Friday 12 April 20138.00 - 10.00 am Registration and arrival tea/coffee Exhibitor area

10.00 - 10.30 am P1 Welcome and opening All plenary sessions held in Grand 1-4

10.30 - 11.10 am P2 Simon Mills: Anchoring herbal medicine Part 1: prospering while Rome burns

11.10 - 11.50 am P3 Dr Andrew Scholey: A decade of research of herbs for the brain

11.50 am - 12.20 pm P4 Sharon Palmer: Genetics and herbal medicine: herbal medicine exerting effect at the level of genetic expression and how this will support, expand and challenge our use of herbal medicine

12.20 - 12.30 pm Q & A

12.30 - 1.30 pm Lunch Exhibitor area

Concurrent room Grand 1-2 Concurrent room Grand 3-4 Concurrent room Grand 5

1.30 - 2.00 pm C1 Peter Mouatt: The St George Medicine Chest: a phytochemical analysis of herbal medicines from a late 19th century steamship

C2 Michelle Boyd: Scientific validation for an ancient panacea, Panax ginseng: reflecting tradition and research into clinical practice

RP1 Jill Dunn: Results from a cross-sectional survey of medical herbalists: potential and barriers for integration

RP2 Assunta Hunter: Becoming professional practitioners

2.00 - 2.30 pm C3 Elizabeth D’Avigdor: Botanica Ethiopia: a living pharmacy

C4 Dr Judy Singer: What is the role of health service managers in providing effective integrative healthcare? Findings from a qualitative study

RP3 Rachel Arthur: To what extent does industry influence naturopathic practice: zinc testing as a case example

RP4 Rachel Canaway: CAM use among people with type 2 diabetes or cardiovascular disease: who is doing what?

2.30 - 3.00 pm C5 Justin Sinclair: The alchemy of herbal medicine: spagyric tinctures and elixirs

C6 Mark Webb: Aromatic medicine: an Australian perspective

RP5 Erica McIntyre: Attitudes, subjective norms and barriers towards herbal medicine use: why and how do individuals with anxiety use herbal medicines?

RP6 Dr Matthew Leach: What do we know about the complementary medicine workforce?

3.00 - 3.15 pm C7 Q & A C8 Q & A RP7 Q & A

3.15 - 3.45 pm Afternoon tea Exhibitor area

3.45 - 4.30 pm P6 Dr Gerald Muench: Natural antiinflammatory compounds for Alzheimer’s disease

4.30 - 5.15 pm P7 Dr Suresh Govindaraghavan: Novel approaches to standardisation of medicinal herb extracts for consistent clinical outcomes

5.15 - 5.45 pm P8 Dr Hans Wohlmuth: Safety evaluation of licorice consumption from phytotherapeutic and dietary sources

5.45 - 6.15 pm PANEL 1: CAM WorkforceDr Matthew Leach, Gerald Quigley, Dr Judy Singer, Jeff Flatt, Rachel Canaway Grand 1-4

6.30 - 7.30 pm Welcome drinks, book launch and networking Exhibitor area

Key: P = Plenary C = Concurrent MC = Master Class RP = 15 min Research poster presentation POS = Poster

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Saturday 13 April 20138.30 - 9.00 am P9 Sandra Villella: PCOS: New Australian guidelines for management of PCOS: relevance to the herbal practitioner

9.00 - 9.30 am P10 Phil Rasmussen: Manuka (Leptospermum scoparium)

9.30 - 10.15 am P11 Steven Foster: Synopsis of traditions and origins of world herbs in clinical practice

10.15 - 10.30 am P12 Q & A

10.30- 11.00 am Morning tea Exhibitor area

11.00 am - 12 noon MC1 Dr Stuart Glastonbury:Assessment of the unwell child: a systematic approach for the CM practitioner

MC2 Simon Mills: Chronic fatigue

MC3 Dr Karen Bridgman: Inflammation: is it the basic building block as well as the regulator of cancer? Herbal medicines as adjuvant therapies

12.00 - 12.30 pm C9 Dawn Whitten: Mastitis: causes and management

C10 Karina Hilterman: Actinic keratoses and herbal medicine interventions: a systematic review and exploring future research directions

C11 Jennie Burke: Inflammation and the role of stealth pathogens in chronic disease

12.30 - 1.00 pm C12 Daniel Baden:Therapeutic fermentation

C13 Dane Renshaw: Australian native plants for wound healing

C14 Ruth Trickey:Collaborative care of the cancer patient

1.00 - 2.00 pm Lunch Exhibitor area

2.00 - 2.30 pm C18 Karen McElroy: The energetics of herbal medicine: an anthroposophical perspective

C19 Dr Hans Wohlmuth: The Medicinal Plant Herbarium and its role in herbal quality assurance

RP8 Dr Patricia Mottram: Herbal extracts that boost innate immunity: a review of evidence for Andrographis and Echinacea

RP9 Dr Gerald Muench: Broad anti-inflammatory action of the polyphenols apigenin and resveratrol

2.30 - 3.00 pm C20 Dr Sue Evans:Medicinal plants in the markets of northern Peru

C21 Gabrielle Jansen: Wild carrot seed: an ancient infertility agent

RP10 Matthew Pase: Bacopa monnieri and the treatment of mental disorders: an overview of the current scientific evidence

