1. family and parenting
2. motherhood
3. pregnancy

RCOG WORLD CONGRESS 2015
PRO
VISI
JOINT RCOG / RANZCOG EVENT
ON
BRISBANE AUSTRALIA | 12–15 APRIL 2015
AL
PRO
Monday 13 April 2015
07.15 – 08.15
What Are the Pitfalls in Our
New Cervical Screening System?
Ian Hammond
Congress Welcome and Welcome to Country
Ted Weaver, Chair, Organising Committee and Clare Boothroyd, Chair, Scientific Committee
08.50
‘Walking the Plank’ - Welcome Addresses from the RCOG and RANZCOG Presidents
David Richmond, RCOG President and Michael Permezel, RANZCOG President
09.10
Arthur Wilson Memorial Oration – From Little Things, Big Things Grow – The Importance of Periconception Medicine
Robert Norman
09.50
The Singapore Lecture: The Role of Progesterone, Cerclage and a Pessary to Prevent Preterm Birth
Roberto Romero
10.30 – 11.00
Morning Tea
11.00 – 12.30
Adolescent Gynaecology
Developmental Origins of
Health and Adult Disease
Menopause Running the Gauntlet
Global Health –
Sailing the South Seas
Cervical Cancer
Screening
‘Case-Based’
Interactive Session:
• Ovarian Torsion
• XY Gonads
• Cervical Agenesis
Endocrine Disruptors and
Reproductive Health
Roger Hart
HRT in 2015 the Big Picture
Edward Morris
Delivering Maternal-neonatal
Health CPD in PNG: A Novel
Public-private Partnership
Miriam O’Connor
The Pap is Dead: Long Live
the HPV Screening Test
Ian Hammond
Biology of Developmental
Plasticity
Speaker TBA
What is the Best Oestrogen
and Progestin for the
Menopause
Rod Baber
Continuing Education
Programs for Specialists of the
Pacific Region
Alec Ekeroma
HPV Testing in the Clinical
Setting; Screening, SelfCollection and Test of Cure
Marion Saville
RAINE / Exercise Study
John Newnham
Post-Menopausal
Sexual Issues
Alan Altman
Midwifery Education in the
Pacific
Patricia Brodie
Lessons Learned From
the UK NHS Cervical
Screening Program
Clare McKenzie
11.25
Panellists:
• Rebecca Deans
• Kim Matthews
• Amy Mellor
• Melanie Davies
• Susan Ward
12.15
12.30 – 13.30
Lunch
13.30 – 15.00
Controversies in
Infertility Management
13.30
E
Induction of Labour [Ferring Sponsored Session]
Tim Draycott
Gino Pecoraro
Simona Ispas-Jouron
08.25
11.50
MM
Breakfast Sessions
Hormone and Contraception Update
• Contraception for Teenagers and Young Women, Helen
Paterson
• Bleeding with “Progestin Only” Contraception, Ian Fraser
11.00
GRA
13.55
Interactive Session:
• Social Egg Freezing
• AMH for All
• Male Infertility
• Expectant Management
of Infertility
• Ovulation Induction
14.20
Panellists:
• Robert Norman
• Ben Mol
• Roger Hart
• Rina Agrawal
• Mary Ann Lumsden
14.45
The Effect of Intrauterine
Inflammation on Early
Atherosclerotic Lesion
Development and Endothelial
Function in ApoE-/- Mice
Maria Nguyen
What is the Best Treatment
for Spontaneous Premature
Ovarian Failure and What are
the Effects of No Treatment?
Beth Cartwright
Development of a Low Cost
Vital Signs Device to Detect
Pre-eclampsia and Shock
Andrew Shennan
Placentae of Preterm and
Idiopathic Growth Restricted
Pregnancies, Incidence of
Human Papilloma Virus (HPV)
Detection and Correlation
With Cervical Cytology Using
Immunochemistry
Celia Devenish
‘Dead Reckoning’ Detecting and Treating
Fetal Aneuploidies
What Can We Learn
From Each Other
Stillbirth
Genomics in Advanced
Ovarian Cancer
The Place of Ultrasound in
2015 and Beyond
Jon Hyett
NIPT the RAPID Experience
Lynn Chitty
Assisted Reproduction
Practices and Ethics: What
Can We Learn From Each
Other
Bill Ledger
Epidemiology and Risk
Factors for Stillbirth in High
Resource Settings
Vicki Flenady
Current Updates on the
Management of Advanced
Ovarian Cancer: The
Moonshot Project
Pedro Ramirez
Aspects of Academia :
What Can We Learn
From Each Other
David Ellwood
Beyond the Numbers:
Reporting Potential
Avoidability in Perinatal and
Maternal Mortality in New
Zealand
Cynthia Farquhar
Genomics for the General
Gynaecologist
Speaker TBA
Prospects for Antenatal
Treatment of Fetuses with
Down Syndrome
Diana Bianchi
Aspects of Research:
What Can We Learn
From Each Other
Andy Shennan
Routine Third Trimester
Ultrasound to Prevent
Adverse Perinatal Outcome:
What is the Evidence?
