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Post pandemic registration rush for the
We are now only days away from the FSANZ 2022 Annual Conference in Sydney and more than 700 registrants are eagerly awaiting the opportunity to gather in person again after major COVID-19 deferrals and disruptions.
It will be the Society’s first face-to-face conference since 2019 and the International Convention Centre (ICC) is filling fast for the event.
Registrations have flooded in for the meeting with some of the pre-conference professional group workshops on Saturday 30 July almost booked out.
As conference convenor, Professor Michael Chapman, has repeatedly declared the Society will be out of hibernation and roaring back to life in Sydney.
Situated at the intersection of Sydney’s academic, cultural and technology precincts, the spectacular ICC affords delegates and exhibitors convenient access to Australia’s most cosmopolitan city with the financial, dining and retail precinct of Barangaroo nearby along with numerous galleries, theatres and concert halls.
The conference organising group, led by Michael Chapman and Professor David Gardner, Chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee, have put together an outstanding cast of international and local speakers selected from a record number of abstracts and free communication entries.
Addressing the theme of The View from The Bridge, the conference will examine past milestones and present developments across the disciplines of assisted reproductive technology and explore possible visions of the future.
The welcome reception for delegates will be held in the exhibition area on the evening of 30 July, and the conference program will open the following morning with the presentation
Rob McLachlan
Don’t miss compelling scientific program and harbourside feast of ‘Naughty-cal’ fun as we celebrate a return to conference normality
of FSANZ Life Memberships and the Ian Johnston Memorial Lecture on The Ascent of the Infertile Man in ART by Professor Robert McLachlan AM.
The conference will feature excellent keynote presentations on latest developments in assisted reproduction including:
• The View From Our Patients Eyes by Professor James Arvanitakis, Executive Director of the Australian American Fulbright Commission;
• The Impacts of COVID-19 on Fertility and Pregnancy by Associate Professor Eve Feinberg, a reproductive endocrinology and infertility specialist and member of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine Task Force on COVID-19;
• Psychological Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Fertility Patients by Jacky Boivin, Professor of Health Psychology at Cardiff University, Scotland;
• Blurring the Lines Between Life and Death: Ethical and Psychological Considerations in Posthumous Conception by Associate Professor Angela Lawson, a clinical and forensic psychologist specialising in reproductive health from Northwestern Medical Group, USA;
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Elena Labarta