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Breakfast Session: Paediatric / Adult Congenital

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Paediatrics / Adult Congenital
Saturday, August 3, 2024
7:30 AM - 8:15 AM
Meeting Room 7

Speaker

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Dr Andrew Martin
Consultant
Perth Children's Hospital

Hyperlipidaemia

7:30 AM - 7:50 AM

Biography

Dr Martin is a general paediatrician working at Perth Children's Hospital. He has made major contributions to paediatric familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH) within Australia, leading the publication of the first national guidelines for paediatric FH in 2012 and establishing a clinical service for paediatric FH in WA. In recent years he has focussed his efforts on developing better approaches to detect FH in children, specifically innovative models of population screening in early childhood. He currently leads the “FH in Kids” study, an enhanced program for improving the detection and management of children with FH in WA.
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Prof Jan Dickinson
Professor Maternal Fetal Medicine
University of Western Australia

High dose folate; and medications in pregnancy and their effect on incidence of CHD

7:50 AM - 8:15 AM

Biography

Jan is Professor of Maternal Fetal Medicine at the University of Western Australia with a long-standing interest in fetal imaging and fetal therapy.
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Dr Sundar Veerappan
Paediatric Cardiologist
Perth Children's Hospital

Chairperson

Biography

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