Planned system outage: A number of IT systems will be temporarily unavailable on 7 March 2026 from 10am–6pm AEDT due to scheduled maintenance. 

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Planned library system outage: Access to library e-resources - including all e-books and e-journals - will be impacted by a system upgrade on Wednesday, 18 February 2026 from 8AM - 12PM AEDT / 10AM - 2PM NZDT.

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The college will be closed from 2pm (AEDT) on Wednesday 24 December 2025 until Monday 5 January 2026. We wish you a happy and safe festive period.

We're performing an essential upgrade on 24 May 6-9 AM AEST. During this time, email notifications will be impacted, including those required for statements, system alerts, and account recovery. 

FPM Scientific Meetings Committee

Reporting to FPM's Professional Affairs Executive Committee, the Scientific Meetings Committee is responsible for the detailed planning and delivery of continuing medical education events. Staff in our Melbourne office provide administrative support to the committee.

Committee members

We gratefully acknowledge the members of this committee for volunteering their time and expertise.

TitleName
Chair,
FPM ASM Officer and Victorian regional committee representative and Queensland regional committee CME officer
Dr Zoe Vella
Deputy Chair
Vacant
FPM trainee representative
Dr Victoria Arthur
MemberDr Hannah Bennett

2027 FPM ASM and Symposium scientific co-convenor

Dr Alette Roux
2026 FPM Spring Meeting convenorDr Harry Sivakumar
South Australia regional committee CME officer and Research Committee representative Prof Andrew Somogyi

2027 FPM ASM and Symposium scientific co-convenor

Dr Hima Venugopal
Dean (ex officio)
Prof Michael Veltman
New South Wales regional committee CME officer and WA regional committee CME officer - TBC
Dr Andrew Weiss
Committee support (non - member) Penny McMorran