Wednesday, 21st October Australian and New Zealand Obesity Society Annual Scientific Conference 2026

Official Conference Welcome & Welcome To Country

• Shifting to healthier and more sustainable diets - Simone Pettigrew
• Building resilience to a warming planet across the human life course - Ollie Jay
• Metabolic impacts of Ultra processed foods - Margaret Morris

• Bringing a precision medicine lens to prevent the intergenerational transmission of obesity - Leanne Redman

• Real-world experiences of people using injectable semaglutide for obesity management in the OUTSTEP 1 study - Samantha Hocking
• Identifying eating disorders in people seeking obesity treatment: development of a clinical practice resource - Eve T House
• The impact of behavioural weight management on eating disorder symptoms for adolescents and adults: A systematic review and individual participant data pairwise and network meta-analysis, findings from the EDIT Collaboration - Natalie Lister
• Impact of semaglutide 2.4 mg and oral semaglutide 25 mg on QoL in women with obesity: A post hoc analysis of the STEP and OASIS programs by menopausal status - Sarah Glastras
• Perception, reality, and the space between: A lived experience and healthcare providers co-design process investigating exercise in obesity pharmacotherapy.  - Donna T McCook
• Predictors of change in eating disorder symptoms following behavioural weight management: Prognostic and prediction models with individual participant data from the EDIT Collaboration - Natalie Lister

• Placement and promotion of unhealthy food and beverages in South Australian supermarkets - Samuel Ziesing
• Browsing for bargains: characterising price promotions on meal delivery apps in Australia - Jess Morrison
• Energy dense and ultra-processed: An analysis of the use of weight- and processing-related ‘better-for-you’ claims on premix alcohol products - Asad Yusoff
• Estimated health, equity, and healthcare cost impacts of restricting price promotions for unhealthy foods in Australia: a modelling study. - Tazman Davies
• Shaping the family home food environment: Associations between the availability of discretionary foods and parental and household factors - Kerry Ettridge

• Intermittent fasting enhances GLP-1RA efficacy in weight loss and glycemic control in mice - Yanchuan Shi
• GLP-1 engages a dorsal raphe-preoptic 5-HT2C circuit to suppress drinking - Tiemin Liu
• Effect of GLP-1 agonist semaglutide on macronutrient preference - Guoliang Deng
• Salt-Inducible Kinase 3 (SIK3): A Novel Therapeutic Target for Obesity - Kim Loh
• Transcriptomic changes in adipose tissue-resident eosinophils of mice after diet-induced obesity - Tsz Ho Li

Early and mid-career researchers are invited to drop by Chelsea Lane during lunch to meet our invited speakers.

A/Prof Frances Byrne – Basic Science
Dr Nils Halberg – Basic Science
Dr Briony Hill – Clinical
Prof Denise Wootten – Basic Science

• Building Trust, Literacy and Equity in Digital Health - lessons from research and practice - Jaimon Kelly
• Are adolescents hard to reach or our systems hard to navigate? - Stephanie Partridge
• Scaling a tertiary multidisciplinary obesity program to a non-tertiary hospital setting to improve access to care - Caitlyn Mawn
• Addressing childhood obesity with scale-out of an equitable community-based contemporary model of care. - Katie Iwanowski

Panel discussion to follow speaker presentations

Panel
Briony Hill
Thilini Gunawardena
Colette McCracken
Andrew Wilson
Lyn Keppler
Monica Garner

• Weight stigma as a structural barrier to healthcare access for people in larger bodies - Briony Hill
• Building workforce capability to initiate non-stigmatising health and wellbeing conversations with people living with obesity: insights from Queensland health professionals - Thilini Gunawardena
• Respectful Care: Conversations That Heal, Not Harm - Colette McCracken and Andrew Wilson

• Timing the liver secretome, from feeding and glycogen to fatty-liver disease - Benjamin Weger
• Metabolic Throttling through ER-Mitochondria Decoupling - Xingxing Kong
• Stress-Induced Proteins in Central Appetite Regulation: Therapeutic Potential for Obesity - Vicky Tsai

• Diet intake and diet quality changes during the first 12 weeks of GLP-1 Receptor agonist therapy in Australian adults with obesity - Nicola Edwards-Kalaf
• Body mass index outcomes in adults following behavioural weight management interventions that measure eating disorder symptoms: a secondary analysis of individual participant data using pairwise and network meta-analysis - Rabia Khalid
• Individual variability for change in eating disorder symptoms following behavioural weight management interventions conducted with adolescents and adults: Findings from the EDIT Collaboration - Natalie Lister
• Intentional weight loss for colorectal cancer surgery patients with obesity using Very Low Calorie Diet: is it safe and effective? - Rainbow Lai
• Exploring the effects of calorie restriction with and without time-restricted eating on immune profiles and gut microbiota in adults at risk of type 2 diabetes - Laurent Turner
• Food-related self-efficacy: A possible therapeutic target for weight management - Janet Franklin

