Friday, 23rd October Australian and New Zealand Obesity Society Annual Scientific Conference 2026

• The Bond that Breaks the Heart—and the Liver, and the Kidney, and the … - Scott Summers

• More Centres, More Surgeons, or a Different Model? Lessons from High-Volume Public Bariatric Surgery - Nick Williams
• Sick Enough to Qualify, Too Sick to Benefit? Rethinking Eligibility for Public Obesity Services - Kathryn Williams
• Beyond Referral: Building Real Partnerships Between Specialist Services and Primary Care - Terri-Lynne South

Panel discussion

• "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 - Jessica Hardt
• Making sense of ultra-processed foods: A qualitative exploration of consumer perspectives to inform communication strategies - Joanne Dono
• Objective understanding and food choice responses to front-of-pack nutrition labelling in Nigeria, Ethiopia, and Kenya - Melkamu Aderajew Zemene
• A systematic scoping review of qualitative evidence on socio-cultural influence on adolescents weight in Africa - Emmanuel Osei Bonsu
• Cooking, connection and care closer to home: Participant experiences of a community-based healthy lifestyle program in Boorloo (Perth), Western Australia - Katie M Iwanowski
• Communicating research findings of adapting a Healthy Lifestyle Program with Aboriginal Elders - Stephanie Smith

• Interpretable Machine Learning Reveals Closed-Form Predictors of Childhood-to-Young-Adult BMI Trajectories - Fuling Chen
• Butyrate signalling epigenetically reprograms intestinal proglucagon through gut microbial modulation - Madilyn Coles
• A palatable high carbohydrate diet rapidly improves glucose tolerance in high-fat diet fed mice without changes in adiposity. - Amanda E Brandon
• Metabolic effects of NAD⁺ modulation by NMNH - Nigel Turner
• Brown Adipose Tissue Directly Suppresses Islet Insulin Secretion Under Chow and High-Fat Diet Conditions - Chenxu Loki Yan

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

Dr Michael Kendig – Basic Science
Prof Xingxing Kong – Basic Science
Dr Sahar Keshvari – Basic Science

• Physical and mental health outcomes of Aboriginal adults living with severe obesity enrolled in a holistic indigenist specialist metabolic program - Dickson Gitonga
• Healthcare professionals’ perspectives of factors influencing acceptability, implementation and replicability of an Indigenist specialist metabolic program - Dickson Gitonga
• The BMI fallacy: do obesity definitions and categorisations matter for clinical research? - Efris EK Kartikasari
• Incremental value of DXA-derived visceral versus total adiposity beyond routine anthropometric assessment for hypertension discrimination: A population-based study - Tadesse Asmamaw Dejenie
• Efficacy and safety of oral semaglutide 25 mg in adults with overweight/obesity: the OASIS 4 RCT - Samantha Hocking
• Discordance between forced oscillometry (FOT) and spirometry in adults with obesity-related asthma - Tamara Blickisdorf

• From Real World Data to Real Time Care - Clair Sullivan
• Improving physical and economic access to equitable, healthy and sustainable diets - Amanda Lee
• Restricting unhealthy food and drink advertising on SA Government transit assets: 12 months post-policy evaluation - Joanna Caruso
• Public support for regulation of autonomous food delivery services - Inez Rojas

• Cognitive and neural effects of reversal from obesogenic diets - Michael Kendig
• Ghrelin Receptors in the Ventromedial Hypothalamus Coordinate Glucose Homeostasis and Metabolic Adaptation to Energy Deficit - Romana Stark