Gordon Smith
The Increasing Role of the
Translational Scientist int he
Treatment of Gynaecologican
Cancers (Tissue Banking)
Anna DeFazio
Pregnancy Outcome in
Women Detected With Low
PAPP-A levels Following
Antenatal Screening for
Down’s Syndrome
Chloe Gilchrist
24/7 Consultant Coverage in
Birth Suite
Michael Beckmann
Joint Perspective, Joint
Decision Making; Improving
Maternity Bereavement
Care for Stillbirth. A mixed
Methods Multicentre Study in
the UK
Tim Draycott
Synergistic Immunochemotherapy for Ovarian
Cancer
John Wahba
15.00 – 15.30
Afternoon Tea
15.30 – 16.10
Debate - 24 Hour O&G Consultant Presence on the Labour Ward should be Mandatory for All Tertiary Hospitals
For: Sue Walker and Elizabeth Owen
Against: Vijay Roach and Ian Currie
16.10 – 16.50
Debate - The Health Dollar / Pound / Budget is Best Spent on Doctors Rather than State of the Art Equipment
For:Tim Draycott and Gino Pecoraro
Against: Jason Abbott and Pedro Ramirez
16.50 – 17.30
Plenary - Menopausal Hormone Therapy: Who, Why, What and for How Long?
Alan Altman
18.30 – 21.00
Welcome Reception – Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA)
Free Communications – Obstetrics and
Labour
Mechanistic insights into dysfunctional labour in
women with high body mass index
Shaun Brennecke
The Proinflammatory Effects of Oxytocin in Human
Myometrium Require Both G q and G i Proteins
and are not Inhibited by the Oxytocin Receptor
Antagonist- Atosiban
Vasso Terzidou
An audit on the use of Cook’s cervical ripening balloon
for induction of labour
Nana Kuratishvili
Preconceptional Laparoscopic cervical cerclage
Urvashi Jha Variation in Inter-Hospital Rates of Induction of Labour
Tanya Nippita
Does umbilical artery Doppler indices at 35-37 weeks
predict intrapartum fetal compromise in term normally
grown fetuses?
Salma Sabdia
Maternal car driving capacity after birth- a feasibility
study randomising postnatal women after caesarean
section and vaginal delivery to early or late driving in a
driving simulator
Margaret Harpham
Free Communications – Pre-eclampsia and
Obstetric Medicine
Interim Results of the Nitric Oxide in Prevention
of Pre-Eclampsia (NOPE) Trial: A Double Blind
Randomised Controlled Trial of Isosorbide
Mononitrate in the Prevention of Preeclampsia
Krishnan Manikandan
Mirroring preeclampsia: Ballantyne’s under the
microscope
Sebastian Hobson
Immunologic Evaluation of the Endometrium with a
Levonorgestrel Intrauterine Device in Solid Organ
Transplant Women and Healthy Controls
Caron Kim
Pravastatin quenches preeclampsia in humans: A
potential therapeutic
Fiona Brownfoot
Pertussis vaccine: When is the optimal time to
vaccinate during pregnancy?
Madison Naidu
Limited evidence for calcium supplementation
in preeclampsia prevention: a meta-analysis and
systematic review
Alec Welsh
Pre-pregnancy consumption of Mediterranean-style
diet was associated with a lower risk of developing
hypertensive disorders of pregnancy: results from the
Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health
Danielle Schoenaker
Clinical Management and Outcomes of Pregnant
Women with Hepatitis C Infection and Their Babies
Raimah Ahmed
RCOG WORLD CONGRESS 2015
PRO
VISI
JOINT RCOG / RANZCOG EVENT
ON
BRISBANE AUSTRALIA | 12–15 APRIL 2015
Tuesday 14 April 2015
07.30 – 08.20
• Injuy to the Lower Urinary Tract, Judith Goh
• Injury to the Rectum, Speaker TBA
Kissing the Gunners Daughter: Sexually Transmitted Infections
and Pitfalls of Chlamydia Screening
Conservative Therapy in the Management of Early-stage Cervical Cancer
Pedro Ramirez
09.30
Non-invasive Prenatal Testing (NIPT) Using Maternal Plasma DNA: How has it Transformed the Prenatal Screening Landscape?
