Welcome to the New NOVA AU web site.

Melissa Vorlicek Downes is the NOVA Family Advocate for NOVA Australia.

She is the founder of NOVA Australia.

She can be contacted at melissavorlicek@bigpond.com

(02) 9922-4778

Melissa founded NOVA Australia in 2006 after finding no support for her daughter who suffered from a subglottic hemangioma

THE NATIONAL ORGANISATION OF VASCULAR ANOMALIES SECOND ANNUAL MEETING Nov 1st 10:30 am

Parent and Carer Resource Centre, Level 2, The Children’s Hospital, Westmead

NOVA provides assistance to those affected by vascular anomalies. We are having our second annual get together and would love you to come along!

If your child or someone in your family has a haemangioma, PHACES, Tufted Angioma, KHE, port wine stain, KT or KHE and any other benign vascular tumor you should come along and meet other carers, physicians and children to share experiences, learn from each other and gave a fun morning tea together.

At 12:30 in the Doreen Lecture Theatre on the 4th floor, Professor Richard Widmer, Paediatric Dentist and Surgeon will give a presentation on tooth decay in children with vascular anomalies.  Afterwards he had kindly offered to perform free examinations NOVA children’s teeth.

Please join us for Morning Tea on Nov 1 at 10:30 in the Parent and Carer Resource Centre. We welcome new NOVA parents and children and look forward to meeting you on the day.

If you can attend, please call Melissa Downes on 0411 437 248 or email NOVA@lucima.com.au

We have created a separate page for NOVA-Australia Physicians & Resources. 

Link to Physicians & Resources in AU

New Brochure - NOVA AU has published a new document we are making it available here as a .pdf document so you can print it off and make copies. 

Link

We have created a message forum for our Australian families. 

http://www.novanews.org/forum/default.asp

New VascularBirthmarks Clinic web site at

Westmead in NSW AU!!!

Link