Program

The Main Program will be held on Saturday 27 and Sunday 28 June 2026
• CPD hours = 8.5 Educational Activities hours
• Program level requirements: Addressing Health Inequities = 3 hours and Ethical Practice = 5 hours

Saturday 27 June


08.40-09.00Opening of Symposium (ACT-NSW)
08.40-08.50Acknowledgment of Country
Speaker Name
08.50-09.00Welcome from State Committees
Speaker Name
09.00-10.20Obstetrics
09.00-09.20Breastfeeding Medicine Exposure - Practical, Evidence-Based Strategies 
Sarah Bombell
09.20-09.40
CMV Patient and Clinician Experience
Phoebe Swan  
09.40-10.00Caring for Complex Maternal Conditions in Labour (Structural Cardiac Disease, Coagulopathies and Thrombocytopenia)*
Farah Sethna
10.00-10.20Updates in Pre-Term Birth
Roberto Orefice
10.20-11.00Morning Tea
11.00-12.20Gynaecology
11.00-11.20Practical Approaches to Prescribing Menopause Hormone Therapy
Vijay Roach
11.20-11.40Update in Fertility. GLP-1 receptor agonists in fertility and pregnancy. Opportunity vs uncertainty.
Tween Low
11.40-12.00Vulvovaginal Conditions and Management
Meera Mani
12.00-12.10
Treatment Sequencing in Pelvic Organ Prolapse Surgery: A narrative Review of Timing Optimisation in
Sacrocolpopexy
Ananya Aggarwal
12.10-12.20Caesarean Scar Pregnancy:
Clinical Importance of Early Tertiary Care Ultrasound and Management with
Ultrasound Guided Surgical Evacuation at an Australian Tertiary Care Hospital 
Isha Chopra
12.30-13.30
Delegate Lunch Break
12.30-13.30FARE Partner Lunch (By Invitation Only)
Topic:  Messaging Matters:  Providing Advice around Alcohol and Pregnancy Speakers: 
Dr Vijay Roach, Past President RANZCOG and Joanne Le FARE Independent Consultant
13.30-14.50Endometriosis and Pelvic Pain
13.30-13.50How to Translate Clinical Guidelines into Practice
Bassem (Bas) Gerges
13.50-14.10     How Lifestyle, Diet and Other Factors Contribute to Pelvic Pain Management
Melissa Parker and Ella Cameron
14.10-14.30The use of US in the Diagnosis of Endometriosis 
Joanne Ludlow (virtual)
14.30-14.40Carbetocin Versus Oxytocin for Active Management of the Third Stage of Labour: a Comparative Audit Following Oxytocin Shortage
Laura McKinley
14.40-14.50Large Adenomyosis or Fibroid Cause Infertility? HIFU is the Answer
Sigit Pramono
14.50-15.20
Afternoon Tea
15.20-16.20Patient Centric Care
15.20-15.40Success and Barriers to Self-Collected Cervical Screening Test in Public Antenatal Care
Therese McGee
15.40-16.00Communication in Ultrasound
Samantha Thomas (virtual)
16.00-16.20Patient Centric Care in Urogynaecology
Elizabeth Gallagher

Sunday 28 June

        

09.00-10.45Birth Trauma
09.00-09.05Introduction: Impacts of Birth Trauma: Somatic, Psychological, and How We Can Move Forward
Nisha Khot
9.05-09.25Consent in Vaginal Birth: How to Ensure Women Are Fully Aware of Risks and Benefits
Harsha Ananthram
09.25-09.45Psychological Impact of Birth Trauma: Patient Experience
Kate Waterford
09.45-10.05Navigating Legal Challenges Relation to Birth Trauma
Andrew Blanford 
10.05-10.25Immediate Vs Delayed Repair of the Perineum
Harpreet  Arora
10.25-10.45Predicting Birth Trauma
Gil Burton
10.45-11.15Morning Tea
11.15-12.35Gynaecology Deep Dive
11.15-11.35How to Work Up a Pelvic Mass
Leon Foster
11.35-11.55Heavy Menstrual Bleeding
Talat Uppal
11.55-12.15
Robotics in Gynaecology
Dan Krishnan
12.15-12.35Paediatric and Adolescent Gynaecology Update
Kaushalya Arulpragasam
12.35-12.45Close of Symposium
12.35-12.45Final Remarks and Prizes
Speaker Name 
12.45-13.45Lunch