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Export Sessions

Day 1

Friday, 02 May 2025

Day 2

Saturday, 03 May 2025

Day 3

Sunday, 04 May 2025

Day 4

Monday, 05 May 2025

Day 5

Tuesday, 06 May 2025

7:00 am - 8:20 am - 04 May 2025

CHRISTIAN MEDICAL FELLOWSHIP BREAKFAST (TICKETED EVENT)

Breakfast Session - *Cross Discipline* - Meeting Room C3.6

7:00 am - 8:20 am - 04 May 2025

INDIGENOUS HEALTH BREAKFAST (TICKETED EVENT)

Breakfast Session - Indigenous Health - Meeting Room C3.3

7:00 am - 8:20 am - 04 May 2025

MASTERCLASS (MC01): MEET YOUR JOURNAL - SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING IN ANZ JOURNAL OF SURGERY (TICKETED EVENT)

Masterclass - *Cross Discipline* - Meeting Room C4.11

7:00 am - 8:20 am - 04 May 2025

MASTERCLASS (MC03): Pelvic Floor - managing postoperative dysfunction (TICKETED EVENT)

Masterclass - Colorectal Surgery - Meeting Room C4.8

It is a truth universally acknowledged that the restoration of anatomy does not consistently result in physiological improvement. Whilst not unique to pelvic surgery, procedures therein suffer a higher misfortune of unintended functional sequelae. Increasingly, we have come to recognise that our role does not end at anatomical restoration. To optimise a patient’s quality of life, we need to understand how to address postoperative dysfunction and identify the underlying factors that drive it.

7:00 am - 8:20 am - 04 May 2025

Masterclass (MC02): Genetic testing in breast cancer: how YOU can do it (Ticketed Event)

Masterclass - Breast Surgery - Meeting Room C4.9 - Meeting Room C4.10

Genetic mainstreaming kit to be provided + case discussions

7:00 am - 8:20 am - 04 May 2025

Masterclass (MC04): Maximally Invasive Oesophagogastric Resections (TICKETED EVENT)

Masterclass - Upper GI Surgery - Meeting Room C4.7 - Meeting Room C4.6

8:30 am - 10:00 am - 04 May 2025

PLENARY SESSION - AI IN CLINICAL PRACTICE: A NEW HOPE OR A PHANTOM MENACE?

Plenary Session - *Cross Discipline* - Darling Harbour Theatre

Includes The ANZJS Lecture

10:00 am - 10:30 am - 04 May 2025

MORNING TEA - SUNDAY

Catering - *Cross Discipline* - Hall 5

10:30 am - 12:30 pm - 04 May 2025

Bariatric Innovation

Scientific Session - Bariatric Surgery - Meeting Room C3.3

10:30 am - 12:30 pm - 04 May 2025

HPB ONCOLOGY

Scientific Session - Surgical Oncology, HPB Surgery - Meeting Room C4.4

10:30 am - 12:30 pm - 04 May 2025

INNOVATION IN MODELS OF CARE

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

10:30 am - 11:00 am - 04 May 2025

KEYNOTE LECTURE - ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR CHRISTOPHER HARMSTON (Whangarei, Aotearoa New Zealand)

Keynote Lecture - Rural Surgery - Meeting Room C4.2

10:30 am - 11:00 am - 04 May 2025

KEYNOTE LECTURE - ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR JAMES FRENCH (SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA)

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

10:30 am - 11:00 am - 04 May 2025

KEYNOTE LECTURE - DR STEPHEN SMITH (NEWCASTLE, AUSTRALIA)

Keynote Lecture - Colorectal Surgery - Meeting Room C4.8

10:30 am - 11:00 am - 04 May 2025

KEYNOTE LECTURE - Professor Emad El-Omar (Sydney, AUSTRALIA)

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

10:30 am - 12:30 pm - 04 May 2025

Research Papers

Scientific Session - Indigenous Health - Meeting Room C4.3

10:30 am - 12:30 pm - 04 May 2025

Research Papers - Tom Reeve Clinical Research Papers Prize Session

Scientific Session - Endocrine Surgery - Meeting Room C4.11

10:30 am - 11:00 am - 04 May 2025

THE JOHN MITCHELL CROUCH FELLOWSHIP LECTURE

Named Lecture - *Cross Discipline* - Meeting Room C3.5 - Meeting Room C3.4

10:30 am - 11:00 am - 04 May 2025

The Hamilton Russell Memorial Lecture - Dr Ajit Sachdeva (Chicago, USA)

