Our Annual Dinner for 2023 is on Friday 27th October at Lakeside Restaurant Penrith and our guest speaker will be Dr Charles New.
The Nepean Medical Association annual dinner is held each year in August or September. The Annual General Meeting is conducted during the annual dinner. The dinner is proudly sponsored by Barratt & Smith Pathology.
Due to the situation with the coronavirus pandemic, the Annual General Meeting for 2020 was held by Zoom meeting on 29th November 2020 and all board positions were filled uncontested.
The 2019 dinner was held on Friday 27th September at Lakeside Restaurant, Sydney International Regatta Centre, Penrith. The speaker for the evening was Dr. Jay Chandra. The presentation was – The Eye on Fiji – “It’s Not All Sun, Sand & Kava”, a very interesting talk on his volunteer work on cataract surgery in India & Fiji.
The 2018 dinner was held on Friday 7th September at Lakeside Restaurant, Sydney International Regatta Centre, Penrith. Our speaker was Dr Stuart Lane who shared his experience of swimming the English Channel – ‘Swimming La Manche’. Stuart demonstrated how determination and the support of a team came together to achieve his goal of swimming the channel. Swimming for over 12 hours Stuart became the 1753rd person to swim the channel successfully, establishing his place in an elite group. He also raised funds for Australia’s first follow-up clinic for people discharged from an intensive care unit.
Dr Michelle Crockett & Assoc Prof Stuart Lane Stuart during his swim English Channel Swim.
Four of our student scholarship winners presented their experiences and learnings from their electives – Sarah Andela – Ecudor, Charmaine Chee – Tanzania, James Gary – South Africa and Leisel Woon – Zambia.
Leisel Woon and Sarah Andela, Annie Gribble and Amiran Winter
The NMA paid a special thank you to Nathaniel Deboever who has made an enormous contribution with his work helping the students. Nate is now in his 4th year of medical school. He has worked on the student suturing workshops and presented at an ENT conference in Perth.
Dr Adrian Sheen and Nathaniel Deboever
We were entertained by Lachlan Mitchell who played the guitar. Lachlan is a year 1 medical student.
Our thanks again to Barratt & Smith Pathology for their generous sponsorship.
Cathey Clark and Dr Michelle Crockett
The 2017 dinner was held on Friday September 8 at Lakeside Restaurant, Sydney International Regatta Centre, Penrith. Out speaker was Professor C J Eastman AM who spoke of his long career helping people all over the world battle iodine deficiency. This included ground breaking work in China and Tibet in the 1980s and 1990s and more recently in Tasmania
Dr Michelle Crockett and Professor Creswell Eastman
University of Sydney students and winners of the NMA 2016 scholarships – Bernice Yue Ong, Emma Cumming and Alexandra Lia Riccci shared their elective experiences. Bernice visited a very poor area in India, Emma a hospital in Fiji and Alexandra went to Mexico.
Emma, Bernice and Alexandra
The 2016 NMA and Barratt & Smith Annual Dinner was held on Friday 2nd September at Lakeside Restaurant at Penrith. Our guest speaker Dr Bill Bestic, Consultant Anaesthetist, entertained all with his talk about his life experiences including his time as a SAS Officer. We all learned that “Failure is not Fatal”.
The 2015 NMA and Barratt & Smith Annual Dinner was held on Saturday 5th September at Rydges Parramatta. Our guest speaker Professor Hans Peter Dietz, Professor in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Sydney Medical School Nepean Hospital provided a thought provoking talk entitled “They Promised us Robots”.
Our speaker Professor Dietz in conversation with Drs James Kidd and Michael Hunter and Steven Milgate.
In 2014 the 25th Annual Dinner was held on Saturday August 30 at the Waterfront Restaurant Circular Quay, Sydney. Our guest speaker was 5 times world champion, summer and winter games Olympian and medical student Jana Pittman. Jana shared her experiences as a sportsperson including her ups and downs, her injuries, her triumphs and her passion to become a doctor.
2014 Annual Dinner
In 2013 our speaker was Associate Professor Drew Fitzpatrick who delivered an entertaining and informative talk entitled ‘Affairs of the Heart’ – a look at how cardiology has evolved over the years.
Speakers at the NMA annual dinner:
2019 Dr Jay Chandra
2018 Assoc Prof Stuart Lane
2017 Professor C J Eastman AM
2016 Dr Bill Bestic
2015 Professor Hans Peter Dietz
2014 Jana Pittman
2013 Assoc Prof Drew Fitzpatrick
2012 Prof Michael Peek
2011 Prof George Condous
2010 Prof Mohamed Khadra
2009 Dr Todd Gotthelf
2008 Dr Ray Seidler
2007 Dr Michael Barratt
2006 Prof John Cartmill
2005 Dr Ryan Snaith
2004 Professor Neville Yeomans (Foundation Dean UWS Medical School)
2003 Dr Ian Fraser
2002 Paul Dillon
2001 Dr James Fitzpatrick (Young Australian of the Year)
2000 Dr Norm Southern
1999 Jackie Kelly MP
1998 Dr Keith Suter
1997 Dr Eric Donaldson
1996 Dr Bernie Hudson
1995 Dr David Weedon (President of the AMA)
1994 Senator Bronwyn Bishop (Shadow Minister of Health)
1993 Dr Bob Woods (Shadow Minister of Health)
1991 Dr Dermer Smith
1992 Ron Phillips (NSW Health Minister)
1990 Wendy Oakes
