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2019 WESTERN HEALTH RESEARCH AND BEST CARE CONFERENCE

14-18 October 2019

SCHEDULE FOR RESEARCH & BEST CARE CONFERENCE 2019

MONDAY 14 OCTOBER 2019

OPENING SESSION

12:30pm Welcome Dr Paul Eleftheriou

12:35pm Introduction Mr Russell Harrison, WH CEO

12:45pm Opening of Proceedings The Hon Bronwyn Pike, WH Board Chair

12:55pm Opening Keynote Address Prof Sir John Savill

1:30pm - 2:30pm

Light Lunch & Refreshments Poster viewing

BEST CARE RIGHT CARE

2:30pm - 5:30pm

Keynote AddressDr Cathy Balding

AIMSS SYMPOSIUM

3:00pm - 5:00pm

Keynote AddressA/Prof Peggy Cawthon

5:00pm -6:30pm

Dept. Of Medicine WH Research Expo

TUESDAY 15 OCTOBER 2019

SEED GRANT PRESENTATIONS

9:00am - 12:30pm

Presentations by shortlisted grant applicants to a selection panel Via invitation only

VOLUNTEERS & CONSUMER REPRESENTATIVES

9:00am - 12:15pm

Session Speakers Ms Karin Haufe-Stellini (Volunteers) Ms Helen Dobson (Consumers) Morning Tea

HYPOTHETICAL

12:00pm - 12:30pm

Light Lunch & Refreshments

12:30pm - 1:30pm

Paternalism and Clinical Ethics All welcome to attend

BEST CARE

1:30pm - 2:30pm

Session presenters: Dr Paul Eleftheriou Dr Narelle Watson Ms Alison Rule

ALLIED HEALTH & COMMUNITY SERVICES

2:30pm - 4:30pm

Keynote Address Prof Linda Denehy

NEVILLE YEOMANS INTERNAL MEDICINE

2:30pm - 5:00pm

Keynote Address A/Prof Daniel O’Brien

WEDNESDAY 16 OCTOBER 2019

ROBERT HELME NEUROSCIENCE SESSION9:00am - 12:30pm

Keynote Address Prof Rachel Huxley

BEST CARE PERSON-CENTRED CARE9:00am - 12:30pm

Keynote Address Belinda MacLeod-Smith

12:30pm - 1:30pm


SUBACUTE AND AGED CARE2:00pm - 4:00pm

Keynote Address A/Prof Peggy Cawthon

ONCOLOGY2:00pm - 4:30pm

Keynote Address Prof Mei Krishnasamy

THURSDAY 17 OCTOBER 2019

CARDIOLOGY8:00am - 9:00am

Keynote Address Prof Brian Oldenburg

BEST CARE SAFE CARE

9:00am - 12:30pm

Keynote Address Ms Mary Manescu

WESTERN HEALTH CHRONIC DISEASE ALLIANCE10:30am - 12:30pm

Keynote Address Prof Melissa Wake A/Prof Jo-Anne Manski-Nankervis Prof John McNeil

12:30pm - 1:30pm


BEST CARE CO-ORDINATED CARE1:00pm - 4:30pm

Keynote Address Mr Matiu Bush

NURSING AND MIDWIFERY2:00pm - 4:00pm

Keynote Address Prof Linda Sweet

BEST CARE POSTER PRESENTATION5:00pm - 7:00pm

Poster Presentation Light Dinner & Refreshments

FRIDAY 18 OCTOBER 2019

ROBERT SMITH CRITICAL CARE SESSION

8:00am - 12:00pm

Keynote Address Prof Gerben Keijzers

KENDALL FRANCIS SESSION SURGICAL8:00am - 12:00pm

Keynote Address Prof Peter Choong

AWARD PRESENTATIONS12:30pm - 1:30pm

Research Grants and Abstract Prize winners announced

1:30pm Light Lunch & Refreshments

AUDITORIUM Level 1, WCHRE, Sunshine Hospital

ATRIUM Level 1, WCHRE, Sunshine Hospital

LECTURE THEATRE Level 1, WCHRE, Sunshine Hospital

Contents KEYNOTE SPEAKERS ......................................................................................................... 2

MONDAY 14 OCTOBER 2019 ............................................................................................ 19

OPENING SESSION ....................................................................................................... 19

MONDAY 14 OCTOBER 2019 ............................................................................................ 20

BEST CARE – RIGHT CARE .......................................................................................... 20

MONDAY 14 OCTOBER 2019 ............................................................................................ 21

AIMSS SESSION ............................................................................................................ 21

TUESDAY 15 OCTOBER 2019 ........................................................................................... 22

WH SEED GRANTS ........................................................................................................ 22

BEST CARE – VOLUNTEERS & CONSUMER REPRESENTATIVES ............................ 22

TUESDAY 15 OCTOBER 2019 ........................................................................................... 23

HYPOTHETICAL ............................................................................................................. 23

BEST CARE ASSESSMENT – NSQHS ACCREDITATION SURVEY ............................. 23

TUESDAY 15 OCTOBER 2019 ........................................................................................... 24

ALLIED HEALTH AND COMMUNITY SERVICES SESSION .......................................... 24

TUESDAY 15 OCTOBER 2019 ........................................................................................... 25

NEVILLE YEOMANS INTERNAL MEDICINE SESSION.................................................. 25

WEDNESDAY 16 OCTOBER 2019 ..................................................................................... 26

ROBERT HELME NEUROSCIENCE SESSION .............................................................. 26


BEST CARE – PERSON-CENTRED CARE .................................................................... 27


ONCOLOGY AND HAEMATOLOGY SESSION .............................................................. 28


SUBACUTE & AGED CARE SESSION ........................................................................... 29

THURSDAY 17 OCTOBER 2019 ........................................................................................ 30

CARDIOLOGY SESSION ................................................................................................ 30


BEST CARE – SAFE CARE ............................................................................................ 31


WESTERN HEALTH CHRONIC DISEASE ALLIANCE SESSION ................................... 32


BEST CARE – COORDINATED CARE ........................................................................... 33


NURSING & MIDWIFERY SESSION............................................................................... 34

FRIDAY 18 OCTOBER 2019 .............................................................................................. 35

ROBERT SMITH CRITICAL CARE SESSION ................................................................. 35

FRIDAY 18 OCTOBER 2019 .............................................................................................. 36

KENDALL FRANCIS SURGICAL SESSION .................................................................... 36

CLOSING AND AWARD PRESENTATIONS ................................................................... 38

RESEARCH AND BEST CARE AWARDS .......................................................................... 39

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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Professor Sir John Savill

Opening Session 14 October 2019 12:30pm – 1:30pm Auditorium WCHRE Sunshine Hospital

Title: How have UK funding bodies promoted translation of health research?

