Saturday, 16th August Australian and New Zealand Pituitary Alliance 2025

Professor Ann McCormack to welcome attendees. 

A/Prof Chris Yates (Royal Melbourne Hospital) for Surgery and Dr Sarah Olson (Princess Alexandra Hospital, Queensland) for Non Surgical approach. 

Dr Nienke Biermasz 

• Management of Prolactinomas in 2024 - Nienke Biermasz

A 10 minute Panel Q&A will follow: 

Panel Members:

• Sunita De Sousa
• James King
• Nienke Biermasz 

• Aripiprazole use as a cause of dopamine agonist failure in the treatment of prolactinomas - Edward Mignone

A 10 minute Panel Q&A will follow: 

Panel Members:

• Sunita De Sousa
• James King
• Nienke Biermasz 

• Surgical management of prolactinoma since the updated 2023 Pituitary Society International Consensus Statement: an early Australian experience. - Lachlan R Evans

Are we there yet? - The road trip to an optimised pituitary pathology report and a look under the bonnet
Dr Peter Earls (St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney)

The discussion will include:

• What should be in a histopathology report
• How do we ensure that reports meet a minimum standard
• Advantages of structured reports
• Published examples
• How to develop one
• Challenges in measuring and defining histological parameters, including markers of proliferation

A 10 minute Panel Q&A will follow: 

Panel Members:

• Prishila Fookeerah
• Vanaja Muthurajah
• Angela Bayly
• Peter Earls

• Silent prolactinoma in a woman presenting with amenorrhoea - Minh Le

A 10 minute Panel Q&A will follow: 

Panel Members:

• Prishila Fookeerah
• Vanaja Muthurajah
• Angela Bayly
• Peter Earls

• T-PIT-guided Reclassification of Silent Corticotroph Adenomas: Diagnostic and Prognostic Implications - Dhanushree Patel

Dr Nele Lenders (St Vincent's Hospital Sydney/Garvan Institute of Medical Research)

• Clinically non-functioning pituitary tumours - Nele Lenders

A 10 minute Panel Q&A will follow: 

Panel Members:

• Ben Jonker
• Richard Carroll
• Nele Lenders
• Michael Huo

• Silent Corticotroph Tumours - Characteristics and Comparisons to Other Non-Functioning PitNETs: A Case Series - Judy Chen

A 10 minute Panel Q&A will follow: 

Panel Members:

• Ben Jonker
• Richard Carroll
• Nele Lenders
• Michael Huo

• 2025 ANZ interdisciplinary survey of non-functioning pituitary adenoma management: areas of variability and common practice - Edward Mignone

Guest Speaker: Dr Nicholas Maartens

Dr Maartens is a general neurosurgeon with specialised expertise in complex spinal surgery, cranial microsurgery, and endoscopic skull base and pituitary surgery.