Programme

Updated: 22 October 2019

Tuesday 26 November

Time	Session
5.00pm - 9.30pm	NZ Hepatology Network Meeting Shed 6, Wellington
5.00pm	Arrival, networking and registration
6.00pm	Welcome *John Perry*
6.05pm	The Boston Tea Party (The AASLD Update) *Ed Gane*
6.35pm	Thrombotic complications and liver disease - to anticoagulate or not? *Jeffrey Wong*
7.00pm	Dinner Served
7.30pm	HCV screen in pharmacies - results from the pilot study *Natalie Gauld*
7.50pm	Trials update - Auckland Clinical Studies *ACS*
8.00pm	Coffee and Dessert Served
8.15pm	Cases and panel discussion
9.00pm	Conclusion and thanks followed by networking
9.30pm	Close

Wednesday 27 November

Time

Session

8.00 - 9.00

Clinical leaders meeting

8.30 - 9.45

Delegate arrival and registration

10.00 - 10.15

Welcome
Ben Griffiths

President NZSG and Chairperson NZGNC
Malcolm Arnold, Karen Clarke

Session 1: General plenary session
Chairs: Malcolm Arnold & Karen Clarke

10.15 - 10.40

What is a quality colonoscopy?
David Hewett

10.40 - 11.05

What is a quality endoscopy unit?
Di Jones

11.05 - 11.30

The interplay of microbiome and immune response in health and disease
Olivier Gasser

11.30 - 11.55

IBD nurse education/training
Lydia White

11.55 - 12.15

Patient advocacy
Allyson Bain & Nicole Thornton

12.15 - 1.00

Lunch & Exhibition

Session 2: General plenary session
Chairs: Rees Cameron & David Rowbotham

1.00 - 1.25

Trans-Tasman Lecture
The Changing Treatment Landscape of Unresectable Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Simone Strasser

1.25 - 1.50

NOTES - the Zhongshan hospital experience
Mingyan Cai

1.50 - 2.15

'Fulfilling a need' - with a hospital nutrition support service
Jeremy Woodward

2.15 - 2.35

Hereditary Gastric Cancer
Ann Framp

2.35 - 3.00

Eru Pomare Lecture
The cost of medicine
John Wyeth

3.00 - 3.30

Afternoon Tea & Exhibition

Session 3A: IBD
Chairs: Marian O'Connor & James Falvey

Session 3B: Liver
Chairs: Estella Johns & Arjun Sugumaran

Session 3C: Endoscopy
Chairs: Tom Boswell & Magda Metzner

3.30 - 3.55

What I do when anti-TNFs fail
Charles Bernstein

3.30 - 3.55

Impacts of the Obesity epidemic on Liver Transplantation
Simone Strasser

3.30 - 3.45

UGIB scoring systems
Jeffrey Ngu

3.55 - 4.15

The older IBD patient
Lydia White

3.55 - 4.15

PSC
Dominic Ray-Chandhuri

3.45 - 4.05

Non-variceal upper GI bleeding
Steven Ding

4.15 - 4.30

Isolated TI disease - when to medicate, when to amputate
Richard Gearry

4.15 - 4.40

HBV update
Tien Huey Lim

4.05 - 4.25

Management of uncontrolled and recurrent variceal bleeding
David Orr

4.30-4.45

Withdrawal of drug therapy in inactive Crohn's
Stephen Inns

4.40 - 5.00

Nursing aspects of the (young) liver transplant patient
Barry Harrison

4.25 - 4.45

'Access all areas' - endoscopic techniques in enteral feeding
Jeremy Woodward

4.45-5.00

Best Luminal Paper
Association of habitual dietary fibre intake with gastrointestinal symptoms in an IBS Cohort
Phoebe Heenan

4.45 - 5.00

Infection Control
Di Jones

5.00-6.00

Welcome Function

6.30-9.00

Doctors Function - St Johns

6.30-8.30

Nurses Function - Macs Brew Bar

Thursday 28 November

Time

Session

7.00 - 8.00

8th Annual Great Guts Fun Run & Walk

Session 4A: Luminal – Free papers
Chairs: Sophia Savva-Follows & Richard Newbury

Session 4B: Hepatology – Free papers
Chairs: Judy Huang & Nigel Stace

Session 4C: Nurses Papers, 1st time presenters
Chairs: Lisa Griffiths & Bridget Leppien

