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| Sunday 5 October 2008 – Day 1 – morning |
| 07h00 - 08h00 | Breakfast Symposium (A): Sponsored by Sanofi-Aventis
T de Villiers: Osteoporosis: To treat or not to treat? |
| 07h00 - 08h00 | Breakfast Symposium (B): Sponsored by Merc Serono
G Trew:
An update on Ovarian Stimulation Protocols |
| Plenary Session |
| 08.15-08.45 | P van Look: Birth rates, replacement rates, mortality rates: what’s happening with the world’s population? |
| 08.45-09.15 | M Stanley: HPV vaccination: how and why does it work? |
| 09.15-09.45 | S Arulkumaran: Advances in intrapartum fetal surveillance |
| 09.45-10.00 | Discussion time |
| 10.00-10.30 | Tea |
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| Parallel A: Obstetrics – the national agenda |
| 10.30-10.50 | P van Look: Pregnancy care, maternal mortality and morbidity |
| 10.50-11.10 | J McIntyre: HIV – inside the epidemic |
| 11.10-11.30 | S Fawcus: The challenge of obstetric haemorrhage |
| 11.30-11.50 | DW Steyn: Long-term maternal outcome in women with previous pre-eclampsia |
| 11.50-12.05 | Q Losper: Total perinatal related losses in the Tygerberg sub-district, Cape Town |
| 12.05-12.20 | K O’Callaghan: A qualitative study exploring the fear of childbirth among parous women in the Cape Town public obstetric service |
| 12.20-12.30 | Discussion time |
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| Parallel B: Gynaecological oncology |
| 10.30-10.50 | G Lindeque: The role of lymphadenectomy in the management of endometrial carcinoma
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| 10.50-11.10 | R Soeters: Update on modern management of ovarian cancer
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| 11.10-11.30 | G Dreyer: Hereditary cancers in gynaecology oncology
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| 11.30-11.50 | M Moodley: Modern management of early cervical cancer
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| 11.50-12.05 | M Makwela: Surgical morbidity of radical hysterectomy after neo-adjuvant chemotherapy for locally advanced cervical cancer
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| 12.05-12.20 | G Lindeque: Findings at surgery for relapsed ovarian cancer: Lessons for the primary operation
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| 12.20-12.30 | Discussion time
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| Parallel C: Dilemmas in gynaecology |
| 10.30-10.50 | J Bagratee: 1st trimester volumetry of intrauterine gestations and pregnancy outcome |
| 10.50-11.10 | P Wessels: Management of uterine fibromyomas |
| 11.10-11.30 | TJ Mashamba: The management of extra-peritoneal endometriosis |
| 11.30-11.45 | J Biko: Progress in laparoscopic surgery at Kalafong district hospital |
| 11.45-12.05 | K Nance: Pap test disease detection in an urban American community hospital: A ten year review |
| 12.05-12.20 | Discussion time |
| 12.30-13.30 | Lunch |
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| Sunday 5 October 2008 – Day 1 – afternoon |
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Plenary Session
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| 13.30-14.00 | Z Alfirevic: Prevention and treatment of preterm labour
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| 14.00-14.30 | M Warren: Perspectives on HRT
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| 14.30-15.00 | ZM van der Spuy: PCOS: Challenges for long-term health
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| 15.00-15.30 | Tea
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| Parallel A: Obstetrics: State of the art (session of the Maternal-Fetal Medicine Society) |
| 15.30-15.50 | C Mclintock: Essential thrombocytosis |
| 15.50-16.10 | D Hall: Progesterone and preterm labour |
| 16.10-16.30 | L Geerts: Aneuploidy risk assessment |
| 16.30-16.50 | Lombaard: Renal biopsy in pregnancy |
| 16.50-17.05 | L Govender: Chorioamniotic membrane separation and perinatal outcome |
| 17.05-17.15 | Discussion time |
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| Parallel B: Challenges in our discipline |
| 15.30-16h30 | H Botha: Fertility preservation in women with cancer |
| 15.50-16.10 | R Makwela: Gestational trophoblastic disease |
| 16.10 - 16:30 | N Mbatani: tba |
| 16.30-16.45 | J Bagratee: Does the volume of retained products of conception and hormonal parameters influence the success of conservative management of first trimester miscarriage? |
| 16.45-17.00 | M Patel: An evaluation of the expectations and experiences of women having the routine ultrasound examination for fetal abnormalities at 22 weeks of pregnancy |
