BTAA Patient Education and Information Forum. Gold Coast 2025

Name: BTAA Patient Education and Information Forum. Gold Coast 2025
Start: 2025-09-14T09:00:00+1000
End: 2025-09-14T15:00:00+1000
Location: The Langham Gold Coast

Sun, 14 Sep 2025, 9am - 3pm AEST

The Langham Gold Coast

Brain Tumour Alliance Australia

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Description

The BTAA Patient Education and Information Forum is held as a satellite event of the 17th COGNO ASM. Sponsored and Co-Hosted by The Brain Cancer Group, and supported by the Cooperative Trials Group for Neuro-Oncology (COGNO), this forum will be a unique opportunity for patients and carers to receive information and ask questions about the latest scientific advances in brain tumour treatment and care. Attendance is highly recommended. This is a FREE event, but registration is required.

The forum will also be livestreamed as a Webinar. (Webinar option available during registration).

Program:

Facilitated by Marina Kastelan

Neuro Oncology Nurse Practitioner, The Brain Cancer Group

9.00 - 9.30am Registrations

9.30am. A/Prof Eng-Siew Koh, COGNO Chair. Opening Remarks.

9.35am. Advancing Neuro-oncological Brain Tumour Care and Support Through Coordinated Partnerships.

A/Prof Karin Pill. Senior Researcher, Associate Professor at Copenhagen University Hospital-Rigshospitalet, Denmark

10.15am. Lessons from BRAINS: Where to with supportive care for people with brain tumour.

Prof. Haryana Dhilon. Faculty of Science, School of Psychology, University of Sydney

10.30am. New Horizons in Glioma Care and Clinical Trials.

Dr Angela Mweempwa. Medical Oncologist, Auckland Hospital, NZ

10.50am - MORNING TEA

11.10am. Update on Rare CNS Tumours.

Dr Wade Pullin, Medical Oncologist, Gold Coast, Qld

11.30am Q&A Session. Panelists: A/Prof Karin Piil, Prof Haryana Dhillon, Dr Angela Mweempwa, Dr Wade Pullin, Dr Michael Colditz, Neurosurgeon QLD, Mr Jason Martin

12.20pm - LUNCH

1.15pm. Interactive Session. Physical Activity and Exersise for Brain Tumours: Understanding the Why and Navigating the How.

Jason Martin, Exercise Physiologist, QUT

1.45pm. BRAINS program / Psycho-oncology Co-operative Research Group

Facilitated Sharing sessions: Patients and carers with break-out groups

Group 1 (Patients): Experiencing and managing fatigue with a brain tumour

Group 2 (Carers): Caring for carers – resources and strategies to help

2.35PM QUESTIONS AND CONCLUSION. MEETING CLOSE.

SPONSORED & CO-HOSTED BY

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Brain Tumour Alliance Australia (BTAA) was established in 2008 and is run by volunteers. BTAA aspires to be the national brain tumour support organisation, focussing on support for the brain tumour patient and their carers, and the oft-forgotten families of patients, which brain tumours affect.

BTAA is a not for profit organisation and supports patients with any brain tumour (neoplasm) affecting the central nervous system (CNS), which includes the meninges, brain, and spinal cord.

Paediatric and adult tumours, malignant and so-called benign tumours, and metastatic brain tumours are all supported. BTAA believes that brain tumours represent a neglected illness, which places enormous challenges on the patient and family and requires a unique response, and a much-increased research effort supported by the community and governments.

BTAA has a broad membership and subscriber database that includes health professionals and academics with a particular interest in brain tumours.

BTAA works closely with the International Brain Tumour Alliance (IBTA), including in its promotion of the annual International Brain Tumour Awareness Week, and the annual Walk Around the World for Brain Tumours.

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