2022 ANZSGM Virtual ASM – Preliminary Program now available

We are excited to update you on the 2022 ANZSGM Annual Scientific Meeting, to be held from 8 to 10 June 2022. This year’s ASM will be be held virtually due to the current COVID situation and we look forward to engaging and connecting with as many of our members as possible in this new format which has allowed us to expand the programme and access scientific content and resources for a longer time frame following the conference dates.

The Preliminary Program is now available to view on the conference website here. 

Please continue to check this program page where updates will be posted when the program has been finalised.

Through this year’s virtual event format we are pleased to announce that we will now have two international keynote speakers, Prof Matteo Cesari and Prof Bruno Vellas, in addition to our two renowned Australasian speakers, Prof Joe Ibrahim and Dr Michal Boyd.

We have a fantastic scientific program featuring incredible international and local speakers with engaging presentations and live Q&A sessions, with the program recordings and on-demand content being available for six months after the conference. 

The ASM theme this year is “Golden Jubilee; Redefining Geriatric Giants”. 2022 marks 50 years of the ANZSGM and provides an excellent opportunity to reflect on how our knowledge, technology, service demands and provisions have changed over the last 50 years, and in turn, how these impact on our future as clinicians, advocates and organisations. Our speakers will discuss and challenge approaches to our core business, the Geriatric Giants, and introduce new concepts including cognitive frailty and global approaches to providing systematic geriatric care. We will review the roll out of the recommendations from the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety and have updates on COVID-19 and Voluntary Assisted Dying. With a view to the future and diversity of our expanding specialty, we will hear from Perioperative and Geriatric Oncology specialists, in addition to a plenary session on Indigenous health and ageing.

We look forward to you joining us online in June 2022.

Dr Fiona Connelly
2022 Conference Convenor