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8.30am Registration

9.00am-9.45am

• Peri-Operative Medicine Services for Delirium Prevention –  Dr Frazer Anderson, Consultant Geriatrician 

9.45am-10.30am

• ​Clinical Update: Heart Failure in the Elderly –  Dr Raewyn Fisher, Consultant Cardiologist

10.30am-11.00am Morning Tea Break

11.00am-12.00pm

• Guest Lecture: Older Māori and Aged Residential Care in Aotearoa - Professor Ngaire Kerse, Joyce Cook Chair in Ageing Well, University of Auckland 

12.00pm - 1.00pm Lunch Break

1.00pm-1.40pm 

• Decreasing Polypharmacy and Reducing the Anticholinergic Burden - Peter Tizzard, Lead Pharmacist Acute Care of the Elderly Service Whangarei Hospital

1.40pm-2.20pm 

• Developing a Ward Based Acute Care of the Elderly Service in Scotland and Whangarei –  Dr Vic Henderson, Geriatrician 

2.20pm-3.00pm

• ​ Clinical Update: Rheumatology – Dr Sanjib Ghosh, Consultant Rheumatologist ​

3.00pm-3.20pm Afternoon Tea Break

3.20pm - 3.45pm 

• Co-Producing a Māori Centered Dementia Service – Dr Juanita Pascual, Consultant Geriatrician 

3.45pm-4.45pm

• Guest Lecture: The Māori Experience of Dementia and the Development of an Assessment Tool and App for Māori - Dr Makarena Dudley, Lecturer in Psychology, University of Auckland
  

7.00pm - 10.00pm Dinner at Charlotte's Kitchen, Paihia