Day 2 – Friday 17 October

- 08:30 – 17:30
- Bellevue Ballroom Level 3
Perth Convention & Exhibition Centre
HPB Concurrent Program
SESSION ONE – LIVER METS
8:30 Divestment surgery for advanced pancreatic cancer – Prof Shailesh Shrikhande
8:45 Long term outcomes of vascular resection – Prof Shailesh Shrikhande
9:00 Shunts in pancreatic surgery – Prof Jas Samara
9:20 Panel Discussion
9:30 What is the value of a pancreatic registry? Dr Benjamin Loveday
9:45 Delphi Consensus Statement: Round 3
10:30 – 11:00 Morning Tea with Industry
SESSION TWO – HPB VIDEO CASES
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11:00 Pancreatic divestment – Prof Shailesh Shrikhande
11:20 Minimally invasive vessel preserving distal pancreatectomy – Dr David Cavaluci
11:40 Lap Lateral Pancreaticojejunostomy – TBC
12:00 laparoscopic anterior approach liver resection – Dr Emily Olive
12:20 Robotic Right Hemihepatectomy: “The Leeds Way” – Dr Marwan Idrees
12:40 Lap partial splenectomy – A/Prof Nicholas O’Rourke
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch with Industry
SESSION THREE – RESEARCH PAPERS – GSA & HPBA COMBINED
14:00 Tumour-infiltrating lymphocytes in resected pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma: first Australian prognostic insights – Dr Harine Siribaddana
14:05 Abdominal wall hernia repair combined with panniculectomy reduces hernia recurrence rates. – Dr Thomas Mackay
14:10 Unlocking cdcp1: A theranostic approach to improve detection of cholangiocarcinoma –
Dr Lash Wickramasuriya
14:15 The subtotal cholecystectomy bailout: Fenestrating vs reconstituting in the difficult gallbladder – Dr Chantal Campbell
14:20 Meckel’s diverticulum in adults: malignancy risk and surgical outcomes to guide operative decision-making – a systematic review – Dr Renita Yang
14:25 Fluid bilirubin to diagnose bile leak – Dr Jessica Au
14:30 An artificial intelligence scribe improves efficiency in a rural surgical clinic: a prospective comparative trial in rural Australia – Dr Gavin Carmichael
14:35 An institutional experience of total neoadjuvant therapy in rectal cancer in Australia –
Dr Yunfei Qiu
14:40 A case for surgical bile duct exploration (spyglass) in a regional centre – Dr Caitlin Sorour
14:45 Loss of diffusion restriction predicts complete response in HCC post SIRT – Dr Kah Heng Alexander Lim
15:00 Role of trans-cystic stenting in management of choledocholithiasis during cholecystectomy –
Dr Matthew Marshall-Webb
15:30 – 16:00 Afternoon Tea with Industry
SESSION FOUR – ADVANCED PANCREATIC CANCER
15:45 Colorectal Cancer chip and burn: How many is too many? Prof Benjamin Thomson
16:05 Update on non CRC non NET liver mets resection – Prof Pablo E Serrano
16:25 Transplantation in liver METS – Prof Arul Suthananthan
16:45 Navigational surgery – Prof Jonathan Koea
17:05 Recurrent CRC Liver METS: When to re-resect? – Dr Alistair Rowcroft
17:30 Day 2 Meeting Conclusion
19:00 Combined Gala Dinner
