The Annual Scientific Meeting for Leaders in Lung Health & Respiratory Science | 21 – 25 March 2025 | Adelaide Convention Centre

Postgraduate Workshops

Friday 21 March 2025

The Conference Steering Committee is pleased to provide you with a range of expertly designed post graduate workshop courses to add to your TSANZSRS ASM registration to enhance the education opportunities available whilst you are in Adelaide. Thank you to the post graduate workshop course designers and faculty for your valued contribution to the meeting with these workshops. Registered workshop delegates will have the opportunity to move between workshops during the timeslot you have registered for.

If you are already registered for the ASM and wish to add a post graduate workshop, or have any questions, contact us via email at tsanzsrs@theconferencecompany.com. If you have not yet registered for the ASM, you can sign up for post graduate workshops as part of the online registration form here.

 

Full Day Workshops	Half Day Morning	Half Day Afernoon
Interstitial lung disease: Updates for clinicians and researchers 2025	Pulmonary embolism: exPERT opinions from diagnosis to management and beyond	Modern Concepts of Pulmonary Function (Forced Oscillometry): theory, practice and clinical interpretation
It’s all about the NOMICs, Economics: Dollars and Health	Nicotine: New Challenges - New Solutions	Smoking and lung cancer
Advanced Trainees		Paediatric Bronchoscopy

 

All workshops take place on Friday 21st March 2025

Interstitial lung disease: Updates for clinicians and researchers 2025 
Time: 10am - 6pm
Format: Full Day Course
Synopsis: This course will familiarise attendees with the diagnostic workup of patients with interstitial lung disease and to provide updates on the latest developments in the management of interstitial lung disease. This course will be broadly relevant to all involved in patient care and research of interstitial lung disease. 
The course includes the following sessions:
- Diagnosis
- Management of ILD
- MDT
- Looking to the future for ILD treatment

 

It’s all about the NOMICs, Economics: Dollars and Health
Time: 10am - 6pm
Format: Full Day Course
Synopsis: This course will introduce some basic principles of health economics that will allow physicians, health care practitioners and researchers better understand the importance of health economics to clinical practice and patient access to services, therapeutics and technologies.

 

Advanced Trainees 
Time: 10am - 6pm
Format: Full Day Course
Synopsis: The workshop will cover range of topics in respiratory medicine including three segments:

• Clinical
• Practical
• Career Development

It will be run by senior respiratory physicians, senior advanced trainees, and allied health professionals. The program will provide ample opportunity to interact with the experts and ask any questions. Please register for this exciting workshop! 

 

 

 

Pulmonary embolism: exPERT opinions from diagnosis to management and beyond
Time: 10am - 1.30pm
Format: Half Day Course
Synopsis: Pulmonary embolism is a key clinical respiratory condition with frequent presentations to hospital resulting in significant morbidity and mortality. Severity can vary across a large spectrum and appropriate risk stratification will ensure a tailored management including consideration of reperfusion therapies. Pulmonary embolism response teams (PERT) are increasingly deployed to facilitate rapid multidisciplinary decision making. New catheter based reperfusion techniques have been developed recently with ongoing clinical trials. Residual dyspnoea following pulmonary embolism can be a diagnostic and management challenge. The main objective of this workshop is to provide clinical updates on best practice management of pulmonary embolism. 

 

Nicotine: New Challenges - New Solutions
Time: 10am - 1:30am
Format: Half Day Course
Synopsis: The workshop will be discussing the new and emerging nicotine products and cessation treatments that clinicians will be faced with. The workshop will also be describing the new legislation and its effects on nicotine use. 

Topics

1. Update on legislation AU and NZ, changing landscape of use
2. Pouches, shisha, multiuse and emerging products
3. Dual use exit strategy
4. Vaping exit strategy
5. Pharmacotherapy in under 18s
6. Beyond TGA – combining products- what’s the evidence
7. Social media – force for good?

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Smoking and lung cancer 
Time: 2:30pm - 6pm
Format: Half Day Course
Synopsis: With the launch of the National Lung Cancer Screening Program in July 2025, we will provide an update for clinicians on the importance of smoking and lung cancer and future directions for clinical care.

Topics

1. What are the Health and economic benefits of smoking cessation in lung cancer screening (LCS)
2. Update on international RCTs – smoking cessation in LCS
3. Update on AU RCTs – smoking cessation in LCS
4. Vaping – what is the evidence for lung cancer
5. Integrating smoking cessation into screening in Australia
6. Smoking cessation clinical practice in the lung cancer journey
7. Primary care perspectives – identifying and treating nicotine addiction.

 

Modern Concepts of Pulmonary Function (Forced Oscillometry): theory, practice and clinical interpretation
Time: 2.30pm - 6pm
Format: Half Day Course
Synopsis: Oscillometry measures the mechanical properties of the respiratory system during quiet tidal breathing. These measurements are effort independent with makes them particularly suited in a paediatric setting. FOT may allow for early detections of lung functions impairments. This workshop will cover the theoretical and practical aspects as well as clinical interpretation of FOT, for use in clinical settings and research environments. 

 

Paediatric Bronchoscopy
Time: 2.30pm - 6pm
Format: Half Day Course
Synopsis: The workshop is aimed at giving postgraduate paediatric trainees an exposure to flexible bronchoscopy and its uses ranging from diagnostic to therapeutics including normal airway anatomy, diagnosing vascular rings on bronchoscopy, difficult intubations, Trache-oesophageal fistulas, use in PICU, foreign body removal and use of cryoprobes.