Building Partnerships for Digestive Health - GP Symposium

Building Partnerships for Digestive Health - A special half-day GP symposium

Don't pass up this opportunity to hear about the latest developments in luminal and liver health and to discuss and debate the issues with specialist colleagues. Delivered in collaboration with the Department of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Princess Alexandra Hospital and Brisbane South PHN.

Agenda:

8.30am: Registration

9.00am: Welcome

SESSION 1 New Models of Care in Action Chair Professor Elizabeth Powell
9.10am: Changing to meet the challenges: New models of care and technology
9.30am: An Integrated Approach to “hard to treat” Functional Gastro-intestinal Disorders
Speakers: Professor Gerald Holtmann and Dr Leela Arthur
9.50am: An Integrated Approach to Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
Speakers: Dr Laurence Britton and Dr Alison Stewart
10.10am: Q&A

10.30am Morning Tea

SESSION 2 Luminal Update
10.50am: Barrett’s Oesophagus: Guidelines for Surveillance
Speaker: Dr Brad Kendall
11.10am: New NHMRC Guidelines for Colonic Polyp Surveillance and CRC Screening
Speaker: Dr Sam O’Connor
11.30am: Specialised Endoscopic Treatments: Scopes and Knives
Speaker: Dr Luke Hourigan
11.50 pm: Q & A

12.10 pm Lunch

SESSION 3 Hepatology Update Chair Dr Katherine Stuart
12.45pm: “Simples”: Curing HCV with the new pan-genotypic DAAs
Speaker Dr Caroline Tallis
1.05pm: Treating HCC: What GPs need to know
Speaker Dr Paul Clark
1.25pm: Haemochromatosis: Let’s iron it out
Speaker: Dr Darrell Crawford
1.45pm Q & A

2.00pm Close

Learning Outcomes:

• Describe the benefits of an integrated multidisciplinary team approach for the management of NAFLD and IBS
• List the community resources available to assist in the development of a comprehensive management plan for NAFLD and IBS
• Describe the new specialised investigations and treatments available through the PAH Gastroenterology and Hepatology Department
• Explain the need for patients with cirrhosis to be engaged in six monthly hepatocellular cancer surveillance and the role GPs can play to assist with early HC
• Develop confidence to safely prescribe the new pan-genotypic HCV medications through the Metro South HCV Shared Care Program

Click here for directions to the TRI auditorium

Cost: Free (Value $20pp) – lunch and morning tea provided.

Brisbane South PHN is an Accredited Activity Provider under the RACGP QI&CPD Program. This education forms a catergory two accredited activity under the RACGP QI&CPD Program. Activity 156819 2017-2019 triennium.

For more information about this event please phone our Events Coordinator, Raquel McCready on 07 3864 7522 or email rmccready@bsphn.org.au
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