Provisional Program – Day One

  • Wednesday 02 September
  • 08:30 – 17:00
  • Orange Ex Services’ Club

Session One – Setting the Scene                             

8:30 Welcome to Country   
8:45 Official opening   Organising Committee
8:50 Welcome to Orange: Snapshot of the region presented by Dr Stephen Hayes
9:05 Orange Regional Health Overview 
9:15 What Orange does well (anaesthetic blocks, perioperative care); what Orange does less well (continuity of care, perioperative communication)           
9:35 Local surgical ‘hero’
10:00 TBC

10:30 – 11:00 MORNING TEA WITH INDUSTRY

Session Two – Breast & Endocrine                                       

11:00 Mammoplasties in breast cancer            
11:15 Breast displacement surgery        
11:45 Collection of subspecialty interest in a non-metro setting      
12:00 Modern management of melanoma     
12:20 Survivorship: success and pitfalls/limitations of immunotherapy  
12:30 Neoadjuvant guidelines in Melanoma 

12:45 – 13:45 – LUNCH WITH INDUSTRY

Session Three – Upper GI & Bariatrics                               

13:45 Whipples/oesophagectomy centralisation             
14:00 Pancreatic tumour management in a regional centre    
14:15 Upper GI 
14:30 ERCP in regional NSW            
14:45 TBC
15:00 TBC
15:15 Free Papers                      

15:45 – 16:15 – AFTERNOON TEA WITH INDUSTRY

Session 4 – Quick Shot Posters

16:15 Keynote Address
16:45 Quick shot poster round: One slide, two minute presentation
17:30 – Day one program close
19:00 – Trivia Night

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