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​​​​Friday 1st May

8:30am - 9:00am In-person registration​

9:00am - 10:00am

Session 1: TB - People, patterns and ​partnerships 

​Chair: Ellen Donnan - NSW TB Program, Health Protection NSW

• Welcome to Country 
• Uncle Michael West​, Metropolitan Aboriginal Land Council
  
• TB in NSW: Uncovering trends and telling stories through data 
• Catriona Furlong, NSW TB Program, Health Protection NSW​
  
• ​Access, equity, partnerships; TB control in remote WA
• Dr Alison Keed, Infectious Diseases, Western Australia TB Control Program​
  

Session 2: Communities, culture & TB care 

​Chair: Dr Sayontonee Ghosh - Respiratory Physician, South West Sydney Local Health District

• ​Integrating psychosocial support in tuberculosis care: Contributions of Social Work 
• Emily Bradley, senior social worker, Liverpool Hospital
  
• Franc​esca Joe,  social worker, Liverpool Hospital
  
• Qualitative insights to improve TB service utilisation by the Nepali community in NSW
• Associate Professor Chris Degeling, University of Wollongong
  
• Tracing TB with missing pieces
  
• Karen Camat, TB Clinical Nurse Consultant, Western Sydney Local Health District
  
• Jennifer Pett, NSW TB Program, Health Protection NSW​ 
  

1:00pm - 2:30pm

Session 3: Complex clinical management

​Chair: Evan Ulbricht, State wide NSW TB Clinical Nurse Consultant 

• ​​When 1 becomes 3 in labour of TB
  
• Associate Professor Phil Britton, Infectious Disease Head of Department at the Childrens Hospital Westmead
  
• Unexpected faces of mycobacteria
• Dr Tim Gray, Infectious Diseases, Sydney Local Health District
  
• Relapse of TB times 3
• Associate Professor Jin-Gun Cho, Respiratory Physician, Western Sydney Local Health District
  
• TB and the Public Health Act
  
• Dr Anthea Katelaris, South Eastern Sydney Local Health District
  
• Gemma Broderick PSM​, Legal and Regulatory Services, NSW Ministry of Health
  

3:00pm - 5:00pm

Session 4: New developments in TB policy and research​

Chair: Tanya Silva, TB Clinical Nurse Consultant, Northern Sydney Local Health District

• Accelerating access: Key changes in the WHO MDR-TB guidelines 
• Profosser Greg Fox, Respiratory Physician, Sydney Local Health District & University of Sydney
  
• ANZ guideline for TDM of TB drugs: From science to practice 
  
• Profosser Jan-Willem Johannes Alffenaar, Chair of Clinical Pharmacy, Western Sydney Local Health District
  
• Why and how to engage community advisory boards in TB research: Supporting ethical, relevant, and impactful TB research
• Dr Neha Faruqui, Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Sydney 
  
• Duy Trinh Hoang, University of Sydney