SUNRISE SESSIONS:

Assessment and Prevention of cognitive decline
Marc Budge

Management of cardiac failure
Darryl McGill

Perioperative medicine -Presentation (596KB)
David Russell

      INDIGENOUS HEALTH:
     Chair: Noel Hayman

     The Aboriginal baby's place in the world (Australia)
     Helen Milroy

     Positive outlook, positive outcomes
     Ngiare Brown

OBESITY

Presented by the Endocrine Society of Australia and the Australasian Society for the Study of Obesity. Chair: Joe Proietto

Fat (or lack of it) changes your brain
Iain Clarke

A review of current surgical management of obesity -Presentation (1.06MB)
Paul O'Brien

Medical Approaches for the management of obesity -Presentation (880KB)
Gary Wittert

Selecting your CPD -Presentation (99KB)
Tim Wilkinson and Debra Le Bhers

AVIAN FLU AND SARS REVISITED:

Public Health Issues in Australia
John Mathews

Avian Flu Update
Alieen Plant

SARS Revisted
Michael Catton

CARDIOLOGY

Presented by the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand
Chair: Peter French

Atrial fibrillation
Ben Freedman
Panellists: Dr Ian Meredith, Dr Michael Kennedy, Dr Caroline Medi

Stents and revascularisation
Ian Meredith

TBA

GENETICS & THE NEW BIOTECHNOLOGY

Presented by the Human Genetics Society of Australasia

DNA diagnostics in the genomics era -Presentation (2.71MKB)
Ron Trent

Genetics therapies
Ian Alexander

BLOOD STREAM INFECTIONS: POST-SPLENECTOMY SEPSIS INTRAVENOUS DEVICE AND
ASSOCIATED INFECTIONS

Presented by the Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases

Post splenectomy sepsis: can it be prevented?
Ashley Watson

Intravascular devices -Presentation (376KB)
Peter Collignon

Consent for HIV testing - time for reconsideratin?
Frank Bowden

FREE PAPERS - IMSANZ Roche Award
Chair: Ian Scott
Jacqueline Gilbert, Zinta Harrington, Meera Agar, Catherine Geraghty,
Koya Ayonrinde and Arun Krishnan

2004 Quality Assurance Prize Winner:
The Impact of a computerised decision support system on antibiotic prescribing in the intensive care unit
Kirsty Buising

   Lunch

Priscilla Kincaid-Smith Oration
Stopping the obesity epidemic: Identifying the biological and political impediments
Joe Proietto (starts 1.00pm) -Presentation (5.9MB)
Chair: Napier Thomson

Free Papers - Adult Medicine, Blackwell Publishing New Investigator Award
Chair: Fred Khafagi
Anneke van der Walt, Andrew Wei, Joseph Ibrahim,
David Henderson, Alex Fisher and Peter Tually

GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES ON INTERNAL MEDICINE:
Chair: Geoffrey Metz

Generalists are needed more than ever -Presentation (134KB)
Rolf Streuli

Recent activities and hopes for the future of the International Society of Internal Medicine
Charles Hind

Overseas Trained Physicians in Australia: Equivalent or not? -Presentation (243KB)
Napier Thomson

END OF LIFE ISSUES FOR PATIENTS, FAMILIES AND DOCTORS:
Chair: Will Cairns

Supporting dying people and their families
William Cairns

The impact and management of existential distress in dying patients
Peter Ravenscroft

Workshop: Clinical practice improvement in the real world -Presentation 1 (1.3MB)
Presentation 2 (484KB)
Christopher Ashton, Geoffrey Hardacre, Peter Rankin
Chair: Jill Sewell

CLINICAL SESSION - HYPERTENSION:
Chair: Ian Scott

New Australian guidelines for hypertension management
Karen Duggan

ALLHAT and ANBP2: Reconciling conflicting evidence -Presentation (893KB)
Lindon Wing

Secondary prevention after HOPE, HPS and EUROPA -Presentation (1.04MB)
Garry Jennings

PAIN MEDICINE

Presented by the Faculty of Pain Management
Chair: David Champion

Pain as a disease entity -Presentation (1.65MB)
Michael Cousins

Recent advances in pain measurement and therapy
Robert Helme

TRANSITION TO ADULT HEALTH CARE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE WITH CHRONIC ILLNESS

Presented by the Centre of Adolescent Health
Chair: Susan Sawyer

Why all the fuss? -Presentation 153KB)
Susan Sawyer

Spina Bifida: a disease-specific transition model -Presentation (47KB)
Carolyn West

