16:40 - 17:20: Choosing Wisely
Tracks
Session 4
Thursday, October 20, 2016 |
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM |
Riverview Room 4 |
Overview
Matt Anstey
Gerry O'Callaghan
Nhi Nguyen
Speaker
Dr Matthew Anstey
Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital Intensive Care Unit
Choosing Wisely
Biography
Dr Anstey is a specialist Emergency and Intensive Care physician and currently works as an intensivist and co-director of research at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital Intensive Care Unit. Dr Anstey has a Masters of Public Health in health policy from Harvard School of Public Health and he was the 2012-13 Australian Harkness Fellow in Health Policy based at Kaiser Permanente California. He is an advisory board member of Choosing Wisely Australia.
Dr Nhi Nguyen
Nepean Hospital
Choosing wisely
Biography
Nhi is an Intensive Care Specialist at Nepean Hospital. Her area of interest is the critically ill obstetric patient. Life is filled by activities within her many roles ; Director of Prevocational Training and Education, Clinical Advisor for the Intensive Care Services Network of the Agency for Clinical Innovation, Co-chair of Best Practice Working Group for the ICSN and Chair of the Medical Staff Council at Nepean Hospital and last but not least wife and mother of two children. Helping to build a culture of critical thinking and displaying kindness and empathy in health care motivates her everyday to teach, mentor and support her colleagues and friends.
Associate Professor Gerry O'Callaghan
Director Intensive Care Services, Central Adelaide Local Health Network, Royal Adelaide and Queen Elizabeth Hospitals
Chair of the Transforming Health Directors Forum
Choosing Wisely
Biography
Background, Undergraduate studies in Dublin Ireland, postgraduate in anaesthesia and intensive care in Ireland, Australia and the United Kingdom.
Currently Director Intensive Care Services, Central Adelaide Local Health Network, ( Royal Adelaide and Queen Elizabeth Hospitals) and Chair of the Transforming Health Directors Forum in South Australia. Long term interests: organ and tissues donation, transplantation, clinical practice improvement and health reform specifically the use of educational, interdisciplinary and team based strategies to improve patient centred outcomes. Local and national experience in the development of policy and clinical guidelines and subsequent implementation .