| 17.00-17.15 | S Ramphal: Laparoscopic adnexal surgery in the mid-trimester of pregnancy: usage of harmonic scalpel and left upper quadrant approach |
| 17.15-17.30 | Discussion time |
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| Parallel C: The pelvic floor revisited |
| 15.30-15.50 | S Jeffery: Overactive Bladder: When anticholinergics fail. |
| 15.50-16.10 | Frans van Wijk: Mid-urethral tape surgery gone wrong: What to do. |
| 16.10-16.30 | S Lindow: Anal sphincter injury after childbirth |
| 16.30-16.50 | H Cronje: A new look at enterocoeles |
| 16.50-17.05 | A Chrysostomou: The management of stress incontinence using transobturator tapes in a tertiary hospital in South Africa |
| 17.05-17.15 | Discussion Time |
| 17.30 | SARC/RCOG GENERAL MEETING |
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| Monday 6 October 2008 – Day 2 – morning |
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| 07h00 - 08h00 | Breakfast Symposium (A): Sponsored by Sanofi-Aventis
C McLintock: VTE thromboprophylaxis in pregnancy
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| 07h00 - 08h00 | Breakfast Symposium (B): Sponsored by Pharmaco
A Vacca: TBA |
| Plenary Session |
| 08.15-08.45 | J Donnez: Uterine surgery
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| 08.45-09.15 | C Mclintock: Obstetric DIC
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| 09.15-09.45 | P von Theobald: The cystocele and stress incontinence: dealing with dilemmas of overt and occult stress incontinence
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| 09.45-10.00 | Discussion time |
| 10.00-10.30 | Tea |
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| Parallel A: Contemporary management of high-risk pregnancies (session of the Maternal-Fetal Medicine Society) |
| 10.30-10.50 | P MacDonald: Low-molecular weight heparin: the place in obstetrics
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| 10.50-11.10 | C Mclintock: Prosthetic valves in pregnancy
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| 11.10-11.30 | E Nicoloau: Too small to be born: the borderline fetus
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| 11.30-11.50 | Z Alfirevic: Induction of labour
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| 11.50-12.05 | B Pupuma: Evaluation of immune and haematological parameters in HIV infected and non-infected pre-eclamptic African women
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| 12.05-12.20 | B Vythilingum: Association between uterine artery pulsatility index and antenatal maternal psychological stress
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| 12.20-12.30 | Discussion time |
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| Parallel B: Reproductive Medicine: challenging accepted paradigms (with input from the SASRSS) |
| 10.30-10.50 | T Kruger: Intrauterine insemination: indications, management, success |
| 10.50-11.10 | S Dyer: Fertility management of the HIV positive couple |
| 11.10-11.30 | J Donnez: Advanced endometriosis: a challenge for the gynaecologist ? |
| 11.30-11.45 | S Edelstein: The impact of body mass index on metabolic and endocrine parameters in women with PCOS |
| 11.45-12.00 | J Jogessar: The success rate of fertility treatment in couples attending the infertility clinic at Inkosi Albert Luthuli Central Hospital, Durban. Is there a need for assisted reproductive technology? |
| 12.00-12.15 | J Okoue: The effect of endometrial thickness on in vitro fertilization-embryo transfer/intracytoplasmic sperm injection outcome |
| 12.15-12.30 | Discussion time |
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| Parallel C: HIV – the plague of our times |
| 10.30-10.50 | P van Look: Sexual and reproductive health and HIV: making up for lost opportunities |
| 10.50-11.10 | M Besser: Understanding antiretroviral therapy: An obstetrician’s perspective |
| 11.10-11.30 | G Theron: PMTCT: A new focus |
| 11.30-11.50 | T Smith: HIV and cervical cancer |
| 11.50-12.05 | E Bera: Risk factors for perinatal HIV-1 transmission in women on lifelong antiretroviral therapy - a prospective study |
| 12.00-12.20 | G Mohlaba: Prevalence and effects of HIV infection among pregnant women needing obstetric intensive care in Cape Town |
| 12.20-12.30 | Discussion time |
| 12.30-13.30 | Lunch |
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| Monday 6 October 2008 – Day 2- afternoon |
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| Plenary Session |
| 13.30-14.00 | L Cardozo: Evidence based management of stress urinary incontinence |
| 14.00-14.30 | F Guidozzi: Margaret Orford Lecture: Surgical management of obstetric complications |