Diana Bianchi
11.00
E
Devloping an Academic Career
Diana Bianchi
Laparoscopic Surgery
Preterm Labour
Infections & Diseases in
Pregnancy
Global Health
Video / Platform Poster
Presentations
Free Communications –
Infertility
Interactive Session:
Microorganisms and
Inflammation in Spontaneous
Preterm Labour and Fetal
Injury
Roberto Romero
Management of HIV
Discordance
Michelle Giles
Translating the Unfinished
Business of Millennium
Development Goals 4, 5
and 6 into the Post-2015
Development Goals
Peter Hill
A novel technique to reduce
the complications of 2nd stage
cesarean delivery using fetal
pillow-a randomized controlled
trial.
Subrata Seal
Successful Pregnancy and Live Birth Using Sperm
Acquired 48 Hours Post-Mortem
Stephen Robson
Panel Discussion
11.50
MM
Morning Tea
Surgical Surprises
Camran Nezhat
11.25
GRA
• Pitfalls of Chlamydia Screening, Jane Hocking
• Antibiotic Resistance and STIs, Speaker TBA
• Tropical STIs, Paul Howat
08.30
11.00 – 12.30
PRO
Breakfast Sessions
Man Overboard! Acute Complications in
Gynaecological Surgery
10.30 – 11.00
AL
Panellists:
• Andrew Pickersgill
• Simon Edmonds
• Susan Evans
• Naven Chetty
• Janice Rymer
12.15
Advances in Fibronectin
Andrew Shennan
CMV in Pregnancy in 2015
Lisa Hui
Women’s Rights
Lesley Regan
The Western Australian
Preterm Birth Prevention
Initiative
John Newnham
Antibiotic Resistance in 2015
– Implications for O&G and
Patients with Allergy
David Paterson
Reproductive Health Across
the Life Course and Chronic
Disease Events: Results From
Over 230,000 Women Across
10 Countries
Gita Mishra
Performance of Preterm
Prevention Clinic: Have We
Really Made a Difference?
Gargeswari Sunanda
Dental Bacteria are
Frequently Found in the
Amniotic Fluid of Healthy
Pregnant Women When
Analysed Using CultureIndependent Techniques
Sushma Vytla
FLearning From the
Pregnancy-Related Deaths
in Resource-Poor Settings:
Maternal Death Reviews in
Sri Lanka
Imbulana Jayaratne
A solution to CHAOS at UCLH:
implementation of a new service
and multidisciplinary work.
Elisabeth Bean
Addressing dilemmas at
laparoscopic myomectomy:
operative video cases
Urvashi Jha
Never judge a mass by its looks:
case video
Urvashi Jha
Development of a smartphone
app for new mums: an innovative
information tool in a responsive
maternity unit
Sunita Sharma
Addressing fertility in female paediatric and adolescent
patients receiving gonadotoxic therapy: audit of clinical
practice at the Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne.
Hannah Clark
The effect of intrauterine injection of seminal plasma
on IVF results: a prospective double-blind randomized
placebo-controlled trial
Giselle Crawford
Follicle Stimulating Hormone Receptor Gene
Polymorphisms Affect Ovarian Response to Stimulation: A
Step towards Individualized Medicine
Osama Azmy
Medical Tourism For Assisted Reproductive Technologies
Vinay S. Rane
Preconceptual and contraceptive advice given to women
with pre-existing medical issues
Edward Hyde
Seatbelt safety in pregnancy: the
beliefs and knowledge of pregnant
women.
Tegan Draheim
Executive Coaching of a newly
appointed consultant - A personal
experience’
Anthony Stock
12.30 – 13.30
Lunch
13.30 – 15.00
Complex Decision Making
in Obstetrics
Helping Vulnerable
Women
Acquiring Basic Skills and
the Role of Simulation
Prevention of Cancer in
Women’s Health
‘How To’ Session
Free Communications – GDM and Obesity
“Stump the Professor”
Interactive Session
Femal Genital Mutilation
Janice Rymer
Training in Robotics for
Gynaecologists
Camran Nezhat
Ovarian Cancer Screening in
2015 and Beyond
Speaker TBA
• Optimise Contraception
in a Low Resource Setting
Gregory Jenkins
Interpregnancy weight gain is associated with increased
risk of gestational diabetes, pregnancy induced
hypertensive disorders and small for gestational age
babies among women who are overweight or obese
Rosemary McBain
Domestic Violence
Lesley Regan
Obstetric Simulation /
Team Based Simulation
Tim Draycott
Breast Screening in 2015 and
Beyond
Owen Ung
When Women Become
Victims of War
Mark Slack
Laparoscopic Training in
Australia – Now and in the
Future
Anusch Yazdani
Role of Prophylactic Surgery –
Families at Risk
Pedro Ramirez
Is Chronic Pelvic Pain (CPP)
Associated With a History of
Sexual Abuse? A Systematic
Review and Meta-Analysis
Neha Pathak
Free Communication
Can Matrix
Metalloproteinases Indicate
Endometriosis Invasiveness
and Possible Malignant
Change?
