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About the Program
The one-day virtual event was a great opportunity to hear from experts about successes and challenges in emergency care, the range of factors contributing to these outcomes and how to develop teams and cultures that result in a safe emergency department.Passionate speakers explored practical human factors in emergency medicine as they asked the question – What about the Human? – and delved into the important impact that wellbeing and safety have on the emergency medicine workforce and the patients that they care for.
| Program Grid | |
| 9.00AM - 9.10AM | Acknowledgment of Country and Welcome A/Prof Carmel Crock Dr Clare Skinner Dr Andrew Cooke |
| Theme: | What about the Human? |
| 9.10AM - 9.45AM | Keynote Presentation Practical Human Factors for Emergency Medicine A/Prof Stuart Marshall |
| 9.45AM - 10.20AM | Wellbeing - What about the Human? Dr Cheryl Martin |
| 10.20AM -10.50AM | Break |
| 10.50AM - 11.20AM | What Do You Mean Safety? - Why Models of Safety Matter Dr Carl Horsley |
| 11.20AM - 12.20AM | Question and Panel Discussion Dr Simon Judkins A/Prof Nicola Cunningham A/Prof Stephen Priestley Dr Cheryl Martin A/ Prof Carmel Crock Dr Andrew Cooke |
| 12.20PM - 12.50PM | Break |
| Theme: | Is AI Virtual Care The Best or Worst Thing to Happen to Emergency Medicine? |
| 12.50PM - 1.20PM | Telehealth - How Do We Incorporate the Culture of Virtual Care into Emergency Department Practice? Dr Loren Sher |
| 1.20PM - 1.50PM | Artificial Intelligence - How Will the Emergence of Artificial Intelligence Impact on the Clinical Decisions We Make in the Emergency Department? Prof George Braitberg Adj Assoc Prof Hamed Akhlaghi |
| 1.50PM - 2.20PM | Break |
| 2.20PM - 3.20PM | Question and Panel Discussion Prof George Braitberg Adj Assoc Prof Hamed Akhlaghi Dr Loren Sher |
| 3.20PM - 3.50PM | Emergency Medicine Events Register (EMER) Dr Kim Hansen |
| 3.50PM - 4.00PM | Panel Discussion and Wrap Up Prof George Braitberg A/ Prof Carmel Crock |
Speakers
We thank the below speakers for their contribution to the program.
Adjunct Associate Professor Hamed Akhlaghi
Dr Akhlaghi is a fellow of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine since 2015. He was awarded a PhD in the field of Neuroscience from the University of Melbourne in 2012. Dr Akhlaghi has constantly been contributing to the teaching of academic staff in the field of Emergency Medicine; has an active role in conducting research activities; and has been appointed as a Head of Emergency Medicine Research at St Vincent’s Hospital to perform high-quality research, develop new partnerships and advocate the translation of evidence into practice.
Dr Kim Hansen
Dr Kim Hansen is Clinical Director of Metro North’s Virtual Emergency Department and the Medical Director of Critical Care, Women’s and Children’s Service Line at Redcliffe Hospital, Australia.
Kim is passionate about equity for staff and patients and advocates for high quality care for patients. With Carmel Crock, Kim co-founded EMER in 2010 and has been involved at every stage of its evolution. Kim founded IFEM’s Quality and Safety Special Interest Group in 2016, was the inaugural Chair and remains an active member.
She is the inaugural Chair and founder of ACEM’s Advancing Women in Emergency, Chair of the Board of the Emergency Medicine Foundation until recently and ACEM’s Queensland Faculty Chair since 2017. Kim has rekindled a passion for basketball and is currently playing in the Master’s games in Cairns.
Associate Professor Stuart Marshall
Stuart Marshall is an anaesthetist working in the South Eastern suburbs of Melbourne and the Mornington Peninsula. He is a board director (councillor) of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists and chair of the International Clinical Skills Foundation, an Australian registered charity that aims to improve the skills of clinical educators in low- and middle-income countries.
Following Stuart’s initial background in crisis resource management and simulation-based clinical teaching, he became interested in Human Factors engineering and subsequently undertook a Masters degree and then PhD in this area. His research interests include the use of cognitive aids in clinical crises and the management of airway and anaphylaxis emergencies.
When not found in an operating theatre he’s at home in his veggie garden or fostering rescue kittens.
Dr Cheryl Martin
Dr Cheryl Martin is an Emergency Physician. She has spent nearly two decades working in a variety of emergency, trauma and critical care settings in both Scotland and Australia. Her other main professional interests are in sports, exercise and lifestyle medicine and the health and wellbeing of her colleagues.
