Saturday, 17th October Society of Obstetric Medicine of Australia and New Zealand ASM 2026

Real-world evidence is beginning to answer many of the questions clinicians and pregnant women have about maternal RSV immunisation. This session will explore emerging Australian and international data on vaccine effectiveness and safety, the impact on infant RSV hospitalisations, and what these findings mean for clinical practice and conversations in antenatal care.

Speakers:
Professor Karin Lust
Professor Paul Griffin
Doctor Sarah Chu

Sponsored by Pfizer. 

Breakfast buffet opens from 6:45am, please arrive with plenty of time to grab a plate before the session begins. 

Dr Jill Parkes-Smith, Obstetric Medicine and Infectious Diseases Physician, Mater Hospital
Dr Renuka Sekar, Senior Staff Specialist & Co- clinical Lead Maternal and Fetal Medicine, Metro North Health
Mega Virus, Micro Awareness: Confronting the Cytomegalo-Mystery
Maternal-Neuro Infections: High-Risk CNS Pathogens- Focus on Listeria and Tuberculosis

Dr Sumi Britton, Infectious Diseases Physician, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital
Infections in Pregnancy — The Bad, the Hard, and the Challenging: Updates on Syphilis and Antenatal Steroid Use

Poster presenters should stand next to their posters for judging. 

Ariane Beeston, Clinical Content, The Centre of Perinatal Excellence
Wounded Healer: The Lived Experience of Postpartum Psychosis

Dr Kannan Kallapiran, Clinical Director & Senior Medical Officer, Mater Hospital
When Worry Takes Hold: Managing Anxiety Across Pregnancy and Postpartum

Prof Ed Heffernan, Director – Queensland Forensic Mental Health Service, Queensland Forensic Mental Health Service (QFMHS) & the University of Queensland
Suicide related calls to police and ambulance for women in the peri-natal period

