thursday, 28 august - program


Thursday, 28 August 2025 | Program


7:30amBartons Financial Services Sponsored Breakfast (registration required) - Bespoke Restaurant, Oval Hotel
“The Fundamentals of Financial Success for Medical Professionals.” 
8:00amREGISTRATION OPEN
9:00amSession 5 - Surgical Leaders Forum - A Better Culture: Innovation and Connection
Chairs: Associate Professor Amal Abou - Hamden and Dr Sanjeev Naidu
9:00am

Dr Doug Fahlbusch FRANZCA - Find Clarity in Complexity - From Disease Care to Healthy Care

9:20amDr Sanjeev Naidu - Simplifying and humanising healthcare
9:30amAssociate Professor Amal Abou-Hamden - A better Culture: Are we any further ahead?
9:40amQ&A
9:45am

Difficult Professional Encounters - Cases Panel Discussion

RACS President, Prof Owen Ung (QLD)

Dr Doug Fahlbusch (SA)

Associate Professor Peter Subramanian (FRACS and SA President, AMA)

Dr Michael Cusack (SA Chief Medical Officer)

Ms Tanya Brooks (SA General Manager, Calvary Adelaide Hospital)

Ms Tamzin Mondy (WA Aphra National Manager, Notifications)

Mr Anthony Mennillo (MIGA, Head of Claims and Legal Services)

10:30amMORNING TEA WITH INDUSTRY
11:00amSession 6 - From Little Things, Big Things Grow
Chairs: Dr Nadia Wise and Dr Denise Roach
11:00amAssociate Professor Susan Neuhaus - History of Women in Surgery in the ADF
11:20amAssociate Professor Nicole Williams - Current research and clinical interest at the Women's and Children's Hospital
11:40amDr Nicola Dean - Evidence in Gender Affirming Surgery and developing services for an Australian context 
12:00pmDr Christine Lai - Current statistics of Women in Surgery and the changes in training
12:20pmProfessor Jo Thomas - History of Adelaide University and the Merger
12:40pmPanel Discussion
12:50pmLUNCH WITH INDUSTRY
1:30pmSession 7 - Free Papers
Chairs: Dr Victoria Lu and Dr Phil Britten-Jones
1:30pmJesse Ey - RP Jepson Medal Winner Presentation
1:40pmDominique White - Justin Miller Medal Winner Presentation
1:50pmDr Darren Shirky - Management and Recurrence of Desmoplastic Fibroma: A Systematic Review
2:00pmDr Gia Caplash - Fight Bite Injuries in the Top End - A 5-Year Retrospective Review: Kanavel's Teachings Remain Critical
2:10pmDr Jake Carmody - The Long-Lost Stent
2:20pmDr Mark Fitzgerald - The Implications of Spleen Trauma Management in South Australian Paediatric Patients
2:30pmDr Richard Hamilton - The Free Abdominoplasty (DIEP) Flap in Breast Reconstruction - The Untold Story
2:40pmDr Shawn Poh - Peripheral Parenteral Nutrition: An Evaluation of its Utility and Complications in a Tertiary Hospital
2:50pmDr Pragaash Shanmuganathan - Versatility of Tissue Expansion for Correction of Exomphalos Major in Resource Limited Setting: Case Study
3:00pmDr Isaac Bhall - Small Bowel Obstructions in Virgin Abdomen: A retrospective review on conservative versus surgical management
3:10pmDr Lauren Middleton - Genetic Variant in Treacher Collins Syndrome: A Case Report
3:25pmAFTERNOON TEA WITH INDUSTRY
3:45pmSession 8 - SAASM Forum - Death and Taxes - a discussion of ANZASM, CQRs and quality surgery
Chair: Professor Guy Maddern
3:45pmDr James Aitken, Professor Justin Gundara and Dr Ash Hardikar
4:45pmDiscussion/Q&A
4:55pmAnnouncement of Free Papers Winners and presentation of Bartons Financial Services Travel Grant
5:00pmDr Bernard Carney Closing Remarks
5:00pm
2025 TRISTATE ASM CONCLUDES