2025 Tasmanian Section Meeting
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Sponsorship
Sponsorship bookings for the 2025 USANZ Tasmanian Section Meeting are now open.
Abstracts
Abstract submissions for the 2025 USANZ Tasmanian Section Meeting open on 29 May 2025.
Award Information
The Robbie Roberts Prize is awarded to the best registrar presentation. The prize comprises a certificate, along with $2,500 (paid after the Meeting) towards expenses for registration/travel to the USANZ Annual Scientific Meeting.
Speakers
Professor Phillip Stricker AO
Prof. Phillip Stricker is one of the leading experts in the treatment of prostate cancer in Australia. He is Chairman of the Department of Urology at St Vincent’s Campus, the Director of the St Vincent’s Prostate Cancer Centre, Clinical Director of the Australian Prostate Cancer Research Centre – NSW and was an inaugural Director of the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia. He was the first person in Australia to specialise exclusively in the care of men with prostate cancer. In February 2006 he commenced the first robotic program in NSW at St Vincent’s Hospital. Since then, he has performed over 2000 robotic prostate cancer cases, being the most in NSW and being only one of three robotic surgeons to achieve that in Australasia. He continues to perform open surgery and currently has performed more than 4500 open prostate cancer surgery cases. In non-surgical treatments he was one of the first to use low dose rate and high dose rate brachytherapy in Australasia and has now performed more than 1,000 high dose rate and over 1000 low dose rate brachytherapies. He was one of the first to use active surveillance with one of the largest cohorts in the world (>1000 patients). Prof. Stricker also has a long clinical and research track record of treating Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy including all the medications, laser surgery (being the first to perform greenlight laser in Australia), Urolift treatment and TURP.
Current selected achievements:
- Active Surveillance
- Open and Robotic Radical Prostatectomy
- Transperineal Biopsy
- MRI & PET Scanning
- Focal Therapy
Prof. Stricker was awarded Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) on the Australia Day 2015 Honours list for “Distinguished service to medicine and medical research, as a leading urologist, a robotic surgery pioneer, a teacher and mentor, and as an advocate for prostate cancer awareness".
Professor Fiona Maclean
Professor Fiona Maclean graduated from the University of Sydney with First Class Honours. She initially worked at the Concord Repatriation General Hospital, where she was awarded Intern of the Year. Prof. Maclean has authored more than 100 peer reviewed papers, as well as chapters in premier textbooks in the fields of pathology and histology. She is passionate about tumours of the genitourinary tract in particular (yes, she does need to get out more!) but also has special interest in sarcoma (because someone has to!). Prof. Maclean is the immediate Past President of the Australasian Division of the International Academy of Pathology (IAP). For more than three years, Prof. Maclean has additionally spent half of her week working in artificial intelligence (AI), partnering with Franklin.ai, to develop tools to assist doctors, and welcomes the advent of our computer overlords.
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