Program 2025

LONG COVID CONFERENCE 2025

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Each session will start with a short testimony from a participant with lived experience participant and conclude with a 10-minute Q&A session to encourage discussion.

8.00	REGISTRATION OPEN
9.00	Conference opening, *Prof Stephanie Gras (LIMS, VIC), Conference Convenor* Welcome to Country, *Wurundjeri Elder Tony Garvey*
9.20	Session on the CELLULAR MECHANISMS OF LONG COVID SESSION Chairs: Prof Kirsty Short (UQ, QLD) & Dr Sarah Annesley (LIMS, VIC) Lived experience participant, *Karlie Flannigan* *(VIC)* International Keynote speaker, *A/Prof Michael Peluso* *(UCSF, USA)* Invited speaker, *Dr Marcel Doerflinger* *(WEHI, VIC)* Invited speaker, *Prof Simon Barry (Robinson Research Institute, University of Adelaide, SA)* Q&A (10 minutes)
10.20	Session on the NEUROLOGICAL ASPECTS OF LONG COVID Chairs: A/Prof Vicky Lawson (The Peter Doherty Institute, VIC) & Dr Anurag Adhikari (LIMS, VIC) Lived experience participant, *Leonie Cavill (VIC)* Invited speaker, *A/Prof Lucette Cysique (The Kirby Institute, NSW)* Invited speaker, *Dr Nirupama Wijesuriya (The George Institute, NSW)* Q&A (10 minutes)
11.05	MORNING TEA sponsored by *Miltenyi Biotec*
11.25	Session on the RESPIRATORY MANIFESTATIONS OF LONG COVID Chairs: Prof Louis Irving (The Royal Melbourne Hospital, VIC) & Dr Michelle Scoullar (Burnet Institute, VIC) Lived experience participant, *Kylie Trounson (VIC)* Invited speaker, *Prof Mark Howard (Austin Health, VIC)* Invited speaker, *Prof Louis Irving (The Royal Melbourne Hospital, VIC)* Q&A (10 minutes)
12.20	Session on the CARDIOVASCULAR MANIFESTATIONS OF LONG COVID Chairs: Prof Christine McDonald (Austin health, VIC) & Dr Emma Tippett (Clinic Nineteen, VIC) Lived experience participant, *Charlotte McIntyre (NSW)* Invited speaker, *Dr Marie-Claire Seeley (The Australian POTS Foundation, SA)* Invited speaker, *A/Prof Erin Howden (Baker Institute, VIC)* Invited speaker, *Dr Michelle Scoullar (Burnet Institute, VIC)* Q&A (10 minutes)
1.15pm	LUNCH sponsored by *Moderna*
2.00pm	Session on the REHABILITATION & RECOVERY Chairs: A/Prof Danielle Hitch (Deakin University. VIC) & Dr Joanne Wrench (Austin Health, VIC) Lived experience participant, *Karen Dickinson (VIC)* Invited speaker, *Prof Steven Faux* (St Vincent’s Public Hospital, NSW) Invited speaker, *Leigh Seid*el-Marks (Austin Health, VIC) Q&A (10 minutes)
2.50pm	Session on the MODELS OF CARE FOR LONG COVID Chairs: A/Prof Bernard Shiu (Banksia Medical Centre, VIC) & A/Prof Alex Holmes (The Royal Melbourne Hospital, VIC) Lived experience participant, *Ashleigh Power (VIC)* Invited speaker, *Dr Jenny Huang* (*Banksia Medical Centre, Geelong Long COVID Clinic, VIC)* Invited speaker, *A/Prof Nathan Butler* *(Active Health Clinic, VIC)* Invited speaker, *Dr Emma Tippett* *(Clinic Nineteen, VIC)* Invited speaker, *Michael Wai* *(RPA Virtual Hospital, NSW)* Q&A (10 minutes)
3.55pm	AFTERNOON TEA sponsored by *Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute Immunity Program*
4.15pm	Session on PANDEMIC PREPAREDNESS Chairs: Prof Stephanie Gras (LIMS, VIC) & Dr Emily Eriksson (WEHI, VIC) Lived experience participant, *Megan Airey (QLD)* sponsored by WEHI Invited speaker, *Prof Kirsty Short (University of Queensland, QLD)* Invited speaker, *Prof Brendan Crabb (Burnet Institute, VIC)* International Keynote speaker, *A/Prof David Strain (Exeter University, UK)* Q&A (10 minutes)
5.20pm	Concluding remarks by Prof David Watters (Deakin University, University Hospital Geelong, VIC)
5.30pm	NETWORKING EVENT sponsored by La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science (on the terrace weather permitted)