ASCIA 2024 Conference Report
The ASCIA 2024 Conference was held from Tuesday 3rd to Friday 6th September 2024 at the Adelaide Convention Centre. This was a hybrid conference, which enables virtual or in-person attendance, and on-demand viewing of sessions for all registered delegates for up to six months after the conference.
The ASCIA 2024 Conference Program Book is available here: ASCIA 2024 PROGRAM BOOK1.3 MB
Congratulations to the Chair, Dr Jovanka King, and her committee on organising a highly successful event with an outstanding program, which attracted another record high number of 712 delegates including:
- 518 in-person (73%)
- 193 virtual (27%)
This was in addition to staff and representatives from 36 sponsor/exhibitor organisations.
Highlights from the ASCIA 2024 Conference include:
- An international standard of continuing professional development (CPD) with presentations of the latest research and issues in allergy and clinical immunology, presented by more than 60 speakers, including invited nternational speakers - Professor Manish Butte, Professor Mathew Greenhawt and Professor Alexandra Santos.
- Interactive Q&A panels for all sessions, with the option of asking questions via the fixed microphones onsite or on the conference app.
- An entertaining Basten Oration presented by Prof Mike Gold, chaired by A/Prof Patrick Quinn. The Basten Oration is available open access at www.allergy.org.au/conferences/ascia-annual-conference/annual-ascia-basten-oration
- 132 posters - abstracts will be published online in the Internal Medicine Journal, and a link will be available at www.allergy.org.au/conferences/ascia-annual-conference/published-abstracts-ascia
- 23 oral clinical grand rounds case presentations and 24 oral poster presentations - award winners are listed on the ASCIA website www.allergy.org.au/hp/awards-grants/ascia-award-grant-scholarship-recipients#s1
- 9 sponsored sessions which can be accessed on demand post-event.
- Presentations by AIFA grant recipients from 2022.https://www.allergyimmunology.org.au/projects/projects#latest
- The 2nd annual ASCIA Immunodeficiency Update for Nurses on Thursday 5th September.
- Concurrent Allergy Updates for Medical Practitioners, Nurses and Dietitians on Friday 6th September.
- A record high participation in social functions = dinners on Wednesday night for 80 Trainees/Consultants and 70 Nurses.
- We also had a record high number of more than 200 guests attend the black and white themed Gala Dinner at Adelaide Zoo. Guests enjoyed pre-dinner drinks with the Giant Pandas Wang Wang and Fu Ni, and then our very own Panda helped Jovanka King present awards.