Timetables and Deadlines

Abstract Submission Close	24 January 2008
Early Bird Registration Closes	21 March 2008
Accommodation	4 April 2008
College Ceremony & Reception	11 May 2008
Adult Medicine Congress Closes	14 May 2008
IMSANZ Congress Closes	14 May 2008
Paediatrics & Child Health Annual Meeting Closes	15 May 2008

Venue

Adelaide Convention Centre
North Terrace, Adelaide
South Australia 5000
Telephone: +61 8 8212 4099
Facsimile: +61 8 8212 5101

Forthcoming Dates

Physicians Week 2009
Sydney: 17 – 21 May 2009
www.physiciansweek.com/

World Congress of Internal Medicine in conjunction with Physicians Week
Melbourne: 20 – 25 March 2010 www.wcim2010.com.au

Previous ASM websites

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

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Address for Communications

RACP 2008 Congress Managers

Tour Hosts Pty Ltd
GPO Box 128
Sydney NSW 2001
Tel: + 61 2 9265 0700
Fax: + 61 2 9267 5443
Email: racp@tourhosts.com.au

Speaker Presentations

Presentations are only available if permission has been supplied by the Speaker.

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Title	First Name	Last Name	Speakers Paper Title
Dr	Katrina	Allen	Contraceptive Update
Dr	Manya	Angley	Quality Use of Complementary Medicines in Autism
Dr	Ruth	Barker	1. Harrison’s story: Linking Data to Outcomes, 2. 10 myths of Childhood poisoning
Professor	Derek	Bell	1. Society for Acute Medicine 2. Acute Medicine
	Jill	Benson	Refugee Health
Dr	Marco	Bonollo	Managing People with Co-morbidities; “Frequent Flyer Program”
Professor	Robert	Booy	Influenza in Children: A swift and silent Killer?
Dr	Stephen	Brady	Unique features of rural & regional physician practice
Dr	Leo	Buchanan	Some Comments on Maori Child Health for the Indigenous Child Health Workshop
Ms	Cate	Cheetham	What do Neuropsychologists mean by the term Nonverbal Learning Disorder?
Dr	Wai Kuen	Chow	The Masquerades of Bilateral Pulmonary Nodules
Dr	Steven	Chung	1. How useful is brain natriuretic peptide? 2. Rural and regional training. A trainee’s perspective
Dr	Domenic	Cincotta	Factors affecting Length of Stay for Children with Gastroenteritis in a Short Stay Unit
	Renea	Collins	Venous Thromboembolism Prophylaxis Guideline Implementation
Dr	Celia	Cooper	Is Hand Hygiene More Effective than Vaccination?
Professor	Jenny	Couper	Weight gain in early life predicts islet autoimmunity in children with a first degree relative with type 1 diabetes
Dr	Michelle	Cretikos	GP management of childhood overweight and obesity
Dr	Kimberly	Cukier	Kids To Ketones
Dr	Adam	Deane	Disordered physiology of the gastrointestinal tract during critical illness: An overview for the general physician
Dr	Jason	Denman	Acute Q Fever in Pregnancy
Dr	Karen	Detering	1. Chronic Non-invasive Ventilation for Neuromuscular Disorders: Evidence & Ethics 2. Non–invasive Positive Pressure Ventilation (NPPV) for Acute Exacerbations of COPD: Evidence Base & How to Set up a Service
Dr	Maneesh	Deva	Unblinding the Urine Bag: a randomised controlled trial
Dr	Jorge	Do Campo	Weekly Multidisciplinary Case Review based on a Web Page Clinical Summary as a Tool to Improve Health Team Communication
Dr	Terrance	Donald	1. Guidelines For The Management Of Children In Relation To Fabricated Or Induced Illness 2. Child Protection ~ General Paediatricians
Dr	Graeme	Duke	Validation of the Hospital Outcome Prediction Equation (HOPE) Model
Professor	Creswell	Eastman	Thyroid Disorders in Women of Childbearing Age
Professor	Elizabeth	Elliott	1. Paediatricians and the Australian Paediatric Surveillance Unit:15 years of collaboration 2. Fetal alcohol syndrome:from surveillance to policy
Dr	Elna	Ellis	Postural hypotension in the mechanism of transient ischaemic attacks
Professor	Kevin	Forsyth	Equipping the Fellowship for its functions and roles in Specialist Medicine now and into the future
Dr	Lucia	Gagliardi	Clinical Research – My Perspective
	Alex	Gallus	Cutting the Cost to Society: The importance of VTE Prophylaxis
Dr	Catherine	Gibney	Cutaneous Melioidosis in the Tropical Top End of Australia
Dr	Erana	Gray	RACP 2008 Rural / Regional Seminar
Dr	Ristan	Greer	Reduced serum vitamin D levels are associated with type 1 diabetes in Queensland children
Dr	Hugh	Greville	Electronic Medical Records: What it means for hospital and private physicians
Ms	Kate	Grundy	Advance Care Planning
Dr	Hansantha	Gunasekera	Paediatric IV cannulation: are steps to increase success all in vein?
Dr	Claire	Harris	Choose a topic that interests you
Assoc. Professor	John	Henley	Acute Medical Unit Panel Discussion
Dr	Rhys	Henning	Monitoring Therapeutic Levels
Dr	David	Herd	Amethocaine (Ametop™) versus EMLA™ for successful intravenous cannulation in a children’s emergency department
Dr	Jeremy	Hoang	Life-Threatening Hypocalcaemia Following First Zoledronic Acid Treatment for Osteoporosis
Dr	Jo	Holden	Venothromboembolism in Hospitalised Patients
	Chris	Holmwood	Pain dependence and abuse opf prescription opioids
Assoc. Professor	Michael	Hooper	Osteoporosis The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Mr	Lee	Hudson	Tobacco Smoke Exposure And Regular Cough In Hospitalized Children In Central Australia
