WCIM 2010 Melbourne in conjunction with Physicians Week

20 – 25 March 2010
Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre Melbourne, Australia
World Medicine for the Next Decade: 2010 to 2020

 

Presentations

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Jennifer Alexander Leadership
Ghassan Alhami Fatal Statin Induced Myositis in Australian Indigenous Patients
Caitlin Anderson Analysis Of Functional Improvement In Stroke Patients Relative To Time Of Transfer To Rehabilitation
Carolyn Arnold Case Presentations
Sara Barnes Improving Handover with Electronic Notes
Louise Baur Assessment and management of the obese child and adolescent

Ethical issues associated with obesity - Brief comments from a bariatric paediatrician
Rinaldo Bellomo Acute Kidney Injury

Glycaemic control in Critical illness
Marie Bismark Good Medical Practice
Renee Bittoun Translating the Science of Nicotine Addiction into Smoking Cessation Clinical Practice
Dame Carol Black Ferguson Glass Oration: Maximising the health and well-being of the working-age population
Leslie Bolitho The Changing Role of Rural Consultant Physicians and Paediatricians
Robert Booy Treatments and vaccines: Trials and tribulations
Ross Boswell Testsafe - A Shared Regional Clinical Data Repository from Auckland
Catriona Bradshaw Mycoplasma genitalium: an emerging pathogen
Stephen Brady Rural Physician Workforce Challenges

Adults
Victoria Bray Self Reported Cognitive Symptoms in Cancer Patients attending Out-Patient Medical Oncology Clinics
David Burke Variations in the Delivery of Compensation after Severe Injury in Australia
Patrina Caldwell Supervision of postgraduate research higher degrees: designing a professional development program for a clinical setting
Leonie Callaway Supervision and Feedback
Craig Campbell International Perspective
Michele Campbell The burden of childhood obesity in Australian paediatric practice: Children Attending Paediatricians Survey
Meng-yueh Chien C-Reactive Protein Level Correlates with Impaired Heart Rate Recovery in Obstructive Sleep Apnea
Woong Gil Choi Impact of LV diastolic dyssynchrony on diastolic function in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy
In Keun Choi Serum YKL-40 as a Prognostic Marker in Patients with Advanced Non-small Cell Lung Cancer
Siew Liing Chong A Different Stroke
Carol Chong Electrocardiograph changes and correlation to troponin levels and cardiac complications after orthopaedic surgery
Robert Clancy The Epidemics Sydney Had to Have!
Neale Cohen Optimising use of existing and new agents in diabetes
Nicola Dalbeth Patho-physiology of gout
Anita D'Aprano Trial of a developmental screening tool in remote Australian Aboriginal communities: a cautionary tale
Sonia Davison Female sexual dysfunction and the role of androgens
Peter Deutschmann Global Health Initiatives
Jorge Do Campo The Early Warning Score Implementation Reduced the number of unexpected deaths
Katina D'Onise The Effect of Preschool Attendance on Behavioural Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Disease in Adulthood
Geoff Donnan Global burden of stroke: the challenges in 2010
Matthew Doogue Prescriber Evaluation of Potential Drug-Drug Interactions, Room for Improvement?
Andrew Duggins Ranked Performance Assessment of Physician Trainees
Dominic Dwyer H1N1-09 Pandemic in Australia: an overview
Peter Ebeling PEP lecture series

Emerging Treatments for Osteoporosis

The relationship of calcium, phosphate, vitamin D and PTH to cardiovascular risk in those with and without chronic kidney disease
Daryl Efron Unmet Needs in Paediatric Outpatients
David Elder Registers of Occupational Respiratory Diseases
Cristina María Elizondo Incidence of Thomboembolic venous disease and statins use
Mel Figtree Jungle Fever
Frank Formby Evidence for Pain Prevalence in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and Congestive Cardiac Failure (CCF)
Claire Frizzell Stoss Therapy (single, high-dose cholecalciferol) in Childhood Vitamin D Deficiency

