Join us for the ninth Australian and New Zealand Anaesthetic Allergy Group (ANZAAG) conference.
The theme of this virtual conference is “Challenging Anaphylaxis”.
The symposium, followed by an open forum session will be held virtually on
Saturday 11 September 2021. For those wishing to travel and participate in person we
will be hosting a watch party at Royal North Shore Hospital.
Our invited overseas speakers are Associate Professor Lene Garvey and Dr Louise Savic presenting on
challenges and research from Europe.
Content from the meeting will continue to be available to all registered delegates until
September 2022. If you unable to attend on the day, we will be accepting registrations for
three months after the meeting.
I look forward to welcoming you to the symposium.
Dr Ben Krupowicz
Convenor
2021 ANZAAG Symposium
Summary of events
Keynote Speaker: A Prof Lene Heise Garvey
Lene Heise Garvey graduated in medicine from University of Bristol in 1994, specialized in
Anaesthesiology in Denmark in 2006 and defended her PhD on “Allergic reactions during
anaesthesia and surgery” in 2010. In 2012 she obtained a Subspecialization in Allergology.
She is co-founder and head of the Danish Anaesthesia Allergy Centre, the National Reference
Centre for investigation of perioperative hypersensitivity in Denmark, established in 1999.
She shares her time between a position as Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen
and working as a consultant in the Allergy Clinic, where she sees patients in both General
Allergy and Perioperative Allergy Clinics. She is a Board Member of the Danish Society of
Allergology and the Drug Allergy Interest Group in EAACI and an active member of several
EAACI task forces currently including Drug Provocation testing and Anaphylaxis guidelines.
Her research interests include diagnosis, treatment and mechanisms of anaphylaxis, all
aspects of perioperative hypersensitivity, allergy to chlorhexidine and other rare allergens,
and drug allergy in general, with a special focus on risk stratification in penicillin allergy.
Keynote Speaker: Dr Louise Savic
Dr Louise Savic is a consultant anaesthetist with a clinical and research
interest in drug allergy. She is the lead for perioperative anaphylaxis in Leeds
Teaching Hospitals, and provides anaesthetic input for a regional anaesthetic
allergy clinic. She performs high risk challenge testing to drugs including
neuromuscular blocking agents, and also sees general drug allergy patients. Dr
Savic’s research interests include teicoplanin allergy, management and incidence
of perioperative anaphylaxis, and penicillin allergy de-labelling. She has been
awarded grants for her work from the National Institute of Academic Anaesthesia,
and was recently awarded the Royal College of Anaesthetists & NIHR prize for
clinical research. She has demonstrated the effective use of an abbreviated
penicillin de-labelling pathway in surgical patients, and lead an international
group of anaesthetists and allergists in the development of consensus guidelines
for de-labelling of surgical patients. In a recent study she recruited over
26,000 surgical patients and anaesthetists to determine understanding of
penicillin allergy and the potential barriers to de-labelling. Dr Savic
currently chairs the BSACI penicillin allergy de-labelling guideline group.
Registration
The meeting is now open for registration and can be completed via the ANZCA portal.
For non-ANZCA members, please download a registration form.
CPD
This event is claimable by ANZCA CPD participants as follows:
- Knowledge and skills activities:
- Lectures - one credit per hour. Workshops - two credits per hour.
Participants in the ANZCA and FPM CPD Program will automatically have their
attendance accredited to their CPD portfolio within 14 days of the conclusion of
the meeting.
If you are not participating in the ANZCA and FPM CPD Program, please check with
your respective colleges regarding CPD.
Contact
For further information please contact the meeting organiser:
Sarah Chezan
Senior Events Officer
ANZCA
630 St Kilda Rd, Melbourne Australia
T: +61 3 9093 4982
E: schezan@anzca.edu.au
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