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Dr Rachel Aitken OR1 Dr Jun Dai OR5 A/Prof Dina Logiudice OR9 Dr Emma Hack OR13
Dr Stephanie Than OR2 Dr Stephanie Low OR6 Ms Meg Storer OR10 Dr Charlene Lee OR14
Dr Paul Yates OR3 Dr Michael Tan OR7 Dr Janani Thillainadesan OR11 Dr Ramya Rajkumar OR15
Ms Viviane Khalil OR4 Dr Liesl Ischia OR8 Dr Emily Gordon OR12 Dr Aaron Wong OR16
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1730-1825 (NZST) 1330-1425 (AWST) 0530- 0625 (UTC)
PET IMAGING IN DEMENTIA: FDG, AMYLOID AND MORE Professor Chris Rowe, Austin Health
THE MOLECULAR ORIGINS OF ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE: WHEN AND WHERE DOES IT START AND WHAT STRATEGIES FOR PREVENTION? Professor Colin Masters, Florey Institute, University of Melbourne
MORNING TEA Promenade Level 1
WEDNESDAY, 19 MAY 2021
PLENARY SESSION 4 - RESIDENTIAL AGED CARE Arthur Streeton Auditorium Moderator: A/Prof Eddy Strivens
NETWORKING LUNCH Promenade Level 1
REFLECTIONS ON THE INTRODUCTION OF VAD LEGISLATION IN VICTORIA; CLINICAL, OPERATIONAL, MORAL AND PERSONAL Dr Michelle Gold, Alfred Health and Dr Melanie Benson, Peninsula Health
AFTERNOON TEA Promenade Level 1
LUNCHTIME SYMPOSIUM - PROUDLY SPONSORED BY UCB Australia La Trobe Ballroom
Moderator: Dr Christine Mandrawa
Prescribing implications of estimating renal function with Creatinine vs Cystatin C in a
geriatric inpatient population 0800-1730
CONFERENCE REGISTRATION Promenade Level 1 SOFITEL MELBOURNE ON COLLINS 25 Collins Street, Melbourne VIC 3000
CONFERENCE OPENING & WELCOME Arthur Streeton Auditorium Moderator: Dr John Maddison
WELCOME TO COUNTRY
The Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Cultural Heritage Aboriginal Corporation
PLENARY SESSION 3 - VOLUNTARY ASSISTED DYING LEGISLATION Arthur Streeton Auditorium
Moderator: Dr Edwina Holbeach PLENARY SESSION 1 - DEMENTIA
Arthur Streeton Auditorium Moderator: Dr Paul Yates
PLENARY SESSION 2 - TECHNOLOGY Arthur Streeton Auditorium Moderator: Dr Sanka Amadoru
WILL ROBOTS REPLACE GERIATRICIANS? AGED CARE TECHNOLOGY IN THE 21ST CENTURY Dr George Margelis, Aged Care Industry Information Technology Council
COVID-19 THERAPEUTICS AND VACCINES: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE ELDERLY Professor Sharon Lewin, Peter Doherty Institute
FREEZING OF GAIT IN PARKINSON'S DISEASE A/Prof Andrew Evans
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Older Patients Undergoing Emergency Laparotomy – observations from the UK National Emergency
Laparotomy Audit (NELA) Years 1-4
Feasibility and Efficacy of Video-based Falls Prevention Education for Cognitively Impaired
Hospital Inpatients – a Pilot Study
Let’s CHAT (Community Health Approaches to) Dementia in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Controlled Primary Care: baseline audit
results of a stepped-wedge cluster randomised controlled trial
COVID-19 pandemic: Experiences of End of Life care in Australian Residential Aged Care CONVENORS' AND PRESIDENT'S WELCOME
Dr Rajni Joseph, Dr Louise Monk, Dr John Maddison
5 MINUTE BREAK
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A data-driven investigation of age, sex, cardiometabolic risk and brain volume
Impact of place of residence, frailty and other factors on rehabilitation outcomes after hip
fracture surgery
Consumer and Stakeholder Perspectives of Acute Care and Hospital Transfers for
Residential Care Facility Residents
Impact of a CTB imaging decision support tool to assist emergency department clinicians in assessment of patients presenting post fall from
residential aged care
Extreme temperatures and Emergency Department (ED) presentations for older Australians in Melbourne:
a retrospective single-centre audit
Clinical outcomes of patients from residential aged care facilities (RACFs) with COVID-19 infection managed by a residential in-reach
service.
GeriCO-V reduces delirium in older vascular surgery inpatients
Improving non vitamin K oral anticoagulant prescribing- A pre and post qualitative and
quantitative single centre study
Survey of the effects of COVID-19 on geriatric medicine service provision in Australia and New
Zealand Frailty: A cost incurred by reproduction?
