8.00am - Registration Desk opens
8.45am - Welcome & Introduction -
Dr Milton Sales , HPMI Program Committee Chair
8.55 AM
Plenary - Treatment of Anxiety Disorders
Conjoint Associate Professor Lisa Lampe, Discipline of Psychiatry, University of Newcastle, and Staff Specialist Psychiatrist, Specialist Coordinator of Training, HNE RANZCP Psychiatry Training Program
8.15 AM - 9.45 AM
ESTRADIOL IMPLANT WORKSHOP
Conjoint Professor Katie Wynne
Senior Staff Specialist, Diabetes and Endocrinology, JHH
Dr Jo Mesure
Sexual Health Physician, Newcastle Community Health Centre
10.00 AM
SUPPORTING THE PATIENT EXPERIENCING DOMESTIC & FAMILY VIOLENCE
Dr Alison Lancey
General Practitioner, Deputy Head of Training (Hunter, Manning & Central Coast) RACGP
Chloe Hope
Domestic and Family Violence Local Link for Port Stephens Hunter Valley
Available to stream online
10.00 AM
HOW TO MINGLE WITHOUT MALAARIA AND DANCE WITHOUT DENGUE: TRAVEL MEDICINE FOR EXPLORERS YOUNG AND OLD
Dr Coen Butters
General Paediatrician and Paediatric Infectious Diseases Physician, JHH and Newcastle Paediatric Clinic
Available to stream online
or
10.00 AM
SEXUAL HEALTH UPDATE -
HIV PrEP, doxy-PEP and Mpox
Dr Jo Mesure
Sexual Health Physician, Newcastle Community Health Centre
or
11.00 AM MORNING TEA BREAK & TRADE DISPLAYS
11.40 AM
CHILD ABUSE
Dr Chris Vedeler, Paediatrician, Paediatrician, Child Protection Team, JHCH
Helen Bell, Child Protection Clinical Nurse Consultant, JHCH
Available to stream online
11.40 AM
WEIGHT LOSS SURGERY
Dr Manjunath Siddaiah-Subramanya
Oesophago- Bariatric and General Surgeon, Director, Precision Upper GI Surgery, Lorn and Bankstown
Conjoint Upper GI Surgeon, SSWLHD.
Available to stream online
or
12.45 PM
BIPOLAR DISORDER
Psychological Strategies
Dr Stephen Hirneth,
Clinical Psychologist, Director, New Ability Health, Hamilton
Available to stream online
12.45 PM
PUBLIC HEALTH UPDATE; FROM AVIAN (FLU) TO ZIKA
Dr Peter Massey
Clinical Nurse Consultant, Clinical Leader Communicable Diseases, Hunter Nee England Population Health, Wallsend
Available to stream online
or
11.40 AM - 1.45 PM
ESTRADIOL IMPLANT WORKSHOP
Practical Hands-on session where participants will learn about Estradiol implants as a part of Gender Affirming Hormone Therapy (GAHT)
Learning Outcomes include
• identifying the indications for estradiol implant
• deciding on estradiol implant dose and interval
• effectively consenting a patient for implant insertion
• demonstrating effective estradiol implant insertion in a simulated context
Conjoint Professor Katie Wynne
Senior Staff Specialist, Diabetes and Endocrinology, JHH
Dr Jo Mesure
Sexual Health Physician, Newcastle Community Health Centre
or
1.45 PM LUNCH BREAK & TRADE DISPLAYS
2.30 PM
(2 HOUR SESSION)
ADDICTION MEDICINE
INTERACTIVE CASE PRESENTATION AND PANEL DISCUSSION
Chair - Dr Milton Sales OAM
Practice Principal and General Practitioner, Brunker Road General Practice, Adamstown
Professor Adrian Dunlop,
Director and Senior Staff Specialist, Drug and Alcohol Clinical Services, HNELD
Dr Arvind Kendurkar,
Psychiatrist, Toronto PrivateHospital and John Hunter Hospital
Dr Sharn Cummings
Addiction Medicine Advanced trainee HNE LHD, Addiction medicine VMO MNC LHD, General Practitioner
2.30 PM
(2 Hour Session)
GASTROENTEROLOGY
INTERACTIVE CASE PRESENTATION
