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New beginnings
HPB 2000
Volume 2, Number I 65-67
IHPBA Newsletter New beginnings JToouli Secretary General IHPBA,Adelaide, Australia The new century heralds opportunity for new beginnings even in established associations such as the IHPBA.
Furthermore, the poster sessions will be highlighted and adequate time provided for presentation of these to the par-
Indeed, our Association is going through a process of a number of new beginnings which the Council believe will
ticipants of the meeting. These initiatives we believe will encourage the submission and presentation of original
strengthen and sustain it during this new century.
work. It is pleasing to note that original scientific work has been submitted, not only by young investigators, but also by senior members of the Association who have accepted that
Fourth World Congress of the IHPBA Our first meeting of the new century will be held in the youngest of the countries which make up this international association. There is a feeling in the world community that the 21st century will be the century of the Asian Pacific region and it is therefore only fitting that the first meeting of our Association for this new century be held at the cross-roads of the Asian Pacific region, the beautiful city of Brisbane in Australia. We hope that the enthusiasm and youthful vigour of Brisbane and Australia will infect
this strategy will ultimately be to the benefit of the IHPBA world congresses. The second strategy was to maintain the rule that was set in Bologna but also further extend it to say that all members of the IHPBA who are participating in symposia will not have their travel costs and accommodation costs covered by the Association or the local organising committee. Their only reward will be free registration to the
our Association and sustain us for years to come.
meeting. This is an important principle which does not positively or negatively discriminate against IHPBA mem-
New structure for the world congresses
bers. We are very pleased to report that over ninety percent of the members who have been invited to participate in the
The IHPBA Council has held the view that all members of the IHPBA are specialists in the HPB area and therefore it
4th World Congress under the above arrangement h ave indeed accepted this principle. This is a very important
becomes difficult for an organiser of a world congress to differentiate between its various members when aiming to
principle to sustain as it removes an enormous burden from the local organisers when they come to plan a world congress. It means that the only travel support that needs to be
construct a viable program for the Association. Furthermore, there is the desire to promote the scientific excellence of original research and presentation to the world congress. Our desire has been to make the world
provided is for non members of the IHPBA who are seen, for one reason
congress of the IHPBA the premier meeting for
This will generally be only one or two people and hence a minor firlanciat impediment on the organisers. We believe
presentation of the clinical and laboratory science in HPB conditions.
that, as the Association increases in its membership and in its stature in the international community, there will be no
Consequently, for the Fourth World Congress in Brisbane, the Scientific Program Committee has worked to two major principles to achieve the above missions. Firstly, there will be plenary sessions each day for the presentation
need to fund any of the invited participants as they will either be members of the IHPBA or wishing and honoured
of original clinical and laboratory scientific work which has been selected for the plenary sessions on merit of the abstracts submitted. In addition, the paper sessions which will run concurrently, apart from the plenary paper presentations, will not clash with seminars of educational value.
to be invited to our world congress.
Profit sharing from the world congress This is an important issue for the IHPBA and one that the Council believes very firmly in establishing for all future meetings. Currently the commitment from the Brisbane meeting is that for every registrant, the IHPBA will receive
© 2000 Isis Medical Media Ltd.
65
J Toouli $USIO. This is only a small amount but, given that there have been no precedents for this in the past, it was felt that this would at least match the very generous donation which
gresses such as the World Congress of Gastroenterology and the International Surgical Week. Our president, Professor Huug Obertop, is currently the chairman of the
was given to the Association from its Bologna meeting.
International Council of Surgical Gastroenterology.
Unfortunately such generosity did not follow the Madrid meeting from which the Association received no income.
efforts has resulted in a significant input from our Association into the programming of the World Congress of Gastroenterology for the year 2002 and, in addition, we have had significant input into the program for the International Surgical Week. The Council of the IHPBA
It must be obvious to all members that the Association needs money to run its various activities and the world congress is the major revenue raising event for the Association. It is important that this principle be enshrined and we believe that the amount received from each registrant
His
believes this to be a very important activity which will sustain the profile of our Association but, in addition, will ultimately provide income to the Association from these very high profile meetings.
should increase as time progresses.
