Presentations

FRIDAY 25 AUGUST 2023 

0850-1015

Plenary 1
Treatment landscape into the future

 

Chair: David Fagan

 

From then to now – Gavin Finkelstein
 
What is precision or personalized medicine? New and emerging treatments for all bleeding disorders – Dr Glenn Pierce
 
Australian experience and challenges with new and emerging haemophilia therapies - Dr Liane Khoo
 
Access to new therapies – policy and regulation – Jo Cameron
 
Hopes for the future: reflections from a parent – Clare

1045-1215

Plenary 2
Gene Therapy

 

Chair: Prof Huyen Tran

 

Overview – Dr Glenn Pierce
 
Psychological overview – Jane Portnoy
 
Overview into AHCDO Gene therapy roadmap – Prof Huyen Tran
 
Q&A

1330-1500

Concurrent 1

The impact of new treatments on children and families

 

Chair: Anne Jackson

 

The impact of new treatments on children & families - Anne Jackson
 
Impact on practice in the paediatric setting – A Paediatric Nurse’s View - Janine Furmedge
 
Physical activity in children - Nicola Hamilton
 
Young adult and his mother's perspective: Catherine and Lachlan

Q&A

1330-1500

Concurrent 2

Rare Bleeding Disorders

 

Chair: Dr Jane Mason

 

Personal Experience - Chauntelle, FXIII
 
Rare Bleeding Disorders - Dr Sally Campbell
 
Personal experience - Jenny, acquired haemophilia A
 
Acquired haemophilia - Dr Jane Mason
 
Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia - Alex Klever
 
Q&A

1330-1500

Concurrent 3

Making Career Choices

 

Chair: Penny McCarthy

 

Career choices over a lifetime. Do they change with new treatments? – Penny McCarthy
 
Personal Stories
 
How to make career choices - Jon Hazelton
 
Employment: discrimination, disclosure and the law – Mark Waters
 
Personal story - Dale
 
Panel Discussion and Q&A:

  • Speakers and:
  • Nurse: Kara Cordiner
  •  Physiotherapist: Abi Polus
  •  Social worker: Nicoletta Crollini

1530-1700

Plenary 3
Women and girls with bleeding disorders

 

Chair: Dr Meredith Wiggins

 
 

Personal perspectives on the challenges and issues of living with a bleeding disorder

  • Shauna
  • Cheryl

 
Medical perspectives on diagnosis, assessment, treatment and care

  • Gynaecologist: Prof Sonia Grover
  • Haematologist: Dr Briony Cutts

 Q&A

 
SATURDAY 26 AUGUST 2023

0845-1015

Plenary 4
Managing Mild Haemophilia

 

Chair:   Dr Heather Tapp

 

Personal perspective from a young adult and his dad - Louis and Tom
 
Diagnosis and treatment – Dr Heather Tapp
 
Mild haemophilia in adults: medical issues – Dr Stephanie P’ng
 
Nursing management, including surgery in mild haemophilia – Alex Klever
 
Physical activities and sport across the lifespan – Abi Polus

1045-1215

Concurrent 4

Inheritance, genetics and family planning

 

Chair: Dr Chris Barnes

 

Personal story
 
Inheritance and genetics, reproduction and family planning - Geneticist and Genetic Counsellor: A/Prof Kristi Jones and Lucy Kevin
 
Q&A

1045-1215

Concurrent 5

Is it a bleed? MSK recovery

 

Chair:  Jo Newsom

 

Case Study
 
Conditions that can mimic a bleed - Dr Rob Russo
 
Joint bleed recovery – how long does it really take?  - Ali Morris
 
Muscle bleed recovery – Jarrad King
 
Q/A panel
 

1045-1215

Concurrent 6

Getting older

 

Chair: Suzanne O’Callaghan

 

Personal story - Mike
 
Medical issues - Dr Liane Khoo
 
Hep C and liver health - Dr David Iser
 
Social connection - Marcia Fearn
 
Panel discussion and Q&A:

  • Speakers and

  • Nurse: Jayne Treagust

  • Physiotherapist: Cathy Haley

Psychosocial worker: Kathryn Body

1330-1500

Concurrent 7

Pregnancy, childbirth and newborns

 

Chair:  Dr Jane Mason

 

Nursing perspective – pregnancy and delivery management - Robyn Shoemark
 
Delivery and birth – Dr Iniyaval Thevathasan
 
Best practice management of Previously Untreated Patients - Dr Simon Brown
 
Personal Story – Rebecca
 
Q&A

1330-1500

Concurrent 8

VWD

 

Chair: Dr Chee Wee Tan

 

Personal story - Adam
Personal story – Susie
 
VWD diagnosis – Dr Geoffrey Kershaw
 
VWD clinical management - Dr Nalini Pati
 
Q&A
 

1330-1500

Concurrent 9

Pain

 

Chair: Jonathan Spencer

 

Pain management in the future – Dr Carolyn Arnold
 
Pain and physiotherapy - Cat Pollard
 
Strategies to manage procedural and acute pain in children – Michelle Perrin
 
Q&A


1530-1700

Plenary 5
Working towards good health

 

 

 

 

 
 

Beyond resilience comes adaptability: thriving in a changing world  - Dr Charlotte Keating
 
Panel - What are the challenges we are facing, moving forward and how to keep connected

  • Dr Glenn Pierce
  • Dr Simon Brown
  • Dr Liane Khoo
  • Dr Chris Barnes
  • Claude Damiani
  • Shauna Adams