Australian Private Sector Capacity Building in the Myanmar Health Sector
Audio-visual presentations at the 2007 Myanmar/Burma Update Conference,
The Australian National University, 10-11 December 2007
Associate Professor Bruce Conolly, University of Sydney and The University of
New South Wales; he is part-time staff surgeon at Sydney Hospital where he founded the Sydney Hospital Hand Unit in 1969, and visiting Hand Surgeon to St Luke's Hospital Hand Unit where he is Director of Overseas Hand Surgery Projects.
2. Cardiac surgery training project
Associate Professor Alan Gale, School of Medicine, The University of Queensland; Senior Cardiac Surgeon, The Prince Charles Hospital, Brisbane. Based at the Sydney Adventist Hospital, he led more than 50 charitable cardiac surgical education programs in Pacific and Asian countries. He has visited Myanmar (Burma) four times, leading a team of 45 volunteers early in 2007.
Dr Michael McGlynn, Director Burma Program, Interplast Australia. An Interplast Australia (IA) volunteer since 1985, participating in over 20 programs to the South Pacific and Southeast Asia; was awarded the medal of the Order of Australia OAM in the Australia Day 2007 Honours List. Clinical Director at Sydney Children's Hospital, Randwick, and practices plastic and reconstructive surgery at the Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney.
Dr James Muecke, Director, Vision Myanmar Program, South Australian Institute of Ophthalmology (SIO), Adelaide; holds senior appointments in ophthalmology at the Royal Adelaide Hospital and the Women's & Children's Hospital, Adelaide; visited Myanmar in 2000, 2002, 2005, 2006 and 2007; author and co-author of numerous peer reviewed articles in medical journals; author, photographer and publisher, "Visions of Myanmar" (http://www.visionsofmyanmar.com.au, published August 2005.