• Laryngeal and Pulmonary Tuberculosis During Pregnancy: A Case Report - Jill Parkes-Smith
• Utility of teleconsultation services and determinants of Antihypertensive requirement after delivery up to 12 weeks postpartum in women with hypertensive disorders of pregnancy – A prospective cohort study - Sasirekha Rengaraj
• Assessing the Association of Maternal Serum Ischemia-modified Albumin in the Patients with Hyperemesis Gravidarum: A Meta-analysis - Rukesh Yadav
• Could Breastfeeding Protect the Postpartum Heart After Adverse Pregnancy: Outcomes? A Cross-Sectional Analysis - Maleesa Pathirana
• Differences in clinical characteristics between women with previous gestational diabetes who do and do not complete glycaemic testing at 6 months postpartum: a registry analysis - Maleesa Pathirana
• Not Everything is Pre-Eclampsia: Recognising Neurological Red Flags to Avoid Diagnostic Delay - Pooja Assistant Prof Sachdeva
• Early onset intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy. How early could it present?  A case report - Julie George
• Perinatal Outcomes and Maternal Characteristics in Pregnancies Fathered by Men Receiving Kidney Replacement Therapy: An ANZDATA Registry Linkage Study - Su Jen Chua
• Marked Isolated Alkaline Phosphatase Elevation in Late Pregnancy Associated with Maternal Antiphospholipid Syndrome - Linda Lin
• Women's mental health 3-4 years after a hypertensive disorder of pregnancy - Catherine Le
• Does pre-pregnancy counselling improve pregnancy outcomes in patients with Pregestational Diabetes Mellitus? A nine-year (2015-2024) regional tertiary hospital audit. - Kate Zhang
• Severe Cortisol Deficiency in Pregnancy: A 20-Year Retrospective Cohort Study of Aetiology and Clinical Presentation at a Tertiary Maternity Centre in Brisbane, Australia. - Anjana Niyagama
• Prevalence and Service Implications of Pre-existing Conditions in Pregnancy: NSW Hospital Analysis - Christina Goodman
• Addressing education gaps amongst healthcare providers regarding long-term health risks after hypertensive disorders of pregnancy.   - Jeremy Tay
• Moderate to severe thrombocytopenia in pregnancy does not negatively impact on maternal and neonatal outcomes: A single centre, retrospective study. - Siaw Hui Wong
• When delivery is not the cure: refractory postpartum hypertension following superimposed pre-eclampsia requiring six breastfeeding-compatible antihypertensive agents. - Larisa Syphers
• Recognising and managing postpartum dysglycemia: late dumping syndrome following years after bariatric surgery presenting as severe hypoglycemia - a report of two cases - Larisa Syphers
• A single centre experience of Percutaneous Nephrostomy (PCN) during pregnancy: A retrospective quality assurance study at the Royal Women’s Hospital. - Laura Cuthbertson
• Preeclampsia and early childhood health and development: A population-based cohort and discordant sibling analysis. - Jessica A Atkinson
• Obstetric Outcomes in Non-English Speaking and Non-Medicare Eligible Women at a Tertiary Maternity Hospital - Madhavi Singh
• Thiopurine use in pregnant women with chronic kidney disease: A retrospective study of metabolite levels and pregnancy outcomes  - Yueling Yu
• Clinical presentation and pregnancy outcome of Stroke during pregnancy and postpartum: A Descriptive Study - Sasirekha Rengaraj
• Primary adrenal insufficiency presenting as hyperemesis gravidarum, severe hyponatraemia and anaemia, potentially exacerbated by thyroxine therapy. - Anjana Niyagama
• Hyperkalaemia in Pregnancy: A 20 year retrospective case study in a tertiary hospital in Brisbane   - Elly EF Fujitake
• Pregnancy Outcomes in Women with Fontan Circulation Managed at a Tertiary Obstetric Centre in Western Australia: A 10-Year Retrospective Audit - Deirbhile McGahern
• Pregnancy-associated Takotsubo syndrome - Adam Morton
• Obstetric and neonatal outcomes among women with pre-existing type 2 diabetes - Jessica Pulley
• The Saint Vincent Declaration: type 2 diabetes mellitus in pregnancy at a tertiary obstetric hospital in Brisbane, Australia - Jessica Pulley
• When less may be more: how aggressively should we treat asymptomatic lupus nephritis in pregnancy?     - Franziska Pettit
• Anakinra use in pregnancy and lactation drug levels in maternal serum cord blood breast milk and infant serum  - Louisa Morand
• Pregnancy outcomes for women with type 1 and type 2 diabetes in Western Sydney   - Rishanthi Sribaskaran
• A rare case of cabergoline-induced hypertension and bradycardia in the postpartum setting: complications of ergot derivatives  - Manasa Swaminathan
• Treatment of severe atopic dermatitis in pregnancy with dupilumab: a multidisciplinary case report - Aminda Nanayakkara
• Management challenge of paraganglioma in pregnancy - a case report - Jorgia Cowan
• Insulin-mediated hypoglycaemia complicating necrotising gallstone pancreatitis in pregnancy: a case report - Alia N Tun Ismail
• Postpartum Pleural Effusion and Elevated Cardiac Biomarkers with Ibuprofen: A Diagnostic Challenge - Nik Nur Iman Nik Ghazali
• Navigating high-risk pregnancy in a woman with complex congenital heart disease. - Rachel Jiang
• Investigating adherence to retinal screening recommendations among pregnant women with pre-existing diabetes at National Women's Health.  - Kiran Kamran Mall
• HLH-like Systemic Autoinflammatory Syndrome with Necrotising Lymphadenitis in Early Pregnancy: A Case Report  - Nik Nur Iman Nik Ghazali
• Obstetric Medicine Referrals and Service Audit - Liyan Wang
• Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes and Their Association With Fetal Congenital Heart Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.    - Laura Harbinson
• MATERNAL AND NEONATAL OUTCOMES IN PREGNANT WOMEN RECEIVING DIALYSIS: INDIVIDUAL PATIENT DATA ANALYSIS FROM A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW - Jolene Ng
• Antenatal and Intrapartum prediction of Shoulder Dystocia  - Rola Akra
• Pregnancy outcomes in women with type 2 diabetes mellitus conceiving on semaglutide therapy - Adam Morton
• Experience with Eplerenone use for Cardiomyopathy in Pregnancy - Penny Wolski
• Rheumatic heart disease in pregnancy: a case series from a multidisciplinary cardio-obstetric service - Ashlee Jeffries
• An audit of T1DM management in pregnancy at a large Australian regional centre   - Melissa G Howlett
• Anticoagulation decision in pregnancy for triple positive antiphospholipid antibodies and Libman-Sacks endocarditis without personal or family history of thromboembolism - Soe Min Myat
• The TRAb Trap in Pregnancy: When Thyroxine Conceals Graves’ Disease - Hafiz Golwala
• Abdominal aortic thrombus in pregnancy, emergency axillo-bifemoral bypass and finding lipoprotein(a) – a case report - Shannon Emmett
• Dietitian confidence and practice in the management of eating disorders during pregnancy - Tamara Parker
• Case Report: Dietetic management of Anorexia Nervosa in a twin pregnancy - Tamara Parker
• A High-Risk Pregnancy After Cardiac Transplantation following a Fontan's Procedure for Congenital Heart disease as Managed Through Remote Shared Care - Linda Lin
• Rare ‘Fraternal Twins’ - Phaeochromocytoma and Neurofibromatosis in Pregnancy - Elvina Ingrid
• Clostridium perfringens uterine myonecrosis (gas gangrene) following emergency Caesarean section at 39 + 5 weeks gestation. - Lucy Wang
• The Weight of Cortisol: Unmasking Adrenal Cushing Syndrome in Pregnancy - Tracy Li
• ADEQUACY AND SAFETY OF RENAL BIOPSIES IN PREGNANCY –  A CASE-CONTROL STUDY - Tracy Li
• PREDICTORS OF LIVE BIRTH IN WOMEN WITH KIDNEY FAILURE RECEIVING DIALYSIS: AN INDIVIDUAL PATIENT DATA ANALYSIS - Jolene Ng
• Management of Chronic Myeloid Leukaemia in Pregnancy Following Refusal of Disease-Modifying Therapy: A Multidisciplinary Obstetric Medicine Case - Simone N Da Cruz
• Takayasu Arteritis in Pregnancy: a Systematic Literature Review - Annabel AL Lo
• A Tale of Two Pontine Strokes: Recurrent Brainstem Infarction in Pregnancy - Aalia Siddiqui
• Evolving Internal Carotid Artery Dissection in Pregnancy: A Dynamic Cerebrovascular Challenge - Aalia Siddiqui
• Timing of enoxaparin administration following caesarean section: A retrospective follow-up audit - Maryam Awrooj

