Friday 11     |     Sunday 13

saturday 12 NOVEMBER program

7:30am  REGISTRATION OPEN
8:30am 


8:40am

Official Welcome and Introduction 
Dr Marcus Ong

Welcome to Country
Gloria Dunn (Elder)
09:00am


9:00am 


9:20am


9:40am


10:00am

SESSION 1 - HEPATOBILIARY
Chairs: Senarath Werapitiya & Shailesh Puntambekar          


Acute Pancreatitis: Latest Guidelines and Role of Surgery
Haroon Rasheed

Cystic Lesions of the Pancreas
Mandi Maundura

3D Reconstructions in Liver Surgery
Mayank Bhandari

Laparoscopic Bile Duct Explorations
Haroon Rasheed
10:20am  Panel Discussion
10:30am - 11:00am  MORNING TEA WITH INDUSTRY
11:00am


11:00am


11:20am


11:40am 


12:00pm

SESSION 2 - COLORECTAL
Chairs: Mary Theophilus & Nikhil Agrawal

Robotic Right Hemicolectomy
Ruben Rajan

Robotic AR
Abe Jacob

Pelvic Exenteration in locally advanced rectal Cancer
Rhys Filgate

Exercise Medicine in Oncology - Exercise as a Co-therapy
Chris Andrew
12:20pm  Panel discussion
12:30pm - 1:30pm  LUNCH WITH INDUSTRY
1:30pm 


1:30pm



2.10pm


2.30pm


SESSION 3 - COLORECTAL
Chairs: Abe Jacob & Paul Bumbak

Robotic Surgery: Its perspectives and its future in General Surgery
Shailesh Puntambekar
Including 10 minute question time

Laparoscopy in Trauma
Dieter Weber

Natural Orifice Intracorporeal Anastomosis and Extraction (NICE) in colorectal surgery
Mathew Jacob 
2:50pm 

Panel Discussion

3:00pm - 3:30pm


3:30pm


3:30pm 


3:40pm


4:00pm


4:20pm



4:30pm

5.30pm
AFTERNOON TEA WITH INDUSTRY


SESSION 4 - COLORECTAL
Chairs: Jacinta Cover & Justin Johnston

Navigating Research: Perspectives of a Trainee
Zi Ng 
 

A.I. Applications in Surgery
Anand Trivedi

Radiation Oncology - Radiotherapy in Lower G.I Malignancies
Nina Stewart

Virtual Reality in Perioperative Colorectal Cancer Patient Education: A Randomised Pilot Trial
Talia Shepherd

Registrar Free Paper Sessions

End of Day One
6:30pm - 11:30pm



MEETING DINNER

Wellington Suite

Dress Code: Smart Casual

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