Approved for RANZCOG CPD 2023, Domains & hours: EA: 14.00
The program below is subject to change. Please check this page regularly.
Thursday 17 October 2024View the Pre-Congress Sessions programs here |
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| 08.30 – 12.30 | Maternal Fetal Medicine Colloquium – Grand Ballroom 1 |
| 13.30 – 16.35 | Haematology in Obstetrics and Women’s Health Meeting – Grand Ballroom 1 |
| 13.30 – 17.00 | Australian/Aotearoa New Zealand Preeclampsia Network Meeting – Grand Ballroom 2 |
| 18.30 | Dinner at The Winery, Surry Hills Level 1, 285A Crown Street, Surry Hills 2010 Please make your own way to and from the dinner (20 min. walk) |
Friday 18 October 2024 |
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| 07.30 | Registration | Level 2 Foyer |
| 08.20 – 08.35 | International Joint Congress Opening |
| Room | Grand Ballroom 1 |
| Chair | Dr Amanda Beech |
| Welcome to Country
Yvonne Weldon AM – Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council |
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| Welcome to the Congress
A/Professor Stefan Kane – SOMANZ President |
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| 08.35 – 10.30 | Session 1 |
| 08.35 – 09.20 | Opening Plenary |
| Chairs | A/Professor Kenneth Chen & A/Professor Stefan Kane |
| Maternal morbidity and mortality: Global perspectives and MBRRACE
Professor Catherine Nelson-Piercy |
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| 09.20 – 10.30 | Regional Perspectives on Maternal Morbidity and Mortality |
| 09.20 – 09.30 | International Travel Grant Recipient Presentation Maternal Medicine – Papua New Guinea | Dr Marilyn Morris |
| 09.30 – 09.40 | International Travel Grant Recipient Presentation Maternal Medicine – American Samoa | Dr Virisila Sema |
| 09.40 – 10.05 | Preeclampsia and hypertension in pregnancy screening, risk factors and predictors for First Nations women of Australia – Where is the data?
Dr Marilyn Clarke |
| 10.05 – 10.30 | Global Maternal Health: Māori and Pacifica
Professor Bev Lawton |
| 10.30 – 11.00 | Morning Tea, Exhibition and Friday Poster Viewing Session | Grand Ballroom 2 & Level 2 Foyer |
| 11.00 – 12.30 | Session 2 |
| Room | Grand Ballroom 1 |
| Chairs | A/Professor Sandra Lowe & Dr Keeri Young |
| 11.00 – 11.30 | Obesity in pregnancy and the impact of weight gain
Professor Jodie Dodd |
| 11.30 – 12.00 | Diabetes in pregnancy: New targets, technologies, and therapies
Dr Arianne Sweeting |
| 12.00 – 12.30 | Oral Presentations |
| 12.00 – 12.10 | Pregnancy and offspring outcomes according to pre-pregnancy bariatric surgery to conception interval
A/Professor Helen Barrett |
| 12.10 – 12.20 | Continuous glucose monitoring and perinatal outcomes across diabetes in pregnancy: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Jessica Burk |
| 12.20 – 12.30 | Investigating opportunities to prevent Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus after Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: the DIVINE-NSW study
Dr Vivian Lee |
| 12.30 – 13.30 | Lunch, Exhibition and Posters | Grand Ballroom 2 & Level 2 Foyer ISOM AGM | Grand Ballroom 1, followed by Obstetric Medicine Journal Editorial Board Meeting | Grand Ballroom 1 |
| 13.30 – 15.30 | Session 3 |
| Room | Grand Ballroom 1 |
| Chair | Professor Amanda Henry & Dr Arunima Jain |
| 13.30 – 14.00 | Management of acute and stable ischaemic heart disease in pregnancy
Associate Professor Paul Gibson |
| 14.00 – 14.30 | Critical care support and the obstetric cardiac patient
Dr Stephen Lapinsky |
| 14.30 – 15.00 | What’s new in genetics for the pre-pregnancy consultation?
