RACS ASC 2025

10:00 am - 10:30 am - 03 May 2025

MORNING TEA - SATURDAY

Catering - *Cross Discipline* - Hall 5

10:30 am - 12:00 pm - 03 May 2025

OPENING PLENARY SESSION - FROM ACE TO SPACE OF SURGICAL INNOVATION

Plenary Session - *Cross Discipline* - Darling Harbour Theatre

12:00 pm - 12:30 pm - 03 May 2025

THE PRESIDENT'S LECTURE - PROFESSOR ROWAN PARKS (EDINBURGH, UK)

Plenary Session - *Cross Discipline* - Darling Harbour Theatre

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm - 03 May 2025

LUNCH - SATURDAY

Catering - *Cross Discipline* - Hall 5

12:45 pm - 1:15 pm - 03 May 2025

Johnson & Johnson MedTech Lunch Session: Innovation in Johnson & Johnson MedTech technology over the past 30 years and what’s next

Scientific Session - *Cross Discipline* - Meeting Room C4.9 - Meeting Room C4.10

1:30 pm - 3:30 pm - 03 May 2025

Advances in Australasian urology

Scientific Session - Urology Surgery - Meeting Room C3.4 - Meeting Room C3.5

1:30 pm - 3:30 pm - 03 May 2025

EMERGENCY LAPAROTOMY - WHAT HAVE WE LEARNT THROUGH ANZELA/NELA?

Scientific Session - Trauma Surgery, General Surgery, Rural Surgery - Meeting Room C4.5

1:30 pm - 3:30 pm - 03 May 2025

Evolving treatment paradigms in Thyroid Surgery

Scientific Session - Endocrine Surgery - Meeting Room C4.11

1:30 pm - 2:00 pm - 03 May 2025

KEYNOTE LECTURE - DR SHANNON THOMAS (SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA)

Keynote Lecture - Vascular Surgery - Meeting Room C3.6

1:30 pm - 2:00 pm - 03 May 2025

KEYNOTE LECTURE - DR STEVEN WEXNER (WESTON, USA)

Keynote Lecture - Colorectal Surgery - Meeting Room C4.8

1:30 pm - 2:00 pm - 03 May 2025

KEYNOTE LECTURE - Dr Andreas Karakatsanis (Uppsala, Sweden)

Keynote Lecture - Breast Surgery - Meeting Room C4.9 - Meeting Room C4.10

1:30 pm - 2:00 pm - 03 May 2025

KEYNOTE LECTURE - PROFESSOR LORENZO FERRI (MONTREAL, CANADA)

Keynote Lecture - Upper GI Surgery - Meeting Room C4.6 - Meeting Room C4.7

1:30 pm - 3:30 pm - 03 May 2025

Nutrition

Scientific Session - Bariatric Surgery - Meeting Room C3.3

1:30 pm - 3:30 pm - 03 May 2025

Robotic HPB Surgery in 2025 and beyond

Scientific Session - HPB Surgery - Meeting Room C4.4

1:30 pm - 2:00 pm - 03 May 2025

The Herbert Moran Lecture - PROFESSOR JOHN COLLINS (AUCKLAND, AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND)

Named Lecture - Women in Surgery, Surgical Education, Surgical History - Meeting Room C4.1

1:30 pm - 2:00 pm - 03 May 2025

The James Pryor Memorial Lecture

Named Lecture - Medico-Legal - Meeting Room C4.3

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm - 03 May 2025

Colorectal Cancer

Scientific Session - Colorectal Surgery - Meeting Room C4.8

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm - 03 May 2025

Innovation In Breast Reconstruction

Scientific Session - Breast Surgery - Meeting Room C4.9 - Meeting Room C4.10

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm - 03 May 2025

Living with Pain and its Management

Scientific Session - Pain Medicine & Surgery - Meeting Room C4.3

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm - 03 May 2025

Pushing the Boundaries of Amputation Prevention

Scientific Session - Vascular Surgery - Meeting Room C3.6

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm - 03 May 2025

Tracing our roots, the heritage and legacy of our College

Scientific Session - Surgical History - Meeting Room C4.1

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm - 03 May 2025

Upper GI orphans & emergencies

Scientific Session - Upper GI Surgery - Meeting Room C4.6 - Meeting Room C4.7

3:30 pm - 4:00 pm - 03 May 2025