| 14.30-15.00 | E Mhlanga: Choice of termination of pregnancy: challenges, opportunities and human rights |
| 15.00-15.30 | Tea |
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| Parallel A: Obstetrics: Focus on the fetus |
| 15.30-15.50 | K Norman: 1st trimester antenatal screening |
| 15.50-16.10 | S Lindow: Opiate use in pregnancy |
| 16.10-16.30 | H Odendaal: Adverse effects of alcohol on the fetus |
| 16.30-16.50 | J Hofmeyr: Misoprostol prior to and after labour: evidence for effectiveness and risk |
| 16.50-17.10 | J du Plessis: Is lactate a better predictor of fetal distress than pH? |
| 17.10-17.25 | C Wright: Preliminary observations concerning prenatal exposures to alcohol and cigarette smoking and placental pathology in the Safe Passage Study |
| 17.25-17.30 | Discussion time |
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| Parallel B: HPV: a therapeutic revolution? |
| 15.30-16.00 | L Denny: HPV infection and disease in the genital tract |
| 16.00-16.30 | M Stanley: HPV VLP vaccine: where are we now? |
| 16.30-17.00 | A Brecx: Public health success of current vaccination programmes and the introduction of future vaccines |
| 17.00-17.30 | Discussion |
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| Parallel C: Urogynaecology: Modern Approach to Pelvic Organ Prolapse |
| 15.30-15.50 | L Cardozo: Role of the new mesh kits in pelvic organ prolapse surgery |
| 15.50-16.10 | P von Theobald: Modern approach to apical prolapse. |
| 16.10-16.30 | Discussion and Questions |
| 16.30-16.45 | H Cronje: The length of mesh used in sacrocolpopexy and subsequent recurrence of prolapse |
| 16.45-17.00 | I van der Walt: An investigation of pelvic floor muscle strength in nulliparous women of different race groups |
| 17.00-17.15 | Discussion |
| 17.30-18.45 | GMG ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING |
| 17.45 - 18.30 | SASOG ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING |
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| Tuesday 7 October 2008 – Day 3 - morning |
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| Parallel A: Maternal-Fetal Medicine (session of the Maternal-Fetal Medicine Society) |
| 08.20-08.40 | E Coetzee: Diabetes circa 2008 |
| 08.40-09.00 | C Stewart: Termination of pregnancy for fetal abnormalities |
| 09.00-09.20 | P Soma-Pillay: The impact of obesity on pregnancy |
| 09.20-09.35 | C Grieve: Prediction of obstetric and neonatal outcome in pregnancies with umbilical artery absent end-diastolic flow |
| 09.35-09.50 | C Wright: Preliminary observations concerning prenatal exposures to alcohol and cigarette smoking and placental
pathology in the Safe Passage Study |
| 09.50 - 10.05 | M du Toit: A prospective case-control study on the role of prenatal alcohol exposure in abruptio placentae |
| 10.05-10.15 | Discussion time |
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| Parallel B: Reproductive health: from puberty to menopause |
| 08.20-08.40 | M Warren: Making treatment choices: the management of osteoporosis |
| 08.40-09.00 | P Steyn: Emergency contraception: need and opportunity |
| 09.00-09.15 | S van Zijl: Knowledge and acceptability of intrauterine devices among family planning clients and providers |
| 09.15-09.35 | L Matsela: Physical, psychological and socio-demographic characteristics of black menopausal women in South Africa |
| 09.35-09.50 | N Matebese: Psychosocial aspects of Turner syndrome |
| 09.50-10.05 | G de Jong: Puberty and sexuality in cognitive impaired children |
| 10.05-10.15 | Discussion time |
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| Parallel C: Protecting the patient |
| 08.20-08.40 | S Arulkumaran: Risk management in obstetrics |
| 08.40-09.00 | S Monokoane: Obstetric tragedy secondary to misuse of the partogram |
| 09.00-09.15 | G Chilopora: Clinical officers in Malawi: expanding access to comprehensive emergency obstetric care |
| 09.15-09.35 | N Patel: Stem cells: ethics, regulation and legislation |
| 09.35-09.55 | S Ramphal: Safety in endoscopic surgery |
| 09.55-10.10 | J Basu: Legal unsafe abortion: a tale of tragedy |
| 10.10-10.15 | Discussion time |
| 10.15-10.45 |
Tea |
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| Parallel B: Reproductive health: from puberty to menopause |
| 10.45-11.15 | S Lindow: Domestic violence |
| 11.15-11.45 | J Moodley: National Confidential Enquiry into Maternal Deaths: setting the agenda |
| 11.45-12.15 | N Patel: Is medicine as safe as aviation - are there parallels? |
| 12.15-12.30 | Discussion Time |
| 12.30–13.00 | Closure and Prize Giving |
| 13.00-14.00 | Lunch |
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