Preliminary Programme |
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Wednesday 16 September 2015
3.00pm - 5.30pm | SAC Curriculum Workshop |
Thursday 17 September 2015
7.00am - 6.00pm |
Registration Desk Open | |
9.00am - 9.30am |
Keynote Session 1 Generalists – Shaping The Future Of Health Care A/Prof. Ian Scott, University of Queensland, Australia
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9.30am - 10.00am |
Keynote Session 2 General Physicians In Leadership Roles In Complex Organisations Prof Don Campbell, Monash Health, Australia
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10.00am - 10.30am |
Keynote Session 3 General Physicians - What’s in a name? Dr John Gommans, Hawke’s Bay DHB, New Zealand
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10.30am - 11.00am |
Morning Tea and Poster Session |
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11.00am - 12.30pm |
Concurrent Session 1A Acute Medicine |
Concurrent Session 1B: Care Of The Chronically Ill |
11.00am – 11.18am: Strategies For Reducing Access Block – What Works, Who Benefits, What More Can Be Done?
Dr Clair Sullivan & Dr Andrew Staib, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Australia
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11.00am – 11.18am: Chronic Disease Management – From Framework To Reality
A/Prof Nick Buckmaster & Dr James Fink, Gold Coast University Hospital, Australia
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11.18am – 11.36am: The 4F Project: Optimising Acute Care Of Patients With Undifferentiated Syndromes
Dr Jeffrey Rowland, Metro North Hospital and Health Service, Australia
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11.18am – 11.36am: Preventing The Rebound – Reducing Unplanned Readmissions
Dr Alison Mudge, Metro North Hospital and Health Service, Australia
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11.36am – 11.54am: CARE-PACT – A New Model Of Acute Care For Residents Of Aged Care Facilities
Dr Ellen Burkett, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Australia
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11.36am – 11.54am: Normalising Advance Care in General Medicine Wards
A/Prof Ian Scott, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Australia
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11.54am – 12.12pm: Risk Stratification Tools For Early Safe Discharge From The Medical Assessment Unit Dr Stephen Dee, Hutt Valley DHB, Wellington, New Zealand |
11.54am – 12.12pm: Managing Multi-Morbidity In The Suburbs – Reflections Of A Peripatetic Physician
A/Prof. Cameron Bennett, Royal Brisbane & Women’s Hospital, Australia
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12.12pm – 12.30pm: Acute Exacerbations Of Loneliness Dr Karen Hitchcock, Alfred Health, Australia |
12.12pm – 12.30pm: Integrating Primary And Secondary Care: Developing A Community Of Practice Dr Gary Yip, Alfred Hospital, Australia |
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12.30pm - 1.30pm | Lunch and Poster Session | |
1.30pm - 3.00pm |
Concurrent Session 2A Controversies In General Medicine |
Concurrent Session 2B:
When Less Is More
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1.30pm – 1.52pm: Medical Assessment Units: Performing A Superior Initial Clinical Assessment The Case For The Sort And Send Model
Mark Forbes, Clinical Director of Diagnostics, Emergency and Medical Services, Australia VS A/Prof Charles Denaro, Royal Brisbane & Wamen’s Hospital, Australia
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1.30pm – 1.48pm: Overdiagnosis - The Problems It Can Cause And How To Avoid Them
Prof Jenny Doust, Bond University, Australia
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1.52pm – 2.14pm: Show Me Your Credentials – Mandatory Training VS Clinical Experience In Acute And General Medicine
Dr Robert Pickles, Hunter Hospital, Australia VS Dr David Spriggs, Auckland DHB, New Zealand
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1.48pm – 2.06pm: Deprescribing In Action - Minimising Inappropriate Polypharmacy In Older Patients
A/Prof Ian Scott, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Australia
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2.14pm – 2.36pm: General Physicians Are From Venus, Emergency Physicians Are From Mars
Dr John Henley, Auckland DHB, New Zealand VS Dr Michael Sinnott, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Australia
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2.06pm – 2.24pm: ‘‘For God’s Sake, Don’t Do Something – Just Stand There’ – Disinvesting From Clinical Interventions That Are Of Little Value
A/Prof Adam Elshaug, The University of Sydney, Australia
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2.36pm – 2.58pm: Rapid Response Teams – Too Much Of A Good Thing?
