On behalf of the Executive, I would like to invite you to become a member of the Australian Society for Antimicrobials (ASA).
Download the membership form here: Membership.pdf
Download the ASA Privacy Statement: Privacy Statement.pdf
Since becoming an Incorporated Society in March 1999, ASA membership has grown to over one thousand members. Our members come from a diverse background including clinical microbiologists and infectious diseases physicians, respiratory and ICU physicians, medical and non-medical microbiologists and scientists, pharmacists, veterinarians, undergraduate and postgraduate students, and industry representatives from pharmaceutical and diagnostic/research biomedical companies. ASA provides a unique opportunity for all these individuals to interact. Although ASA’s membership is primarily based in Australia and New Zealand, it now extends to countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and North America.
Although from different backgrounds, members have a common interest – the study of antimicrobials. The Society has many aims and I trust that some or all will satisfy each individual member’s needs. These aims are:
- To facilitate the acquisition and dissemination of knowledge in the fields of antimicrobials.
- To encourage communication and cooperation between those actively engaged in the field of antimicrobials and related disciplines.
- To hold meetings and conferences.
- To demonstrate publicly the need for an educated and considered approach to the use of antimicrobials.
- To encourage research in the study of antimicrobials by grants from funds of the Society and by the establishment of scholarships and awards.
We have been able to achieve these aims by:
- Organising an annual 3-day scientific meeting.
- Co-hosting international meetings
- Organising antimicrobial susceptibility testing and pharmacodynamic workshops.
- Actively participating by invitation in and promoting other Societys’ Annual Scientific Meetings.
- Offering travel awards to enable our members to attend the Society’s annual scientific meeting
- Meeting with various national bodies.
- Producing the Breakpoint Newsletter.
- Maintaining the ASA website: www.asainc.net.au.
- Becoming an affiliated member of the Asia Pacific Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infection (APSCMI) and the International Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (ISAC).
- Being a Member of the World Alliance Against Antibiotic Resistance
- Managing the operations of the Australian Group on Antimicrobial Resistance (AGAR)
Benefits of ASA membership:
- Access to powerpoints and posters presented at the Society’s annual scientific meeting
- Discounted delegate registration to attend the Society’s annual scientific meeting
- Eligible to apply for the Keryn Christiansen ASA Research Award
- Eligible to apply for Travel Awards to attend the Society’s annual scientific meeting
- Eligible for the Society’s Poster Travel Award presented for best poster at the Society’s annual scientific meeting
- Eligible for the ASA bioMerieux Travel Award presented at the Society’s annual scientific meeting
- Eligible to nominate for membership of the Australian Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (AUSCAST)
- Eligible to nominate to be a member of the ASA Committee
- Easy access to the Breakpoint Newsletter