| STATE/ TERRITORY |
DATE | ACTIVITY | CONTACT PERSON |
| ACT | 26 October - 1 November | Display in front foyer of The Canberra Hospital by ACT Brain Tumour Network | Denis Strangman 02.62583912. Email: string@hotkey.net.au |
| NSW | 26 October | "A walk around the Pond - walk4life". Centennial Park. Participants to be sponsored for Cure for Life. Mileage to be donated to the IBTA Walk Around the World for Brain Tumours. 8.30 a.m. event check in. This will be the first event held in the world (because of time zones) for the International Brain Tumour Awareness Week. | Nicole Dunn. Cure for Life Foundation. Phone: 02 95505244 Email: info@cureforlife.org See website: http://www.cureforlife.org.au/Walk_for_Life/ |
| NSW | 26 October - 1 November | Nurses in the neuroscience wards in the South Eastern Sydney and Illawarra Area Health Service (SESIAHS) will wear pedometers during the Awareness Week and will add up the kms they walk at work and be sponsored to do so. The funds raised will go to the neuroscience wards at each site in the SESIAHS to buy something for the ward. The mileage covered will be contributed towards the IBTA's Walk Around the World for Brain Tumours. | Joanne
Mcloughlin, Area Neurosurgical Clinical Nurse Co-ordinator, SESIH Ph:
0422418255 or page 038 via St. George Hospital, 9113 1111. email:
Joanne.Mcloughlin@sesiahs.health.nsw.gov.au Alanah Bailey (see next entry for contact details). Karen Woods (see next entry for contact details). |
| NSW | 27 October | Education Day "Brain Tumours - A Mass Of Experiences" for nursing and allied health staff. Prince of Wales Hospital, Edmund Blackett Building, 8 a.m. - 4 p.m. | Karen Woods, Nurse Educator, Neurosciences, Parkes 8 POWH. Phone: 02.93824654. Also: Alanah Bailey (A/g Neurosurgical Coordinator SESIAHS) Phone: 02.93823802 Email: alanah.bailey@sesiahs.health.nsw.gov.au |
| NSW | 28 October | Brain Tumour Support and Education Forum, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. Australian Technology Park, Eveleigh | Cancer Institute NSW 02.83745600. Email: nswog@cancerinstitute.org.au |
| Victoria | 26 October - 1 November | Display stand and table in main foyer of Austin Health. Afternoon tea. | Kathryn McKinley, Brain Tumour Support Officer. 03.94963315 (Monday, Wednesdays). Email: kathryn.mckinley@austin.org.au |
| South Australia | 26 October | Picnic, Plane Tree Drive, Botanic Gardens, Adelaide. 12.30 p.m. - 3.30 p.m. | Linda Aitken, Adult Brain Cancer Support Association SA. Email: adultbraincancersa@gmail.com Enquiries via Cancer Council helpline 13 11 20 |
| Queensland | 1 November | "Living with brain tumours" free seminar, 8.45 a.m. - 1 p.m. Cancer Council Queensland, 553 Gregory Terrace, Fortitude Valley | Sarah Thompson, Cancer Council Queensland. Phone: (07) 3258 2255. Email: carolynblyth@cancerqld.org.au Registration closes 29 October. |
| Queensland | 26 October - 1 November | Briz Brain & Spine will be conducting a GP Educational event in conjunction with the Wesley Hospital focusing on brain tumours, the nurses on the neuro ward at both the Wesley Hospital and St Andrews War Memorial Hospital will also be wearing T-Shirts supporting Briz Brain & Spine Research Foundation. | Dena Loveday, Marketing Manager, Briz Brain & Spine. Mobile: 0448 940 918 Email: marketingmanager@brizbrain.com.au Web: www.brizbrain.com.au |
| Western Australia | 26 October | Picnic for brain tumour patients, family and caregivers. 12.30 p.m. Kings Park, Perth. | Brain Tumour Association of Western Australia. John Carey, Chair. Phone: 0419 932 339 Email: braintumourwa@hotmail.com |