Cheryl has wellbeing portfolios at department, hospital and college level. In 2022 she has had further opportunity develop her leadership skills to effect meaningful, evidence- based change in this area, at the Stanford Medicine Chief Wellness Officer Course.
With a passion for the science, art and practical application of how we might optimise our performance and wellbeing as Emergency Physicians and maintain longevity of practice, The Mind Full Medic Podcast project was born in 2020.
Outside of work Cheryl is an avid trail runner and can usually be found exploring the local coastal and mountain trails with her trail tribe. Like her yoga asana practice, she describes running in natural settings as her moving meditation.
Professor George Braitberg
Professor George Braitberg is an emergency physician and toxicologist and medical administrator of 35 years. He is Head of the Emergency Medicine Stream for the Department of Critical Care at the University of Melbourne and Professor/Director of Emergency Medicine Research at Austin Health. Prior to that he held an executive role in quality and safety at The Royal Melbourne Hospital.
He is a Fellow of the American College of Medical Toxicology (ACMT), the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM) and the Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators (RACMA). He holds a Masters in Bioethics and Health Services Management (Monash University). He is a Board member of St Johns Ambulance (Victoria) and Board Ministerial Advisory Committee and is a member of a number of national and international research committees.
His research interests include toxicology, disaster medicine, ethical decision making and learning health systems and the management of acute emergencies. He has published over 80 journal papers and authored more than 20 book chapters.
He became a member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 2018 and an Officer of the Order of St John (OStJ) in 2019. In 2018 he was awarded the ACEM Service Award.
Dr Carl Horsley
Dr Carl Horsley is the clinical lead for system safety at Te Tāhū Hauora. He is a dual-trained intensivist currently working in Middlemore Hospital, Auckland. He has a research interest in the use of simulation to build system resilience, the sociology of safety and the intersection of te ao Māori and modern safety science.
Carl recently completed his MSc in Human Factors and System Safety at Lund University, Sweden, with a thesis examining the way in which the current safety norm has been formed and stabilised. He is also an active member of the Resilient Healthcare Network, a collaboration of safety scientists, researchers and clinicians exploring the implications of resilience engineering in health care. Carl is particularly interested in how to embed these ideas in everyday practice and has authored several book chapters on aspects of this work.
Dr Loren Sher
Loren Sher is an Emergency specialist and the Director of the new Victorian Virtual ED. In Loren's previous role, she was the Director of the Northern Hospital’s Paediatric Emergency Department. Loren’s other career highlights include the development of a Paediatric HIV clinic in South Africa and the development of the Paediatric Emergency department at The Northern hospital.
Dr Simon Judkins
Dr Simon Judkins is a former President of ACEM and remains on a number of ACEM committees, including as the Chair of the Mental Health Working Group. in 2022, Simon was the Conference Convenor for the ICEM in Melbourne. He is the Director of EM at Echuca Health, a position he took on 2 years ago with a plan to improve the level of care the ED and the wider hospital provides to that community... and is making some progress. Simon maintains a role at Austin Health, is on the Board of the Victorian AMA and will be going on a holiday two days after this meeting.
Associate Professor Stephen Priestley
Stephen Priestley is an emergency medical specialist with over 30 years of clinical experience. He completed his undergraduate medicine degree at the University of Queensland in 1984 and went on to complete postgraduate studies over the next ten years leading to being awarded a Fellowship of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine in 1994. He currently practises as an emergency specialist on the Sunshine Coast with the Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Service in Queensland.
Dr Priestley’s interests include patient safety and quality, respectful communication and professionalism and he is active member of a number of College committees and external organisations.
Adjunct Associate Professor Nicola Cunningham
Adjunct Associate Professor Nicola Cunningham is widely recognised and respected as one of Australia’s leading clinicians, educators, and researchers in the fields of forensic medicine, emergency medicine, and patient safety. She holds dual specialist Fellowships in Emergency Medicine and Clinical Forensic Medicine, along with a Master of Forensic Medicine from Monash University and a Master of Health and Medical Law from the University of Melbourne, and has worked in Melbourne as both an Emergency Physician and a Forensic Physician for over 16 years.
Associate Professor Carmel Crock
Carmel Crock is Emergency Department Director at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, Chair of the Quality and Patient Safety Committee of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine, and Chair of the Australia and New Zealand affiliate of the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine.Carmel is also Associate Professor at the University of Melbourne, where she lectures on physician and medical student wellness and its relationship to patient safety.
Dr Clare Skinner
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