Professor Sir John Savill BA, MBChB, PhD, FRCP, FRCPE, FRCSEd(Hon), FRCPCH(Hon), FASN, FRSE, F.MedSci, FRS

John Savill has been Executive Director of the Melbourne Academic Centre for Health since July 2019, having served in the UK as an honorary consultant in renal and acute medicine from 1990 to 2018. John graduated in Physiological Sciences from Oxford in 1978 and in Medicine from Sheffield in 1981. He received a PhD (London) in 1989. After junior hospital appointments in Sheffield, Nottingham and London, he spent seven years in the Department of Medicine at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital, with spells as an MRC Clinical Training Fellow and Wellcome Trust Senior Clinical Research Fellow. In 1993, he moved to the Chair of Medicine at Nottingham; subsequently moving in 1998 to Edinburgh as Professor of Medicine where he set up and became the first Director of the University of Edinburgh/Medical Research Council Centre for Inflammation Research. Between 2002 and 2017 he served as the first Vice-Principal and Head of the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine; he was appointed to the Regius Chair of Medical Science in 2017. From 1st June 2008 to 30th September 2010, he was Chief Scientist for the Scottish Government Health Directorates (part-time). On 1st October 2010 he was appointed as Chief Executive and Deputy Chair of the Medical Research Council, combining this with Head of College duties in Edinburgh; he demitted from the MRC at the end of March 2018. His work has been recognised by fellowships of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London and Edinburgh, the Academy of Medical Sciences, the American Society of Nephrology, The Royal Society of Edinburgh, The Royal Society and honorary fellowships from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. He was a member of the Medical Research Council from 2002 to 2008 and chaired two Research Boards during this period. He was knighted in the 2008 New Year’s Honours List for services to clinical science.

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Doctor Cathy Balding

Best Care – Right Care Session 14 October 2019 2:30pm – 5:30pm Auditorium WCHRE Sunshine Hospital

Title: Living Best Care – How will we know when we’re there? Dr Cathy Balding FCHSM, GAICD

Cathy is managing director of Qualityworks, dedicated to ‘making quality make sense.’ Cathy is an adjunct professor at La Trobe University, and a former aged care board member and acute care accreditation assessor. Her goal is to create great care across health and human services through her work with organisations, research, books, training, blog and podcast. Her latest book, ‘The Point of Care’, is the ‘fictional’ story of how a new CEO and team in a health service that’s lost its way turn things around, showcasing best practice tools, governance and leadership for high quality care.



Associate Professor Peggy Cawthon

AIMSS Session 14 October 2019 3:00pm – 4:00pm Lecture Theatre WCHRE Sunshine Hospital

Title: Sarcopenia: New Directions for an Old Problem

Subacute & Aged Care Session 16 October 2019 2:00pm – 3:00pm Lecture Theatre WCHRE Sunshine Hospital Title: Maintaining mobility in old age

Peggy Cawthon is currently Senior Scientist at California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute and Associate Adjunct Professor at UCSF. Peggy’s current research interests include maintenance of mobility in old age; sarcopenia (age-related muscle loss); frailty; the decline of physical function with age; and osteoporosis, particularly in older men. She has lead the recent Sarcopenia Definitions and Outcomes Consortium effort to develop an updated, evidenced based definition of sarcopenia. She has also led the first large scale study of the D3Cr-dilution based assessment of muscle mass, a project that established that strong associations exist between low D3Cr muscle mass and weakness, poor physical performance, fractures, mortality and disability in older men.



Professor Linda Denehy

Allied Health and Community Services Session 15 October 2019 2:30pm – 3:00pm Auditorium WCHRE Sunshine Hospital

Title: Prehabilitation in Oncology

Professor Linda Denehy PT, PhD

Linda is the Head of the Melbourne School of Health Sciences and Professor of Physiotherapy at The University of Melbourne. She has a joint appointment as head of Allied Health Research at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre. She is a research and academic leader within the profession of Physiotherapy. Linda sits on the Board of the Australian College of Optometrists and is a member of the Victorian Council of Victorian Health Deans and the Australian Council of Deans of Health Sciences. She is also a member of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand. Linda is a thought leader in rehabilitation in critical illness survivors and in individuals with lung cancer and has more publications in these two fields than any other physiotherapist nationally or internationally. Her other research interest is in perioperative medicine where she was invited as a member of an international clinical guidelines panel in prehabilitation. She has several international research collaborations,, reviews for national and international competitive granting bodies and for international scientific journals. Linda has been successful in obtaining funding of over AUD $15million for research into rehabilitation, including as a chief investigator on six NHMRC grants. She has over 150 publications and has delivered over 40 key note presentations.



Associate Professor Daniel O’Brien

Neville Yeoman’s Internal Medicine Session 15 October 2019 2:30pm – 3:00pm Lecture Theatre WCHRE Sunshine Hospital

Title: Unlocking the secrets of a formidable foe in our midst Associate Professor Daniel O’Brien MBBS, FRACP, DMedSc, Dip Anat.

Daniel O’Brien is an Infectious Diseases Specialist and Internal Medicine Consultant. He is the Deputy Director of the Department of Infectious Diseases at The Geelong Hospital, Geelong, Australia and is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Victorian Infectious Diseases Service and Department of Medicine at The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Australia. He works as an Operational research advisor for the Manson Unit of Medécins Sans Frontières, London, United Kingdom. He also works as a consultant for the Burnett Institute, Melbourne, Australia, advising on the RID-TB program in Western Province, Papua New Guinea. He is currently a member of the World Health Organisation technical working group for the drug treatment of Buruli ulcer. His main interests are International Health, especially Buruli ulcer, Tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS and leprosy in resource-limited settings, and Travel Medicine and Immigrant/refugee health. Over more than 20 years he has worked with health programmes in more than 30 resource-limited countries worldwide including: Bosnia, Georgia, East Timor, Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Burundi, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of Congo, Angola, Nigeria, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Central African Republic, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, Somalia, Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, India, Burma, Haiti, Columbia, Papua New Guinea, Uzbekistan, and Cameroon.



