programme
The programme below is presented in local Sydney, Australia time
Wednesday, 3 November 2021
The programme below is presented in local Sydney, Australia time
Wednesday, 3 November 2021
| 10.00 - 5.00pm | IMSANZ Trainee Day Workshop - please refer to the Trainee Workshop Tab for a detailed programme | |
| RACP Supervisor Workshop | Cancelled | ||
| 2.00pm - 5.00pm | RACP Supervisor Workshop SPDP 3 - Teaching and Facilitating Learning for Safe Practice |
Thursday, 4 November 2021
| Time | Topic | Speaker |
| 8.30am - 9.00am | Welcome to the Australasian IMSANZ Conference 2021 Welcome to Country | |
| 9.00am – 10.30am | Session 1: Indigenous Health & Workforce | |
| Training our Indigenous Workforce | Prof Don Campbell Northern Health | |
| Increasing the Medical Workforce: Why and How? | Dr Sandra Hotu Auckland District Health Board | |
| Indigenous Health and Workforce in Australia | A/Prof Lilon Bandler The University of Melbourne | |
| 10.30am – 11.00am | Morning Tea | |
| 11.00am - 12.30pm | Session 2: Respiratory Medicine Update | |
| Occupational Lung Disease. History repeats | Dr Susan Miles Calvary Mater Newcastle | |
| Advances In The Treatment of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer | Prof Michael Boyer Chris O’Brien Lifehouse | |
| Interstitial Lung Disease In 2021 | Dr Lauren Troy RPA Hospital | |
| 12.30pm - 1.30pm | Lunch | |
| 1.30pm – 3.00pm | Session 3: Ramesh Nagappan Memorial Award - Oral Presentations | |
| Initial Prescriptions of Combination Oxycodone - Naloxone in an Australian Tertiary Hospital: A Pharmacovigilance Study | Dr Alvin Yapp Hornsby Hospital | |
| Outcome of deprescribing Proton Pump Inhibitors during acute admission in a General Medical Unit – A Pilot Study | Dr Michael Luc Eastern Health | |
| Prevalence, predictors, and outcomes of inappropriate prescription of direct oral anticoagulants | Dr Hiu Tung Kitty Ko Eastern Health | |
| Diagnostic use of ultrasound in GCA (Giant Cell Arteritis) in CMDHB, New Zealand | Dr Rathan Nagarajah Middlemore Hospital | |
| Influence of Allergy Labels on Empirical Antibiotic Choices for the Treatment of Lower Respiratory Tract Infections | Dr Camerin Grossman Eastern Health | |
| Occam's razor or Pandora’s box? A case report. | Dr Luke Vlismas John Hunter Hospital | |
| 3.00pm – 3.30pm | Afternoon Tea | |
| 3.30pm - 5.00pm | Session 4: Neurology Update | |
| Assessing the Vertiginous Patient: An approach that won’t leave you dizzy | Dr Tom Wellings John Hunter Hospital | |
| Headache 2021 | Dr James Hughes Tamworth Rural Referral Hospital | |
| Epilepsy – An Update for the General Physician | Dr Ian Rosemergy Capital & Coast District Health Board | |
Friday, 5 November 2021
| Time | Topic | Speaker |
| 7.45am – 8.45am | RACP CPD Information Session ( optional ) MyCPD : Practical activities for reviewing performance (category 2) and measuring outcomes (category 3) | Mr Michael Pooley Snr Project Officer Member Learning & Development |
Following a pre-recorded presentation there will be 30 mins for questions about CPD categories 2 and 3. Dr Fahid Hashem (a member of the RACP CPD Committee) will join College staff to answer your questions. | ||
| 9.00am – 10.30am | Session 5: Obstetric Medicine | |
| The Diagnosis and Management of Hypertensive Disorders in Pregnancy. | Dr Franziska Pettit St George Hospital | |
| Diabetes in Pregnancy: An Update | Dr Glynis Ross RPA Hospital | |
| Renal Disease In Pregnancy | A/Prof Annabel Martin Albury Wodonga Health | |