9.00 - 9.15

Sneaking up from behind! Colorectal Cancer in those less that the screening age
Uddaka Wijesinghe

9.00 - 9.15

Outcomes of NASH-related HCC at NZLTU over last 2 decades
Ibrahim Hassan

9.00 - 9.15

Identifying and treating patients with chronic hepatitis C lost to follow up
Lucy Mills

9.15 - 9.30

5 year post-endoscopy missed CRC rates - single center experience
Rob Hackett

9.15 - 9.30

De Novo Malignancy after liver transplantation: incidence and mortality
Jerry Chin

9.15 - 9.30

Patients' satisfaction - What more can endoscopy nurses do
Wenyi Zhang

9.30 - 9.45

Dietary management of IBS in older adults - does FODMAP diet help manage IBS in an older population?
Leigh O'Brien

9.30 - 9.45

Entecavir Resistance
John Llewelyn

9.30 - 9.45

Planning your sTOOL
Donna Howe

9.45 - 10.00

Timing of colonoscopy: It ain't easy
Uddaka Wijesinghe

9.45 - 10.00

Outcomes of liver transplantation for NASH at NZLTU
Ibrahim Hassan

9.45 - 10.00

Point of care testing and persistence in community Hep C practice
Nancy Carey and Joanne De Lisle

10.00 - 10.15

Influence of gender on career choice and advancement in gastroenterology
Melissa Haines

10.00 - 10.15

Graft-Versus-Host-Disease after liver transplantation: A Diagnostic Challenge
Jerry Chin

10.00 - 10.15

From bottom to top
Sandra Cunningham

10.15 - 10.30

Is duodenal biopsy always necessary in adults with a high titre of Anti-TTG antibodies
Junaid Beig

10.15 - 10.30

Gastroenterology is perceived as a subspeciality without a culture of peer support: Is this influencing our workplace demographics
Amanda Chen

10.15 - 10.30

The dawn of paediatric services at MacMurray Centre
Kanageswari Singaram

10.30 - 11.00

Morning Tea and Exhibition

Session 5A: Free Papers
Chairs: Heidi Su & James Fulforth

Session 5B: Microbiome
Chairs: Stephen Inns & Melissa Haines

Session 5C: Nursing careers
Chairs: Jacqui Stone & Merrilee Williams

11.00 - 11.15

Comparison of risk scoring systems in hospitalised patients that develop UGIB
Thomas Mules

11.00 - 11.20

FMT in Europe 2020-2025
Chris Mulder

11.00 - 11.20

ANZGITA
Di Jones

11.15 - 11.30

POEM can be a safe and effective treatment for achalasia in the elderly: A single unity tertiary experience
Anthony Whitfield

11.20 - 11.35

The liver biome Ashok Raj

11.20 - 11.30

Nurse endoscopist training - the trainers perspective
Nicola Griffiths

11.30 - 11.45

Endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle core biopsy obviates the need for rapid on-site evaluation in histological diagnosis of solid lesions
Elena Ryniker

11.35 - 11.50

Helminths and Gut Health: potential benefits of hookworm infection
Graham Le Gros

11.30 - 11.40

The endoscopy course coordinator
Jacky Watkins

11.45 - 12.00

The development and validation of a self-management skills assessment tool for children with inflammatory bowel disease: The IBD-Skills Tasks and Abilities Record (IBD-STAR)
Angharad Vernon-Roberts

11.50 - 12.15

Complementary and alternative medicine in IBD
Charles Bernstein

11.40 - 11.50

Nurse endoscopist training - the students perspective
Amber Sanders

12.00 - 12.15

Colorectal Cancer but not as you know it: a prospective case control of risk factors, symptoms and signs
Uddaka Wijesinghe

12.15 - 12.35

Gastro trainee examinations / curriculum in Europe
Chris Mulder

11.50 - 12.00

Nurse endoscopist training - the graduates perspective
Alice Washer

12.15 - 12.35

Getting the most out of your ERBE
Fritz Maier and Rees Cameron

12.00 - 12.15

Academic Pathway and Masters
Jacky Watkins

12.35 - 1.15

Lunch and Exhibition

12.45 - 1.45

Medical AGM

12.45 - 1.45

Nurses AGM

Session 6A: GI Motility
Chairs: Chris Cederwall & Adele Melton

Session 6B: Polyps
Chairs: Tony Smith & Marianne Lill

1.45 - 2.10

Aetiopathogenesis of functional dyspepsia
Nick Talley

1.45 - 2.10

Best practice every day polypectomy - out of the fire, into the cold
David Hewitt