Corporate sponsorship of the IHPBA Members of Council have engaged in discussions with a
Future developments
number of corporate companies with the aim of negotiating long term sponsorship for the Association. I am pleased to
There are a number of issues that are being discussed by Council and the Executive of the IHPBA which are flagged here for further discussion and hopefully resolution over
say that we have been successful with one large company and the announcement for this will be made at the 4th World Congress. Such sponsorship is important in securing the financial base of the Association and consequently increasing the quality of services to its members. Furthermore, this will of course limit the cost of the
the next year or so. As the continental chapters of the Association become formed and have successful meetings in the interim years between the world congresses, it is important that the links
subscriptions.
with the international association be maintained. It is also very important that we do not burden our members with
HPB, the official journal
double subscriptions and that we maximise our resources, such as the journal, for communicating not only at the
of the
IHPBA
The journal is pivotal in the activities of the IHPBA as it provides a ready medium for communication between members and members and Council and the various committees of the IHPBA. As with most publishing ventures, we have had our teething problems but hopefully these h ave been overcome. The journal is now being distributed to all of the members of the IHPBA free of charge as the costs of the journal and its distribution have been met from the subscriptions. The Council are very grateful to the editors and the editorial board for their hard work but, as we now head into the new century, it is time to re-evaluate the structure of the editorial and editorial board and our chief editor, Professor Robin Williamson, will be undertaking this task in the next few months.
International Council Gastroenterology
of Surgical
This important initiative has brought together the international gastroenterological groups under the one umbrella and has allowed a significant surgical input into major con-
66
international level but also within the large continental chapters. One view that is being discussed is the possibility of the formation of a federation of the continental chapters under the umbrella of the IHPBA so that all of these activities can be coordinated for the benefit of all concerned. I am attracted to the idea of a federation which might have a single subscription of membership and might identify members as being members of a continental chapter plus the IHPBA. We do not have the administrative structure to support such a complex arrangement but I hope that, with the generation of income from our various acti\'ities, it might be possible within the next twelve months. Such a change cannot occur until and unless the Constitution of the Association be changed and of course constitutional changes cannot occur until the bi-annual general assembly. Consequently the time line for any such change would need to be worked over in the next two years and be put to a vote at the Fifth World Congress of the IHPBA. Travel to the world congresses from the less developed countries is difficult and the Association recognises thE
IHPBA Newsletter
impediment. It would be impon ant to develop fo rms of
Notices
assistance that can be ptovided to our colleagues from economies that cannot sustain travel to the world congress.
Fourth World Congress of the IHPBA 28 May - 1 June 2000 Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
The Frank Glenn scholarship is the premier award provided by the Association to facilitate international exchange of HPB specialists in order to obtain experience and contribute to units that are not in their own country. This year we will be making one award, as has been previously done. However, it would be important to the Association and it aims to increase the number of the scholarships as well as their monetary value. Specific educational activities of the Association provided to less affluent countries is an important aim of the IHPBA. Again, this is dependent on finances and we hope that the various activities of the Association will provide the resources that in due course the Association will be able to provide educational activities in countries where the resources do not allow for major events such as the world congress to occur.
Contact: Congress Secretariat Fourth World Congress of IHPBA POBox 1820 MILTON Queensland 4064 Australia Telephone: +61 7 3369 0477 Facsimile: +61 733691512 Email: [email protected]
General Assembly of IHPBA The next general assembly of the IHPBA shall be h eld on Wedneday, 31 May 2000, at the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre, Brisbane, Queensland , Australia. Members of the Association are invited to attend the general assembly. The agenda for the general assembly will be tabled and will be incorporated in the newsletter of the next edition of HPB 2.2. This edition will also include the abstracts of the Fourth World Congress.
