2026 Austin Health and Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre Perioperative Medicine Symposium

Welcome

Registrations are now open for the 2026 Austin Health and Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre Perioperative Medicine Symposium, taking place in Melbourne from 20–22 March 2026. This three-day event includes a one-day scientific meeting and two days of workshops, all held at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre. Designed to be easily accessible, this meeting offers a valuable opportunity to connect with perioperative clinicians including anaesthetists, surgeons, nurses, and allied health professionals from across Australia and New Zealand. Please click here to view the programs.

We are pleased to announce our invited international speaker is Associate Professor Gunisha Kaur. Associate Professor is an associate professor of anesthesiology, the founding director of the Human Rights Impact Lab and co-medical director of the Weill Cornell Center for Human Rights. Other local speakers include: 

• Dr Rahul Costa-Pinta
• Dr Jai Darvall
• Dr Louise Ellard
• Dr Sophia Grobler
• Dr Debra Leung
• Associate Professor Lachlan Miles
• Professor Phillip Peyton
• Dr Victor Yi
• Professor Bernhard Riedel 
• Dr Ian Richardson
• Professor Laurence Weinberg

The scientific program being held on Saturday 21 March at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne is broad ranging and will cover: 

• Preop Optimisation
• Perioperative care
• Postoperative 
• Panel session "From Propofol to Philosophy: No pressure…ask us what you dare!"

In addition to the symposium on Saturday 21 March, there will be several workshops held on Friday 20 March and Sunday 22 March at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne. These workshops will cover key clinical skills and scenarios in perioperative medicine, including prehabilitation and shared decision-making (SDM), ALS2 (refresher), cardiac arrest management, high frequency jet ventilation masterclass, difficult airway management, and gastric ultrasound. Please note that the airway workshop is managed and registered directly through the Safe Airway Society. You can't register for the difficult airway workshop through ANZCA.

We look forward to welcoming you to Melbourne for a meeting with an outstanding scientific and workshop program from leading local and international medical practitioners. 

Sincerely, 

Convenors: Professor Bernhard Riedel and Professor Laurence Weinberg
2026 Austin Health and Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre Perioperative Medicine Symposium, Melbourne 

Registration

Registrations are now open. Click here to register.

Your registration will include all refreshment breaks and welcome drinks at the symposium on Saturday 21 March. We encourage nurses and allied health to attend the meeting. Workshops are additional. Please view the workshop program for the fees.

All registration fees are quoted in Australian dollars and are inclusive of GST.

Saturday - Consultant - $A800
Saturday - Trainees registration/allied health/nurses - $A450

Program

Click here to view the symposium program on Saturday 21 March program.

Click here to view the workshop program and prices to be held on Friday 20 March and Sunday 22 March.

Workshops

Click here to view the workshop program.  The workshops available include:

• ALS2 (Refresher)
• Cardiac arrest and anaphylaxis  
• Prehabilitation (Toolkit) & SDM (PBLD)
• Haemodynamics 
• High Frequency Jet Ventilation masterclass
• Safer Airway Society workshop - Please note this workshop is managed and registered directly through the Safe Airway Society. You can't register for the airway workshop through ANZCA.
• Gastric ultrasound

CPD

Participants in the ANZCA and FPM CPD Program will automatically have their attendance auto-populated to their CPD portfolio within 14 days of the conclusion of the meeting.

ANZCA and FPM CPD Program
This event is claimable by ANZCA and FPM CPD participants within the knowledge and skills category.

Category 2: Knowledge and skills
Lectures/plenary sessions under ‘Learning sessions’.
Workshops and small group discussions under ‘Short format learning’ activity.

Category 3: Emergency responses
Where the workshop states that it satisfies an Emergency response CPD requirement, it has been recognised as suitable to be claimed as an emergency response activity, such as the ‘ALS2 (Refresher)’ and ‘Cardiac arrest and anaphylaxis’ workshops.

If you're not a member of our CPD program
If you’re not participating in the ANZCA and FPM CPD program, please check with your respective college/provider regarding your CPD classifications. Post-event, you may request an electronic certificate of attendance for CPD evidence from the event organiser.

Sponsorship opportunities

If you wish to be an exhibitor at the 2026 Austin Health and Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre symposium, please view the HCI prospectus and complete the application form.

To see the sponsorship opportunities for all our events, please click here.

Contact us

For further information, please contact ANZCA events.