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16th October 2014
Registration
8:00am ­ 5:00pm
Bounty Room
Opening
8:30am ­ 8:40am
Endeavour 1&2
Keynote lecture 1
8:40am ­ 9:40am
Endeavour 1&2
Ian Caterson ­ Report card on progress in obesity
ANZOS Young Investigator Award
9:40am ­ 10:00am
Endeavour 1&2
Morning tea
10:00am ­ 10:30am
Pre Function Area
The colour of fat ­ "Is beige the new brown?"
10:30am ­ 12:30pm
Endeavour 1&2
Stream: Metabolism & Integrative Physiology
Greg Cooney ­ BAT in the Dark Ages: a biological context for the Renaissance
Paul Lee ­ Fatty shades of brown colour metabolism in humans
Shingo Kajimura ­ Molecular determinants of brown/beige fat function
1 x 15 minute talk selected from abstracts
1 x 15 minute talk selected from abstracts
Obesity controversies
10:30am ­ 12:30pm
Stream: Intervention & Clinical Studies
Sanjoy Paul ­ Obesity paradox in people with newly­ diagnosed type 2 diabetes
David James ­ Systems biology – the next frontier in metabolic research
Sarah Garnett ­ The good, the bad and the ugly; intermittent fasting and severe energy
restriction in adolescents
1 x 15 minute talk selected from abstracts
Sirius
Room
1 x 15 minute talk selected from abstracts
Addressing socio­economic inequalities in obesity
10:30am ­ 12:30pm
Endeavour
3
Stream: Public Health & Policy
Joel Berg ­ Why New York City’s attempt to ban soda fizzled
Kylie Ball ­ Socioeconomic inequalities in obesity: Why do they arise, and what can we
do about them?
Julie Brimblecombe ­ SHOP@RIC ­ Food affordability and pricing 1 x 15 minute talk selected from abstracts
1 x 15 minute talk selected from abstracts
Lifestyle medicine and obesity: What does each have to offer the other?
10:30am ­ 12:30pm
Supply
Room
Stream: Psychology & Lifestyle Medicine
Garry Egger ­ A pedagogy for Lifestyle Medicine
Michael Sagner ­ Lifestyle medicine ­ from cell to community. Closing the translational
gap in chronic disease treatment and prevention
John Dixon ­ Beyond lifestyle and obesity: Understanding 21st Century determinants of
chronic disease
1 x 15 minute talk from abstracts
1 x 15 minute talk from abstracts
Lunch
12:30pm ­ 1:30pm
Pre Function Area
ANZOS Annual General Meeting
12:30pm ­ 1:30pm
Identifying novel strategies to reduce obesity related disease
1:30pm ­ 3:30pm
Stream: Metabolism & Integrative Physiology
Nigel Stepto ­ Physiological and clinical impact of obesity in women with Polycystic
Endeavour
1&2
Ovary Syndrome and the role of physical activity: Where to from here?
Mike McGuckin ­ Modulation of Pancreatic Islet Oxidative and ER stress with IL­22 to
Ameliorate Metabolic Syndrome in Obesity
Matt Watt ­ Do liver secreted factors link obesity to diabetes
1 x 15 minute talk from abstracts
1 x 15 minute talk from abstracts
Sex and sleep
1:30pm ­ 3:30pm
Sirius Room
Stream: Intervention & Clinical Studies Ian Hickie ­ Circadian drivers of poor mental and physical health
Karen Waters ­ Sleep apnoea in children
Bu Yeap ­ Sex hormones, body composition and cardiometabolic health
1 x 15 minute talk from abstracts
1 x 15 minute talk from abstracts
Emerging approaches to behaviour change ­ nudge and new technology
1:30pm ­ 3:30pm
Endeavour
3
Stream: Public Health & Policy Caroline Horwath ­ Intuitive eating: is a shift away from dieting the answer to weight
management?
