2024 Bill Wheeler Symposium
Join us for the Annual 2024 Bill Wheeler Community Symposium & Award, sponsored by Kiama Rotary Club.
Date and time
Location
Innovation Campus, AIIM Building
Squires Way North Wollongong, NSW 2500 AustraliaAbout this event
- 1 hour 30 minutes
The Bill Wheeler Community Symposium and Award is on again in 2024
Bill Wheeler was a very active member of the Illawarra community who took a keen interest in new bionics research at the University of Wollongong (UOW). After meeting the famous Professor Graeme Clark, inventor of the Cochlear Implant, Bill instigated and organised a fundraiser for bionics research.
Sadly Bill died of cancer in November 2007 but he is remembered always for his love of family and friends, his great smile and his compassion for others.
Bill's support for bionics research lives on with the Bill Wheeler Award, established in 2009. A prize of $2,000 is awarded to the student who best communicates the social impact of their research and how the prize will benefit their work.
The award is presented each year at The Bill Wheeler Symposium. This year's event will be held in person once again at our AIIM headquarters at UOW's Innovation Campus. Members of the community are welcome to join us to hear about the latest in bionics research.
Feature presentation by A/Prof Laurencia Villalba
A/Prof. Laurencia Villalba is the recent past Head of the Vascular Surgery Department for the ISLHD, the Founder of the Vascular Care Centre and the Founder and Clinical Lead of the Venous Thromboembolism service for the District.
Laurencia is a vascular surgeon with Fellowships from Australia and Canada.
She has been teaching at the UOW for more than a decade and became an Associate Professor in 2017. In 2018 she was chosen as the first female member of the Court of Examiners for Vascular Surgery for the Royal Australasian College of surgeons.
She has received awards for her research on PE management and treatment of deep venous disease including the Order of Phlebology Medal for excellence in the management of May-Thurner Syndrome, DVT and PE and the Graham Coupland Medal for outstanding contributions to the future of surgery.
Laurencia is the proud mother of three young children and believes that with passion and dedication women CAN have it all. to support the Bill Wheeler Award may be made here.
The Symposium is sponsored by Kiama Rotary Club.
The event will be held during #ScienceWeek.