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2023 GENCA National Conference - Program

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Friday, May 19, 2023

Registration Open and Welcome Reception
5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Registration Desk Open
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM Welcome Reception
Registration Open and Welcome Reception
5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Registration Desk Open
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM Welcome Reception

Registration Open and Welcome Reception
5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Registration Desk Open
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM Welcome Reception

Saturday, May 20, 2023

Concurrent Stream One
Concurrent Stream Two
Concurrent Stream Three
7:00 AM - 5:00 PM Poster Presentations
Poster Presentations will be on display for the duration of the Conference in the Exhibition.
7:30 AM - 7:30 AM
Registration Desk and Exhibition Opens - Day 1
8:30 AM - 8:45 AM Conference Open and Welcome to Country
Lea Wiggins - GENCA President
8:45 AM - 9:15 AM Cytosponge – more than just a sponge on a string
Paula Brayford - International Keynote Speaker
9:15 AM - 9:45 AM Implementing recycling in your unit
Associate Professor Vera Meeusen - Keynote Speaker
9:45 AM - 10:00 AM Panel Discussion
Paula Brayford and Associate Professor Vera Meeusen
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Morning Tea - Day 1
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Patient empowerment in IBD self management
Dr Wladzia Czuber-Dochan - International Keynote Speaker
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM Health In a Virtual Environment (HIVE)
Alexandra McGlynn
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM Trans-Tasman Lecture - NZNO Gastroenterology Nurses' College
Merrilee Williams
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM Panel Discussion.
Dr Wladzia Czuber-Dochan, Alexandra McGlynn and Merrilee Williams
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM Lunch - Day 1
Concurrent Session One - Fundamentals of Unit Management (Meeting Room 1)
Concurrent Session Two - Perioperative Management & Interventional (Meeting Room 2)
Concurrent Session Three - IBD (Meeting Room 3)
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM Beyond Blue - mental health and wellbeing
Evan Jamieson 		Perioperative management of the elderly patient
Professor Andre van Zundert 		Acute IBD patient, when to operate
Dr Jennifer Ryan
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM Engaging the nursing workforce
Jo Reid 		Managing laryngospasm during and post-procedure
Associate Professor Vera Meeusen - Australian Keynote Speaker 		Fatigue Management and Assessment in IBD
Dr Wladzia Czuber-Dochan - International Keynote Speaker
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM Effective Communication – How to have difficult conversations
Eithne Molloy 		The over-80 patient referred for Colonoscopy
Dr Mukesh Nasa 		Therapeutic diets in IBD - EEN, CDED /other novel dietary therapies.
Ele Stojanoska
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM Afternoon Tea - Day 1
Concurrent Session Four - Clinical Nutrition (Meeting Room 1)
Concurrent Session Five - Perioperative Management & Intervention (Meeting Room 2)
Concurrent Session Six - Hepatology (Meeting Room 3)
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM PEG insertion – push or pull and why
Paula Brayford 		ESD Presentation
Dr Marcus Chin 		Liver Transplantation – from Referral to Discharge
Megan Collins
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM Parenteral Nutrition in Intestinal Failure
Reeham Abu-Rgeef 		Third Space and Beyond
Dr Spiro Raftopoulos 		Hepatology waitlist – the virtual assessment and triaging (VAT) nursing clinic
Vanessa Sheehan
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM The do's and dont's of enteral feeding
Emily Hunt 		Diagnostic Bronchoscopy
Dr Gerry Olive 		Liver Transplant
Professor Gary Jeffrey
6:30 PM - 10:30 PM Conference Party - 'Wild West'
Concurrent Stream One
Concurrent Stream Two
7:00 AM - 5:00 PM Poster Presentations
Poster Presentations will be on display for the duration of the Conference in the Exhibition.
7:30 AM - 7:30 AM
Registration Desk and Exhibition Opens - Day 1
8:30 AM - 8:45 AM Conference Open and Welcome to Country
Lea Wiggins - GENCA President
8:45 AM - 9:15 AM Cytosponge – more than just a sponge on a string
Paula Brayford - International Keynote Speaker
9:15 AM - 9:45 AM Implementing recycling in your unit
Associate Professor Vera Meeusen - Keynote Speaker
9:45 AM - 10:00 AM Panel Discussion
Paula Brayford and Associate Professor Vera Meeusen
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Morning Tea - Day 1
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Patient empowerment in IBD self management
Dr Wladzia Czuber-Dochan - International Keynote Speaker
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM Health In a Virtual Environment (HIVE)
Alexandra McGlynn
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM Trans-Tasman Lecture - NZNO Gastroenterology Nurses' College
Merrilee Williams
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM Panel Discussion.
Dr Wladzia Czuber-Dochan, Alexandra McGlynn and Merrilee Williams
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM Lunch - Day 1
Concurrent Session One - Fundamentals of Unit Management (Meeting Room 1)
Concurrent Session Two - Perioperative Management & Interventional (Meeting Room 2)
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM Beyond Blue - mental health and wellbeing
Evan Jamieson 		Perioperative management of the elderly patient
Professor Andre van Zundert
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM Engaging the nursing workforce
Jo Reid 		Managing laryngospasm during and post-procedure
Associate Professor Vera Meeusen - Australian Keynote Speaker
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM Effective Communication – How to have difficult conversations
Eithne Molloy 		The over-80 patient referred for Colonoscopy
Dr Mukesh Nasa
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM Afternoon Tea - Day 1
Concurrent Session Four - Clinical Nutrition (Meeting Room 1)
Concurrent Session Five - Perioperative Management & Intervention (Meeting Room 2)
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM PEG insertion – push or pull and why
Paula Brayford 		ESD Presentation
Dr Marcus Chin
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM Parenteral Nutrition in Intestinal Failure
Reeham Abu-Rgeef 		Third Space and Beyond
Dr Spiro Raftopoulos
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM The do's and dont's of enteral feeding
Emily Hunt 		Diagnostic Bronchoscopy
Dr Gerry Olive
6:30 PM - 10:30 PM Conference Party - 'Wild West'

