Speaker Presentations

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Title	First Name	Last Name	Speakers Paper Title
Dr	Katie	Allen	Stem Cells - What are They and What is All the Fuss About?
Prof	Graeme	Barnes	Addressing Rotavirus Disease Burden - Australian Rotavirus Surveillance and the Development of a Neonatal Rotavirus Vaccine
Dr	Richard	Benn	NEW VIRUSES AND EPIDEMICS
Dr	Steven	Bollipo	E-gadgets for physicians
Dr	Meredith	Borland	Croup Management in Australia and New Zealand: A PREDICT Study
Professor	Roberth	Booy	Paediatricians and Vaccination - Is it like GPs and Cholecystectomy?
Professor	Peter	Brooks	The future of task transfer in Australia
Dr	Alex	Brown	Stress and heart disease: Can we understand the lived reality of Indigenous Australians?
Prof	Lisanne	Burkholder	Task transfer in overseas settings
Prof	Peter & Carol	Camfield	Febrile Seizures and the First Afebrile Seizure
Prof	Peter & Carol	Camfield	Natural History of Epilepsy - Through to Adulthood
Ms	Dominique	Collins	Online clinical resources
A/Prof	Martin	Delatycki	Panel Discussion
Prof	Geoffrey A.	Donnan	Reducing the burden of stroke
Dr	Katrina	Doyle	Can We 'Lift the Lip' on Oral Health in Community Paediatrics?
Dr	Manish	Dugar	Recurrent acute rheumatic fever: diagnostic pitfalls and management issues
Professor	Leon	Flicker	Interventions to prevent Dementia (TBC)
Prof	Kevin	Forsyth	Skilling the Next Generation: The New RACP Training Curricula - a practical workshop
Dr	Janice	Fletcher	Investigation of Developmental Delay: the role of metabolic tests
Prof	Suzanne	Garland	Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Infection, Disease and HPV Vaccine: Future Vaccine Program Implementation Challenges.
A/Prof	Lynn	Gillam	Understanding Consent in Paediatric Research
Dr	Patrick	Gladding	Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs Antagonise the Irreversible Antiplatelet Effect of Aspirin
Mr	Brett	Gordon	Positive Outcomes of an Adolescent Chronic Fatigue Syndrome In-Patient Programme
Dr	Roger	Goucke	Opioids in persistent pain: the evidence
Dr	Harvey	Graham	Panel Discussion
Dr	Padraic James	Grattan-Smith	Neurological Cases
Dr	Maree	Guizzo	The Prevalence of STIs in Children Presenting to the Hunter Area Sexual Assault Unit
Dr	Terry	Hannan	Electronic medical records, not such a ‘shocking experience’
Dr	Shiv	Hebbandi	Neonatal Hypoglycemia and Hyperinsulinism
Prof	Rob	Helme	Clinical assessment of the patient with persistent pain
Dr	David	Herd	Pain Relief for Simple Procedures in New Zealand Neonatal Units: Practice Change Over 6 years
Dr	David	Herd	Intravenous Cannulation in a Children's Emergency Department: a Continuous Quality Assurance Project
Dr	Harriet	Hiscock	Long-Term Sleep, Behaviour and Maternal Mental Health Impacts of a Population-Based Infant Sleep Intervention: Cluster Randomized Trial Establishing a Practising Paediatricians Research Network
Dr	Sandy	Hopper	Emergency Management of Status Epilepticus: An Evidence Based Approach
Dr	Jenny	Hynson	What's in a Name? Parent Misconceptions of Palliative Care
Dr	Jenny	Hynson	Understanding the Doctor-Parent Relationship in Paediatric Palliative Care
Mr	Jon	Isaacs	Executive Leadership and Team Management
Dr	Shobha	Iyer	The Information Needs of Parents of Children With ADHD
Dr	Niroshini	John	A Study of the Health of Refugee Children: A Community Sample
Dr	Tim	Kleinig	Stroke and stoke disability prevention at the Royal Adelaide Hospital.
Prof	Andrew	Kornberg	Future Therapies in Neuromuscular Disease: Research Leading a Brave New World
Dr	David	Krieser	ACUTE SEIZURE MANAGEMENT AT PAEDIATRIC EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS IN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND: A PREDICT STUDY
Dr	Renata	Kukuruzovic	Critical appraisal of published papers: how to do it in REAL TIME
Dr	Steven	Lane	Combined Valproic acid (VA) and low dose cytarabine is a novel low-intensity regimen with activity in elderly and high risk acute myeloid leukaemia (AML)
Dr	Stuart	Lewena	Paediatric Status Epilepticus: A PREDICT Multicentre Audit
Dr	Andrew	Marshall	Autism Spectrum Disorders – Complex Cases and Literature Update
Assoc. Professor	Geoffrey	McColl	Immune Modulation in Rheumatology
Ms	Ann	McDonald	Prevention of Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission in Australia, 1982 - 2005
Ms	Ann	McDonald	Emerging Infectious Diseases - HIV Infections - What Have we Learned from 12 years of Surveillance
