Updated on 1 December 2023
Time | Tuesday 5 December | Turei 5 o Tihema | ||||
10.00am - 4.00pm | Hepatology Nurses Meeting Room: Sigma Room | ||||
1.30pm - 4.00pm | Nurse Endoscopists Meeting Room: WSP Room | ||||
2.30pm - 4.30pm | NZSG Executive Committee Meeting Room: One Foundation Room | ||||
3.00pm - 6.00pm | Exhibitor pack in Room: Unison Arena 1 | ||||
5.30pm - 6.30pm | NEDS Meeting Room: One Foundation Room | ||||
6.30pm | NZ Women in Gastroenterology Function Room: Skellerup Room |
Time | Wednesday 6 December | Wenerei 6 o Tihema | |||
8.00am - 9.00am | Janssen IBD breakfast symposium Professor Jane Andrews and Professor Richard Gearry Rooms: Downer & Sigma Rooms | |||
8.30am - 9.30am | Delegate arrival and registration | |||
9.30am - 10.10am | Pōhiri and welcome - Ngāti Whakaue Professor Catherine Stedman, President NZSG Merrilee Williams, Chairperson NZgNC | |||
10.10am - 10.30am | Kai | |||
10.30am - 12.00pm | Session 1 Plenary session 1 | Hereditary Diffuse Gastric Cancer Room: BayTrust Forum | |||
10.30am - 10.55am | Kotahitanga for familial gastric cancer Jeremy Rossaak, Tauranga Hospital Eryn Gardiner, Kimihauora Health & Research Clinic Bay of Plenty | |||
11.00am - 11.25am | Tread Softly – Whānau experiences of the ‘scope’ Associate Professor Karyn Paringatai, University of Otago Kahurangi Tipene | |||
11.30am - 11.55am | CDH1: Current perspectives and future considerations Professor Alex Boussioutas, The Alfred, Monash University. GESA President | |||
12.00pm - 1.00pm | Lunch | Tina | |||
12.30pm - 1.00pm | Novel Thioguanine Candidates for IBD Treatment Room: Skellerup Room | |||
1.00pm - 3.00pm | Session 2 Plenary session 2 Room: BayTrust Forum | |||
1.00pm - 1.25pm | Nurse endoscopy updates from the UK Helen Livett & Sharon Powell | |||
1.30pm - 1.55pm | IBD flares, the microbiota and response to dietary fibres Dr Heather Armstrong, University of Manitoba | |||
2.00pm - 2.25pm | Portal Hypertension Professor Guadalupe Garcia-Tsao, Yale University School of Medicine | |||
2.30pm - 2.55pm | Portal hypertensive bleeding Dr David Orr, NZTLU | |||
3.00pm - 3.30pm | Afternoon tea | Paramanawa | |||
3.30pm - 5.00pm | Session 3A UGI tract Room: BayTrust Forum | Session 3B Hepatology Room: Skellerup Room | Session 3C IBD Pouch/General Room: WSP Room | Session 3D Nurses | Hands-on session Limited to 30 people Room: Downer Room |
3.30pm – 3.50pm | 3.30pm – 3.50pm | 3.30pm – 4.10pm | ||
The premalignant stomach Dr Rehan Haidry | Use of albumin in cirrhotics Professor Guadalupe Garcia-Tsao | Pouch Dysfunction: Management Strategies for a challenging problem Dr Laura Raffals (recorded ACG lecture) | Boston Scientific: Resolution Clips, Interject, Mantis closure device. | |
3.50pm – 4.10pm | 3.50pm – 4.10pm | 4.10pm – 4.30pm | ||
Barrett’s endotherapy including EMR v ESD Associate Professor Nick Burgess | Autoimmune hepatitis Professor Catherine Stedman | Diet in patients with a symptomatic ileoanal pouch Dr Chu K Yao | Obex: Hemospray, Everlift, Evolution SEMS – Colonic, Duodenal & Biliary, Niti-S Oesophageal SEMS. | |
4.10pm – 4.30pm | 4.10pm – 4.25pm | 4.30pm – 4.50pm | ||
SCC Oesophagus Dr Cameron Schauer | Hepatitis Foundation interaction with primary and secondary care services Dr Chris Moyes & staff | Diet during flares: inpatient v outpatient considerations Dr Catherine Wall | Olympus: Polyloop, balloon enteroscopy, Endocuff, disposable distal attachment, loopcutters, and try your hand at colonoscopy! | |
