FULL CONFERENCE PROGRAM
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PROGRAM OUTLINE
Saturday 25 July | Sunday 26 July | Monday 27 July | Tuesday 28 July | Wednesday 29 July |
Overnight Uluru tour | Workshops/Optional activities | Sessions/Workshops/Optional activities | Sessions/Optional activities | Optional activity |
Welcome Reception | Free night | Conference Dinner |
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
VICTORIA BRAZIL - MBBBS, FACEM, MBA
Victoria Brazil is an emergency
physician and medical educator.
She is a senior staff specialist at the Gold Coast Health Service in Queensland, Australia, where she works in clinical emergency medicine practice, and at the 'coalface' of teaching. Dr Brazil is also an Associate Professor within the School of Medicine at Bond University, where she is Theme Lead for “Doctor as Practitioner’’.
Dr Brazil special interests include technology in medical education, social media, and simulation based learning. Her research interests focus on utilizing simulation of patient journeys as a tool for improving patient outcomes.
She was previously the first Director of Queensland Medical Education and Training(QMET), within Queensland Health, focusing on medical education and workforce policy and strategy.
Victoria is frequently invited to
speak at national and international conferences in both
emergency medicine and medical education. She is a previous Fulbright scholar
(2002) and received the ACEM Teaching Excellence award in 2008.
ROBERT DUNN
Bob is an Emergency Physician with 30 years
of experience in clinical practice in a variety of settings who also has
qualifications in management and applied languages.
He is currently Director of
Clinical and Academic Emergency Medicine at the Royal Adelaide Hospital and is
the Editor in Chief of The Emergency Medicine Manual.
He has previously served
as Regional Censor for SA/NT, and on a large number of college committees and
currently serves on the Senior Court of Examiners and Examiners Committee.
He has a particular interest in resuscitation, ultrasound, acute cardiology, trauma, organisational behaviour and rational decision making.
INVITED SPEAKERS
Tim Baker
Associate Professor Tim Baker is an Emergency Physician and Director of Deakin University’s Centre for Rural Emergency Medicine (CREM). He works at a regional and two small rural emergency departments in Victoria. He has spent his last five years researching small rural emergency departments, and working with government and non-government programs to advocate for the needs of small hospitals.
Stephen Brady
Will Davies
Peter Deutschmann
Peter Deutschmann is a general surgeon and public health physician with considerable experience in rural and remote settings, principally in India where in earlier years (1982-95) he provided surgical and primary health care services for a population of 250,000 in rural north India.
In
2012 Peter took up an appointment as a consultant general surgeon at Alice
Springs Hospital, Northern Territory. Through this appointment he maintains his
interest and engagement in Indigenous health and the delivery of health
services to remote and rural populations. In the decade prior this Peter led
the development of the discipline of international and global health at the
University of Melbourne, where he still remains active as a professorial
fellow.
Kylie Dingwall
Dr Kylie Dingwall is a Post Doctoral Research Fellow at
Menzies in Alice Springs. Her research has explored the neuropsychological, and
contextual factors contributing to substance misuse and its harms in an
Indigenous context. She has also been involved in the development of culturally
relevant tools to measure and address cognitive and mental health issues in
Indigenous groups.
Lucy Donaldson
Lucy
Donaldson is an Education Assessment Officer at ACEM. Lucy coordinates
Workplace-based Assessment at ACEM, and oversees the work undertaken by the
members of the WBA Panels. Lucy works closely with the Assessment, Training and
CRP teams to operationalise the new training program.
Lucy
has previously worked in program coordination in the Not for Profit sector, as
well as in Educational roles at Apple and the University of Melbourne.Lucy
considers herself an early adopter, and enjoys the challenges and rigorous
thinking that come with curriculum change.
Joseph Epstein
Associate Professor Joseph Epstein was prominent in the
field of Emergency Medicine in Victoria when he was elected a Foundation Fellow
of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine. He was the first College
Censor for Victoria and was appointed Deputy Censor-in-Chief and Chair of the
Primary Examination Committee in 1984. Associate Professor Epstein was
President of the College from 1988 to 1992. The first Primary Examination was
conducted under his direction and the framework he established for that
examination remain largely intact to this day.
Jill Faulkner
Jill Faulkner has worked across thirty years responding to
children, women and men who have experienced violence, abuse and trauma. In
this work she has been drawn to feminist, anti-oppressive and decolonising
practices to develop ways of working across community based organisations that
support practice that is located within a social and political context and
supports the healing and reparation of women, children, men, their families and
communities. This work has taken her to the communities of the Pilbara for many
years responding to the impact and effects of past government policies of
forcible removal; to Melbourne managing a domestic violence service supporting
women and children who have experienced gendered violence, the collaborative
development of a healing service and sexual assault services and managing a
primary health care service. Jill is deeply committed to shared spaces with
Indigenous communities that are able to support the development of a model of
healing that is transformative for both children, their families and
communities.
