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GENCA 2026 National Conference - Program

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Friday, May 15, 2026

Workshops, Registration and Welcome Reception
9:30 AM - 12:30 PM Workshop - FMT in Practice
Presented by Lifeblood
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM Workshop Two - Abstract Writing and Presenting Skills Workshop
Daniel Lightowler and Olivia Cook
5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Registration Desk open
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM Welcome Reception
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM Dinner - Sustainable Endoscopy: Small changes, big impact
Sponsored by Ecolab - ticketed event
Workshops, Registration and Welcome Reception
9:30 AM - 12:30 PM Workshop - FMT in Practice
Presented by Lifeblood
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM Workshop Two - Abstract Writing and Presenting Skills Workshop
Daniel Lightowler and Olivia Cook
5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Registration Desk open
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM Welcome Reception
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM Dinner - Sustainable Endoscopy: Small changes, big impact
Sponsored by Ecolab - ticketed event

Workshops, Registration and Welcome Reception
9:30 AM - 12:30 PM Workshop - FMT in Practice
Presented by Lifeblood
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM Workshop Two - Abstract Writing and Presenting Skills Workshop
Daniel Lightowler and Olivia Cook
5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Registration Desk open
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM Welcome Reception
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM Dinner - Sustainable Endoscopy: Small changes, big impact
Sponsored by Ecolab - ticketed event

