At 2006 AHSS meeting in Adelaide, a keypad session on CTS was conducted by Steve Coleman to gauge the opinions of the members present on CTS. All responses were anonymous and results collated as questions answered. You may find results quite interesting.
To view the results, please logon to the members section.

The Meeting
The 2006 Australian Hand Surgery Society, Scientific Conference was held at The Stamford Grand Hotel, Adelaide from Tuesday 21 - Saturday 25 March 2006. The Meeting was well attended throughout the conference despite being located on the cosmopolitan Glenelg beach during an Indian summer. Attendance included 76 members and a total registration of 153.

Historical photographs provided by Rick Honnor were projected at the meeting and will be added to this website.

Group Photograph of attendee's

Social Photographs

Academic Program
Professor Lee Osterman from Philadelphia was the invited presidential guest speaker, who provided four instructional course lectures and attended the registrars hand conference.
There were long panel discussions at the completion of each session, which enabled him to be involved in many academic discussions.

To our knowledge this is the first Australian conference in which disclosure statements were completed by the presenters. It is the first time that a key-pad system has been used for the Australian Hand Surgery Society. This enabled the membership to be more actively involved in discussions and the quiz.

Susan Mackinnon, from St Louis, provided a lecture on "Nerve transfers for the upper limb" via a teleconference. This was a very stimulating presentation on the role of nerve transfers similar to the use of tendon transfers. Presentations provided by Lee Osterman and Susan Mackinnon were recorded on a DVD and will be made available to the membership.

Other instructional course lectures included, Day Surgery Anaesthesia, Biomechanics of Locking Plate and others provided by the membership.

The best paper was won by Jagdeep Nanchahal for his presentation titled, "Tendon Rupture in Rheumatoid Arthritis; Is Membrane Type 1 Matrix Metalloproteinase the Key."

The John Hueston award for a quality paper on Dupuytren's contracture was won by Jagdeep Nanchahal on, "Normal Dermal Fibroblast May be the Key in Preventing Recurrent Dupuytren's contracture."

Social Program
The social program highlights included a taste of South Australia, which was an extravaganza of the depth and breadth of South Australian Fine Food and Wine. The conference dinner was held at the National Wine Centre which provides a culinary delight which was matched with the perfect wine. The contemporary architecture and the ambience of a jazz quartet provided the backdrop to our main dinner.

The usual golf and tennis tournaments were fought in walm conditions. Stuart Kirkham and Margie Hicks won the tennis and Malcolm Wicks the golf.

Photographs from social functions

Business Meeting
Mark Ross has been awarded the first Travelling fellowship awarded by the Hand Society. Mark Allison is the new president elect.

Dr Peter Hales completed his two year term as president of the Australian Hand Surgery Society and passed on the presidential medallion to Dr Michael Tonkin. President Hales concluded the meeting by thanking Greg Bain and Wayne Taylor for a well organized meeting and encouraged the membership to support Michael Tonkin and his team for the 2007 IFSSH Meeting.

Registrars Meeting
The registrars hand meeting was held on Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 March 2006 also at The Grand, Glenelg, South Australia. Phil Griffin was the convenor and was well supported by Professor Lee Osterman, Professor Brian Adams and a number of the Australian Membership. 68 registrars attended.

Greg Bain
Convenor
Australian Hand Surgery Society 2006