Professor Rachel Huxley

Robert Helme Neuroscience Session 16 October 2019 11:20am – 12:10pm Lecture Theatre WCHRE Sunshine Hospital

Title: Sex differences in risk factors for cognitive impairment

Prof Rachel Huxley PhD, Newly appointed Executive Dean of the Faculty of Health, Deakin University. Professor Huxley has a very strong understanding of how universities and their education and research can improve the delivery and outcomes of health care in Australia. She holds several competitive research grants in crucial areas of women’s health, obesity and diabetes. As a public health epidemiologist, she is also the Co-Director of the recently established Research Centre for Cardiovascular Biology and Disease at La Trobe University (She is the current Pro Vice-Chancellor, Research at La Trobe University). Previously, Professor Huxley was the Head of School of Public Health at Curtin University and has also held roles at Oxford University, University of Minnesota, the University of Queensland and the George Institute, Sydney.



Ms Belinda MacLeod-Smith

Best Care – Person-Centred Care Session 16 October 2019 9:00am – 12:30pm Auditorium WCHRE Sunshine Hospital

Title: View from the bed – how staff benefit from patient-centred care

Belinda MacLeod-Smith joined Safer Care Victoria’s ‘Consumers as Partners’ Branch as their on-staff consumer representative in 2017. With more than 25 years’ experience in strategic communication, marketing and community engagement, Belinda is also President of Victoria’s Heart and Lung Transplant Trust, and has lived experience caring for her husband who was diagnosed at age 40 with idiopathic cardiomyopathy, survived severe sepsis in 2012 and spent three years on a LVAD (artificial heart) waiting until 2015 for his successful heart transplant.



Professor Meinir Krishnasamy

Oncology Session 16 October 2019 2:00pm – 4:30pm Auditorium WCHRE Sunshine Hospital

Title: Advances in Cancer Nursing

Prof Mei Krishnasamy holds a joint appointment as Professor of Cancer Nursing in the Department of Nursing at the University of Melbourne, and Director of the Academic Nursing Unit the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre. She is Research and Education Lead for Nursing for the Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre (VCCC) and Program Lead for the VCCC Cancer Nursing Research Innovation Hub. She holds honorary appointments with the Royal Melbourne Hospital and the Olivia Newton John Cancer, Wellness and Research Centre at Austin Health. Her research focuses on the care experiences and health outcomes of people with rare and less common cancers, and the contribution of nurse-led cancer research to patient and family, organisation and system level outcomes. Mei is past President of the Cancer Nurses Society of Australia and the Clinical Oncology Society of Australia.



Professor Brian Oldenburg

Cardiology Session 17 October 2019 8:00am – 09:00am Lecture Theatre WCHRE Sunshine Hospital

Title: Can digital health technology really improve chronic disease outcomes: Myth or reality?

Professor Brian Oldenburg B.Sc, MPsychol, PhD

Brian Oldenburg is Professor of Non-Communicable Disease Control at the University of Melbourne and Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre of Implementation Research for Prevention & Control of NCDs. He researches health policy, global health and improving the control of diabetes, heart disease and co-morbid mental health conditions. He has also developed and researched new technologies and m-Health interventions to improve health. He is the Director of a recently announced NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Interactive Digital Technology to Transform Australia’s Chronic Disease Outcomes.



Professor Melissa Wake

Western Health Chronic Disease Alliance Session 17 October 2019 10:45am – 11:20am Lecture Theatre WCHRE Sunshine Hospital

Title: Gen V

Professor Melissa Wake MBChB, FRACP, FAHMS, MD, GradDip Obst & Gynae

Prof Melissa Wake is a paediatrician, community child health researcher, and Director of the new Generation Victoria (GenV) initiative, led from the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. Her goals are to speed up children’s research and to test interventions that change children’s care. She is known for her many randomised trials and her leadership of major data resources, including the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children’s new biophysical module (the Child Health CheckPoint). She chairs the Children’s Digital Health Collaborative National Research Advisory Group.



Associate Professor Jo-Anne Manski-Nankervis

Western Health Chronic Disease Alliance Session 17 October 2019 11:20am – 11:55am Lecture Theatre WCHRE Sunshine Hospital

Title: Future Health Today

Associate Professor Jo-Anne Manski-Nankervis BSc(Hons) MBBS(Hons) CHIA PhD FRACGP

A/Prof Jo-Anne Manski-Nankervis is a clinically active academic general practitioner (GP) at the Department of General Practice, Melbourne Medical School. She leads innovative research into the development and implementation of technology to inform decision making in general-practice, and the use of data to describe and improve general-practice activity, with a focus on chronic disease management and antimicrobial stewardship. A/Prof Manski-Nankervis co-leads the Department of General Practice Data for Decisions program, incorporating the Patron database and development of tools that integrate with the electronic medical record to assist in evidence-based clinical decision making. She co-leads the Future Health Today program with A/Prof Craig Nelson at Western Health, a new technology platform for identification and management of chronic disease in general practice. She has developed a simulation laboratory which is been used to co-design and pilot tools for use in the general practice setting, and co-produces technology with health professionals and consumers.



Professor John McNeil

Western Health Chronic Disease Alliance Session 17 October 2019 11:55am – 12:30pm Lecture Theatre WCHRE Sunshine Hospital

Title: Primary prevention: lessons from ASPREE

John McNeil originally graduated in Medicine from the University of Adelaide and after specialist training he completed a PhD in Cardiovascular Pharmacology at Melbourne University. In 1979 he was awarded a National Heart Foundation overseas postgraduate research scholarship to study epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. He was head of Monash University’s Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine (DEPM) 1986 to January 2019. The department has been based around core of methodological skills in epidemiology, clinical medicine, biostatistics & data-management. Much of the work of the department now centres on large scale clinical trials, clinical registries and major occupational cohorts. John McNeil is the co-principal investigator of the joint US-Australia NIH-funded ASPREE trial of low-dose aspirin in the elderly. Various sub-studies will ensure that ASPREE will become a major international resource for study of the elderly. His other major interest in in clinical registry science



Ms Mary Manescu

Best Care – Safe Care Session 17 October 2019 9:00am – 12:30pm Auditorium WCHRE Sunshine Hospital

Title: VAHI’s role in the provision of Safe Care

Mary is the Director, Health System Reporting for the Victorian Agency for Health Information. She is responsible for leading the delivery of timely and high quality performance information to Government, health services executives, clinical leaders and the public. Prior to joining VAHI, Mary held a range of clinical and senior management appointments, in both the private and public health sector. She also worked extensively for the Department of Health and Human Services in health services performance, private hospitals regulation, major capital works and contract administration, in particular Public Private Partnership projects. Beyond her substantive role, Mary remains connected to sector developments through a number of voluntary engagements as an accreditation surveyor with the Australian Council on Healthcare Standards and board appointments in the not-for-profit sector. Mary holds a Master of Health Services Management from Monash University and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.



