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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 choicesJon 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

 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
 

 

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