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Latest Invited Speakers Announced

The ARSC2016 Organising Committee are delighted to announce our latest high-profile speakers for ARSC2016 as follows:

• Mr Ken Kroeger– Chief Executive Officer, Seeing Machines
• Professor Mark Stevenson – Professor of Urban Transport and Public Health, University of Melbourne
• Dr Sarah Jones – Group Manager for Road Transport Compliance, Toll Group
• Visit the Website to see all Invited Speakers

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Mr Ken Kroeger
Chief Executive Officer, Seeing Machines

Ken Kroeger comes from a deep technology and commercialisation background with experience in a variety of industry sectors. Founder of international simulation & training business, Catalyst Interactive, the business was acquired by Halliburton subsidiary, Kellogg, Brown and Root in 2008. Ken also holds numerous board directorships, and enjoys mentoring a number of start-up entrepreneurs.

Seeing Machines is the leader in operator monitoring and intervention sensing technologies and services. Seeing Machines’ technology is used worldwide across the automotive, mining, transport and aviation industries; as well as many of the leading academic research groups and transportation authorities. The Company has strategic alliances with Caterpillar, Electro Motive Diesel, Boeing, Takata and Samsung Electronics.

For recent Seeing Machines news, read Monday's article: Seeing Machines gets AUD$2.3 Million research grant from Australia.

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Professor Mark Stevenson
Professor of Urban Transport and Public Health, University of Melbourne

Professor Mark Stevenson is an epidemiologist and Professor of Urban Transport and Public Health at the University of Melbourne.  He is a National Health and Medical Research Council (Australia) Fellow, an Honorary Professor at the Peking University Health Science Centre, China, and an advisor on injury to the Director General of the World Health Organisation.

Prof Stevenson has worked on numerous national and international projects that have directly influenced transport policy and has worked with both Federal and State Governments in Australia and internationally. He has led many research groups and is internationally recognized in the field of transport safety and public health. Prof Stevenson is the director of the newly established Urban Design, Transport and Health research hub  comprising a cross-disciplinary research team exploring how the effects of urban form and transportation influence the health of the residents of cities.

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Dr Sarah Jones
Group Manager for Road Transport Compliance, Toll Group

Dr Sarah Jones is the Group Manager for Road Transport Compliance at Toll Group.  Toll is Australia’s largest mover of freight and an industry safety leader. Dr Jones is one of the country’s foremost regulatory analysts in chain of responsibility.  She was formerly the Director of Compliance and Technology at the National Transport Commission.

Sarah’s ground-breaking work on the relationship between the heavy vehicle national law and compliance led to her being named one of Australia’s 100 Women of Influence by Westpac and the Australian Financial Review. She is also an award-winning writer whose essays and opinion pieces have appeared in The Age, The Drum, The Guardian, Journal of the Australasian College of Road Safety, Overland and Kill Your Darlings.

The fifth and final pillar of the United Nations Decade of Action for Road Safety (2010-2020) focuses on Post-Crash Response and the gains that can be made through collaborative work that includes all those working across this sector.   The importance of post-crash response sector, and in particular that of trauma surgeons, was emphasised by the ACRS Patron, Sir Peter Cosgrove, during the ACRS awards ceremony in November 2014.  Sir Peter remarked that the greatest similarity he has seen to road trauma victim injuries has been with tsunami victims - hence the reason we mobilise emergency support from trauma surgeons to assist post-tsunami emergencies. 
 

ACRS Patron
Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Ret'd)
Governor-General of Australia
Speaker at ARSC2016 Welcome Reception

Sir Peter likened road trauma to 'an innocent war on our roads'.  Surgeons are at the front end of this 'war'.  ACRS aims to build wider acknowledgement of this important sector and its ability to contribute to meaningful improvements towards improved road trauma outcomes.  RACS participation and inclusion in ARSC2016 is therefore an extremely important step in this direction.
 

There are currently around 7,000 RACS Fellows across Australasia who hold medical registration and are required to participate in Continuing Professional Development (CPD) through RACS approved activities, so with ARSC2016 now earning CPD accreditation we are very much looking forward to welcoming many of these dedicated medical professionals to the conference.

 

*** Decreased Road Trauma = Improved Public Health ***
 

With road trauma across Australia alone resulting in over 1,000 deaths and 30,000 serious injuries every year, surgeons are called on to bear the brunt of these road trauma outcomes - from receiving patients 24-7-365, to performing surgeries, dealing with distraught family members, and providing ongoing follow-up care to road trauma victims.   Our surgeons are an extremely important sector dealing with the ripple effects from road trauma, and therefore RACS continue to have an important role as an expert representative body seeking and attaining road trauma reductions on behalf of the entire community. 

Participation of RACS Fellows at ARSC2016 significantly strengthens the effectiveness of all ARSC2016 outcomes, and we welcome this announcement.