Transition Education in Adolescents with Epilepsy - Is it Effective?
Marguerite Fulton Treating Sleep Problems in School Aged Children With ADHD: Evaluation of a Behavioural Sleep Intervention
Ian Gardner Health Safety and Environment implications of nanotechnologies: current issues
Ludovit Gaspar Importance of Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring in Patients with Tinnitus
Ramy Ghaly Rapid Assessment Medical Unit at Box Hill Hospital
Sharon Goldfeld The Early Childhood Development Outcomes of Australian children: Results of the Australian Early Development Index
Keith Grimwood Rotavirus vaccines: from one generation to the next!
Stefan Gruenert Children of Substance Dependent Parents: Typical Experiences and Outcomes
Liam Hannan Withdrawal of a computerised community-acquired pneumonia guideline led to significant deterioration in guideline-concordant antibiotic prescribing
Graeme Hart Electronic Health Records: Drivers for Change and Expected Benefits
Carmel Hawley The evidence for treatment of calcium, phosphate, vitamin D and PTH to improve cardiovascular outcomes in chronic kidney disease
Philip Hazell A Tale of Two Medicines and More: Narrowing the gap between evidence and practice in Paediatric Therapeutics
Sang Taek Heo Clinical Features of Patients with Extensive Drug-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii
Jane Holmes-Walker Improving outcomes after transition for young people with diabetes.
Stephen Honeybul Outcomes of unilateral and bilateral decompressive craniectomy for severe neurotrauma: A population-based study
Virginia Hood What the internist needs to know about chronic kidney disease
Diane Howard From Little Things Big Things Grow- from Regional Hospital to Tertiary Referral Teaching Hospital
Mark Howard Sleep Disorders
Romy Hurwitz Tricyclic Antidepressants in Autism - A Cochrane Systematic Review
Jong Jin Hyun PPI, Is It a Friend or a Foe to the Osteoclasts and Osteoblasts?
Bob Iansek Gait disorders in Parkinson's disease and Related Conditions
Luatupu (Tupu) Ioane-Cleverley Physicians In The First Wave To The Samoa Tsunami Rescue, 29 Sept 09.
Kate Jackson Improving the care of patients dying in general hospital wards
Jin-ok Jeong Time Delay Factors in Patients with Acute ST-segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction Undergoing Primary PCI
Keith Johnstone MyCPD an online CPD Tool for Fellows of the RACP
Brad Jongeling Maternal and Early Life Risk Factors for a later Diagnosis of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

Long-term outcomes associated with stimulant medication in the treatment of ADHD in children
Francis Matthew Josiah Patterns Of Interferon-Alpha Induced Thyroid Dysfunction In Hepatitis C Patients
Nadarajah Kangaharan Remote cardiology services
Steven Kao Blood neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio predicts survival in patients with malignant mesothelioma
Heath Kelly Global Surveillance
Anne Kelso An International Perspective
Michael Kennedy Medicine in Early Colonial Australia
Genevieve Kennedy Access to inpatient stroke rehabilitation programs - a survey of factors influencing decision making
Natasha Lannin Physical Therapies for Neurological Conditions

The FIM in TBI: how good is the Cognitive Scale for measuring neuropsychological impairments?
Marissa Lassere Exploring the Role of Patient Hand Held Devices for Monitoring Health Outcomes in Rheumatoid Arthritis
John Lawson A Tale of Two Medicines and More: Narrowing the gap between evidence and practice in Paediatric Therapeutics
Tam Le Cong Are patients with psychotic disorders at greater risk during a heatwave?
Han Cheol Lee Effect of Intra-coronary Nicorandil Administration Prior to Reperfusion in Acute ST Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction
Mark Lee Management of Non-insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus in Internal Medicine
Margaret Lee Medication chart intervention improves prophylaxis prescription in patients at high risk of venous thromboembolism
Michelle Leech Human Studies
Chris Levi Different strokes: what not to miss
David Shi Hao Liu Medication chart intervention improves inpatient venous thromboembolism prophylaxis
Nikita Lomakin Cardioprotective effects of Lornoxicam, nonselective cyclooxygenase inhibitor, in patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome. PLEA trial.
Sarah Macnee Government & paediatric perspective
Jennifer Mann Experiences in Spina Bifida Transitional Clinic in Regional NSW
Tracey Marshall Smoking - Prevention and Early Intervention
Peter Martin Cachexia, Communication and Opioid Induced Hyperalgesia
Jeremy McComish An Unusual Gel
David McGouran Reduction in inappropriate hospital stay after effective health care interventions; a comparative audit
Mark McKay Beds and workers in hospital service management - the Nosokinetic view
Scott McKeown Implications of Clinical Governance Arising from Clinician Usage of an Influenza-Like Illness (ILI) Surveillance System in Tasmanian Aboriginal Health Services (AHS)
David W Moller Dancing With Broken Bones: Race, Class, and Spirit-filled Dying Within Urban Poverty
Kieran Moran A prospective Retcam study of retinal haemorrhages in infancy
Johan Morreau Cultural Competences
Alison Mudge Outcomes of Hospital Care in Aged Care Residents

Models of care and outcomes in older medical patients

Minimising readmissions

Reducing delirious discharges: results of a quality imporvement program
Matthew Naughton Sleep and Cardiovascular Disease
Harvey Newnham Constructing the Acute Medical Receiving Workforce
Ashley Ng Trisomy of Erg is required for myeloproliferation in a mouse model of Down syndrome
Myoung-Don Oh Effect of ritonavir-boosting on intolerance to atazanavir in Korean HIV patients
Kathleen Ooi Health services' perspective
Mark Parsons Acute stroke therapy: current and future
Adam Pastor Mr JM; Intoxicated, Withdrawing, Just Unpleasant or Something Else?
George Patton Introduction to Adolescent Morbidity & Mortality in Australia - including puberty
Grant Phelps RACP View