Transition Care for Young People with Chronic Childhood Illness -Presentation (60KB)
John Dwyer

SUNRISE SESSION:

Sexual health
Frank Bowden -Presentation (573KB)

Acute stroke management -Presentation (1.97MB)
Chris Levi

Toxicology -Presentation (844KB)
Nicholas Buckley

Update in alcohol and drug topics for the office physician -Presentation (63KB)
Michael Tedeschi

RENAL PROTECTION

Presented by the Australian and New Zealand Society of Nephrology
Chair: Michael Falk

Prevalence of kidney disease in the general Australian population
Alan Cass

Dietary intervention in chronic kidney disease: could it reduce cardiovascular death
Paul Snelling

Evidence based management across the spectrum of chronic kidney disease
Bruce Cooper

CARING FOR THE OLDER PATIENT

Presented by the Australian Society for Geriatric Medicine
Chair: Michael Davies

How should we treat older patients -Presentation (440KB)
Len Gray

Alternatives to hospitalisation for older people
Gideon Gaplan

Technology in aged care in the community
Marc Budge

EARLY MULTIDISCIPLINARY CARE ASSESSMENT: NEW GENERALIST MODELS OF CARE
Chair: Cameron Bennett

MAPping the way ahead: experiences from Auckland Hospital's Admission & Planning Unit -Presentation (829KB)
John Henley

The enhanced multidisciplinary care (EMC) project -Presentation 188KB)
Alison Mudge

HOT clinics: implementation of an acute referral service for general medical outpatients -Presentation (61KB)
Lorna Kratzing

INTENSIVE CARE MEDICINE

Presented by the Joint Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine
Chair: Imogen Mitchell

Normoglycaemia in the critically ill - does it save lives?
Simon Finfer

Steroids in the critically ill
Anne Leditschke

Do the ILs make you ill? -Presentation (1.8MB)
John Fraser

HOW BEST TO DELIVER AND FUND CARE OF THE CHRONICALLY ILL:
Chair: Graeme Rossiter

New models of extended care -Presentation (174KB)
John Walsh

Patient self-management
Alan Cass

Should self-management be made widely available in Australia?
Richard Osborne

Regionalised specialist services -Presentation (887KB)
Russell Gruen

UPDATE IN THORACIC MEDICINE

Presented by the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand
Chair: Bill Burke

Asthma therapy: anti-inflammatory and beta-agonist strategies -Presentation (483KB)
Helen Reddel

Community acquired pneumonia
Paul Torzillo

Managing lung cancer in 2004 - a cause for dispair or cautious optimism? -Presentation (1.97MB)
David Barnes

MEDICAL CONTROVERSIES:
Chair: Peter Greenberg

Polypills in cardiovascular disease: pipe protectors or pipe dreams?
Paul Dugdale and Rodney Jackson -Presentation (17KB)

Local thrombolysis or rapid transfer for primary angioplasty - what's best for patients with STEMI?
Ahmad Farshid and Gerard Carroll -Presentation (71KB)

MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ON TRIAL:

Clinical investigations: how best to use them
Bruce Robinson

Missing technologies: towards an evidence-based research agenda -Presentation (191KB)
Sally Green

POEMS or PROSE: dealing with spin in determining optimal care -Presentation (862KB)
Ian Scott

RURAL AND REMOTE FORUM

Presented by the RACP Rural Taskforce
Chair: Rick McLean

The Royal Australasian College of Surgeons’ approach to its rural workforce
-Presentation (47KB)
David Thompson

Possible interfaces between the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine and the RACP -Presentation (324KB)
Bruce Chater

TBA
Robert Wells

RECONCILING STANDARDS, VALUES AND RESOURCES:
Chair: Ian Scott

High-cost drugs - what are the prescriber's responsibilities? -Presentation (94KB)
David Henry

Targeting at-risk populations to maximise return on investment -Presentation (547KB)
John McNeil

Integrating patient values and preferences into resource allocation -Presentation (108KB)
Jeffrey Richardson

Clinicial Quiz
Ramesh Nagappan

Finding the evidence -Presentation (1.02MB)
Sepehr Shakib and Ruth Sladek
Chair: Joe Ibrahim