The Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand (TSANZ) is a health promotion charity that supports a range of professions (medical specialists, scientists, researchers, academics, nurses, physiotherapists, students and others) across various disciplines within the respiratory/sleep medicine field in Australia and New Zealand.

“We lead, support and enable all health workers and researchers to prevent, cure and relieve disability from lung disease.” – The Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand

TSANZ serves its professional members by improving knowledge and understanding of lung disease, with the ultimate goals being to prevent respiratory illness through research and health promotion and to improve health care for people with respiratory illness.

We are not only honoured to be regularly serving TSANZ as their insurance broker, but are thrilled that Omnisure was able to recently support their amazing work by sponsoring the inaugural 2018 TSANZ Best Training Video Award. TSANZ along with Omnisure are pleased to announce the winning video, titled “Spirometry-Key Concepts”, by 3 authors (Rodwell, Schneider and McElrea from the Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital in Brisbane. Here is their video…

1 Spirometry Acceptability – Rodwell, Schneider, McElrea from TSANZ on Vimeo.

The TSANZ Education & Training Sub-committee was overwhelmed with the number of outstanding applications received and as such it was a difficult decision to pick a winner! If you would like to check out some of the other highly-recommended video submissions, you can do so here.

On behalf of TSANZ’s broker Retha and the rest of the Omnisure team, many thanks to the kind staff at TSANZ for giving us the opportunity to give back through this award.