Prof Ken Hillman, University New South Wales, Australia VS A/Prof Ian Scott, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Australia
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2.24pm – 2.42pm: Let's Talk About Appropriate Healthcare Dr Robyn Lindner, NPS MedicineWise, Australia |
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2.42pm – 3.00pm:EVOLVE To Do Less
Dr Bruce King, Nelson Marlborough DHB, New Zealand
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3.00pm - 3.30pm | Afternoon Tea | |
3.30pm - 5.00pm |
Concurrent Session 3A
Infectious Conundrums
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Concurrent Session 3B
Neurology for the Generalist
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3.30pm – 3.48pm: Hendra, Lyssa And Ebola: Lessons Learnt In Preparing For Future Viral Attacks
A/Prof Geoff Playford, University of Queensland, Australia
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3.30pm – 3.48pm: “I’m Starting To Become Forgetful’ – Assessment And Management Of Early Cognitive Impairment
Dr Catherine Yelland, Redcliffe Hospital, Australia
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3.48pm – 4.06pm: Invasions From The Deep North Dr Robert Norton, Townsville Hospital, Australia |
3.48pm – 4.06pm: New Advances In Parkinson’s Disease – Slowing Or Reversing The Decline Dr Alex Lehn, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Australia |
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4.06pm – 4.24pm: Multi-Resistant Organisms – Is It As Bad As It Looks?
Dr Krispin Hajkowicz, Royal Brisbane & Women’s Hospital Australia
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4.06pm – 4.24pm: Managing Acute Stroke And Transient Ischaemic Attacks – What’s New?
Dr Graham Hall, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Australia
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4.24pm – 4.42pm: Diagnosing And Treating The Septic Patient – Time To Relearn Old Rules?
Dr Chris Joyce, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Australia
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4.24pm – 4.42pm: The Patient With Seizures – Diagnostic And Treatment Challenges
Dr Helen Brown, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Australia
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4.42pm – 5.00pm: Clostridium Difficile Infections – How To Diagnose, Treat And Prevent
Dr Naomi Runnegar, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Australia
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4.42pm – 5.00pm: Multiple Sclerosis – Do We Have More To Offer?
Prof Simon Broadley, Griffith University, Australia
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5.00pm - 6.30pm | Welcome Reception |
Friday 18 September 2015
7.00am - 5.00pm | Registration Desk Open | |
7.00am - 8.45am | Trainee Breakfast 7.15am - 7.30am: The Queensland Advanced Trainee Selection and Appointment Process: A Model Combining Rigour with Fairness. Ms Vicki Pike, Physician Training Pathway Medical Education Officer, Queensland Health, Brisbane .
7.30am – 7.45am: Dual Training or No Dual Training: That is the Question
Dr Robert Pickles, John Hunter Hospital, Australia
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7.45am – 8.00am: Health Workforce: What and Where are the Future Careers?
