Trainees’ Day – HPB, Liver & Bariatrics
- Wednesday 15 October
- 08:30 – 17:15
- Bellevue Level 3 – Perth Convention & Exhibition Centre
SESSION ONE – HPB & LIVER
8:30 Acknowledgement of Country and Welcome
8:45 Management of severe pancreatitis complications – Dr Joshua Salim
9:05 Bile duct injury management – A/Prof Mark Brooke-Smith
9:25 Workup and management of NET – Dr Alistair Rowcroft
9:45 Navigating Solid liver tumours imaging for surgeons – Dr Chandra Hewavitharana
10:05 Q+A
10:15 – 10:45- MORNING TEA
SESSION TWO – OESOPHAGO-GASTRIC SURGERY
10:45 Oesophago-Gastric cancer: Key practice changing studies – Prof Arul Immanuel
11:15 Oesophago-Gastric motility disorder and its surgical management – Dr Sanjeeva Kariyawasam
11:35 Pain for patient and surgeon: compressive vascular mesenteric disorders – Dr Linda Vu
11:55 Nutritional deficiencies post bariatric surgery – Dr Samantha Hodge
12:15 Panel
12:30 – 13:15 LUNCH
SESSION THREE – BARIATRICS
13:15 Beyond the three procedures. A structural understanding and classification – Prof Jeff Hamdorf
13:35 GIST update and management – Dr Leigh Archer
13:55 101 Management of bariatric post op complications – Dr Jonathan Foo
14:15 What is wrong with me doc? Chronic complications of Bariatric surgery – Dr Candice silverman
14:35 Panel
14:50 -15:15 AFTERNOON TEA
EXAM – SPOT VIVAS (BREAK INTO GROUPS)
15:15 – 17:15:00
Spots junior UGI; Short vivas: Seniors *UGI bleeding, manage-endoscop-surgery; Foreign body battery – perforated-Pathophys-manage
17:15 Trainees’ Day Concludes
Training Requirement
Completion of the Trainees’ Day program for eligible General Surgery Trainees will count towards satisfactory completion of one (1) national educational activity as per the Regulations for the SET Program in General Surgery (Regulation 4.10 – National Educational Activities) and the Regulations for the GSET Program (Regulation 13.3 – National Training Activities).
Format & Recordings
This is an in-person event, however the lecture component of the program will be recorded, and, provided speaker-consent is given, securely stored on the members-only area of the GSA website for on-demand viewing. Please note that it can take up to six weeks before recordings become available.