Mr Matiu Bush

Best Care – Co-ordinated Care Session 17 October 2019 1:00pm – 4:30pm Auditorium WCHRE Sunshine Hospital

Title: Innovation Common

Matiu is a hybrid - a clinician and a designer who founded One Good Street, a social impact platform to encourage neighbour initiated care for older residents at risk of social isolation and loneliness. Matiu is the Deputy Director of the Health Transformation Lab at RMIT, designing towards cultures of innovation and creativity in healthcare. Matiu has a Master's degree in Public Health and broad clinical and managerial nursing experience, including working in Tijuana, Mexico with Nobel Prize Laureate Mother Teresa in international border aid, and as an emergency, oncology, intensive care nurse and is a sexual health Nurse Practitioner. Matiu contributes to health system innovation through involvement with Better Care Victoria as a board member and the Emerging Leaders Clinical Advisory Committee. Matiu is a Rotarian and a member of the Health Informatics Society of Australia (HISA) and mentors the next generation of undergraduate and postgraduate science students through the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health Mentoring Program.



Professor Linda Sweet

Nursing and Midwifery Session 17 October 2019 2:00pm – 2:30pm Lecture Theatre WCHRE Sunshine

Title: The value of peer support groups for exclusively expressing mothers

Prof Linda Sweet is the new Chair in Midwifery, jointly appointed by Deakin University and Western Health. Prior to commencing this position in August 2019, Linda was an Associate Professor in the College of Nursing and Health Science at Flinders University for 6 years. She was also the Head of Midwifery and the Coordinator of Higher Degrees in Research. Linda is the Deputy-Editor of Women & Birth and Associate Editor for BMC Medical Education, and a Member of the Midwifery Accreditation Committee with Australian Nursing and Midwifery Accreditation Council (ANMAC).



Professor Gerben Keijzers

Robert Smith Critical Care Session 18 October 2019 8:30am – 9:00am Auditorium WCHRE Sunshine Hospital

Title: Research, curiosity and the art of doing nothing Professor Gerben Keijzers MSc (Biomed Health SCi), MBBS, FACEM, PhD

Prof Keijzers is a senior staff specialist emergency physician and director of Emergency Medicine research at the Gold Coast Health Service District which covers both the Gold Coast University Hospital and Robina Hospital.

He works clinically, conducts clinical research and is clinical supervisor for medical students during their final year ED rotation. He completed his medical training and Master's degree in Epidemiology in Nijmegen, The Netherlands and moved to Australia in 2002.

His research focus is on encouraging collaborative clinical research and he is the principle or site investigator for several national and international studies. Specifically he likes to be part of work that challenges dogma and brings focus on appropriate care in areas where "less is more". If not talking about research, he would gladly discuss his passion for brazilian jiu jitsu and exercise in general



Professor Peter Choong

Kendall Francis Surgical Session 18 October 2019 8:30am – 9:10am Lecture Theatre WCHRE Sunshine Hospital

Title: “Sham Trials” and Surgery

Prof Peter Choong is the Sir Hugh Devine Professor of Surgery, and Head of Department of Surgery University of Melbourne at St. Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne. Peter is also the Director of Orthopaedics at St. Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne and the Chair of the Bone and Soft Tissue Sarcoma Service at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre.

Peter has served continuously at the Australian Orthopaedic Association (AOA) since 1996 and is the recent past President of AOA. He has held the roles of Chair of the Federal Training Committee, Scientific Secretary, RACS Chair of the Board of Orthopaedics, and current Chair of the Research Committee of the AOA. Peter has also been the Programme Director of Surgery and Chief Medical Officer of St. Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne.

Peter’s research which has received grant funding of over $25 million (NHMRC, ARC, RACS, AOA, Cancer Australia, CRC, MRFF, NGO) and focuses on 3 areas, namely improving outcomes of arthritis surgery, studying the treatment of bone tumours and advanced limb reconstruction. Prof Choong is widely published with almost 400 peer-reviewed articles. In 2014, he was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Science and in 2019; he was awarded an NHMRC Practitioner Fellowship. Peter is the Lead Chief Investigator on an NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence (CRE) into Total Joint Replacement Surgery Research and is the Principle Clinical Lead in the Innovative Manufacturing Cooperative Research Centre (CRC).

He is a multiple awardee, of which the John Mitchell Crouch Fellowship (2008) from the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, the Coventry Award (2014) from the Mayo Clinic, the City of Melbourne Award for promoting the reputation of the city, and the NHMRC Award for Research Excellence are the most prestigious.




OPENING SESSION AUDITORIUM WCHRE SUNSHINE


CHAIR: Dr Paul Eleftheriou, WH Chief Medical Officer

TIME TITLE SPEAKER

12:30pm – 12:35pm Welcome Dr Paul Eleftheriou

WH Chief Medical Officer

12:35pm – 12:45pm Introduction Mr Russell Harrison

WH Chief Executive Officer

12:45pm – 12:55pm Opening of Proceedings The Hon Bronwyn Pike

WH Board Chair

12:55pm – 1:30pm OPENING KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Title: How have UK funding bodies promoted translation of health research

Prof Sir John Savill

MACH Executive Director

1:30pm – 2:30pm Light Lunch & Refreshments

ATRIUM WCHRE

Poster Viewing



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BEST CARE – RIGHT CARE 2:30PM – 5:30PM AUDITORIUM WCHRE SUNSHINE


CHAIR: Dr Narelle Watson, Director Quality, Safety & Patient Experience

TIME TITLE SPEAKER

2:30 – 3:00pm KEYNOTE ADDRESS:

Title: Living Best Care – How will we know when we’re there?

