PrintWednesday 12th September 2018
| 1400 – 1600 | Trade Bump-In | Concourse, Darwin Convention Centre |
| 1400 – 1800 |
Royal Flying Doctors Aeromedical Simulator Darwin Convention Centre, Porte Cochere The RFDS Aeromedical Simulator is a life sized replica of the fuselage of a flying doctor plane. It is fully equipped with stretchers, communications, oxygen, suction and the other equipment used every day by our heroes – the doctors, nurses and pilots of the Royal Flying Doctor Service. Visitors will hear stories, land a plane, rescue a patient and climb on board, strap themselves in, and enjoy a unique experience. |
| 1600 – 2000 | SARRAH National Conference Registration | Concourse, Darwin Convention Centre |
| 1500 – 1600 |
SARRAH Annual General Meeting – Open to all SARRAH Members Meeting Room 2, Darwin Convention Centre |
| 1730 – 1800 |
SARRAH Speed Networking Session for Students, Rural Generalist Trainees and Early Career Delegates Meeting Room 2, Darwin Convention Centre |
| 1800 – 2000 |
WELCOME RECEPTION | Concourse, Darwin Convention Centre Welcome to the 2018 SARRAH Conference! Don’t miss this opportunity to meet local, interstate and international delegates, the Organising Committee and our sponsors to kick start of the conference! The Welcome Reception also provides a great opportunity to meet delegates who are attending the conference for the first time. The Welcome Reception will feature a presentation from Glenn Keys AO, Founder and Executive Chairman, Aspen Medical |
Thursday 13th September 2018
| 0615 – 0700 |
SARRAH Wellbeing Program Walk & Run – Meet outside the Coffee Club on the Waterfront at 0615. All fitness levels welcome. |
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| 0730 – 1645 | Registration Open | Concourse, Darwin Convention Centre | ||||
| 0830 – 1500 |
Royal Flying Doctors Aeromedical Simulator Darwin Convention Centre, Porte Cochere The RFDS Aeromedical Simulator is a life sized replica of the fuselage of a flying doctor plane. It is fully equipped with stretchers, communications, oxygen, suction and the other equipment used every day by our heroes – the doctors, nurses and pilots of the Royal Flying Doctor Service. Visitors will hear stories, land a plane, rescue a patient and climb on board, strap themselves in, and enjoy a unique experience.
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| OPENING PLENARY | Waterfront 1 & 2, Level 2, Darwin Convention Centre Session Chair: Jeff House |
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| 0830 – 0840 |
Welcome to Country Donna Jackson, Larrakia Elder |
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| 0840 – 0855 |
President Address Rob Curry, President, Services for Australian Rural and Remote Allied Health (SARRAH) |
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| 0855 – 0900 |
Welcome to Darwin Kate Worden MLA, Member for Sanderson |
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| 0900 – 0930 |
Changing landscapes, Changing Lives: Time for the Allied Health Rural Generalists Pathway Julie Hulcombe, Chief Allied Health Officer, Queensland Health |
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| 0930 – 1000 |
Caring for the carers: Taking burn-out prevention seriously Dr Annmaree Wilson, Senior Clinical Psychology, CranaPlus |
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| 1000 – 1030 | Morning Tea & Exhibition | Concourse, Darwin Convention Centre |
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| Concurrent Session 1 Meeting Room 1 |
Concurrent Session 2 Meeting Room 2 |
Concurrent Session 3 Meeting Room 4 |
Concurrent Session 4 Waterfront Rooms 1 & 2 |
Workshops Meeting Room 3 |
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| Interprofessional Education and Practice Session Chair: Leigh Moore |
Aboriginal Health Session Chair: Susan Witt |
Workforce Session Chair: Renae Moore |
Clinical Practices and Services Session Chair: Annie Farthing |
Workshops Session Chair: Tony Smith |
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| 1030 – 1045 |
Linda Furness |
The Strength of our cultures is the strength of our future workforce Donna Murray |
Rachael Cooper |
Jennifer Finch |
45 Minute Workshop Where Am I, What’s My Login? Lenny Aronsten
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| 1045 – 1100 |
Lani DeSilva |
‘Staying strong inside and outside’: Perspectives of Aboriginal families with Machado Joseph Disease Jennifer Carr |
Sally Barrett |
Scaling up at speed: accelerating workforce change through a regional approach Anne Buckley |
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| 1100 – 1115 |