4.30pm – 4.50pm | 4.25pm – 4.40pm | 4.50pm – 5.00pm | ||
GI stenting Dr Ravinder Ogra | Hepatitis B Professor Ed Gane | Nutrition therapy compared to standard therapy in Crohn’s disease Dr Kamran Rostami |
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4.40pm – 4.55pm | ||||
Use of PIVKA 11/GAAD surveillance for HCC in HBV positive patients: report on pilot study Dr Chris Moyes & staff | ||||
5.00pm - 8.00pm | Welcome function and networking Amongst the exhibition, Energy Events Centre | |||
5.30pm - 6.00pm | Janssen silent symposia |
Time | Thursday 7 December | Tāite 7 o Tihema | |
7.00am - 8.00am | C.R. Kennedy Fun Run & Walk Location: Outside the Millennium Hotel | |
7.30am - 8.15am | Morning pilates Location: Outside the Energy Events Centre | |
8.30am | Registration open | |
9.00am - 10.30am | Session 4A Plenary session 3 Room: BayTrust Forum | Session 4B Nurses free papers Room: Sigma Room |
9.00am – 10.00am | 9.00am – 9.20am | |
Between a clot and a hard place – management of acute portomesenteric thrombosis Dr Hannah Giles, Dr Teik Choon See (virtual) and Dr William Thomas (virtual) | The Birds and the IBD's: Sexual Identity and Infertility in Patients with IBD. Marcelane Ballentyne | |
10.00am – 10.30am | 9.20am – 9.40am | |
Liver transplantation in alcoholic liver disease Professor Ed Gane | Inflammatory Bowel Disease Acute Clinic - Te Whatu Ora Waitaha Canterbury Experience. Kirsten Arnold | |
9.40am – 10.00am | ||
The Inflammatory Bowel Disease Helpline at Waitaha Canterbury - An Analysis using Crohn's Colitis Care Kirsten Arnold | ||
10.00am – 10.20am | ||
Advances in Biofilm Testing Associate Professor Greg Whiteley | ||
10.20am – 10.30am | ||
Discussion |
10.30am - 11.00am | Morning tea | Paramanawa | ||||
11.00am - 12.00pm | Session 5A Free papers Room: BayTrust Forum | Session 5B Free papers Room: Skellerup Room | Session 5C Free papers Room: WSP Room | Session 5D Free papers Room: Downer Room | Session 5E Nurses | IBD Room: Sigma Room |
11.00am – 11.15am | 11.00am – 11.15am | 11.00am – 11.15am | 11.00am – 11.15am | 11.00am – 11.30am | |
Innovation in healthcare using low-code/no-code technology: colonoscopy triage, nursing pre-assessments and pre-colonoscopy safety checks at Waikato Hospital Dr Clarence Kerrison | Impact of Hepatitis C Cure on Outcomes for Patients Undergoing Curative Therapy for Hepatocellular Carcinoma Dr Alex Wynne | Faecal Immunochemical test (FIT) based prioritisation of new patient symptomatic cases referred for colorectal investigation Dr James Falvey | Short- and long-term reproducibility of Gastric Alimetry® body surface gastric mapping Dr Mikaela Law | Follow up recommendations for IBD patients Stephanie Buckton | |
11.15am – 11.30am | 11.15am – 11.30am | 11.15am – 11.30am | 11.15am – 11.30am | ||
Per-Oral Endoscopic Myotomy: A Multi-Centre Review of the New Zealand Experience Dr Chris Graddon | Non-invasive predictors of hepatic steatosis and determinants of quality-of-life in metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) Dr Akhilesh Swaminathan | Acute severe colitis outcomes and validating the Admission Model for Intensification of Therapy in Acute Severe Colitis (ADMIT-ASC) in New Zealand. Dr Andrew Lane | Effect of the Menstrual Cycle on Human Gastric Electrophysiology Alexandria H. Lim | ||
11.30am – 11.45am | 11.30am – 11.45am | 11.30am – 11.45am | 11.30am – 11.45am | 11.30am – 11.45am | |