Prevalence and sites of pain in remote-living older Aboriginal Australians, and associations with
depressive symptoms and disability CONCURRENT SESSION 1:
Arthur Streeton Auditorium Moderator: A/Prof Danielle Ni Chroinin
CONCURRENT SESSION 2: La Trobe Ballroom Moderator: Dr Stephanie Ward
CONCURRENT SESSION 3: Fitzroy Ballroom Moderator: Dr Jesse Zanker
CONCURRENT SESSION 4: Victoria Suites 2 Moderator: Dr Olivia Gobbo
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1730-1830 A JOURNEY THROUGH DATA ACROSS AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALANDMr Ben Wakeling, Health Roundtable PLENARY SESSION 5 - A. JOHN CAMPBELL MEMORIAL ADDRESS (VIRTUAL)
Arthur Streeton Auditorium Moderator: Dr Richard Kane
5 MINUTE BREAK
GERIATRIC MEDICINE: A RISKY BUSINESS? Professor Shaun O'Keeffe, Galway University Hospitals
HEALTH ROUNDTABLE DATA SESSION (VIRTUAL) Moderator: Dr John Maddison
RESIDENTIAL AGED CARE - ROYAL COMMISSION AND COVID RESPONSE Associate Professor Michael Murray AM, Austin Health RESPONDING TO COVID-19 IN RESIDENTIAL AGED CARE IN THE WEST OF MELBOURNE
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Prof Leon Flicker OR17 Dr Sundhar Rajan Balu OR21 Ms Nur Fazidah Asmuje OR25 Dr Iushi Khetani OR29
A/Prof Michele Callisaya OR18 Dr Nicholas Radcliffe OR22 Ms Taya Collyer OR26 Dr Li Yann Lim OR30
Dr Rona Zhao OR19 Dr Rajni Lal OR23 Dr Natasha Reid OR27 Dr Ramya Rajkumar OR31
Dr Taylor Scott OR20 Dr Kate Hurley OR24 Dr Fiona Runacres OR28 Dr Sundhar Rajan Balu OR32
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PLENARY SESSION 9 - KEYNOTE ADDRESS (VIRTUAL) Arthur Streeton Auditorium Moderator: Dr Olivia Gobbo
THE DANGERS OF GOOD INTENTIONS: OVERDIAGNOSIS AND OLDER PEOPLE Professor Shaun O'Keeffe, Galway University Hospitals RHEUMATOLOGY CONDITIONS AND THE ELDERLY: AN UPDATE
Dr Andrew Foote, Northern Health
VACCINATION FOR HEALTHY AGEING: PREVENTING HERPES ZOSTER IN THE OLDER POPULATION Associate Professor Michael Woodward, AM
NETWORKING LUNCH Promenade Level 1 CONCURRENT SESSION 5:
Arthur Streeton Auditorium Moderator: Dr Stephanie Than
CONCURRENT SESSION 6: La Trobe Ballroom Moderator: Prof Velandai Srikanth 0800-1800
CONFERENCE REGISTRATION Promenade Level 1 SOFITEL MELBOURNE ON COLLINS 25 Collins Street, Melbourne VIC 3000
PLENARY SESSION 6 - DEREK PRINSLEY MEMORIAL ADDRESS (VIRTUAL) Arthur Streeton Auditorium
Moderator: Dr Ronald Leong
PLENARY SESSION 7 - DELIRIUM Arthur Streeton Auditorium
Moderator: Dr Julie Lustig
MORNING TEA Promenade Level 1 BREAKFAST SESSION 2
Victoria Suites 2 Moderator: Dr Seok Ming Lim
EVIDENCE BASED GERIATRICS: LET'S CHALLENGE OURSELVES
Professor Andrea Maier, University of Melbourne, National University Singapore, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
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1430-1445
1445-1500
AFTERNOON TEA Promenade Level 1 PLENARY SESSION 8 - DEMENTIA
Arthur Streeton Auditorium Moderator: Dr Jesse Zanker
DEADLY DELIRIUM
Professor Gideon Caplan, Prince of Wales Hospital
CONCURRENT SESSION 7: Fitzroy Ballroom Moderator: Dr Sanka Amadoru
CONCURRENT SESSION 8: Victoria Suites 2 Moderator: Dr William Browne NETWORKING BREAK
Promenade Level 1
5 MINUTE BREAK
Validity of Good Spirit, Good Life - A quality of life tool for older Aboriginal Australians
THE AUSTRALIAN DEMENTIA NETWORK CLINICAL QUALITY REGISTRY
Dr Stephanie Ward, Prince of Wales Hospital & Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing, the University of New South Wales BPSD: DSA, DBMAS, SBRT, SDCP. WTF? (VIRTUAL)
A/Prof Steve Macfarlane, Dementia Support Australia BREAKFAST SESSION 1
Fitzroy Ballroom Moderator: Dr Richard Kane
(VIRTUAL)
MODERN CARDIOLOGY IN OLDER PEOPLE: HEART FAILURE & PERCUTANEOUS INTERVENTIONS
Dr Siobhan Lockwood, Monash Health
BREAKFAST SESSION 3 La Trobe Ballroom Moderator: Dr Christine Mandrawa BEST DIABETES TREATMENT FOR OLDER PEOPLE: HOW TO
CHOOSE? Dr Shane Hamblin, Western Health
THURSDAY, 20 MAY 2021
Increased regularly prescribed, time-contingent opioid use compared to Pro Re Nata (PRN) opioid use on day three but not day seven, fourteen or twenty-one post hip fracture
surgery is independently associated with improved functional outcomes in older patients in the subacute
setting.
