Australian and New Zealand College of Perfusionists 24th Annual Scientific Meeting Friday 9th & Saturday 10th November 2007 MCG, Melbourne, Australia.

Meeting Forms Boxing Day Test 1956 Olympic Games Australian Open Spring Racing Carnival	Melbourne lays claim to being the sports capital of Australia. It is the home of the Australian Formula One Grand Prix and the Australian Tennis Open. It is the home of the Mighty Melbourne Victory Football Team. Melbourne was the host city for the recent Swimming World Championships The venue for this years meeting, the Melbourne Cricket Ground, or MCG, opened in 1854 It is and has been the venue of some of the largest sporting events to occur in Australia. Hosted the  first Australian Rules football game in 1858. Site of the first cricket test played between Australia and England in 1877. Hosted the first One Day Cricket International in Australia 1970 Hosted the Olympic games in 1956 and Hosted the Commonwealth games in 2006. Home of the AFL Grand Final Hosted Bledisloe Cup MatchesThis venue is an appropriate site for this, the historic first meeting of the newly renamed ANZCP. This year also marks the 50th anniversary of the first open heart procedure on Cardiopulmonary Bypass to take place in AustraliaThe meeting is timed to occur at one of the busiest times in Melbourne's sporting and social calendar, Melbourne Cup week. The Melbourne Cup is the premiere horse race in the Southern Hemisphere. It is run on the first Tuesday in November, therefore Tuesday 6th is "Cup day" for 2007. It is a day when Melbourne and indeed all of Australia stop to watch the running of “the Cup”. Thursday 8th of November is "Oaks day" or ladies day at the races. Visitors to Melbourne should take the opportunity to participate in the Melbourne's world famous Spring Racing carnival.  Australia's first Heart Lung Machine	AFL Football Australian Formula 1 Grand Prix Soccer Queen's Baton Relay 2006 Commonwealth Games

As always the scientific program will discuss topics related to extracorporeal support and cardiovascular surgery.

This years Overseas Keynote speakers are;

Dr.Julie A. Wegner CCP, PhD
Adjunct Professor
Cardiovascular Perfusion Program
Midwestern University
Glendale, Arizona

Dr.Wegner has extensive experience in adult and paediatric perfusion, Heart transplantation and VADs. She also has an interest in coagulation and the inflammatory response of patients to cardiopulmonary bypass.

and

Mr.Bruce E Searles CCP,
Associate Professor of CHP-Cardiovascular Perfusion
Upstate Medical University,
State University of New York,
Syracuse, NY

Bruce's interests are varied and include Cardiopulmonary Bypass (CPB) and circulatory support for adults, pediatric and infant cardiac surgery. Extracorporeal Life Support (ECLS), Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) and Ventricular Assist Devices (VAD)
His research intersts are in Myocardial perfusion territories Blood conservation; hemofiltration, fibrin glue/platelet gel and point-of-care hemostasis monitoring, Professional demographics and Perfusion education

Local Keynote speakers;

The Social events this year will continue the sporting flavour of the meeting and be hosted at the Melbourne Cricket Ground and at the Melbourne Bowling Club.

So as we say in Melbourne,

“See you at the G”