Dr Scott Leslie (AUS) & A/Prof Ruban Thanigasalam (AUS)

Uncle Allen Madden
Uncle Alan is a Gadigal Elder, from the Metropolitcal Local Aboriginal Land Council.

Dr Teresa Anderson AM
Dr Teresa Anderson is the Chief Executive of Sydney Local Health District, one of the leading public health services in Australia. She has more than 35 years of experience as a clinician and health service executive.

TBD

Dr Inderbir Gill (USA)

Prof Gyu Seog Choi (KOR)

Dr Giovanni Cacciamani (USA)

Room chair: Dr Scott Leslie (AUS)

Moderators: Dr Howard Lau, Dr Nariman Ahmadi, Prof Monish Aron, Dr Justin Vass

10:30am Challenges in partial nephrectomy: hilar, posterior, cystic, multifocal, heminephrectomy, unclamped
Prof Monish Aron (USA)

10:45am New frontiers: robotic kidney transplants and autotransplants
Dr Jinna Yao (AUS)

11:00am Complex robotic and open renal surgery
Dr Matthew Winter (AUS)

11:15am Robotic retroperitoneal upper tract surgery
A/Prof Mark Louie-Jonsun (AUS)

11:30am Surgery for advanced RCC in the era of novel systemic therapies
A/Prof Hooman Djaladat (USA)

11:45am State-of-the-art: Robotic radical cystectomy and diversion: what we have learned from the RCT’s
Prof Mihir Desai (USA)

12:00pm Lymph node dissection in bladder cancer – 2024 update
A/Prof Hooman Djaladat (USA)

12:15pm Robotic RPLND for germ cell tumors
A/Prof Hooman Djaladat (USA)

Moderator: A/Prof Carlo Pulitano (AUS)

10:30am Robotic Liver Resection
A/Prof David Cavallucci (AUS)

11:20am Robotic Pancreatic surgery
Prof Jas Samra (AUS)

11:55am New technologies for liver Imaging
Mr Daniel Babekuhl (AUS)

Moderators: Dr Michael Harden (AUS), Dr Jazmin Eckhaus (AUS)

10:30am Robotic bronchoscopy
A/Prof Tajalli Saghaie (AUS)

10:50am How to start a robotic program in Western Australia
Dr Pragnesh Joshi (AUS)

11:10am How to get the most out of your robotic assistant
Dr Jaime Santibanez (AUS)

11:30am VATS vs RVATS anatomical resections: pros vs cons
Dr Stephen Barnett (AUS)

11:50am Thymectomy - How I do it
A/Prof Phillip Antippa (AUS)

12:10pm Robotic catastrophes - How I get out of jail
A/Prof Gavin Wright (AUS)

12:30pm Questions and discussion

Moderators: Dr Julia Crawford (AUS), Prof Carsten Palme (AUS)

10:30am How a virus has changed the landscape of oropharynx cancer
Prof Suren Krishnan (AUS)

11:00am Current Management Strategies for HPV(+) Oropharyngeal Cancer at Mayo Clinic
A/ Professor Kathryn Van Able (USA)

11:20am The role of neoadjuvant immunotherapy in HPV oropharynx cancer
Dr Jenny Lee (AUS)

11:40am Why chose surgery for primary treatment in oropharynx cancer?
Dr Julia Crawford (AUS)

12:05pm Why chose radiation as primary treatment in oropharynx cancer?
Dr Puma Sundaresan (AUS)

Moderators Dr Brett Fritsch (AUS), A/Prof Sam Macdessi (AUS)

10:30am Does robotics help in total knee replacement?
A/Professor Sam Macdessi (AUS)

10:50am Mako (Stryker)
Dr David Dickinson (AUS)

11:05am Velys (Johnson and Johnson)
Dr David Liu (AUS)

11:20am Omnibot (Corin)
Dr Sanjeev Gupta (AUS)

11:35am Rosa (Zimmer)
Dr Josh Petterwood (AUS)

