SAHMRI Registry Centre Annual Symposium
This year's theme is Advancing Equity through Clinical Quality Registries
The event will focus on exploring how advanced registry analytics transforms registry data into actionable insights.
Date: 13th March 2026 8:30am – 5:00pm (ACDT)
Cocktail event 5:00pm-6:00pm
Venue: SAHMRI Auditorium, North Terrace, Adelaide
Cost: General delegates - $110 (incl. GST)
SAHMRI Registry Centre members - $82.50 (incl. GST)
This year's Symposium will be preceded by the SAHMRI Registry Centre's Datathon event. Check it out!
Abstracts (oral presentations and posters)
Abstracts are being accepted in the following categories:
- Using Registry Data to illuminate inequities
- Embedding principles of ethics, governance, and data sovereignty
- Using Registry insights to:
1. routinely and publicly report on inequities
2. drive quality improvement, or
3. influence policy and system change
Successful applicants will be notified by 2nd February 2026
Abstract submissions open now until 26th January 2026
Submit your abstractAll the details
Keynote
Professor Michael Kidd AO
Australia’s Chief Medical Officer, Australian Government Department of Health, Disability and Ageing
Plenary
Associate Professor Courtney Ryder
Co-Director FHMRI Health Equity Impact Program
Katie Cundale
Program Manager National Indigenous Kidney Transplantation Taskforce
Stay tuned for speaker topics and bios
8:30AM: Registration opens
9:00AM: Welcome and Introduction
Keynote address
Session 1 - Using Registry Data to Identify and Understand Inequities
Session 2 - Ethics, Governance and Data Sovereignty
Session 3 - Reporting, Quality Improvement, and Policy Impact
Session 4 - Meaningful Consumer and Community Involvement - Presentation and panel discussion
5:00PM: Cocktail networking
6:00PM: Event close
Silver Partner: CEIH
SAHMRI is located on Kaurna Country. We pay respects to the Kaurna people of the Adelaide Plains and to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. We are committed to embracing knowledge and culture as we continue our working journey to incorporate Aboriginal health research across all of our themes and further reconciliation.
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(Learning and knowledge are the pathway to alter the mind)
- Uncle Lewis Yerloburka O’Brien, Kaurna Elder