Sam Goodwin
Dr Samuel Goodwin
is Acting Executive Director of Medical and Clinical Services with the Central
Australian Health Service in Alice Springs in the Northern Territory.
After graduating from James Cook University, Dr Goodwin undertook further training in remote areas of the Northern Territory, completing fellowship of the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM) and recently completing the requirements to graduate with a Master of Public Health and Tropical Medicine at James Cook University.
Dr Goodwin
maintains his clinical practice as a rural generalist at the Tennant Creek
Hospital, GP anaesthetist at the Alice Springs Hospital and mainstream general
practitioner. Dr Goodwin credits his
time in Central Australia with providing him with the skills and adventurous
experience he hoped for in his postgraduate years.
Stephen Gourley
Stephen is the Director of the Alice Springs Emergency
Department and has a commitment to rural and remote medicine and Indigenous
health. He has a broad range of interests, including leadership and education.
Stephen has a Masters in Health Administration with an interest in medical ethics
and law as well as patient quality and safety. He also has a Graduate diploma
in Medical Education which ties in well with management skills. Interestingly
both are related to communication and behaviour change. He is a senior lecturer
with both Flinders and UQ medical schools. Stephen is the NT Faculty Chair for
ACEM and sits on a number of committees as well as being the AMA NT Vice
President. Outside of work he enjoys snow skiing, travel and good company.
Tim Henderson
Dr Tim Henderson grew up in central Africa, moved to the UK
in his teens and did his medical and eye training in the UK. He did a corneal
research fellowship with Professor Coster in Flinders Medical Centre in 1998.
He worked as an NHS consultant ophthalmologist in Yorkshire before taking on
the challenge of head of the eye department in Alice Springs Hospital in July
2000. He visits numerous remote communities each year on the specialist
outreach program. He is a Senior Lecturer in ophthalmology with the NT Clinical
School, Flinders University and supervises the RANZCO accredited training eye
registrars and Fred Hollows Foundation Fellows. He is keen to develop a
sustainable regional eye service to allow timely access to high quality
eyecare. He sits on various local and national vision related committees to
help drive this. He has 2 children at university and enjoys time at home with
his wife, a highly respected GP educator and medical author, and 2 fluffy dogs.
He would like to spend more time on the golf course to keep his handicap in
single figures.
Dr Paul Helliwell has been a staff specialist at Alice Springs Hospital since 2003. Prior to that worked in New Zealand at Christchurch and Invercargill. Previously he has worked as a general practitioner in the UK, Tristan da Cunha, and on the Chatham Islands, New Zealand. Dr Helliwell is the Director of Clinical Training for Alice Springs.
Dr Helliwell has an interest in frequent attenders and published a paper on this. Many patients who are frequent attenders suffer from alcohol abuse disorder. In central Australia, renal disease also results in many patients attending repeatedly.
Dr Helliwell has been collecting reliable figures for
episodes of domestic violence since 2007. This is closely tied up with alcohol
abuse issues. The figures for alcohol abuse have also been collected by the
Emergency Department at Alice Springs Hospital.
Cheri Hotu
Cheri Hotu is an endocrinologist and general physician based at Alice Springs Hospital. She is also part of a diabetes outreach team, delivering care to remote communities. She holds a post doctoral research fellowship with Baker IDI Heart & Diabetes Institute Central Australia. Her research interests include finding effective models of healthcare delivery in diabetes care to delay the progression of cardiovascular and renal disease in Indigenous populations.
Geoff Isbister
Rich Johnson is an emergency physician who trained in both the UK and Australia with a long standing interest in delivering medical care to Indigenous populations in remote and austere environments having worked in mission hospitals, with mountain rescue, the UK HEMS service GNAAS as well as currently being Director of the Alice Springs Retrieval service.
Martin Kelly
Martin Kelly is a doctor, ethicist and storyteller… and a remote practitioner working for the last fifteen years with Nganampa Health Council, the Indigenous-run health service for the semi-traditional communities on the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yangkuntjatjara Lands of Central Australia. Martin has attempted to balance a research interest in trust and the importance of the interpersonal relationship as the locus of the work of medicine with the realities of remote indigenous medical practice
Rosalie Kunoth-Monks
Until the age of nine, Rosalie Kunoth-Monks lived on remote Utopia Station in the Northern Territory where she learnt the Aboriginal laws of her tribe, the Amatjere people. Her father insisted she attend school in Alice Springs, where in 1953 she was discovered by filmmakers Charles and Elsa Chauvel. Rosalie won the lead role in Jedda, a film that became an Australian classic.
