Day One – Friday 03 November

Friday 03 November
07:45-16:45
Promenade Room – Crown Conference Centre

Breakfast Symposium – 07:30-08:45 – Meet the Professors

07:45 15 decades of advances in thyroid surgery in 15 minutes – Prof Stan Sidhu
08:00 Lessons learned from 3 decades of outdated guidelines in bariatric surgery – Prof Lilian Kow
08:15 Are robots the next frontier in colorectal surgery? – Dr Elizabeth Murphy
08:30 Leading your team out of uncertainty – Dr Herbert Chen

Session One – 08:45-10:15 – Cancer Management Updates

08:45. Official Opening and Welcome – Prof Jonathan Serpell, A/Prof James Lee
09:00. Management guidelines for Thyroid Cancer – who are the guidelines guiding? – Prof Stan SidhU
09:15. Management of the Axilla in 2023 – Miss Melanie Walker
09:30 Updates in pancreatic cancer – Dr Charles Pilgrim
09:45. Do lymph node clearance save lives in CRC? – Dr Elizabeth Murphy
10:00. Cervical lymphadenopathy in the HPV era – Dr Jessica Prasad
10:15 Panel discussion and Q&A

Morning Tea with Industry – 10:30-11:00

Session Two – 11:00-12:15 – Managing Acute Surgical Conditions

10:45. Acute management for complicated diverticulitis – Dr Satish Warrier
11:00 Thoracic surgery for the general surgeon – Prof Silvana Marasco
11:15. Necrotising pancreatitis – Updates on management – Dr Frederick Huynh
11:30 Safety first for the “difficult” cholecystectomy – Dr June Oo
11:45 Diagnosis and management of obstructions post-gastric bypass: Early and late challenges – Prof Wendy Brown
12:00 Panel discussion & Q&A

Lunch with Industry – 12:15 – 13:15

Session Three – 13:15-14:45 – A String of Surgical Pearls

13:15. Tips & tricks for the “difficult” thyroid – Prof Jonathan Serpell
13:30 Mistakes to only make once in colorectal surgery – Dr Peter Carne
13:45 Benign breast conditions – Dr Sarah Birks
14:00 Hiatal hernia surgery: Here to stay – Prof Wendy Brown
14:15 Varicose Veins: Stripping is not the only option – Dr Korana Musicki
14:30 Panel discussion and Q&A

Afternoon Tea with Industry – 14:45 – 15:15

Session Four – 15:15-16:45 – Best Practice in 2023

15:15 De-escalate or be aggressive: Hard decisions in breast surgery – Prof Christobel Saunders
15:30 Which bariatric procedure is “best” in 2023 – Prof Lilian Kow
15:45 Workup of the incidental adrenal mass – A/Prof James Lee
16:00 Panel discussion and Q&A

16:15 DEBATE – Social Media is an integral part of a modern general surgery practice
– Dr Jessica Fazendin
– Dr Sophie Dream
– Dr Belinda Hii
– Dr Karishma Jassal

17:00 DAY ONE PROGRAM CLOSE