Annual Report 2007

Airway Management Special Interest Group

Interim Executive

 The Interim Executive composition is as follows:

Dr Christopher Acott              SA

Dr Paul Baker                         New Zealand

Dr Craig Birch                        New Zealand

Dr Mark Reeves                     TAS

Dr Iain MacLeod                     NSW

Dr Hock Tan                           NT

Dr John Morris                       VIC

Dr Reny Segal (Chair)            VIC

Dr Johannes Huitink               The Netherlands

An election will be held in 2008.

SIG Activities

 The SIG was approved by the three parent bodies in late 2006 and the constitution was approved early in 2007.  The activities for 2007 included:

• Establishment of the SIG,
• Held the inaugural Annual General Meeting,
• Undertook to be responsible for running all the airway workshops at both the ASM and NZSA/ASA meetings in 2008,
• Will collaborate with a college subcommittee on emergency airway equipment later in 2008,
• Airway meeting in Adelaide later in the year -August I believe,
• Created a website which will be developed over the coming year,
• Have some airway workshops run around the country which we can recommend

Reny Segal

Interim Chairman