Friday, 23rd October
Australian and New Zealand Obesity Society Annual Scientific Conference 2026
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Registration Open
8:30AM - 3:30PM
Friday, 23rd October
Grand Chelsea Lobby & Chelsea Lane
Speakers Preparation Room Open
8:30AM - 1:30PM
Friday, 23rd October
Legends Room
Plenary 3 - Basic Science & ANZOS Rising Star Award
9:00AM - 10:30AM
Friday, 23rd October
Daintree Room
The Bond that Breaks the Heart—and the Liver, and the Kidney, and the …
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Scott Summers
Morning Tea
10:30AM - 11:00AM
Friday, 23rd October
Grand Chelsea Lobby & Chelsea Lane
ANZOS / ANZMOSS / NACOS Joint Session
11:00AM - 12:30PM
Friday, 23rd October
Daintree Room
Chairs: Milan Piya & Kathryn Williams
More Centres, More Surgeons, or a Different Model? Lessons from High-Volume Public Bariatric Surgery
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Nick Williams
Sick Enough to Qualify, Too Sick to Benefit? Rethinking Eligibility for Public Obesity Services
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Kathryn Williams
Beyond Referral: Building Real Partnerships Between Specialist Services and Primary Care
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Terri-Lynne South
Panel discussion
Public Health Abstract Presentations 4 - Communication, Culture and Healthy Behaviours
11:00AM - 12:30PM
Friday, 23rd October
Sundown Room
Making sense of ultra-processed foods: A qualitative exploration of consumer perspectives to inform communication strategies
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Joanne Dono
Objective understanding and food choice responses to front-of-pack nutrition labelling in Nigeria, Ethiopia, and Kenya
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Melkamu Aderajew Zemene
A systematic scoping review of qualitative evidence on socio-cultural influence on adolescents weight in Africa
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Emmanuel Osei Bonsu
"Tell me what it was like for you" -
the experience and perspectives of adolescents and their parents relating to the diagnosis of type 2 diabetes
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Jessica Hardt
Cooking, kin and care close to home: Participant experiences of a scaled-out, family-centred, community-based healthy lifestyle program in Perth, Western Australia.
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Katie M Iwanowski
Communicating research findings of adapting a Healthy Lifestyle Program with Aboriginal Elders
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Stephanie Smith
Basic Science Abstract Presentations 4
11:00AM - 12:30PM
Friday, 23rd October
Piper Room
Single-cell transcriptome identifies novel genes associated with hepatic recovery pathways in metabolic associated steatohepatitis
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Shannen Walker
Interpretable Machine Learning Reveals Closed-Form Predictors of Childhood-to-Young-Adult BMI Trajectories
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Fuling Chen
Butyrate signalling epigenetically reprograms intestinal proglucagon through gut microbial modulation
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Madilyn Coles
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Amanda Brandon
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Nigel Turner
Lunch
12:30PM - 1:30PM
Friday, 23rd October
Grand Chelsea Lobby & Chelsea Lane
ANZOS AGM
12:30PM - 1:30PM
Friday, 23rd October
Daintree Room
Clinical Abstract Presentations 4 - Rethinking obesity: from definitions and measurement to treatment and outcomes
1:30PM - 3:00PM
Friday, 23rd October
Daintree Room
Physical and mental health outcomes of Aboriginal adults living with severe obesity enrolled in a holistic indigenist specialist metabolic program
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Dickson Gitonga
Healthcare professionals’ perspectives of factors influencing acceptability, implementation and replicability of an Indigenist specialist metabolic program
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Dickson Gitonga
The BMI fallacy: do obesity definitions and categorisations matter for clinical research?
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Efris EK Kartikasari
Incremental value of DXA-derived visceral versus total adiposity beyond routine anthropometric assessment for hypertension discrimination: A population-based study
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Tadesse Asmamaw Dejenie
Efficacy and safety of oral semaglutide 25 mg in adults with overweight/obesity: the OASIS 4 RCT
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Samantha Hocking
Discordance between forced oscillometry (FOT) and spirometry in adults with obesity-related asthma
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Tamara Blickisdorf
Public Health Symposium 4 - Advancing public health responses to obesity: innovation, evidence and impact
1:30PM - 3:00PM
Friday, 23rd October
Sundown Room
From Real World Data to Real Time Care
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Clair Sullivan
Improving physical and economic access to equitable, healthy and sustainable diets
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Amanda Lee
Restricting unhealthy food and drink advertising on SA Government transit assets: 12 months post-policy evaluation
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Joanna Caruso
Public support for regulation of autonomous food delivery services
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Inez Rojas
Basic Science Symposium 5 - Appetite and Central Regulation of Metabolism
1:30PM - 3:00PM
Friday, 23rd October
Piper Room
Cognitive and neural effects of reversal from obesogenic dietsCognitive and neural effects of reversal from obesogenic diets
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Michael Kendig
Closing Plenary
3:00PM - 3:30PM
Friday, 23rd October
Daintree Room
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