Day 2 | Session 5 | Concurrent | Gynaecology - pearls of wisdom
Tubo Ovarian Abscess management: new guideline from Te Whatu Ora - Counties Manukau based on TOAST (Tubo Ovarian Abscess Study)
Current and up to date management of Tubo Ovarian Abscess (TOA) supported by local research.
Dr Anna-Marie Van der Merwe
Obstetrician and Gynaecologist
Te Whatu Ora - Counties Manukau
Anna-Marie Van der Merwe, MBChB, FRANZCOG, completed her medical training at the University of Pretoria, South Africa in 2000 and worked at Hillingdon Hospital and Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital, London in Obstetrics and Gynaecology.She moved to New Zealand in 2006 and undertook her post-graduate training in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Waikato and Counties Manukau DHB.
Anna completed her fellowship in gynaecological laparoscopy and minimal access surgery at SAGE (South Auckland Gynaecology Endoscopy unit) and was awarded an AGES (Australasian Gynaecological Endoscopy & Surgery) Fellowship qualification in 2014.
Her special interests include laparoscopic and minimal access surgery, pelvic pain, colposcopy and endometriosis. She is currently working as an Endometriosis Surgeon at Te Whatu Ora - Counties Manukau in South Auckland. She is also a Director at Ascot Central Women’s Clinic, a busy private practice.
Vulval conditions – beyond VIN/LS
Dermatologist tips on diagnosis of less common skin conditions of the vulva.
Dr Harriet Kennedy
Dermatologist
Auckland City Hospital
Dr Kennedy is a dermatologist in Auckland with special interest in vulval skin conditions and contact allergy. She is a fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and the New Zealand Dermatological Society and an honorary fellow of the Australasian College of Dermatologists. She is the current editor in chief of the Australasian Journal of Dermatology.
Evaluating new technology for use in clinical practice
Achieving responsible surgical innovation relies on good clinical reasoning that aligns with doctors' professional obligations. Clinical decisions involving novel technologies and techniques, like vNOTES, must be rationally justified based on evidence and peer professional practice.Confidence-based Surgical Innovation is a step-by-step framework that guides doctors on how to reason well about surgical innovation in the clinical setting. Here, it is applied to vNOTES to demonstrate how this technology can be introduced responsibly.
Dr Naomi Holbeach
Clinician, Clinical Educator and Research
Melbourne Medical School
Dr Naomi Holbeach is an Obstetrician and Gynaecologist based in Melbourne, Australia. She holds dual qualifications in law and medicine and a PhD in bioethics. Her thesis developed a novel framework for assessing surgical innovation for use in clinical practice.
She is the Academic Coordinator for Learning and Teaching in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynaecology, and Newborn Health at the University of Melbourne.
She is also a mother of four children and two Samoyeds.