Dr	Mary	Iskander	The Burden of Influenza in Hospitalised Children <5 years, CHW, July-October 2006
Assoc. Professor	Cheryl	Jones	1. National Surveillence for Perinatal HSV, Hepatitis C, Rubella in Australian Children 2. Management of HSV infections in pregnancy
Professor	John	Kaldor	Prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission in Australia,1982 - 2006
Dr	Andrew	Kennedy	Hands up for HEADSS Using psychosocial assessment in adolescents to find out their real issues
Dr	David	Lester-Smith	1. Enhanced Surveillance for Serious Complications of Influenza in Children: Role of the Australian Paediatric Surveillance Unit 2. The Burden of Childhood Influenza in a Tertiary Paediatric Setting
Ms	Catherine	lloyd-Johnson	Preliminary National Data on Acute Intussusception in Children Aged ≤24 months from the Australian Paediatric Surveillance Unit (APSU)
Dr	Tamara	Mackean	Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Companion Document - RACP Professional Qualities Curriculum
Dr	Andrew	McPhee	Neonatal Sepsis Clinical presentations, management and prevention strategies
Dr	Anthoulla	Mohamudally	One in a billion Futility - ethically robust enough argument not to resuscitate?
Dr	Andrew	Moore	Tolerance of anti-metabolite chemotherapy in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
Dr	Anne	Morris	Early onset eating disorders in Australian children
Dr	Richard	Newman	Medical Emergency Teams
Dr	George	Nisyrios	HIV resistance and the role of novel therapies
Dr	Graham	Norton	Its so Familiar: What the Hell is it?
Mrs	Lif	O'Conner	NSW GMCT Transition Care for young people with chronic illness/disability
Assoc. Professor	Maree	O'Keefe	Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in Childhood Autism
Dr	Georgie	Paxton	Immunisation and ID issues
Dr	Grant	Phelps	Keeping the Customer Satisfied
Dr	Robert	Pickles	Advanced Training in General medicine
Professor	Roy	Pounder	The art of managing Crohn’s disease
Professor	William	Rawlinson	APSU Surveillance for Congenital Cytomegalovirus Infection
Assoc. Professor	Dinah	Reddihough	Improving outcomes for young children with disabilities: what works best?
Dr	Lynden	Roberts	One who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; One who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
Dr	Kathy	Rowe	Screening for learning difficulties and co-morbidities
Dr	Anil	Roy	A case of Hot Tub Lung
Dr	Monique	Ryan	Polio free: surveillance for acute flaccid paralysis
Dr	Ian	Scott	1. Cautionary tales in clinical decision-making 2. Assessing and minimising perioperative cardiac risk
Professor	Dorothy	Scott	Towards a Public Health Model of Child Protection
Assoc. Professor	Jill	Sewell	1. I’m dumb and I don’t want to go to school – a practical approach to learning difficulties 2. Victorian Training Program in Community Child Health
Dr	Sepehr	Shakib	Drug optimisation clinics for patients with polycomorbidity: back to the future?
Dr	Michael	Shanahan	A Physician in Darfur
Dr	Catherine	Skellern	Brisbane Training Programme in Community Child Health
Ms	Ruth	Sladeck	Asking Clinical Questions: The First Step in EBM
Dr	Tony	Smith	Paediatric Applications of Diagnostic Ultrasound
Dr	Tom	Snelling	Rotavirus vaccination in the NT: a revolution for children in Central Australia?
Dr	Ron	Somers	Changing the world from the back of a stethoscope: The Clinician's role in injury prevention
Dr	Rebecca	Somerville	Immunisation coverage in children according to lead maternity carer
Professor	Michael	South	Radiological investigations after urinary tract infection
Dr	Zonita	Stark	Improving Clinical Handover: Why, What and How
Dr	Mike	Starr	Management of the febrile child in the era of an expanded immunisation program
Assoc. Professor	Kate	Steinbeck	Transition from paediatric to adult care in chronic illness – the first adult hospitalisation
Dr	Meg	Stuart	New NPS prescribing initiatives – a role for RACP?
Dr	Ken-Soon	Tan	Radio-Opacity of Medications in Overdose
Dr	Barry	Taylor	MyCPD a new online CPD Tool for Fellows of the RACP
Dr	Maya	Thomas	Transition Care (A paediatric aspect)
Dr	Geoff	Thompson	Expanded Specialist Training Program
Professor	John	Turnidge	Getting the Best out of Antibiotics – Old and New
Dr	Duc	Van	Community-Acquired MRSA Bacteraemia in Children
Dr	Peter	Vuillermin	A cross-sectional comparison of anxiety symptoms among children with and without asthma
Dr	Ritva	Vyas	Processes of stroke care at Hutt Hospital
Dr	Russell	Waddell	1. Chlamydia: epidemiology & control 2. Sexually Transmitted Diseases and the laboratory
Dr	Ryan	Walklin	Guidelines for Secondary Prevention of Coronary Artery Disease at Dunedin Public Hospital
Dr	Christopher	Ward	Behavioural Problems in Preschool Children with Cystic Fibrosis
	Paul	Williamson	Pain / Addiction
Dr	Nicolas	Wood	Predictors of hepatitis B immunity in Aboriginal children: the Aboriginal Birth Cohort study
Dr	Sue	Woolfenden	A Systematic Review of the Prognosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder
Dr	Kwang Chien	Yee	“I feel like I am pregnant again”:Unusual case of ascites
Dr	Belinda	Yeoh	Household Interventions for Prevention of Domestic Lead Exposure in Children
Dr	Yvonne	Zurynski	Seatbelts and Child Restraints: Injuries, Deaths and the Law