Program
**All program timings are subject to change **
| Day 1 – Friday 29 August 2025 | ||||
| 7:00 AM | Registration & Arrival Tea and Coffee | |||
| 7:30 AM – 8:30 AM | Industry Breakfast Symposia 1 | |||
| 9:00 AM – 9:30 AM | Opening Remarks & Welcome to Country | |||
| 9:30 AM – 10:15 AM | Plenary Session 1: International Keynote Address | |||
| Semaglutide for alcohol use disorder Dr Lorenzo Leggio |
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| 10:15 AM – 10:30 AM | Morning Tea | |||
| 10:45 AM – 11:30 AM | Plenary Session 2: Artificial Intelligence in medicine | |||
| Prof Ian Scott | ||||
| 11:30 AM – 12:45 PM | Workshop 1: Treatment of alcohol use disorders | Workshop 2: Practical workshop session | Workshop 3: Practical workshop session | Workshop 4: Clinical conundrums (case based situations) |
| Facilitator: Dr Lorenzo Leggio | Topic to be advised | Topic to be advised | ||
| 12:45 PM – 2:15 PM | Lunch | |||
| 12:45 PM – 1:45 PM | RACGP member meeting | |||
| 12:45 PM – 1:45 PM | RANZCP member meeting | |||
| 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM | Concurrent Symposia Session 1 |
Concurrent Symposia Session 2 | Concurrent Symposia Session 3 | Concurrent Session 4: Oral Abstract Presentations |
| Prof Kate Conigrave – Alcohol and Indigenous health | Dr Jonathan Brett – Psychedelics in methamphetamine use disorder | Dr Shawn Goldberg – Burnout, compassion fatigue and self-care | Call for Abstracts now open! Abstracts |
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| Matt Craig – Alcohol pricing and taxation | Dr Buddhima Lokuge – Transcranial magnetic stimulation in substance use disorder | Mr Jack Nagle – Lived experience | ||
| Prof Elizabeth Elliot – FASD | Additional speakers to be announced shortly | Dr Susannah Ward – Practitioner wellbeing | ||
| Prof Paul Haber and Dr Chris Davis – Alcohol withdrawal in different contexts | ||||
| 3:30 PM – 4:00 PM | Afternoon Tea | |||
| 4:00 PM – 4:45 PM | Plenary Session 3: Keynote Address | |||
| Speaker and topic to be advised shortly | ||||
| 4:45 PM – 5:30 PM | Plenary Session 4: Keynote Address | |||
| Maori perspectives in addiction treatment Vicki McFarlane |
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| 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM | Welcome Reception Exhibition, ICC Sydney | |||
| Day 2 – Saturday 30 August 2025 | ||||
| 7:00 AM | Registration & Arrival Tea and Coffee | |||
| 7:30 AM – 8:30 AM | Industry Breakfast Symposia 2 | |||
| 9:00 AM – 9:15 AM | Reflection of Day 1 and Plan for Day 2 | |||
| 9:15 AM – 10:00 AM | Plenary Session 5: International Keynote Address | |||
| Mobile care vans for addictions treatment Dr Kathleen Page |
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| 10:00 AM – 10:45 AM | Plenary Session 6: Keynote Address | |||
| Review of outcomes of the legalisation of cannabis in Canada and how this might influence health policy in Australia Dr Janni Leung |
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| 10:45 AM – 11:15 AM | Morning Tea | |||
| 11:15 AM – 12:30 PM | Workshop 5: Broadening the basis of treatment for addictive disorders | Workshop 6: Topic to be advised | Workshop 7: Topic to be advised | Panel Session 1: Working effectively with First Nations people |
| Facilitator: Dr Kathleen Page | ||||
| 12:30 PM – 1:45 PM | Lunch Break | |||
| 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM | RACP member meeting | |||
| 1:45 PM | Concurrent Symposia Session 5 | Concurrent Symposia Session 6 | Concurrent Symposia Session 7 | Concurrent Session 8: Oral award presentations |
| Dr Mark Hardy – Nitazenes | Dr Apo Dermirkol – Drug and alcohol issues in older people | Vicky Cock – Mobile outreach AOD clinic for homeless Indigenous population | Recipients of the RANZCP Faculty of Addiction awards and the RACP Nghi Phung Research Project prize. | |
| 2:15 PM | Dr Chris Holmwood – Palliative care and opioid dependence | Rose McCrohan – Substances use in pregnancy and new mothers | Dr Marianne Jauncey – Safe consumption rooms and substance safety checking | Oral abstract presentations |
| Prof Nicholas Lintzeris – Update on long acting buprenorphine | Prof Edward Ogden PSM – Drink/ Drug driving and driving assessments | Additional speakers to be announced shortly | Call for Abstracts now open! Abstracts |
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| Craig Rogers – Injectable hydromorphone trial | Additional speakers to be announced shortly | |||
| 3:15 PM – 3:45 PM | Afternoon Tea | |||
| 3:45 PM – 5:00 PM | Workshop 8: Australian outcomes following legalisation of cannabis in Canada | Workshop 9: Clinical conundrums: case based situations | Workshop 10: Topic to be advised | Concurrent Session 11: Oral abstract presentations |
| Call for Abstracts now open! Abstracts
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| 5:00 PM – 5:30 PM | Wrap up of Day 2 | |||
| 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM | Sunset Cruise | |||
| Day 3 – Sunday 31 August 2025 | ||||
| 7:00 AM | Registration & Arrival Tea and Coffee | |||
| 7:30 AM – 8:30 AM | Industry Breakfast Symposia 3 | |||
| 9:00 AM – 9:15 AM | Reflection of Day 2 and Plan for Day 3 | |||
| 9:15 AM – 10:00 AM | Plenary Session 7: Keynote Address | |||
| Speaker to be advised shortly | ||||
| 10:00 AM – 10:45 AM | Plenary Session 8: Keynote Address | |||
| Neurodiversity and OAD Eddie Mullen |
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| 10:45 AM – 11:15 AM | Morning Tea | |||
| 11:15 AM – 12:00 PM | Plenay Session 9: RACP Caughey Lecture & Closing Remarks | |||
| 2025 RACP Caughey Lecture Jeremy Hayllar |
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| 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM | Closing Remarks | |||
| 12:30 PM | Conference Close | |||
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