ASOHNS ASM 2026

INDIGENOUS HEALTH WORKSHOP (TICKETED EVENT)

Workshop

Workshop

8:00 am

19 March 2026

Grand Ballroom 1

Themes

ASOHNS

Session Program

8:00 am

Welcome to Country and cultural immersion - Forecourt of Tasmania Museum and Art Gallery

10:00 am

Walk to Hotel Grand Chancellor

10:15 am

Passe and Williams Foundation

Jeanette Pritchard (VIC)

10:30 am

Indigenous Programme at North Metro

PETER FRIEDLAND (WA)

10:50 am

ANCHOR: Collecting and connecting child hearing health data to drive service improvements and research

Valerie Sung (VIC)

11:10 am

Ear and hearing health in the Pilbara

Anton Hinton-Bayre (WA)

11:30 am

Long-term ENT and audiological outcomes and a new way forward: Clinical insights and service innovation in the East Pilbara

Lucy Mitchell (ACT)

11:50 am

Q&A

12:00 pm

Lunch

12:45 pm

An Introduction by ASOHNS National Indigenous Officer

Angela Scotney (NSW)

12:55 pm

Cochlear implantation in Indigenous Australians: Systematic review reveals critical evidence gaps

Mark Laidlaw (Vic)

1:05 pm

Deadly Ears: What’s Working Outside the Clinic Room

Trent Lyon (QLD)

1:15 pm

Understanding Otitis Media in Aboriginal children in the Kimberley region of Western Australia: an opportunity to improve health outcomes

Aryan Kalra (Western Australia)

1:25 pm

The prevalence of ear disease and hearing loss in the East Kimberley outreach specialist clinics – results of a new data collection initiative

Adibah Azimuddin (WA)

1:35 pm

Q&A

1:45 pm

From Country to a Big Centre – streamlining ENT care for regional and remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in North Queensland

Jeffrey Huang (Brisbane)

1:55 pm

Facial and neck burn in Maori population: A retrospective review in Waikato Hospital

Novell Shu Chyng Teoh (Waikato)

2:05 pm

Patching the Drum – Myringoplasty outcomes from the Deadly Ears Program

Lara Gahan (QLD)

2:15 pm

Malignant Otitis Externa in Central Australia: A fifteen-year review

Anjali Abraham (SA)

2:25 pm

Endoscopic Push-Through Myringoplasty Using Tragal Cartilage in Aboriginal Patients: A Prospective Audit

Kottegoda Jayasena (NT)

2:35 pm

First Nations peoples in High Income Countries: Head and Neck Cancer Incidence and Outcomes – A Systematic Review

Sahil Chopra (NSW)

2:45 pm

Q&A

3:00 pm

Afternoon tea

3:30 pm

BENTIC, Monitoring ENT on Worimi and Awabakal Lands

Kelvin Kong (NSW), Trumaine Rankmore (NSW), Olivia Carroll (NSW), Toni Manton (NSW), Joanne Howes (QLD)

4:15 pm

Progress towards a National Centre for Indigenous-led Hearing Health

Robert Eisenberg (NSW)

4:30 pm

Q&A