A/Prof Nick Buckmaster, Gold Coast University Hospital, Gold Coast
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8.00am – 8.15am:Optimal Pharmacotherapy In Heart Failure Patients Enrolled In Disease Management Programmes
Dr Robert Carroll, Royal Brisbane & Women's Hospital, Australia
8.15am – 8.30am:Health Perception & Quality-Of-Life Indices Amongst Rapid Access Chest Pain Clinic Patients In Royal Hobart Hospital
Dr Xuan Ni Tan, Royal Hobart Hospital, Australia
8.30am – 8.45am:The Prevalence of Antibiotic Allergies in General Medicine
Dr Rekha Pai Mangalore, Austin Health, Australia
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9.00am - 9.30am |
Keynote Session 4 EVOLVE: Evaluating Evidence, Enhancing Efficiency Prof Nick Talley, University of Newcastle, Australia
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9.30am - 10.00am |
Keynote Session 5 Technologies For Accessing High-Quality Evidence And Guidelines At The Point Of Care Prof Paul Glasziou, Bond University, Australia
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10.00am - 10.30am |
Keynote Session 6 Using Electronic Health Records To Optimise Quality And Safety Of Care A/Prof Nick Buckmaster, Gold Coast University Hospital, Australia
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10.30am - 11.00am | Morning Tea and Poster Session | |
11.00am - 12.30pm |
Concurrent Session 4A
Reflections From The Heart – Cardiac Update
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Concurrent Session 4B
Potpourri of General Medicine
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11.00am – 11.18am: Artial Fibrillation - Whom And When To Midicate, Cardiovert or Ablate? Dr John Hill, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Australia |
11.00am – 11.18am: Obstetric Medicine – Current Challenges And Advances
Dr Lucille Wilkinson, Auckland DHB, New Zealand
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11.18am – 11.36am: New Advances In Evaluating And Treating Congestive Cardiac Failure
A/Prof John Atherton, Royal Brisbane & Woman’s Hospital, Australia
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11.18am – 11.36am: Update On The Evaluation And Treatment Of COPD
Dr Michelle Murphy, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Australia
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11.36am – 11.54am: Revascularisation For Acute Myocardial Infarction: The Separate Roles Of Anticoagulants, Lysis, And PCI
Dr Christopher Hammett, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, Australia
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11.36am – 11.54am: Delirium, Dementia, Psychosis: Diagnosis And Management Of The Disturbed Patient On The Ward Dr Martin Atkins, Gold Coast University Hospital, Australia |
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11.54am – 12.12pm: Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement - Is It Ready For Prime Time?
Prof Darren Walters, Prince Charles Hospital, Australia
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11.54am – 12.12pm: Current Controversies And Advances In Hypertension Management Prof Leonard Arnolda, Australian National University Medical School, Australia |
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12.12pm – 12.30pm: The Patient With Acute Chest Pain Of Possible Coronary Origin In ED – Who Can Go, Who Needs To Stay, What Tests Are Best In Excluding ACS?
A/Prof Will Parsonage, Royal Brisbane & Woman’s Hospital, Australia
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12.12pm – 12.30pm: Chronic Kidney Disease - Who’s Most At Risk Of Poor Outcomes And What Interventions Improve Prognosis?
A/Prof. David Mudge, University of Queensland, Australia
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12.30pm - 1.30pm | Lunch and Poster Session | |
1.30pm - 3.00pm |
Concurrent Session 5A
One Big Happy Family
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Concurrent Session 5B
The Ramesh Nagappan Memorial Prize Advanced Trainee Presentations (15 mins each)
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1.30pm – 1.48pm: Managing The Behaviourally Disturbed Patient – A Nursing Perspective.
Mr Frederick Graham, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Australia
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1.30pm – 1.45pm: High Intensity Resistance Training And Exertional Rhabdomyolysis - Too Much Of A Good Thing?
Dr Andrew Huynh, Austin Health, Australia
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1.48pm – 2.06pm: Mobilising The Older Patient – Who, When, How And How Much – A Physiotherapy Perspective.
Ms Urszula Dolecka, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Australia
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1.45pm – 2.00pm: Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (SIRS) Rates at Emergency Department (ED) in Older Patients Reviewed by Medical Emergency Team: a retrospective audit
Dr Harry Harianto, Eastern Health, Australia
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2.06pm – 2.24pm: Working Together To Improve Nutrician For Older Adults From Hospital To Home Ms Merrilyn Banks, & Ms Adrienne Young, Royal Brisbane & Women’s Hospital, Australia |
2.00pm – 2.15pm: Embedding A General Medicine Advance Trainee Within The Emergency Department Results In Safe Improvements In Timeliness Of Care: Experience From An Australian Teaching Hospital. Dr Mark Kelly, John Hunter Hospital, Newcastle, Australia |
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2.24pm – 2.42pm: Exercise Training And Community-Based Rehabilitation For Cardia Patients. Ms Julie Adsett, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, Australia |
2.15pm: 2.30pm: Can the Frequency Of MET (Medical Emergency Team) Calls In Surgical Wards Be Reduced? A Peri-operative Medical Team Perspective
Dr Kumanan Nalankilli, Eastern Health, Australia
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2.42pm – 3.00pm: Chronic Disease Wellness Programme. Ms Rose Costa, Gold Coast University Hospital, Australia |
2.30pm – 2.45pm: A Case Of Alien Hand Syndrome (AHS) In A Caucasian Male With Right Parietal Ischemic Stroke
Dr Waqas Baig, Medicine Advanced Trainee, General Medicine
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2.45pm – 3.00pm: Evaluation Of telemetry Bed Use And Its Compliance With American Heart Association/American College Of Cardiology (AHA/ACC) Guidelines: A Retrospective Audit
Dr Harry Harianto, Eastern Health, Australia
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3.00pm - 3.30pm | Afternoon Tea and Poster Session | |
3.30pm - 5.00pm |
Concurrent Session 6A
Pearls in Endocrinology
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Concurrent Session 6B
Best of Grand Rounds
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3.30pm – 3.48pm: So Many Choices, So Little Time – Old And New Oral Hypoglycaemic Agents
Dr Joel Iedema, Redlands Hospital, Australia
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3.30pm – 3.45pm: Diabetes And Chronic Kidney Disease: Lessons From A Diabetic Kidney Disease (DKD) Clinic Dr Maggie Fisher, Waikato Hospital, New Zealand |
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3.48pm – 4.06pm: Subclinical Hormonal Excess Syndromes – Who To Investigate And Treat?
