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8.30am Registration
9.00am-9.45am
Stroke in the Post Post-Code Lottery Era – Dr Alan Davis, Geriatrician and Stroke Physician, Northland DHB; Chair, NZ National Stroke Network; Clinical Advisor for Stroke to the Ministry of Health
9.45am-10.30am
Clinical Update: Heart Failure in the Elderly – Dr Raewyn Fisher
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
Developing a Ward Based Acute Care of the Elderly Service in Scotland and Whangarei – Dr Vic Henderson, Geriatrician
1.40pm-2.20pm
Decreasing Polypharmacy and Reducing the Anticholinergic Burden - Peter Tizard, Lead Pharmacist Acute Care of the Elderly Service Whangarei Hospital
2.20pm-3.00pm
Rheumatic Diseases in Elderly – Dr Sanjib Ghosh, Consultant Rheumatologist
3.00pm-3.20pm Afternoon Tea Break
3.20pm - 3.30pm
Co-Producing a Māori Centered Dementia Service – Dr Juanita Pascual, Consultant Geriatrician, Whangarei Hospital
3.30pm-3.45pm
Chris Hutchinson - A Tribute ~ Dr Frazer Anderson, Consultant Geriatrician, Whangarei Hospital
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