Safety and Feasibility of same day discharge for Per-Oral Endoscopic Myotomy Dr Jun Young Kim | Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS) in Australia: A national Survey Dr Eric Kalo | Phenotypes of Inflammatory Bowel Disease in the Māori Population of New Zealand Dr David Law | A Contraceptive Conundrum: The Influence of Contraception on Chronic Gastroduodenal Physiology Alexandria H. Lim | RN prescribing in IBD/lower GI conditions Carly Bramley | |
11.45am – 12.00pm | 11.45am – 12.00pm | 11.45am – 12.00pm | 11.45am – 12.00pm | 11.45am – 12.00pm | |
Outcomes of self-expanding metal stents placed for malignant gastric outlet obstruction Dr Michael Chieng | The Disease Severity Index and Faecal Biomarkers are Valid and Useful Tools in Predicting Complicated Inflammatory Bowel Disease Dr Akhilesh Swaminathan | Early-onset colorectal cancer in Aotearoa/New Zealand: 25 years of data. Dr Oliver Waddell | Adopting Baveno VII reduces endoscopy burden, saves the planet Dr Rhys John | IBD case study Dr Vijay Dyavadi | |
12.00pm - 12.45pm | Lunch | Tina | ||||
12.25pm - 1.45pm | NZSG AGM Room: BayTrust Forum | ||||
12.45pm - 1.45pm | NZgNC AGM Room: Sigma Room | ||||
1.45pm - 3.15pm | Session 6A Endoscopy Room: BayTrust Forum | Session 6B NAFLD/Obesity Room: Skellerup Room | Session 6C Genetics/NBSP Room: WSP Room | Session 6D IBD Surgery Room: Downer Room | Session 6E Nurses session | General Room: Sigma Room |
1.45pm – 2.05pm | 1.45pm – 2.05pm | 1.45pm – 2.05pm | 1.45pm – 2.00pm | 1.45pm – 2.05pm | |
EMR tips and tricks Associate Professor Nick Burgess | The impact of the microbiota in NASH and liver disease Dr Heather Armstrong | Familial GI cancer syndromes Dr Nathan Atkinson | Type I Interferons as predictors of clinical non-response to anti-TNFs in IBD patients and its regulation of innate epithelial repair-responses. Dr Safina Gadeock | Gastrotomy tubes: Commons problems and recommended management Shelley Roud & Janice Duxfield | |
2.05pm – 2.25pm | 2.05pm – 2.25pm | 2.05pm – 2.25pm | 2.00pm – 2.25pm | 2.05pm – 2.25pm | |
Endoscopic Management of Upper GI Subepithelial Lesions Dr Anurag Sekra | Nutrition recommendations for the treatment of NALFD and weight loss considerations Dr Kiri Sharp | Gastric cancer genomics Professor Alex Boussioutas | To cut or not to cut Dr Viraj Kariyawasam | Swallow & dysphagia Sara Jodache | |
2.25pm – 2.45pm | 2.25pm – 2.45pm | 2.25pm – 2.40pm | 2.25pm – 2.45pm | 2.25pm – 2.45pm | |
Electrosurgical units in endoscopy Dr David McGouran | Metabolic and bariatric endoscopy Dr Rehan Haidry | NEQIP update Dr Malcolm Arnold | Preventing post-op recurrence in CD: It’s the anastomotic technique Professor Christianne Buskens | Leading through disaster Kerrin Bennett | |
2.45pm – 3.05pm | 2.45pm – 3.00pm | 2.40pm – 2.55pm | 2.45pm – 3.10pm | 2.45pm – 3.05pm | |
Pedunculated polyps Associate Professor Nick Burgess | Metabolic surgery Rowan French | National Bowel Screening Programme update Dr Susan Parry | Perianal fistulae & Crohn’s Benjamin Cribb | Surviving through disaster Karen Murdoch | |
3.00pm – 3.15pm | 2.55pm – 3.15pm | 3.05pm – 3.15pm | |||
Post-gastric bypass outlet reduction Dr Shwan Karim | FIT for purpose in 2024 Dr James Falvey | Discussion |
3.15pm - 3.45pm | Afternoon tea | Paramanawa | |||||||||
3.45pm - 5.15pm | Session 7A IBD medicines Room: BayTrust Forum | Session 7B Hepatology updates Room: Skellerup Room | Session 7C Endoscopy from St Mark’s and the Cleveland Clinic Room: WSP Room | Session 7D Nurses session | Advanced GI nursing Room: Downer Room | ||||||