Saturday, May 16, 2026

Concurrent Stream One
Concurrent Stream Two
Concurrent Stream Three
6:45 AM - 6:45 AM
Registration Desk open - day one
7:00 AM - 8:00 AM Breakfast - Ergonomics and Injury Prevention in Endoscopy Nursing
Presented by Dr Sina Alexander | Sponsored by Boston Scientific - ticketed event
7:30 AM - 7:30 AM
Exhibition open - day one
8:15 AM - 8:30 AM Welcome address and Welcome to Country
Daniel Lightowler, GENCA President
8:30 AM - 8:45 AM Welcome - Chief Nursing Officer
Emma Saddington
8:45 AM - 9:15 AM Assessing and managing disorders of gut brain interaction
Chris Perrin
9:15 AM - 9:45 AM Third N-ECCO Consensus Statement
Simona Radice
9:45 AM - 10:00 AM Panel discussion
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Day one - morning tea
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Trans-Tasman Lecture - Nurse endoscopy across the Tasman
Tania Waylen
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM What’s in a name? That which we call a non-medical endoscopist
Dr Helen Griffiths
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM PSC Support Australia - patient story
Bek Goldsmith
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM GENCA Annual General Meeting
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM Day one - lunch
Concurrent Session One - Unit Governance
Concurrent Session Two - Interventional
Concurrent Session Three - IBD
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM Data in and Data out: The 5 ‘P’s - Performance and Practice Parameters, Protecting the Public
Dr Helen Griffiths 		Bronchoscopy
Dr Sarah Yeo and Dr Sen Shivakumar 		The Dedicated Inflammatory Bowel Disease Nurse, If You Know Them, You Love Them - Italian experience
Simona Radice
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM From Referral to Follow-Up: AI-Enabled Decision Support in Endoscopy
Dr Sina Alexander 		Third Space Endoscopy
Dr Yuto Shimamura 		Psychotherapy with IBD patients
Chris Perrin
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM Beyond the Bedside: environmental stewardship as the new frontier of Unit Governance
Dr Chris Hair 		Foreign body ingestion and retrieval
Dr Anastasia Volovets 		IBD Presentation - Utilisation of an Nurse Practitioner within an IBD service
Tamie Samyue
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM Day one - afternoon tea
Concurrent Session Four - Liver 101
Concurrent Session Five - Pre- and Post-Procedure
Concurrent Session Six - Clinical Nutrition
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM Nurse - led ascitic tapping
Associate Professor Suong Le 		The Power of Prep: The nurses role in Colonoscopy Quality
Alison Raitt 		Skin care and wound management in enteral feeding devices
Sarah Sage
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM The advanced liver nurses role in MAFLD
Katherine Thomas 		Pause Before Propofol: Anaesthetic Considerations in Endoscopy
Dr Walston Martis 		To PEG or to RIG - that is the question?
Dr Anastasia Volovets
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM Tips and tricks for endoscopic management of GI bleeding
Dr Leo Zorron Cheng Tao Pu 		Closed cords, open minds: Mastering laryngospasm management
Associate Professor Vera Meeusen 		Enteral feeding types
Dr Jessica Fitzpatrick
End of Day one and Registration Desk close
7:00 PM - 11:00 PM Conference Dinner - Art and Elegance
Concurrent Stream One
Concurrent Stream Two
6:45 AM - 6:45 AM
Registration Desk open - day one
7:00 AM - 8:00 AM Breakfast - Ergonomics and Injury Prevention in Endoscopy Nursing
Presented by Dr Sina Alexander | Sponsored by Boston Scientific - ticketed event
7:30 AM - 7:30 AM
Exhibition open - day one
8:15 AM - 8:30 AM Welcome address and Welcome to Country
Daniel Lightowler, GENCA President
8:30 AM - 8:45 AM Welcome - Chief Nursing Officer
Emma Saddington
8:45 AM - 9:15 AM Assessing and managing disorders of gut brain interaction
Chris Perrin
9:15 AM - 9:45 AM Third N-ECCO Consensus Statement
Simona Radice
9:45 AM - 10:00 AM Panel discussion
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Day one - morning tea
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Trans-Tasman Lecture - Nurse endoscopy across the Tasman
Tania Waylen
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM What’s in a name? That which we call a non-medical endoscopist
Dr Helen Griffiths
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM PSC Support Australia - patient story
Bek Goldsmith
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM GENCA Annual General Meeting
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM Day one - lunch
Concurrent Session One - Unit Governance
Concurrent Session Two - Interventional
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM Data in and Data out: The 5 ‘P’s - Performance and Practice Parameters, Protecting the Public
Dr Helen Griffiths 		Bronchoscopy
Dr Sarah Yeo and Dr Sen Shivakumar
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM From Referral to Follow-Up: AI-Enabled Decision Support in Endoscopy
Dr Sina Alexander 		Third Space Endoscopy
Dr Yuto Shimamura
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM Beyond the Bedside: environmental stewardship as the new frontier of Unit Governance
Dr Chris Hair 		Foreign body ingestion and retrieval
Dr Anastasia Volovets
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM Day one - afternoon tea
Concurrent Session Four - Liver 101
Concurrent Session Five - Pre- and Post-Procedure
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM Nurse - led ascitic tapping
Associate Professor Suong Le 		The Power of Prep: The nurses role in Colonoscopy Quality
Alison Raitt
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM The advanced liver nurses role in MAFLD
Katherine Thomas 		Pause Before Propofol: Anaesthetic Considerations in Endoscopy
Dr Walston Martis
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM Tips and tricks for endoscopic management of GI bleeding
Dr Leo Zorron Cheng Tao Pu 		Closed cords, open minds: Mastering laryngospasm management
Associate Professor Vera Meeusen
End of Day one and Registration Desk close
7:00 PM - 11:00 PM Conference Dinner - Art and Elegance

