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Presented Papers

OSSANZ Conference 2007 Program
  Thursday 15 November   Friday - 16 November
      CHAIR: Ken Loi
8am   BREAKFAST TTitl eS:E BSPSDIO aNs Ssalvage procedure after previous bariatric surgery
Author: A/Prof. Simon Woods
8.10am     Title:The hindbrain as the cause of obesity- a useful concept in
the management of obesity?
Author: David Schroeder
8.20am     Title: A systematic review of the surgical management of obese
patients with Gastroesophageal reflux disease
Author: Paul R Burton
8.30am     Title: Fundamentals of Gastric Banding: Model adult education
Author:Professor Jeffrey M. Hamdorf
8.40am     Title: An audit of complications related to the port of
Laparoscopic gastric band
Author: Sarah Stephen
8.50am     Title: Gastric Band Adjustment? A Retrospective Complication
vs Result Analysis
Authors: Dr Ramen Goel, Dr M Jadliwala, Dr Madhu Goel, Dr G
Warvadekar, Dr J Meshri
  CHAIR: Max Baumwol/ Leon Cohen   CHAIR: Lilian Kow
9am Opening and Welcome 9am Adjustable intragastric balloon - is this the answer for an
endoscopic approach?
Tony Kierath
9.10am Alan Wittgrove
History and Development of Gastric Bypass and
Bariatric Surgery in the US
9.15am VBLOC (Vagal Blockade for Obesity Control) - is this the
approach of the future?
Lilian Kow
9.40am Title: Symptoms of depression are associated
with high CRP concentrations in obese subjects
Authors: John B Dixon , Melissa J Hayden,
Gavin W Lambert, Tye Dawood, Margaret L
Anderson, Maureen E Dixon, and Paul E O'Brien
9.30am Lap Sleeve Gastrectomy Debate:
For: Leon Cohen: –
Against: Jeff Hamdorf
9.50am Title: What makes a gastric bypass a good gastric
bypass?
Author: Richard S Stubbs
9.50am "The results of Lap Mini Gastric Bypass"
Professor Wei-Jei Lee
10am Title: Reducing Band Slippage in Laparoscopic
Adjustable Gastric Banding: The Modified Pars
Flaccida Technique with Plication of Mesh Pledgets
Author: Chantel Thornton
10.10am Title: Revisional Bariatric Surgery
Author: Christopher Lim,Victor Liew, Michael Talbot,
Ken Loi, John Jorgensen`
10.10am Title: Experiences in Managing Lap band Associated Infections
Author: Dr Scarlett Shackleton
10.20am Title: The first 500 laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric
bypasses- a safe option for weight loss
Author: David Schroeder
10.20am Title: BARIATRIC SURGERY AT THE ROYAL BRISBANE
HOSPITAL – OUR RESULTS
Author: Bhavik Patel
10.30am MORNING TEA  
  CHAIR: John Dixon   CHAIR: Rob Fris
11am Bariatric surgery and mortality-does it save
lives?
Paul O'Brien
11am Failure in Weight loss surgery....physiological or
functional?" Introduction: Rob Fris
11.10am Obesity and cancer
Wendy Brown
11.05am Gastric Banding
Paul O'Brien
11.20am Diversionary surgery and effect on diabetes
John Jorgenson
11.15am Gastric Bypass
Ken Loi
11.30am The metabolic syndrome – how does fat drive
this?
John Dixon
11.25am Gastric Sleeve (inc: Sleeve Gastrectomy as revisional
surgery for failure of other bariatric operations in 40
patients)
Leon Cohen
11.40am Title: There is Physiological explanation for Lap-
Band patients doing badly or having adverse
symptoms
Author: Paul R Burton
11.35pm What to do when lap band fails
Harry Frydenberg
11.50am Title: Management of Gastric Band Erosion
Author:Normayah Kitan
11.45pm Dietetic intervention for the 'unsucessful' patient
Melanie McGrice
12pm Title: Once yearly ‘megadose’ intramuscular vitamin
D (600,000 IU): a simple, safe and effective method
to normalise vitamin D levels after BPD surgery.