Dr Cathy Balding

Managing Director, Qualityworks

3:00 – 3:20pm Patient Story

3:25 – 3:40pm Optimal oxygenation monitoring to the neonate Natalia Toumbourau

3:45 – 4:00pm You spin my head right round: Specialised Vestibular Physiotherapy in the Emergency Department

Kelvin Ip

4:05 – 4:20pm

Positive treatment outcomes for urinary incontinence at the Western Continence Service (WCS)

Joanne Cocks

4:25 – 4:40pm Embedding best care for patients with obesity into practice at Western Health

Alison Qvist

4:45 – 5:00pm Utilizing YouTube for Orthopaedic Education Dalach O’Deasmhunaigh

5:05 – 5:20pm Nurse Led prostate biopsy follow-up care Cindy Ogluszko

5:20 – 5:30pm SESSION CLOSE





AIMSS SESSION 3:00PM – 5:00PM LECTURE THEATRE WCHRE SUNSHINE


CHAIR: Prof Gustavo Duque, Director AIMSS

TIME TITLE SPEAKER

3:00pm – 3:10pm Introduction Prof Gustavo Duque

Director AIMSS

3:10pm – 4:00pm KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Title: Sarcopenia: New Directions for an Old Problem

A/Prof Peggy Cawthon

California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute, USA

PODIUM PRESENTATIONS

4:00pm – 4:10pm Factor analysis to determine relative contributions of strength, physical performance, body composition and muscle mass to disability and mobility disability outcomes in older men

Jesse Zanker

4:10pm – 4:20pm Use of teach-back improves health outcomes but what do we know about its implementation? A systematic review

Alison Beauchamp

4:20pm – 4:30pm Functional measures of sarcopenia: prevalence, and associations with functional disability in 10,892 adults aged 65 years and over from six lower- and middle-income countries

Sharon Brennan-Olsen

4:30pm – 4:40pm Midthigh bone, muscle and fat mass vs conventional tissue mass indices: Associations with strength, performance and balance in older patients

Ebrahim Bani Hassan

4:40pm – 4:50pm Osteocalcin and its forms across the Lifespan in adult men

Cassandra Smith

4:50pm – 5:00pm The Impact of Physical Activity on Glycaemic Control and Maintenance of Bone Mass after Stroke: A Pilot Study

Cathy Said

5:00pm – 6:30pm Department of Medicine – WH Research Expo

ATRIUM WCHRE




WH SEED GRANTS 9:00AM – 12:30PM LECTURE THEATRE WCHRE SUNSHINE

TIME TITLE

9:00am – 12:30pm WESTERN HEALTH SEED GRANT PRESENTATIONS

Presentations by selected grant applicants to the WH grants selection panel

Panel: Prof Linda Sweet, Prof Steven Chan, Prof Edward Janus & Ms Melanie Lloyd

Invitation Only

BEST CARE – VOLUNTEERS & CONSUMER REPRESENTATIVES 9:00AM – 12:15PM AUDITORIUM WCHRE SUNSHINE

TIME TOPIC OPENING SPEAKER

9:00am – 10:30am Volunteers Session Opening

Facilitators: Ms Sue Bruce & Dr Narelle Watson

Ms Karin Haufe-Stellini

10:30am – 11:00am MORNING TEA

11:00am – 12:15pm Consumer Representative Session Opening

Facilitators: Mr Shane Crowe & Mr Khanh Do

Ms Helen Dobson




HYPOTHETICAL 12:30PM – 1:30PM AUDITORIUM WCHRE SUNSHINE

TIME TITLE

12:00pm – 12:30pm Light Lunch & Refreshments

ATRIUM WCHRE

12:30pm – 1:30pm HYPOTHETICAL

Title: Paternalism and Clinical Ethics

Facilitator: Dr Sean Fabri

Panel: Dr Adrian Dabscheck (Palliative Care), Prof Michael Green (Oncologist), Judy Chambers (Ethicist) & Anton Allen (Ethicist)

BEST CARE ASSESSMENT – NSQHS ACCREDITATION SURVEY 1:30PM – 2:30PM AUDITORIUM WCHRE SUNSHINE

TIME TITLE SPEAKER

1:30pm – 2:30pm Best Care Assessment - NSQHS Accreditation Survey

Dr Paul Eleftheriou

WH Chief Medical Officer

Dr Narelle Watson

Director Quality, Safety & Patient Experience

Ms Alison Rule

Director Corporate Governance & Planning





ALLIED HEALTH AND COMMUNITY SERVICES SESSION 2:30PM – 4:30PM AUDITORIUM WCHRE SUNSHINE


CHAIR: Ms Sally Brinkmann, Director of Allied Health (Acting)

TIME TITLE SPEAKER

2:30pm – 2:35pm WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION Ms Sally Brinkmann

Director of Allied Health (Acting)

2:35pm – 3:00pm KEYNOTE ADDRESS:

Title: Prehabilitation in Oncology

Prof Linda Denehy

Head of the Melbourne School of Health Sciences

Professor of Physiotherapy at The University of Melbourne


3:00pm – 3:15pm Specialised vestibular physiotherapy in the Emergency Department: Safety and impact on diagnostic accuracy

Allison Luscombe

3:15pm – 3:30pm Supporting patients undergoing curative upper gastrointestinal surgery with an optimal nutrition care pathway. Results from a Western Health led multi-centre pilot study

Irene Deftereos

3:30pm – 3:45pm Feasibility of Recumbent Bike Riding in People with Fractured Hip: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial

Emmanuel Kefalianos

3:45pm – 4:00pm Improving the hospital experience for inpatients with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A co-design project

Ellen Hibbert

4:00pm – 4:15pm Experience of leadership and management clinicians in implementing best practice in inpatient management for people with obesity.

