PHYSICIANS UPDATE 2026
SATURDAY, 28 MARCH 2026
07:30 – 08:30 REGISTRATION
08:30 – 08:40 Welcome & Opening – Prof Ismail Kalla
SESSION 1 – HAEMATOLOGY/ONCOLOGY
Chair:
08:40 – 09:00 Thrombocytopenia in Pregnancy – Dr Garrick Laudin
09:00 – 09:20 Exciting New Cellular Therapies in Haematology – Dr Justin du Toit
09:20 – 09:30 Q&A
SESSION 2 – ETHICS
Chair:
09:30 – 10:15 The Ethics of AI in Healthcare 10:15 – 10:30 Q&A 10:30 – 11:00 REFRESHMENT BREAK
SESSION 3 – RHEUMATOLOGY/IMMUNOLOGY
Chair:
11:00 – 11:20 Gout: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly – Dr Preesha Govender
11:20 – 11:40 Sponsored session – Ampath: A Basic Approach to Immunodeficiency for Physicians – Dr Lizelle Nagel
11:40 – 11:50 Q&A
SESSION 4 – GERIATRICS / PALLIATIVE CARE
Chair:
11:50 – 12:10 Diagnosis of Dementia in Primary Care – Dr India Butler
12:10 – 12:30 Palliative Approaches in Advanced Dementia – Dr Anu Abraham 12:30 – 12:40 Q&A
12:40 – 13:40 LUNCH
SESSION 5 – PULMONOLOGY / CRITICAL CARE
Chair:
13:40 – 14:00 The Management of Intermediate Risk Pulmonary Embolism – Dr Vivendra Naidoo 14:00 – 14:20 An Update on the Management of Sepsis and Septic Shock - Prof Mervyn Mer 14:20 – 14:30 Q&A
SESSION 6 – CARDIOMETABOLIC / GIT
Chair:
14:30 – 14:50 Does Heart Failure Management need LVEF cutoffs anymore? – Prof Nqoba Tsabedze
15:50 – 15:40 Combined Endocrine and GIT debate: Endoscopic intervention vs GLP-1s for the management of obesity in 2026 Prof Adam Mahomed and Prof Zaheer Bayat
15:40 – 15:50 Q&A
15:50 – 16:15 Refreshment Break
PLENARY SESSION : AI
Chair:
16:15 – 17:00 AI in Internal Medicine – WITS MIND Institute
17:00 – 17:10 Q&A
17:10 – 17:15 Closing COCKTAIL EVENT & POSTER EXHIBITION
17:15 – 18:30 Cocktail event and poster exhibition