Dr	Malcolm	McDonald	Tackling the epidemic of rheumatic heart disease: The time has come
Dr	Andrea	McGlade	Infants of Substance Abusing Mothers: Their Child Protection Risk
Prof	Peter	McIntyre	Adverse Events Following Immunisation - The Real, The Improbable and The Implausible
Professor	Craig	Mellis	Critical appraisal of published papers: how to do it in REAL TIME
Prof	Kim	Mulholland	Global Refugee Health
Dr	Jane	Munro	Caring for Chiildren with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis and Their Families: We Can Do It Better!
Dr	Jane	Munro	COMFORT KIDS: IMPROVING PROCEDURAL PAIN MANAGEMENT: GETTING EVIDENCE INTO PRACTICE THROUGH ORGANISATIONAL CHANGE – A BASELINE SURVEY OF STAFF, PARENTS AND PATIENTS
Dr	Louise	Newman	Attachment Disorders and Disorganisation in Infancy and Early Childhood
Dr	Sally	Poulton	The Stimulant Growth Story: The Shaping of Current Opinion by Poor Quality Research
Professor	Charles	Pusey	Sir Arthur Simms Commonwealth Visiting Professor - Pathogenesis and treatment of primary systemic vasculitis
Dr	Shanti	Raman	Cultural Competence in Public Health
Dr	Toni	Redman	Motor Pathway Changes Associated with Upper Limb Botulinum Toxin a Therapy in Children with Hemiplegic Cerebral Palsy
Dr	Toni	Redman	Effect of Upper Limb Botulinum Toxin a Therapy on Health Related Quality of Life in Children with Hemiplegic Cerebral Palsy
Dr	Steven	Resnick	Predicting the safety of air travel in recent neonatal nursery graduates - the SATS Study.
Mr	Anthony	Rigley	Skilling the Next Generation: The New RACP Training Curricula - a practical workshop.
Dr	Lynden	Roberts	Critical appraisal of published papers: how to do it in REAL TIME
A/Prof	Richard	Roylance	Child Sexual Abuse - Proposed RACP Guidelines
Dr	Vanessa	Sarkozy	Opportunistic Immunisation in the Emergency Department
Dr	Vanessa	Sarkozy	Autism:Training and Understanding amongst Mainstream Primary School Teachers
Dr	Cameron	Seaman	The Safety of High Concentration Nitrous Oxide for Procedural Sedation and Analgesia in Children
Dr	Davinder	Singh-Grewal	Physical Activity and Exercise in Kids (PEAK): The Effects of Vigorous Exercise Training on Motor and Physical Functional in Children with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA)
Dr	Davinder	Singh-Grewal	Physical Activity and Exercise in Kids (PEAK) : The effects of exercise training on motor and physical function in children with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA)
Dr	Merle	Spriggs	Understanding Consent in Paediatric Research: The Ethical Issues
Dr	Valerie	Sung	Sleep Problems in Children with ADHD: Associations with Child Quality of Life, Daily Functioning, Caregiver Mental Health, and Family Functioning
Mr	David	Sutton	Preventing or Accelerating Emergency Care for Complex Paediatric Patients
Dr	Scott	Twaddell	USE OF OCTREOTIDE AS A NOVEL TREATMENT FOR INSULIN OVERDOSE IN A NON-DIABETIC PATIENT
Dr	Peter	Vuillermin	Asthma Among Schoolchildren in the Barwon Region of Victoria
Dr	Karen	Waldie	Dyslexia for the Paediatrician - Reading the Wrong Way with the Right Hemisphere: The Neurological Basis of Dyslexia
Ms	Lynley	Wicks	Autism Spectrum Disorders – Complex Cases and Literature Update
A/Prof	Neil	Wigg	Launch of RACP Policy - Towards better health for refugee children and young people in Australia and New Zealand
Dr	Yvonne	Zurynski	So Do You Want to do an APSU Study? Procedures and Pitfalls
Dr	Karen	Zwi	Launch of RACP Policy - Towards better health for refugee children and young people in Australia and New Zealand

Timetable and Deadlines

Abstracts (Paediatrics & Child Health) Closed
Submission of Case Summaries and Abstracts for Poster Presentations (Adult Medicine) Closed
Early Registration Thursday 22 March 2007
Accommodation Monday 2 April 2007
Congress Opens, College Ceremony and Receptrion Sunday 6 May 2007
Professional Skills Day Monday 7 May 2007
Adult Medicine Scientific Program Tuesday 8 - Wednesday 9 May 2007
Paediatrics & Child Health Annual Meeting Tuesday 8 -Thursday 10 May 2007

Forthcoming Dates

RACP Congress in coming years:

2008: Adelaide (11-15 May)
2009: Sydney (16-21 May)
2010: Melbourne, World Congress of Internal Medicine (20-25 March-visit the website)

Previous ASM websites

For all information and resources from previous RACP ASM's visit the websites:

2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001

Further Information

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