Alison Qvist

4:15pm – 4:25pm SESSION CLOSE Ms Sally Brinkmann





NEVILLE YEOMANS INTERNAL MEDICINE SESSION 2:30PM – 5:00PM LECTURE THEATRE WCHRE SUNSHINE


CHAIR: Prof Edward Janus

TIME TITLE SPEAKER


Title: Unlocking the secrets of a formidable foe in our midst

A/Professor Daniel O’Brien

Department of Infectious Diseases Barwon Health


3:00pm – 3:15pm Follow-up study assessing sustainability of an electronic technology-based intervention to improve the detection and management of the interrelated chronic vascular diseases in general practice

Julia Jones

3:15pm – 3:30pm Randomised stepped wedge trial assessing reproducibility of an electronic technology-based intervention to improve the detection and management of the interrelated chronic vascular diseases in general practice

Julia Jones

3:30pm – 3:45pm Weekend admission and changes in treating physician are associated with poorer outcomes in patients admitted with community-acquired pneumonia

Stefan Milevski

3:45pm – 4:00pm TEA AND COFFEE BREAK

4:00pm – 4:15pm Intertwining of heart disease and community-acquired pneumonia

Girish Vadher

4:15pm – 4:30pm Bleeding severity in Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) and its impact on short-term clinical impact

Shashank Murali

4:30pm – 4:45pm Adenoma recurrence rates following colorectal EMR vary significantly between interventional endoscopists within a single advanced endoscopy centre.

Karla Cameron

4:45pm – 5:00pm Life without catheter project – Optimising clinical decision making

Janice Cheng



Kindly supported by: WEDNESDAY 16 OCTOBER 2019

ROBERT HELME NEUROSCIENCE SESSION 9:00AM – 12:30PM LECTURE THEATRE WCHRE SUNSHINE


CHAIR: Prof Tissa Wijeratne, Head of Neurology

TIME TITLE SPEAKER

9:00am – 09:20am Migraine: A Leading Cause of Disability in Australia. Time to Act

Rebecca Trethowan

9:20am – 9.:40am An integrated multi-omics systematic review of acute stroke ischemic stroke: Genetics, transcriptomics and proteomics

Vinh Nguyen

9:40am – 10:00am Atrial Fibrillation, Diabetes and Migraine Screening in the Sri Lankan Australian Community.

Christy Kei

10:00am – 10:20am TEA BREAK

10:20am – 10:40am A Severe Case of Autoimmune Encephalitis Norman Weber

10:40am – 11:00am Migraine and Sleep Disturbance: A Systematic Review

Jade Soo

11:00am – 11:20am Paper Bullet and Dusty Allen - What can we learn during 2019?

Rebecca Trethowan

11:20am – 12:10pm KEYNOTE ADDRESS:

Title: Sex differences in risk factors for cognitive impairment

Prof Rachel Huxley

Executive Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences, Deakin University

12:10pm –12:30pm 2020 Vision for Brain Health (CLOSING REMARKS)

Prof Tissa Wijeratne

Head of Neurology





BEST CARE – PERSON-CENTRED CARE 9:00AM – 12:30PM AUDITORIUM WCHRE SUNSHINE


CHAIR: Mr Shane Crowe, Executive Director of Nursing & Midwifery

TIME TITLE SPEAKER

9:00am – 9:30am KEYNOTE ADDRESS:

Title: View from the bed – how staff benefit from patient-centred care

Ms Belinda MacLeod-Smith

Consumer lead, Safer Care Victoria

9:30am – 9:55am Patient Story


10:00am – 10:15am Building Relationships for Change: Collaborative Pairs Australia

Kate Cranwell

10:20am – 10:35am Evaluating the feasibility of prehabilitation for men with prostate cancer

Alesha Sayner

10:40am – 10:55am

11:00am – 11:15am Assessment of plate wastage and patient satisfaction post transition from Buckeye to CBORD food service systems.

Caroline Calkin

11:20am – 11:35am Aged Care Liaison Service Audit of 12 months of face to face visits to residential aged care facilities.

Inese Tucker

11:40am – 11:55am Maternity Connect Program Kylie Martin

& Sara Holton

12:00pm – 12:15pm The identification, care and management of refugee patients at Western Health: The healthcare worker perspective

Danielle Hitch

12:15pm – 12:30pm SESSION CLOSE





ONCOLOGY AND HAEMATOLOGY SESSION 2:00PM – 4:30PM AUDITORIUM WCHRE SUNSHINE


CHAIR: Dr Dishan Herath, Director of Cancer Services

TIME TITLE SPEAKER


Title: Advances in Cancer Nursing

Prof Meinir Krishnasamy

Professor of Cancer Nursing, University of Melbourne

2:25pm – 2:30pm QUESTION TIME


2:30pm – 2:45pm Retrospective audit of Symptom Urgent Review Clinic (SURC) utilisation in patients receiving chemotherapy for metastatic lung cancer.

Caitlyn Murphy

2:45pm – 3:00pm Vietnamese cancer patients accessing clinical trials focus group.

Jillian Head/Cuong Do

3:00pm – 3.15pm Implementing and evaluating a shared-care model of survivorship for prostate cancer patients in the west – a Western Health and North Western Melbourne Primary Health Network collaboration.

Cindy Ogluszko

3:15pm – 3:30pm Neoadjuvant capecitabine versus infusional 5-fluorouracil for the treatment of locally advanced rectal cancer.

Matthew Loft

3:30pm – 3:45pm Use of FOLFIRINOX chemotherapy in an Australasian population of pancreatic cancer.

Matthew Loft

3:45pm – 4:00pm Compliance to screening and treatment guidelines is poor for young patients with hepatocellular carcinoma.

Karla Cameron

4:00pm – 4:15pm Pancreatic Cancer - to stent or bypass? An analysis of biliary stent-related morbidity in the palliative setting.

Sam Banks

4:15pm – 4:30pm Patient Reported Outcomes in Colorectal Cancer Patients from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse backgrounds: Translation and Linguistic validation of a cancer specific Quality of Life questionnaire for Vietnamese patients.

Justin Yeung





SUBACUTE & AGED CARE SESSION 2:00PM – 4:00PM LECTURE THEATRE WCHRE SUNSHINE


CHAIR: Dr Clare White, Subacute & Aged Care Clinical Services Director

TIME TITLE SPEAKER


Title: Maintaining mobility in old age

A/Prof Peggy Cawthon

Senior Scientist at California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute and Associate Adjunct Professor at University of California San Francisco

2:50pm – 3:00pm Keynote Address Question Time


3:00pm – 3:10pm The role of the Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment prior to elective colorectal cancer surgery in older adults

Madeleine Beaumont

3:10pm – 3:20pm TBC

3:20pm – 3:30pm Walk speed and muscle mass estimated by the D3-Creatine dilution method are the most important predictors of incident mobility disability in older men; a classification and regression tree analysis

Jesse Zanker

3:30pm – 3:40pm Do language barriers influence opioid prescribing after total knee arthroplasty?

