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The Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Jeanette Thirlwell Best Paper Award for 2019 has been awarded to Dr Gregg Best and colleagues from the Launceston General Hospital and School of Health Sciences, University of Tasmania for their paper “Assessing the effect of sugar-free chewing gum use on the residual gastric volume of patients fasting for gastroscopy: A randomised controlled trial”, published in the November 2019 issue. 1
The 2019 Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Junior Investigator Award has been awarded to Dr Lachlan Miles of the Austin Hospital and University of Melbourne, Victoria for “Associations between non-anaemic iron deficiency and outcomes following surgery for colorectal cancer: An exploratory study of outcomes relevant to prospective observational studies”, published in the January 2019 issue. 2
Readers are reminded that the origin, history and judging of both of these awards have been discussed in detail for those who might be interested. 3
In addition, both the Journal and the Society are extremely proud to congratulate the author of one of the papers published in the 2019 Anaesthesia and Intensive Care History Supplement. Dr Adam Keys’ paper, 4 entitled “Dr Ian Hamilton McDonald, MBBS, DA, FANZCA: The evolution of paediatric anaesthesia and intensive care at the Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne”, has been awarded the 2019 David Zuck Memorial Prize of the History of Anaesthesia Society (UK) for 2019’s best journal article on the history of anaesthesia. 5 This follows the award of the same prize last year to Cooper et al for their paper in the 2018 History Supplement.6
Congratulations to all our Journal award winners for 2019 papers, and we hope you will all continue to be prolific contributors to the Journal.
Happily, we can also congratulate two members of the Journal’s Editorial Board, Dr Richard Morris AM and Prof Jeffrey Lipman AM, who have both recently been made Members of the Order of Australia. They join long-time Board members Prof Barry Baker AM (2014), Dr Michael Cooper AM (2018), Prof Michael Reade AM (2019) and well-known Cover Note author Dr Christine Ball AM (2019), who have been similarly honoured in recent years.