Chair - Dr Ehsan Mozafari,
HPMI Medical Education Co-ordinator & General Practitioner, Family Circle Medical Practice, Hamilton
Dr Robert Gibson,
Gastroenterologist and Hepatologist, Hunter Gastroenterology, Broadmeadow and JHH
or
2.30 PM
(2.5 Hour Session)
CPR
Dr Simon Gould
Principal Instructor,
Medics for Life
or
MEETING CLOSE
SUNDAY 4 AUGUST 2024
8.30am - Registration Desk opens
9.00 AM
(2 HOUR SESSION)
LIFESTYLE MEDICINE
INTERACTIVE CASE PRESENTATION
Chair - Dr Ehsan Mozafari, HPMI Medical Education Co-ordinator & General Practitioner, Family Circle Medical Practice, Hamilton
Dr Emma Campbell,
General Practitioner, ATUNE Health Centre Cardiff
9.00 AM
(2 HOUR SESSION)
PAIN MEDICINE
INTERACTIVE CASE PRESENTATION
Chair - TBC
Dr Willem Volschenk,
Specialist Pain Medicine Physician, Hunter Pain Specialists, Broadmeadow
or
9.00 AM
(2 HOUR SESSION)
MIRENA
A practical session where participants learn how to assess a patient for the use of a Mirena inter-uterine device
Dr Milton Sales OAM
Practice Principal and General Practitioner, Brunker Road General Practice, Adamstown
or
11.00 AM MORNING TEA BREAK & TRADE DISPLAYS
11.40 AM
(2 HOUR SESSION)
ADOLESCENT MENTAL HEALTH
INTERACTIVE CASE PRESENTATION
Chair - Dr Ehsan Mozafari, HPMI Medical Education Co-ordinator & General Practitioner, Family Circle Medical Practice, Hamilton
Dr Deepika Yerrakalva, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Acting Clinical Director, HNELHD Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
Dr Taya Dowling, Staff Specialist Paediatrician, John Hunter Children's Hospital
Katherine Bartlett, Clinical Psychologist, Myrtle Oak
11.40 AM
(2 HOUR SESSION)
HAEMATOLOGY
INTERACTIVE CASE PRESENTATION
Chair -
Dr Jonathan Sillar,
Haematologist, Hunter Valley Haematology Cooks Hill and Staff Specialist Haematologist, Calvary Mater Newcastle
Dr Karan Makhija,
Haematologist, Hunter Valley Haematology, Cooks Hill and Staff Specialist Haematology
or
11.40 AM
(2 HOUR SESSION)
MIRENA
A practical session where participants learn how to assess a patient for the use of a Mirena inter-uterine device
Dr Milton Sales OAM
Practice Principal and General Practitioner, Brunker Road General Practice, Adamstown
1.45 PM LUNCH BREAK & TRADE DISPLAYS
2.30 PM
(2 HOUR SESSION)
EMERGING NEURODEGENERATION
INTERACTIVE CASE PRESENTATION AND PANEL DISCUSSION
Chair - Dr Ehsan Mozafari, HPMI Medical Education Co-ordinator & General Practitioner, Family Circle Medical Practice, Hamilton
Dr Elizabeth Pepper,
Director of Neurology and Neurology Staff Specialist, JHH
Evelyn Collins,
Parkinson's Disease Co-ordinator, Clinical Nurse Consultant, Neurology Department, JHH
Dr Penny Webster,
Staff Specialist Geriatric Medicine, CAPAC Service & GNC
2.30 PM
(2 HOUR SESSION)
THE BREATHLESS
PATIENT
INTERACTIVE CASE PRESENTATION
Chair - Dr Milton Sales, Practice Principal and General Practitioner, Brunker Road General Practice, Adamstown
Dr Shyamala Pradeepan,
Senior Staff Specialist, Department of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, John Hunter Hospital and Sleep Medicine Medical Practice, Charlestown
Dr Rohan Bhagwandeen,
Cardiologist, Clinical Lead Tavi Program, John Hunter and Lake Macquarie Private Hospitals and Director, Newcastle Heart
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