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Volume 2, Number I 65-67
IHPBA Newsletter New beginnings JToouli Secretary General IHPBA,Adelaide, Australia The new century heralds opportunity for new beginnings even in established associations such as the IHPBA.
Furthermore, the poster sessions will be highlighted and adequate time provided for presentation of these to the par-
Indeed, our Association is going through a process of a number of new beginnings which the Council believe will
ticipants of the meeting. These initiatives we believe will encourage the submission and presentation of original
strengthen and sustain it during this new century.
work. It is pleasing to note that original scientific work has been submitted, not only by young investigators, but also by senior members of the Association who have accepted that
Fourth World Congress of the IHPBA Our first meeting of the new century will be held in the youngest of the countries which make up this international association. There is a feeling in the world community that the 21st century will be the century of the Asian Pacific region and it is therefore only fitting that the first meeting of our Association for this new century be held at the cross-roads of the Asian Pacific region, the beautiful city of Brisbane in Australia. We hope that the enthusiasm and youthful vigour of Brisbane and Australia will infect
this strategy will ultimately be to the benefit of the IHPBA world congresses. The second strategy was to maintain the rule that was set in Bologna but also further extend it to say that all members of the IHPBA who are participating in symposia will not have their travel costs and accommodation costs covered by the Association or the local organising committee. Their only reward will be free registration to the
our Association and sustain us for years to come.
meeting. This is an important principle which does not positively or negatively discriminate against IHPBA mem-
New structure for the world congresses
bers. We are very pleased to report that over ninety percent of the members who have been invited to participate in the
The IHPBA Council has held the view that all members of the IHPBA are specialists in the HPB area and therefore it
4th World Congress under the above arrangement h ave indeed accepted this principle. This is a very important
becomes difficult for an organiser of a world congress to differentiate between its various members when aiming to
principle to sustain as it removes an enormous burden from the local organisers when they come to plan a world congress. It means that the only travel support that needs to be
construct a viable program for the Association. Furthermore, there is the desire to promote the scientific excellence of original research and presentation to the world congress. Our desire has been to make the world
provided is for non members of the IHPBA who are seen, for one reason
congress of the IHPBA the premier meeting for
This will generally be only one or two people and hence a minor firlanciat impediment on the organisers. We believe
presentation of the clinical and laboratory science in HPB conditions.
that, as the Association increases in its membership and in its stature in the international community, there will be no
Consequently, for the Fourth World Congress in Brisbane, the Scientific Program Committee has worked to two major principles to achieve the above missions. Firstly, there will be plenary sessions each day for the presentation
need to fund any of the invited participants as they will either be members of the IHPBA or wishing and honoured
of original clinical and laboratory scientific work which has been selected for the plenary sessions on merit of the abstracts submitted. In addition, the paper sessions which will run concurrently, apart from the plenary paper presentations, will not clash with seminars of educational value.
to be invited to our world congress.
Profit sharing from the world congress This is an important issue for the IHPBA and one that the Council believes very firmly in establishing for all future meetings. Currently the commitment from the Brisbane meeting is that for every registrant, the IHPBA will receive
© 2000 Isis Medical Media Ltd.
65
J Toouli $USIO. This is only a small amount but, given that there have been no precedents for this in the past, it was felt that this would at least match the very generous donation which
gresses such as the World Congress of Gastroenterology and the International Surgical Week. Our president, Professor Huug Obertop, is currently the chairman of the
was given to the Association from its Bologna meeting.
International Council of Surgical Gastroenterology.
Unfortunately such generosity did not follow the Madrid meeting from which the Association received no income.
efforts has resulted in a significant input from our Association into the programming of the World Congress of Gastroenterology for the year 2002 and, in addition, we have had significant input into the program for the International Surgical Week. The Council of the IHPBA
It must be obvious to all members that the Association needs money to run its various activities and the world congress is the major revenue raising event for the Association. It is important that this principle be enshrined and we believe that the amount received from each registrant
His
believes this to be a very important activity which will sustain the profile of our Association but, in addition, will ultimately provide income to the Association from these very high profile meetings.
should increase as time progresses.
