Speaker Presentations

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First Name	Last Name	Speakers Paper Title
Jason	Acworth	Challenges and Advantages of Multi-Centre Research
Jason	Acworth	Simulation of Training for Paediatric Emergencies - an Introduction for Dummies
Wendy	Allen	Development, Implementation and Evaluation of 'Skills in Paediatrics' a Multidisciplinary Paediatric Education Project
Gayle	Anderson	Specialist Outreach Services
Ross	Andrews	Industry Attitudes to the Ageing Workface and the Medical Profession in a Regional Area of Australia
Mike	Anscombe	Paediatric Care in Mixed Emergency Departments
Sally	Ayoub	To Give a ‘Young’ Physician’s Perspective on General Medicine
Ian	Baguley	Spasticity in the Modern Era
Gavin	Ballenden	The investigation of trigger finger in Arc-air welding torch workers
Teresa	Ballestas	A Successful, Coordinated Approach To Healthcare Worker Influenza Vaccination In An Area Health Service
Revle	Bangor-Jones	A prolonged outbreak of mumps in highly vaccinated Aboriginal people from the Kimberley region of Western Australia
Peter	Barnett	Sedation of Children for Minor Procedures
Katherine	Barraclough	Intradermal Versus Intramuscular Hepatitis B Vaccination In Haemodialysis Patients: A Prospective Open-Label Randomised Controlled Trial In Non-Responsers To Primary Vaccination
Miriam	Bartlett	Diabetic Ketoacidosis and Extreme Hypertriglyceridaemia: An Unusual Case
Catherine	Bateman-Steel	Trauma, Mental Illness and Anger in East Timor: The East Timor Mental Health Dpidemiological Needs Study – An Assessment of Mental Illness Incorporatin Indigenous Indices of Distress
Helen	Benham	Successful Treatment of Shrinking Lung Syndrome with Rituximab in a Patient with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Stewart	Birt	Vitamin D Deficiency And Latent Tuberculosis In Refugee Children: A Positive Association
Nikolai	Bogduk	Radicular Pain
Geoffrey	Booth	Working through a learning plan with a trainee
Frances	Boreland	Lessons from lead abatement strategies: the broken hill experience
Meredith	Borland	Novel Approaches to Pain Management in the ED
Michelle	Bramley	E-Health shaping the safety and quality outcomes of healthcare today
Carolyn	Broderick	Back pain in the young athlete
Katherine	Brown	Down There for Dummies - the use of online education for skills development in sexual health
Kate	Bruck	Child Labour in Cambodia
Nick	Buckmaster	e-health, the Big Picture and an Example of Its Effects on the Qualtiy of Patient Care
Colin	Butler	Climate Change: Eroding The Foundations Of Population Health Climate Change and Health: Knowledge for Decision Making
Ian	Cameron	How to write an evidence based medico-legal report
Tony	Capon	Responding to Climate Change
Wai Kuen	Chow	The Hidden Cost of Gastric Banding
Jonathan	Christiansen	Workshop for Supervisors
Steven	Chung	Non-Surgical Lung Volume Reduction: An Emerging Treatment Modality for COPD
Nigel	Clarke	Inherited myopathies and the importance of clinical acumen in the genomic age
Rufus	Clarke	Building a Modern Education Program
Milton	Cohen	Opioid Prescribing For Chronic Non-Malignant Pain: How Should We Consider Drug Diversion and Dependence?
