RANZCR NZ ASM 2025

Thank you from our convenors...

Tena koutou katoa

On behalf of the Organising Committee, The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists (RANZCR), and the NZ Radiology Education Trust (NZRET), we thank you for your involvement in this year's RANZCR NZ ASM.

We sincerely appreciate the contributions of our international and local speakers, session chairs, and industry partners, who generously shared their expertise and support. Your involvement helped shape a valuable and engaging 2025 NZ ASM, and we deeply value everything you brought to the event.

Several proffered paper prizes and competitions were held during the conference. Congratulations to the following winners:

  • There were two winners of the NZ Radiology Education Trust Proffered Paper Prize:
    • Dr Jane Peart, Auckland Radiology Group - Are pelvic floor ultrasound findings associated with recurrent urinary tract infections in women with suburethral slings?
    • Dr Dorothy Lombe, Palmerston North Hospital - Feasibility of CBCT-LINAC-based simulation for whole brain radiotherapy.
  • The winner of the NZ Radiology Education Trust Poster Prize is Dr Ciléin Kearns, Te Whatu Ora - Applying comics to diagnostic and interventional radiology. Lessons from a doctorate in clinical research.
  • The winner of the Obex Medical Registrar Research Award is Dr Ciléin Kearns, Te Whatu Ora - Can comics support children and their parents to give informed assent and consent? An embedded randomized controlled trial.
  • The winner of the Faculty of Radiation Oncology Training Network New Zealand Prize is Dr Dushiyanthi Rasanathan, Auckland City Hospital - Early radiotherapy skin toxicity and treatment beams energies used within the FAST-Forward protocol: a baseline audit at Palmerston North Hospital, New Zealand.
The upcoming RANZCR ASM is on 23-25 October 2025 in Melbourne. Following that in 2026 the ASM will be in Christchurch 22-24 October.

Ngā mihi

Dr Leah Schafer and Dr Slavka Kudrnova (Clinical Radiology Convenors)
Dr Han Kim (Radiation Oncology Convenor)
Dr Hannah Scowcroft (Registrar Teaching Program)



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