Prevalence of urinary incontinence among older inhabitants of the Torres Strait Islands
5 MINUTE BREAK
Frailty in acute care: is it just about older people?
Prescribing implications of measured concentrations of apixaban in a geriatric
inpatient population.
Goals of patient care in elderly patients during a pandemic: did they change?
Examining the role of specialist palliative care in geriatric care to inform collaborations: a
survey on the knowledge, practice and attitudes of Geriatricians in providing palliative
care Can advance care planning improve end-of-life care? A
randomised controlled trial in patients with advanced illnesses attending hospital outpatient clinics
Is case finding for admission to an Aged Care Rapid Investigation and Assessment Unit (ARIA) for older patients associated with improved
hospital length of stay?
Beat-to-Beat Blood Pressure Variability and Cognitive Function- Results from the Malaysian
Elders Longitudinal Research (MELoR) Study How frail is frail?
Dementia is associated with poorer quality of care and outcomes after stroke: An observational study
Confirmed and Suspected COVID-19 in Aged Care; associations of frailty, medical comorbidities and hospital admission status on
mortality
Exploring the Effect of two waves (Mar-Sep 2020) of the COVID-19 Pandemic on hospital presentations for those aged 60+ in Melbourne,
Australia SYMPOSIUM - PROUDLY SPONSORED BY GlaxoSmithKline Australia
Arthur Streeton Auditorium Moderator: Emma Bandy
Outcomes for Older Patients from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) backgrounds
admitted to a new Aged Care Rapid Investigation and Assessment (ARIA) Unit Implementing Shared Decision Making in
Outpatient Perioperative Care Setting: Perioperative care for Older People undergoing
Surgery (POPS)
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PRIZE AND AWARD PRESENTATION Arthur Streeton Auditorium Presented by Dr John Maddison
NETWORKING FUNCTION Sofi's Lounge, Sofitel Melbourne on Collins
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THE UNEXPECTED HISTORY OF GERIATRIC MEDICINE Dr William Browne, Eastern Health
HEALTHCARE IN OUR CHANGING CLIMATE: IMPACTS AND CHANGES FOR OUR FUTURE Dr Arnagretta Hunter, Canberra Hospital
0800-1400
CONFERENCE REGISTRATION Promenade Level 1 SOFITEL MELBOURNE ON COLLINS 25 Collins Street, Melbourne VIC 3000
NETWORKING BREAK Promenade Level 1
FRIDAY, 21 MAY 2021
CLOSING LUNCH Promenade Level 1
PLENARY SESSION 10 - KEYNOTE SESSION (VIRTUAL) Arthur Streeton Auditorium Moderator Dr Seok Ming Lim
MORNING TEA Promenade Level 1
PLENARY SESSION 11 - CLIMATE CHANGE AND HEALTHCARE Arthur Streeton Auditorium
Moderator: Dr Christine Mandrawa
PLENARY SESSION 12 - HISTORY OF GERIATRIC MEDICINE AND CLOSING ADDRESS Arthur Streeton Auditorium
Moderator: Dr John Maddison
CONFERENCE CLOSING Dr Rajni Joseph, Dr Louise Monk 2022 INTRODUCTION/LAUNCH (VIRTUAL) Dr Vasi Naganathan, Dr Fiona Connelly
5 MINUTE BREAK
GENERAL MEDICINE + BIOGERONTOLOGY = GEROSCIENCE 2.0
Professor Andrea Maier, University of Melbourne, National University Singapore, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam WOUND MANAGEMENT IN RACF
Dr Elizabeth Dapiran, Western Health Dr Claire McKie, Barwon Health, Geelong, Victoria and Deakin UniversityBREAKING IT DOWN TO BUILD IT UP – A COMMUNICATION SKILLS JOURNEY BREAKFAST SESSION 5
Victoria Suites 2 Moderator: A/Prof Jenny Schwarz
THE UPS AND DOWNS OF MOOD DISORDERS: AN UPDATE ON AFFECTIVE DISORDERS IN THE OLDER
ADULT Dr Brett Coulson, NWMHS APMHP
BREAKFAST SESSION 6 La Trobe Ballroom Moderator: Dr Edwina Holbeach BREAKFAST SESSION 4
Fitzroy Ballroom Moderator: Dr Chia Pei Chong