Concurrent Stream Three
6:45 AM - 6:45 AM
Registration Desk open - day one
7:00 AM - 8:00 AM Breakfast - Ergonomics and Injury Prevention in Endoscopy Nursing
Presented by Dr Sina Alexander | Sponsored by Boston Scientific - ticketed event
7:30 AM - 7:30 AM
Exhibition open - day one
8:15 AM - 8:30 AM Welcome address and Welcome to Country
Daniel Lightowler, GENCA President
8:30 AM - 8:45 AM Welcome - Chief Nursing Officer
Emma Saddington
8:45 AM - 9:15 AM Assessing and managing disorders of gut brain interaction
Chris Perrin
9:15 AM - 9:45 AM Third N-ECCO Consensus Statement
Simona Radice
9:45 AM - 10:00 AM Panel discussion
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Day one - morning tea
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Trans-Tasman Lecture - Nurse endoscopy across the Tasman
Tania Waylen
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM What’s in a name? That which we call a non-medical endoscopist
Dr Helen Griffiths
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM PSC Support Australia - patient story
Bek Goldsmith
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM GENCA Annual General Meeting
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM Day one - lunch
Concurrent Session Three - IBD
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM The Dedicated Inflammatory Bowel Disease Nurse, If You Know Them, You Love Them - Italian experience
Simona Radice
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM Psychotherapy with IBD patients
Chris Perrin
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM IBD Presentation - Utilisation of an Nurse Practitioner within an IBD service
Tamie Samyue
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM Day one - afternoon tea
Concurrent Session Six - Clinical Nutrition
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM Skin care and wound management in enteral feeding devices
Sarah Sage
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM To PEG or to RIG - that is the question?
Dr Anastasia Volovets
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM Enteral feeding types
Dr Jessica Fitzpatrick
End of Day one and Registration Desk close
7:00 PM - 11:00 PM Conference Dinner - Art and Elegance

Concurrent Stream One
6:45 AM - 6:45 AM
Registration Desk open - day one
7:00 AM - 8:00 AM Breakfast - Ergonomics and Injury Prevention in Endoscopy Nursing
Presented by Dr Sina Alexander | Sponsored by Boston Scientific - ticketed event
7:30 AM - 7:30 AM
Exhibition open - day one
8:15 AM - 8:30 AM Welcome address and Welcome to Country
Daniel Lightowler, GENCA President
8:30 AM - 8:45 AM Welcome - Chief Nursing Officer
Emma Saddington
8:45 AM - 9:15 AM Assessing and managing disorders of gut brain interaction
Chris Perrin
9:15 AM - 9:45 AM Third N-ECCO Consensus Statement
Simona Radice
9:45 AM - 10:00 AM Panel discussion
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Day one - morning tea
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Trans-Tasman Lecture - Nurse endoscopy across the Tasman
Tania Waylen
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM What’s in a name? That which we call a non-medical endoscopist
Dr Helen Griffiths
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM PSC Support Australia - patient story
Bek Goldsmith
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM GENCA Annual General Meeting
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM Day one - lunch
Concurrent Session One - Unit Governance
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM Data in and Data out: The 5 ‘P’s - Performance and Practice Parameters, Protecting the Public
Dr Helen Griffiths
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM From Referral to Follow-Up: AI-Enabled Decision Support in Endoscopy
Dr Sina Alexander
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM Beyond the Bedside: environmental stewardship as the new frontier of Unit Governance
Dr Chris Hair
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM Day one - afternoon tea
Concurrent Session Four - Liver 101
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM Nurse - led ascitic tapping
Associate Professor Suong Le
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM The advanced liver nurses role in MAFLD
Katherine Thomas
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM Tips and tricks for endoscopic management of GI bleeding
Dr Leo Zorron Cheng Tao Pu
End of Day one and Registration Desk close
7:00 PM - 11:00 PM Conference Dinner - Art and Elegance

Concurrent Stream Two
6:45 AM - 6:45 AM
Registration Desk open - day one
7:00 AM - 8:00 AM Breakfast - Ergonomics and Injury Prevention in Endoscopy Nursing
Presented by Dr Sina Alexander | Sponsored by Boston Scientific - ticketed event
7:30 AM - 7:30 AM
Exhibition open - day one
8:15 AM - 8:30 AM Welcome address and Welcome to Country
Daniel Lightowler, GENCA President
8:30 AM - 8:45 AM Welcome - Chief Nursing Officer
Emma Saddington
8:45 AM - 9:15 AM Assessing and managing disorders of gut brain interaction
Chris Perrin
9:15 AM - 9:45 AM Third N-ECCO Consensus Statement
Simona Radice
9:45 AM - 10:00 AM Panel discussion
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Day one - morning tea
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Trans-Tasman Lecture - Nurse endoscopy across the Tasman
Tania Waylen
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM What’s in a name? That which we call a non-medical endoscopist
Dr Helen Griffiths
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM PSC Support Australia - patient story
Bek Goldsmith
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM GENCA Annual General Meeting
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM Day one - lunch
Concurrent Session Two - Interventional
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM Bronchoscopy
Dr Sarah Yeo and Dr Sen Shivakumar
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM Third Space Endoscopy
Dr Yuto Shimamura
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM Foreign body ingestion and retrieval
Dr Anastasia Volovets
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM Day one - afternoon tea
Concurrent Session Five - Pre- and Post-Procedure
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM The Power of Prep: The nurses role in Colonoscopy Quality
Alison Raitt
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM Pause Before Propofol: Anaesthetic Considerations in Endoscopy
Dr Walston Martis
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM Closed cords, open minds: Mastering laryngospasm management
Associate Professor Vera Meeusen
End of Day one and Registration Desk close
7:00 PM - 11:00 PM Conference Dinner - Art and Elegance

