Awards
Dedication Rewarded Five of WA’s most distinguished specialists were recognised for their service to the Australian Society of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery (ASOHNS) at the society’s recent scientific meeting in Perth. Dr Cameron Bracks and Dr Stuart Miller were awarded the Society Medal for Distinguished Service while Prof Marcus Atlas, Prof Harvey Coates AO and Dr Alastair Mackendrick received the Society Medal for Distinguished Contribution to the Art and Science of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery. Dr Bracks has been an active member of ASOHNS holding executive positions including Vice-President, President, Immediate Past President and, until recently, Adviser to the Executive Committee. In the early 1980s, Dr Bracks began practising the translab approach and teamed with the late Dr Peter Packer and Dr Ian Wallace to perform a series of about 180 cases. Both he and Dr Packer established a cochlear implant program in 1983. Dr Miller’s contribution to ASOHNS has been on both state and national levels taking on numerous executive roles including WA Chair and Secretary and federal positions of Vice-President, President and Immediate Past President. He was in private practice with the late Dr Peter Packer OAM and joined the ENT Department at Royal Perth Hospital, later becoming department head. Prof Coates was largely responsible for establishing the neonatal hearing program in WA. He has published widely on treating and managing otitis media and
was co-founder of the first Paediatric Otorhinolaryngology (ORL) group in Australia. He has been active for many years in both the clinical and policy aspects of indigenous health and has been widely recognised for his work. Prof Coates is a Paediatric Otolaryngologist and Clinical Professor at UWA School of Paediatrics and Child Health and University Department of OHNS. Dr Mackendrick’s work over more than two decades in the Kimberley was honoured. He began visiting the severely disadvantaged area in 1987, working especially in remote Aboriginal communities where the incidence of ear disease is high. Dr Mackendrick has co-authored several Aborginal ear health manuals. He published a paper in the Australian Journal of Otolaryngology in 1999 on the results of myringoplasties in Aboriginal children over a 10-year period. Prof Marcus Atlas is a surgeon scientist and a world leader in the field of ear and skull base surgery. He holds the Garnett Passe and Rodney Williams Memorial Foundation Chair in Otolaryngology at UWA. He is head of the Ear Sciences Centre (ESC) at UWA and founding director of the Ear Science Institute Australia (ESIA). He has helped create four major groups involved with clinical research, molecular and cellular otolaryngology, computer and information science, as well as epidemiology. Mr Philip Grey and Prof Peter Friedland were awarded Certificates of Appreciation for Services to ASOHNS at the recent meeting. O
Q From top: Dr Alistair Mackendrick, Dr Cameron Bracks, Prof Harvey Coates, Prof Marcus Atlas and Dr Stuart Miller receive their awards from ASOHNS President Dr John Curotta.
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