Concurrent Stream Three
7:00 AM - 5:00 PM Poster Presentations
Poster Presentations will be on display for the duration of the Conference in the Exhibition.
7:30 AM - 7:30 AM
Registration Desk and Exhibition Opens - Day 1
8:30 AM - 8:45 AM Conference Open and Welcome to Country
Lea Wiggins - GENCA President
8:45 AM - 9:15 AM Cytosponge – more than just a sponge on a string
Paula Brayford - International Keynote Speaker
9:15 AM - 9:45 AM Implementing recycling in your unit
Associate Professor Vera Meeusen - Keynote Speaker
9:45 AM - 10:00 AM Panel Discussion
Paula Brayford and Associate Professor Vera Meeusen
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Morning Tea - Day 1
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Patient empowerment in IBD self management
Dr Wladzia Czuber-Dochan - International Keynote Speaker
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM Health In a Virtual Environment (HIVE)
Alexandra McGlynn
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM Trans-Tasman Lecture - NZNO Gastroenterology Nurses' College
Merrilee Williams
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM Panel Discussion.
Dr Wladzia Czuber-Dochan, Alexandra McGlynn and Merrilee Williams
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM Lunch - Day 1
Concurrent Session Three - IBD (Meeting Room 3)
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM Acute IBD patient, when to operate
Dr Jennifer Ryan
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM Fatigue Management and Assessment in IBD
Dr Wladzia Czuber-Dochan - International Keynote Speaker
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM Therapeutic diets in IBD - EEN, CDED /other novel dietary therapies.
Ele Stojanoska
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM Afternoon Tea - Day 1
Concurrent Session Six - Hepatology (Meeting Room 3)
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM Liver Transplantation – from Referral to Discharge
Megan Collins
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM Hepatology waitlist – the virtual assessment and triaging (VAT) nursing clinic
Vanessa Sheehan
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM Liver Transplant
Professor Gary Jeffrey
6:30 PM - 10:30 PM Conference Party - 'Wild West'

Concurrent Stream One
7:00 AM - 5:00 PM Poster Presentations
Poster Presentations will be on display for the duration of the Conference in the Exhibition.
7:30 AM - 7:30 AM
Registration Desk and Exhibition Opens - Day 1
8:30 AM - 8:45 AM Conference Open and Welcome to Country
Lea Wiggins - GENCA President
8:45 AM - 9:15 AM Cytosponge – more than just a sponge on a string
Paula Brayford - International Keynote Speaker
9:15 AM - 9:45 AM Implementing recycling in your unit
Associate Professor Vera Meeusen - Keynote Speaker
9:45 AM - 10:00 AM Panel Discussion
Paula Brayford and Associate Professor Vera Meeusen
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Morning Tea - Day 1
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Patient empowerment in IBD self management
Dr Wladzia Czuber-Dochan - International Keynote Speaker
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM Health In a Virtual Environment (HIVE)
Alexandra McGlynn
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM Trans-Tasman Lecture - NZNO Gastroenterology Nurses' College
Merrilee Williams
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM Panel Discussion.
Dr Wladzia Czuber-Dochan, Alexandra McGlynn and Merrilee Williams
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM Lunch - Day 1
Concurrent Session One - Fundamentals of Unit Management (Meeting Room 1)
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM Beyond Blue - mental health and wellbeing
Evan Jamieson
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM Engaging the nursing workforce
Jo Reid
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM Effective Communication – How to have difficult conversations
Eithne Molloy
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM Afternoon Tea - Day 1
Concurrent Session Four - Clinical Nutrition (Meeting Room 1)
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM PEG insertion – push or pull and why
Paula Brayford
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM Parenteral Nutrition in Intestinal Failure
Reeham Abu-Rgeef
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM The do's and dont's of enteral feeding
Emily Hunt
6:30 PM - 10:30 PM Conference Party - 'Wild West'

