ASBD 14th Scientific Meeting

PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS

Five workshops run concurrently on Thursday morning from 9:00am to 12:15pm.

Workshops are included in the registration fee for ABSD members. Please select a workshop during registration if you would like to attend one.

For non-members there is a fee of $165. Please select a workshop during registration if you would like to attend one.

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: Dawid Naude, CEO of Pathfindr.ai explores the practical applications of AI for everyday use and medical practice.
Radiation Oncology: Prof Philip Poortmans and Dr Orit Kaidar-Person share the latest developments in radiation therapy, with a focus on personalising treatment protocols.
Perforator Flap Workshop
Dr Ashutosh Kothari

This workshop is designed for surgeons who are beginning to incorporate, or are looking to expand their use of, chest wall perforator flaps in clinical practice. It is also well suited to those wishing to refine their technical skills in this evolving technique.

The program will cover key anatomical considerations, indications for use, and the various types of flaps—including LICAP, LTAP, AICAP and MICAP. Practical insights, technical tips and tricks, common pitfalls, and challenging cases will also be included.

The workshop will feature Dr Ashutosh Kothari, Consultant Breast Surgeon at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital, London, as our international surgical speaker, alongside experienced faculty members from Australia and New Zealand.

There is no additional fee to attend this workshop. Entry is included in the main conference registration; however, early registration is recommended to secure your attendance.

Communication
Hearsay: Have you ever said that? An interactive workshop
Professor Dame Lesley Fallowfield
Working with patients who have advanced breast cancer can be challenging; clinicians often have to relay lots of complex and potentially distressing information to stressed patients, in pressurised clinics.

The dynamics within clinical settings maybe affected by a multitude of issues that can influence communication both positively and negatively. Pitching the dialogue correctly in terms of content or tone is not always easy. What one patient might view as empathic and reassuring another might view as patronising and less than candid. Sometimes patients have been seen and received conflicting information from other colleagues which can cause further confusion. Additionally, some HCPs experience quite powerful emotional reactions themselves - they may have built up relationships with their patients over several years, from primary to advanced disease so they too are affected by clinical outcomes.

In this workshop we will explore via video verbatims what patients with MBC have told us that HCPs said to them about issues as their diagnosis, prognosis and management options and what was seen as useful and supportive or contradictory and unhelpful. We will ask a panel of healthcare professionals to consider if they have ever said similar things and with the audience, discuss how one might salvage or rectify the situation.

Further details about all workshops will be available in early 2025.

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