2.10 - 2.35

Gastric Motility
Greg O'Grady

2.10 - 2.25

Polypectomy training in the UK
Nicola Griffiths

2.35 - 3.00

Defecatory disease
Rowan Collinson

2.25 - 2.40

SPS management in 2020
Nathan Atkinson

3.00 - 3.15

Nurse lead dyspepsia clinic
Alice Washer

2.40 - 3.00

ESD - hype or hero?
Nick Burgess

3.00-3.15

Best endoscopy paper
Is there a difference in the incidence of colonic neoplasia in patients screened via a governmental screening program and in age equivalent patients who have FIT testing outside that program?
Simon Whitcher

3.15- 3.45

Afternoon Tea and Exhibition

Session 7A: Chronic Liver Disease
Chairs: Alex Lampen-Smith & Campbell White

Session 7B: Oesophagus
Chairs: Jim Brooker & John Wyeth

Session 7C: Nurses Hands On Session

3.45 - 4.10

Improving Patient Outcomes in PBC
Simone Strasser

3.45 - 4.05

Dysphagia
Chris Cederwall

Table 1

POEM

Cel Aligno

4.10 - 4.35

Alcohol and the liver - when the relationship sours
John Perry

4.05 - 4.25

POEM
Rees Cameron

Table 2

FTRD

Rachel Rufino

4.35 - 5.00

SMART-C
Michael Schultz

4.25 - 4.45

Surgical management of benign upper GI disease
Simon Bann

Table 3

AXIOS

Chris Dennehy

5.00 - 5.15

Best Liver Paper
Sarcopenia is a poor prognostic marker following curative resection for hepatocellular carcinoma - a single centre experience
Cositha Santhakumar

4.45 - 5.00

Barrett's Oesophagus
Vladimir Osipov

Table 4

Spy glass

Natalie Haydock

5.00 - 5.15

Endoscopic treatment of Barrett's
Frank Weilert

7.00 – midnight

Conference Dinner - "What we do in the shadows"

Friday 29 November

Time

Session

Session 8A: Diet
Chairs: Catherine Wall & Kamran Rostami

Session 8B: GI Cancer
Chairs: Paul Frankish & Julie Arnold

Session 8C: Nurses Cases
Chairs: Natalie Haydock & Anne Currie

9.00 - 9.20

Non-coeliac wheat sensitivity - a true disease or misdiagnosis?
Nick Talley

9.00 - 9.25

Detection and treatment of gastric cancer
Mingyan Cai

9.00 - 9.20

Thinking out side the box
Karen Kempin

9.20 - 9.40

Follow up of Coeliac disease
Chris Mulder

9.25 - 9.45

Case study of patient experience with gastric cancer
Ann Framp

9.20 - 9.40

An impacted stone
Helen Myint

9.40 - 9.55

FODMAP unresponsive IBS
Emma Halmos

9.45 - 10.10

BCSP update
Susan Parry

9.40 - 9.55

Foreign body ingestion
Caroline Jiang

9.55 - 10.10

Dietary treatment of EoE
Barbara Stet

10.10 - 10.30

NZFGCS update
Maggie Ow

9.55 - 10.10

The White Diet
Karen Tickelpenny

10.10 - 10.30

'A new HoPe' - Home Parenteral nutrition in the modern era
Jeremy Woodward

10.10 - 10.30

Anticoagulant & antiplatelet management in endoscopy
Kate Lodge and Kristin McLouglin

10.30 - 11.15

Brunch and Exhibition

Session 9: General plenary session
Chairs: tbc

11.15 - 11.45

Mechanism orientated therapy for IBS
Nick Talley

11.45 - 12.15

Using epidemiology to pursue aetiology in IBD
Charles Bernstein

12.15 - 12.45

New approaches to endoscopy training
David Hewitt

12.45 - 1.00

Conference Close

2.00 - 4.00

Gastro Registrars Trainee Function - Zealandia

13.45 - 16.30

Gastro Dieticians Study Day

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