Professor Lisa Hui |
| 15.00 – 15.30 | Oral Presentations |
| 15.00 – 15.10 | Core Outcome Set for Research on Critically Ill Obstetric Patients (COSCO): an international consensus study
Dr Stephen Lapinksy |
| 15.10 – 15.20 | Medical obstetrics at home service: Reducing readmissions by providing care at home
Dr Siaw Hui Wong & Seda Kiroglu |
| 15.20 – 15.30 | Improving healthcare provider capacity to implement evidence-based care following Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy.
Jennifer Green |
| 15.30 – 16.00 | Afternoon Tea, Exhibition and Posters | Grand Ballroom 2 & Level 2 Foyer |
| 16.00 – 17.00 | Session 4 |
| Room | Grand Ballroom 1 |
| Chair | Dr Amanda Beech |
| Panel Discussion: Challenging cases in obstetric medicine
Dr Jolene Ng – Case 1 Professor Catherine Nelson-Piercy – Obstetric Physician |
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| 17.00 – 18.30 | Welcome Reception Level 2 Foyer, Sheraton Grand Sydney Hyde Park |
Saturday 19 October 2024 |
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| 07.45 – 08.45 |  The Vital Role of Maternity Health care workers in RSV Prevention Through A New Maternal Vaccine
Dr Karin Lust, Dr Nusrat Homaira & Noor Al-Adhami Pfizer Sponsored Commercial Symposia | Hyde Park Room |
| 08.30 | Registration | Level 2 Foyer |
| 09.00 – 10.30 | Session 5 |
| Room | Grand Ballroom 1 |
| Chairs | A/Professor Renuka Shanmugalingam & Dr Natalie Cromer |
| 09.00 – 09.45 | Antiphospholipid Syndrome in Pregnancy
Professor Catherine Nelson-Piercy |
| 09.45 – 10.05 | Haematological malignancies in pregnancy
Dr Giselle Kidson-Gerber |
| 10.05 – 10.30 | NIPT detecting incidental malignancies – incidence, implications and follow up
Dr Franki Hart |
| 10.30 – 11.00 | Morning Tea, Exhibition and Saturday/Sunday Poster Viewing Session | Grand Ballroom 2 & Level 2 Foyer |
| 11.00 – 13.00 | Session 6 |
| Room | Grand Ballroom 1 |
| Chairs | Professor Natalie Hannan & Dr Natasha De Alwis |
| 11.00 – 11.20 | Fertility treatments in the medically complicated patient
Dr Charlotte Frise |
| 11.20 – 11.40 | Medication safety in the preconception; partner health
Dr Natalie Cromer |
| 11.40 – 12.10 | Vascular Emergencies in Pregnancy
Professor Richard Gibbs |
| 12.10 – 12.30 | Optimising the interpregnancy interval
Associate Professor Amanda Henry |
| 12.30 – 13.00 | Oral Presentations |
| 12.30 – 12.40 | Perinatal outcomes according to treatment targets for gestational diabetes: a multi-centre retrospective cohort study
Dr Stephanie Montalto |
| 12.40 – 12.50 | Use of teratogenic medications in women of reproductive age and concurrent contraception use
A/Professor Luke Grzeskowiak |
| 12.50 – 13.00 | Mental health of women after hypertensive pregnancy: the Blood Pressure Postpartum (BP2) randomized controlled trial
Jie Shang |
| 13.00 – 14.00 | Lunch, Exhibition and Posters | Grand Ballroom 2 & Level 2 Foyer SOMANZ AGM | Grand Ballroom 1 |
| 14.00 – 15.30 | Session 7 |
| Room | Grand Ballroom 1 |
| Chair | Dr Juliana Ding & Dr Ann-Maree Craven |
| 14.00 – 14.30 | Updates in inflammatory bowel disease in pregnancy
Dr Aysha Al-Ani |
| 14.30 – 15.00 | Molecular Genomics and the Obstetric Physician
Professor Catherine Williamson |
| 15.00 – 15.30 | Oral Presentations |
| 15.00 – 15.10 | Evaluation of a cohort of pregnant women with cystic fibrosis and their outcomes
Dr Maleeka Ladhani |
| 15.10 – 15.20 | Deaths in England in the first trimester of pregnancy: national patterns and safety recommendations
Dr Vidya Shyam-sundar |
| 15.20 – 15.30 | Does nutritional deficiency exist in patients with Hyperemesis Gravidarum and contribute to adverse outcomes?