Concurrent Stream Two
7:00 AM - 5:00 PM Poster Presentations
Poster Presentations will be on display for the duration of the Conference in the Exhibition.
7:30 AM - 7:30 AM
Registration Desk and Exhibition Opens - Day 1
8:30 AM - 8:45 AM Conference Open and Welcome to Country
Lea Wiggins - GENCA President
8:45 AM - 9:15 AM Cytosponge – more than just a sponge on a string
Paula Brayford - International Keynote Speaker
9:15 AM - 9:45 AM Implementing recycling in your unit
Associate Professor Vera Meeusen - Keynote Speaker
9:45 AM - 10:00 AM Panel Discussion
Paula Brayford and Associate Professor Vera Meeusen
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Morning Tea - Day 1
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Patient empowerment in IBD self management
Dr Wladzia Czuber-Dochan - International Keynote Speaker
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM Health In a Virtual Environment (HIVE)
Alexandra McGlynn
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM Trans-Tasman Lecture - NZNO Gastroenterology Nurses' College
Merrilee Williams
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM Panel Discussion.
Dr Wladzia Czuber-Dochan, Alexandra McGlynn and Merrilee Williams
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM Lunch - Day 1
Concurrent Session Two - Perioperative Management & Interventional (Meeting Room 2)
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM Perioperative management of the elderly patient
Professor Andre van Zundert
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM Managing laryngospasm during and post-procedure
Associate Professor Vera Meeusen - Australian Keynote Speaker
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM The over-80 patient referred for Colonoscopy
Dr Mukesh Nasa
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM Afternoon Tea - Day 1
Concurrent Session Five - Perioperative Management & Intervention (Meeting Room 2)
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM ESD Presentation
Dr Marcus Chin
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM Third Space and Beyond
Dr Spiro Raftopoulos
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM Diagnostic Bronchoscopy
Dr Gerry Olive
6:30 PM - 10:30 PM Conference Party - 'Wild West'

Concurrent Stream Three
7:00 AM - 5:00 PM Poster Presentations
Poster Presentations will be on display for the duration of the Conference in the Exhibition.
7:30 AM - 7:30 AM
Registration Desk and Exhibition Opens - Day 1
8:30 AM - 8:45 AM Conference Open and Welcome to Country
Lea Wiggins - GENCA President
8:45 AM - 9:15 AM Cytosponge – more than just a sponge on a string
Paula Brayford - International Keynote Speaker
9:15 AM - 9:45 AM Implementing recycling in your unit
Associate Professor Vera Meeusen - Keynote Speaker
9:45 AM - 10:00 AM Panel Discussion
Paula Brayford and Associate Professor Vera Meeusen
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Morning Tea - Day 1
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Patient empowerment in IBD self management
Dr Wladzia Czuber-Dochan - International Keynote Speaker
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM Health In a Virtual Environment (HIVE)
Alexandra McGlynn
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM Trans-Tasman Lecture - NZNO Gastroenterology Nurses' College
Merrilee Williams
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM Panel Discussion.
Dr Wladzia Czuber-Dochan, Alexandra McGlynn and Merrilee Williams
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM Lunch - Day 1
Concurrent Session Three - IBD (Meeting Room 3)
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM Acute IBD patient, when to operate
Dr Jennifer Ryan
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM Fatigue Management and Assessment in IBD
Dr Wladzia Czuber-Dochan - International Keynote Speaker
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM Therapeutic diets in IBD - EEN, CDED /other novel dietary therapies.
Ele Stojanoska
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM Afternoon Tea - Day 1
Concurrent Session Six - Hepatology (Meeting Room 3)
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM Liver Transplantation – from Referral to Discharge
Megan Collins
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM Hepatology waitlist – the virtual assessment and triaging (VAT) nursing clinic
Vanessa Sheehan
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM Liver Transplant
Professor Gary Jeffrey
6:30 PM - 10:30 PM Conference Party - 'Wild West'

