Event Date and Time
Wednesday, October 23 2024
7:30pm – 9:15pm (AEDT - NSW, VIC)
6:30pm – 8:15pm (AEST - QLD)
4:30pm - 6:15pm (AWST - WA)
Pricing
$25 - Physiotherapy Special Interest Group Members
$45 - Continence Foundation of Australia Members
$50 - Non-Members
Please note: You must be a Foundation member to become a Physio SIG member.
About the webinar
The Continence Foundation of Australia’s Physiotherapy Special Interest Group is hosting Better Bowel Outcomes – Not just talking stools via webinar on Wednesday, October 23 2024.
The webinar is interdisciplinary in nature, including Chris Gillespie, colorectal surgeon, Allison Bryant, Pelvic Health Physiotherapist and Kate Lane, dietitian. The event will provide a comprehensive investigation into a number of areas focusing on the bowel including:
- Anorectal manometry and surgery
- Obstructed defecation
- Faecal incontinence
- Anal fissures
- Haemorrhoids
All speakers recently presented at the Foundation’s NCOI conference in Brisbane and were warmly received.
Chris Gillespie
Chris is a consultant colorectal surgeon practising at Mater Private Hospital, Princess Alexandra Hospital, and QEII Hospital in Brisbane. He has strong interests in colorectal pelvic floor disorders, rectal cancer, anal fistula, and minimally invasive and robotic colorectal surgery. He set up the Queensland Functional Colorectal Service at the QEII Hospital in 2014 - this unit went on to be awarded the Metro South Chairman's Award for research, and the unit also successfully ran an international conference on colorectal pelvic floor dysfunction in 2019. Most recently, he has set up a similar multidisciplinary holistic clinic for private pelvic floor patients, the Queensland Pelvic Floor Centre, and continues to oversee and conduct research into helping patients suffering from faecal incontinence and defecatory dysfunction.
Allison Bryant
Allison Bryant is an experienced pelvic floor physiotherapist who has been working in Brisbane for over 23 years. She believes in the team approach, especially for patients who present with complex pelvic floor dysfunction.
Allison is a Past President of the Queensland Branch of the Continence Foundation of Australia. She is the winner of the 2019 Conni Physiotherapists Award, which saw her awarded a trip to the International Continence Society Conference in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Kate Lane
Kate is a masters-qualified Accredited Practicing Dietitian and Credentialed Eating Disorder Clinician. Kate's special interests include eating disorders, nutrition therapy for mental health concerns, eating difficulties in adult neurodivergent individuals, GI disease (eg Coeliac Disease, Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Non Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease) and functional GI disorders (eg IBS, constipation, diarrhoea and reflux), weight-neutral chronic disease management, and food allergies and intolerances.
Contact us
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