Corporate sponsorship of the IHPBA Members of Council have engaged in discussions with a
Future developments
number of corporate companies with the aim of negotiating long term sponsorship for the Association. I am pleased to
There are a number of issues that are being discussed by Council and the Executive of the IHPBA which are flagged here for further discussion and hopefully resolution over
say that we have been successful with one large company and the announcement for this will be made at the 4th World Congress. Such sponsorship is important in securing the financial base of the Association and consequently increasing the quality of services to its members. Furthermore, this will of course limit the cost of the
the next year or so. As the continental chapters of the Association become formed and have successful meetings in the interim years between the world congresses, it is important that the links
subscriptions.
with the international association be maintained. It is also very important that we do not burden our members with
HPB, the official journal
double subscriptions and that we maximise our resources, such as the journal, for communicating not only at the
of the
IHPBA
The journal is pivotal in the activities of the IHPBA as it provides a ready medium for communication between members and members and Council and the various committees of the IHPBA. As with most publishing ventures, we have had our teething problems but hopefully these h ave been overcome. The journal is now being distributed to all of the members of the IHPBA free of charge as the costs of the journal and its distribution have been met from the subscriptions. The Council are very grateful to the editors and the editorial board for their hard work but, as we now head into the new century, it is time to re-evaluate the structure of the editorial and editorial board and our chief editor, Professor Robin Williamson, will be undertaking this task in the next few months.
International Council Gastroenterology
of Surgical
This important initiative has brought together the international gastroenterological groups under the one umbrella and has allowed a significant surgical input into major con-
66
international level but also within the large continental chapters. One view that is being discussed is the possibility of the formation of a federation of the continental chapters under the umbrella of the IHPBA so that all of these activities can be coordinated for the benefit of all concerned. I am attracted to the idea of a federation which might have a single subscription of membership and might identify members as being members of a continental chapter plus the IHPBA. We do not have the administrative structure to support such a complex arrangement but I hope that, with the generation of income from our various acti\'ities, it might be possible within the next twelve months. Such a change cannot occur until and unless the Constitution of the Association be changed and of course constitutional changes cannot occur until the bi-annual general assembly. Consequently the time line for any such change would need to be worked over in the next two years and be put to a vote at the Fifth World Congress of the IHPBA. Travel to the world congresses from the less developed countries is difficult and the Association recognises thE
IHPBA Newsletter
impediment. It would be impon ant to develop fo rms of
Notices
assistance that can be ptovided to our colleagues from economies that cannot sustain travel to the world congress.
Fourth World Congress of the IHPBA 28 May - 1 June 2000 Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
The Frank Glenn scholarship is the premier award provided by the Association to facilitate international exchange of HPB specialists in order to obtain experience and contribute to units that are not in their own country. This year we will be making one award, as has been previously done. However, it would be important to the Association and it aims to increase the number of the scholarships as well as their monetary value. Specific educational activities of the Association provided to less affluent countries is an important aim of the IHPBA. Again, this is dependent on finances and we hope that the various activities of the Association will provide the resources that in due course the Association will be able to provide educational activities in countries where the resources do not allow for major events such as the world congress to occur.
Contact: Congress Secretariat Fourth World Congress of IHPBA POBox 1820 MILTON Queensland 4064 Australia Telephone: +61 7 3369 0477 Facsimile: +61 733691512 Email: [email protected]
General Assembly of IHPBA The next general assembly of the IHPBA shall be h eld on Wedneday, 31 May 2000, at the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre, Brisbane, Queensland , Australia. Members of the Association are invited to attend the general assembly. The agenda for the general assembly will be tabled and will be incorporated in the newsletter of the next edition of HPB 2.2. This edition will also include the abstracts of the Fourth World Congress.
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