Program
Monday 2 September
Official opening
Time: 3.30pm to 6pm
Venue: Alere Function Centre, Bedford Park campus
Recognition of service: acknowledging the distinguished career and achievements of:
| 3.30pm - 3.35pm | Introduction and Housekeeping MC – Professor Andrew Bersten |
| 3.35pm - 3.50pm | Welcome to Country Michael Kumatpi O’Brien – Senior Kaurna man of the Adelaide Plains people |
| 3.50pm - 4pm | New Institutes – VPED Vision Statements (10 min/speaker + 10 min questions taken at end) |
| 4pm | Professor Ross McKinnon - Director, FHMRI Flinders Health Medical Research Institute |
| 4.10pm | Professor Alison Kitson – VPED, College of Nursing and Health Sciences Caring Futures Institute |
| 4.20pm | Professor Mike Kyrios - VPED, College of Education, Psychology and Social Work The Órama Institute |
| 4.30pm | Q&A |
| 4.40pm - 5.20pm | Recognitions of Service Acknowledging senior staff contributions of Professor Doug McEvoy (Sleep Health); Emeritus Professor Keryn Williams (Ophthalomology); and Professor John Miners (Clinical Pharmacology). |
| 5.20pm - 5.30pm | Thank you and close MC - Professor Andrew Bersten |
| 5.30pm - 6pm | Refreshments Alere Cafe |
| 6pm - 8pm | BRAVE Public Lecture: Sleep Well: Improving health through the science of sleep Professor Danny Eckert - Director and Matthew Flinders Fellow, Adelaide Institute for Sleep Health |
BRAVE Public Lecture
Time: 6pm to 8pm
Venue: Alere Function Centre, Bedford Park campus
View the BRAVE public lecture livestream.
Sleep Well: Improving health through the science of sleep
Professor Danny Eckert - Director and Matthew Flinders Fellow, Adelaide Institute for Sleep Health
Question and answer facilitated by Professor Doug McEvoy and with panel also including Dr Jayne Carberry and Amal Osman
Tuesday 3 September
Ophthalmology Research Roundup
Time: 8am - 9am
Venue: The Neil Della Seminar Room, Flinders Eye Centre, ground floor, Flinders Private Hospital
| 8am - 9am | Dr Ebony Liu – Risk factors for diabetic retinopathy and its treatment Dr Genevieve Oliver – Retinal imaging of ocular toxoplasmosis Dr Stewart Lake – Retinal shape analysis Dr Ayub Qassim – The impact of common IOP genetic variants on POAG phenotypeChair: Associate Professor Richard Mills |
Cancer Research Day
Time: 1pm - 5pm
Venue: FCIC ground floor function room
| 1pm - 2.30pm | Session 1 Chairs: Dr Robyn Meech and Associate Professor Erin Symonds |
| 1.15pm |
Is there a metabolic switch for lymphoproliferative neoplasms? Associate Professor Bryone Kuss |
| 1.25pm | Preventing bowel cancer with a blood test. Associate Professor Erin Symonds |
| 1.35pm | Rectal cancer non-operative (RENO). Professor Chris Karapetis |
| 1.45pm | Exploiting colorectal cancer metabolism to identify therapeutic targets. Associate Professor Michael Michael |
| 1.55pm | Identifying precision medicine strategies using transparently shared big-data. Dr Ash Hopkins |
| 2.05pm | Getting PROs into primetime. Professor Bogda Koczwara |
| 2.15pm |
Web-based psychological interventions for cancer-related distress. Dr Lisa Beatty |
| 2.25pm | Afternoon tea FCR student poster viewing |
| 3.05pm - 4.25pm | Session 2 Chairs: Mr Jeff Bull and Dr Anna Mislana |
| 3.10pm | The influence of the human brain biochemistry on glioblastoma progression and treatment efficacy. Dr Cedric Bardy |
| 3.20pm | Why we need a registry for the masquerade syndrome, Vitreoretinal Lymphoma. Dr Alix Farrall |
| 3.30pm | Integrating geriatric assessment and geriatric outcome measures in cancer clinical research. Dr Anna Mislana |
| 3.40pm | Prostate cancer update. Dr Michael O'Callaghan |
| 3.50pm | NEOCREATE - single arm phase II trial evaluating the role of immunotherapy in early stage oesophageal cancer. Dr Amitesh Roy |
| 4pm | Multidisciplinary approaches to oesophageal cancer. Professor David Watson |
| 4.10pm | Four weeks to go. Mr Jeff Bull |
| 4.25pm - 5pm | Student poster viewing and best poster judging and prizes. Best supervisor award. |
Wednesday 4 September
Division of Medicine, Cardiac and Critical Care Symposium
Time: 11am - 5.30pm
Venue: Flinders Medical Centre (details below)
| 11am - 12.30pm | Poster presentations (includes lunch) Outside lecture theatres 1 and 2, level 5, Flinders Medical Centre |
| 12.30pm - 1.30pm | Opioids and acute pain: reducing patient harm Speaker: Professor Pam McIntyre - Director, Acute Pain Service Department of Anaesthesia, Hyperbaric Medicine and Pain Medicine, Royal Adelaide Hospital. Lecture theatre 1, level 5, Flinders Medical Centre |
| 2pm - 5.30pm | Staff presentations Lecture theatre 2, level 5, Flinders Medical Centre |
Thursday 5 September
Chalmers Oration
Time: 12.30pm - 1.30pm
Venue: Health Sciences Lecture Theatre 1.01, Bedford Park campus
View the Chalmers Oration livestream.
Aboriginal Health and Wellbeing: Tales from an Aspirational Pragmatist
Professor Alex Brown will deliver this year's John Chalmers Oration.
An Aboriginal medical doctor and researcher, Alex first managed the local Centre for Disease Control in Alice Springs, controlling outbreaks of disease, immunisation programs and the surveillance of disease.
2019 Chalmers orator, Professor Alex Brown (centre) with Emeritus Professor John Chalmers (L) and Professor Jonathan Craig.
Neuroscience Collaborators afternoon
Time: 2pm - 7pm
Venue: Health Sciences Lecture Theatre 1.01, Bedford Park campus
| 2pm | Opening Professor RV Haberberger |
| 2.05pm | Professor Damien Keating |
| 2.50pm | Associate Professor Peter Crouch Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences - The University of Melbourne |
| 3.15pm | Professor Simon Gandevia Deputy Director and Foundation Scientist - NeuRA, Sydney |
| 3.35pm | Coffee break |
| 4pm | Professor Simon Brookes Head Neurogastroenterology, Centre for Neuroscience - College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University |
| 4.45pm | Dr Kate Poole Group Leader, Cellular Mechanotransduction - School of Medical Sciences, University of New South Wales |
| 5.10pm | Professor Danny Eckert Director, Adelaide Institute for Sleep Health, Matthew Flinders Fellow - College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University |
| 5.35pm | Concluding remarks |
| 5.40pm to 7pm |
Refreshments |
Friday 6 September
Cardiology session
Time: 8.15am - 9.15am
Venue: Level 6 walkway, Flinders Private Hospital
Rotor renewal is the key to sustaining atrial fibrillation
Presented by Associate Professor Anand Ganesan, Future Leader Fellow, National Heart Foundation | Matthew Flinders Fellow
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