Venue: Novotel Ellerslie, 72-112 Greenlane East, Ellerslie, Auckland
Date: 21 February 2026
Time: 8:00 am – 5.00 pm
The Symposium has been endorsed by The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners (RNZCGP) and has been approved for up to 16.0 credits CME for the General Practice Educational Programme (GPEP) and Maintenance of Professional Standards (MOPS) purposes.
Dr Derek Luo (Symposium Welcome Message)
Morning Session - Gastro & Surgical Specialties
0800 - Associate Professor Edmund Leung (Are you sure you are just constipated?)
0820 - Mr Matthew Haydock (General surgery post operative issues)
0840 - Mr Vincent Chong (Urology Cases)
0900 - Mr Michael Chu (Acute Abdominal Pain Red Flags)
0920 - Dr Aung Naign Htoo (Management of Gastroesophageal reflux disease) Part 1|Part 2|Part 3
0940 - Discussions
1000 - Morning Tea
Morning Session 2 - Cardiology
1020 - Dr Denise van der Linde (Staying on Beat: Navigating cancer therapy safely)
1045 - Dr James Fu (Valve disease update)
1110 - Dr Andrew To (Heart failure update)
1135 - Dr Ammar Alsamarra'I (Cardiovascular risk assessment)
1200 - Dr Ali Khan (What’s coming in interventional cardiology)
1225 - Discussions
1240 - Lunch
Interactive Workshops
1340 - Dr Joanna Dunlop (Chronic Kidney Disease) Part 1|Part 2|Part 3|Part 4|Part 5|Part 6
1420 - Cardiologists (ECG Cases)
1500 - Afternoon Tea
Afternoon Session - Case Based Subspecialty Learning
1520 - Dr Alfred Kwan (Geriatric Cases) Part 1|Part 2
1540 - Ms Elaine Chong (Proteinology) Part 1|Part 2|Part 3
1600 - Dr Keong Liew Mok (Paediatric Cases) Part 1|Part 2|Part 3|Part 4|Part 5
1620 - Ms Scarlett Teng (More Than Just Anxiety: Navigating the Intersection of ASD, ADHD, and Diagnostic Overshadowing in Primary Care) Part 1|Part2
1640 - Discussions