Significant events
Inaugural meeting of the COSA Board (July)
COSA membership votes at the AGM to change the organisations governance structure and become a Company Limited by Guarantee
COSA receives funding from Cancer Australia to develop a consumer-training program to enhance consumer engagement in clinical cancer research
First COSA ACT & NSW Oncology Weekend (ACTNOW) clinical meeting
First COSA cancer care coordination conference
First COSA workshop on cancer in adolescents and young adults
COSA survey on the prevalence and predictors of burnout in the COSA oncology workforce
COSA report mapping rural and regional oncology services in Australia published
COSA and the Cancer Cooperative Trials Groups awarded an NHMRC Enabling Grant
COSA report on optimising cancer care in Australia published
First issue of the COSA newsletter, the Marryalyan
Cancer Forum first published by COSA and ACS
First COSA Annual General Meeting
The Division of Clinical Oncology becomes independent from the ACS and adopts the name Clinical Oncological Society of Australia (COSA)
ACS forms a Division of Clinical Oncology incorporating a Head and Neck Group and a Breast Group
Multidisciplinary cancer clinics established in Sydney and Melbourne
Establishment of the Australian Cancer Society (ACS), now Cancer Council Australia
COSA Presidents
2021-2022 |
Professor Fran Boyle AM |
2019-2020 |
Professor Nick Pavlakis |
2017-2018 |
Professor Phyllis Butow AM |
2015-2016 |
Professor Mei Krishnasamy |
2013-2014 |
Associate Professor Sandro Porceddu |
2011-2012 |
Professor Bogda Koczwara AM |
2009-2010 |
Professor Bruce Mann |
2006-2008 |
Professor David Goldstein |
2006-2006 |
Professor David Currow |
2004-2005 |
Professor Steve Ackland |
2002-2003 |
Dr Elizabeth Kenny |
2000-2001 |
Professor John Zalcberg OAM |
1998-1999 |
Professor Henry Ekert AM |
1996-1997 |
Professor Robert Thomas |
1994-1995 |
Professor Alan Coates AM |
1992-1993 |
Professor William McCarthy AM |
1990-1991 |
Professor Richard Fox AM |
1988-1989 |
Professor John Levi |
1985-1987 |
Dr Malcolm Coppleson |
1983-1985 |
Professor Gordon Clunie |
1981-1983 |
Professor Martin Tattersall AO |
1979-1981 |
Dr Robert Melville |
1976-1979 |
Professor Leicester Atkinson |
1973-1976 |
Mr Brian Fleming AM |
The COSA logo
and the legend of
the Marryalyan
The Marryalyan is the two-snake emblem of the Warramirri people who occupied a large group of islands in the Arafura Sea off the northern coast of Australia, now known as the Wessel Islands. Most Warramirri people now live on Elcho Island.
The Marryalyan was one of their major gods, possessed of infinite inventiveness. He lived under the sea and through the power of his breathing boiled up the vapour that makes the clouds, the weather and the storms. He invented living creatures, starting with minute particles in the sea, pinching them together to make different forms until he had filled the ocean.
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