Keynote Speakers

Professor David Burgner

Professor Burgner is a Group Leader and Principal Research Fellow at Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and a paediatric infectious diseases physician at the Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne. He trained in the UK, Australia and Africa.

He has a career-long and slightly unhealthy fascination with Kawasaki disease and is involved in epidemiological, clinical and laboratory research and clinical guidelines. He is co-founder of the International Kawasaki disease Genetics Consortium and medical advisor to the Kawasaki disease Foundation Australia.

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Scheduled
Monday 4th May

Paediatrics & Child Health Division (PCHD)

1:35pm - 3:05pm

Clinical updates

Session dedicated to exciting and innovative clinical updates in paediatrics.

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Dr Matthew Lynch (NT) Endotracheal Tube Tip Positioning in Children Admitted to a Tertiary Paediatric Intensive Care Unit: Single centre quality audit VIEW PROFILE
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Dr Emily Cripps (TAS) Impact of probiotic use on the incidence of NEC: A single centre cohort study VIEW PROFILE
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Dr Sam Brophy-Williams (WA) Tertiary staff utilisation of interpreters for families with limited English proficiency. VIEW PROFILE
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Dr Robyn Silcock (QLD) Peri-Bone Marrow transplant Viraemia in Queensland Children 2000-2018 VIEW PROFILE
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Dr Alison Freeth (NSW/ACT) Rates and trends of prescribing acid suppression medication in children: analysis of Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme data 2003-2017 VIEW PROFILE
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Dr Panchi Kumarasinghe (WA) Incorporating Clinical Frailty Scale into Routine Outpatient Nephrology Practice: An observational study VIEW PROFILE
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Dr Benjamin Cailes (VIC) Impaired cardiac reserve on dobutamine stress echocardiography predicts development of hepatorenal syndrome VIEW PROFILE
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Dr Adam Stewart (QLD) Molecular epidemiology and hospital spread of ceftriaxone non-susceptible Enterobacterales in the Sunshine Coast region, Australia VIEW PROFILE
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Dr Prianka Puri (NSW/ACT) The impact of reclassification of C3 predominant glomerulopathies on diagnostic accuracy, outcome and prognosis in patients with C3GN VIEW PROFILE
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Dr Paul Hotton Dr Paul Hotton, is a consultant paediatrician who works as a staff specialist across the area of community child health at Sydney Children’s Hospital Network. VIEW PROFILE
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Dr Chloe Baxter Dr Chloe Baxter BSc(Hons) MBChB MHPE MSc is an advanced trainee in general paediatrics at the Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne. VIEW PROFILE
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Nalia Naseem Naila Naseem is a Partner with Francis Health and brings over 30 years of experience as a clinician and consultant in Healthcare, Leadership and Change management. VIEW PROFILE
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Stuart Francis Stuart is the founder and chairman of Francis Health. He is an expert facilitator and change management advisor. VIEW PROFILE
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Professor Clara Chow Dr Clara Chow is Professor of Faculty of Medicine and Health, Westmead and cardiologist at Westmead. VIEW PROFILE
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Professor Julie Leask Professor Julie Leask is a social scientist at the Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery and visiting professorial fellow at the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance. VIEW PROFILE
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Dr Sushena Krishnaswamy Dr Krishnaswamy is an Infectious Diseases Physician at Monash Health and the Royal Womens Hospital, Melbourne and an Adjunct Lecturer in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Monash University. VIEW PROFILE
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Dr Lucy Gunn Dr Lucy Gunn has 20 years of experience in research and teaching in the fields of econometrics and urban research. Her key interest is in understanding which urban environments are supportive of health and wellbeing outcomes. VIEW PROFILE
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Professor Ben Marsland Professor Marsland completed his PhD in Immunology at Otago University and the Malaghan Institute of Medical Research, Wellington, New Zealand. He then spent 14 years in Switzerland, first at the ETH Zürich and then as a Cloetta Medical Research Fellow at the University Hospital of Lausanne (CHUV). VIEW PROFILE
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Dr Kushani Marshall Dr Kushani Marshall is a public health physician undertaking further training as a field epidemiologist within the Master of Philosophy in Applied Epidemiology (MAE) training program at the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance and at the Australian National University. VIEW PROFILE
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Dr Natasha Cook Dr Natasha Cook MBBS (Hons) PhD FRACP is a fulltime nephrologist and general physician at Austin Health Melbourne, Nephrology Transition Clinical Lead, mother of three aged 19,15 and 11. Other special interests include chronic kidney disease and living kidney donor assessment. VIEW PROFILE
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Dr Helen Benham Dr Helen Benham MBBS (Hons) FRACP B.App Sci (Pod) PhD GAICD is a senior staff specialist rheumatologist at the Princess Alexandria Hospital, senior lecturer with The University of Queensland and previous NHMRC translating research into practice fellow. VIEW PROFILE
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Ms Debra Letica Debra is a member of the RACP Consumer Advisory Group (CPAC) and is passionate about reducing health disparities and integrated care. VIEW PROFILE