Concurrent Stream Three
6:45 AM - 6:45 AM
Registration Desk open - day one
7:00 AM - 8:00 AM Breakfast - Ergonomics and Injury Prevention in Endoscopy Nursing
Presented by Dr Sina Alexander | Sponsored by Boston Scientific - ticketed event
7:30 AM - 7:30 AM
Exhibition open - day one
8:15 AM - 8:30 AM Welcome address and Welcome to Country
Daniel Lightowler, GENCA President
8:30 AM - 8:45 AM Welcome - Chief Nursing Officer
Emma Saddington
8:45 AM - 9:15 AM Assessing and managing disorders of gut brain interaction
Chris Perrin
9:15 AM - 9:45 AM Third N-ECCO Consensus Statement
Simona Radice
9:45 AM - 10:00 AM Panel discussion
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Day one - morning tea
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Trans-Tasman Lecture - Nurse endoscopy across the Tasman
Tania Waylen
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM What’s in a name? That which we call a non-medical endoscopist
Dr Helen Griffiths
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM PSC Support Australia - patient story
Bek Goldsmith
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM GENCA Annual General Meeting
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM Day one - lunch
Concurrent Session Three - IBD
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM The Dedicated Inflammatory Bowel Disease Nurse, If You Know Them, You Love Them - Italian experience
Simona Radice
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM Psychotherapy with IBD patients
Chris Perrin
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM IBD Presentation - Utilisation of an Nurse Practitioner within an IBD service
Tamie Samyue
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM Day one - afternoon tea
Concurrent Session Six - Clinical Nutrition
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM Skin care and wound management in enteral feeding devices
Sarah Sage
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM To PEG or to RIG - that is the question?
Dr Anastasia Volovets
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM Enteral feeding types
Dr Jessica Fitzpatrick
End of Day one and Registration Desk close
7:00 PM - 11:00 PM Conference Dinner - Art and Elegance

