Wednesday, 16th October Australian and New Zealand Obesity Society Annual Scientific Conference 2024
Registration Open
7:00AM - 5:00PM
Wednesday, 16th October
Sirius & Pre-Function Area
Welcome Address
8:00AM - 8:15AM
Wednesday, 16th October
Endeavour 1&2
Cross Cutting Symposium 1: Is the obesity epidemic solved? Evaluating challenges and future directions
8:15AM - 9:45AM
Wednesday, 16th October
Endeavour 1&2
Chair: Yvonne Anderson
Kathryn Williams
Tim Gill
Kyle Hoehn
Andrew Wilson
Morning Tea
9:45AM - 10:15AM
Wednesday, 16th October
Pre Function Area
Plenary 1 - Public Health
10:15AM - 11:15AM
Wednesday, 16th October
Endeavour 1&2
Chair: Jane Martin
15-minute break
11:15AM - 11:30AM
Wednesday, 16th October
Pre Function Area
Concurrent 1 - Public Health: How to apply a systems approach to develop obesity prevention programs
11:30AM - 1:00PM
Wednesday, 16th October
Endeavour 1
Chairs: Tim Gill & Clare Hughes
Sponsored by:
- A decade of systems approaches to obesity prevention: what was that all about and where next? - Steve Allender
- What does a systems approach to obesity prevention look like (from a UK perspective)? - James Nobles
- The health and economic benefits of community-based obesity prevention interventions to improve z-BMI and weight-related behaviours in children and adolescents: a synthesis of six Australian trials - Jane Jacobs
- Making Healthy Happen - a whole-of-government commitment to a healthier Queensland - Li Kheng Chai
Concurrent 2 - Basic Science: Understanding why exercise is an effective intervention for metabolic disorders
11:30AM - 1:00PM
Wednesday, 16th October
Endeavour 2
Chairs: Adélaïde Bernard & Kate Quinlan
- Systems-based Approaches for Investigating Key Drivers of Metabolic Health and Exercise Training Adaptations - Andrea L Hevener
- Phosphoproteomic landscapes of exercise signaling - Benjamin L Parker
- Effects of aquatic high-intensity interval training and moderate-intensity continuous training on body composition, aerobic fitness and vascular function in overweight/obese adults - Junhao Huang
- Eight-weeks of endurance exercise training prevents the progression of sarcopenic-obesity in aged mice - James Sligar
Concurrent 3 - Clinical Science: Complications of severe and complex obesity
11:30AM - 1:00PM
Wednesday, 16th October
Endeavour 3
Chairs: Kathryn Williams & Ritesh Chimoriya
- Obesity and Heart Disease- A Diagnostic and Management Challenge - Faraz Pathan
- “Respiratory consequences of severe obesity” - Leon Laks
- Evaluating the implementation of an embedded service for obesity in a sleep disorders clinic at a tertiary hospital setting using the RE-AIM framework - Elizabeth A Machan
- Effects of GLP-1 Receptor Agonist Therapy on Eating Disorder Risk and Psychological Distress in Adults with Class 3 Obesity. - Sian Raubinger
Lunch & Poster Session Day 1
1:00PM - 2:00PM
Wednesday, 16th October
Pre Function Area
Annual General Meeting
1:10PM - 2:00PM
Wednesday, 16th October
Endeavour 3
Concurrent 4 - Public Health Oral Abstracts: Early intervention to address obesity
2:00PM - 3:30PM
Wednesday, 16th October
Endeavour 1
Chairs: Rebecca Bennett & Rebecca Godwin
- Addressing the intractable problem of inadequate vegetable consumption - Simone Pettigrew
- An evaluation of a school nutrition program to improve accessibility to and consumption of vegetables and fruit among primary school students in Queensland, Australia: From ‘What’s this?’ to ‘I grew it!’ - Leila I Fathi
- Defining rapid infant weight gain from population-based data in New Zealand - Lisa Daniels
- The Long-Term Health Consequences of Early-life Malnutrition in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review - Frehiwot Birhanu Zurga
- Evaluating Education on Overweight and Obesity in Children in Australian Medical Curricula: Advancing Effective Training and Practice - Linda Ferrington
- Snacks for young Australians – Just empty energy? - Andrea Schmidtke
Concurrent 5 - Basic Science Oral Abstracts: Novel adipose and microbial pathways to improve metabolic health
2:00PM - 3:30PM
Wednesday, 16th October
Endeavour 2
Chairs: Nicola Lee & Brian Drew
- Metabolic dysfunction ameliorated by reduced nicotinamide mononucleotide in high fat diet fed mice - Jasmine L Banks
- Exploring the roles of human adipose eosinophils in metabolic health - Anthea Lee
- Impact of maternal obesogenic diet on maternal and offspring microbiome development - Kyoko Hasebe
- Exploring the impact of maternal weight loss on metabolic function in offspring adipose tissue - Michelia Yu
