Friday 8 - Saturday 9 September
Mooloolaba, QLD
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Professor Emily Callander
I am a health economist and health services researcher specialising in value-based health care and economic evaluation. I am Professor, and Head of Discipline for Health Services Management in the School of Public Health. I gained a PhD, and Postdoctoral training at the University of Sydney, School of Public Health, NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre and Charles Perkins Centre. I have held NHMRC Doctoral Scholarship, NHMRC Early Career Fellowship and NHMRC Career Development Fellowship support. I lead a Value-Based Care research program, externally funded by a number of NHMRC and MRFF grants. This includes undertaking economic evaluation alongside randomised controlled trials, measuring costs and outcomes with real-world linked administrative data, and conducting local-health service level economic modeling. I sit on a number of state government committees; and I am a member of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee Economics Subcommittee, where I provide economic advice on all new drugs seeking public subsidisation through the PBS.
Ben Horgan
Professor Tom Snelling
Tom Snelling is a clinician and leads the Health and Clinical Analytics team in Sydney School of Public Health and the Learning Health Unit of the Sydney Children's Hospitals Network. His interest is in the use of routinely captured health data for improving decision-making in health care and health policy. His work has covered the use of health data for evaluating the effectiveness and safety of vaccine and other public health programs, for clinical trials, and for point-of-care clinical decision support.
SPEAKERS
Doctor James Winearls
I am a Senior Staff Specialist in Intensive Care Medicine at the Gold Coast University Hospital. I trained in Intensive Care Medicine in the UK, South Africa and Australia. I have special interests in cardiothoracic intensive care, extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation and the coagulopathy associated with critical bleeding. I have been heavily involved in research projects related to the coagulopathy of critical bleeding. I am a CI for the FEISTY II multi-centre randomised controlled trail, investigating fibrinogen replacement in severe traumatic haemorrhage. I am also fortunate to be part of the Synergy Blood Group based at the Transfusion Research Unit at Monash.
Doctor Peter Snelling
Doctor Elyssia Bourke
Elyssia is an Emergency Physician from Victoria working at the Royal Melbourne Hospital & Grampians Health Ballarat. She is undertaking a PhD looking at the management of young people presenting with behavioural disturbance to the ED. She is a member of the ACEM CTN executive and has a strong interest in comparative effectiveness trials to improve the quality of the evidence relating to currently used management options in the ED.
Doctor Christopher Partyka
Dr Chris Partyka is an Emergency Physician at Royal North Shore Hospital and a Prehospital & Retrieval Medicine Specialist with NSW Ambulance (Aeromedical Operations) with interests in trauma resuscitation, point-of-care ultrasound and clinical research. He is currently undertaking his PhD with the University of Sydney evaluating the utility of the serratus anterior plane block.
Doctor Elliot Long
Elliot completed his specialist training in paediatric emergency at The Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne, after completing a critical care fellowship at the British Columbia Children’s Hospital in Vancouver, Canada. His PhD focussed on fluid resuscitation for paediatric sepsis, and his post-doctoral research has focussed on early sepsis recognition and treatment. Elliot is the vice-chair of the Paediatric Research in Emergency Departments International Collaborative (PREDICT) Network. He is the lead investigator for an Australian and New Zealand sepsis landscape study (SENTINEL study), and the PREDICT lead for an international sepsis RCT comparing fluids for sepsis resuscitation and initial maintenance (PROMPT Bolus study). Elliot has two school aged children, and has experienced the joys, challenges, and sometimes the uncertainties that go hand in hand with raising a young family. He is motivated to provide high quality, timely, and accessible care to children whose parents may be experiencing uncertainty with respect to their children’s health.
Associate Professor Peter Jones
Peter is the Director of Emergency Research at Auckland City Hospital and an associate professor at the University of Auckland. He has MSc in Evidence Based Healthcare from Oxford University, majoring in change management in healthcare and a PhD in Health Sciences from the University of Auckland focusing on the impact of time based targets on quality of care. He has served on several ACEM committees including chairing the Trainee Research Committee, the Quality Committee, the Overcrowding Committee and the Scientific Committee. He currently sits on the IFEM Research and Quality committees. He has over 100 publications in the peer reviewed literature and is the Primary Investigator for ARISE FLUIDS RCT in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Associate Professor Gerard O'Reilly
A/Prof Gerard O’Reilly (MBBS, FACEM, MPH, MBiostat, AStat, PhD) is a senior Emergency Physician and Head of Global Programs at the Alfred Emergency & Trauma Centre, and Head of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the National Trauma Research Institute, with an academic appointment at Monash University’s School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine. Following disaster response missions in Afghanistan, Kenya and Indonesia commencing more than two decades ago, he has led multiple emergency and trauma care system capacity development activities, including with colleagues in India, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Myanmar, Iran and at the WHO. Gerard has more than 150 peer-reviewed journal publications and has been a Chief Investigator for more than AUD $5 million in government grant finding. Gerard is currently a member of the ACEM ED Epidemiology Network (EDEN) Executive and the Research Committee and has been senior faculty for the Monash-Alfred Emergency Medicine Research Course since its inception in 2011. He is Clinical Lead for the Acute Care Learning Health Network at Safer Care Victoria. Gerard’s main areas of research interest are global emergency and trauma care system implementation research and clinical registries. He is currently on the Steering Committee for IFEM’s pilot implementation of the WHO Clinical Registry for Emergency Care.