Ruth	Colagiuri	Diabetes Prevention - International Developments and Community-based Prevention Pilots
Stephen	Colagiuri	Diabetes Prevention – International Developments and Community-based Prevention Pilots
Stephen	Conaty	The space occupied by motor vehicles in Sydney: a possible public health advocacy tool
Eli	Dabscheck	Outpatient Management of Acute Exacerbations of COPD: - An Audit and Feasibility Study
Cheryl	Dissanayake	Promoting the early identification of Autism Spectrum Disorders
Jorge Luis	Do Campo	Reduction of unexpected events in a Medical Ward after Implementation of Early Warning Score
Katina	D'Onise	Does Attendance at Preschool Affect Adult Health
Roberto	D'Onise	The Effect of Leisure Time and Occupational Physical Activity on Shoulder Pain
Tim	Driscoll	The Future of Occupational Medicine Training in Australia: Some Personal Reflections
Carolyn	Ellaway	Multidisciplinary integrated clinics for rare diseases: the Rett Syndrome clinic at the Chidlren's Hospital at Westmead
Elizabeth	Elliott	A National Plan for Rare Diseases
Steve	Flecknoe-Brown	Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm - from morbidity & mortality meetings to community screening
Judith	Futtermenger	A rare cause of pyrexia during pregnancy
Marianne	Gausche-Hill	Acute Abdominal Emergencies in Children
Yuri	Gilhotra	Pain Management of Children in the Emergency Department – An Interactive and Case-Based Forum
Sharon	Goldfeld	2 Year Old Outcomes of a Universal Shared Reading Intervention: The Lets’ Read Randomized Trial
Sharon	Goldfeld	The Australian Early Development Index: using population data to shift early childhood development outcomes
Sharon	Goldfeld	An RACP Policy to Guide the Care of Children and Adolescents in Health Services
Hasantha	Gunasekera	Otitis media in Australian Aboriginal children: discordance between disease burden and access to services
Glen	Hadfield	A local experience in health facility sustainability
Richard	Hallinan	Opioid Prescribing For Chronic Non-Malignant Pain: How Should We Consider Drug Diversion and Dependence?
Terry	Hannan	You are what? A Health Informatician. What's that?
Terry	Hannan	Clinical Decision Making (CDM). How What We Decide in Patient Care Affects Costs, Quality, Outcomes and Medical Indemnity. (Computerised Clinical Decision Making an Essential Technology for Health Care).
Jennifer	Harrington	Aortic intima media thicknes, an earlier marker of atherosclerosis in children with type 1 diabetes
Anthony	Harris	Funding Illness Prevention and Health Promotion in Australia: A Way Forward
Mary	Hawkins	WorkCovers Expectation’s of Medical Practitioners
John	Henley	The Specialty of General Medicine - Past, Present and Future
Helen	Heussler	Behavioural Sleep Disorders
Harriet	Hiscock	Sleeping sound: a practical approach to common paediatric sleep problems
Harriet	Hiscock	A National Snapshot Of Paediatric Consultations: An Australian Paediatric Research Network Study
Bruce	Hocking	Medical Standards for Maritime Pilots in NSW, Australia
Jason	Hort	Acute Asthma - Therapeutic Options After Inadequate Response to Inhaled Salbutamol
James	Hurley	The Funnel Plot as Benchmark: An Example Developed from the Nosocomial Pneumonia Literature
David	Isaacs	New developments in your Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health
Adam	Jaffe	Australian rare lung diseases registry: how diseases registries can inform your practice
Marianne	Jauncey	Trials and tribulations of the Sydney Medically Supervised Injecting Centre. Glass half full or empty?
Christine	Jeffries-Stokes	Dulgoo Tjitji Pukul-Ba - Arts and Health in the Western Desert
Paul	Jenkins	Acute Medicine
Patricia	Jungfer	Giving Expert Evidence: How to Make the Experience Less Stressful
Constance	Katelaris	The Use of the New Biologics in Immunology and Rheumatology Practice
Helen	Kelsall	AFPHM On-line Program and Its Transition to MYCPD
John	Kirwan	The administrative perspective: training and retaining the senior medical workforce for Public Hospitals
Andrew	Langlands	A Retrospective Audit of Family History Records in Short Stay Medical Admissions
Mark	Lee	Paediatric expertise embedded in the mixed ED - the John Hunter teriary model
David	Lester-Smith	Seasonal Surveillance for the serious complications of influenza in children using the APSU
Kevin	London	Patterns of Cerebral Metabolism in Children with Neurofibromatosis Type 1
Yvonne	Luxford	Policy Development
Kate	Lynch	What's in a name: QUM impact of growth in 'generic' medicine names
Ian	Maddocks	Social Determinants of Health in a Papuan Village
Andrew	Mahony	When all else fails: novel antimicrobial and immunomodulatory therapies in treating disseminated mycobacterial infection
Jenny	McDonald	The Gudaga Study: Predictive Factors for Developmental Progress in Urban Aboriginal Infants
Julie	McGaughran	Challenges of genetic testing in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
Damien	McKay	Conditions masquerading as sports injuries
Jodie	McVernon	Can't get enough of a good thing? Deciding on best use of the national antiviral stockpile in the event of pandemic influenza in Australia
Craig	Mellis	Evidence Based Medicine - How to Get the Answer in your Consulting Room
Alison	Mudge	Sick, Sad and Starving
Kichu	Nair	The assessment of Overseas Trained Physicians/Paediatricians and how you can be involved
Victor	Nossar	Update on the indigenous adaptation of the nurse-family partnership program
Ed	Oakley	Should we re-hydrate children with Bronchiolitis via the intravenous or nasogastric route?
