IMSANZ 2017
 

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAME

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Wednesday 1 March 2017

2.00pm - 5.00pm Supervisors Workshop: SPDP 3
5.00pm - 6.30pm Registration Opens
5.30pm - 8.00pm Welcome Dinner

Thursday 2 March 2017

7.00am - 5.00pm Registration
8.00am - 8.30am Welcome and Mihi Whakatau
SESSION 1: CHALLENGES ON THE WARD ROUND
Session Chair: Robyn Toomath
8.30am - 9.00am Acute Vertigo
Jeremy Lanford, Capital & Coast DHB
9.00am - 9.30am The Surgical Referral - Too Little, Too Late!
Denise Aitken, Lakes DHB
9.30am - 10.00am Tackling Polypharmacy On The Ward Round
Chris Cameron, Capital & Coast DHB
10.00am - 10.30am Morning Tea
SESSION 2: THE DETERIORATING INPATIENT
Session Chair: Dorothy Dinesh
10.30am - 10.55am The Deteriorating Patient & The HQSC
Alex Psirides, Capital & Coast DHB
10.55am - 11.20pm Looking After Our Sicker Patients: Who and How?
David TrippCapital & Coast DHB
11.20am - 11.45am Goals Of Care: Choosing The Best Medicine
Mark Beehre,
 Capital & Coast DHB
11.45am - 12.10pm Communication Around Treatment Choices 
Jonathan Adler, Capital & Coast DHB
12.10pm - 12.30pm Panel Discussion
12.30pm - 1.30pm Lunch
SESSION 3: UPDATES
Session Chair: Michelle Downie
1.30pm - 2.00pm Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome
Jenny Butler, Canterbury DHB
2.00pm - 2.30pm PregnancyAnd The General Physician
Eileen BassHawke's Bay DHB
2.30pm - 3.00pm Acute Stroke & TIA Update
Anna Ranta. Capital & Coast DHB
3.00pm - 3.30pm Afternoon Tea
SESSION 4: UPDATES
Session Chair: Sisira Jayathissa
3.30pm - 4.00pm
Macro-Economic Determinants Of Body Size
Robyn Toomath, Auckland DHB
4.00pm - 4.30pm Electronic Cigarettes
George LakingAuckland DHB
4.30pm - 4.45pm New Zealand Risk Feeding Guideline For Adults With Severe Oro-pharyngeal Dysphagia 
Louise McHutchison, Hutt Valley DHB
4.45pm - 5.00pm Is A Standard 1g Dose Of Intravenous Iron Adequate For Outpatient Treatment?
Syarihan Karim, Canterbury DHB

7.00pm Conference Dinner (see social events page for information )

Friday 3 March 2017

7.30am - 3.30pm Registration
SESSION 5: TRAINEE & MEMBER PRESENTATIONS
Session Chair: Chris Cameron
8.00am - 8.15am Acute Stroke In Māori Patients At Tauranga Hospital: Characteristics And Outcomes
Fredolin Lainis, Bay of Plenty DHB
8.15am - 8.30am Audit Of The Medical Management Of Severe Hyperkalaemia At Hawke's Bay Hospital
Michael Halstead, Hawke's Bay DHB
8.30am - 8.45am Bedside Testing For Autonomic Neuropathy: A Case Report
Jordan Fuzi, University of Newcastle
8.45am - 9.00am Hickam’s Dictum : Two Atypical Presentations Of Myasthenia Gravis In Graves’ Disease
Roshan Xavier Rebello, Waikato DHB
9.00am - 9.15am RADAR— A Novel Tool For Meta-Audit Applied To Adult Internal Medicine Clinical Audit At Hutt Hospital From 1996-2015
Philip Daniel, Capital & Coast DHB
9.15am - 9.30am Simple Interventions Improving Sepsis Treatment 
Anthony Hall, Lakes DHB
9.30am - 9.45am Evaluation Of Post-Discharge Pharmacist-Only Review In A General Medicine Ambulatory Care Setting 
Eleanor van Dyke, Alfred Health
9.45am - 10.00am An Examination Of Acute Medical Units In Scottish Hospitals 
Lindsay Reid, Counties Manukau DHB
10.00am - 10.30am Morning Tea
SESSION 6: UPDATES... MORE FUNCTIONAL MEDICINE
Session Chair: Eileen Bass
10.30am - 11.00am Unusual Headaches
Ian Rosemergy, Capital & Coast DHB
11.00am - 11.30am Opiates And Chronic Pain
Paul Hardy, Capital & Coast DHB
11.30am - 12.00pm Towards More Integrated Care - Challenges In Unexplained Medical Symptoms. Is It Still All René’s Fault?
Peter Ellis, The University of Otago
12.00pm - 12.30pm Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders
Chris Cederwall, Capital & Coast DHB
12.30pm - 1.30pm Lunch
SESSION 7: CONTROVERSIES & REFLECTIONS
Session Chair: Mark Beehre
1.30pm - 2.00pm ACS And The Elderly: What Do We Do, What Should We Do?
Chris AndersenCapital & Coast DHB
2.00pm - 2.30pm Trouble With Families
David Spriggs, Auckland DHB
2.30pm - 3.00pm The Asthma & Respiratory Foundation (New Zealand) Adult Asthma Guidelines: A Quick Reference Guide 
Richard Beasley, MRINZ
3.00pm - 3.30pm Euthanasia And Physician Assisted Dying
George Laking, Auckland DHB
3.30pm Closing