Executive Director's Message May 2020
Learning about life on the other side
Keeping in touch with colleagues; to learn, network and understand first-hand what’s going on in the world is important to Australian health professionals. This year, I went to just one meeting in Germany before it became clear that travel was ill-advised. Within hours, my forward schedule bore no resemblance to previous years and nor will it for the foreseeable future.
But COVID-19 has not halted information sharing; it has accelerated it on a massive scale. Last week the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) first-ever virtual annual meeting attracted over 61,000 registrations from 140 countries.