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Dr Sam Mehr Consultant Staff Specialist, Royal Children's Hospital and Sub-editor, Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health VIEW PROFILE
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Dr Michael McDowell Paediatrician specialising in child development and behavioural disorders. Formerly Foundation President, Neurodevelopmental and Behavioural Paediatric Society of Australasia VIEW PROFILE
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Associate Professor Emma Sciberras Associate Professor and Clinical Psychologist, Centre for Social and Early Emotional Development and the School of Psychology, Deakin University. VIEW PROFILE
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Dr Erica Parker Public health registrar, Metropolitan Communicable Disease Control (MCDC) VIEW PROFILE
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Dr Alyce Wilson Public Health Registrar and Senior Research Officer, Burnet Institute VIEW PROFILE
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Dr Therese Marfori Environmental Health Group, Menzies Institute for Medical Research VIEW PROFILE
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Dr Kate Murton Communicable Disease Control Branch, SA Health VIEW PROFILE
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Dr Claire Behm Principal Medical Advisor and Director, Signal Investigation Unit and Special Access Branch of the Therapeutic Goods Administration VIEW PROFILE
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Honorary Professor Mahomed Patel OAM Honorary Professor in Applied Epidemiology, Research School of Population Health, Australian National University VIEW PROFILE
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Dr Dean Tey Dr Tey is a consultant at the Department of Allergy and Immunology, Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne.  He enjoys an active role in teaching medical students, junior training doctors and general practitioners. VIEW PROFILE
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Redfern Oration - Professor Tony Capon Directs the Monash Sustainable Development Institute and Chair planetary health, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Monash University VIEW PROFILE
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Dr Sant-Rayn Pasricha Division Head at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research and a haematologist at The Royal Melbourne Hospital VIEW PROFILE
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Professor Merlin Thomas Clinician scientist and program leader in the Department of Diabetes at Monash University VIEW PROFILE
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Dr Jaquelyne Hughes Nephrologist at Royal Darwin Hospital VIEW PROFILE
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Associate Professor Sue Woolfenden Senior staff specialist in the Department of Community Child Health and the former clinical lead in Integrated Care at Sydney Children’s Hospital Network VIEW PROFILE
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Professor Lynn Gillam AM Academic Director of the Children’s Bioethics Centre at the Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne VIEW PROFILE
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Professor Harriet Hiscock Consultant paediatrician and National Health and Medical Research Council Practitioner Fellow VIEW PROFILE
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Dr Susie Gibb Paediatrician and Medical Lead of the Complex Care Hub, Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne VIEW PROFILE
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Professor Judy Savige Professor at the University of Melbourne and Foundation Professor of Medicine at Northern Health VIEW PROFILE
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Professor John Christodoulou Chair Genomic Medicine, Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Co-Leader of the Brain and Mitochondrial Research Group, Director of the Genetics Research Theme, at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute in Melbourne VIEW PROFILE
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Keynote speaker
Keynote speaker - Professor Catherine Crock AM Professor Crock is not only a doctor at the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, she is a music and theatrical producer, a humanitarian, a mother and a strong advocate for culture change in healthcare. VIEW PROFILE
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Dr Jeremy Lewin Dr Jeremy Lewin is the Medical Director of ONTrac at Peter Mac Victorian Adolescent & Young Adult Cancer Service. VIEW PROFILE
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Ms Evelyn Culnane Evelyn leads Transition to Adult Care at the Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH) Melbourne VIEW PROFILE
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Howard Williams Medal - Professor Louise Baur AM Professor and Head of Child and Adolescent Health, University of Sydney Head of Children’s Hospital Westmead Clinical School VIEW PROFILE
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Cottrell Memorial Lecture - Professor Des Gorman Professor of Medicine in the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences at the University of Auckland VIEW PROFILE
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Ferguson-Glass Oration - Professor Michael Shanahan Professor Michael Shanahan is a dual trained occupational physician and rheumatologist. He is a staff specialist physician at the Southern Adelaide Health Network and Professor of Musculoskeletal Medicine at Flinders University. VIEW PROFILE
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George Burniston Oration - Associate Professor Adam Scheinberg Statewide Medical Director of the Victorian Paediatric Rehabilitation Service (VPRS), and Head of Department Paediatric Rehabilitation at the Royal Children’s Hospital VIEW PROFILE
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Priscilla Kincaid-Smith Oration - Ms Pat Anderson AO A powerful advocate for the health of Australia’s First Peoples VIEW PROFILE
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