Keynote Lecture - Surgical Education - Meeting Room C2.3 - Meeting Room C2.2

11:00 am - 12:30 pm - 04 May 2025

Advancements in Breast Surgery and Cancer Detection

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

11:00 am - 12:30 pm - 04 May 2025

Benign UGI debates

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

11:00 am - 12:30 pm - 04 May 2025

Complex Benign Surgery in the Abdomen

Scientific Session - Colorectal Surgery - Meeting Room C4.8

11:00 am - 12:30 pm - 04 May 2025

RURAL SURGERY - THRIVING IN THE MIDST OF CHALLENGES

Scientific Session - Younger Fellows, Rural Surgery - Meeting Room C4.2

11:00 am - 12:30 pm - 04 May 2025

SPECIALTY TRAINING SELECTION - CAN WE DO IT BETTER?

Scientific Session - Trainees Association, Surgical Education - Meeting Room C2.3 - Meeting Room C2.2

11:00 am - 12:30 pm - 04 May 2025

Vascular Trauma

Scientific Session - Vascular Surgery, Trauma Surgery - Meeting Room C4.1

11:30 am - 12:30 pm - 04 May 2025

ANZ CHAPTER OF THE ACS “SCIENTIFIC FORUM” SESSION

Scientific Session - *Cross Discipline* - Meeting Room C3.6

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm - 04 May 2025

ANZ CHAPTER OF THE ACS ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING AND LUNCH

Business Meeting - *Cross Discipline* - Meeting Room C3.6

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm - 04 May 2025

LUNCH - SUNDAY

Catering - *Cross Discipline* - Hall 5

12:45 pm - 1:15 pm - 04 May 2025

Solventum Lunch Session: 30 years of innovation in NPWT – Abdominal Wall Reconstruction and Hernia Repair

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

1:30 pm - 2:00 pm - 04 May 2025

KEYNOTE LECTURE - DR MICHAEL HOLLAND MP (BEGA, AUSTRALIA)

Keynote Lecture - Indigenous Health - Meeting Room C4.3

1:30 pm - 2:00 pm - 04 May 2025

KEYNOTE LECTURE - DR NICOLE ILONZO (New York, USA)

Keynote Lecture - Vascular Surgery - Meeting Room C4.1

1:30 pm - 2:00 pm - 04 May 2025

KEYNOTE LECTURE - DR STEVEN WEXNER (Weston, USA)

Keynote Lecture - Colorectal Surgery - Meeting Room C4.8

1:30 pm - 2:00 pm - 04 May 2025

KEYNOTE LECTURE - PROFESSOR ELISABETH ELDER (SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA)

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

BreastSurgANZ Invited Speaker

1:30 pm - 2:00 pm - 04 May 2025

KEYNOTE LECTURE - PROFESSOR KEVIN LOWE (SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA)

Keynote Lecture - Surgical Education - Meeting Room C2.2 - Meeting Room C2.3

1:30 pm - 2:00 pm - 04 May 2025

KEYNOTE LECTURE - PROFESSOR MARK SMITHERS (BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA)

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

1:30 pm - 3:30 pm - 04 May 2025

Operative cholangiogaphy, cholangioscopy or ICG fluorescence: different tools for the same job?

Scientific Session - HPB Surgery - Meeting Room C4.4

1:30 pm - 3:30 pm - 04 May 2025

RESEARCH PAPERS

Scientific Session - Hernia Surgery, General Surgery, Trainees Association - Meeting Room C4.5

1:30 pm - 3:30 pm - 04 May 2025

Reflux - The enemy of bariatric surgery

Scientific Session - Bariatric Surgery - Meeting Room C3.3

1:30 pm - 3:00 pm - 04 May 2025

Research Papers

Scientific Session - Trauma Surgery - Meeting Room C4.2

Presentations marked with an asterisk (*) are eligible to be considered for the Damian McMahon Paper Prize.

