Gippsland Allied Health Symposium
11 June 2021
Gippsland Allied Health Symposium
11 June 2021
Thankyou for Attending
On behalf of the 2021 Gippsland Allied Health Symposium Organising committee, we thank you for attending the 5th Gippsland Allied Health Online Symposium, delivered for the first time as an online symposium.
The 2021 symposium featured four keynote speakers, a selection of concurrent rapid-fire and oral presentations as well as a number of poster presentations. The presentations were delivered by allied health professionals and allied health assistants from across Gippsland area and explored the symposium theme of Future Ready – Inspiration, Innovation and Insight.
TIME | 2021 GIPPSLAND ALLIED HEALTH SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM | ||
08.15 – 08.30 | Platform Orientation | ||
08.30 – 09.00 | Speed Networking | ||
OPENING PLENARY | |||
09.00 – 09.15 |
Welcome to the 5th Gippsland Allied Health Symposium Opening Address Welcome to Country |
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09.15 – 10.00 |
Keynote Speaker | Anna Moran, University of Melbourne and Unplex The value and impact of non traditional roles in Allied Health for complex clients and complex settings Anna is an AHP workforce and service redesign expert, business owner, physio, mum of 4, recovering academic and general AHP cheerleader. Dr Moran completed her PhD in 2009 which looked at the ways to successfully use support workers (or assistants) to increase workforce flexibility and improve patient outcomes in community settings. Since then, she has been working as a health services researcher, most recently for the peak rural Allied Health body, Services for Australian Rural and Remote Allied Health (SARRAH), cultivating her expertise in health workforce reform; service delivery and organisation; and evidence generation and translation. |
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10.00-10.30 | EXHIBITION/ MORNING TEA/ POSTERS | ||
PLENARY SESSION | |||
10.30 – 11.15 |
Keynote Speaker | Susan Nancarrow, Southern Cross University Learning from the past so we can control our future Susan is a health and higher education consultant, with twenty years’ international experience in service delivery and organisation and governance. Susan has held senior executive roles in higher education, including Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research) Chair of Academic Board and Professor of Health Sciences. She is a non-executive director on the Northern New South Wales Local Health District Board, and Deputy Chair of Aspire4Life and also involved with other not-for-profit community groups. |
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5 minute screen break |
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CONCURRENT SESSION | Oral Presentations | |||
STREAM 1 | STREAM 2 Sponsored by GMobility |
STREAM 3 Sponsored by Access Rehabilitation Equipment |
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CHAIR | Daniel Baker | Pam Harvey | Andrew Ellis |
11.20 – 11.35 |
Comparative analysis of paper vs online stuttering severity rating
Amy Tucker, Adrienne Robinson |
Alyssa Mills, Laura Telling |
Home-Based Pulmonary Rehabilitation Pilot – A response to the COVID-19 pandemic
Nicola Smart |
11.35 – 11.50 |
Surface Electromyography: Use in dysphagia rehab
Taylor Chambers |
Megan Rumble |
‘Active Hour’ – The benefits of a Community Health exercise program during COVID-19.
Jordan McMillan |
11.50 – 12.05 | Live Q&A |
Natalie Dickson |
A Change of ‘Heart’: Getting ‘Pumped’ for Telehealth Rehab
Eillis O’Haire |
12.05 – 12.20 | Live Q&A | Live Q&A | |
12.20-13.15 | EXHIBITION/ LUNCH / POSTERS | ||
CONCURRENT SESSION | Oral Presentations | |||
STREAM 4 | STREAM 5 | STREAM 6 Sponsored by Monash University |
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CHAIR | Angela Ellis | Kristy Dougheney | Stephanie King |
13.15 – 13.30 |
Sally Wilson |
Healthy Eating in the Workplace Partnership East Gippsland
Chelsea Arceri |
Flora Versyck |
13.30 – 13.45 |
Reducing the Waitlist for a Rural Public Community Allied Health Department
Sarah Meney |
Christopher Duff |
Allied Health Assistants Within a Busy Podiatry Service – A GLCH Perspective
Amanda Hack |
13.45 – 14.00 |
The effectiveness of Total Contact Cast Technique to control infection and treat DFU to prevent late presentation and amputation in a rural and isolated setting. An experience from the Solomon Islands. Amelia Tobias |
At what rate are oral nutritional supplements delivered and what factors may explain non-delivery?
Karen Lee |
Thinking outside of the square: Peer Supervision Groups
Beth Shields |
14.00 – 14.15 | Live Q&A | Live Q&A | Live Q&A |
5 minute screen break | |||
PLENARY SESSION | |||
14.20 – 15.05 |
Keynote Speaker | Cath Cosgrave, University of New England (adjunct) and Cath Cosgrave Consulting Learnings from implementing a person-centred and place-based approach to improve the recruitment and retention of the allied health workforce in rural Australia Dr Cath Cosgrave (PhD, MA, BCom), is a social scientist and qualitative researcher with internationally recognised expertise in the field of rural health workforce and community development. Dr Cosgrave works as a researcher, consultant and speaker. She is currently spearheading a new research agenda into the role ‘place’ and ‘belonging’ play in attracting, recruiting and retaining health professionals to work and live, in rural places. In 2018, she was awarded the prestigious Churchill Fellowship to travel to Canada in 2019 to investigate community-led health workforce development approaches for supporting the personal and social needs of newcomer health workers and their families. |
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15.05 – 15.30 | EXHIBITION/ AFTERNOON TEA/ POSTERS | ||
CLOSING PLENARY SESSION | |||
15.30 – 16.15 |
Keynote Speaker | Tim Blake, Semantic Consulting Engaged Patients, Digital Health and Mobile Health Apps: Driving Innovation in Healthcare Tim is the Managing Director of Semantic Consulting, a consulting firm focused on leading digital change in healthcare. Tim helps organisations with digital health strategy, and is passionate about enabling engaged patients, activating carers, the use of mobile solutions in health, consumer health technology, precision medicine, consumer genomics, pharmacogenomics and many other components of digital health that are disrupting healthcare in positive and exciting ways. |
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16.15 – 16.30 |
AWARD PRESENTATIONS Best new presenter Best presenter Best poster presentation Portal engagement prize |
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16.30 – 16.45 | Closing address & Symposium Close |
ePosters
Grab and Go: Redesigning a service delivery model for community-based minor home modification practice Jessica Moller, Ainsleigh Whelan |
The QUEST to stay AT Home: Making changes that count and measuring outcomes that matter Jessica Moller |
Dietitians in Hemodialysis Bridget Ladlow |
Cross service student placements: A case study from Podiatry Daniel Baker |
Pulmonary Rehabilitation Kath Hempenstall, Lynne Olinsky-Jones |
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