1. Centre of Research Excellence in Ear and Hearing Health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children Launch Monday 27th April 2015
14:30 WELCOME TO COUNTRY from Bilawara Lee
14:35 OFFICIAL LAUNCH of the CRE by the ADMINISTRATOR of the NT, His Honour John Hardy
14:45 OVERVIEW of the CRE by A/Professor Kelvin Kong
15:00 Administrator departs

2. DRAFT PROGRAM for CRE_ICHEAR F2F Monday 27th April 2015
PREVENTION (project #s in original application)
15:00 1&2 HEALTH PROMOTION
Deborah Lehmann and the KalOM team
Elizabeth McDonald
15:20 3 PREVIX - Vaccine RCT
Amanda Leach
TREATMENT - SURGERY
15:30 5 SURE-I-HEAR – OME RCT
Stephen O’Leary
15:40 6 DORNASE ALFA RCT
Ruth Thonton
15:50 7 TISSUE ENGINEERING RCT
Harvey Coates
16:00 20’ BREAK

3. DRAFT PROGRAM for CRE_ICHEAR F2F Monday 27th April 2015
TREATMENT - antibiotics
16:20 8 WATCH – AOM RCT
Jennifer Reath and the WATCH team
16: IHEARBETA – CSOM RCT
Peter Morris
DATA ANALYSES – combined data
16:40 2,4,11 META-DATA - Preparation of a 20 year data collection
Jemima Beissbarth, Allen Cheng
John McKenzie
Kathy Currie
PATHOGENESIS
17: Overview
Heidi Smith-Vaughan
17:15 CLOSE – transfer to Hotel
To 18:45 Advisory Board, LG, WATCH trial meeting
Short 5-8 minute summary of proposed CRE-extension project. Including:
a summary of evidence
results or progress to date
plans for CRE supported research.
What works
What are the gaps
What can be reasonably achieved in next 5 years.
The aim will be to stimulate discussion for the following day, to confirm or set new priorities. Please keep in mind our goals for Capacity Building, Research Transfer and leverage for ongoing funding.

4. DRAFT PROGRAM for CRE_ICHEAR F2F Tuesday 28th April 2015
 COFFEE & BREAKFAST
WELCOME
9:00 to 9:45
CAPACITY BUILDING and INDIGENOUS LEADERSHIP
Chair: Heather D’Antoine
Presenters: Glenn Pearson, Sandi Nelson, Kelvin Kong
NT, WA and NSW presentations
summary of the Training and Capacity Building available to CRE
9:45 to 10:30
PATHOGENESIS – understanding OM – the vicious circle hypothesis
Chair : Peter Richmond
Presenters: Robyn Marsh, Ruth Thornton, Heidi Smith-Vaughan
What we know
What we need to know
MORNING COFFEE 10:30 to 11:00

5. DRAFT PROGRAM for CRE_ICHEAR F2F Tuesday 28th April 2015
11:00 to 11:45
PREVENTION – PATHWAYS to OM - Health promotion and Vaccines
Chair: Kim Mulholland
Presenters: Deborah Lehmann and the KalOM team, Peter Richmond
What we know
What we need to know
11:45 to 12:30
 CLINICAL – DIAGNOSIS – EQUIPMENT and TRAINING
Chair: Peter Morris
Presenters: Jennifer Reath and Hasantha Gunasekera, Harvey Coates
12:30 to 13:15
TREATMENT - antibiotics, surgery and interventions for speech, language and auditory processing disorders
Chair: Hasantha Gunasekera
Presenters: Amanda Leach, Harvey Coates, Samantha Harkus
LUNCH 13:15 to 14:00

6. DRAFT PROGRAM for CRE_ICHEAR F2F Tuesday 28th April 2015
ISSUES THAT ARISE – CHAIRS to lead Breakout sessions
14:00 to 14:30                
CAPACITY BUILDING
PATHOGENESIS
PREVENTION
14:30 to 15:00
CLINICAL
TREATMENT
QUALITATIVE
METADATA
15:00 to 16:00                 REPORT BACK TO WHOLE GROUP
15:30 to 16:00 – break and visit HealthLab and BEN in courtyard
16:00 to 17:30                 Issues parked from previous sessions
18:30 Sunset and DINNER at Darwin Sailing Club

7. DRAFT PROGRAM for CRE_ICHEAR F2F Wednesday 29th April 2015
COFFEE & BREAKFAST
WELCOME
9:00 to 11:00
ADVISORY BOARD – Perspectives and big picture
Prof Alan Cripps
EXPERT SUMMARIES – PANEL
Prof Paul Torzillo, Prof Harvey Coates, Prof Kim Mulholland, Prof Michael Alpers
INDIGENOUS REFERENCE GROUP
A/Prof Kelvin Kong, Ms Heather D’Antoine, Mr Glenn Pearson
LEADERSHIP GROUP - PROCESSES FOR APPLICATION and APPROVAL
OMOZ on ~06/09/2016
A/Prof Kelvin Kong and Dr Hasantha Gunasekera
MORNING COFFEE &/or AIRPORT 11:00