Interprofessional learning using escape rooms Narelle Campbell |
Donna-Maree Towney |
Evaluation of an Early Career Support Cluster Daniel Baker |
The changing landscape of palliative care and implications for allied health clinicians Deidre Morgan |
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| 1115 – 1130 |
The RIPES Time is here – Piloting an inter-professional student education model Steve Cadell |
Cultural Responsiveness in Action: Transforming the health workforce Donna Murray |
The what and where of workforce gaps: perspectives from rural/remote QLD practitioners and managers David Wellman |
Kylie Stothers |
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| 1130 – 1145 |
Dagney Hopp |
The 5 Human Rights Strategies to Close the Gap Amanda Jackson |
Changing the way we do things: generalist allied health assistant roles in rural Central Queensland Kerri-Anne Von Deest |
45 minute Workshop Innovative approaches to building Pain Management Service capacity in rural and remote locations Rachel Kovacevic |
45 Minute Workshop Stay Strong – Using Technology to Increase Access to Wellbeing Support for Indigenous Australians Christabel Lewis & Josie Povey |
| 1145 – 1200 |
Jodi Smith |
Kathryn Fitzgerald |
Lightning Talks (Five minute presentations) Exploration of a transdisciplinary children service model delivered by rural generalists Hannah Christensen Changing service models to fit our landscape: a rural allied health assistant model Lisa Baker Allied health assistant led post-acute telehealth clinics for remote communities Clare Herring |
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| 1200 – 1205 |
Taking Tracheostomy Care across the Territory Jaya Thomas |
Werner Vogels |
Robyn Gill |
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| 1205 – 1210 |
Capability and Competence to identify and respond to eating disorders Hilary Smith |
The Quinine Aboriginal allied health assistants project: Changing lives in rural and remote NSW Kim Bulkeley |
Achieving Equity, Effectiveness and Efficiency – Digital health in Allied HealthAngela Firth | ||
| 1210 – 1215 |
Using Simulated Patients to Enhance Basic Life Support Training for Allied Health Students Jodi Ullrich |
Sarah Ryan |
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| 1215 – 1220 |
Q & A |
Developing a Student Speech Pathology Service with an Aboriginal Medical Service Belinda Goodale |
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| 1220 – 1225 |
Kicking goals – goal setting within the remote Aboriginal community context Michelle Antoine |
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| 1225 – 1230 | Q & A | ||||
| 1230 – 1330 | Lunch & Exhibition | Concourse, Darwin Convention Centre |
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| Concurrent Session 5 Meeting Room 1 |
Concurrent Session 6 Meeting Room 2 |
Concurrent Session 7 Meeting Room 4 |
Concurrent Session 8 Waterfront Rooms 1 & 2 |
Workshops Meeting Room 3 |
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| Working cross-culturally Session Chair: Narelle Campbell |
NDIS Session Chair: Amanda O’Keefe |
Service Session Chair: Claire Salter |
Clinical services and models of care Session Chair: Kirrily Dear |
Workshops Session Chair: Ali Dymmott |
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| 1330 – 1345 |
Rebecca Amery |
Telepractice and the NDIS: a conduit, not a quickfix Edward Johnson |
Fiona Brooke |
Lightning Talks (Five minute presentations) Betty Mareko Development of a transdisciplinary diabetes model of care in a rural service Cristal Newman Enabling change through the key contact service delivery model in the Katherine region Rebecca McGrath |
45 Minute Workshop Melody Shepherd |
| 1345 – 1400 |
Heather Jensen |
Tanya Whitley |
Emily Farquhar |
Lightning Talks (Five minute presentations) Fiona Hall Changing inpatient rehabilitation ward to an enriched environment for rural patient Bronwyn Connelly TEHS Renal Service Occupational Therapy Role Joan Crombie |
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| 1400 – 1415 |
Robyn Glynn |
New learning program sees guardianship matters fast tracked Sue Steele-Smith |
Innovative partnership makes rehabilitation service provision a reality in Central West Queensland Steve Cadell |
Exploration of a new rural hospital service model; an Allied Health led Fracture Clinic Hannah Christensen |
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| 1415 – 1430 |
Families know best – Early childhood intervention in remote Northern Territory communities Hannah Johnston |
Q & A |
Annie Farthing |
Eunice Fu |
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| 1430 – 1500 | Afternoon Tea & Exhibition | Concourse, Darwin Convention Centre |