3.45pm – 4.05pm | 3.45pm – 4.05pm | 3.45pm – 4.05pm | 3.45pm – 4.05pm | |||||||
Sex and the rectum Dr Massimo Giola | Selective internal radiation therapy (SIRT) and RFA ablation for HCC Associate Professor Louise Barbier | Horses for courses Professor Brian Saunders (recorded video) | Nurse Endoscopists in UK Helen Livett & Sharon Powell | |||||||
4.05pm – 4.30pm | 4.05pm – 4.25pm | 4.05pm – 4.25pm | 4.05pm – 4.25pm | |||||||
Positioning of biologics in NZ 2023/2024 Dr Viraj Kariyawasam | Systemic therapies for locally advanced HCC Professor Ed Gane | Rectal cancer Dr Noriko Suzuki (recorded video) | Bariatric surgery CNS Sharon Hilton | |||||||
4.30pm – 4.50pm | 4.25pm – 4.45pm | 4.25pm – 5.05pm | 4.25pm – 4.45pm | |||||||
Thiopurines in the biologic era Professor Murray Barclay | Palliative care in end stage liver disease Dr Murray Hunt | Third-space endoscopy in the UGI tract Dr Rehan Haidry | HBV: Simplify, demystify and nursify Nicola Caine | |||||||
4.50pm – 5.10pm | 4.45pm – 5.05pm | 4.45pm – 5.05pm | ||||||||
Bridging the gap for IBD management in rural and metropolitan areas Dr Viraj Kariyawasam | AKI in liver disease Professor Guadalupe Garcia-Tsao | Lower GI Cancer CNS: a valuable resource Helen Collins | ||||||||
5.05pm – 5.10pm | ||||||||||
NE in NZ update Tania Waylen | ||||||||||
7.00pm - late | Conference dinner BayTrust Forum, Energy Events Centre Theme: Heroes and Villains |
Time | Friday 8 December | Paraire 8 o Tihema | |||||||
8.30am | Registration open | |||||||
9.00am - 10.30am | Session 8A General Room: BayTrust Forum | Session 8B Sustainability Room: Skellerup Room | Session 8C Intestinal failure Room: WSP Room | Session 8D Advanced interventional endoscopy Room: Downer Room | ||||
9.00am – 9.20am | 9.00am – 9.30am | 9.00am – 9.20am | 9.00 - 9.15am | |||||
Haematology issues in the gastroenterology patient Dr Vidya Mathavan | Scope of the problem Associate Professor Swapna Gayam | Introduction to intestinal failure Dr James Falvey | Video Dr Anurag Sekra | |||||
9.20am – 9.40am | 9.35am – 10.00am | 9.20am – 9.40am | 9.15am - 9.30am | |||||
Non-responsive Coeliac disease Dr Kamran Rostami | Green endoscopy UK Leigh Donnelly (virtual) | NIFRS & Paediatric intestinal failure Dr Amin Roberts | Video Dr Cameron Schauer | |||||
9.40am – 9.55am | 10.05am – 10.15am | 9.40am – 10.00am | 9.30am - 9.45am | |||||
Controversies in acute severe UC Dr Adele Melton | Sustainability in endoscopy: a local story Shelley Roud & Caroline McClutchie | NIFRS & Adult intestinal failure Professor Ian Bissett | Video Dr Ravinder Ogra | |||||
9.55am – 10.10am | 10.00am – 10.20am | 9.45am - 10.15am | ||||||
Travel and IBD Stephanie Buckton | Intestinal transplantation Professor Robert Jones AM | Establishment of Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection With an Untutored, Prevalence-Based Approach in New Zealand Dr Anurag Sekra | ||||||
10.30am - 11.15am | Brunch | Parakuihi | |||||||
10.45am - 11.15am | Poster session | |||||||
11.15am - 12.45pm | Session 9 Plenary session 4 Room: Bay Trust Forum | |||||||
11.15am – 11.45am | Gut directed hypnotherapy and disordered eating Dr Simone Peters | |||||||
11.50am – 12.20pm | Chronic nausea, vomiting and Ehlers Danlos syndrome Dr Chris Cederwall | |||||||
12.25pm – 12.55pm | Coeliac artery compression syndrome / Median arcuate ligament syndrome (MALS) Manar Khashram | |||||||
12.55pm - 1.15pm | Eru Pōmare Award | |||||||
1.15pm – 1.30pm | Conference close | |||||||
1.30pm | Registrar event |