{"id":2361,"date":"2025-05-16T14:24:40","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T04:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/cbci\/?p=2361"},"modified":"2025-07-03T09:30:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T23:30:07","slug":"racs-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/cbci\/news\/racs-president","title":{"rendered":"A new president for RACS"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new president for RACS<\/h1>\n

Congratulations to CBCI’s Clinical Director, Professor Owen Ung, who has been elected as the Royal Australasian College of Surgeon’s (RACS) next President – marking a historic first as the College\u2019s first President of Asian-Australian heritage.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Professor Ung says “This is a tremendous honour and I so look forward to working with a talented and committed RACS Council and Board, to strengthen our membership and continue the College’s critical role in surgical education and supporting our community with excellent surgical care.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Congratulations to CBCI’s Clinical Director, Professor Owen Ung, who has been elected as RACS’ next president.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":2362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-2361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-no-search"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/cbci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/cbci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/cbci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/cbci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/cbci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2361"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/cbci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2402,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/cbci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2361\/revisions\/2402"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/cbci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/cbci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/cbci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/cbci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}