- A Healthy Optimal Australian Microbiome sub-study: oral and gut microbiome dysbiosis in obesity is associated with reduced beneficial taxa - Colin Cui
- Adipose Tissue Eosinophils Are Transcriptionally Distinct From Blood Eosinophils: Uncovering Anti-Obesity Targets - Kate Quinlan
Concurrent 6 - Clinical Science Oral Abstracts: Obesity and weight management- preconception to early childhood
2:00PM - 3:30PM
Wednesday, 16th October
Endeavour 3
Chairs: Namson Lau & Elizabeth Machan
Sponsored by:
- Financial and time constraints identified as the most important barriers to obesity management in primary care in Australia. - Terri-Lynne South
- Discussing weight with patients in primary care: A mixed methods experimental study. - Maria Bilal
- Body weight reduction in women treated with tirzepatide by menopausal stage: A post hoc analysis from the SURMOUNT program - Sarah Glastras
- Semaglutide improves cardiovascular outcomes in patients with high risk for metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis – a subgroup analysis from the SELECT trial - Melissa Leung
- Treatment with dual agonist improves eating behaviour in people living with overweight/obesity - Elif Ekinci
- Reporting of dietary intake and dietary quality in interventions evaluating the effects of liraglutide, semaglutide or tirzepatide on weight-loss and/or blood glucose in patients of all age groups with obesity and/or T2D: A systematic review of phase 3 and 4 randomised controlled trials - Anna Jansson
Afternoon Tea
3:30PM - 4:00PM
Wednesday, 16th October
Pre Function Area
Concurrent 7 - Public Health: Programs to prevent childhood obesity
4:00PM - 5:30PM
Wednesday, 16th October
Endeavour 1
Chairs: Tim Gill & Kristy Bolton
- Prevention of childhood obesity in The Netherlands: experiences and lessons learned. - Jacob Seidell
- Preventing Childhood Obesity through Public Health Programs: Success Stories and Scaling Strategies - Rebecca K Golley
- Integrating health literacy and cultural considerations into a web-based program promoting healthy behaviours in infants - Danielle Jawad
- Dissemination of healthy eating and physical activity policies and practices information among Early Childhood Education and Care services: a qualitative study. - Ana Renda
Concurrent 8 - Basic Science: Multi-omic approaches to understanding obesity and related disorders
4:00PM - 5:30PM
Wednesday, 16th October
Endeavour 2
Chairs: Nigel Turner & Sophie Lucic Fisher
- Single Cell Transcriptomic Analysis Reveals Sex Differences in a Model of Fatty liver and Steatohepatitis - Brian G Drew
- Probing Metabolic Changes in Hypertrophic and Failing Hearts - Yen Chin Koay
- Liver proteomic assessment of mice fed high carbohydrate and high fat diets identify a disconnect between proteins associated with de novo lipogenesis and fat. - Lewin Small
- The Role of Sphingolipids in NASH Progression Revealed by Lipidomics - Xin Liu
Concurrent 9 - Clinical Science: Optimising nutrition and digital health approaches for weight management
4:00PM - 5:30PM
Wednesday, 16th October
Endeavour 3
Chairs: Dorit Samocha-Bonet & Caz Hales
- Chickens versus Eggs - Using digital health to support personalise nutrition - Clare Collins
- The Microbiome – Ready Yet for Main Stream Personalized Nutrition? - Christopher Gardner
- Development of risk prediction models to identify rapid weight gain during infancy: a machine learning approach - Miaobing Zheng
- Are food eating behaviours predictive factors for weight loss outcomes following bariatric surgery? - Ishmeet Kaur
Welcome Reception & Poster Session Day 1
5:30PM - 7:30PM
Wednesday, 16th October
Pre Function Area
Canapes & Drinks Included
- Biomarkers of obesity and liver disease in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis. - Pamela Acosta
- Changes in cardiorespiratory fitness in people with T2DM and class 3 obesity following 12 weeks of supervised group exercise classes. - Pamela Acosta
- Subgroup analysis by gender and body mass index (BMI) in people living with overweight/obesity in the survodutide, a glucagon/GLP-1 receptor dual agonist, phase II trial - Nishant Bakshi
- Impact of clinically significant weight loss on remission of metabolic complications: A systematic review and meta-analysis of comparative controlled studies. - Srividya Adapa
- Health Care Professionals Perceived Barriers and Facilitators to Early Mobilisation Group-Based Physiotherapy Program from a Tertiary Referral Bariatric Centre: A Qualitative Study - Maria MA Agaliotis
- Assessing risk for significant fatty liver disease in a tertiary obesity service - Victoria Andrews
