Practitioners Association
in Sexual Health/HIV:
Network, Education and Training

WHAT IS PASHNET?

PASHNET (Practitioners Association of Sexual Health & HIV: Network, Education & Training) is a not-for-profit educational charity, run by peer-volunteer doctors in the field. Comprising CMOs, registrars and GPs with an interest in or focus on sexual health, we meet at least four times a year and provide education sessions on subjects pertinent to sexual health and HIV medicine. Our goal is to ensure that those practitioners without access to employer-provided funding (e.g. TESL) or hospital-provided training are kept up to date with most recent evidence and optimal practice.

HOW DOES PASHNET OPERATE?

PASHNET has secured pharmaceutical backing to assist with training and education initiatives for its members. This grant will be used towards educational speakers, quality professional development courses for members, funding for PASHNET research, collaboration between members, and scholarships to attend conferences, education sessions and meetings. While funding for PASHNET events comes from pharmaceutical grants, education sessions are chosen independently and without influence from the backing organisation.

GETTING INVOLVED IN PASHNET

Email us at pashnet.org.au@gmail.com to be added to our mailing list. Notifications of educational events, courses and scholarships will be sent out via email as early as is feasible. Please RSVP if you intend to attend one of our events. Feel free to get in touch with any suggestions or feedback, or if you would like to become more involved with the PASHNET organisational committee.

ORGANISING TRAINING THROUGH PASHNET

Please contact the PASHNET committee members if you would like to collaborate or arrange any education or training for our members. Decisions regarding the direction and sessions provided by PASHNET are decided by committee on a case-by-case basis.

SCHOLARSHIPS

In order to facilitate access to educational events for those without access to funding, PASHNET periodically offers scholarships for members to conferences and events relevant to Sexual Health and HIV medicine. Further information can be found on our scholarships page.

UPCOMING EVENTS

PASHNET is excited to announce there will be new educational events and scholarships throughout 2025. Watch this space.

PAST EVENTS

Email us at pashnet.org.au@gmail.com if you would like to get access to past recordings. 

 

 

 

 

Topic

Speaker                         

    Year     

Conference highlights - ASHM joint Australasian HIV&AIDS and the 25th IUSTI world congress

 

Dr Hillary McArthur, Dr Ernest Tee, Dr Lara Whitbourne

2024

Conference Highlights - International AIDS Conference

Dr Yen-Li Lim

2024

Antibiotic allergy delabelling as a pathway to better sexy health

Dr Jason Trubiano

2024

When big is no longer beautiful’: Anabolic steroids and the heart

Dr Eoin O'Dwyer

2024

Sexual Assault Medicine: An Update

Dr Mary Stewart

2023

Conference feedback - highlights from IAS and ASHM Sexual and Reproductive health

Dr Ernest Tee, Dr Madhara Weerasinghe

2023

Doxy-PEP: The end of STIs?

Dr Vincent Cornelisse

2023

Male sexual dysfunction

Dr Michael Lowy

2023

Role of gut microbiota in western world disease

Dr Alison Thorburn

2022

Conference Highlights - International AIDS Conference and Joint Australasian HIV&AIDS + Sexual Health Conference 2022

Dr Wee-Sian Woon, Dr Emma Mason

2022

Women living with HIV & pregnancy

Dr Virginia Furner

2022

Transgender health - a refresher 

Dr Rick Franklin

2022

Harm reduction, homelessness and Hepatitis C

Dr Phil Read

2021

COVID & HIV : a tale of two viruses 

Dr Angie Pinto

2021

PREP UPDATE 2021 Current and emerging strategies

Dr Sally Woodward

2021

HIV and Cardiology Update

Dr Eoin O'Dwyer  

2020

All that Vajazzle: Vulval dermatology 101

Dr Shreya Andric

2020

From 'G' to 'I'(ce) a primer on clinical management of GHB and methamphetamine use in Australia

Dr Shalini Arunogiri

2020

Termination of Pregnancy: What we need to know

Dr Emma Boulton

2019

Transgender Health in Primary Care

Dr Melissa Kelly

2019

Careers and Conferences - and IUSTI Vancouver conference feedback

Dr Lucy Cho

2019

Responding to sexual violence and domestic violence in primary care

Dr Eleanor Freedman, Tara Hunter

2019

Current issues in Women with HIV: Contraception, HRT and Cervical Screening

Dr Deborah Bateson

2018

Resistance is futile!

Prof David Lewis, Dr Deborah Couldwell, A/Prof Roger Garsia

2018

HPV/Anal Cancer/SPANC

Dr Carmella Law

2018

EACS Feedback

Dr Tim Barnes 

2017

IAS Feedback 

Prof Andrew Carr, Prof Don Smith

2017

Chemsex/Flux study results 

Prof Garrett Prestage, Dr Mohamed Ahmed Hammoud, Mark O'Reilly

2017

Gonorrhoea

Prof Basil Donovan, Prof Don Smith

2017