Club Notices

• President Sue welcomed a wonderful group of visitors to our Auction Night including; DG Bruce, Claire Ramsay our Assistant Governor, our many partners and friends AND of course our auctioneer for the night, Jonathan Usher.
• About $9500.00 was raised at the auction which is a great effort.
• Bob S has circulated IPPres Derek's report for all to have a read before it presentation (and hopefully accepted) at our 28 November meeting.                      

Daryl Tong was promoted to full professorat Otago Universtity at the begining of 2016

Darryl is a specialist in oral and maxillofacial surgery in the Department of Oral Diagnostic and Surgical Sciences, and a Lieutenant Colonel in the New Zealand Army Reserves. He has a wide range of research interests which includes clinical (trauma and military surgery), biomechanical (forensic biology and subconcussion in sports), historical (development of maxillofacial surgery) and development of surgical instruments for commercialisation. His current research includes the quantification of subconcussive forces to the head and how it relates to potential long-term brain injury especially in sports and the martial arts; the development of an anatomical head model (which incorporates a simulant skin, skull and brain) for forensic blunt and ballistic trauma research and war surgery of the head, face and neck relating to operational deployment in areas of conflict, personal protective equipment and lessons learned from military medical history. He is the co-director of the South Island Interdisciplinary Brain Injury Research Group (SIBIRG) and part of the management committee for the Veterans’ Health Research Group (University of Otago Research Theme).