Centre for Peripheral Artery Disease Colloquium

Friday 23 August 2024
Venue: Michael Spence Building Auditorium, USYD

Overview of draft agenda below. Full agenda to come.

8:15-8:30am - Registration + coffee

8:30-8:45am - Welcome

• Associate Professor Boe Rambaldini (Uncle Boe) - Acknowledgement of country
  
• Sophie Scott - Opening
• Professor Andrew Coats - Welcome and introduction to the Centre for PAD

8:45-10:30am - Session I: Introduction, including keynotes

• Patient stories about their experiences with PAD treatment, highlighting challenges and successes
  
• Professor Shirley Jansen - “Wall strain and atherosclerosis: it’s not just about the lining”
• Professor Jonathan Golledge - “Peripheral artery disease: A poorly understood disease with substantial burden”
• Ms Melissa Noonan AM from Limbs4life

10:30-11:00am - Morning tea

11:00am-1:00pm - Session II: Highlights in preclinical research

• Associate Professor Mary Kavurma - “Sex differences in diabetes-associated PAD”
• Associate Professor Christina Bursill - “Novel regulators and mechanisms of diabetes-impaired angiogenesis”
• Associate Professor Juliana Hamzah - “Beyond slowing down atherosclerotic plaque progression: can we reverse plaque blockage?”
• Professor Steve Wise - "A new combination drug to better treat PAD"
• Dr Siân Cartland (EMCR) - “A novel therapy to stimulate microvascular growth in PAD”
• Dr Sergey Tumanov (EMCR) - “An OMICs approach for deciphering differences in carotid vs femoral plaque”

1:00-1:45pm - Lunch

• ACvA PAD networking group meeting
  

1:45-3:20 Session III: Highlights in clinical research

• Professor Anthony Keech - "Clinical trials outcomes in PAD"
• Associate Professor Sarah Aitken - “Models of care that empower patients with PAD”
• Professor Christopher Askew - “Skeletal muscle microvascular impairment in PAD: a potential target for exercise therapy”
• Dr Leonard Shan (EMCR) - “Measuring quality of life in patients with chronic limb-threatening ischaemia”
• Dr Vadim Dedov - "Home-based exercise therapy for PAD: Research and Development"

3:20-3:50pm - Afternoon tea

3:50-5:20pm - Session IV: Gaps in knowledge

• Associate Professor Belinda Parmenter - "ACvA PAD Networking Group Update"
• Professor Gemma Figtree - “PAD vs CAD: what’s the difference?”
• Dr David Robinson - “Inequalities in PAD”
• Panel discussion by Associate Professor Belinda Parmenter, Dr Thodur Vasudevan, Ms Nanette Ferres and Associate Professor Mary Kavurma – Gaps in knowledge and future directions

5:20-5:30pm - Close by Associate Professor Mary Kavurma

5:30-6:45pm - Networking drinks

7:00-9:30pm - Speakers’ dinner