Professor Daniel Fatovich
Professor Fatovich is a senior emergency physician and clinical researcher at Royal Perth Hospital Emergency Department, with 30 years’ experience in the design and conduct of clinical trials in Emergency Medicine. He is Head of the Centre for Clinical Research in Emergency Medicine, Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research; Director of Research for East Metropolitan Health Service, and a member of the ACEM Research Committee and Clinical Trials Network. He loves to challenge doctors to think, and to think differently.
Professor Diana Egerton-Warburton
Professor Diana Egerton-Warburton is Director Emergency Medicine Research, Monash Medical Centre ED and an Emergency Physician with a passion for patient and community advocacy. She is a Professor at the School of Clinical Sciences at Monash University. She has led and participated in a number of multi-site clinical trials and clinical research projects, with an emphasis on focused on pragmatic, patient-centred research, to influence practice and policy.
Doctor Michelle Davison
Michelle is an Adult and Paediatric emergency physician and is the Director of Paediatric emergency/Co-director of SCUH ED on the beautiful Sunshine Coast. She has been an active researcher and grant recipient for over 15years and has her name on 5 published papers with more in the review stages (some of which she even authored!). She has 5 active projects and her current research interests include Paediatric (particularly safety in interhospital transfers), Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural safety and implementation research. She is the Site investigator for a number of PREDICT trials and has helped develop research capacity both by mentorship and guidance for early career researchers and in her managerial roles supporting a research culture. She is acutely aware of the challenge that face clinician researchers within an ED setting and is passionate about enabling keen research interest in departments.
Doctor Vinay Gangathimmaiah
Dr Vinay Gangathimmaiah is an Emergency Physician and Director of Emergency Medicine Research at Townsville University Hospital. His research interests include de-implementation of low value care, acute pulmonary embolism diagnostics and improving patient flow.
Professor Julia Crilly
Julia Crilly is a Professor of Emergency Care; a joint appointment between Griffith University and Gold Coast Health. Julia has worked clinically and then academically in the emergency setting for over 25 years. She leads a multi-disciplinary program of research focussed on opportunities to improve patient and health service outcomes for vulnerable populations and understanding and improving the working environment of emergency department staff. Julia has led and been involved in research projects that have attracted over $6.5 Million dollars in research funding and resulted in over 150 peer-reviewed publications.
Doctor Rachel Muir
Rachel Muir is a Lecturer at Griffith University and Visiting Research Fellow in Emergency Care at Gold Coast University Health, and Kings College London. Rachel has 20 years of clinical and operational experience in critical care, emergency nursing and clinical research in the UK and Australia. Her research focuses on improving the quality and reporting of consumer engagement in research, and methodologies to engage consumers. Rachel has led and contributed to research projects totalling over $12 million dollars.
ACEM is the not-for-profit organisation responsible for training emergency physicians and advancement of professional standards in emergency medicine in Australia and New Zealand.
In 2023, ACEM will turn 40. ACEM’s 40th anniversary will provide fantastic opportunities to reflect on, celebrate and explore the rich and growing history of the College, and its evolution. From our pioneering Foundation Fellows to the current cohort of members and trainees who have built on their legacy, it is people who have made ACEM what it is today. We are looking forward to a big 2023 reflecting on, building on and celebrating all that ACEM and its people have achieved over four enormous decades.
Acknowledgement
ACEM acknowledges and pays respect to the Traditional Custodians of the lands across Australia on which our members live and work, and to their Elders, past, present, and future. We pay respect to the Kabi Kabi people and Jinibara people as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which this conference is held. We also pay respect to the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which ACEM's office stands. ACEM acknowledges Māori as tangata whenua and Treaty of Waitangi partners in Aotearoa New Zealand