2010 MedTech Conference

The annual conference MedTech 2010: A history of innovation - looking forward, looking back will be held on Wednesday 15 - Thursday 16 September 2010 at Star City in Sydney.

The final program is now available!

Note that the program had to be sent to print before the federal government was announced. This may result in changes to the final speaker line-up for the first day.

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You'll be pleased to know that the registration fees have remained at last year's level. So don't delay but register now.

Program and speakers

Dr Devi Prasad Shetty is a heart surgeon and Chairman of Narayana Hrudayalaya in Bangalore, India’s leading cardiac care hospital. Once cardiac surgeon to Mother Teresa, he and his team have performed 17,000 heart operations, treating patients from 73 countries. Clinically trained in the UK, Dr Shetty is working to address India’s huge heart surgery needs, estimated to be 2.5m cases annually, through applying the principles of economies of scale. He uses innovation such as telemedicine to help some of the poorest patients who otherwise would not have access to affordable healthcare.

Due to popular demand, Bernard Salt is back as keynote speaker for the conference. Bernard doesn't need an introduction and has been very well received at previous conferences. He will comment on the effects of an aging population on the Australian healthcare setting.

We are very happy to announce international keynote speaker Professor Tom Fogarty. He is Professor of Surgery at Stanford University, inventor of medical devices most famously of the Fogarty Embolectomy Balloon Catheter. Over the past 40 years he has acquired more than 100 surgical patents. In 2001, he was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, joining the ranks of the Edisons and the Wright brothers of the world.

Conference dinner

Dr Kelvin Kong is confirmed as the dinner speaker. Kelvin Kong qualified as the first Australian Aboriginal Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS), specialising in Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery.

The conference will coincide with the celebrations to mark MTAA’s 30 year anniversary. So this year, the conference dinner will not only be hosting the Kerrin Rennie Award finalists and winner, but also celebrate the history of medical technology in Australia.