Thursday, 27 August - provisional PROGRAM
Thursday, 27 August 2026 | Preliminary Program
| 07:30am | REGISTRATION OPEN |
| 08:15am | Official Welcome and Acknowledgement of Country Dr Ravi Mahajani - NT Chair |
| 08:30am | Session 1 - Outreach and Reaching Out Chair: |
| 08:30am | Ms Stephanie Clota (RACS CEO) - College Update |
| 08:45am | Hon. Luke Gosling, OAM & MP - The Health of Northern Australia |
| 09:00am | John Hargrave Lecture - Surgery in the Tribal Areas of India |
| 09:30am | Professor Marco Briceno - Care Closer to Home: The Patient, Economic and Advocacy Value of Place-Based Outreach Services |
| 09:45am | Professor Len Notaras AO - Outreach When Disaster Strikes – the role of NCCTRC |
| 10:05am | 15 x Sponsor Presentations |
| 10:35am | MORNING TEA WITH INDUSTRY |
| 11:05am | Session 2 - Connecting Surgical Care: From Technology to Community Chair: |
| 11:00am | Professor Gillian Farrell - Women in Surgery - attraction & retentions struggles in the NT |
| 11:15am | Dr Mike Wilks - How Interventional Radiology is Shaping the Surgical Landscape |
| 11:30am | Dr Angeline Simons - Surgical care of the elderly patient |
| 11:45am | Dr Karen Guruwiwi with Dr Alexandra 'Didi' Leslie-Pyke - Improving the Surgical Consultation and Consents in Arnhem Land (Virtual Presentation) |
| 12:30pm | Panel Discussion |
| 12:40pm | LUNCH WITH INDUSTRY |
| 1:30pm | Session 3 - Surgical Care on the Frontier: Challenges and Solutions from the Regions Chair: Dr Sana Nasim |
| 1:30pm | Professor Alan Sanford - How to Address Surgical Issues in Rural and Remote Australia |
| 1:45pm | Dr Ailene Fitzgerald - Title TBC |
| 2:00pm | Dr Hemi Patel - Who regulates the surgeon? Navigating the Medical Board, Colleges and clinical accountability |
| 2:15pm | Dr Deepak Mehrotra - Cardiothoracic Rural Patients |
| 2:30pm | Dr Garry Buckland |
| 2:45pm | TBC |
| 2:55pm | Panel Discussion |
| 3:05pm | AFTERNOON TEA WITH INDUSTRY + FIRST POSTER SESSION Hanna J Blake C Clancy B Fitzpatrick O Ganguly T |
| 3:35pm | Session 4 - Building the future Surgical Workforce: Education, Regulation and Mentorship Chair: |
| 3:35pm | Ms Hayley Copley and Mr Matt Vincent - RACS Surgical Planning Across Australia |
| 3:50pm | Associate Professor Emma Kennedy (Flinders Medical Centre) - Surgical undergraduate education developing curriculum and keeping the goal in mind |
| 4:05pm | Professor Di Stephens (Charles Darwin University) - Building surgical education from the ground up - CDU's inaugural medical program |
| 4:20pm | Professor Tarun Gupta (James Cook University) - TBC |
| 4:35pm | Dr Christine Lai - Mentoring the Next Generation of Female Surgeons/State of RACS |
| 4:50pm | Dr Sheri Newman - Outreach in the Antarctic |
| 5:05pm | Panel Discussion |
| 5:15pm | END OF DAY ONE |
| 6:30pm | ASM Dinner Darwin Services Club 70 The Esplanade, Darwin 0801 6:30pm - 10:30pm Dress: Smart Casual Guest Speaker - Associate Professor James Hooper (Medical Director of NT Careflight) |