Previous Webinars

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2024 Webinar Series – Session #3
Malignant prognostication for VAD

20 November 2024

The final in our 2024 webinar series, exclusively for members.

  • How do you approach prognostication when treatments might prolong life?
  • What tools or resources can help with prognostication?
  • What markers or specific changes should you be looking for that might indicate a <6/12 month prognosis?

Explore these issues and more in this one-hour webinar on malignant prognostication.

With thanks to our Host Dr David Shap, a GP and VAD practitioner from Victoria, Dr David Speakman, a practicing clinician working in the Breast and Melanoma and Skin services at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Dr Belinda Kiely, a medical oncologist and senior lecturer at the University of Sydney, and Dr Matthew Wright, a clinical, transplant and laboratory haematologist at Fiona Stanley Hospital, Perth.

Many thanks also to Susan Jury for leading the organisation of the 2024 webinar series.

2024 Webinar Series – Session #1
Non-malignant prognostication for VAD

13 June 2024

 

Explore how VAD clinicians approach prognostication in non-malignant presentations such as neurological, respiratory, renal and other, less common conditions.

With thanks to our Host Dr Harriet Beevor, Consultant anaesthetist, Victoria and panelists Dr Peter Allcroft, Clinical Lead for the Statewide Palliative Care Network for SA and a Clinical Advisory for VAD for the SA Department of Health, Dr Margaret Fraenkel, Consultant renal and general physician in Victoria and Emeritus Professor Dr John Willoughby, Consultant neurologist and academic in South Australia.