Simone Pettigrew ­ Using incentives to stimulate behaviour change
Leisl Capper ­ Avatars to assist health behaviour change
1 x 15 minute talk from abstracts
1 x 15 minute talk from abstracts
Managing chronic pain within a lifestyle context
1:30pm ­ 3:30pm
Stream: Lifestyle Medicine & Psychology
Chris Hayes ­ A holistic model for dealing with chronic pain
Geoff Harding ­ Lifestyle medicine and the management of pain
Terina Grace ­ Group visits for chronic pain
Supply Room
1 x 15 minute talk selected from abstracts
1 x 15 minute talk selected from abstracts
Afternoon tea
3:30pm ­ 4:00pm
Pre Function Area
Keynote lecture 2
4:00pm ­ 5:00pm
Endeavour
1&2
Shingo Kajimura ­ Engineering fat cell fate to fight obesity and metabolic
diseases
Poster session 1 & Welcome reception
5:00pm ­ 7:00pm
Pre Function Area
Public Lecture
6:00pm ­ 7:30pm
What can you do to improve our nation’s diet for everyone? Lessons from Australian
school canteens and the US on what not to do – and how to change it
Joel Berg, Executive Director, New York City Coalition Against Hunger
Dr Kieron Rooney, Faculty of Health Sciences and the Boden Institute of Obesity, Nutrition,
Exercise & Eating Disorders, Sydney Medical School
Associate Professor Tim Gill, the Boden Institute of Obesity, Nutrition, Exercise & Eating
Disorders, Sydney Medical School
Have you ever sneaked a peek into someone else’s trolley at the supermarket – or into a child’s
school lunch – and wondered why people buy and eat that stuff? Poor eating habits are frequently
attributed to a supposed lack of virtuous behavior, but there are numerous policies and economic
factors that entrap people in nutrient­poor diets that lead to adverse educational and health
outcomes. This talk draws on examples from the US nutrition safety program for low­income
Americans, as well as on Australian policies governing what foods are available to children in
school canteens, and highlights key areas where you can make the most impact to help improve
our food environment for everyone.
The public lecture will be held at the University of Sydney
17th October 2014
Breakfast symposium
7:00am ­ 8:30am
Stephen Simpson ­ "An integrative, systems­based, multi­disciplinary approach to
tackling obesity: the Charles Perkins Centre project"
Q&A Session on the challenges of developing effective collaborative research
Endeavour
1&2
partnerships to address complex societal problems such as obesity. Output Session Sponsor Type
Keynote lecture 3
8:30am ­ 9:30am
Endeavour
1&2
Joel Berg ­ Food Insecurity and Obesity in the U.S. – Flip Sides of the Same
Malnutrition Coin
Early Career Researcher Presentations and Award
9:30am ­ 10:30am
Endeavour 1&2
Morning tea
10:30am ­ 11:00am
Pre Function Area
Identifying drivers of appetite and obesity
11:00am ­ 1:00pm
Endeavour
1&2
Stream: Metabolism & Integrative Physiology Herbert Herzog ­ Hypothalamic pathways for intake and expenditure including recent
insights into circadian cycles
Steve Simpson ­ The geometry of macronutrient balance
Andrew Holmes ­ Diet intervention in obesity and the role of the microbial landscape
1 x 15 minute talk selected from abstracts
1 x 15 minute talk selected from abstracts
Diet and exercise ­ What advice is best?
11:00am ­ 1:00pm
Stream: Intervention & Clinical Studies
Clare Collins ­ What do the NHMCR and DAA guidelines tell us about the best dietary
approach for weight loss?
Kathryn Ellis ­ Physical activity levels and cognition in older adults at risk of cognitive
decline
Nathan Johnson ­ HIIT and other novel exercise or non­sitting strategies: fact or fiction
for the management of obesity?
Sirius
Room
1 x 15 minute talk selected from abstracts
1 x 15 minute talk selected from abstracts
Prevention in early childhood
11:00am ­ 1:00pm
Endeavour
3
Rachael Taylor ­ Outcomes of the POI.NZ (Prevention of Obesity in NZ) study
Lisa Askie ­ What does the EPOCH (early prevention of obesity in childhood)
prospective meta­analysis tell us about early life obesity prevention?
Chris Rissel ­ Policy­makers and early life obesity prevention. What are the issues?
1 x 15 minute talk selected from abstracts
1 x 15 minute talk selected from abstracts
Using evidence­based psychological treatments to treat psychological
comorbidities in obese clients – do they need to be modified?
11:00am ­ 1:00pm
Supply
Room
Stream: Lifestyle Medicine & Psychology Prasuna Reddy – How useful are psychological treatments in the management of
depression?
Delywn Bartlett – Psychological treatments for insomnia and improving adherence in
obstructive sleep apnea Louise Sharpe ­ Reduce weight gain and Ease the pain: The impact of co­morbidity of
pain and obesity on interventions
1 x 15 minute talk selected from abstracts
1 x 15 minute talk selected from abstracts
Lunch
1:00pm ­ 2:00pm
Pre Function Area
Selected abstract presentations
2:00pm ­ 4:00pm
Endeavour 1&2
Afternoon tea
4:00pm ­ 4:30pm
Keynote lecture 4
Pre Function Area
4:30pm ­ 5:30pm
Endeavour
1&2
Marianne Sumego ­ Shared Medical Appointments are coming to Medicare: what's in it
for better obesity management?