• Trajectories of discretionary and ultra-processed food intakes and their determinants among young Australian children - Miaobing Zheng
• A scoping review of the factors influencing parents’ and children’s food choices in the online food retail environment  - Sara Salahshoornezhad
• Children’s and young people’s drawings from a Healthy Lifestyle Check - Stephanie Smith
• Making health feedback meaningful: tailored medical letters for children, young people and caregivers from a Healthy Lifestyle Check - Stephanie Smith
• Supporting neurodivergent children’s nutrition, physical activity and wellbeing: a parent and carer perspective - Jacqueline L. Walker

• Therapeutic targeting of obesity to enhance the anti-tumour response to liver cancer therapies - Frances Byrne
• Obesity dependencies in breast cancer - Nils Halberg
• One syndrome, distinct genomes: how sex shapes metabolic syndrome genetics and its downstream cancer risk - Kelsie Bouttle

• Hypnotherapy: the neuroscientific approach to weight management  - Rosemary Allin
• Sustained weight loss and diet quality improvements following a meal replacement intervention programme: a 12-month pre–post evaluation. - Victoria Andrews
• Oral Semaglutide 25 mg Versus Orforglipron 36 mg in Obesity: A Population-Adjusted Indirect Treatment Comparison - Tomasz Block
• Impact of childhood obesity across the Child and Adolescent Health Service (CAHS) in Western Australia - Jasmina J Brkich
• Health Utility and Quality-Adjusted Life Year Gains Following an Allied Health-Led Tertiary Obesity Service: A 12-Month Prospective Evaluation  - Andrea Cawte
• Restoring Function and Access to Healthcare in a Young Man with Heart Failure and Clinical Obesity   - Andrea Cawte
• A Path to Transplantation: Multidisciplinary VLED Outcomes in Dialysis-Dependent Patients  - Andrea Cawte
• Public–private differences in bariatric surgery care pathways in Australia: implications for continuity of care    - Janet Franklin
• The influence of bariatric surgery on disordered eating and associated psychosocial and demographic factors - Janet Franklin
• Obesity in type 1 and type 2 diabetes: a 12-year retrospective comparison of metabolic and end-organ complications - Sarah Glastras
• Impact of hospital-funded Tirzepatide on pathology outcomes in adults with BMI >55 kg/m² - Marjy Grealish
• Appetite for Support: Follow-up needs after Very Low Calorie Diet (VLCD) Clinic treatment before non-bariatric elective surgery. - Sally Griffin
• Size-inclusive hospital care and workforce safety: A district-wide audit of bariatric service readiness across three Aotearoa New Zealand hospitals - Caz Hales
• Identifying biomarkers for adverse neonatal outcomes in women with metabolic dysfunction using discovery proteomics - Xian Ho
• Impact of pre-operative psychiatric comorbidity on weight loss outcomes after bariatric surgery at a single tertiary centre  - Samantha Hocking
• Documentation of obesity in hospitalised cardiorespiratory patients and its association with clinical outcomes.   - Samantha Hocking
• Mass media campaigns for obesity prevention: An updated rapid review - Enola Kay
• The role of miRNAs in influencing body composition following resistance training    - Guwanya Kodithuwakku
• Inclusi-dent research protocol for the co-design and evaluation of a weight-inclusive oral health care framework - Zanab Malik
• Tirzepatide-induced euglycaemic ketoacidosis in an individual without diabetes: A case report - Sian Maynard
• The dietary intake in Australian females of reproductive age in the western suburbs of Melbourne - Andrew J McAinch
• The prevalence of binge eating within behavioural weight management trials: a secondary analysis with individual participant data meta-analyses - Hannah Melville
• Physical activity, mental health, and quality of life in class 3 obesity: a 12-month multidisciplinary weight management cohort  - Mohammad Riashad Monjur
• A systematic scoping review of eating disorders and obesity: overlap, risks and integrated management in the era of incretin-based anti-obesity therapies - Mohammad Riashad Monjur
• Effects of Intermittent Versus Continuous Energy Restriction on Appetite and Eating Behaviours in Women with Obesity - Hayley O'Neill
• Screening for disordered eating in people with type 2 diabetes during recruitment to a national remote randomised trial - Evelyn B Parr
• The Effect of Program Engagement on Six-Month Weight-Loss Outcomes Among Adherent Patients in a Medicated Digital Weight-Loss Service - Louis Talay
• Upskilling future clinicians: initial evaluation of the ‘Healthy Moves 4 Healthy Kids ’n’ Teens’ student-led physiotherapy program - Margarita D Tsiros
• Comparative analysis of home-based versus laboratory-based high-intensity interval training in women with polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome.  - Naina Tyagi
• Exploring the Impact of Sex Hormones on Asthma Outcomes - Blair Westbury
• Immune cell phenotype and functional responses to a 12-week type 2 diabetes remission-focused nutritional intervention - John Winkler
• What is food noise? Exploring experiences of food noise in people taking and contemplating taking GLP-1 RA medications  - Fiona Wylie
• Effects of leucine-containing supplementation on body composition and energy intake in older adults: a meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials - Shulin SZ Zhang

Ticket Event. Pre-registration required

Venue: Pig 'N' Whistle South Bank
3/133 Grey St, South Brisbane