Frank	Oberklaid	The Changing Nature Of Children's Health: Implications For Paediatics and Paediatricians
Frank	Oberklaid	Training in Community Child Health: General Paediatricians should be more like Community Paediatrician
Matthew	O’Meara	Managing the Aggressive Adolescent Presenting to the Emergency Department
Johnn	Olsen	Do psychosocial factors matter in occupational injury
Nigel	Orr	Frequency, Aetiology and Treatment of Childhood End Stage Kidney Disease in Australia and New Zealand
Mary	Osborn	Opioid Prescribing For Chronic Non-Malignant Pain: How Should We Consider Drug Diversion and Dependence?
Sue	Packer	Nobody's Children- An Emerging 21st Century Paediatric Dilemma
Martin	Pallas	Mixed Ed's with an associated general paediatric inpatient unit - case illustrated collaboration between the emergency physicians and the general paediatrician
Bill	Panayiaris	The Relationship Between Psychological Distress, Pain Beliefs and Workplace Satisfaction; and the Chronicity of Pain in Injured Workers
Sant-Rayn	Pasricha	Understanding anaemia amongst young children living in rural Karnataka, India
Donald	Payne	Adolescence: Complex Medical Disorders
Grant	Phelps	Promoting Physician Performance - time to catch the recertification train?
Wai-On	Phoon	Occupational rehabilitation : a multi-disciplinary effort to restore function after sequelae from injuries or diseases
Susan	Piper	Mixed Ed's without general paediatric inpatient unit support - a paediatric ambulatory care model
Siddharth	Rajakumar	The role of CD39 and purinergic signalling in renal ischaemia reperfusion injury
Raymond	Raper	Organ Donation in the Noughties
Barry	Rawicki	Spasticity - The Adult Experience
Dinah	Reddihough	Children with cerebral palsy and normal brain magnetic imaging
Chris	Rissel	Active Transport
Gehan	Roberts	Stability of developmental disability diagnosis between age 2 and 8 in very preterm children
James	Ross	The Remote Area Health Corps - a new way to provide health professionals to Aboriginal Health Centres
Adam	Scheinberg	Spasticity - The Paediatric Experience
Jacquie	Schutz	The PREDICT network's baseline studies - an overview
Emma	Sciberras	Predictors Of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder In Children Aged 6-7 Years - A National, Longitudinal Study
Ernst Michael	Shanahan	Engaging Medical Student with Occupational and Environmental Medicine
David	Simon	Abatement Strategies in Lead Mining and Smelting Communities - Is there a national consensus?
Neil	Smith	Pain Distraction in the Emergency Department
Kyle	Steenland	Studying the effects of PFOA contamination on the health of the community and workers
Kyle	Steenland	Practical aspects of occupational and environmental epidemiology
Denise	Sweeney	On-line learning needs analysis tool
Rajesh	Thomas	Lady Windermere, Whirlpools and a Gentleman Winded
Campbell	Thompson	Issues for Acute Medicine
Stephen	Thornley	Multidisciplinary Diabetes Clinic in the Private Practice setting
Katherine	Tucker	Cancer Genetics Relevant to your Practice
Stephen	Twigg	Diabetes and Driving New Oral Agents in Diabetes: Where Do They Fit in the Treatment Algorithm?
Nico	Van Zandwijk	Malignant Mesothelioma (MM): an Update
Peter	Vuillermin	Parent-Initiated Prednisolone in Australia
Melissa	Wake	Out of reach, but not out of sight: Improving children’s health by evidence-based primary and secondary care
Melissa	Wake	Effectiveness of population-based language promotion for slow-to-talk toddlers: Let's Learn Language trial
Melissa	Wake	Relationships Between Underweight, Overweight And BMI Status Vary By Morbidity Type And Age: Population Studies
David	Watson	Information Management in Health Care: Are we still behind the eight ball?
Kathryn	Williams	Medical Disorders in Pregnancy
Russell	Wills	Screening for Family Violence
Alex	Wodak	Opioid Prescribing For Chronic Non-Malignant Pain: How Should We Consider Drug Diversion and Dependence?
Yvonne	Zurynski	Proposed new conditions for APSU surveillance: - Subdural Haematomas in children < 2 years

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