Newsletter. April 2013

Message from the IHPBA President

The last 9 months have seen a lot of work behind the scenes. Our new administrators, Camilla O’Brien and Alison Shamwana from ACS Global, have had a huge impact since they were appointed to replace Crow Segal. They have provided quality support for the workings of the executive, council and our various committees.  The rather mundane process of updating our contracts, bylaws, congress bid manuals and committee infrastructure will be invaluable and pay dividends in the future. The Association has a relatively secure financial base and our membership continues to grow.

However, to be successful in the future, we need to deliver effective communication to the membership. Our website, although functional, has looked dated for some time and with our change of administrative support, there has been opportunity to effect radical change. From next month you will have access to a completely redesigned website with improved access to all the key information about our association activities. In the next few weeks, members will see the product of an extensive amount of work supported by our Publications Committee under Steve Strasberg’s leadership. By May, you will have access to our new educational platform, myHPB. This should allow one click access to the journal and additional educational resource in the coming months. Ideally, this will incorporate quality material that has been identified from our world congresses but we wish members to bring their own resource to stimulate discussion and interaction on the discussion boards. Finally, we will be able to deliver continuing medical education (CME) that members may find of value as evidence of their continuing professional development.

Your Scientific Committee under the Chairmanship of Professor Ronnie Poon is now finalising a full and exciting programme for our next World Congress in Seoul, Korea. SG Lee and his Local Organising Committee promise to deliver an outstanding Congress with live operating and a full postgraduate programme.

I would urge you to ensure that you have renewed your membership and encourage others to join our Association. We appreciate that there is need to demonstrate the benefits of being affiliated to the association if it is to retain and build on its membership. We hope that our efforts in this coming year will be appreciated and that we now have a means whereby the membership can contact us directly to tell us if we have got it right!

James Garden, President

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