This piece comes from Melbourne, Australia, at the World Congress of Prehabilitation and Perioperative Medicine, held alongside the Australian ERAS+ Conference.

Hear about the significance of multidisciplinary collaboration in prehabilitation and research; grants for virtual surgery schools; the impact of diet and microbiome on cancer pathways, and the future of digital prehabilitation. The conversation emphasizes the importance of optimizing patient care and reducing complications through innovative approaches in prehabilitation and perioperative medicine.

Presented by Kate Leslie and Mike Grocott with their guests Bernard Riedel, an academic anaesthesiologist and the Director of the Department of Anaesthesia, Perioperative Medicine, and Pain Medicine at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne, Australia, he holds a Professorial appointment at the University of Melbourne and Linda Denehy, Professor of Physiotherapy at the University of Melbourne, she has a joint appointment as Professor of Health Services Research: Allied Health at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre Melbourne.