11:50am Navio (Smith and Nephew)
Dr Jobe Shatrov (AUS)

12:05pm Panel discussion
Moderated by Dr Brett Fritsch (AUS)

Room chair: Dr Scott Leslie (AUS)

Moderators: Dr Raji Kooner, Dr Dan Moon, Dr Nader Awad, Dr Phil Dundee

1:30pm Live Surgery from Chirs O’Brien Lifehouse – Sao Paulo, RALP technique
A/Prof Ruban Thanigasalam (AUS)
Anterior approach for ultra preservation robotic assisted radical prostatectomy
Dr Rafael Coehlo (BRA)

1:45pm Challenging cases of RARP
Prof Monish Aron (USA)

2:00pm Retzius-sparing RARP – Australian series of 200 cases
Dr Troy Gianduzzo (AUS)

2:15pm How to maximize functional outcomes following prostatectomy
Dr Kayvan Haghighi (AUS)

2:30pm RARP with the Versius (CMR) robot – Step by step
A/Prof Jeremy Teoh (HKG)

2:45pm Single Port robotic lower urinary tract surgery – sP simple prostatectomy, sP radical prostatectomy and beyond
A/Prof Jullet Han (USA)

3:15pm Artificial Intelligence Applications in Urology
A/Prof Giovanni Cacciamani (USA)

Room chair: Michael Crawford (AUS)

1:30pm Complex incisional hernia repair: robotic approach
Dr David Wardill (AUS)

2:10pm Same Day Ambulatory Robotic Bariatric Surgery
Dr Mark Magdy (AUS)

2:40pm Abdominal Wall Surgery Specialty and Hernia Centers of Excellence: Where are we in 2024
Dr Oliver Fisher (AUS)

Room chairs: Prof Tristan Yan (AUS), Dr Emily Granger (AUS)

1:30pm How to Improve Mitral Valve Repair Using the Robotic System
Dr Aubrey Almeida (AUS)

1:50pm Robotic Septal Myectomy
Dr Nai-Hsin Chi (TWN)

2:10pm Developing an emergency un-docking simulation for cardiothoracic surgery
Prof Michael Wilson (AUS)

2:20pm Robotic Aortic Valve Surgery
Prof Tristan Yan (AUS)

2:30pm Robotic Chordae Shortening
Dr Nai-Hsin Chi (TWN)

2:45pm Robotic Off-pump TECAB
Prof Husam Balkhy (USA)

3:00pm Discussion

Room chairs: Dr Julia Crawford (AUS), Prof Carsten Palme (AUS)

1:30pm Robotic surgery; what I’ve learned since starting out in practice
Dr Ben Dixon (AUS)

1:50pm Single Port Robotic Surgery
Dr Peter Floros (AUS)

2:10pm HPV Biomarkers; the role of circulating DNA to guide treatment
Dr Sarju Visani (AUS)

2:30pm Functional Outcomes post TORS
Dr Emma Charters (AUS)

2:45pm What new robotic technology for ENT is coming
TBA

Room chairs: Dr Brett Fritsch (AUS), A/Prof Sam Macdessi (AUS)

1:30pm Developing a replacement for bone – the Jazbi Journey
Dr Maryam Parviz (AUS)

1:45pm Remote patient monitoring using AI – Peak Medical
Ms Hayley Saddington (AUS)

2:00pm Innovation: from idea to reality, Australian tech goes global
Ms Lynette Walter (AUS)

2:15pm 3D printing the perfect operation – Personalised surgery
Dr Sam Grasso (AUS)

2:30pm Innovation in Orthopaedics – innovating the process
Dr Brad Miles (AUS)

2:45pm Panel discussion

Prof Gordon Wallace AO (AUS)

Dr Duncan Macinnis (AUS)

Dr Susie Nillson (AUS)

Dr Amith Shetty (AUS)
Dr Simon Kos (AUS)
Prof Stuart Grieve (AUS)
Dr Simon Singer (AUS)