Filming took Rosalie away from the life she had known. Though for a year she was exposed to totally new and bewildering experiences, once production was completed she resumed her former life for a time.
Rosalie became increasingly attracted to the Anglican Church. In 1960 she moved to Melbourne, joined the Community of the Holy Name and became a nun. After ten fulfilling years in the convent, Rosalie left to set up the first Aboriginal hostel in Victoria. In 1970 she married, settled in Alice Springs and became involved in social work and politics.
The then Northern Territory Chief Minister, Paul Everingham appointed her an adviser on Aboriginal affairs. Rosalie stood for election to the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly in 1979, in order to fight the proposed construction of a dam which threatened sacred land. Although not elected, she continued to oppose the dam, which remained a hot issue for another decade. The issue was finally resolved in 1992 when plans for the dam were abandoned.
Recently Rosalie returned to Utopia Station, where she now lives while continuing to fight for the advancement of her community and her people.Nicole Liesis
Nicole is passionate about improving the health of our workplace as a means to delivering better health care for patients. She has been working with 50 FACEMs over the last 2 years as part of the ACEM Mentoring Champions Program. She has been involved in defining and refining how quality mentoring can be provided in the Emergency Department setting. Currently working part-time at Joondalup Health Campus in Perth, one of the busiest EDs in the country, she has established a structured mentoring program to support Registrars and Consultants. She feels that developing a constructive and supportive approach in our team-based environment is essential if we are to sustain an engaged, productive work-force in Emergency Medicine.
Liz Mowatt
Rex Neindorf
Rex grew up in the lush Riverland town of Berri in South Australia. Family members were allergic to dogs and cats (luckily) so the young reptile enthusiast brought home lizards instead. This interest in reptiles led to Rex studying Conservation and Park Management at the University of South Australia.
After graduating Rex took up a position as Reptile Keeper at Bowman Park in the mid north of South Australia where he plied his trade for three years. Leaving Bowman Park he moved to Glendambo in far north SA staying for another three years with 29 other people, 22,500 sheep and 2 million flies.
In 1997 Rex moved to Alice Springs with a view to opening his own Reptile Park which was achieved in January 2000 with the opening of the Alice Springs Reptile Centre. 30,000 people visit the Reptile Centre annually with the most famous including Sir David Attenborough and the late Steve Irwin.
The Reptile Centre houses over 200 reptiles comprising over 60 species and consistently rates as one of Alice’s top attractions. The Reptile Centre operates the towns reptile removal service, provides animals for film and television work, undertakes venomous snake training courses and rehabilitates injured reptiles as part of Wildcare Inc. Alice Springs.
Chris Nickson (Participating in The Great Debate via Skype link)
Chris is an
Intensivist at The Alfred Hospital in Melbourne and is the Monash SPHPM-Alfred
ICU Education Practitioner Fellow. He completed his medical degree at the
University of Auckland, and continued post-graduate training in New Zealand, as
well as the Northern Territory, Perth and Melbourne in Australia. He is also an
emergency physician and has completed further training in clinical toxicology
and clinical epidemiology. He is involved in coordinating The Alfred ICU
education programme, including the In Situ Simulation programme, convenes the
'Critically Ill Airway' course and teaches on many other Alfred ICU courses. He
edits the Alfred ICU’s education website, INTENSIVE, and is co-creator of free open-access medical education (FOAM)
projects such as Lifeinthefastlane.com, the RAGE podcast and the SMACC conference. On Twitter, he is @precordialthump.
Dr Claire Roche (pronounced Roach) is an advanced trainee in Emergency Medicine at the Gold Coast University Hospital in Queensland. Originally qualifying in the UK back in 2004 where the surf is a little colder, she has moved to warmer climates in 2008 and has been providing medical cover at the world surfing league events for over three years whilst working at the same time in one of the busiest emergency departments in Queensland. She has had publications in the BMJ and BMJ sport several times as well as online surfing journals such as surfline for her work in remote areas and surfing events.
Barbara Shaw
Barbara Shaw was born in Alice Springs, a descendent of the Warramunga, Kaytetye, Arrernte and Warlpiri people, and a 4th generation town camper.
One of 7 siblings, she has worked tirelessly as an advocate for human rights and the environment.
