AWMA Bid for WUWHS 2016 Meeting
A/Prof Michael Woodward, Bid Chair

AWMA is bidding for the WUWHS (World Union of Wound Healing Societies) meeting in 2016. We have selected the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre for this major event. You may know that the initial WUWHS meeting was held in Melbourne in 2000, with subsequent meetings at 4 yearly intervals in Paris, Toronto, and next year in Yokohama.

Our bid for the 2016 meeting is gathering even greater traction. Recent developments include:

• Letters of support have been received from several associations including the New Zealand Wound Care Society (our joint bid partner) and the Medical Technology Association of Australia- and many more are expected. These are posted on the bid web site
• A “pull out” outlining our bid has been developed, and will be distributed to the 370 delegates at the inaugural Pan Pacific Venous and Pressure Ulcer Forum in Canberra this weekend
• The bid web site has been developed- I imagine most of you are reading this through the web site. If not, go to www.awma.com.au/wuwhs2016-australiabid
  Please take time looking at this- it outlines why Australia would be a perfect place for the 2016 meeting.
• We have booked a stand at the WCET meeting in Adelaide next April, and will have updated bid material there for the several thousand delegates, all of whom have a major interest in wound management.
• The Wound Management Innovation Cooperative Research Centre has just had a 2 day members meeting outlining the activities and achievements of the 3 streams, and those who attended were inspired by just how much has so far been achieved. This initiative , the largest such Centre in the world (with over $100 million of funding) is a major strength of wound research in Australia, and a reason why the WUWHS should support the 2016 meeting being held here.
• The first Asia Pacific issue of the AWMA journal, Wound Practice and Research, will be launched here in Canberra this weekend, and highlights our commitment to fostering wound management and the national organizations in our region- a major plank of our AWMA WUWHS bid.

So, as you see, we are moving apace- keep in touch with the web site and your local wound management association for future updates.

See you in 2016!

A/Prof Michael Woodward, Bid Chair