Sunday, May 21, 2023

Plenary Sessions
8:30 AM - 8:30 AM
Registration Desk and Exhibition Opens - Day 2
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Invited Keynote Presentation - Dr Craig Challen
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Morning Tea - Day 2
10:30 AM - 11:05 AM Infection Control
Di Jones
11:05 AM - 11:40 AM Water Quality
Meredith Hodge
11:40 AM - 11:50 AM Digital patient pathways reduce endoscopy patient wait times and deliver standardised care across a multi-site public health service
Michelle Warnes
11:50 AM - 12:00 PM The Birds and the IBD’s: Fertility, Sexual Identity and other unmentionables.
Marcelane Ballantyne
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM Panel Discussion - Free Paper Presenters
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM Lunch - Day 2
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM Barrett’s surveillance – getting the basics right
Paula Brayford - International Keynote Speaker
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM The direction of N-ECCO and the role of IBD nursing
Dr Wladzia Czuber-Dochan - International Keynote Speaker
2:30 PM - 2:50 PM Keynote Panel Discussion - Change, Challenge, Opportunity
Paula Brayford, Dr Wladzia Czuber-Dochan, Associate Professor Vera Meeusen and Merrilee Williams
2:50 PM - 3:00 PM Conference Close
Daniel Lightowler - GENCA 2023 National Conference Scientific Chair
3:00 PM - 3:00 PM Conference Close & Afternoon Tea - Day 2
Plenary Sessions
8:30 AM - 8:30 AM
Registration Desk and Exhibition Opens - Day 2
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Invited Keynote Presentation - Dr Craig Challen
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Morning Tea - Day 2
10:30 AM - 11:05 AM Infection Control
Di Jones
11:05 AM - 11:40 AM Water Quality
Meredith Hodge
11:40 AM - 11:50 AM Digital patient pathways reduce endoscopy patient wait times and deliver standardised care across a multi-site public health service
Michelle Warnes
11:50 AM - 12:00 PM The Birds and the IBD’s: Fertility, Sexual Identity and other unmentionables.
Marcelane Ballantyne
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM Panel Discussion - Free Paper Presenters
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM Lunch - Day 2
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM Barrett’s surveillance – getting the basics right
Paula Brayford - International Keynote Speaker
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM The direction of N-ECCO and the role of IBD nursing
Dr Wladzia Czuber-Dochan - International Keynote Speaker
2:30 PM - 2:50 PM Keynote Panel Discussion - Change, Challenge, Opportunity
Paula Brayford, Dr Wladzia Czuber-Dochan, Associate Professor Vera Meeusen and Merrilee Williams
2:50 PM - 3:00 PM Conference Close
Daniel Lightowler - GENCA 2023 National Conference Scientific Chair
3:00 PM - 3:00 PM Conference Close & Afternoon Tea - Day 2

Plenary Sessions
8:30 AM - 8:30 AM
Registration Desk and Exhibition Opens - Day 2
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Invited Keynote Presentation - Dr Craig Challen
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Morning Tea - Day 2
10:30 AM - 11:05 AM Infection Control
Di Jones
11:05 AM - 11:40 AM Water Quality
Meredith Hodge
11:40 AM - 11:50 AM Digital patient pathways reduce endoscopy patient wait times and deliver standardised care across a multi-site public health service
Michelle Warnes
11:50 AM - 12:00 PM The Birds and the IBD’s: Fertility, Sexual Identity and other unmentionables.
Marcelane Ballantyne
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM Panel Discussion - Free Paper Presenters
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM Lunch - Day 2
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM Barrett’s surveillance – getting the basics right
Paula Brayford - International Keynote Speaker
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM The direction of N-ECCO and the role of IBD nursing
Dr Wladzia Czuber-Dochan - International Keynote Speaker
2:30 PM - 2:50 PM Keynote Panel Discussion - Change, Challenge, Opportunity
Paula Brayford, Dr Wladzia Czuber-Dochan, Associate Professor Vera Meeusen and Merrilee Williams
2:50 PM - 3:00 PM Conference Close
Daniel Lightowler - GENCA 2023 National Conference Scientific Chair
3:00 PM - 3:00 PM Conference Close & Afternoon Tea - Day 2

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