Friday 11 august program
| 7.30am | REGISTRATION OPENS |
| 8.15am | Session 3 - Sustainability Workforce Chair: Hemi Patel |
| 8.20am | Bridget Clancy, Chair Rural Surgery, VIC - RACS Rural Health Equity Strategic Action Plan - RCANS Remote Central and Northern Australia Strategy. |
| 8.35am | Chris Dobbins - General Surgeon, SA |
| 8.50am | John Zorbas - NT Medical Board - Medical Workforce:
Predicting the Unpredictable |
| 9.05am | Michael Levitt, General Surgeon, WA - Towards a sustainable workforce: putting patients first. |
| 9.20am | Panel Discussion including Marco Briceno, Panellist, CEO, NT Health |
| 9.35am | Sponsor Presentations |
| 9.50am | MORNING TEA |
| 10.15am | Session 4 - Sustainability in Health Chair: Bernard Carney |
| 10.20am | David Fletcher, General Surgeon, WA - Sustainability and the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. |
| 10.35am | David King - Vascular Surgeon, SA - Saving the Planet –
One Cut at a Time |
| 10.50am | Mark De Souza, Chair, Sustainable Healthcare, NT - Sustainable Healthcare in Australia: what's it going to take? |
| 11.05am | Simon Quilty, Public Health Physician, NSW - What's happened in the NT in the last 20 years and who's job is it anyway? |
| 11.20am | Panel Discussion |
| 11.40am | Sponsor Presentations |
| 12.00pm | LUNCH |
| 12.45pm | Session 5 - Free Papers Chairs: Tara Luck and Richard Bradbury |
| 12.50pm | Justin Chan – Margorie Hooper Scholarship Winner 2020 |
| 1.00pm | Nick Smith – Margorie Hooper Scholarship Winner 2022 |
| 1.10pm | Ameya Kamat – Neurosurgery in the Outback: How upskilling General
Surgeons in Australia’s Red Centre can have tangible and sustainable lifesaving
benefits |
| 1.20pm | Andrew Luck – Ambroise Paré – Evidence based medicine is not new |
| 1.30pm | Ashley Lee – 10 Ways to Make Your Surgical Practice More Environmentally Sustainable. Lessons from the Fiona Stanley Hospital Urology Department. |
| 1.40pm | Megan Nagel - Internal Fixation of the Fix and Flap Pathway: An Audit of open fractures requiring bone and soft tissue reconstruction over a 12-month period |
| 1.50pm | Ryan Teh - Emergency laparotomy in older adults – optimising patient selection with perioperative geriatrician care |
| 2.00pm | David Toro Tole - Reflections of conducting a surgical randomised controlled trial in the top end of the Northern Territory |
| 2.10pm | Mona Al Atrash – Microsurgery in trauma management of the first NT hand
replant |
| 2.20pm | Thomas Whitton – A review of the Aetiology of Flame Burns in the
Northern Territory |
| 2.30pm | Benjamin Voyvodic – Chronic otitis media severity and hearing outcomes in
Aboriginal Children |
| 2.40pm | Ashleigh Spittle – Shot through the heart: Ballistic trauma management at
The Royal Darwin Hospital |
| 2.50pm | Jess Turner – Transmetatarsal amputations in the Northern Territory |
| 3.00pm | AFTERNOON TEA |
| 3.30pm | Announcement of Prizes: Oral and Poster Presentation - Dr PeterCosman and Dr Hemi Patel |
| 3.35pm | Session 6: An Outcome Worse than Death: Futility/Utility of Surgery An interactive discussion on What You Need To Know and Why Chairs: Vineeta Singh/John Treacy
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| 4.00pm | Discussion audience participation |
| 4.45pm | Closing Remarks Hemi Patel |
| 5.00pm | END OF CONFERENCE |
| 6.30pm | Conference Dinner Il Piatto, Mindil Beach Resort 6.30pm - 10.30pm - Keynote Speaker: Julia Christensen, experienced former ABC Darwin presenter. Transport will be available from Darwin Hilton. |
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