Poster session 2
5:30pm ­ 7:30pm
Pre Function Area
Conference Dinner
7:30pm ­ 11:00pm
18th October 2014
GP Workshop
8:25am ­ 5:45pm
40 Category 1 QI&CPD Points to be applied for.
BETTER, FASTER, CHEAPER: shared medical appointments as a new way to manage clinically
severe obesity – from childhood to old age
Program
8.00 am: Registration
Session 1: The ‘why’ and ‘when’ of managing clinically severe obesity
8.25 am: Introduction (Professor John Dixon)
8.30 am: Childhood obesity – practical tips for GPs (Dr Shirley Alexander) 8.45 am: Weigh management in older adults? Think before you act (Professor Joe Proietto)
9.00 am: Panel discussion Dr Shirley Alexander and Professors Joe Proietto, Ian Caterson, John
Dixon and Garry Egger – Combining therapies: lifestyle, meal replacements, medications, devices
and surgery, from childhood to old age
9.30 am: Morning tea
Session 2: The ‘how’ of managing clinically severe obesity
10.00 am: Rotation through four small group sessions consisting of 15­minute presentations
followed by 15 minute group discussions on implementing the latest practical insights in General
Practice.
a) Meal replacements and very low energy diets (Professor Joe Proietto)
b) Drugs: what’s available? What’s coming? How can we use them intelligently? (Professor Ian
Caterson)
c) Gastrointestinal interventions – devices and surgery (Professor John Dixon)
d) Behavioural and lifestyle interventions for all (Professor Garry Egger)
12.00 pm: Interactive case studies – how would you manage these patients? (Professors Joe
Proietto, John Dixon, Garry Egger)
12:30 pm: Lunch, including…
12.50 pm: Lunch Time Guest Speaker Brian Aitkin (Obesity Support Council) – The Importance of
advocacy about obesity (25 minutes), plus interactive discussion about the severely obese
patent’s perspective (15 minutes)
Session 3: Shared Medical Appointments – introduction & theory
1.30 pm: Introduction, and origins of Shared Medical Appointments (Professor John Dixon)
1.45 pm: The American experience (Dr Marianne Sumego)
2.15 pm: Fitting the American experience into the Australian environment (Professor Garry Egger)
2.45 pm: The Australian story – so far (Dr John Stevens)
3.00 pm: Panel Discussion – How can Shared Medical Appointments help you to deliver better,
faster, cheaper health care for patients with chronic conditions such as diabesity? (Professor John
Dixon, Dr Marianne Sumego, Professor Garry Egger and Dr John Stevens)
3.30 pm: Afternoon tea
Session 4: Shared Medical Appointments – practical implementation: why, when, how
4.00 pm: Practical demonstration including role­play of implementation of SMAs for diabesity (Dr
Marianne Sumego, Professor Garry Egger, Professor John Dixon, Dr John Stevens)
5.30 pm: Summary discussion (key learnings), and evaluation
5.45 pm: Close
President’s debate: Dietary composition is critical for weight loss
8:30am ­ 9:30am
Endeavour
1&2
Speakers: Stephen Simpson, Amanda Sainsbury­Salis, Louise Baur, Tim Gill &
Anna Peeters
Morning tea
9:30am ­ 10:00am
Pre Function Area
Metabolism & integrative physiology free communications
10:00am ­ 12:30pm
Endeavour
1&2
Outstanding abstracts submitted within the Metabolism & integrative physiology
stream will be selected for presentation as oral communications in this session
Lunch
12:30pm ­ 1:30pm
Pre Function Area
Career Development Workshop
1:30pm ­ 3:30pm
Sirius
Room
How to optimise your applications for scholarships, fellowships, promotions or jobs: The art
of showing off without showing off
Facilitator: Associate Professor Amanda Salis
Panel: Professor Anna Peeters
Professor Clare Collins
Background
This Career Development Workshop is designed to help you with your applications for
fellowships, promotions or grants.
In my 20 years' experience of applying for and obtaining scholarships and fellowships, and
of helping other people to write successful scholarship or fellowship applications, I have
noticed that many people unfortunately undersell their achievements.
Drawing on insights from a panel of current fellowship holders, this workshop will show you
how to showcase your achievements and expertise to their best advantage, in a way that
doesn't make your readers think you're showing off. There's a fine line between assertively
stating your value, and making your reviewers want to cut you down (the 'tall poppy
syndrome'); in this interactive session I'll show you how to walk that fine line with elegant
confidence.
I look forward to seeing you at the workshop!
Amanda Salis
NHMRC Senior Research Fellow
Boden Institute of Obesity, Nutrition, Exercise & Eating Disorders
The University of Sydney