Thursday, 27 August PROGRAM
Thursday, 27 August 2026 | Program
| 07:30am | REGISTRATION OPEN |
| 08:15am | Official Welcome and Acknowledgement of Country Dr Ravi Mahajani - NT Committee Chair |
| 08:30am | Session 1 - Outreach and Reaching Out Chair: Dr Ravi Mahajani and Dr Jeremy Chin |
| 08:30am | Dr Christine Lai - College Update |
| 08:45am | Mr Cameron Marchant - Flying the territory – why general aviation is important for remote communities and how learning to fly makes you a better |
| 09:00am | John Hargrave Lecture - Surgery in the Tribal Areas of India |
| 09:30am | Dr Nandini Karthikeyan - TBC (Virtual) |
| 09:45am | Professor Len Notaras AO - Outreach When Disaster Strikes – the role of NCCTRC |
| 10:05am | 8 x Sponsor Presentations |
| 10:20am | MORNING TEA WITH INDUSTRY |
| 10:50am | Session 2 - Connecting Surgical Care: From Technology to Community Chair: Dr Denise Roach and Dr Phil Worley |
| 10:50am | Professor Gillian Farrell - Women in Surgery - attraction & retentions struggles in the NT |
| 11:05am | Dr Mike Wilks - How Interventional Radiology is Shaping the Surgical Landscape |
| 11:20am | Dr Angeline Simons - Surgical care of the elderly patient |
| 11:35am | Dr Lamarra (Karen) Gurruwiwi with Dr Alexandra 'Didi' Leslie-Pyke - Improving the Surgical Consultation and Consents in Arnhem Land |
| 11:50am | Professor Marco Briceno - Care Closer to Home: The Patient, Economic and Advocacy Value of Place-Based Outreach Services |
| 12:05pm | Dr Ned Kinnear - Margorie Hooper Scholarship |
| 12:15pm | Panel Discussion |
| 12:25pm | 8 x Sponsor Presentations |
| 12:45pm | LUNCH WITH INDUSTRY |
| 1:30pm | Session 3 - Surgical Care on the Frontier: Challenges and Solutions from the Regions Chair: Dr Phil Game and Dr Megge Beacroft |
| 1:30pm | Professor Alan Sandford - Courage in wrangling the system and innovative ways to address surgical issues in rural and remote Australia (Virtual) |
| 1:45pm | Dr Amanda Foster - Beyond our Borders: Lessons learned from global health education outreach |
| 2:00pm | Dr Sheri Newman - Outreach from the Remote Tropics to Antarctica and Back Again |
| 2:15pm | Dr Andrew Luck - Reflections on 25 years of regional outreach in South Australia |
| 2:30pm | Dr Garry Buckland - The Australasian Foundation for Plastic Surgery Remote Wound Program |
| 2:45pm | Dr John Batten - RACS Foundation for Surgery |
| 2:55pm | Panel Discussion |
| 3:05pm | AFTERNOON TEA WITH INDUSTRY + FIRST POSTER SESSION Hanna J Blake C Clancy B Fitzpatrick O Ganguly Tand |
| 3:35pm | Session 4 - Building the Future Surgical Workforce: Education, Regulation and Mentorship Chairs: Dr Eva Denholm and Dr Liam Quinn |
| 3:35pm | Professor Hemi Patel - Who regulates the surgeon? Navigating the Medical Board, Colleges and clinical accountability |
| 3:50pm | Dr Chris Kirby - Surgical Outreach for Paediatric Emergencies |
| 4:05pm | Associate Professor Emma Kennedy (Flinders University) - Surgical undergraduate education developing curriculum and keeping the goal in mind |
| 4:20pm | Professor Di Stephens (Charles Darwin University) - Building surgical education from the ground up - CDU's inaugural medical program |
| 4:35pm | Professor Tarun Sen Gupta (James Cook University) - Grow your own: regional, rural and remote workforce - perspectives from North Queensland |
| 4:50pm | Dr Deepak Mehrotra - Cardiac surgical challenges in remote and rural Australia |
| 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) |