Pramathes Dasmahapatra
13.30
13.55
14.20
Panellists:
• Sailesh Kumar Surendran
• John Newnham
• Roberto Romero
• Sue Walker
• Andy Shennan
• Pippa Kyle
• Gordon Smith
14.45
• Use Pessaries –
The Dying Art
Hannah Krause
• How to Set Up Research
Trials in Your Institution
Ben Mol
Has Metformin Revolutioned the Management of GGM?
Thangeswaran Rudra
Obesity: How much does it matter for female pelvic
organ prolapse?
Natharnia Young
Twin pregnancies complicated by gestational diabetes
mellitus: a single centre cohort study of prevalence and
pregnancy outcomes
Genevieve Dinham
Interpregnancy weight gain is associated with increased
risk of gestational diabetes and macrosomia in women of
normal body mass index
Rosemary McBain
Prevalence of Gestational Diabetes in a Multiethnic Asian
Cohort
Sarah Li
The Impact of Socioeconomic Position on Severe
Maternal Morbidity Outcomes amongst Women in
Australia: A National Case-Control Study (AMOSS)
Anthea Lindquist
The North Metropolitan Perth Gestational Diabetes
Cohort: The impact of IADPSG 2010 diagnostic
criteria on the prevalence and outcomes of pregnancy
complicated with gestational diabetes mellitus.
Julie Quinlivan
An audit of the management of Gestational Diabetes at a
University Hospital.
Philippa Dann
15.00 – 15.30
Afternoon Tea
15.30 – 17.00
Plenary
Q&A hosted by Tony Jones, Australian Television Journalist
20.00 – late
Congress Party Function - Cloudland
RCOG WORLD CONGRESS 2015
PRO
VISI
JOINT RCOG / RANZCOG EVENT
ON
BRISBANE AUSTRALIA | 12–15 APRIL 2015
AL
PRO
GRA
Wednesday 15 April 2015
08.00 – 08.50
MM
E
Breakfast Sessions
Loaded to the Gunwales – Multiple Pregnancy Management
Janet Vaughan
• Modes of Delivery
• Selection Reduction
• Screening Interval
• When to Deliver - How Long is Too Late
Minimally Invasive
Management of Fibroids
Camran Nezhat
09.00
The Future of HPV Vaccination
Ian Frazer
09.45
Minimally Invasive Management of Endometriosis: How Do I Approach It?
Camran Nezhat
Does Over-Commitment to Vaginal Delivery Have an
Adverse Effect on Women’s Pelvic Floor Health?
For: Peter Dietz
Against: Mark Slack
EQUIPP: Evaluation of Quantitative Fetal
Fibronectin in Prediction of Preterm Birth
[Hologic Sponsored Breakfast]
Andrew Shennan
10.30 – 11.00
Morning Tea
11.00 – 12.30
Management of the
Obese Patient in
Clinical Practice
Urogynaecology:
Strengthening the
Bulkheads
Reproductive
Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander Health
Fetal Growth
Restriction
Sexual Health
Free Communications – Labiaplasty
Interactive Session:
• Preconception
• Sleep Apnoea
• Infertility
• Management in Pregnancy
• Screening
• Problems in Birth
How to Go to the Gym
without Pushing Things Out!
Sue Croft
Birthing on Country
Sue Kildea
(to co present with Fleur Magick
Dennis)
Angiogenic Markers in the
Detection and Management of
Pre-Eclampsia
Andrew Shennan
The Australian Study of
Health and Relationships:
Contraceptive Choices
Juliet Richters
Is there a link between pubic hair removal and
labiaplasty?
Cathy Cui
Overactive Bladder –
What’s New?
Kate Moore
Preterm Birth in Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander
Population
Roger Smith
INTERGROWTH –
21st Study
Jane Hirst
Long Acting Reversible
Contraception Uptake After
Abortion in Australia
Kirsten Black
Can Childbirth-Related
Pelvic Floor Dysfunction be
Prevented?-UR-CHOICE!
