Conference Programme

 

 
 

FRIDAY 26TH MARCH 2010
8.30am – 4.00pm
Trainee Day: Breast & Endocrine
 
1.30pm – 7.30pm
Registration Desk Opens
 
5.30pm – 6.30pm
Welcome Reception
 
6.30pm – 7.30pm
Session 1:
The first year….
Hon. Tony Ryall, Minister of Health
Trinity Rooms
 
Session Chair:
Stephen Vallance
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
• Acute Care Surgery at Auckland City Hospital: Moving with the Times
    Mr Li Hsee, Auckland City Hospital
• Damage Control in Hepatic Trauma: Ten Simple Manoeuveres
    Mr Jonathan Koea, The University of Auckland
• Emergency Colonic Surgery without a Stoma
    Mr Mike Hulme-Moir, North Shore Hospital
• Acute Extradural Compressive Haematoma: How, When and Where
    Mr Peter Heppner, Auckland City and Starship Hospitals
DISCUSSION
Trinity Rooms
 
Session Chair:
John Kyndon
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 – 11.00am
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
 
Session Chairs:
John Windsor &
Sean Mackay
 
11.00am – 11.30am
DEBATE
• Routine Intra Operative Cholangiography Should be the Gold Standard
    Dr Michael Rodgers, North Shore Hospital vs Mr John Dunn, Laparoscopy Auckland
Trinity Rooms
 
Debate Chair:
Phillip Cammish
11.30am – 12.00pm
DEBATE
• Laparoscopic Common Duct Surgery Should Replace ERCP for the Treatment of Choledocholithiasis
   Mr Bertrand Jauffret, Rotorua Hospital vs 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…..
• Single Incision Laporascopic Surgery, Introduction to Choleystectomy in Victoria
    Dr Sean Mackay, St Vincent’s and Box Hill Hospitals
• da Vinci and ‘Robotic’ Surgery in the Bay of Plenty
    Mr Peter Gilling, Bay of Plenty Clinical School
DISCUSSION
Trinity Rooms
 
Session Chair:
Rob Cable
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 – 10.20am
Session 5A: Free Paper Session (Trinity Room 1)
Session Chair: Liz Dennett
 
• Quantitative Lymph Node Evaluation as an Independent
   Marker of Long-Term Prognosis in Stage III Rectal Cancer
    * Dr Ryash Vather, Middlemore Hospital
• Peri-Operative Outcomes Following Short vs Long Course
   Radiotherapy for Rectal Cancer
    * Dr Amit Reddy, Wellington Hospital
• Minor Anal Surgery In A Stand-Alone Day Surgical Unit
    Mr Don Guadagni, Guadagni Surgical Ltd
• The Validation of a Prioritisation Tool for Colonoscopy
    Dr David Vernon, Lakes DHB
• 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
• Breast M.R.I.: What Impact Has it Had on Breast Surgery?
    * Dr Nita Bartlett, Tauranga Hospital
• M.R.I Scanning in the Management of Breast Cancer
    Mr John Harman, St Mark’s Women’s Health
 
Session 5B: Free Paper Session (Trinity Rooms 2/3)
Session Chair: Jeremy Rossaak
 
• Role of Mutational Analysis in Surgical Treatment of
   Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumours (GIST)
    Mr Konrad Richter, Southland Hospital
• A multidisciplinary Classification of Invasive Procedures
   for Treating the Local Complications of Acute Pancreatitis
    * Dr Benjamin Loveday, The University of Auckland
• ALT Rather than Abdominal Ultrasound to Justify
   Cholecystectomy in Patients Presenting with Acute
   Pancreatitis
    * Dr Lisa Brown, Christchurch Public Hospital
• The Outcome of Computed Tomography Diagnosed
   Intussusception in Adults
    * Dr Hayley Waller, Christchurch 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
• A Prospective Randomised Trial of Sentinel Node Biopsy for  
   High Risk Squamous Cell Carcinoma (SNIC Trial)
    Dr Richard Martin, Waitemata DHB 
• Accelerated Liquefaction of Pancreatic Necrosis Using
   Proteolytic Enzymes: A New Paradigm
    * Dr Benjamin Loveday, The University of Auckland
10.20am – 10.50am
Morning Tea and Poster Presentation
Exhibition Area
10.50am -11.50am
Session 6: Malignant Melanoma
• Malignant Melanoma: The New Zealand Guidelines, Presentation and Panel/Audience Discussion
    Mr Richard Harman, North Shore Hospital
    Mr Richard Martin, North Shore Hospital
    Dr Richard North, Tauranga Hospital
    Dr Wal Hussain, Tauranga Skin Centre
Trinity Rooms
 
Session Chair:
David Vernon
11.50am – 12.30pm
• Update: Colorectal Cancer Screening in New Zealand
    Prof Ian Bissett, The University of Auckland
• Accreditation of Colonoscopists in the UK Bowel Cancer Screening Programme
    Dr Rob Cunliffe, Tauranga Hospital
Trinity Rooms
12.30pm – 12.40pm
• V-Patch
    Scott Pickford-Scott, Atrium, NZAGS
    Bronwen Evans, NZAGS
Trinity Rooms
12.40pm – 1.00pm
CLOSING COMMENTS, PRIZE GIVING & CONFERENCE CLOSE
Trinity Rooms
1.00pm – 2.00pm
Lunch
Exhibition Area

 
 

 

Important Dates
 
Online Registrations Now Closed
 
Late Registrations
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