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The inaugural Australia & New Zealand Optical Coherence Tomography (ANZ OCT) Workshop was held at the Grand Ballroom of the Park Hyatt in Melbourne on the 7th of May 2010.
The workshop’s conveyors, Dr. Peter Barlis and Professor Rob Whitbourn welcomed almost 100 specialists, researchers, nursing and technical staff from across Australia and New Zealand to explore the use of this highly detailed imaging camera called optical coherence tomography (OCT).
The guest faculty was an internationally renowned group of clinicians and scientists interested in furthering the use and study of OCT across the region and included Dr. Dougal McClean (Christchurch Hospital), Professor Ian Meredith (Monash Heart), Professor John Ormiston (Auckland City Hospital), Dr. Chris Raffel (Prince Charles Hospital), Professor Darren Walters (Prince Charles Hospital), Professor Stephen Worthley (Royal Adelaide Hospital) and Dr Shaosong Zhang (LightLab Imaging).
Since Dr. Barlis first used OCT in Australia in 2009, the technology has gained in interest amongst cardiologists across the region: "The response by colleagues has been phenomenal," Peter explains. "We now have five centres in Australia using OCT and many others looking at starting up soon."Th
The workshop focused on the application of OCT in the diagnosis and management of patients with heart disease. Professor Whitbourn says: "The feedback from the workshop has been very exciting". "There was a real void in information addressing novel intracoronary imaging technologies across Australia and New Zealand". “The workshop was an ideal forum to bring together clinicians and researchers to develop future studies to better understand coronary artery disease using OCT”.
The workshop, and the resultant ANZ OCT Working Group, ensures the region remains competitive internationally with respect to the study of heart disease. Follow-up ANZ OCT meetings are planned for the Australia & New Zealand Endovascular Therapies (ANZET) meeting in Adelaide to plan future collaborative OCT studies. |
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