Don Wilson
Disadvantaged Rural Women
in Australia
Margaret O’Brien
Customising Fetal Growth –
New Zealand Experience
Lesley McCowan
(to co present with Dr Ngaire
Anderson)
Medical Management of
Second Trimester Abortion
Speaker TBA
Does Maternal Age at
Subsequent Pregnancy,
Maternal Weight and Birth
Weight of Baby Impact on
Risk of Subsequent Severe
Perineal Tears following Thirdand-Fourth Degree Perineal
Tears in First pregnancy?
Yoon Sik Park
A Continuous Quality
Improvement Initiative:
Improving the Provision of
Pregnancy Care for Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander
Women
Melanie Gibson-Helm
Changes in the Fetal Cerebroumbilical Artery Ratio at
Term and its Predictive
Value for Intrapartum Fetal
Compromise
Larissa Bligh
Free Communication
11.00
11.25
11.50
Panellists:
• Shelley Wilkinson
• Robert Norman
• Ben Mol
• Sue Walker
• Blair Bowden
• Cynthia Farquhar
12.15
12.30 – 13.30
Lunch
13.30 – 14.00
Ella Macknight Memorial Lecture – Targeting the Toxins of Pre-eclampsia
Tu’uhevaha Kaitu’u-Lino
14.00 – 15.30
Pre-eclampsia Has Many
Faces – An Interactive
Case-Based Clinical
Session Highlighting Upto-date Evidenced Based
Management of PET
14.25
14.50
15.15
Labiaplasty - the Primary Care perspective
Magdalena Simonis
Management of female genital cosmetic surgery by
health practitioners in Australia
Tristan Harding Building a Raft –
Reaching Out From
Developed Countries
Demystifying the
Publication Process
‘How To’ Sessions
Preventing and Recognising
Postnatal Mood Disorder in
2015
Lyndall White
New Innovations in Medical
Management of Ectopic
Pregnancy
Stephen Tong
To the World – RCOG
Global Health Programme
Paul Fogarty
Panel Discussion with
Leading Editors
14.00 - 14.30
• How to Conduct Audit in Your Practice or
Institution
Personality Disorders in
Pregnancy / Bonding with
Babies
Speaker TBA
Blood Product Utilisation
Speaker TBA
To Africa
Judith Goh
Premenstrual Dysphoric
Disorder
Nick Panay
Conservative Management of
Endometrial Cancer (including
use of Metformin)
Speaker TBA
To Papua New Guinea
Barry Kirby
Metabolic and Nutritional
Factors in Pregnant Women
With Severe Mental Illness
Jacqueline Frayne
GDm-health: Development
of a Real-time Smartphone
Solution for the Management
of Women with Gestational
Diabetes Mellitus (GDM)
Jane Hirst
Global Health Training for
Australian Obstetrics &
Gynaecology Trainees: An
Innovative Capacity Building
Program in Madang, Papua
New Guinea
Rebecca Iser
Awarding of Prizes - Sponsored by Wiley
Presentation of RCOG World Congress 2016, Birmingham - Paul Fogarty
RANZCOG 2016 ASM, Perth – Paul McGurgan
16.00 – 17.00
The Great Debate - RCT Evidence Should Drive Everything We Do Clinically
For: Ben Mol and second debator TBA
Against: Alan Altman and Gordon Smith
Congress Close
Correlation Between Body Image Dissatisfaction and
Rates of Depression and Anxiety and Quality of Life
in Overweight and Obese Pregnant Women: Findings
from the LIMIT Randomized Trial
Kate Andrewartha
The Balance of Knowledge
and Ignorance –
Translating New Evidence
to Practice in Obstetrics
and Gynaecology
15.40 – 16.00
17.00
Female genital mutilation/cutting: messages for health
services from Victorian communities
Chris Bayly
Mental Health
14.00
Panellists:
• Sandra Lowe
• Andrew Shennan
• Wendy Pollock
• Victoria Eley
‘Neat and pink and tucked away’ - young women’s
views on vulval anatomy
Calida Howarth
Panellists:
• Diani Bianchi
• Jan Dickinson
• Khalid Khan
Andreas Obermair
14.30 - 15.00
• How to Introduce and Maintain an Obstetric
Emergency Simulation Programme in Your
Hospital
Speaker TBA
15.00 - 15.30
• How to Introduce a Laparoscopic Surgical
Simulation Programme to Your Hospital
Sarah Janssens