Poster presenters should stand next to their posters for judges. 

Dr Caroline Airey, Neurologist, Brisbane Neurology
Managing Migraine in Pregnancy

Dr Ali Buckland, Consultant Neurologist, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital
Changing the Narrative: Modern Care of Multiple Sclerosis in Pregnancy

Noor Aladhami, Consultant Pharmacist, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital
Isabelle Fassbind, Senior Pharmacist, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital
Attention to ADHD: Weighing Maternal Function against Fetal Exposure

This session features four ten-minute talks delivered in a Shark Tank style. 

Hannah Gordon, Mercy Hospital for Women
Right on time: Assessing optimal gestation at birth in gestational diabetes 

Manarangi Sanjini de Silva, Mercy Hospital for Women
Hospital at the Home for Hyperemesis Gravidarum - a pilot implementation study 

Saskia Leibowitz, Logan Hospital
Preparing for Pregnancy in Chronic Kidney Disease: Real-World Evaluation of a Counselling Toolkit 

Su Jen Chua, Mercy Perinatal
Proteinuria as a predictor of future cardiovascular risk in women with preeclampsia 

Dr Rumal Jayalath, Director of Neurosurgery, Princess Alexandra Hospital
Cerebral Aneurysms and AVMs - management in pregnancy and delivery

Strokes with PFO in Pregnancy - Panel Discussion

• Dr Claire Muller, Neurologist and Stroke Specialist, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital
• Dr Lisa Dawes, Maternal Fetal Medicine Subspecialist, Liggins Institute, University of Auckland
• Dr Caroline Wilson, Obstetric Physician and Haematologist, Mater Health
• Dr Roland Hilling-Smith, Interventional Cardiologist, Hilling-Smith Hearts