Learn how AI is disrupting healthcare; how data from NSQIP is driving quality improvement in POM, and how to make sense of ANZELA dashboard.
Overview
As part of the Chapter of Perioperative Medicine's commitment to being the leading voice in perioperative medicine, we are continuing our free webinar series in 2026.
The first webinar series - "Data and disruption in POM" - will feature three speakers, Associate Professor Bhavesh Patel, Mr Graeme Filippi and Dr James Aitken. Topics will range from AI disruption in healthcare, National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP)-based data-driven QI in POM and interpreting the Australian and New Zealand Emergency Laparotomy Audit (ANZELA) dashboard. This webinar will be held via Zoom. This webinar will be held via Zoom.
Speakers
Presentation 1: AI disrupting healthcare
Speaker: Associate Professor Bhavesh Patel, FRACS, FACS, CHIA, Paediatric Surgeon, Queensland
Associate Professor Bhavesh Patel is a paediatric surgeon practising in Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast. He is the State Clinical Lead for the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program at Clinical Excellence Queensland (NSQIP). He holds academic appointments at the University of Queensland and Bond University, and is a Certified Health Informatician Australasia (CHIA). His interests span digital health, AI, systems design and patient engagement.
Presentation 2: NSQIP in the Sunshine State – data driven QI in POM
Speaker: Mr Graeme Filippi, RN, MN, B.Ed, GC Crit Care, GC Aged Care, Queensland.
Mr Filippi manages the Queensland Health Surgical and Critical Care Improvement team and is the Queensland Coordinator for the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP) within the Healthcare Improvement Unit (HIU) at Clinical Excellence Queensland (CEQ).
Since joining HIU in 2016, Graeme has coordinated key statewide networks, including the Queensland Surgical Advisory Committee and the Statewide Anaesthesia and Perioperative Care Clinical Network (SWAPNET), and has led improvement projects across surgery and specialist outpatients.
He led the expansion of NSQIP in Queensland from three pilot sites in 2019 to 25 hospitals in 2025, now covering over 95% of surgical activity statewide.
Graeme’s current focus is using NSQIP insights to drive statewide quality improvement, strengthen local capability, and improve surgical flow to increase capacity, streamline patient pathways, and reduce unwarranted variation across Queensland.
Presentation 3: Interpreting the ANZELA dashboard
Dr James Aitken, FRACS, Western Australia
Dr James Aitken recently retired from clinical practice as a consultant colorectal surgeon at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital. In 2002 he established the Western Australian Audit of Surgical Mortality, now the Australian and New Zealand Audit of Surgical Mortality. He is the chair of the Australian and New Zealand Emergency Laparotomy Audit Management Committee. He is also a member of the Commission’s Emergency Laparotomy Clinical Care Standard Topic Working Party
Save the date and join us: Wednesday 22 April 2026, 7–8pm AEST | 9–10pm NZST.
All those registered will receive a link to the session recording.
If ANZCA is your CPD home, you may record one hour of CPD under Category 2: Knowledge and skills – learning sessions. Participants affiliated with other CPD homes are encouraged to check their individual CPD requirements.