RP11 Dr Gerald Muench: Identification of anti-inflammatory compounds from cinnamon

3.00 - 3.30 pm C22 Dr Karin Ried: Aged garlic extract lowers blood pressure in hypertensives: a dose response trial

C23 Dr Jason Hawrelak: Probiotics: sorting the strain from the chaff

RP12 Dr Amelia Pilichiewicz: Preliminary analysis of the effect of active treatment (STW5, esomepra-zole, dual STW5 and esomeprazole or dual placebo) on symptoms and QOL in patients with functional dyspepsia

RP13 Dr David Camfield: Plant-based psychotropics for anxiety disorders

3.30 - 4.15 pm Afternoon tea Exhibitor area

PANEL 2: The future of the NHAA and the professionParticipants to be confirmed Grand 5

4.15 - 5.00 pm P13 Professor Kerry Bone: Herbs and cancer - new research insights

5.00 - 5.30 pm P14 Dr Jerome Sarris: Herbal and naturopathic medicine for anxiety and depression

5.30 - 6.00 pm PANEL 3: Research and EducationIan Breakspear, Assunta Hunter, Dr Karen Bridgman, Dr Hans Wohlmuth, Ses Salmond, Prof Kerry Bone, Dr Suresh Govindaraghavan Grand 1-4

7.00 pm Conference dinner with special guest Steven Foster and some fun activities State Room 3

Sunday 14 April 2013

9.00 - 9.30 am MC4 Angela Hywood: A botanical approach to intestinal permeability and subsequent allergy issues

MC5 Rob SantichThe clinical challenges in herbal paediatrics

MC6 Research and Education

Ian Breakspear: Training the next generation

9.30 - 10.00 am Ses Salmond: The complexities of conducting complementary medicine trials in Australia

10.00 - 10.30 am C24 Dr Jason Hawrelak: Natural medicines to prevent and treat traveller’s diarrhoea

C25 Amina Eastham-Hillier: Effective treatment and management of Lyme disease with herbal medicine

Rachel Canaway: Complementary medicine practitioners in research: enhancing knowledge and the profession

10.30 - 11.00 am Morning tea Exhibitor area

11.00 - 11.45 am C26 Belinda Robson: Autism: understanding the spectrum and naturopathic therapeutic approach

C27 Michael Thomsen:Epigenetics, cancer and herbal medicine

C28 Gill Stannard:To tweet or not to tweet? The role of social media in contemporary herbalism

11.45 - 12.30 pm C29 Daniel Robson: Shooting blanks: the role of natural medicines in male fertility

C30 Toni Miller: Clinical assessment of cardiovascular risk using Integrated Iridology

C31 Joel Friedlaender:How to get a great website on a budget and keep your patient information secure

12.30 - 2.00 pm Lunch Exhibitor area Member meeting with the Board Grand 5

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Sunday 14 April 2013 (continued)

2.00 - 2.45 pm P15 Dr Voytek Kielczynski: MicroRNA - rhinoceros in our glasshouse

2.45 - 3.30 pm P16 Simon Mills: Anchoring herbal medicine Part 2: the practical

3.30 - 3.45 pm Afternoon tea

3.45 - 4.15 pm PANEL 4: Regulation and the future for the professionErica McIntyre, Simon Mills, Steven Foster, Phil Rasmussen, Jill Dunn, Daniel Baden Grand 1-4

4.15 - 4.30 pm Close

Posters

POS1 Professor Mohamed Abouleish, Naser Abdo: Herbal tea contamination and interference with medicinal purpose

POS2 Professor Dr Mansour Al-Said, Kamal El Tahir, Syed Rafatullah, Raad H Madkhali, Abdelaaty A Shahat: Effect of Cadaba glandulosa, an Arabian medicinal herb, on blood lipids and liver function

POS3 Anna Du Chesne, Hans Wohlmuth, Sue Evans, Michael Heinrich, Adele Wessell: Review of traditional medicinal plant use by Australian migrant communities

POS4 Jill Dunn: Results from a cross-sectional survey of medical herbalists: potential and barriers for integration

POS5 Sheridan Keegan, Jacinta Arellano, Tini Gruner: Testing the validity of live blood analysis using darkfield microscopy as a tool for screening nutritional deficiencies of iron, cobalamin (vitamin B12) and folate

POS6 Dr Matthew Leach: What do we know about the complementary medicine workforce?

POS7 Dr Patricia Mottram: Herbal extracts that boost innate immunity: a review of evidence for Andrographis and Echinacea

POS8 Dr Amelia Pilichiewicz: Symptoms and disease burden in patients with functional dyspepsia: an observational 12 month follow-up after a short term trial with STW5, esomeprazole and placebo

POS9 Mohammad Mizanur Rahman, Begum Rokeya, Mohammad Shahjahan, Tofail Ahmed, Sudhangshu Kumar Roy, Liaquat Ali: Hypoglycemic effect of Nyctanthes arbortristis Linn extracts in normal and streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats

POS10 Kate Savage, Hans Wohlmuth, Ashley Dowell, Peter Mouatt: Detecting adulteration of ginkgo extracts with flavonol aglycones: a simple HPLC method

POS11 Dr Amnish Verma: Anticancer potentials of Indian spices: a scientific appraisal

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