Boom DaysMaternal & Fetal Medicine and Obstetric Medicine Conference

Thursday 5–Saturday 7 March 2020Royal Brisbane and Women’s HospitalEducation Centre, Butterfield StreetHerston, Brisbane

PROGRAM

Welcoming Obstetricians and trainees, Physicians, General Practitioners, Rural Generalists and Midwives.

BOOM Days 2020 – Thursday 5 March

8.30am Registration

8.50am Acknowledgement to Country Geoffrey Binge, Cultural Capacity Officer, Allied Health Professions, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital (RBWH), Metro North Hospital and Health Service (MNHHS)

9.00-9.45am Small for gestational age (SGA) / Fetal Growth Restriction (FRG) Dr Glenn Gardener, Director, Mater Centre for Maternal Fetal Medicine

9.50-10.35am Short cervix Dr Renuka Sekar, Consultant, Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Maternal Fetal Medicine (MFM), RBWH, MNHHS

10.35-10.50am Morning Tea

10.55-11.40am Cerebroplacental ratio / IOL Professor Sailesh Kumar, Mayne Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Senior Staff Specialist MFM Mater Mother’s and RBWH

11.45-12.30pm Prenatal genetic screening Pauline McGrath, Genetic Counsellor, Genetic Health Qld

12.30-1.10pm Lunch

1.15-2.00pm Monochorionic diamniotic (MCDA) twin pregnancy and selective fetal growth restriction (sFGR) Dr Johanna Laporte, MFM, Maternity Services, RBWH, MNHHS

2.05-2.50pm Cesarean scar pregnancies Dr Kei Tanaka, Staff Specialist, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, RBWH, MNHHS

2.50-3.15pm Afternoon Tea

3.15-4.00pm Infections in pregnancy cytomegalovirus (CMV) and Syphilis Dr Sumudu Britton, Obstetric Medicine Program. Mater Health

4.00-5.00pm Panel Discussion: Interesting case scenarios

5.00pm Reception

BOOM Days 2020 – Friday 6 March

7.30am Registrations

8.00-8:45am Hypertensive Diseases of Pregnancy Distinguished Professor Annemarie Hennessy, Dean of Medicine at the School of Medicine and Foundation Professor of Medicine, Campbelltown Hospital, New South Wales

8:45-9:30am Pre-eclampsia - differentials, diagnosis and treatment Distinguished Professor Annemarie Hennessy, Dean of Medicine at the School of Medicine and Foundation Professor of Medicine, Campbelltown Hospital, New South Wales

9:30-10:15am Hepatitis and Obstetric Cholestasis Dr Amanda Beech, Obstetric Medicine Physician and Endocrinologist, Royal Hospital for Women, Sydney

10:15-10:30am Morning tea

10:30-11:30am Renal Disease/Solid Organ Transplantation Dr Ann-Maree Craven, Renal and Obstetric Medicine Physician, RBWH and Greenslopes Private Hospital

11:30-12:30pm Infectious Diseases in Pregnancy Dr Sumudu Britton, Infectious Disease Physician, MNHHS

12:30-1:15pm Lunch

1:15-2:15pm Cardiac Disease in Pregnancy Associate Professor Will Parsonage, Cardiologist, RBWH and St Vincent’s Private Hospital

2:15-3.00pm Breathlessness and Palpitations: How far to investigate?Associate Professor Karin Lust, Director of Women’s and Newborn Services Obstetric Medicine Physician, RBWH, MNHHS

3.00-3:30pm Afternoon tea

3:30-4:15pm Thrombocytopaenia and Anaemia Dr Claire Weatherburn, Haematologist, Logan Hospital, Metro South Hospital and Health Service (MSHHS)

4:15-5.00pm Assessing Venous thromboembolism (VTE) risk in Pregnancy Dr Josephine Laurie, Obstetric Medicine Physician, Mater Mothers Hospital

5.00pm Reception

BOOM Days 2020 – Saturday 7 March

7.30am Registrations

8.00-9.00am Diabetes in Pregnancy Dr Sophie Poulter, Endocrinologist and Obstetric Medicine Physician Sunshine Coast University Hospital

9.00-9:45am Thyroid and Endocrine Disorders of Pregnancy Dr Penny Wolski, Endocrinologist and Obstetric Medicine Physician RBWH and Greenslopes Private Hospital

9:45-10:15am Headaches in Pregnancy Dr Annabelle Lamphrect, Endocrinologist and Obstetric Medicine Physician RBWH, MNHHS

10:15-10:45am Morning tea

10:45-11:30am Epilepsy in Pregnancy Associate Professor Lata Vadlamudi, Neurologist, RBWH and Principal Research Fellow, The University of Queensland (UQ) Centre for Clinical Research

11:45-12:15pm What is that rash? Professor Kiarash Khosrothehrani, Dermatologist, Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH) MSHHS, Clinical Scientist and Professorial Research Fellow, UQ Diamantina Institute, Faculty of Medicine

12:15-12:45pm Pregnancy after Bariatric Surgery Dr Madeline Duke, Endocrinologist and Obstetric Medicine Physician RBWH, MNHHS

12:45-1:15pm Lunch

1:15-1:45pm Lupus and Anti-Phospholipid Syndrome in Pregnancy Dr Ann-Maree Craven, Renal and Obstetric Medicine Physician, RBWH and Greenslopes Private Hospital

1:45-2:15pm High Risk Anaesthetics in the Obstetric Theatre Dr Makarla Stead, Deputy Director of Anaesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine, Clinical Lead of Obstetric Anaesthesia, RBWH, MNHHS

2:15-3:00pm Depression and Mood Disorders in Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period Dr Lyndall White, Senior Lecturer, UQ and Psychiatrist specialising in Perinatal Mental Health, Belmont Private Hospital, Brisbane

3.00-3:30pm Afternoon tea

3:30-4.00pm Physiology of Breast Feeding and Drug Clearance Dr Fiona Britten, Endocrinologist and Obstetric Medicine Physician, RBWH, MNHHS

4.00-5.00pm Interesting cases O&G past paper

Distinguished Professor Annemarie Hennessy is the Dean of Medicine at the School of Medicine and currently holds the position of Foundation Professor of Medicine as well. She is an active obstetric and renal physician based at the Campbelltown Hospital.

Annemarie has a research interest in high blood pressure in pregnancy and has active research collaborations with Universities and hospitals in Sydney, Sweden and the USA.

She is the group leader of the Vascular Immunology Group at the Heart Research Institute (Australia).Professor Annemarie

Hennessy

Trainee rate: $180 per day / $500 for three days. Early bird rate: $450 until 31 January 2020.

Non Trainee rate: $220 per day / $630 for three days. Early bird rate: $600 until 31 January 2020.

For further details email boomdays@health.qld.gov.au or telephone 07 3646 1525.