2021 GAHS – conferences.com.au

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.

Program

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.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Susan Nancarrow

Anna Moran

Tim Blake

Cath Cosgrave

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 5^th Gippsland Allied Health Symposium Opening Address Welcome to Country
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.
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.
5 minute screen break
CONCURRENT SESSION \| Oral Presentations
	STREAM 1	STREAM 2 Sponsored by GMobility	STREAM 3 Sponsored by Access Rehabilitation Equipment
CHAIR	Daniel Baker	Pam Harvey	Andrew Ellis
11.20 – 11.35	Comparative analysis of paper vs online stuttering severity rating *Amy Tucker, Adrienne Robinson*	Development and implementation of the Basic Assessment Model to address long waiting lists in Occupational Therapy at Latrobe Community Health Service *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*	Exploring the skill level of the Occupational Therapy Allied Health Assistant workforce: The need for a competency framework *Megan Rumble*	‘Active Hour’ – The benefits of a Community Health exercise program during COVID-19. *Jordan McMillan*
11.50 – 12.05	Live Q&A	Powered Mobility Devices inside Residential Aged Care: inspiring occupational therapists to advocate autonomy and mitigate misadventure. *Natalie Dickson*	A Change of ‘Heart’: Getting ‘Pumped’ for Telehealth Rehab *Eillis O’Haire*
12.05 – 12.20	Live Q&A	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
CHAIR	Angela Ellis	Kristy Dougheney	Stephanie King
13.15 – 13.30	Prehabilitation: Implementing a new multidisciplinary program to prepare patients for Total Hip and Knee Replacement surgery. *Sally Wilson*	Healthy Eating in the Workplace Partnership East Gippsland *Chelsea Arceri*	Effect of dynamic contracture management following Low Load Prolonged Stretch to obtain an increase of ROM. *Flora Versyck*
13.30 – 13.45	Reducing the Waitlist for a Rural Public Community Allied Health Department *Sarah Meney*	An evaluuation of dietetic service in functional dyspepsia: comparison of low FODMAP with standard dietetic advice. *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.
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.
16.15 – 16.30	AWARD PRESENTATIONS Best new presenter Best presenter Best poster presentation Portal engagement prize
16.30 – 16.45	Closing address & Symposium Close