Saturday, 5th December ARA-NSW 2020 - 42nd Annual NSW Branch Meeting
Gold Sponsor Presentation
8:00AM - 8:15AM
Saturday, 5th December
Chair: Mark Podgorski
Bone Uplenary
8:15AM - 9:06AM
Saturday, 5th December
Chair: Mark Podgorski
Sponsored by:
- Opportunistic Identification of Vertebral Compression Fractures using Artificial Intelligence Technology. - Carmella Gunasingam
- Leading Better Value Care (LBVC) Osteoporosis Refracture Prevention (ORP) Service Royal North Shore Hospital (RNSH) The First 4 years 2016-2020: treatment and refracture rates among ORP attendees and non-attendees - Angela Bowman
- Bone health assessment by dual x-ray absorptiometry in men commencing adjuvant androgen deprivation therapy for prostate cancer - Peter Wong
- Ethnic diversity in patients presenting to Canterbury Hospital with a low trauma hip fracture. - Geoffrey-Kai GY Ye
- Bone health assessment and management in a cohort of patients presenting with hip fracture to Canterbury Hospital - Fangzhi Jia
- Retrospective review of patients presenting with a minimal trauma hip fracture to Canterbury Hospital - Nicholas M Presgrave
Coffee Break
9:06AM - 9:20AM
Saturday, 5th December
Keynote Lecture 2
9:20AM - 10:05AM
Saturday, 5th December
Chair: David Hunter
Sponsored by:
Scientific Papers 1
10:05AM - 10:20AM
Saturday, 5th December
Chair: Rodger Laurent
- Responsiveness of an activity tracker as a measurement tool in knee osteoarthritis clinical trial (ACTIVe-OA Trial) - Shirley P Yu
- Efficacy and safety of antidepressants for the treatment of back pain and osteoarthritis: A systematic review and meta-analysis - Giovanni Ferreira
- MRI-based subgroups of structural knee pathology in pre-radiographic osteoarthritis – data from the Osteoarthritis Initiative. - Leticia Deveza
Break
10:20AM - 10:30AM
Saturday, 5th December
Silver Sponsor Presentations
10:30AM - 10:35AM
Saturday, 5th December
Chair: Leslie Schrieber
Pearls, Placebos, Papers, & Posters
10:35AM - 11:30AM
Saturday, 5th December
Chairs: Leslie Schrieber & Lyn March
Sponsored by:
- HITCH-HIKERS GUIDE NSW ARA - Stephen Potter
- Changes in b/tsDMARD prescribing for rheumatoid arthritis during the COVID-19 pandemic: An analysis of the OPAL dataset. - Kathleen Tymms
- Survey on Australian Rheumatologists at the beginning of Covid-19 Pandemic - Jeremy Wang
- Establishing the hierarchy of goals for patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty: Can health professionals identify their patients' goals? - Sascha Karunaratne
- Are musculoskeletal conditions are neglected in national health surveys: a systematic review - Giovanni Ferreira
Break
11:30AM - 11:40AM
Saturday, 5th December
Keynote Lecture 3
11:40AM - 12:00PM
Saturday, 5th December
Chair: Lyn March
Sponsored by:
Scientific Papers 2
12:00PM - 12:36PM
Saturday, 5th December
Chair: Lyn March
- Do different diagnostic labels for rotator cuff disease influence management preferences? An online randomised controlled experiment - Joshua R Zadro
- Exercise and education may not prevent recurrence of low back pain: A randomised controlled trial - Giovanni Ferreira
- Greater efficacy of a combination of conservative therapies for thumb base OA in individuals with lower radial subluxation – a pre-planned subgroup analysis of the COMBO trial - Leticia Miranda L Deveza
Break
12:36PM - 1:30PM
Saturday, 5th December
Scientific Papers 3
1:30PM - 2:42PM
Saturday, 5th December
Chair: Sean O'Neill
- Epidemiology and risk factors for the development of rheumatic toxicities in patients with advanced melanoma treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors - Alana Bruce
- Epidemiology and outcomes of surgically resected thoracic aortitis in an Australian cohort - Hugh C Caterson
- The real world experience of FDG PET/CT as a first line investigation for giant cell arteritis - Keren Port
- A retrospective review of positive myositis-specific antibody from SEALS Pathology - Jianna He
- Investigating the gut microbiome of patients with rheumatoid arthritis - Lara Bereza-Malcolm
- Factors associated with an increased length of stay during an acute gout attack requiring hospitalisation - Cameron L Adams
Break
2:42PM - 3:00PM
Saturday, 5th December
Scientific Papers 4
3:00PM - 3:15PM
Saturday, 5th December
Chair: Penelope Savvas
- Managing acute lower back pain - Evaluating the perceptions of final year medical students, junior medical officers and registrars - Arupam Raman
- Paraneoplastic medium-vessel vasculitis of the omentum associated with an ovarian granulosa cell tumour. - Luke D Williamson
- A Case of Contemporaneous SLE and Eating Disorders in an Adolescent Patient and Literature Review - Jeremy Wang
Closing Ceremony & Awards
3:15PM - 4:00PM
Saturday, 5th December
Chairs: Premarani Sinnathurai & Arvin Damodaran
ARA-NSW AGM
4:00PM - 5:00PM
Saturday, 5th December