Preliminary Programme

 

FRIDAY 26TH MARCH 2010
 
8.30am – 4.00pm
Trainee Day: Breast & Endocrine
 
1.30pm – 8.30pm
Registration Desk Opens
 
5.30pm – 6.30pm
Welcome Reception
 
6.30pm – 7.30pm
Session 1:
The first year….
Hon. Tony Ryall, Minister of Health
 
7.30pm – 11.30pm
Trainee and Delegate BBQ
Mills Reef Restaurant &Bar
SATURDAY 27TH MARCH 2010
7.00am – 2.00pm
Registration Desk Open
7.30am – 8.00am
Breakfast
Exhibition Area
8.00am – 9.15am
Session 2: How to Manage Acute Surgical Problems
• Full Time Acute Surgery
    Mr Li Hsee, Auckland City Hospital
• Injured Liver…Tricks and Tips
    Mr Jonathan Koea, The University of Auckland
• Emergency Colonic Surgery without Stoma
    Mr Mike Hulme-Moir, North Shore Hospital
• Acute Extradural Compressive Haematoma: How, When and Where
    Neuro Surgery, Auckland City & Starship Hospitals
DISCUSSION
Trinity Rooms
9.15am – 9.45am
KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
• Cholecystectomy: Here We Go Again 
   Prof John Windsor, The University of Auckland
Trinity Rooms
9.45am – 10.15am
Morning Tea and Poster Presentation
Exhibition Area
10.15am – 11.00pm
Session 3: Contemporary Biliary Topics
• Biliary Imaging and MRI
    Dr Louise Moore, Tauranga Hospital
• The Gallbladder Polyp and Serendipitous Cancer
    Mr Andrew Audeau, Dunedin Hospital
• The Difficult Gallbladder… Tricks and Tips
   Mr Garth Poole, Middlemore Hospital
Trinity Rooms
11.00am – 11.30am
DEBATE
• Routine Intra Operative Cholangiography Should be the Gold Standard
    Dr Michael Rogers, North Shore Hospital V’s Mr John Dunn, Laparoscopy Auckland
Trinity Rooms
11.30am – 12.00pm
DEBATE
• Laproscopic Common Duct Surgery Should replace ERCP for the Treatment of Choledocholithiasis
   Mr Bertrand Jauffret, Rotorua Hospital V’s Dr Mark Lane, Auckland City Hospital
Trinity Rooms
12.00pm – 1.00pm
Lunch and Poster Presentation
Exhibition Area
1.00pm – 2.00pm
Session 4: Laparoscopy Moving On…..
• Robotic Surgery in the Bay of Plenty
    Mr Peter Gilling, Bay of Plenty Clinical School
• Innovations in Cholecystectomy, SILS in Victoria
    Dr Sean Mackay, St Vincent’s and Box Hill Hospitals
DISCUSSION
Trinity Rooms
2.00pm
Social Activities
7.00pm
Conference Dinner
Exhibition Area
SUNDAY 28TH MARCH 2010
 
7.00am – 1.00pm
Registration Desk Open
 
7.30am – 8.30am
Breakfast
 
7.30am – 8.15am
NZAGS AGM
Trinity Room1
 
8.30am – 10.10am
Session 5A: Free Paper Session (Trinity Room 1)
 
• A multidisciplinary Classification of Invasive Procedures   for Treating the Local Complications of Acute Pancreatitis
    Dr Benjamin Loveday, The University of Auckland
 
• Classification of the Severity of Acute Pancreatitis: An Argument for a ‘Critical’ Category
    Dr Maxim Petrov, The University of Auckland
 
• Role of Mutational Analysis in Surgical Treatment of Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumours (GIST)
    Mr Konrad Richter, Southland Hospital
 
• ALT Rather than Abdominal Ultrasound to Justify   Cholecystectomy in Patients Presenting with Acute    Pancreatitis
    Dr Lisa Brown, Christchurch Public Hospital
 
• Aetiology, Management and Outcomes of Acute Intestinal Obstruction in a Provincial New Zealand Hospital
    Dr Sanni Aschenberger, Taranaki DHB
 
• Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy as a Single-Stage
Bariatric Procedure    
    Dr Sanket Srinivasa, Middlemore Hospital
 
• Use of a Novel Physical Activity Questionnaire to Assess   the Effect of Bariatric Surgery on Physical Activity Levels
    Dr Manmeet Salija, Whangarei Hospital 
 
• Minor Anal Surgery In A Stand-Alone Day Surgical Unit
    Mr Don Guadagni, Guadagni Surgical Ltd
 
• Breast M.R.I.: What Impact Has it Had on Breast Surgery?
    Dr Nita Bartlett, Tauranga Hospital
Session 5B: Free Paper Session (Trinity Rooms 2/3)
 
• A Prospective Randomised Trial of Sentinel Node Biopsy for High
Risk Squamous Cell Carcinoma (SNIC Trial)
    Dr Richard Martin, Waitemata DHB
 
• The Outcome of Computed Tomography Diagnosed  Intussusception in Adults
    Dr Hayley Waller, Christchurch Hospital
 
• Peri-Operative Outcomes Following Short vs Long Course Radiotherapy for Rectal Cancer
    Dr Amit Reddy, Wellington Hospital
 
• Experience of Sling Immobilization of the Ipsilateral Shoulder  and the Development of Post-Mastectomy Fluid Collections
    Dr Shaun Purkiss, Whangarei Base Hospital 
 
• Better Design of Mastectomy Flaps
    Mr Burton King, Wellington Hospital
 
• Immediate Implant-Based Breast Reconstruction Following  Mastectomy: Review of Result and Outcome in a Provincial Centre
Dr Ian Bloomfield, Tauranga Hospital
 
• Quantitative Lymph Node Evaluation as an Independent Marker of Long-Term Prognosis in Stage III Rectal Cancer
    Dr Ryash Vather, Middlemore Hospital
 
• Accelerated Liquefaction of Pancreatic Necrosis Using Proteolytic Enzymes: A New Paradigm
    Dr Benjamin Loveday, The University of Auckland
 
• The Validation of a Prioritisation Tool for Colonoscopy
    Dr David Vernon, Lakes DHB
 
10.10am – 10.40am
Morning Tea and Poster Presentation
Exhibition Area
 
1040 -11.55am
Session 6: Malignant Melanoma
• Malignant Melanoma: The New Zealand Guidelines, Case Discussions
    Mr Richard Harman, North Shore Hospital
    Mr Richard Martin, North Shore Hospital
    Mr Matthew Clark, Middlemore Hospital
    Dr Richard North, Tauranga Hospital
Trinity Room1
 
11.55am – 12.10pm
• Update: Bowel Cancer Screening Aotearoa
    Prof Ian Bissett, The University of Auckland
Trinity Room1
 
12.10pm – 12.35pm
• Screening Colonoscopy and Credentialing, a UK Experience
    Dr Rob Cunliffe
Trinity Room1
 
12.35 – 1.00pm
DISCUSSION & CONFERENCE CLOSE
Trinity Room1
 
1.00pm – 2.00pm
Lunch
Exhibition Area
 

 

 

Important Dates
 
Online Registrations Open
Friday 4th December 2009
 
Early Registrations Close
Wednesday 17th February 2010
 
 
Sponsors

 

Atrium, Principal Sponsor, NZAGS
Principal Sponsor

OBEX, Student Award Sponsor, NZAGS
Student Award Sponsor

Intra-Op Sponsorship
Satchel Sponsor

Coviden
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