In
the past 7 years she has travelled twice to the UN in New York for the
Permanent Forum on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, to the Durban review in
Ireland, Geneva and most recently this year to Canada. She is a founder of the
Intervention Rollback Action Group, has been a Greens’ candidate, is on several
boards (CAAMA, CLC and Tangentyere) and is currently working as Coordinator for
the Womens Committee of Tangentyere Council working with town camp women on
community safety and tackling domestic and family violence.
Penny Stewart
Penny Stewart is the director of Alice Springs Intensive
Care where she has been working for 10 years. Special interests are in
Aboriginal Health and developing intensive care services in rural and remote
areas.
Other interests are in developing educational and research opportunities in rural areas and in rural clinical schools. For this work was awarded the Burns- Apler Teaching Award 2009 (Flinders University) and received the Northern Territory clinical educator of the year 2013.
Shane Tan
Dr. Shane Tan is an emergency staff specialist at Alice Springs Hospital and has been a juggler for over 15 years. He has attended several international juggling conventions and helped organise the Sydney Juggling Convention for several years. He has taught beginner to advanced workshops on various juggling skills including ball juggling, club passing and contact juggling. Shane maintains a special interest in clinical education and has worked as a simulation instructor at Sydney Clinical Skills and Simulation Centre as well as recently completing a Graduate Certificate of Clinical Education (Flinders University).
Leeanne (Lee) Trenning
Lee Trenning is an emergency nurse who has worked across public, private and tertiary sectors as both a nurse and an educator. She is the current National Executive Director of the College of Emergency Nursing Australasia (CENA) and the QLD CENA Branch President. Lee‘s current role is as the Nurse Educator with Retrieval Service Queensland and has been the CENA representative on the ACEM Quality Standards working group.
Amelia Turner
Amelia Turner, Angangkere (Traditional Healer) – Amelia was born and grew up at LtyentyeApurte (Santa Teresa). She went to school at Santa Teresa and in Melbourne. She lived in Maningrida for about 10 years. Amelia’s parents were and are both senior cultural leaders. Amelia is following in their footsteps, as a cultural leader, traditional healer (Angangkere) and leading artist. She sits on a number of boards. Amelia has played a key role supporting Akeyulerre’s Angkwerre-Iweme (Traditional Healing) Project over the past four years. In 2014 she was awarded Indigenous Person of the Year by the Alice Springs NAIDOC Week Committee for her tireless service to her community.
Camilla Tuttle
Dr Camilla Tuttle is a post-doctoral researcher at Baker IDI Heart & Diabetes Institute Central Australia. She has a PhD in asthma epigenetics from the Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation (IHBI), Queensland University of Technology (QUT). Her interest in epigenetic research has focused on the interplay between environment and genetics, and how that can contribute to disease. Her current research is focusing on improving the diagnosis, management and treatment of cardiovascular diseases and other chronic diseases within the Indigenous population of Central Australia.
Hilary Tyler
Hilary Tyler is a FACEM who has worked in Alice Springs for the past 10 years, and is somewhat passionate about Indigenous health. She is a member of the ACEM subcommittee on Indigenous Health, was part of the Promoting Cultural Safety Programme and is doing her MPH in Indigenous Health. She is involved in campaigns for social justice around Aboriginal issues at a local and national level.
Julian Willcocks
Jules is an emergency physician in Gosford on the Central Coast of NSW where he also wears the DEMT hat. For the past few years he has also been coming to Alice Springs to work whenever he can squeeze it into his roster. He undertook the ACEM Mentoring Champions Program last year and subsequently set up a mentoring program in Gosford ED. Following on from this he is expanding the mentoring to a hospital wide program for new interns which is due to start at the beginning of next year. He is studying coaching training through the Institute of Executive Coaching and Leadership to complement the mentoring process. He is a founding director of the Twice the Doctor charity and when not working likes to indulge his alternate career of playing poker or spend time at the beach.
Maureen Williams
In the early days of her illness, she founded the Sydney chapter of the Australian Addisons Disease Support Group – meeting at Westmead and Royal North Shore, organising Endocrinologists to share knowledge.
With a background as a classical singing performer and a post graduate degree in counselling – Maureen has been involved in working with the Australian Institute for Patient and Family Centred Care – speaking at Conferences, Meetings and Symposiums in various fields of the health system.
She was recently invited to join ACEM in the capacity of patient advocate and has been delighted to be able to contribute to The Quality Standards document.
Michelle Withers
Sydney-trained Emergency Physician based in Alice Springs
since 2009. Interested in education, training, rural and remote medicine, and
all things outdoors.