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Speaker presentations are linked with their sessions, where available.

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1.05pm Opening Address – Dr Geoff Robinson, Chief Medical Officer, C&CDHB

1.10pm Message from the President, NZHPA - Melissa Witbrock

1.30pm SIG Convenors Presentations
Title: An overview of achievements and challenges facing the SIGs.
Why should YOU be a member?

1.30pm Robert Buckham: DICP SIG  


1.45pm Nikki Holmes: Mental Health SIG  
here

2.00pm Simon Ogden: Compounding, Nutrition, Oncology SIG 

2.15pm Concurrent Workshops: Introduction to SIGs.
a) Drug Information and Clinical Pharmacy SIG is sponsored by Roche
Speakers: Dianne Wright
here  & Pam Buffery  here

b) Mental Health SIG
Speakers: Nikki Holmes 
& Helen Dunn here

c) Compounding, Nutrition and Oncology SIG
Speakers: Professor Gil Hardy and Mel Davis, Managing Director, Mel Davis & Associates 


ORAL COMMUNICATIONS
Session 1: Pharmacy Practice 
3.45pm a) Developing research skills within a hospital pharmacy department - a
mentoring role undertaken by a pharmacy practice research group (PPRG)
Speaker: Kim Brackley  
here

4.00pm
b) Do I need Ethics? Speaker: Alison Forbes  
here

4.15pm
c) The Experience of Adults Administering Medication via Gastrostomy
Speaker: Lorraine Welman  
here

4.30pm
d) Quality of information about medication at the time of discharge
Speaker: Brijul Morar
here

4.45pm
e) Perscribing of medicines via enteral feeding lines
Speaker: Tamsin Roper  
here

Session 2: Medicines Management 
3.45pm
a) Investigating Electronic Discharge Summary (EDS) Errors at Auckland
District Health Board (ADHB)
Speaker: Nirasha Parsotam  
here

4.00pm
b) Medication Reconciliation (MR) Safety Programme at Counties Manukau DHB (CMDHB)
Speaker: Lejla Brkic  
here

4.15pm
c) Microbiology and outcomes of peritoneal dialysis peritonitis at Middlemore Hospital
Speaker: Sanja Mirkov

4.30pm
d) 15 years on - are we still chemically restraining our elders?
Speaker: Marilyn Tucker

Session 3: Pharmacy Practice 
3.45pm
a) A peer review recommended resource list for Medicines Information in New Zealand
Speaker: Robert Buckham 
here

4.00pm
b) The impact of PHARMAC’s ‘Price Management’ on hospital pharmaceutical
expenditure and the availability of medicines in New Zealand hospitals.
Speaker: June Tordoff  
here

4.15pm
c) Documenting pharmacist’s clinical interventions in New Zealand hospitals
Speaker: Radhika Sandilya
here 

4.30pm
d) Compliance attitudes and behaviour
Speaker: Natalie Gauld

Session 4: Clinical Pharmacy and Research 
3.45pm
a) Is the clearance of free-phenytoin reduced in the elderly?
Speaker: Daniel Wright  
here

4.00pm
b) Estimating risk from underpowered, but statistically significant, studies?
Speaker: Prof Stephen Duffull

4.15pm
c) Thiopurine methyltransferase (TMPT) and Thiopurine dose in inflammatory bowel disease
Speaker: Sharon Gardiner

4.30pm
d) Medication Care Program Pilot Project - Continuum of Clinical Pharmacist Care
from Inpatient to Community at the National Burns Centre
Speaker: Jerome Ng

4.45pm
e) The elimination of red blood cell methotrexate polyglutamates in patients with
rheumatoid arthritis
Speaker: Judith Dalrymple  
here


Saturday 29 September

9.00am Keynote Lecture: “From Petty Officer to Captain”
Speaker: Professor Peter Noyce  here

10.00am Plenary Session: Update on new technician qualifications
Speaker: Jane Watson-Baker  
here

11.00am Panel Discussion: “What can your organisation do to shape the future of
the pharmacy profession?”
Panelists: Andrew Orange, Chair Person; Anne Privett
here, PSNZ; Andi Shirtcliffe here, Pharmacy Council of NZ; Maree Jensen  here, PITO; Bernie McKone, NZCP;
Prof Stephen Duffull, University of Otago 

11.45am Plenary Session: DHBNZ Safe and Quality Use of Medicines
Group (DHBNZSQM) Update is sponsored by ibahealth
Speaker: Dr Tim Maling  
here


1.15pm Plenary Session: “Getting the Chemistry Right.”
Speaker: Pat Armitstead  
here

ORAL COMMUNICATIONS

Session 5: Medicines Management 
2.15pm
a) Medicines reconciliation errors - who is top of the class?
Speaker: Priya Pratapsingh
here 

2.30pm
b) An audit of IV bisphosphonate usage in Oncology at Christchurch Hospital
Speaker: Gareth Frew

2.45pm
c) The not-so-chilly bins!
Speaker: Dallas Murie  
here

3.00pm
d) Power in the Palm of your hand.
Speaker: Rob Ticehurst  
here

3.15pm
e) An Audit on monitoring of metabolic parameters in Mental Health Inpatients.
Speaker: Guna Sekaran Kanniah  
here

Session 6: Clinical Pharmacy 
2.15pm
a) Audit of Medication Omissions Preoperatively in Elective Surgery
Patients at Auckland District Health Board
Speaker: Sarah Roberts  
here

2.30pm
b) Bleeding associated with enoxaparin in patients treated for
non-ST-elevation acute coronary syndrome at Dunedin Hospital
Speaker: Hesham Al-Sallami

2.45pm
c) Congenital Toxoplasmosis:’A Pharmacist’s Involvement in a treatment
plan from birth to 1 year’
Speaker: Jenny Crawford  
here

3.00pm
d) Clinical screening of scripts in the dispensary – a validation scheme
Speaker: Kim Brackley  


3.15pm
e) Improving patient acceptability of extemporaneously compounded liquid formulations
Speaker: Darren Svirskis  
here

Session 7: Medicines Management
2.15pm
a) Education and follow up: Key to Osteoporosis treatment
Speaker: Dr. Alka Garg 
here

2.30pm
b) Evaluation of the use of analgesia stickers to improve pain control in
surgical patients at Auckland District Health Board (ADHB)
Speaker: Jane Lewis  
here

2.45pm
c) Oxycodone audit in Christchurch Hospital
Speaker: Paul Hallot  
here


3.00pm
d) Formalising Formulary Feedback
Speaker: Reena Chauhan

3.15pm
e) Oxycodone Use at Auckland District Health Board (ADHB)
Speaker: Adela Vidicki  here

Sunday 30 September
9.00am Keynote Lecture: “Navigating competence: beyond the flat earth,
competency icebergs and career doldrums”
Speaker: David Webb 
here

10.00am Plenary Session: The Journey of the Advanced Practitioner Pharmacist - Strait
ahead on the horizon
Speaker: Bronwyn Clark  
here 

11.00am Concurrent Workshops
a) If the cap fits, wear it - assessment against advanced frameworks for
pharmacists in England and NZ. Sponsored by Pharmacy Council of NZ
Speaker: David Webb 
here and Owain George  here

b) Lifelong learning skills
Speaker: Dianne Wright  
here

c) Basic clinical skills for medication review. Sponsored by Pharmac
Speaker: Brent Waterson
here

d) Road testing the new CPD modules for pharmacy technicians
Speaker: Jane Watson-Baker
here  and Liz Johnstone
               
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