SAMA CONFERENCE | EXHIBITION
ANNUAL DOCTOR´S AWARDS 2015
18 - 20 September 2015 | SANDTON CONVENTION CENTRE
ANNUAL DOCTOR´S AWARDS 2015
18 - 20 September 2015 | SANDTON CONVENTION CENTRE
Conference Programme
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| FRIDAY 18 September | ||||||
| TIME | PRESENTATION TOPIC | SPEAKER | BIO | PRESENTATION | VIDEO | |
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| 09:30 - 10:30 | REGISTRATION IN EXHIBITION AREA | |||||
| SESSION 1: END OF LIFE DECISIONS | ||||||
| 10:30 - 10:45 | Welcome and Opening | Dr. Mzukisi Grootboom, SAMA Chairperson |
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| 10:45 - 11:45 | Honorable Minister of Health | Dr. Aaron Motsoaledi | Watch | |||
| 11:45 - 12:45 | Palliative care: Living in fear, dying in despair: How can we help? | Dr. Liz Gwyther | View BIO | View Presentation | Watch | |
| 12:45 - 13:05 | Physician - assisted dying: legal & ethical issues | Dr. Melodie Slabbert | View BIO | View Presentation | Watch | |
| 13:05 - 13:25 | Euthanasia: Policy and Ethics | Prof. Ames Dhai | View BIO | View Presentation | Watch | |
| 13:25 - 13:45 | Panel Discussion | |||||
| 13:45 - 14:15 | LUNCH | |||||
| SESSION 2: IN-HOSPITAL CARE | ||||||
| 14:15 - 14:45 | The development of SA family medicine | Dr Shadrick Mazaza | View BIO | View Presentation | Watch | |
| 14:45 - 15:15 | Hypertension challenges at the coalface | Prof. Yosuf Veriava | View BIO | View Presentation | Watch | |
| 15:15 - 15:45 | Pathology Testing - assisting the clinician wasting resources | Prof. WJH Vermaak | View BIO | View Presentation | Watch | |
| 15:45 - 16:00 | TEA BREAK IN EXHIBITION AREA | |||||
| SESSION 3: NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES | ||||||
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Diabetes - tight glycaemic control vs routine therapy | Dr. F. Kgongwana | View BIO | View Presentation | Watch | |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Depression: the forgotten epidemic | Prof. S. Rataemane | View BIO | View Presentation | Watch | |
| 17:00 - 17:45 | Heartburn - Pyrosis | Prof. O Mwantembe | View BIO | View Presentation | Watch | |
| 17:45 - 18:30 | HIV Issues | Dr. Nono Simelela | View BIO | View Presentation | Watch | |
| 18:30 - 18:45 | SUMMARY AND CLOSING DAY 1 | |||||
| SATURDAY 19 September | ||||||
| TIME | PRESENTATION TOPIC | SPEAKER | BIO | PRESENTATION | VIDEO | |
| 07:00 | Registration open | |||||
| SESSION 4: SAMA TRADE UNION - IT'S ROLE AND FUNCTION FOR PUBLIC SECTOR DOCTORS | ||||||
| 08:00 - 08:45 | Trade Union's Responsibilities towards its members - employment rights, protection and enforcement perspective. |
Adv. Daniel Madiba | View BIO | View Presentation | Watch | |
| 08:45 - 9:30 | The NHI model, how it relates to finance and how will it affect both private and public service medical practitioners |
Dr. Aquina Thulare | View BIO | View Presentation | Watch | |
| 09:30 - 10:15 | TB & HIV: The terrible twins | Prof. Yusuf Moosa | View BIO | View Presentation | Watch | |
| 10:15 - 10:30 | TEA BREAK IN EXHIBITION AREA | |||||
| SESSION 5: SAMA PRIVATE PRACTICE DEPARTMENT - SUPPORTING THE PRIVATE PRACTITIONER | ||||||
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Health and wellness in the present day GP practice | Dr. Johan Van Zyl | View BIO | View Presentation | Watch | |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | The epidemiology of Ischaemic Heart Disease in SA | Dr. Makoali Makotoko | View BIO | View Presentation | Watch | |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Understanding ICD 10 codes/ procedure codes, Billing systems and Medical Aid | Leonie Maritz | View BIO | View Presentation | Watch | |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | LUNCH | |||||
| SESSION 6: ETHICAL AND LEGAL REQUIREMENTS - THE EFFECT ON CLINICAL PRACTICE | ||||||
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Informed Financial Consent | Dr. M. Kwinda | View BIO | View Presentation | ||
| 13:30 - 14:30 | Medical Aid Fraud: the Ethical and Legal Principles | Dr. Bobby Ramasia: Bonita's | View BIO | View Presentation | Watch | |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Healthcare Professionals: Social Media & Ethics | Marli Smit | View BIO | View Presentation | Watch | |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | TEA BREAK IN EXHIBITION AREA | |||||
| SESSION 7: CLINICAL | ||||||
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Creatine monohydrate as supplement | Dr. Johann Van Der Merwe | View BIO | View Presentation | Watch | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Obesity - the growing epidemic | Prof. Tessa Van Der Merwe | View BIO | View Presentation | Watch | |
| 16:30 - 17:15 | Women's health and the Clinician | Prof. Gerhard Lindeque | View BIO | View Presentation | Watch | |
| 17:15 - 18:00 | Multimorbidity and Sexual Dysfunction | Dr. P. Ramlachan | View BIO | View Presentation | Watch | |
| 18:00 - 18:15 | SUMMARY AND CLOSING DAY 2 | |||||
| 19:00 - 24:00 | SAMA-BONITAS HOUSECALL DOCTORS AWARDS 2015 | |||||
| SUNDAY 20 September | ||||||
| TIME | PRESENTATION TOPIC | SPEAKER | BIO | PRESENTATION | VIDEO | |
| 07:00 | Registration open | |||||
| SESSION 8: CLINICAL AND ETHICAL DILLEMA´S | ||||||
| 08:00 - 09:00 | Ethical Issues of Prescribing and remaining abreast of pharmaceutial developments | Dr. Haseena Gani | View Presentation | Watch | ||
| 09:00 - 10:00 | Biologicals - cost or benefit - ethical dilemma | Dr. J. Makkink | View BIO | View Presentation | Watch | |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Expanded Approach to Palliative Care | Dr. Soji Soogun | View BIO | View Presentation | Watch | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | TEA BREAK IN EXHIBITION AREA | |||||
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Financial management (debitors and creditors control, budgeting) | Werner Swanepoel CA (SA), RA | View BIO | View Presentation | Watch | |
| 12:00 - 12:45 | Understanding supersession | Julian Botha | View BIO | View Presentation | Watch | |
| 12:45 - 13:30 | Taxation and the Doctor | Hassen Kajie | View BIO | View Presentation | Watch | |
| CLOSING | ||||||
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Highlights/Resolution | Prof. Mazwai | ||||
| 14:00 - 14:15 | Vote of thanks and Close of Conference | Dr. Mzukisi Grootboom, SAMA Chairperson |
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| 14:15 - 15:00 | LUNCH & DEPARTURE | |||||