I take great pleasure to welcome you to Spier, Stellenbosch, Cape Town, to the first RSSA/SGR Gastrointestinal Radiology Course, presented by the Radiological Society of South Africa (RSSA) and Society of Gastrointestinal Radiologists International Education Conference (SGR-IEC). The long weekend 7 – 9 August was deliberately chosen to allow more delegates the opportunity to attend.
As a result of more than 18 months of hard work and goodwill, careful review and planning by members of both societies, the 2010 GIT Radiology course has been established to meet the important challenges of advancing GIT imaging. The course offers an extremely well balanced demanding and full programme, presented by an international faculty of 8 leading highly acclaimed and widely acknowledged academics. They will address a wide variety of topics important to daily practice as well as the basics of double contrast radiography to molecular imaging advances. Central to the course is the role and application of multi detector computed tomography ( MDCT).
A course of this nature is absolute essential and long overdue for all South African/African radiologists and should not be missed. We welcome other international colleagues and clinical specialists as well as diagnostic radiographers. Everyone will gain enormously from this course. It is designed for the general radiologist as well as those with a special interest in GIT and Abdominal Radiology.
I am proud and very grateful to announce a special academic prize on this occasion.
The RSSA Travel Award will be combined with a special SGR prize. The SGR will support the attendance of a young academic radiologist at the 2011 Abdominal Radiology Course to be held at Carlsbad, California. The SGR will waive the registration fee for the course and will provide housing during the course.
There will be a free paper session and the best paper by an South African junior radiologist or registrar,(RSSA member), will qualify for the combined RSSA Travel Award of R40,000.00 and the SGR prize.
The historic and romantic Spier Estate will allow ample time to meet colleagues and initiate new friendships.
We gratefully acknowledge the support of all our sponsors. Without sponsors events like these cannot be hosted and their commitment to Radiology, training and teaching is appreciated and indispensable. Thank you very much.
I extend a special word of gratitude to the Fellows of the SGR for their lectures and images which will be available on CD.
This is unique and demonstrates the enormous commitment of the SGR-IEC to teaching and in particular to South Africa.
On behalf of the RSSA, and the President of SGR, Prof Jay P Heiken, I invite you to join this very unique meeting.
Yours Sincerely
Prof. Leon Janse van Rensburg
RSSA Congress Chairman |
Prof. Jay P. Heiken
SGR Chairman |
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