Dr Melanie Nana |
| 15.30 – 16.00 | Afternoon Tea, Exhibition and Posters | Grand Ballroom 2 & Level 2 Foyer |
| 16.00 – 17.05 | Session 8 |
| Room | Grand Ballroom 1 |
| 16.00 – 16.25 | Rapid fire poster presentations |
| Chairs | A/Professor Kenneth Chen & A/Professor Karin Lust |
| 16.00 – 16.06 | Think beyond sepsis: Common themes from 2 maternal deaths secondary to haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis
Dr Louise Page |
| 16.06 – 16.12 | Birch Clinic. Birth related cardiovascular health clinic, a model of shared and flexible practice
Dr Valentyna Koval & Dr Jennifer Kask |
| 16.12 – 16.18 | Disease burden of children born to kidney transplanted women from birth and beyond
Dr Nishanta Tangirala |
| 16.18 – 16.24 | Home versus clinic BP monitoring in hypertensive disorders of pregnancy: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Dr Jolene Ng |
| Plenary Presentation | |
| 16.25 – 17.05 | Artificial Intelligence in Clinical Practice: Opportunities and Challenges
Professor Karin Verspoor |
| 19.00 – 22.30 | Congress Dinner – “A Touch of Sparkle” The Strangers’ Room, NSW Parliament House 6 Macquarie Street, Sydney Please make your own way to and from the dinner (10 min. walk) |
Sunday 20 October 2024 |
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| 08.15 | Registration | Level 2 Foyer |
| 08.45 – 11.00 | Session 9 |
| Room | Grand Ballroom 1 |
| 08.45 – 09.30 | Priscilla Kincaid-Smith Lecture |
| Chairs | A/Professor Stefan Kane & Dr Theepika Rajkumar |
| Tackling preeclampsia and its aftermath: Innovative strategies to understand and treat the underlying pathology
Professor Natalie Hannan |
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| 09.30 – 10.00 | Oral Presentations |
| 09.30 – 09.40 | Comparison of patient characteristics and outcomes of pregnancy-related acute kidney injury: An Australian data-linkage study
Dr Arunima Jain |
| 09.40 – 09.50 | Blood pressure and cardiovascular risk 5 years following preeclamptic versus normotensive pregnancy: The P4 study
Claire Shi |
| 09.50 – 10.00 | Impact of Obstetric Medicine Services in a University Teaching Hospital in South India
Dr Sudha Jasmine Rajan |
| Plenary Presentations | |
| 10.00 – 10.30 | Long term kidney outcomes after PET
A/Professor Renuka Shanmugalingam |
| 10.30 – 11.00 | From Bench to Bedside: Maternity Early Warning Scores Research and the Journey to National Adoption in the UK
Dr Lucy Mackillop |
| 11.00 – 11.30 | Morning Tea, Exhibition and Posters | Grand Ballroom 2 & Level 2 Foyer Local and International Trainee Meet and Greet | Hyde Park Room |
| 11.30 – 12.40 | Session 10 |
| Room | Grand Ballroom 1 |
| Chair | Dr Ian Kando & A/Professor Helen Barrett |
| 11.30 – 12.00 | Headaches – a pain in the proverbial
Dr Stephanie Cox |
| 12.00 – 12.30 | International approaches to recognising obstetric medicine
Dr Rebekah Shakhovskoy – Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand |
| 12.30 – 12.40 | ObMed Educational Survey and Launch of an Early Career Obstetric Physician Group
Dr Melanie Nana |
| 12.40 – 1.00 | International Joint Congress Closing |
| Room | Grand Ballroom 1 |
| Chair | Dr Amanda Beech |
| Awards and Presentations | |
| Closing and thanks | |
| 13.00 | Farewell Lunch | Level 2 Foyer |