easurer’s report

The result of the Hargreaves meeting seems to present every state with a modest profit, similarly the Federal Office has also had a modest profit - half of which will be directed toward the Research Grants Fund. Our Research Grants Fund continues to grow at a reasonable rate, increasing by our $5.00 per member per year contribution, state branch contributions, and profits from educational courses.Al1 of the earnings of the fund by way of interest are distributed each year to recipients of research grants. This year there were three recipients all from the University of Melbourne.

The Australian Society of Endodontology will be having a joint meeting with the Canadian Academy of Endodontics in Vancouver in May 1997 which I would encourage all of you to attend. Both groups are providing four speakers each, and the meeting promises to be of a very high calibre.

Planning is proceeding well for the 1999 meeting of the International Association of Dental Traumatology which is co- sponsored by our Society. This meeting will be held in March of 1999 in Melbourne and Dr Barry Feiglin is chairman of the organising committee. There may be up to ten international speakers at the meeting and we have been fortunate to secure a good deal of sponsorship to date and hopefully more will come.

I would encourage you all to keep this meeting in the back of your minds as a “not to miss” meeting.

The Society is in a healthy state financially, with the Research Grants Fund growing and our working capital remaining fairly static.

I would like to thank each of the state branch presidents and secretaries for their co-operation in having information to me as soon as possible when necessary. I would also like to thank our judges for the undergraduate Essay Competition Drs Mark Hansen and Mark Davis and judges for the Postgraduate Case Competition Drs Fiona Heard and John Bone.Your efforts are greatly appreciated.

For those of you who were unable to attend the Hargreaves meeting you unfortunately missed a feast of very eruditely presented and clinically relevant information; although the overall attendance for this course throughout Australia was low in comparison to other courses, it was one of the most successful in terms of education.

See you all at the next meeting in 1997!

John McNamara Secretary /Treasurer

Western Australian Branch

The WA Branch held a half day meeting in May a t the Hyatt Regency Hotel. Three local endodontists presented “Clinical Update-Clinical Problems, Predictable Procedures and Techniques”. Dr Tony Sandler discussed canal preparation, I l r Santo Cardaci discussed obturation and I l r Mark Davis brought up the rear and discussed prognosis. The meeting was well attended and considered by all a great success. A feature of the meeting was the attendance of the final year dental students, out to get a taste of continuing education. Next time we will know to order more afternoon tea.

In June the Branch invited Mr Dominic Bourke to present a lecture on “Endodontics and the Law-what to do and what not to do”.Amongst his other duties Iloniinic represents DPL and is well qualified to talk about medical and dental malpractice and litigation. Ilominic managed to hold everyone’s attention and I

think we will all be a little more careful with record taking, gaining consent etc.

The Federal Lecturer, Dr Ken Hargreaves did not visit Perth this year. However, many West Aussies, including most of the endodontists, took the opportunity to visit sunny Melbourne to listen to Dr Hargreaves. His full day course was well worth the journey across the Nullarbor.

A dinner meeting was held in September and the topic was a “Specialist Potpourri”. Drs Mark Hansen, Santo Cardaci, Tony Sandler and Lilian Sakalo presented interesting cases that most general dentists would rarely see.The evening was only marred by Mark Hansen becoming quite ill in the morning prior to the meeting leaving Mark Davis to look after Mark’s patients as well as his own, at the same time trying to organise some cases to present. However, the meeting went off very well.

Dr Marc Tennant, Senior Lecturer at UWA School of Oral Health Sciences, was invited to give a presentation at the last

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