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| PLENARY SESSION | Waterfront 1 & 2, Level 2 Session Chair: Rob Curry |
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| 1500 – 1545 |
Moderator Panellists
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| 1545 – 1615 |
Flying Doctor Research in remote Australia: what’s the data telling us Dr Fergus Gardiner, Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) |
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| 1800 | Royal Flying Doctors Service Site Visit & Stokes Hill Wharf Networking Event SARRAH invites delegates to get together for this casual networking opportunity, please click here for further details. An entry fee of $15 applies, pre-registration is required  Entertainment at Stokes Hill Wharf provided by the Darwin Waterfront Corporation. Dining options include:Port Arcade
Starboard Arcade
For delegates who had indicated they will require transport, please be out the front of the Adina Hotel at 1750. The coach will return from Stokes Hill Wharf at 2030. For delegates walking to Stokes Hill Wharf please allow 10 – 15 minutes. |
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Friday 14th September 2018
| 0700 – 0745 |
SARRAH Wellbeing Program Yoga – Meet on the Waterfront Lawns, opposite Trampoline Gelato at 0700, if you have your own mat please bring this along. This class will be suitable for all delegates, regardless of your yoga experience. |
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| 0800 – 1630 | Registration Open | Darwin Convention Centre | ||||
| 0830 – 1600 |
Royal Flying Doctors Aeromedical Simulator Darwin Convention Centre, Porte Cochere The RFDS Aeromedical Simulator is a life sized replica of the fuselage of a flying doctor plane. It is fully equipped with stretchers, communications, oxygen, suction and the other equipment used every day by our heroes – the doctors, nurses and pilots of the Royal Flying Doctor Service. Visitors will hear stories, land a plane, rescue a patient and climb on board, strap themselves in, and enjoy a unique experience. |
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| DAY 2 PLENARY | Waterfront 1 & 2, Level 2, Darwin Convention Centre Session Chair: Narelle Campbell |
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| 0830 – 0845 |
Reflection / Outcomes from Day 1 Jeff House, CEO, Services for Australian Rural and Remote Allied Health (SARRAH) |
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| 0845 – 0915 | SARRAH Bishop Address Professor Susan Nancarrow, Southern Cross University |
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| 0915 – 0945 |
Emeritus Professor Paul Worley, Australian National Rural Health Commissioner |
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| 0945 – 1015 |
Changing landscapes, changing lives: is it time for transformational health system change? Professor John Wakerman, Associate Dean, Flinders University Northern Territory |
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| 1015 – 1045 | Morning Tea & Exhibition | Concourse, Darwin Convention Centre |
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| PLENARY SESSION | Waterfront 1 & 2, Level 2 Session Chair: Renae Moore |
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| 1045 – 1130 |
Transforming the Collective an Indigenous perspective Donna Murray, CEO, IAHA |
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| 1130 – 1200 |
‘Doing what suits’: Sharing stories of culturally responsive practice in research Rebecca Amery, School of Health, Charles Darwin University ; Joanne Gondarra, Yolgnu researcher |
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| 1200 – 1230 |
Jaki Adams-Barton, Regional Associate Director – Australasia, The Fred Hollows Foundation |
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| 1230 – 1330 | Lunch & Exhibition | Concourse, Darwin Convention Centre |
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| Concurrent Session 9 Meeting Room 1 |
Concurrent Session 10 Meeting Room 2 |
Concurrent Session 11 Meeting Room 4 |
Concurrent Session 12 Waterfront Rooms 1 & 2 |
Workshops Meeting Room 3 |
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| Pipeline Session Chair: Kim Bulkeley |
Rural generalism Session Chair: Heather Jensen |
Thinking about health system users Session Chair: Jaya Thomas |
Technology and digital health systems Session Chair: Edward Johnson |
Workshops Session Chair: Kylie Stothers |
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| 1330 – 1345 |
Kathryn Fitzgerald |