Alex Tucker

3:40pm – 3:50pm Use of the G8 Screening tool in colorectal cancer patients

Helen MacCallum

3:50pm – 4:00pm CLOSING REMARKS Dr Clare White

Clinical Services Director




CARDIOLOGY SESSION 8:00AM – 9:00AM LECTURE THEATRE WCHRE SUNSHINE


CHAIR: A/Prof Nicholas Cox

TIME TITLE SPEAKER


Title: Can digital health technology really improve chronic disease outcomes: Myth or reality?

Prof Brian Oldenburg

Professor of Non-Communicable Disease Control,University of Melbourne





BEST CARE – SAFE CARE 9:00AM – 12:30PM AUDITORIUM WCHRE SUNSHINE


CHAIR: Dr Paul Eleftheriou, Chief Medical Officer

TIME TITLE SPEAKER


Title: VAHI’s role in the provision of Safe Care

Ms Mary Manescu

Director, Health System Reporting for the Victorian Agency for Health Information

9:30am – 9:55am Patient Story


10:00am – 10:15am Implementation of An Adult Sepsis Pathway at Western Health

Eileen Hansen & Sally Greenberg

10:20am – 10:35am Getting a handle on therapeutic handling Gemma O’Brien

10:40am – 10:55am

11:00am – 11:15am New guideline review- Improving peri-operative urine culture interpretation and treatment at Western Health

Elliot Anderson

11:20am – 11:35am Life without catheter project – Optimising clinical decision making

Janice Cheng

11:40am – 11:55am Introducing Routine Risk Assessment for Occupational Violence and Aggression in the Emergency Department

Ainslie Senz

12:00pm – 12:15pm Does a Sepsis Prevention Bundle Reduce the Rate of Deep Space Infections in Colorectal Resections?

Nicole Tham





WESTERN HEALTH CHRONIC DISEASE ALLIANCE SESSION RESEARCH IN THE COMMIUNITY SETTING – CRADLE TO GRAVE 10:30AM – 12:30PM LECTURE THEATRE WCHRE SUNSHINE


CHAIR: Prof Edward Janus, Director of Research

TIME TITLE SPEAKER

10:30am – 10:45am Welcome Coffee


Title: Gen V

Prof Melissa Wake

Director of the new Generation Victoria initiative, led from the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute


Title: Future Health Today

A/Prof Jo-Anne Manski Nankervis

General practitioner at the Department of General Practice, Melbourne Medical School

11:55am – 12:30pm KEYNOTE ADDRESS:

Title: Primary prevention: lessons from ASPREE

Prof John McNeil

Former Head of Monash University’s School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine





BEST CARE – COORDINATED CARE 1:00PM – 4:30PM AUDITORIUM WCHRE SUNSHINE


CHAIR: Ms Natasha Toohey, Executive Director Operations

TIME TITLE SPEAKER


Title: Innovation Common

Mr Matiu Bush

Founder of One Good Street

1:30pm – 1:55pm Patient Story


2:00pm – 2:15pm Standardising Discharge at Western Health (WH)

Andrea Donnell

2:20pm – 2:35pm Sustaining a Culture of Respect and Engagement - SCORE

Michael Leiter

2:40pm – 2:55pm

3:00pm – 3:15pm Implementing and evaluating a shared-care model of survivorship for prostate cancer patients in the west – a Western Health and North Western Melbourne Primary Health Network collaboration

Cindy Ogluszko

3:20pm – 3:35pm The ‘Winter Nurse’ Project: Can post discharge phone calls prevent readmission

Charlotte Cachia

3:40pm – 3:55pm Video Conferencing Using Zoom. Increasing access to interpreters

Anna Novak

4:00pm – 4:15pm Exploring the impact of a partnership between Centrelink & Western Health

Sarah Booth






NURSING & MIDWIFERY SESSION 2:00PM – 4:00PM LECTURE THEATRE WCHRE SUNSHINE


CHAIR: Prof Bodil Rasmussen, Chair in Nursing

TIME TITLE SPEAKER


The value of peer support groups for exclusively expressing mothers

Prof Linda Sweet

Chair in Midwifery

Western Health – Deakin University Partnership


2:30pm – 2:40pm Antenatal education and support programs for women giving birth at Western Health: Identifying women’s needs and preferences for content and format, and service needs from the perspective of midwives

Sara Holton

2:40pm – 2.50pm The ‘Winter Nurse’ Project: Can post discharge phones prevent readmission

Charlotte Cachia

2:50pm – 3:00pm Continuity of midwifery care for aboriginal women – working toward a culturally safe model of care to improve outcomes for mothers and babies

Frances Hearn & Pamela McCalman

3:00pm – 3:10pm Perspectives of women and key stakeholders on organizational strategies aimed to optimize women’s safety during labour and birth: A mixed qualitative study

Margie McCormick

3:10pm – 3:20pm Improving End of Life Care in the acute care setting

Marianne Phillips

3:20pm – 3:30pm BREAK

3:30pm – 3:40pm Midwives’ experiences of father participation in maternity care at Sunshine Hospital

Karen Wynter

3:40pm – 3:50pm Maternity Connect Program Kylie Martin

3:50pm – 4:00pm Optimal oxygenation monitoring to the neonate Natalia Toumbourau

4.00pm – 4.10 pm Nurse Led prostate biopsy follow-up care Cindy Ogluszko

4.10pm – 4.15pm Closing Remarks Prof Bodil Rasmussen

Chair in Nursing



Kindly supported by: Western Anaesthesia and Intensive

Care Group (WAICG)


ROBERT SMITH CRITICAL CARE SESSION 8:00AM – 12:00PM AUDITORIUM WCHRE SUNSHINE


CHAIR: Dr Georgina Imberger and Dr Joshua Szental

TIME TITLE SPEAKER

8:00am – 8:25am BREAKFAST


SESSION 1 Chair: Dr Georgina Imberger


Research, curiosity and the art of doing nothing

Prof Gerben Keijzers

Head of Emergency Medicine Research, Gold Coast Health Service District

9:01am – 9:13am Paediatric pre-anaesthetic information study - a questionnaire to ascertain what information should be available to parents and guardians prior to admission for a general anaesthetic

Jasmine Choi

9:14am – 9:26am Estimating children’s weight in emergency departments

Meike Foster

9:27am – 9:39am What is the Rate of Intervention for Intracranial Haemorrhage in Patients From Residential Aged Care Facilities With Minor Head Injury and Unchanged Cognitive Function?

