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

Professor Sir John Savill ................................................................................................... 2

Doctor Cathy Balding ......................................................................................................... 3

Associate Professor Peggy Cawthon ................................................................................. 4

Professor Linda Denehy .................................................................................................... 5

Associate Professor Daniel O’Brien ................................................................................... 6

Professor Rachel Huxley ................................................................................................... 7

Ms Belinda MacLeod-Smith ............................................................................................... 8

Professor Meinir Krishnasamy ........................................................................................... 9

Professor Brian Oldenburg .............................................................................................. 10

Professor Melissa Wake .................................................................................................. 11

Associate Professor Jo-Anne Manski-Nankervis ............................................................. 12

Professor John McNeil .................................................................................................... 13

Ms Mary Manescu ........................................................................................................... 14

Mr Matiu Bush ................................................................................................................. 15

Professor Linda Sweet .................................................................................................... 16

Professor Gerben Keijzers ............................................................................................... 17

Professor Peter Choong .................................................................................................. 18

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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: The Best Care Journey 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 lead 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 collaborations in research, 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 in rehabilitation. 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. Across its five schools, Deakin’s Faculty of Health is one of the largest and fastest-growing health faculties in Australia.



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 in 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 Higher Degrees in Research Coordinator. 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 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 AOA since 1996 and is the recent past President of the Australian Orthopaedic Association. 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.

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