Outcomes of the Queensland Health rural generalist training position strategy 2014-2016 Ilsa Neilsen |
Perceptions of health practitioners and service managers of disability services in their community David Wellman |
Lisa Baker |
60 minute workshop Naomi Havens |
| 1345 – 1400 |
Predicting the future health workforce – finding leaks in the pipeline Claire Seaman |
Accreditation of rural generalist education programs for the allied health professions Kylie Woolcock |
What can Allied Health Professionals do about Aged Care Oral Health? Leonard Crocombe |
Telerehabilitation: Supporting Change in SA Health Chris Leung |
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| 1400 – 1415 |
Tony Smith |
Lightning Talks (Five minute presentations) Katheryn Farry Rebecca Le, Jessica Garner Betty Mareko
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Lightning Talks (Five minute presentations) Barriers to health equality for Karen refugees in regional Victoria, Australia: a scoping review Lisa Davenport Dr Alice Gilbert Strong Foundations – child, family, community and environmental toxins Emma Nunan |
Oral Presentation (15 minutes) Tele-audiology: A digital solution to a clinical problem Amanda Wilson
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| 1415 – 1420 |
Health careers to try – changing lives for the future Susan Witt |
Kiah Peterie |
Experiences of navigating the aged care landscape in Far North Queensland; a carers perspective Rachel Quigley |
Oral Presentation (15 minutes) Changing connections: parent/caregiver engagement and therapeutic alliance in paediatric teletherapy Glenn Fairweather |
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| 1420 – 1425 |
Changing the approach to training rural Allied Health student supervisors: an innovative blend! Darlene Wyatt |
Ellen McMaster |
Who is the Tooth Fairy’s best friend? Cathryn Carboon |
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| 1425 – 1430 |
Liana Bryant |
Bonnie Collins |
Exploring the Occupational Experiences of Livestock Farmers during Drought: A Narrative Inquiry Kirsty Healing |
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| 1430 – 1435 |
Cassandra Small |
Establishment of speech pathology services in a remote Australian hospital Amanda O’Keefe |
Jennifer O’Neill |
Robotic rehabilitation: A public regional health service model of care Andrea Voogt |
60 minute workshop The Dementia Experience: Immersive Simulated Learning Kathryn Fitzgerald & Jodi Ullrich Please note this session will run until 1530.
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| 1435 – 1440 |
Andrew Hayward |
‘What do you mean?’ Preliminary Image Evaluation in Rural North Queensland Rose McWilliam |
Jessica Muller |
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| 1440 – 1445 |
Jane George |
Allied Health Rural Generalist Training Positions- Changing healthcare in the country Jaclyn Muscio |
Cleft management in the Northern Territory: a review of the past 17 years (2000 – 2017) Celina Lai |
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| 1445 – 1450 |
Going Rural Health Program: changing student placements for the better Claire Salter |
Megan Harbourne |
Q & A
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Lauren Miller-Lewis |
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| 1450 – 1455 |
Providing a Kick Start to Rural Health through Student Led Services Alex Lalovic |
Rural generalist training positions: a “how to” guide Ilsa Nielsen
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Chronic Condition Psychologist: implementing a new service in rural Queensland Lisa Baker |
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| 1455 – 1500 |
Q & A |
Thao Nguyen |
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| 1500 – 1505 |
Q & A |
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| 1505 – 1510 | |||||
| 1510 – 1545 | Afternoon Tea & Exhibition | Concourse, Darwin Convention Centre |
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| CLOSING PLENARY | Waterfront 1 & 2, Level 2 Session Chair: Jeff House |
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| 1545 – 1630 |
Conference Close Have your say. Join the closing session for an engaging discussion, wrap up of the 2018 conference and future directions of SARRAH Jeff House & Deslie Rosevear, SARRAH |
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| 1830 – late |
SARRAH ‘A Touch of the Tropics‘ Gala Dinner | Skycity Lawns Coach transfers will be available from the Vibe Hotel at 1800, followed by a pick up at the Mantra Pandanas at 1815. Return transfers will be available at the end of the evening. |
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