Lorne Green

9:40am – 9:52am Reasons for Deferral and Cancellation of surgery at Pre-admission Clinic

Stefanie Fabris

9:53am – 10:05am A survey of the choice of general anaesthetic agents in Australia and New Zealand

Laura Elliot-Jones

10:06am – 10:30am MORNING TEA


SESSION 2 Chair: Dr Joshua Szental

10:35am – 10:47am What is the incidence of renal impairment in patients presenting to the Emergency Department with a clinical diagnosis of renal colic?

Neill Aitken

10:48am – 11:00am Western Health Code Blue Huddle Audit Akshay Hungenahally

11:01am – 11:13am Heads Announcing name and roles in theatre to increase Teamwork and Success (the HATS trial)

David Heelan

11:14am – 11:26am An audit of the treatment of Coagulopathy in the setting of Post-Partum Haemorrhage

James Ballantyne

11:27am – 11:39am TBC

11:40am – 11:50am CLOSING REMARKS





KENDALL FRANCIS SURGICAL SESSION 8:00AM – 12:15PM LECTURE THEATRE WCHRE SUNSHINE


CHAIR: A/Prof Justin Yeung, Head of the Department of Surgery

TIME TITLE SPEAKER

8:00am – 8:30am Breakfast

8:30am – 8:35am INTRODUCTION A/Prof Justin Yeung

Head of the Department of Surgery


Title: “Sham Trials” and Surgery

Prof Peter Choong

Hugh Devine Chair of Surgery at the University Of Melbourne & St Vincent's Hospital


9:10am – 9:20am Patterns of survivorship care for colorectal cancer – Experience from a single large tertiary institution.

Sam Pellegrino

9:20am – 9:30am Cold snare piecemeal endoscopic mucosal resection (CSP-EMR) of large sessile colonic polyps ≥20 mm is feasible, safe and effective

Dileep Mangira

9:30am – 9:40am Prevalence and significance of malnutrition and sarcopenia in patients with colorectal cancer undergoing curative resection: A prospective cohort study.

Aleksandra Djordjevic

9:40am – 9:50am The investigation of quality of life after colorectal cancer surgery by the introduction and use of Patient Reported Outcome Measures

Bede Mahon

9:50am – 10:00am Online Instructional Videos to supplement current teaching of the Surgical Abdominal Examination: Investigating the impact on medical student performance and anxiety

Ibrahim Shahid

10:00am – 10:10am Perioperative Handover using ISBAR principles at two sites. Phase 2: Observation of the quality of handovers since inception of project including initial assessment of all other handover points.

Patricia Kitney

10:10am – 10:30am MORNING TEA BREAK

10:30am – 10:40am The assessment of quality and readability of patient-orientated health information on the internet for the surgical management of inflammatory bowel disease.

Christy Kei

10.40am – 10:50am A systematic review of the effect of preoperative nutritional intervention on the nutritional status and outcomes of patients with

Irene Deftereos



upper gastrointestinal cancer.

10:50am – 11:00am What is the optimal penile cancer surgical resection margin for oncological clearance?

Elliot Anderson

11:00am – 11:10am The investigation of the incidence, type and treatment of anaemia in colorectal cancer patients undergoing surgery and to identify their complications and outcomes.

Vanessa Roberts

11:10am – 11:20am Audit of transperineal prostate biopsies performed at Western Health

Britt Haller

11:20am – 11:30am Anterior colporrhaphy and pubovaginal sling reinforcement for treatment of high-grade cystocoele

Danielle Taylor

11:30am – 11:40am The effect of preoperative immunonutrition on surgical outcomes in patients undergoing resection for pancreatic malignancy

Kunle Onasanya

11:40am – 11:50am Does a Sepsis Prevention Bundle Reduce the Rate of Deep Space Infections in Colorectal Resections?

Nicole Tham

11:50am – 12:00pm Pancreatic Cancer - to stent or bypass? An analysis of biliary stent-related morbidity in the palliative setting

Sam Banks

12:00pm – 12:10pm CLOSING REMARKS

12:10pm – 12:15pm JUDGES ADJOURN




CLOSING AND AWARD PRESENTATIONS AUDITORIUM WCHRE SUNSHINE FRIDAY 18 OCTOBER 2019

CLOSING AND AWRD PRESENTATIONS

TIME TITLE

12:30PM – 1:30PM AWARD PRESENTATIONS

Research Grants and Abstract Prize Winners Announced

Light lunch & Refreshments

ATRIUM WCHRE



RESEARCH AND BEST CARE AWARDS

Best Allied Health Research Presentation Prize – Sponsored by Bank Vic

Neville Yeomans Prize for Best Internal Medicine Research Presentation – Sponsored by Rotary of Footscray

Robert Helme Prize for Best Neuroscience Research Presentation – Sponsored by University of Melbourne

Best Oncology Research Presentation Prize – Sponsored by Roche

Sub-Acute and Aged Care Research Presentation – Sponsored by TLC Aged Care

Best Nursing and Midwifery Research Presentation Prize – Sponsored by Deakin University

Robert Smith Prize for Best Critical Care Research Presentation – Sponsored by Western Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Group (WAICG)

Kendall Francis Prize for Best Surgical Research Presentation – Sponsored by Medtronic

Best Research Poster Prize – Sponsored By Hesta

Best Published Research Paper Prize – Sponsored by Maxxia

AIMSS Oral Presentation Award – Sponsored by the Australian Institute for Musculoskeletal Science (AIMSS)

Best Care Right Care Presentation Prize – Sponsored by Maxxia

Best Care Person-Centred Care Presentation Prize – Sponsored by Maxxia

Best Care Safe Care Presentation Prize – Sponsored by Hesta

Best Care Co-ordinated Care Presentation Prize – Sponsored by Maxxia

Best Care Right Care Poster Prize – Sponsored by Maxxia

Best Care Person-Centred Care Poster Prize – Sponsored by Maxxia

Best Care Safe Care Poster Prize – Sponsored by Maxxia

Best Care Co-ordinated Care Poster Prize – Sponsored by Hesta

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