Program (Afternoon)

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1. Stream 1 - Patients as Partners
2. Stream 2 - Patients as Partners
3. Stream 3 - Integrated Health Care
4. Stream 4 - Integrated Health Care
5. Stream 5 - Local Solutions
6. Stream 6 - Local Solutions
7. Stream 7 - Healthy Living
8. Stream 8 - Building Partnerships
9. Stream 9 - Collaborative Team

Stream 1 - Patients as Partners

Dr Nigel Lyons, Chief Executive
NSW Agency for Clinical Innovation

Frequent user management
Kevin McLaughlin, Manager, Mental Health, NSW Ambulance

A patient-centred, nurse-led transfusion program
Jacqui Jagger, Haematology Cancer Nurse Coordinator, Cancer Services, Central Coast Local Health District

Stream 2 - Patients as Partners

Associate Professor Brian McCaughan AM
Chair, NSW Agency for Clinical Innovation and NSW Clinical Excellence Commission

Storm taming – sensory modulation within a mental health HDU
Lynn Davies, Nurse Educator, Mental Health, Mid North Coast Local Health District, and Margot Edwards, Occupational Therapist, North Coast Mental Health Rehabilitation Unit, Mid North Coast Local Health District

Stream 3 - Integrated Health Care

Matt Hanrahan, Chief Executive
Central Coast Local Health District

How the Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record can help integration
Greg Wells, Chief Information Officer, HealthShare NSW

MobiLIFE – how the mobiDRIP, an innovative new portable intravenous pump, integrates hospital care and out of hospital care to improve delivery
Professor Paul Dastoor, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, The University of Newcastle

Fast track surgery program for gynaecological cancer
Professor Jonathan Carter, Sydney Gynaecological Oncology Group, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney Local Health District

Stream 4 - Integrated Health Care

Dr Teresa Anderson, Chief Executive
Sydney Local Health District

Go with the flow – integrating rehabilitation service at St Vincent’s Hospital
Dr Shari Parker, Staff Specialist, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, St Vincent’s Hospital

Stroke Thrombolysis
Professor Richard Lindley, Clinical Academic, Geriatric Medicine, Blacktown Mount Druitt Hospital, Western Sydney Local Health District

Proactive case management of suicide bereaved persons
Simon Pont, Senior Forensic Counsellor, Forensic and Analytical Science Service, NSW Health Pathology

Stream 5 - Local Solutions

Stewart Dowrick, Chief Executive
Mid North Coast Local Health District

Nurse initiated X-ray in the Goulburn Base Hospital ED
Joanne Dungey, Clinical Nurse Consultant Emergency/Critical Care, and Debra Elliott, Chief Radiographer, Southern NSW Local Health District

One less PRICK – improving the quality of pathology orders
Dr Angus Ritchie, Clinical Superintendent (Medicine), Renal Physician, Concord Repatriation General Hospital, Sydney Local Health District

Stream 6 - Local Solutions

Elizabeth Koff, Chief Executive,
The Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network

How the SEPSIS KILLS app will help improve patient outcomes
Mary Fullick, Sepsis Program Lead, NSW CEC

Clinical safety alerts on myShift
Katie Klarenaar, Manager, Clinical Performance, NSW Ambulance

Southcare geriatric flying squad
Associate Professor Peter Gonski, Staff Specialist Geriatrician and Head of Southcare Aged and Extended Care, Sutherland Hospital, South Eastern Sydney Local Health District

Stream 7 - Healthy Living

Terry Clout, Chief Executive
South Eastern Sydney Local Health District

A midwifery initiated dental service – an Australian first
Professor Maree Johnson, Director, Centre for Applied Nursing Research, South Western Sydney Local Health District

Numbers saving lives: maths vs pseudoscience in AIDS battle
Associate Professor David Wilson, University of NSW, Winner of the Eureka Prize for Emerging Leader in Science

Stream 8 - Building Partnerships

Dr Rohan Hammett, Deputy Director
General, Strategy and Resources, NSW Ministry of Health

Pioneering elastatherapy in Australia through partnership with the NSW Medical Device Fund
Robert Daniels, Chief Executive Officer, Elastagen

ClinTrial refer – a mobile app to connect patients and haematologists with local clinical research trials
Roslyn Ristuccia, Clinical Trials Unit Manager Haematology, South Eastern Sydney Local Health District

Stream 9 - Collaborative Team

Heather Gray, Chief Executive
Health Education and Training Institute

Sepsis kills – a small rural site perspective
Darren Hawkes, Nursing Unit Manager, Macksville Health Campus, Mid North Coast Local Health District

Aged care mobile X-Ray – an ED avoidance pilot
Ingrid Klobasa-Egan, Chief Radiographer, Northern Beaches Medical Imaging Department, Northern Sydney Local Health District

Working together to prevent osteoporosis re-fracture
Robyn Speerin, Manager Musculoskeletal Network, NSW Agency for Clinical Innovation