CLINICAL STREAM
Pancreatitis:
- Recent changes to the management algorithms of patients with acute pancreatitis such as the importance of intravenous fluid resuscitation and timing of enteral feeding in addition to covering genetic predisposition looking particularly at cystic fibrosis
- Pancreatic diabetes, its identification and specific management
- An overview of the management of pancreatic duct stones in the era of digital SpyGlass, direct pancreatoscopy and ESWL
- Criteria for diagnosis of the 3 subsets of autoimmune pancreatitis
- Step up approach to the management of walled off pancreatic necrosis with a focus on minimally invasive techniques
Pancreatic adenocarcinoma:
- Screening guidelines update
- Review the management algorithm regarding neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy followed by restaging and surgery in selected patients. Decision-making in patients with diagnostic uncertainty of biliary versus pancreatic malignancy
- EUS-guided tissue acquisition: Personalised medicine and the role of FNA and FNB
- Current clinical research landscape in Australia including ASCEND, Masterplan, Dynamic pancreas, Oncosil, KRAS G12, PemOla trials
Pain management and Nutritional considerations in pancreatitis and pancreatic adenocarcinoma
BASIC SCIENCE STREAM
- Microbiome and the pancreas
- Stromal-tumour interactions in pancreatic cancer
- Inflammasomes, autophagy and ER stress in pancreatic disease
- Role of exosomes in pancreatic disease
DIETITIAN STREAM
- Enteric vs parenteral nutrition in severe acute pancreatitis
- Nutritional challenges in chronic pancreatitis
*Subject to change