Professional Dilemmas
Karen Phipps Health services' perspective
Phillippa Poole The Future Medical Workforce: A New Zealand Perspective
Sarah Prince The Future of (Rural) Medicine in the United Kingdom.
Murray Princehorn Prevalence of exposure to family and domestic violence amongst children attending a paediatric emergency department.
Joseph Proietto Update on Obesity and the endocrine system
Sujata Rajaram To reduce the incidences of aspiration among patients during hospitalization
George Razay Vascular Risk Factors for Alzheimer’s Disease: An Overview of Findings

A Prospective Controlled Clinical Trial of Ventriculo-peritoneal Shunting for Idiopathic Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus
Dinah Reddihough The Victorian Cerebral Palsy Register: learning more about cerebral palsy
Sheena Reilly The Early Language in Victoria Study (ELVS): predictors and co-morbidities of language impairment at 4 years
Edward Ritchie Implementation of an Electronic Medical Handover Tool Improves Accuracy and Reduces Omission of Important Information
Don Roberton Immunisation in childhood: evidence based health care
Lynden Roberts An Australian Medical Assessment & Planning Unit (MAPU) that failed to deliver efficiency improvements.
Laila Rotstein Description and Evaluation of the Training Program for the FRACP clinical exam, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne
Anthony Russell The Inala Chronic Disease Management Service - demonstrating the benefits of a community based, integrated primary/tertiary diabetes service
Peter Sainsbury Ethical Challenges for Public Health: Ethics, Equity and Sustainability
Marion Saville The future of cervical screening
John Schneider Development and Validation of Guidelines for Managing Work in Hot Environments in the Middle East
Jonathan Shaw Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease: What is the Glycaemic Target and How Should we Achieve It - New Therapies?
Frances Simmonds The AROC Annual Report - the state of rehabilitation in Australia and New Zealand in 2009

Developing Outcome Targets for Reconditioning
Odette Spruyt Pain, Delirium and Dignity
Shalini Sri Kumaran Drug-induced liver injury (DILI) in an Asian tertiary centre; a single-centre experience of ambulatory patients
Fiona Stafford-Bell Process engineering of AMU access and change management
Rolf A Streuli Tuberculosis is not Defeated - It Still is a Threat
Tim Sullivan Culturally competent communication: reflections on an elective term in rural South Africa
Boyd Swinburn Rethinking obesity: New approaches to clinical management and social policy
Jason Tan Vitamin D deficiency in Aboriginal children and adolescents in metropolitan and rural Western Australia
David Templeton Sexually Transmissible Infections in Men Who Have Sex with Men
Phil Tideman A Statewide Virtual Hospital for Patients with Heart Disease
Marian Todaro A longer duration of antiepileptic (AED) monotherapy is associated with adverse bone health effects.
Susan Towns Smoking - Prevention and Early Intervention
Ben Tran The impact of modern treatment on the cost-effectiveness of the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program
Julian Trollor ADHD: A lifespan Perspective
Venessa Tsang Catecho-strophic Diabetic Ketoacidosis
Louella Vaughan Information Underload?: Utilization of a Hospital-based Medication Helpline
Yasuhisa Wakabayashi Immunoadsorption plasmapheresis with tryptophan adsorbents in dilated cardiomyopathy
Melanie Wakefield Tobacco control in Australia: where have we come and where are we going?
Jenny Walsh Doing it alone: Young people managing their sexual health
Qifeng Wang Adolescents' Drawings of Their Cardiac Abnormality

Adolescents’ Knowledge of Their Cardiac Abnormality and Its Relationship with Their Cardiac-related Quality of Life

The Prevalence and Predictors of Anxiety and Depression in Adolescents with Heart Disease
Andrew Webster Teaching medical students about Aboriginal health: the carrots and sticks
Jennifer Weil Perceived Needs and Attitudes to Palliative Medicine Education Amongst Hospital Junior Medical Staff
Steve Wilton Molecular genetic surgery: splice intervention to rescue expression from defective genes
Alistair Wright Evaluation of an educational program to support international medical graduates in rural Victoria, Australia
Hyeon Woong Yang Efficacy of Initial Treatment with Clevudine in Naive Chronic Hepatitis B Patients
Mark Yates When All Else Fails Change the System - A Lesson from VTE Prophylaxis Improvement Projects
Raju Yerra QOL in epilepsy is determined by psychological wellbeing and seizure frequency than epilepsy syndrome.
Anthony Zehetner Iron Supplementation for Breath-holding Attacks in Children: A Cochrane Systematic Review
Yvonne Zurynski Influenza H1N1 2009 Pandemic: Severe Complications and Deaths in Children < 15 years

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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Timetable and Deadlines

Congress Opens: 21 March 2010
Congress Closes: 25 March 2010
Abstract Submission Closes: Now Closed
Early Registration: 15 January 2010
Accommodation: 29 January 2010

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