, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Flinders Medical Centre, Green Lane Hospital, Christchurch Hospital, Redeemer Hospital and universities including University of Melbourne, University of New South Wales, Griffith University, University of Otago, University of Waikato, Curtin University and Deakin University. Collaboration extends to agencies such as Australian Federal Police, New Zealand Defence Force, Australian Border Force, Australian Maritime Safety Authority, Antarctic Division (Australia), Pacific Islands Forum and non-governmental organisations including CARE International, Oxfam, Save the Children, International Rescue Committee.
The conference has influenced doctrine, clinical guidelines, casualty evacuation protocols, infection control measures, prosthetic development, telemedicine adoption and mental health screening tools used by Australian Defence Force, New Zealand Defence Force, United States Department of Defense and partner militaries. Research presented has shaped practice at centres such as Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Royal Centre for Defence Medicine, Institute of Naval Medicine, Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and informed policies by Department of Defence (Australia), New Zealand Ministry of Defence, Department of Veterans' Affairs (Australia), Veterans' Affairs New Zealand and international bodies including NATO, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, World Health Organization.
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