| 10.30am – 11.00am | Morning Tea | |
| 11.00am – 12.30pm | Session 6: Adolescent Medicine – The Transitioning Adolescent | |
| Transgender health – what’s new? | A/Prof Katie Wynne Hunter New England Health | |
| Adult Congenital Heart Disease: An Impending Tsunami | Dr Rachel Cordina RPA Hospital | |
| Survivors of Childhood Cancer – What next? | Dr Frank Alvaro John Hunter Hospital | |
| 12.30pm – 2.00pm | Lunch | |
| 1.30pm – 2.00pm | IMSANZ Annual General Meeting | |
| 2.00pm – 3.30pm | Session 7: Oral Presentations | |
| Anaemia and iron deficiency in heart failure is underdiagnosed and undertreated during hospital admissions - a single centre experience. | Dr Habeeb Habeeb Eastern Health | |
| The impact of an electronic medication management system (e-MEDS) on control of glycaemia for patients on subcutaneous insulin: an audit | Dr Jananee Myooran Liverpool Hospital | |
| Choosing Unwisely: Pathology ordering practices in junior doctors | Dr Lucy Zhang Central Coast Local Health District | |
| Junior Medical Officers’ knowledge of advance care planning and substitute decision making for people with dementia: A cross sectional survey | Dr Jamie Bryant University Of Newcastle | |
| The COVID-19 Positive Pathway; a collaboration between public health, primary care and metropolitan hospitals in Melbourne | Dr Seok Ming Lim The Royal Melbourne Hospital | |
| Reasonable adjustments to mainstream peri-operative medical care for adult surgical patients with intellectual disability | A/Prof Robyn Wallace Calvary Lenah Valley Hospital | |
| 2.00pm - 5.00pm | RACP Supervisor Workshop | |
| 3.30pm - 4.00pm | Afternoon Tea | |
| 4.00pm - 5.30pm | Session 8: Poster Presentations | |
Saturday, 6 November 2021
| Time | Topic | Speaker |
| 9.00am – 10.30am | Session 9: Resilience of Systems: Learning from COVID | |
| Lessons in Preparedness from the 2020 SARS CoV-2 Pandemic | A/ Prof Craig Dalton Hunter New England Population Health | |
| Reflections from the Public Hospital Perspective | Dr Nicole Hancock The Alfred Melbourne | |
| Rapid Implementation of a novel Embedded Senior Medical Student Program as a Response to the Educational Challenges of COVID-19 | Prof Jenny May University of Newcastle | |
| Panel discussion | ||
| 10.30am – 11.30am | Brunch | |
| 11.30am – 12.30pm | Session 10: Perioperative Medicine | |
| Frailty in Perioperative Decision Making | Prof Ken Hillman University of NSW | |
| Perioperative Curriculum Update | Dr Rajni Lal Ryde Hospital | |
| 12.30pm – 2.00pm | Session 11: Resilience of Health Professionals: Doctor's Wellbeing | |
| 'MDs not OK'. Doctor Burnout: What is it, why we should care, and what are we doing about it? | Dr Bethan Richards RPA Hospital | |
| Junior Consultants Wellbeing – Tips for new consultants | Dr Damien Jackel Hunter New England Local Health District | |
Doctor Wellbeing: Midlife – Crisis or Flourish? | Dr John Gommans Hawke’s Bay District Health Board | |
| Healthy Ageing and Transitioning in Late Career Practitioners’ | Dr Chanaka Wijeratne Prince of Wales Hospital | |
| Panel discussion | ||
| 2.00pm – 2.30pm | Afternoon Tea | |
| 2.30pm – 3.30pm | Session 12: Palliative Medicine | |
| Voluntary Assisted Dying and the Physician | Dr Frank Brennan St George Hospital | |
| Taking back our narrative: Mob do palliative care, we just don’t call it that | Ms Nicole Hewlett QLD University of Technology | |
| 3.30pm - 4.00pm | Conference Close | |
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