1:30 pm - 2:15 pm - 04 May 2025

The Tom Reeve Lecture - Professor Georgina Long AO (Sydney, Australia)

Named Lecture - Surgical Oncology - Meeting Room C3.5 - Meeting Room C3.4

1:30 pm - 3:30 pm - 04 May 2025

Updates in Endocrine surgery - What you may not know

Scientific Session - Endocrine Surgery - Meeting Room C4.11

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm - 04 May 2025

Complex Aortic Pathology and Pulmonary Embolism Treatment

Scientific Session - Vascular Surgery - Meeting Room C4.1

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm - 04 May 2025

Future Challenges and Directions in Indigenous and Maori Healthcare

Scientific Session - Indigenous Health - Meeting Room C4.3

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm - 04 May 2025

LEADERSHIP IN SURGERY - IS TRAINING REQUIRED?

Scientific Session - Surgical Education, Younger Fellows, Trainees Association - Meeting Room C2.2 - Meeting Room C2.3

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm - 04 May 2025

Resectional quandaries

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

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm - 04 May 2025

Survivorship & Surveillance

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

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm - 04 May 2025

What would you do if it was you?

Scientific Session - Colorectal Surgery, General Surgery, Rural Surgery - Meeting Room C4.8

2:15 pm - 3:30 pm - 04 May 2025

MELANOMA

Scientific Session - Surgical Oncology, Younger Fellows - Meeting Room C3.5 - Meeting Room C3.4

3:30 pm - 4:00 pm - 04 May 2025

AFTERNOON TEA - SUNDAY

Catering - *Cross Discipline* - Hall 5

3:30 pm - 4:00 pm - 04 May 2025

Colon and Rectal Surgery Section Annual Business Meeting

Business Meeting - Colorectal Surgery - Meeting Room C4.8

4:00 pm - 6:00 pm - 04 May 2025

PLENARY SESSION - DR GLAUCOMFLECKEN AND A SURGICAL AFFAIR: QUESTION TIME WITH TONY JONES (TICKETED EVENT)

Plenary Session - *Cross Discipline* - Darling Harbour Theatre

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm - 04 May 2025

ANZ CHAPTER OF THE ACS NETWORKING FUNCTION

Cocktail - *Cross Discipline* - Foyer Level 2

6:00 pm - 6:30 pm - 04 May 2025

GSA ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

Business Meeting - General Surgery - Meeting Room C4.5

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm - 04 May 2025

RCSed Reception

Cocktail - *Cross Discipline* - Meeting Room C3.6

7:00 pm - 10:30 pm - 04 May 2025

SECTION DINNER (TICKETED EVENT)

Speciality Dinner - Rural Surgery, General Surgery, Hernia Surgery

Venue: 12 Micron

7:00 pm - 10:30 pm - 04 May 2025

SECTION DINNER (TICKETED EVENT)

Speciality Dinner - Breast Surgery, Endocrine Surgery

Venue: Pier One - Water Room

7:00 pm - 10:00 pm - 04 May 2025

SECTION DINNER (TICKETED EVENT)

Speciality Dinner - Transplantation Surgery, Bariatric Surgery, Surgical Education, HPB Surgery, Upper GI Surgery

Venue: ChinChin

7:00 pm - 10:30 pm - 04 May 2025

SECTION DINNER (TICKETED EVENT)

Speciality Dinner - Colorectal Surgery

Venue: The Loft - Jones Bay Wharf

7:00 pm - 10:30 pm - 04 May 2025

SECTION DINNER (TICKETED EVENT)

Speciality Dinner - Trauma Surgery, Vascular Surgery

Venue: 6HEAD - Bay 11

8:00 pm - 10:30 pm - 04 May 2025

SECTION DINNER (TICKETED EVENT)

Speciality Dinner - Surgical Oncology

Venue: Grana, Ground Floor/5-7 Young St, Sydney NSW 2000

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03 - 06 May 2025
03 May 2025 8:00 am to 06 May 2025 6:00 pm

International Convention Centre (ICC), Sydney
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Ⓒ 2025, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons ABN 29 004 167 766 / NZ GST No. 55-237-778