The 2023 ANZSGM Annual Scientific Meeting welcomes a dynamic line-up of speakers

This year’s ANZSGM Annual Scientific Meeting (10-12 May 2023) promises an exciting line-up of speakers across three days. It has been three years since the ASM was held as a wholly in-person meeting, and the long awaited return to a face-to-face format will no doubt make it a special event. A diverse program of 26 speakers will present plenary sessions, breakfast sessions and panel discussions and in between speakers, attendees will have opportunities to network, chat with old friends and meet new colleagues.

Under the theme of ‘Celebrating Successes and Understanding Failures’ speakers will cover clinical updates on organ failures, reflections on ‘healthy ageing’, debates about successful and not-so-successful interventions, and thoughts on health system innovations. 

This year’s keynote speakers – Professor Kenneth Rockwood and Professor Maria Fiatarone-Singh, will share their insights into successes and failures in geriatric medicine at personal, individual patient, health system and population levels.

Professor Kenneth Rockwood will present the first Plenary Session ‘Can geriatrics save medicine?’ on Day 1 and the fourth Plenary Session on Day 4  the Derek Prinsley Memorial Address ‘Brain failure: Dementia and delirium’. Kenneth is Professor of Medicine (Geriatric Medicine & Neurology) and the Kathryn Allen Weldon Professor of Alzheimer Research at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. A member of the Senior Leadership team at Nova Scotia Health, he is the inaugural lead of the Frailty & Elder Care Network. Ken has key roles on numerous studies in Canada and elsewhere.

The second Plenary Session will be presented by Professor Maria Fiatarone-Singh – the A. John Campbell Memorial Address “Targeting Optimal Ageing with Evidence-Based Exercise and Nutritional Prescriptions”. Maria’s research, clinical, and teaching career has focused on the integration of medicine, exercise physiology, and nutrition as a means to improve health status and quality of life across the lifespan. She has held the inaugural John Sutton Chair of Exercise and Sport Science in the Faculty of Health Sciences, and Professorship, Sydney Medical School, at the University of Sydney since 1999, with continuing appointment as Senior Research Associate at Harvard-Affiliate Hebrew Institute for Aging Research since 1987.

View the full program on the website here, and a full list of speaker bios can be found here.
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