Day 1 – Friday 31 October
- Sofitel Melbourne
- 07:30 – 17:00
Breakfast Symposium – Meet our UAB Visitors
7:30 Exploratory laparoscopy for blunt trauma
7:45 Making sense of a retroperitoneal mass
8:00 Surgical Emergencies in patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease
8:15 The importance of professional connections
Session One: The Bleeding Edge
8:45 Welcome to Country & Official Opening
9:00 Laparoscopic emergency hernia repair – Do’s and don’ts
9:15 Non-operative management of appendicitis – What’s the tea?
9:30 Large bowel obstruction for the AGSU surgeon?
9:45 Blunt oesophageal Injury – Assessment and management
10:00 Does cholecystostomy still have a role in 2025?
10:15 Panel discussion and Q&A
10:30 – 11:00 – Morning Tea with Industry
Session Two – Sharing is Caring
11:00 Preoperative risk assessment and decision making for complex patients
11:15 Are surgeons becoming technicians?
11:30 Perioperative medicine – Evidence of how to set up
11:45 Breast cancer updates
12:00 Retrosternal goitre – Alternative
12:15 Panel discussion and Q&A
12:30 – 13:30 – Lunch with Industry
Session Three – Applying the KISS Principle
13:30 Red flags for an adrenal mass
13:45 Role Ozempic in non-bariatric surgery
14:00 Impact of breast density on breast cancer imaging
14:15 Complications and recurrence post-reflux surgery
14:30 Pancreatic tumours with variable malignant potential
14:45 Panel discussion and Q&A
15:00 – 15:30 – Afternoon Tea with Industry
Session Four – Collaborative Cancer Management
15:30 Value proposition for MDT Meetings & Clinics
15:45 Non-surgical treatment of Gastric ca
16:00 Obesity and colorectal cancer – technical tips and oncological outcomes
16:15 Current evidence for targeted therapies in colorectal cancer
16:30 Melanoma management after excisional biopsy
17:00 DAY ONE PROGRAM CLOSE
