Final Program – Wednesday 19 November
SESSION 1 – UPDATES IN RURAL SURGERY
8:30 Welcome and acknowledgement
8:45 Welcome to the Region – Mt Gambier Health Snapshot – Ms Emma Poland
9:00 Updates in: Breast & Endocrine Surgery – Dr Samantha Jolly
9:20 Updates in: Colorectal Surgery Prof Glenn Guest
9:40 Updates in: Upper GI – Dr Markus Trochsler
10:00 A life of Rural surgery in Western Australia – Dr Sam Khamhing
10:20 10:30 Q&A
10:30 11:00 MORNING TEA WITH INDUSTRY
SESSION 2 – Rural Patients Retrieval: What are the issues?
11:00 Minister for Health Welcome – HON. Chris Picton
11:15 Rural Patient Retrieval: MedSTAR and Rural Patient Retrieval- Dr Joanna Oakeshott
11:45 Coordination: Dispatching hospital – Dr Tim McCullough
12:00 Rural Patient Retrieval: When things go wrong – Dr David Walsh
12:15 Rural Patient Retrieval: Complexities for the receiving hospital – Prof Guy Maddern
12:30 Expert Panel Discussion: Communication – breakdown, sending / receiving
12:50 13:50 LUNCH WITH INDUSTRY
SESSION 3 – UPDATES IN RURAL SURGERY CONTINUED
13:50 Influencer of Rural Surgery – Dr Tom Bowles
14:15 Updates in: HPB – Dr Gayatri Asokan
14:30 Updates in: Flap for Pilonidal disease – Dr Trevor Collinson
14:45 Updates in: Gastroenterology – Dr Ryan Mathias
15:00 Panel discussion
15:05 DEA – Who we are & what we do (why we do it & what you can do) Dr Pam White
15:20 Free Paper: Improving surgical met call efficiency: The role of surgical expertise in reducing response times – Dr Umair Abdullah
15:26 Free Paper: Outcomes following Hartmann’s reversal: A retrospective single-centre cohort study Dr Amanthi Mendis
15:32 Free Paper: Enterobius vermicularis in paediatric appendicitis in far north Queensland: a retrospective review – Dr Sophia Chan
15:40 16:10 AFTERNOON TEA WITH INDUSTRY
SESSION 4 – QUICK SHOT POSTERS
16:10 KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Human Factors – I just don’t get it! What’s it got to do with surgery? Mr Anthony Lock
16:40 Keynote Q+A
QUICK SHOT POSTERS (ONE SLIDE, 2 MINUTE PRESENTATION)
16:45 Textbook outcomes after oesophagectomy in a regional Australian hospital – Dr Renishka Salayah
16:47 Age and the road: exploring demographic and socioeconomic influences on traffic accidents across urban and rural landscapes – Dr Anderson Cheong
16:49 The introduction of a surgical rapid access clinic in a regional centre – Dr Ashleigh Hytch
16:51 Evaluation of local bowel cancer screening outcomes: an audit of the direct access model in hunter New England local health district – Dr Lanxin Li
16:53 Five years outcomes of percutaneous cholecystostomy for acute cholecystitis – Dr Krystal Tan
16:55 First nations Australians have a 88 times higher incidence rate of necrotizing soft tissue infections with similar mortality outcomes when compared to other ethnicities. Dr Sarah Whitehouse
16:57 Living with a stoma in a regional context exploring patient quality of life and caregiver burden in the Illawarra Shoalhaven district – Dr Caitlin Zhang
16:59 Outcomes of appendicectomy in pregnancy – review of 10 years at a regional centre Dr Elizabeth Sebastian
17:01 Validity of necrotising soft tissue infection diagnostic scores in the Australian setting – Dr Elena Pilat
17:03 Epidemiological insights into biliary disease in a rural northern cohort – Dr Kugendran Ponniah
17:05 The promises and challenges of robotic-assisted surgery (RAS) in regional Australia – Dr Yung-Hsin Hsueh
17:07 Correlation of Bethesda scoring system of thyroid nodule with final histopathology in predicting malignancy: a retrospective 5 year study from a regional centre – Dr Sumit Singh
17:09 Burr holes in the bush: a retrospective review of emergency burr holes by general surgeons in rural New South Wales – Dr Nicholas Findlay
17:11 Challenges of the rural Australian general surgical registrar: a 10-year retrospective study of surgical case-mix – Dr Joshua Sungho Hong
17:13 – No horsing around: a regional trauma service experience – Dr Lucille Vance