A/Prof Warrick Inder, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Australia
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3.45pm – 4.00pm: Hickam's Dictum Dr Chanakya Sharma, Fiona Stanley Hospital, Australia
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4.06pm – 4.24pm: Pituitary Diseases - What To Look Out For And What To Do Peter Davoren, Gold Coast University Hospital, Australia |
4.00pm – 4.15pm:Case Report: An Unusual Case Of Pyoderma Gangrenosum Following Diabetic Foot Amputation Dr Peter Iser, St Vincent's Hospital, Australia |
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4.24pm – 4.42pm: Recent Advances in Management Of Inflammatory Bowel Disease Dr Daniel Burger, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Australia |
4.15pm – 4.30pm: A Rare Case Of Fulminant Primary Epstein-Barr Virus Infection In A Healthy Young Adult Dr Jason Tan, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Australia |
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4.42pm – 5.00pm: Hepatitis C - What's New In 2015? Dr Krispin Hajkowics, Royal Brisbane & Wonen's Hospital, Australia |
4.30pm – 4.45pm: Serum Sickness After Influenza Vaccination Dr Fabian Chiong, John Hunter Hospital, Australia |
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4.45pm – 5.00pm: 'Burning Sole' Dr Shereen Paramalingam, South Metropolitan Health, Australia |
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5.15pm - 6.15pm | IMSANZ AGM |
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7.00pm - 10.00pm | Conference Dinner |
Saturday 19 September 2015
8.00am - 1.00pm | Registration Desk Open | |
9.00am - 10.30am |
Evidence-Based Medicine – Has Its Time Come And Gone? 9.00am – 9.05am: Introduction 9.05am – 9.20am: The Healthy Skeptic.
Dr David Spriggs, Auckland DHB, New Zealand
9.20am – 9.35am: The True Believer.
Prof Paul Glasziou, Bond University, Australia 9.35am – 9.50am: The Intrepid Equaliser.
A/Prof Ian Scott, University of Queensland, Australia
9.50am – 10.05am: The Merry Adjudicator
Prof Don Campbell, Monash Health, Australia
10.05am – 10.30am: Panel Discussion
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10.30am - 11.00am | Morning Tea | |
11.00am - 12.15pm |
Symposium For The Budding Researcher And Academic 11.00am – 11.18am: The Life Of A Clinician-Academic – Can We Do Both? Prof. Phillippa Poole, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
11.18am – 11.36am: Building Supportive Environments For Research In General Medicine
Dr Alison Mudge, Metro North Hospital and Health Service, Australia
11.36am – 11.54am: So Many Questions, So Few Answers – Deciding What To Research And How
Dr Jeff Faunt, University of Adelaide, Australia
11.54am – 12.12pm: It Can Be Done – The View Of A Novice Researcher
Dr Alex Lau, Logan Hospital, Australia
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12.15pm - 12.30pm | Closing Remarks | |
12.30pm - 1.30pm | Lunch |