- How can evidence-based early childhood obesity prevention programs achieve adoption, integration and scale-up: A comparative case study - Jessica Appleton
- A scoping review of primary studies from systematic reviews investigating non-nutritive sweeteners and metabolic health and cancer - Anneliese Blaxland
- An exploratory investigation into the use of different nutrition tools assessing non-nutritive sweetener intake - Anneliese Blaxland
- The complex incidence of non-nutritive sweeteners in the Australian food supply and the Australian, the UK and the USA beverage supply - Anneliese Blaxland
- Exploring the Associations of Glycaemic Variability Indices and Blood Pressure Measures in Adults with Elevated Fasting Glucose - You Jin Chang
- The Influence of Greenspace on Obesity: An Umbrella Systematic Review - Ritesh Chimoriya
- Obesity prevalence, BMI variability and associated comorbidities in patients with Peripheral Arterial Disease - Ritesh Chimoriya
- AI-driven approaches to identifying baseline characteristics of weight loss in a multidisciplinary metabolic weight management program for people with Class 3 obesity - Ritesh Chimoriya
- The role of obesity and continuous glucose monitoring metrics for predicting adverse perinatal outcomes in individuals with type 1 diabetes - Aaina AC Chopra
- Is eating speed associated with energy intake, weight status or complementary feeding practices during infancy? - Alice Cox
- Patient Perspectives on Exercise Prehabilitation: Preliminary Findings from the BARIPrehab Telehealth Program. - Belinda J Durey
- Lipoedema: Obesity’s differential diagnosis - Sharyn Frantz
- Identifying school barriers and enablers to adoption of an evidence-based healthy lunchbox program - Demi Herdegen
- Demographic risk factors for postoperative complications in primary bariatric surgery: a systematic review with meta-analysis - Jocelin Hon
- The recruitment of adolescents with obesity to a trial of novel dietary interventions: a Fast Track to Health sub-study - Eve T House
- A comparison of early childhood obesity prevention in Australia between general practice and child and family health nursing services: a mixed methods study - Eve T House
- Identifying primary health professionals’ training needs to support early childhood obesity prevention in Australia - Eve T House
- Exploring responsive feeding practices: A qualitative study among Arabic and Mongolian speaking migrant mothers in Australia - Danielle Jawad
- Obesity phenotyping not BMI associated with the likelihood of cardiac surgery - Efris EK Kartikasari
- Exploring the acceptability of a specialist obesity treatment intervention (Fast Track to Health) for adolescents; a mixed method study - Sarah Lang
- An exploration of how dietary intake, according to time of day, influences glucose homeostasis in pregnant women with and without gestational diabetes: a systematic review - Kai Liu
- Motivational interviewing in the preconception period for women with overweight or obesity - Lauren C Mead
- A systematic review on understanding the prevalence of disordered eating/eating disorders in adults with overweight/obesity presenting for obesity treatment - Hannah Melville
- Evaluating whole fruit feijoa powder (Feiolix®) for type 2 diabetes prevention: the FERDINAND study - Ibrahim Mohamed
- Associations between intrapartum antibiotic prophylaxis and childhood autoimmune diseases and obesity: A systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies - Maedeh Mrs Moradi
- The cost of a combo: a systematic review examining the nature and extent of unhealthy food promotion within meal delivery apps - Jessica Morrison
- Influence of Metabolic Profile on Long-term Weight Loss Maintenance - Sophia I Parada
- Psychological intervention for Bariatric patients during Covid-19 lockdown a comparison between patients undergoing surgery pre-pandemic and during pandemic lockdowns. - Ashley M Ristanto
- The impact of a multidisciplinary group intervention on weight loss, diet quality and mood in an Australian sample with severe and complex obesity. - Supreet Saluja
- Preconception lifestyle interventions for women – a systematic review and meta-analysis of intervention characteristics and behaviour change techniques - Sophia Torkel
- Digital lifestyle interventions for cardiovascular risk reduction: A systematic review and network meta-analysis - Teketo K TEGEGNE
Student/ECR Dinner
7:00PM - 9:00PM
Wednesday, 16th October
Venue: Brighton le Sands RSL
Food & Drinks Included