Author: Timothy D Clay
11.55pm Panel: Failure of Weight Loss Surgery
Chair: Rob Fris
Alan Wittgrove, Melanie McGrice,
Paul O'Brien, Harry Frydenberg,
Leon Cohen, Ken Loi
12.10pm Title: Obesity Co-morbidities: Who Develops Which
Conditions and How Many
Author: Dr. Harry Quach
12.20pm Title: Weight loss outcomes and comorbid illness
resolution following gastric banding in the morbidly
obese.
Author: Roy Brancatisano
12.25pm Dieticians in Bariatric Surgery
Susie Colles, Merril Bohn
12.30pm LUNCH
  CHAIR: Melanie McGrice   CHAIR: Paul Anderson
1.30pm Variations in adopted behaviours affect energy
balance & weight loss success
Susie Colles
1.30pm Alan Wittgrove
1.45pm Panel: More than Allied Health – an integral part
of bariatric surgery.
Title: Clinical Psychologist in pre-surgery
assessment and post-surgery follow-up
Presenter: Kay Matthewson - Psychologist
Title: Are you biting off more than you need to
chew?
Presenter: Trudy Williams - Dietitian
Title: Bariatric Nurse? Can't do without one!
Presenter: Narelle Story - Clinical Nurse
Specialist
Title: The Metamorphisis of Essendon Private
Presenter: Andrew Monk - Physician
Bariatric Nurse Specialist - Tracey Martinez
1.45pm “Disordered” and “non-normative” eating and bariatric
surgery: which behaviours are high risk?
Susie Colles
2pm Anaesthetist concerns in day stay surgery.
Bronwyn Webster
2.15pm Title: Pearls and Pitfalls - an overview of Anaesthesia for
Laparascopic Gastric Banding
Author: Dr Greg Lumsden
2.30pm Title: Level I evidence in bariatric surgery
Authors: John Jorgensen, Richard Babor.
2.40pm Title: A comparison of health outcomes of laparoscopic
adjustable gastric band (LAGB) surgery for the treatment of
obesity in diabetic and non-diabetic patients
Authors: J.A. Marangou, J.L. Campbell
2.50pm Title: Perceived Discrimination and stigmatizAtion
against the Severely obese – Focus group findings
Authors: Maureen E Dixon, Melissa J Hayden, Julie
M Playfair, John B Dixon, Paul E
2.50pm Title: How does gastric volume change after sleeve
gastrectomy? Assessment by ricecream test meal
Author: Laura Kiely
3pm AFTERNOON TEA
  CHAIR: Harry Frydenberg   CHAIR: Max Baumwol
3.30pm Lessons learned from twenty years experience
as a bariatric nurse
Tracey Martinez
3.30pm Medicolegal issues relating to Bariatric Surgery
Consent in Surgery
Philippa Nash Solicitor MDA National
3.40pm Loss of Chance
Phil Gleeson Partner Slater & Gordon Solicitors
3.45pm Professor Wei-Jei Lee
Improvement of Insulin Resistance after Obesity
Surgery: A Comparison of Gastric Banding and
Bypass Procedures
3.50pm Tort Law Reform
Philippa Nash & Phil Gleeson
4.05 pm Masterclass: Pitfalls of Revisional Bariatric
Surgery Don’t do it this way!!!"
- a series of video clips on Lapbanding
4.00pm Risk Management and Hypothetical
Chair: Max Baumwol
Panel: Philippa Nash, Phil Gleeson
4.30pm Title: Bariatric Surgery—a survey of the attitudes of leading
health insurers/indemnifiers -- complications and position
statements
Author: Dr Paul Anderson
4.39pm Title: Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Banding:
Dealing Intra-operatively with a Tight Band After
Band Closure
Author: Mr Paul Dumbrell
4.40pm Title: Hospital inpatient induction weight loss program for
obesity patients prior to gastrectomy
Author:Toby Freund
4.46pm Title: Laparoscopic gastric banding using an
extended oblique anterior plication(Eoap): New
technique to reduce slippage and pouch dilation,
and possibly reduce band fill volume.
Author: Roy Brancatisano
4.53pm Title: Unsuspected large paraoesophageal hernia in
a patient scheduled for Laparoscopic Adjustable
Gastric Band.
Authors:Ken Loi
4.50pm Title: Presenting an online secure database for Bariatric
Surgery
Author: Dr Susan Taylor
5pm   CLOSE OF SESSIONS