AstraZeneca Evening Symposium - Lung Cancer: Practical implications for Respiratory services/teams in 2025
| Sunday, March 23, 2025 |
| 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM |
| Hall A |
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Sponsored By:
AstraZeneca
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Details
Respiratory physicians are pivotal in the diagnosis and early management of people with lung cancer. They are typically the first specialist that a patient is referred to and play a critical role in the lung cancer multi-disciplinary management team (MDT).
Changes to lung cancer classifications, the introduction of new guidelines for the management of incidental pulmonary nodules and the interface between primary care and specialist respiratory care can have sustainable impact and benefit in an evolving lung cancer environment, which includes the introduction of the National Lung Cancer Screening Program in July 2025.
This symposium addresses a number of these considerations and will offer an update on what is new together with practical guidance on implementation to support respiratory physicians and colleagues in the diagnosis and management of lung cancer.
Speaker
Dr Kwun Fong
SMO
The Prince Charles Hospital / University of Queensland
TNM 9th edition: What's new and what are the practical implications for respiratory physicians?
6:05 PM - 6:20 PMBiography
Dr Kwun Fong is a proud member of the team at The Prince Charles Hospital and UQ Thoracic Research Centre working together to provide high-value care and healthy lungs for the people they serve.
Prof Fraser Brims
Consultant
Curtin University / Sir Charles Gardiner Hospital
New guidelines for managing and screening incidental pulmonary nodules
6:20 PM - 6:35 PMBiography
Prof Fraser Brims is a Consultant Respiratory Physician at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital and Director of Research at Curtin Medical School. He is chair of the WA Mesothelioma Registry and is Deputy Director of the Institute for Respiratory Health where he heads the Occupational and Respiratory Health research group. His has a clinical and research interests in occupational and asbestos related diseases, and early lung cancer detection, as lead of the WA Asbestos Review Program.
Dr Vanessa Brunelli
Research Fellow
University of Wollongong
Nurse-enabled pulmonary nodule management - service establishment to future directions
6:35 PM - 6:50 PMBiography
Vanessa is a nurse academic at the University of Wollongong. Her health services research program centres on innovative, interdisciplinary models of lung cancer care, enhanced by the advanced practice lung cancer nurse. A demonstrated history of professional leadership, Vanessa is currently a representative of the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand Lung Cancer Working Party; Thoracic Oncology Group of Australasia Scientific Committee; and International Thoracic Oncology Nurses Forum Steering Committee.
Dr Gerard Olive
Thoracic Physician
The Prince Charles Hospital
The interface between primary and secondary care: Effective primary care referral when lung cancer is suspected
6:50 PM - 7:05 PMBiography
Dr Gerry Olive is a consultant respiratory physician at The Prince Charles Hospital in Brisbane where he chairs Nodule and Lung Cancer MDTs. He is the Deputy Convenor of the Lung Cancer SIG.
All Speakers
Panel discussion
5:05 PM - 5:30 PMBiography
Dr Tracy Leong
Respiratory Physician
Austin Health
Chairperson
Biography
Respiratory and Sleep Physician, Austin Health
Post-doc, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
David Bickart Clinician Researcher Fellow
Dr Henry Marshall
Thoracic Physician
The Prince Charles Hospital
Chairperson
Biography
Henry Marshall, FRACP PhD, is a senior staff Thoracic Physician at The Prince Charles Hospital, Brisbane and Visiting Medical Officer at St Vincent’s Private Hospital Northside, Brisbane. His research, at the University of Queensland Thoracic Research Centre, aims to reduce the burden of disease caused by lung cancer by focussing on lung cancer early detection, screening and smoking cessation. Currently recruiting PhD candidates for lung cancer screening and smoking cessation research - please feel free to email me