Sunday, May 17, 2026

Track 1
8:00 AM - 8:00 AM
Registration desk and exhibition open - Day 2
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Invited Keynote Presentation
Jelena Dokic
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Morning tea - day two
10:30 AM - 10:50 AM IPCE - the only constant is change
Di Jones
10:50 AM - 11:10 AM Water torture - water quality
Kate Haberfield
11:10 AM - 11:30 AM Panel Discussion - Infection Control and Water Quality
Di Jones and Kate Haberfield
11:30 AM - 11:42 AM Green endoscopy - sustainable initiatives to optimise waste in endoscopy
Shani George
11:42 AM - 11:54 AM Innovative endoscopy triage for sustainable care: A reflective proposal for a nurse-led gut-brain pathway, to protect high-yield colonoscopy access, and improve functional outcomes
Gillian Schofield
11:54 AM - 12:06 PM Evaluating gut microbiome, sleep quality and gut inflammation trajectories in IBD
Dr Paris Tavakoli
12:06 PM - 12:18 PM No Time to Wait: The Impact of a Rapid Access IBD Service
Daniel Lightowler
12:18 PM - 12:30 PM Panel discussion - Free Papers
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM Lunch - Day two
1:30 PM - 1:50 PM Transition care of the young adult
Simona Radice
1:50 PM - 2:10 PM Why psychological therapy and which therapy
Chris Perrin
2:10 PM - 2:30 PM Safe staffing levels in Endoscopy - key principles
Dr Helen Griffiths
2:30 PM - 2:50 PM Keynote Panel - Inspire, Influence, Innovate
Simona Radice, Dr Helen Griffiths, Chris Perrin and Tania Waylen
2:50 PM - 3:00 PM Closing address | Delegate Passport Prize | 2027 Conference Launch
GENCA President
3:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Conference Concludes - Afternoon tea
Track 1
8:00 AM - 8:00 AM
Registration desk and exhibition open - Day 2
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Invited Keynote Presentation
Jelena Dokic
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Morning tea - day two
10:30 AM - 10:50 AM IPCE - the only constant is change
Di Jones
10:50 AM - 11:10 AM Water torture - water quality
Kate Haberfield
11:10 AM - 11:30 AM Panel Discussion - Infection Control and Water Quality
Di Jones and Kate Haberfield
11:30 AM - 11:42 AM Green endoscopy - sustainable initiatives to optimise waste in endoscopy
Shani George
11:42 AM - 11:54 AM Innovative endoscopy triage for sustainable care: A reflective proposal for a nurse-led gut-brain pathway, to protect high-yield colonoscopy access, and improve functional outcomes
Gillian Schofield
11:54 AM - 12:06 PM Evaluating gut microbiome, sleep quality and gut inflammation trajectories in IBD
Dr Paris Tavakoli
12:06 PM - 12:18 PM No Time to Wait: The Impact of a Rapid Access IBD Service
Daniel Lightowler
12:18 PM - 12:30 PM Panel discussion - Free Papers
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM Lunch - Day two
1:30 PM - 1:50 PM Transition care of the young adult
Simona Radice
1:50 PM - 2:10 PM Why psychological therapy and which therapy
Chris Perrin
2:10 PM - 2:30 PM Safe staffing levels in Endoscopy - key principles
Dr Helen Griffiths
2:30 PM - 2:50 PM Keynote Panel - Inspire, Influence, Innovate
Simona Radice, Dr Helen Griffiths, Chris Perrin and Tania Waylen
2:50 PM - 3:00 PM Closing address | Delegate Passport Prize | 2027 Conference Launch
GENCA President
3:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Conference Concludes - Afternoon tea

Track 1
8:00 AM - 8:00 AM
Registration desk and exhibition open - Day 2
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Invited Keynote Presentation
Jelena Dokic
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Morning tea - day two
10:30 AM - 10:50 AM IPCE - the only constant is change
Di Jones
10:50 AM - 11:10 AM Water torture - water quality
Kate Haberfield
11:10 AM - 11:30 AM Panel Discussion - Infection Control and Water Quality
Di Jones and Kate Haberfield
11:30 AM - 11:42 AM Green endoscopy - sustainable initiatives to optimise waste in endoscopy
Shani George
11:42 AM - 11:54 AM Innovative endoscopy triage for sustainable care: A reflective proposal for a nurse-led gut-brain pathway, to protect high-yield colonoscopy access, and improve functional outcomes
Gillian Schofield
11:54 AM - 12:06 PM Evaluating gut microbiome, sleep quality and gut inflammation trajectories in IBD
Dr Paris Tavakoli
12:06 PM - 12:18 PM No Time to Wait: The Impact of a Rapid Access IBD Service
Daniel Lightowler
12:18 PM - 12:30 PM Panel discussion - Free Papers
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM Lunch - Day two
1:30 PM - 1:50 PM Transition care of the young adult
Simona Radice
1:50 PM - 2:10 PM Why psychological therapy and which therapy
Chris Perrin
2:10 PM - 2:30 PM Safe staffing levels in Endoscopy - key principles
Dr Helen Griffiths
2:30 PM - 2:50 PM Keynote Panel - Inspire, Influence, Innovate
Simona Radice, Dr Helen Griffiths, Chris Perrin and Tania Waylen
2:50 PM - 3:00 PM Closing address | Delegate Passport Prize | 2027 Conference Launch
GENCA President
3:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Conference Concludes - Afternoon tea

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