2023 Australia-Asia-Pacific ERAS+ conference

We are delighted to advertise the Australia-Asia-Pacific ERAS+ conference from 26-29 October 2023 at the Park Hyatt Hotel in Melbourne, Australia.

The meeting combines two meetings into one: Prehabilitation and ERAS. The first one and a half days will be dedicated toward prehabilitation (addressing patient-related modifiable risk), and the second one and a half days will be dedicated toward ERAS (reducing variability in clinical care), thereby forming the interdependent ERAS+ that strives to improve patient outcomes after surgery.

This easily accessible meeting aims to provide shared learning across this region of the world, with opportunity for interaction with perioperative clinicians, including anaesthetists, surgeons, nurses, and allied health practitioners from Australia and Asia-Pacific countries, and to leverage international expertise in prehabilitation and ERAS from Canada, Europe, and the United Kingdom.

The program will be interactive: plenary lectures, pro/con debates, and breakout sessions. The meeting will also host three Master Class Workshops on Thursday (26 October) morning before the conference. These include a primer workshop in cardiopulmonary exercise testing, an ERAS educational course, and a wound healing workshop.

The program hosts several prominent speakers, including:

• International experts in prehabilitation: Professor Mike Grocott, Professor Sandy Jack (UK), Dr John Moore, and A/Professor Malcolm West (UK), and Professor Ismail Gögenur (Denmark), and Professor Bernhard Riedel, Professor Linda Denehy, Dr Ianthe Boden, A/Professor Nicole Kiss, A/Prof Daniel Steffens and Dr Hilmy Ismail (Australia).
• International experts in ERAS: Dr Hans de Boer (ERAS President, Holland), Professor Ketan Dhatariya (UK), Dr Kwang Yeong How and Dr Vera Lim (Singapore), Professor Olle Ljunqvist (Sweden), Professor Greg Nelson (Canada), Ms Catherine Sinton and Dr Georgina Christelis (Australia)
• Expertise from Asia-Pacific: Professor Aoyama (Japan), Dr Shu Lin Guo (Taiwan), Professor Verut Lohsiriwat (Thailand), and Dr Marriana Sioson (Philippines).
• Australian Surgical Expertise in Value-Based Health Care: Professor David Watters from Safer Care Victoria, Professor Christobel Saunders, AO, James Stuart Chair of Surgery, University of Melbourne.
• State government and hospital executive expertise: Ms Ellen Rawstron (NSW), Professor Ben Thomson and Ms Naomi Bromley (Vic), and Professor Shelley Dolan (Hospital Executive).
• Frontline Clinicians (allied health, medical, nursing): Who are willing to share their expertise on implementing and delivering high-quality Prehabilitation and ERAS

Local convenors:
Professor Bernhard Riedel
Dr Hilmy Ismail and Professor Linda Denehy (Prehabilitation)
Dr Georgina Christelis (ERAS).

In association with:
International Prehabilitation Society®
ERAS Society®
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre