The entire program has been designed within the framework of professional development: Clinical Expertise, Scholarship & Teaching, Professionalism & Social Responsibility, Leadership & Management, Communication, and Teamwork & Collaboration… READ MORE AND PRINT
Time | 1000 – 1700 |
Faculty | Nicholas Chrimes, David Brewster, Adam Rehak, Gerri Khong, Tim Cook, Andy Higgs, Matt Humar, Jon Gatward, Brooke Dench, Ben Meadley, Ian Summers, Georgie Harris, Drew Heffernan, David Anderson, Bill Bestic, Andy Shrimpton, Forbes McGain, Jo Simpson, Jonathan Begley |
Capacity | 200 |
Price | Specialist non-member - $550 Specialist member- $450 Resident/Registrar/Nurse/Paramedic non-member - $350 Resident/Registrar/Nurse/Paramedic member - $300 |
CPD Domains | Clinical Skill & Knowledge / Scholarship & Teaching / Teamwork & Collaboration |
Brought to you by The Safe Airway Society. A stellar line-up of ANZ and international speakers from all the varied professions who manage airways, will cover a wide range of airway management topics from pre-hospital to leaving the hospital.
We start with an interactive human factors session, where the audience and an expert panel will react to tachycardia-inducing videos of a rapidly deteriorating airway scenario. Then the first of three Airway Innovators sessions – where we see how surgeons and anaesthetists are pushing the boundaries in difficult airway management. We follow with a session on Out-of-Theatre intubation, taking the pulse of current evidence and practice in critical care and prehospital airway management. Then a scoop for SAS – selected highlights of the long-awaited PUMA guidelines – from two of the lead authors, Nicholas Chrimes and Andy Higgs (who is flying out to join us!).
After lunch – Aerosol Generating Procedures – do they even exist? AGP researchers including the lead author of the AERATOR studies will shed some light on this topic, then Tim Cook OBE will bring the session together with his insights on healthcare worker safety. We round off with a session on the blight of unrecognised oesophageal intubation – some case studies followed by another scoop – the PUMA guidelines for the prevention of unrecognised oesophageal intubation- a truly international project complete with cognitive aids, presented by Chrimes, Higgs and Cook.
Remember, SAS members get discounted rates at SAS 2022, so JOIN NOW!
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SAS 2022 can now be booked as a standalone event. Whilst we recommend registering for all 4 days of Coda22 to have the best experience possible, you can attend SAS 2022 on its own if you wish.
Time | 0800 – 1200 & 1300 – 1700 |
Faculty | Joseph Mathew, Chris Groombridge, Amit Maini, Michael Noonan |
Capacity | 24 |
Price | $990 |
CPD Domains | Clinical Skill & Knowledge |
The Procedures Course is designed to enable emergency and critical care physicians develop the mastery necessary to confidently perform a wide range of basic and complex resuscitative procedures when the time comes. Procedural teaching will be conducted by a group of renowned experts in trauma management from the Alfred Emergency & Trauma Centre, Australasia’s largest trauma service. Teaching is enhanced by the use of un-embalmed cadavers and a low cadaver-to-patient ratio.
Morning Session
– Lateral Canthotomy and Cantholysis
– Burr Hole Craniotomy
– Hyperangulated Videolaryngoscopy
– Emergency Surgical Airway (Cricothyroidotomy)
Afternoon Session:
– Resuscitative Vascular Access (MAC line / RIC line / Interosseous access)
– Thoracostomy and Chest Tube Insertion
– Resuscitative Thoracotomy
Supported by Teleflex.
Time | 0800 – 1200 & 1300 – 1700 |
Faculty | Joseph Mathew, Chris Groombridge, Amit Maini, Michael Noonan |
Capacity | 24 |
Price | $990 |
CPD Domains | Clinical Skill & Knowledge |
The Procedures Course is designed to enable emergency and critical care physicians develop the mastery necessary to confidently perform a wide range of basic and complex resuscitative procedures when the time comes. Procedural teaching will be conducted by a group of renowned experts in trauma management from the Alfred Emergency & Trauma Centre, Australasia’s largest trauma service. Teaching is enhanced by the use of un-embalmed cadavers and a low cadaver-to-patient ratio.
Morning Session
– Lateral Canthotomy and Cantholysis
– Burr Hole Craniotomy
– Hyperangulated Videolaryngoscopy
– Emergency Surgical Airway (Cricothyroidotomy)
Afternoon Session:
– Resuscitative Vascular Access (MAC line / RIC line / Interosseous access)
– Thoracostomy and Chest Tube Insertion
– Resuscitative Thoracotomy
Supported by Teleflex.
Time | 0800 – 1200 & 1300 – 1700 |
Faculty | Evan Alexandrou, Nicholas Mifflin, Craig McManus (more to come) |
Capacity | 30 |
Price | $350 |
CPD Domains | Clinical Skill & Knowledge |
Whether you are just beginning your procedural practice in vascular access or you are a seasoned operator, this workshop will greatly enhance your technical skill. The workshop commences with an overview of key concepts including ultrasound guided vascular assessment, optimising catheter insertion and exit site, micro-puncture technique and intracavitary ECG for non-radiological tip placement confirmation. The high ratio of both equipment and faculty to delegates will ensure an intense kinaesthetic learning experience.
Supported by the Australian Vascular Access Society (AVAS).
Time | 0800 – 1200 & 1300 – 1700 |
Faculty | Evan Alexandrou, Nicholas Mifflin, Craig McManus (more to come) |
Capacity | 30 |
Price | $350 |
CPD Domains | Clinical Skill & Knowledge |
Whether you are just beginning your procedural practice in vascular access or you are a seasoned operator, this workshop will greatly enhance your technical skill. The workshop commences with an overview of key concepts including ultrasound guided vascular assessment, optimising catheter insertion and exit site, micro-puncture technique and intracavitary ECG for non-radiological tip placement confirmation. The high ratio of both equipment and faculty to delegates will ensure an intense kinaesthetic learning experience.
Supported by the Australian Vascular Access Society (AVAS).
Time | 0800 – 1200 |
Faculty | Liz Crowe, Sue Wilson, Angela Tonge, Heidi Cable, Jeanette Kennelly |
Capacity | 25 |
Price | $200 |
CPD Domains | Professionalism / Communication |
This workshop is for people who have forgotten how to have fun and create joy out of the simple things in life. It is for people who want to remember how to do something simply for fun and not to achieve. Wellbeing is all about balance and connection and this workshop will offer both. Come and make some new friends. There will be no individual expectation to achieve or be on show. We will take some work tasks and make them fun, so that you can bring this back to your place of work and share it with abundance! A love of music is preferable, though not compulsory.
Time | 1300 - 1700 |
Faculty | Jenny Holman, Louise Sayers, Roger Harris |
Capacity | 100 |
Price | $200 |
CPD Domains | Clinical Skill & Knowledge / Leadership & Management / Health Advocacy / Communication |
End of Life Care is everyone’s business. This workshop will be relevant at the bedside in ED, ICU and palliative care and GP’s rooms. This workshop is next level. Our superb faculty will be going beyond the basics. Punchy presentations on hot topics like withholding and withdrawing treatment, resuscitation planning, palliative sedation, organ donation, navigating legal and ethical minefields, advanced EOL communication and shared decision making, bereavement and caring for the staff when it is all said and done. It will challenge you to think and reassess your practice. You will leave having built a new level of expertise and confidence to provide ultimate End of Life Care.
Time | 0800 – 1200 |
Faculty | Paul Grinzi (more to come) |
Capacity | 100 |
Price | $200 |
CPD Domains | Clinical Skill & Knowledge / Communication |
Chronic persistent pain is a common clinical issue, and yet most of us have received very little training in how to best manage patients experiencing this. Not only do we have to manage the clinical and psychosocial issues presented by the patient, we have to recognise and manage our own biases as clinicians. The format for the workshop utilises patient experiences, clinical cases and new frameworks to help further our understanding of persistent pain and how to assist our patients. There is a specific focus on management within the community, but also opportunities to explore the challenges within the emergency and inpatient hospital interfaces. By the end of this half-day, you’ll have optimised your approach, and may find this topic a little less painful.
Time | 1300 - 1700 |
Faculty | Oli Flower, Celia Bradford, Tessa Garside |
Capacity | 100 |
Price | $200 |
CPD Domains | Clinical Skill & Knowledge |
Featuring the hottest topics in neuro critical care, this session is designed to provide updates on clinical practice guided by the best research and evidence. We’ve chosen the most engaging experts and combined them in a format guaranteed to keep you both informed and entertained.
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Time | 0800 – 1200 |
Faculty | Alexandra Rowell, Lachlan Donaldson (more to come) |
Capacity | 100 |
Price | $200 |
CPD Domains | Clinical Skill & Knowledge |
This half day mini congress is designed to dig deep into the most up to date evidence in critical care. We have assembled experts who are also fantastic teachers and chosen the hottest clinical topics. If you are wanting a good dose of data and to discuss how this might shape your practice at the bedside, well this session is for you!
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Time | 1300 – 1700 |
Faculty | Chris Bowles & Nada Hamad |
Capacity | 150 |
Price | $200 |
CPD Domains | Leadership & Management / Health Advocacy / Communication |
Calling all leaders, clinicians, educators, and researchers. Do not miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to shape the future of healthcare. In this forum, we will hammer out what the problems are, which approaches work, and what we’re going to do right now to turn equality into reality. Everyone will have a voice: our roving MC equipped with cutting edge tech will ensure that no one is left out. On the final day of Coda (14 Sept), we will present on the main stage. This will seed ideas, conversations and actions which will grow until the next Coda in 2023. Come ready to work, and assume nothing. Equity is the right thing to do. It’s time.
Time | 0800 – 1200 |
Faculty | Nicola Cunningham, Jo Ann Parkin, Caroline Bolt, Brendan Morrissey |
Capacity | 24 |
Price | $300 |
CPD Domains | Clinical Skill & Knowledge / Scholarship & Teaching / Leadership & Management |
Back by popular demand, the team from VIFM are running a half-day forensic medicine workshop that offers delegates a rare opportunity to discuss and learn first-hand, how to manage forensic issues that arise in the course of their work. Through a combination of lectures, small group teaching, and a simulated moot court, the VIFM team will cover a broad range of forensically relevant scenarios in clinical practice. From responding to police requests, and examining patients involved in interpersonal violence, to injury documentation, evidence preservation, and report writing, the team will demystify the police and court processes and provide participants with a solid foundation of forensic medicine principles.
Time | 1300 – 1700 |
Faculty | Fran Lockie, Matt Hooper, Alison Boast, Tony Norris, Warwick Teague, Elliot Long, Krista Mos, Charlotte Harper |
Capacity | 100 |
Price | $200 |
CPD Domains | Clinical Skill & Knowledge / Communication |
Acute paediatrics is a must for anyone caring for sick kids. Short, high impact talks on the hottest topics and with an emphasis on the best evidence. Bringing together an interprofessional, multidisciplinary team of experts, this session will not only examine the data but also how you can incorporate the evidence into your everyday practice.
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Time | 1300 - 1700 |
Faculty | Andrew Chow, Alexander Handrinos, Joseph Matthers, Jenny Jamieson, Dave McCreary, Yolanda Coleman, Nilru Vitharana, Kate Jordinson, Loren Gallagher, Dinesh Palipana, Michaela Michael, Luke McDonald, Mya Cubitt, Jeremy Pallas, Virginia Newcombe |
Capacity | 100 |
Price | $200 |
CPD Domains | Clinical Skill & Knowledge |
The Trauma 2022 half day mini-congress is a structured series of punchy updates on four key topics: Penetrating Trauma, Blunt Trauma, Paediatric Trauma & Elderly Trauma. We have a diverse multidisciplinary panel of experts who incorporate evidence-based medicine into their care of Australasian trauma patients and their families. You’ll be shattered if you miss it!
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Time | 0800 – 1200 |
Faculty | Nick Watts, Roslyn Morgan, Forbes McGain, Catherine O’Shea, Sonia Chanchlani, Clare Arnott, Ramsey Awad, Kate Charlesworth, Eugenie Kayak |
Capacity | 100 |
Price | $200 |
CPD Domains | Professionalism / Leadership & Management / Health Advocacy |
In collaboration with Doctors for the Environment Australia – Healthcare organisations are increasingly committing to emissions reduction targets (ERTs), although the pathways to achieve such targets are generally not well developed. Healthcare workers themselves are increasingly frustrated by the uncertainty and lack of coordinated direction in relation to what actions to take.
This mini-congress will aim to address this lack of coordinated direction by presenting a series of projects (small to large) from around Australia, representing a range of stakeholder groups and identifying pathways at the “Micro, Meso and Macro” levels to inspire action. Each presentation will be complemented by facilitated discussion led by renowned experts including Dr Nick Watts, Chief Sustainability Officer, NHS Greener Program (UK).
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Time | 1300 – 1700 |
Faculty | Naomi Hammond, Chris Andersen, Derick Adigbli, Amy Freeman-Sanderson, Kelly Thompson |
Capacity | 100 |
Price | $200 |
CPD Domains | Clinical Skill & Knowledge / Scholarship & Teaching / Leadership & Management / Health Advocacy |
Effective care of critically ill patients with sepsis requires much more than good medical care. In this transdisciplinary workshop, we pay homage to the many specialists involved in caring for patients with sepsis, from pre-ICU admission to post-sepsis recovery. We will hear from experts from diverse backgrounds and settings including nursing, physiotherapy, speech pathology, nutrition and dietetics, medicine and academia. This workshop will expose evidence and equity gaps across the spectrum of specialists involved in providing sepsis care. We will improve your knowledge and ability to provide holistic patient centred care, with a focus on ensuring no patient or aspect of care is left behind.
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Time | 0800 – 1200 & 1300 – 1700 |
Faculty | Georgina Harris, Eric Levi, David Vokes (ENT surgeons) - Nick Chrimes, Andy Higgs, Drew Heffernan, Gerri Khong, Angeli Thakkar, Dan Broderick, Parita Patel, Matt James, Olly Snelgrove (Anaesthetists) - Phil Cheung (Paediatric Anaesthetist) - Andy Brainard (Emergency Physician) - Matthew Humar (Intensive Care Paramedic) - Selina Hole, Kerryn Taylor, Susan Helmrich (Nurse Educators/Sim Instructors) - Gordon Flynn, Jonathan Begley (Intensivist/Anaesthetists) - Jon Gatward, Maddi Anupindi (Intensivists) |
Capacity | 80 |
Price | $350 |
CPD Domains | Clinical Skill & Knowledge / Teamwork & Collaboration |
It doesn’t get better than this. We have gathered an amazing international expert faculty of anaesthetists, intensive care specialists, ENT surgeons, emergency physicians, paramedics and nurses to guide you through the four stations in this 4-hour workshop.
You’ll get hands-on coaching in:
Nasendoscopy and fibre optic techniques, including intubation via supraglottic airways
CICO rescue
Adult and paediatric videolaryngoscopy
Vortex simulation
The workshop is accredited for CME, and also as an ANZCA CICO Course.
Please note that the morning and afternoon airway workshops are the same so don’t book both (do another amazing coda workshop instead!)
Time | 0800 – 1200 & 1300 – 1700 |
Faculty | Georgina Harris, Eric Levi, David Vokes (ENT surgeons) - Nick Chrimes, Andy Higgs, Drew Heffernan, Gerri Khong, Angeli Thakkar, Dan Broderick, Parita Patel, Matt James, Olly Snelgrove (Anaesthetists) - Phil Cheung (Paediatric Anaesthetist) - Andy Brainard (Emergency Physician) - Matthew Humar (Intensive Care Paramedic) - Selina Hole, Kerryn Taylor, Susan Helmrich (Nurse Educators/Sim Instructors) - Gordon Flynn, Jonathan Begley (Intensivist/Anaesthetists) - Jon Gatward, Maddi Anupindi (Intensivists) |
Capacity | 80 |
Price | $350 |
CPD Domains | Clinical Skill & Knowledge / Teamwork & Collaboration |
It doesn’t get better than this. We have gathered an amazing international expert faculty of anaesthetists, intensive care specialists, ENT surgeons, emergency physicians, paramedics and nurses to guide you through the four stations in this 4-hour workshop.
You’ll get hands-on coaching in:
Nasendoscopy and fibre optic techniques, including intubation via supraglottic airways
CICO rescue
Adult and paediatric videolaryngoscopy
Vortex simulation
The workshop is accredited for CME, and also as an ANZCA CICO Course.
Please note that the morning and afternoon airway workshops are the same so don’t book both (do another amazing coda workshop instead!)
Time | 0800 – 1200 |
Faculty | James Rippey, Jason Scop, Adam O’Brien, Rob Buttner, Ari Horton, Casey Parker |
Capacity | 40 |
Price | $350 |
CPD Domains | Clinical Skill & Knowledge / Scholarship & Teaching |
Kids are made for ultrasound. Want to learn how to diagnose common kids problems and guide your Paeds procedures? Join our expert faculty to discover how ultrasound can transform your Paeds practice and make your patients happier. This workshop will cover: approach to abdo pain, Finding Pnemo, getting needles where they need to go and much more.
Time | 1300 – 1700 |
Faculty | James Rippey, Amaali Loukage, Kate Jutsum, Jason Scop, Casey Parker |
Capacity | 40 |
Price | $350 |
CPD Domains | Clinical Skill & Knowledge / Scholarship & Teaching |
So you think you can scan? You have done all of the courses and already know the wonders of the wand? This workshop is for you. Spend a few hours with the world’s most experienced and enthusiastic sonologists to explore the amazing diagnostic possibilities on offer. This is a masterclass for clinicians who have already mastered the technical skills but want to know more, want to go to the next level and see where the soundwaves can take them.
Time | 0800 – 1200 |
Faculty | Luke Phillips, Amaali Lokuge, Jana Alexander, Ben Land, Luke De La Rue, Emma Patterson, Jonathan Papson, Emma West, Faz Yousif, Dan Wornham, Michael Dunne, Jasmine Poonian |
Capacity | 40 |
Price | $350 |
CPD Domains | Clinical Skill & Knowledge / Scholarship & Teaching |
This critical care ultrasound workshop will teach you the latest advances in the management of the unwell critical care patient. Learn how to refine and guide your resuscitation using ultrasound and how to best integrate ultrasound into your management of cardiac arrests. The course will include some practical scanning, simulation and case reviews.
Time | 1300 – 1700 |
Faculty | Luke Phillips (more to come) |
Capacity | 40 |
Price | $350 |
CPD Domains | Clinical Skill & Knowledge / Scholarship & Teaching |
This workshop will allow you to practice and refine your skills in ultrasound needle guidance. Our faculty will guide you through a range of procedures such as central access, pericardiocentesis, pleural and ascitic drains, arthrocentesis and nerve blocks. You will have the opportunity to practice needle guidance on phantoms and identify relevant sono-anatomy on our models.
Time | 0800 – 1200 |
Faculty | Liz Crowe, Angela Tonge, Jenny Holman, Sue Wilson, Heidi Cable, Nick Pigott, Steve Philpot, Saf Rahiman, Andy Carter |
Capacity | 40 |
Price | $200 |
CPD Domains | Professionalism / Communication |
This will be a communication workshop tailored specifically for difficult conversations in health. We promise it will be unlike any communication training you have experienced before. This workshop will explore who you are as a communicator, active listening, listening as part of assessment and when to talk and when to listen. We will challenge the way you communicate in different situations. There will be a strong focus on remaining empathic and connected to those you are communicating with, teaching you how to attune yourself to individuals and groups to maximise communication outcomes. We will provide you with a framework of how to structure difficult and awkward conversations that will leave you empowered and confident. This workshop has received excellent feedback since 2015. If you really want to practice your communication, consider then going to the “Communication Intensive” workshop in the afternoon. This is an extensive simulation experience where you will experience supportive and individual feedback on your communication style.
Time | 1300 – 1700 |
Faculty | Liz Crowe, Angela Tonge, Meagan O’Keefe, Jenny Holman |
Capacity | 16 |
Price | $300 |
CPD Domains | Professionalism / Communication |
Using the communication framework from the workshop in the morning this will give participants the opportunity to simulate and trial their new knowledge and skills. This is an intensive workshop that uses simulations that allow participants to have several practice experiences with one-on-one feedback and mentoring. This intensive will put you on the path to building exceptional skills for communication in the health context and life. Scenarios will include a range of difficult and high-pressure conversations around death, poor prognosis, conflict with others, providing feedback and performance management. This intensive will build your skills professionally and personally. Previous attendees have stated this intensive has dramatically changed their communication style.
**Please note it is compulsory that delegates have attended the Critical Communication Skills workshop in the morning to attend this workshop**
Time | 0800 – 1200 |
Faculty | Andrew Dixon & Craig Hacking |
Capacity | 90 |
Price | $200 |
CPD Domains | Clinical Skill & Knowledge |
Turn down the lights and grab yourself…a coffee because Andrew Dixon and Craig Hacking from Radiopaedia.org are back for a Trauma Radiology Masterclass. Bring along your laptop and work through a series of scrollable cases, challenge yourself with hot-reads and quizzes, then brace yourself for an action-packed finale!
Chairs: Kate Charlesworth & Forbes McGain
CPD Domains: Professionalism & Social Responsibility, Leadership & Management
0830 – 1000
Time | 0830 -1000 |
The climate emergency is the greatest existential threat of our time and as trusted leaders within our communities’, healthcare providers need to take urgent actions. The challenge is analogous to the threat posed to our patients by the Tobacco industry. This session is all about reducing the large carbon footprint of healthcare by moving away completely from energy derived from burning fossil fuels. It will identify specific actions that we can all take at a micro-level (individual practice), meso-level (local practices and clinical units) to macro-level (whole of health policy).
Ben Dunne is a Thoracic Surgeon working at Royal Melbourne Hospital, is the Deputy Chair of the Victorian Doctors for the Environment Australia and is part of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Environmental Sustainability in Surgical Practice Working Group. He is passionate about reducing the carbon footprint of healthcare delivery.
Time | 0830 -1000 |
The climate emergency is the greatest existential threat of our time and as trusted leaders within our communities’, healthcare providers need to take urgent actions. The challenge is analogous to the threat posed to our patients by the Tobacco industry. This session is all about reducing the large carbon footprint of healthcare by moving away completely from energy derived from burning fossil fuels. It will identify specific actions that we can all take at a micro-level (individual practice), meso-level (local practices and clinical units) to macro-level (whole of health policy).
Heidi Lee is Chief Executive Officer of Beyond Zero Emissions, a leading Australian think tank demonstrating how the country can prosper in a zero-emissions economy. She led the organisation’s recent Million Jobs Plan, which showed how in just five years, renewables and zero-emissions projects can deliver 1.8 million new jobs in the regions and communities that these are needed most.
BZE’s current work is focused on Renewable Energy Industrial Precincts: demonstrating how Australia’s manufacturing sector can be powered by renewable energy, deliver regional jobs, secure domestic supply chains, and export zero-emissions products to global markets.
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Time | 0830 -1000 |
The climate emergency is the greatest existential threat of our time and as trusted leaders within our communities’, healthcare providers need to take urgent actions. The challenge is analogous to the threat posed to our patients by the Tobacco industry. This session is all about reducing the large carbon footprint of healthcare by moving away completely from energy derived from burning fossil fuels. It will identify specific actions that we can all take at a micro-level (individual practice), meso-level (local practices and clinical units) to macro-level (whole of health policy).
Nick Watts is the Chief Sustainability Officer of the NHS, responsible for its commitment to deliver a world-class net zero emission health service. Based in London, he leads the Greener NHS team across the country, which focuses on improving the health of patients and the public through a robust and accelerated response to climate change and the broader sustainability agenda. Nick is a medical doctor licensed in Australia and the UK, and has trained population health and public policy. Prior to the National Health Service, Nick worked internationally as the Executive Director of the Lancet Countdown and the Lancet Commission on Health and Climate Change, a collaboration of UN agencies and academic centres across the world. He has also focused on engaging the health profession on the links between public health and climate change, having founded both the Global Climate and Health Alliance and the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change.
@Watts_Nick
Time | 0830 -1000 |
The climate emergency is the greatest existential threat of our time and as trusted leaders within our communities’, healthcare providers need to take urgent actions. The challenge is analogous to the threat posed to our patients by the Tobacco industry. This session is all about reducing the large carbon footprint of healthcare by moving away completely from energy derived from burning fossil fuels. It will identify specific actions that we can all take at a micro-level (individual practice), meso-level (local practices and clinical units) to macro-level (whole of health policy).
Forbes is an anaesthetist and intensive care physician at Western Health, Melbourne, Australia, and an A/Prof. (Medicine) at the Universities of Sydney, and Melbourne. Forbes remains passionate about making seemingly small environmental, financial and social sustainability changes to how we practice medicine, as well as that become magnified through every nations’ hospitals.
Forbes is currently collaborating with colleagues at the University of Melbourne and friends within the Doctors for the Environment (DEA) examining ways to make hospitals more sustainable and being stewards for earth’s extraordinary biodiversity.
@ForbesMcGain1000 – 1045
Chair: Michelle Johnston
CPD Domains: Clinical Expertise, Communication, Professionalism & Social Responsibility
1045 – 1230
Time | 1045 - 1230 |
This session presents a series of medical cases with important clinical caveats. Additionally, a contextual discussion follows, focussing on the social determinants of health and their integral importance in delivering high quality care. The practice of acute medicine requires many skills to ensure the delivery of the highest quality care. Clinical knowledge and skill are essential, but equally communication, empathy, social/cultural awareness and advocacy are also vital. Knowing our patients and understanding their circumstances provides a foundation on which clinical practice can then be contextually applied. Without context raw facts can be misleading and even result in misdirected treatment plans.
Daniel Nour has a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery from James Cook University. Early in his career, he realised his passion to address the needs of underprivileged and vulnerable members of the community. This led to his ambition to start a mobile medical clinic which uniquely addresses the multiple health disparities experienced by the homeless and alleviates the many burdens present in accessing healthcare. With the support of mentors, colleagues, and countless others who assisted, Street Side Medics was created. Due to its success Daniel was awarded 2022 Young Australian of the Year and is the youngest person to have delivered the Australia Day Address. By day, Daniel is a Basic Physician Trainee with the Northern Sydney Local Health District.
Time | 1045 - 1230 |
This session presents a series of medical cases with important clinical caveats. Additionally, a contextual discussion follows, focussing on the social determinants of health and their integral importance in delivering high quality care. The practice of acute medicine requires many skills to ensure the delivery of the highest quality care. Clinical knowledge and skill are essential, but equally communication, empathy, social/cultural awareness and advocacy are also vital. Knowing our patients and understanding their circumstances provides a foundation on which clinical practice can then be contextually applied. Without context raw facts can be misleading and even result in misdirected treatment plans.
Gemma Figtree is a Professor in Medicine at the University of Sydney. She co-leads the Cardiovascular Theme for Sydney Health Partners, a NHMRC Advanced Health Research and Translation Centre and is the Chair of the University of Sydney’s multi-disciplinary Cardiovascular Initiative. Gemma completed her DPhil at Oxford University in 2002 supported by a Rhodes Scholarship making fundamental discoveries regarding estrogen’s actions and factors regulating NO/redox balance in the cardiovascular system. She is committed to improving the care for heart attack patients- using her knowledge of molecular and cellular biology to develop methods of identifying those at highest risk of adverse outcome, and discovering novel therapies to prevent and treat events, inspired by her clinical work as an interventional cardiologist. She has dedicated herself throughout her career to unravelling key mechanisms underlying susceptibility and response to heart attack, with studies extending from the bench to large cohort studies and clinical trials. Having recently completed a co-funded NHMRC CDF and Heart Foundation Future Leader Fellowship, she was awarded a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Excellence Award for Top Ranked Practitioner Fellow (Australia), commencing in 2018. In 2019 she received the prestigious NSW Ministerial Award for Cardiovascular Research Excellence. She now chairs the Mission (CV) Expert Advisory Panel. She is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and serves/has served as a non-executive Director on multiple community Boards.
Time | 1045 - 1230 |
This session presents a series of medical cases with important clinical caveats. Additionally, a contextual discussion follows, focussing on the social determinants of health and their integral importance in delivering high quality care. The practice of acute medicine requires many skills to ensure the delivery of the highest quality care. Clinical knowledge and skill are essential, but equally communication, empathy, social/cultural awareness and advocacy are also vital. Knowing our patients and understanding their circumstances provides a foundation on which clinical practice can then be contextually applied. Without context raw facts can be misleading and even result in misdirected treatment plans.
Mya Cubitt is a New Zealander, living since 2005 in Australia with her South African husband and their three Australian children. There is always a winning rugby team in her household! Mya trained at Otago University, finishing her clinical training in Wellington and her first years as a doctor in Hawkes Bay, NZ. She then embarked on a peripatetic journey through NSW and QLD, completing her advanced training in Emergency Medicine in WA and VIC. Mya won the Buchanan Prize for the highest scoring candidate in the fellowship exam for the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM). Mya has lived in Melbourne since 2011 and completed a year long fellowship in Paediatric Critical Care and Emergency Medicine at The Royal Children’s Hospital, before beginning practice as an Emergency Physician at The Royal Melbourne Hospital – one of two adult major trauma units in the state. Mya also works in the Acute Medical Unit where she has evolved a passion for improving the care of injured older patients. In 2018, she completed a masters in Trauma Science at Queen Mary University with a dissertation on frailty assessments in trauma. In 2021, Mya convened the first seminar and research workshop on Geriatric Trauma, #GEMSEM2021. Mya is a member and past Chair of The Royal Melbourne Hospital Medical Advisory Committee, Chair of the Victorian Faculty Board for ACEM and an expert advisor to the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission review of Ambulance Victoria, and the National COVID19 Clinical Evidence Taskforce. You will also find her on your TV screens in Emergency – an observational documentary series filmed at The Royal Melbourne Emergency Department, and as a member of The Royal Melbourne Hospital scrub choir.
For an autobiography visit Feminista Journal.
@MyaCubitt
Time | 1045 - 1230 |
This session presents a series of medical cases with important clinical caveats. Additionally, a contextual discussion follows, focussing on the social determinants of health and their integral importance in delivering high quality care. The practice of acute medicine requires many skills to ensure the delivery of the highest quality care. Clinical knowledge and skill are essential, but equally communication, empathy, social/cultural awareness and advocacy are also vital. Knowing our patients and understanding their circumstances provides a foundation on which clinical practice can then be contextually applied. Without context raw facts can be misleading and even result in misdirected treatment plans.
Greg lives and works on beautiful Darug country in Sydney, Australia. He is a pediatric intensivist and co-lead of the cardiac ICU at Westmead Children’s Hospital as well as running the Pediatrica Intensiva podcast. He trained in pediatrics and ICU at the Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne, pediatric palliative care at Westmead Children’s Hospital and pediatric cardiac ICU at SickKids, Toronto. He has previously been the medical lead for Bear Cottage Children’s Hospice and spent several years working in both the Northern Territory and at Queensland Children’s Hospital. He has become increasingly interested in how things work, how they fail, and how we can make them better. In 2019 he completed an MBA at Melbourne Business School. During in the COVID crisis he, along with several other frontline healthcare workers, organised a series of campaigns to prompt governments to take the threat seriously and to protect healthcare workers and served on a key COVID strategic advisory body. He sees the key challenges of the health system as better reflecting and serving the community, enhancing survivorship and dealing with the immense challenges that the climate crisis requires.
@drgregkelly1230 – 1340
Chairs: Andrew Davies & Liz Crowe
CPD Domains: Ethics & Clinical Expertise
1340 – 1520
Time | 1045 - 1230 |
This session presents a series of cases all with clinical caveats but also which exemplify the complex relationship between timing and ethics. Clinical emergencies often require split second decisions to be made with incomplete data. So too, there are moments during the longitudinal trajectory of a patient’s care when important ethical decisions must be made. The relationship between a moment in time, the duration of that moment and the point that moment occurs in the trajectory of care is complex.
Intensivist & optimistic dystopian. Emigrant son of an immigrant. Father of daughters.
@psirides
Time | 1340 - 1520 |
This session presents a series of cases all with clinical caveats but also which exemplify the complex relationship between timing and ethics. Clinical emergencies often require split second decisions to be made with incomplete data. So too, there are moments during the longitudinal trajectory of a patient’s care when important ethical decisions must be made. The relationship between a moment in time, the duration of that moment and the point that moment occurs in the trajectory of care is complex.
Karen Price was awarded the 2016 RACGP FMCER grant to undertake her part time PhD with the Monash Department of General Practice. She is exploring the construct of peer-connection in general practice. This explores GP’s wellbeing, and goal-directed informal learning. Karen’s research builds on her lifetime expertise as a GP. She is the co-developer and facilitator of GPs Down Under, an 8000+ member community of Australian and New Zealand GPs. She has chaired committees and developed mentor programs for both the AMA and the RACGP. Karen began her general practice in a large procedural practice which included providing medical assistance to the local district police surgeon. She has also been a successful practice owner growing a languishing practice into a thriving community practice in under a decade whilst wrangling three young school-aged children (who are now fully grown). Karen continues to develop evidence-based medicine, leadership, advocacy, and peer support, in both research and her ongoing clinical general practice. Most recently her advocacy, research and lifetime experience have coalesced into running for RACGP President after her service as deputy chair of the Victorian Faculty of the RACGP and past chair of the Women in General Practice committee of the RACGP. Karen was elected RACGP President in the 2020 national election. She commenced her two-year term on 30 November 2020.
@brookmanknight
Time | 1340 - 1520 |
This session presents a series of cases all with clinical caveats but also which exemplify the complex relationship between timing and ethics. Clinical emergencies often require split second decisions to be made with incomplete data. So too, there are moments during the longitudinal trajectory of a patient’s care when important ethical decisions must be made. The relationship between a moment in time, the duration of that moment and the point that moment occurs in the trajectory of care is complex.
Eric Levi is a Melbourne based Ear Nose & Throat, Head & Neck Surgeon with a special interest in paediatric airway reconstruction and Head & Neck tumours across the lifespan. He works at the Royal Children’s Hospital, St.Vincent’s Hospital and privately. He is part of the Head & Neck Cancer team, Complex Airway Team and the multidisciplinary Vascular Anomalies Group. He thinks he is funny but his children disagree.
@DrEricLevi
Time | 1340 - 1520 |
This session presents a series of cases all with clinical caveats but also which exemplify the complex relationship between timing and ethics. Clinical emergencies often require split second decisions to be made with incomplete data. So too, there are moments during the longitudinal trajectory of a patient’s care when important ethical decisions must be made. The relationship between a moment in time, the duration of that moment and the point that moment occurs in the trajectory of care is complex.
Consultant anaesthetist.
Trained in NZ/London/Australia.
Associate Editor Anaesthesia journal.
Former head of anaesthetic department.
Councillor Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists.
Originally from New Zealand, now working in Wollongong NSW.
Interested in using social media to desilo medicine.
@GongGasGirl
Time | 1340 - 1520 |
This session presents a series of cases all with clinical caveats but also which exemplify the complex relationship between timing and ethics. Clinical emergencies often require split second decisions to be made with incomplete data. So too, there are moments during the longitudinal trajectory of a patient’s care when important ethical decisions must be made. The relationship between a moment in time, the duration of that moment and the point that moment occurs in the trajectory of care is complex.
David is the Medical Director of Ambulance Victoria, an intensivist at The Alfred Hospital and an adjunct senior lecturer in the Department of Paramedicine at Monash University. He has trained and worked as a paramedic in Auckland and as a doctor in Auckland, Sydney and Toronto before settling in Melbourne. His clinical interests are prehospital and retrieval medicine, trauma, EMCO and bioethics. He has an embarrassingly large collection of Lego.
@expensivecare1520- 1600
Chairs: Naomi Hammond & Brett Abbenbroek
CPD Domains: Clinical Expertise, Professionalism & Social Responsibility
1600 – 1730
Time | 1600 - 1730 |
On May 26, 2017 the World Health Assembly (WHA), the WHO’s decision-making body, adopted a resolution on improving the prevention, diagnosis, and management of sepsis. The first action urged by the resolution was for member states to develop national policy and processes to improve the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of sepsis; this is best articulated as a national Action plan for sepsis. In this Plenary session, world experts will address some exciting progress and remaining challenges in high, middle and low-income countries and how realistic and achievable actions can save literally millions of lives.
Simon Finfer is a Pom who emigrated to Australia in 1993 to practice full time intensive care medicine. Despite being qualified 37 years and receiving a small NHS pension he still works as a bedside clinician and takes night calls. He loves his job because he works with fantastic people. He also designs and runs large clinical trials, writes papers and edits books. His current mission is to reduce the global burden of sepsis to which end he sits on the Board of the Global Sepsis Alliance, the Council of the International Sepsis Forum and established both the Australian Sepsis Network and the Asia Pacific Sepsis Alliance. He is a Professorial Fellow at The George Institute for Global Health and the Institute’s focus on equity and improving the health of underserved populations in both rich and poor countries aligns perfectly with his and with CODA. Simon lives on the outskirts of Sydney with his wife, sons, three horses, four chickens, three ducks and one dog.
Time | 1600 - 1730 |
On May 26, 2017 the World Health Assembly (WHA), the WHO’s decision-making body, adopted a resolution on improving the prevention, diagnosis, and management of sepsis. The first action urged by the resolution was for member states to develop national policy and processes to improve the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of sepsis; this is best articulated as a national Action plan for sepsis. In this Plenary session, world experts will address some exciting progress and remaining challenges in high, middle and low-income countries and how realistic and achievable actions can save literally millions of lives.
Abdulelah Alhawsawi, is the Former – founding Director General of the Saudi Patient Safety Center (SPSC), and MOH Advisor on Patient Safety. He led the efforts to establishing SPSC as a WHO Collaborating Center for patient safety policies and strategies (1 of only 5 WHOcc worldwide in this field). He holds Dual Certified Boards (American – Canadian) of general surgery with sub-specialty in Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgery. He is a consultant to several national and international quality and safety organizations and recently became a board member and Vice President of the Global Sepsis Alliance (GSA). He was part of the Expert Panel on the 3rd Global Patient Safety Challenge of the WHO and chaired the Organizing Committee for the 4th Global Ministerial Summit on Patient Safety in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia in 2019. Abdulelah has helped introduce Patient Safety as a G20 priority in the 2020 G20 of Saudi Arabia and i is a member of the WHO’s World Patient Safety Day steering committee.
@DrAlhawsawi
Time | 1600 - 1730 |
On May 26, 2017 the World Health Assembly (WHA), the WHO’s decision-making body, adopted a resolution on improving the prevention, diagnosis, and management of sepsis. The first action urged by the resolution was for member states to develop national policy and processes to improve the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of sepsis; this is best articulated as a national Action plan for sepsis. In this Plenary session, world experts will address some exciting progress and remaining challenges in high, middle and low-income countries and how realistic and achievable actions can save literally millions of lives.
Madiha Hashmi is the founding CEO of southeast Asian Research in Critical Care Health (SEARCH) and leading the Pakistan Registry of Intensive Care (PRICE). Madiha is also the President of the Pakistan Society of Critical Care Medicine (PSCCM), a member of the World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine (WFSICCM) and INFACT.
Time | 1600 - 1730 |
On May 26, 2017 the World Health Assembly (WHA), the WHO’s decision-making body, adopted a resolution on improving the prevention, diagnosis, and management of sepsis. The first action urged by the resolution was for member states to develop national policy and processes to improve the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of sepsis; this is best articulated as a national Action plan for sepsis. In this Plenary session, world experts will address some exciting progress and remaining challenges in high, middle and low-income countries and how realistic and achievable actions can save literally millions of lives.
Karin Thursky (MBBS, BSc, MD, FRACP, FAHMS) is an infectious diseases physician and health services researcher who has over 20 years experience in the fields of antimicrobial stewardship and infections in the immunocompromised host. She has successfully implemented and scaled programs to improve the quality and safety of healthcare, and has a national leadership role in antimicrobial stewardship and sepsis. Karin was appointed as the inaugural Associate Director of Health Services Research and Implementation Sciences at Peter MacCallum Cancer Hospital in 2020 and has established a new Department of Health Services Research. She is also the Deputy Head of Infectious Diseases and the implementation stream for the NHMRC National Centre for Infections in Cancer. In her role at the Doherty Institute, Karin leads the National Centre for Antimicrobial Stewardship (NCAS) which takes a One Health approach to AMS across all human and animal health sectors); and is the Director of the Guidance Group at the Royal Melbourne Hospital which develops, implements and scales information technology to support the judicious use of antimicrobials.
Chairs: Chris Bowles & Ian Summers
CPD Domains: Professionalism & Social Responsibility, Leadership & Management
0830 -1000
Time | 0830 -1000 |
Gender Inequity within healthcare remains a major threat to the proper and efficient functioning of the systems providing care. Additionally, gender inequity (and inequity in general) threaten patient outcomes. This session is not only about identifying specific problems but also debriefing these issues to identify solutions. Prior to the conference we will crowd source current real-world examples of gender inequity occurring within healthcare. The anonymous cases will be curated to identify a number of core themes to guide the design of the session. Within the session itself, a number of immersive formats will be utilised to bring these themes to life and then allow our expert de-briefers to unpack the issues and seek advice from the expert panel on solutions.
Marie loves weaving threads of ideas together, moving back and forth between research, clinical care, leadership, and advocacy. A typical week might involve caring for patients as a psychiatry registrar with Melbourne Health, sitting around the board table of NZ’s fastest growing aged care company, teaching health law at Melbourne Law School, mentoring young doctors through Wahine Connect, and leading research on sexual misconduct in medicine. To keep all these threads from unravelling, Marie does yoga every day at dawn, hangs out with her three young adult kids, and belongs to the best book club in town.
@mbismarkNada Hamad is a senior staff specialist bone marrow transpalnt, clinical and laboratory haematologist at St Vincent’s hospital in Sydney, where she is also director of the haematology clinical trials unit. She is President of the Bone Marrow Transplant Society of Australia and New Zealand, Chair of the ACI NSW BMT network and Chair of ALLG BMTCT working group. She is a senior lecturer at the University of Sydney and University of NSW. Nada studied Medicine at the University of Sydney and completed her Haematology training in Sydney. Prior to her career in medicine, she completed a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in Forensics, working in this field for a short period of time. She completed two post-graduate fellowships in BMT and lymphoma at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in Toronto Canada through the University of Toronto. She has a strong interest in clinical trials, has a specialist certificate in Clinical Research (Oncology) from the University of Melbourne and is an active member of the Australasian Leukaemia and Lymphoma Group (ALLG) as a member of a number of disease group committees. Her clinical research interests are in malignant haematology and bone marrow transplantation.
@nadahamadZoe is the Deputy Secretary for Public Health in the Victorian Government Department of Health. She has previously held roles as the Director of Clinical Governance at Bupa Australia and New Zealand, Chair of the Board of Dental Health Services Victoria and a Director on the Board of the Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation. Her passion and expertise in public health has driven formal and informal collaborations with the ICHOM, Harvard Business School and The University of Texas at Austin, Dell Medical School in value-based health care across multiple organisations. Zoe also has a continued advocacy focus on the importance of sex differences across health from basic research to health systems implications. Zoe holds a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery from Flinders University, and has a clinical background in cardiothoracic surgery and thoracic surgical oncology. She has a PhD and a Master of Public Health from The University of Melbourne, is a fellow of the Australasian College of Health Service Management and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
1000 – 1045
Chair: Jesse Spurr
CPD Domains: Clinical Expertise, Leadership & Management
1045 – 1230
Time | 1045 - 1230 |
“Resuscitation deconstructed & re-designed ” is a case-based panel with a twist. Each speaker will give a three minute thesis on their unique design experience and then Chris Hicks will load up a case of resuscitation to be deconstructed by the team. This will follow a stylised design sprint format, finishing with some prototypes for better resuscitation.
Victoria Brazil is an emergency physician and medical educator.
She is Professor of Emergency Medicine and Director of Simulation at the Gold Coast Health Service, and at Bond University medical program. Victoria’s main interests are in connecting education with patient care – through translational simulation for healthcare, and in developing high performing teams. She leads the Bond Translational Simulation Collaborative
Victoria is an enthusiast in the social media and #FOAMed world (@SocraticEM). She is co-producer of Simulcast and she hosts the Harvard Macy Institute podcast. She also serves as a faculty member with the Harvard Macy Institute.
Follow Victoria at @SocraticEM or look her up at drvictoriabrazil.com
@SocraticEM
Time | 1045 - 1230 |
“Resuscitation deconstructed & re-designed ” is a case-based panel with a twist. Each speaker will give a three minute thesis on their unique design experience and then Chris Hicks will load up a case of resuscitation to be deconstructed by the team. This will follow a stylised design sprint format, finishing with some prototypes for better resuscitation.
Jeremy is primarily a husband and father with a day job as an emergency nurse with a little over a decades experience working in an adult & paediatric metropolitan trauma centre in Newcastle. Most recently he has occupied roles allowing him to guide practice development activities and clinical education within areas of emergency nursing and resuscitation. Jeremy has a background as a simulation educator and has also worked clinically in acute cardiac assessment roles. Jeremy is an enthusiastic amateur clinical researcher, most recently combining his clinical interests to investigate the role of nursing team leadership in cardiac arrest through the CANLEAD trial. Jeremy is currently studying a master’s degree as he works to advocate for the role of acute and critical care nurse practitioners in the emergency department.
Time | 1045 - 1230 |
“Resuscitation deconstructed & re-designed ” is a case-based panel with a twist. Each speaker will give a three minute thesis on their unique design experience and then Chris Hicks will load up a case of resuscitation to be deconstructed by the team. This will follow a stylised design sprint format, finishing with some prototypes for better resuscitation.
Eve Purdy (@purdy_eve) is an emergency physician and anthropologist from Canada. She is currently far away from home working on the Gold Coast doing part time clinical emergency medicine and part time applied anthropology, sorting out how teams can do work better, together. She’s been involved with SMACC since she was a medical student and finds that the relationships formed and values of this community have shaped her career.
@purdy_eve
Time | 1045 - 1230 |
“Resuscitation deconstructed & re-designed ” is a case-based panel with a twist. Each speaker will give a three minute thesis on their unique design experience and then Chris Hicks will load up a case of resuscitation to be deconstructed by the team. This will follow a stylised design sprint format, finishing with some prototypes for better resuscitation.
Sarah Yong is an Intensivist at The Alfred Hospital. After graduating from The University of Melbourne, she completed physician training before obtaining her fellowship of intensive care medicine thereafter. Along with critical care, she has a strong interest in education, simulation and the FOAMed (free open-access medical education) revolution. She has completed a Masters in Clinical Education in non-technical skills in intensive care. A strong advocate for her peers, Sarah convenes the Victorian Primary Exam Course for CICM, chairs the Trainee Committee and is New Fellows’ Representative for CICM. She is a founding convenor of the ANZICS Women in Intensive Care Medicine Network, with published research on gender balance in critical care. Sarah’s clinical interests include cardiothoracic intensive care and crisis resource management.
@drsarahyong
Time | 1045 - 1230 |
“Resuscitation deconstructed & re-designed ” is a case-based panel with a twist. Each speaker will give a three minute thesis on their unique design experience and then Chris Hicks will load up a case of resuscitation to be deconstructed by the team. This will follow a stylised design sprint format, finishing with some prototypes for better resuscitation.
Christopher Hicks is an emergency physician and trauma team leader at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, and Assistant Professor and Clinician-Educator in the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto. He is an education research scientist at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge institute, and appointee to the International Centre for Surgical Safety, with a program of research that focuses on simulation-based psychological skills training, human factors and clinical logistics. He has innovated in several areas of resuscitation and psychological skills, including mental practice, stress inoculation training and the trauma black box program. In 2018, Chris co-created and chaired resusTO, an inter-professional simulation-based resuscitation conference in Toronto with international acclaim. In 2020, he co-founded Advanced Performance Healthcare Design, consulting with hospitals and industry using simulation to inform the design of systems, spaces and teams. Chris is an avid speaker and lecturer, staunch #FOAMed supporter, occasional runner and cyclist, fledgling boxer, semi-retired pianist, and proud father of three lunatic boys.
@HumanFact0rz
Time | 1045 - 1230 |
“Resuscitation deconstructed & Re-designed ” is a case-based panel with a twist. Each speaker will give a three minute thesis on their unique design experience and then Chris Hicks will load up a case of resuscitation to be deconstructed by the team. This will follow a stylised design sprint format, finishing with some prototypes for better resuscitation.
1230 – 1340
Chair: Jon Gatward
CPD Domains: Clinical Expertise, Professionalism & Social Responsibility, Communication
1340 – 1520
Time | 1340 - 1520 |
Each speaker delivers a short high impact clinical case from practice ranging from conflict zones to 2 week boarding in the emergency department in India. These cases have been chosen because of the profound personal impact upon the clinician. Following the clinical cases, Ben will facilitate a debrief to explore how these clinicians prepared for, performed in, or recovered from the situations.
Liz Crowe has two and a half decades of expertise in grief, crisis, end of life care, bereavement work and staff wellbeing in pediatric critical care environments. Liz currently works at a tertiary adult hospital providing consultation, coaching, counselling and education for staff wellbeing. She is in the absolute final stages of completing her PhD examining risk and protective factors for staff wellbeing in critical care. Liz is a published academic involved in multiple research projects nationally and internationally focussing on the wellbeing of staff and the impact of COVID on clinicians. Liz is a passionate and humorous educator who regularly speaks internationally. Liz is the successful author of ‘The Little Book of Loss and Grief You Can Read While You Cry’. She is a proud member of the St Emlyn’s education team and an active member of #FOAMed, and can be found on Twitter @LizCrowe2.
@LizCrowe2
Time | 1340 - 1520 |
Each speaker delivers a short high impact clinical case from practice ranging from conflict zones to 2 week boarding in the emergency department in India. These cases have been chosen because of the profound personal impact upon the clinician. Following the clinical cases, Ben will facilitate a debrief to explore how these clinicians prepared for, performed in, or recovered from the situations.
Gary has been a Critical Care Paramedic since 2003. He has worked as a flight paramedic in South Africa, Afghanistan & Australia. In 2009 he joined the Queensland Ambulance Service on the Gold Coast where he has held the positions of Critical Care Paramedic as well as Flight CCP & HARU. Gary has recently completed a Masters in Traumatology and is a Clinical Fellow at the Queensland University of Technology.
@fatambogary
Time | 1340 - 1520 |
Each speaker delivers a short high impact clinical case from practice ranging from conflict zones to 2 week boarding in the emergency department in India. These cases have been chosen because of the profound personal impact upon the clinician. Following the clinical cases, Ben will facilitate a debrief to explore how these clinicians prepared for, performed in, or recovered from the situations.
Rebecca Szabo is an Obstetrician/Gynaecologist and Medical Educator. She is a senior lecturer with The University of Melbourne Departments of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Medical Education and an honorary Senior Lecturer and PhD candidate with Department of Critical Care. Rebecca is Lead of Gandel Simulation Service and lead of Women’s Health Education at The Royal Women’s Hospital. She is the Chair of the Board and instructor of AMaRE – Advanced Maternal and Reproductive Education Australia (ALSO Asia-Pacific). Rebecca has lived and worked in various locations across Australia and also UK and Thailand. Rebecca has also regularly supported maternity safety education and simulation in Thailand and Mongolia. She currently practices clinically at The Women’s in Melbourne. Rebecca is passionate about women’s health, healthcare equity, advocacy, education as well as science and health care communication and the responsible use of social media. She is the co-host of the MedEd Stuff N Nonsense Podcast with anaesthetist Dr Tanya Selak www.mededstuffnn.com Rebecca is on Twitter @inquisitiveGyn and @MedEDStuffNN. She has led COVID preparedness work at The Royal Women’s Hospital and consulted widely on COVID19 preparedness particularly for maternity and perioperative settings. In 2020 and early 2021 Rebecca was a member of the COVID19 Healthcare Worker Taskforce Infection Prevention Subgroup, Department of Health, Victoria and has been an independent advisor on training, simulation and COVID19 preparedness for The Police Association of Victoria.
@inquisitiveGyn
Time | 1340 - 1520 |
Each speaker delivers a short high impact clinical case from practice ranging from conflict zones to 2 week boarding in the emergency department in India. These cases have been chosen because of the profound personal impact upon the clinician. Following the clinical cases, Ben will facilitate a debrief to explore how these clinicians prepared for, performed in, or recovered from the situations.
Trained in emergency medicine from the George Washington University, Dr. Ankur is currently a Senior Consultant and faculty of emergency medicine at the Max Super Specialty Hospital in New Delhi. Ankur is the creator-founder of the First and only emergency medicine podcast of India called the DESI EM PROJECT. He has a keen interest in Airways, Trauma, Academic EM, Resuscitation, and POCUS. Dr. Ankur conceived and coined the term #SATisfied airway and hopes to spread more awareness regarding the same. He has published many papers in national and international journals, authored a chapter and is a PEER reviewer for numerous journals. He is a stern follower of FOAMED and urges his peers and residents to take up the newer “social” ways of staying up to date. He also holds the post of President, Society for Emergency Medicine, India – Delhi Chapter and spearheaded the #EACH1SAVE1 initiative for bystander CPR training in the community. He is also a member of the Trauma Special Interest Group of the International Federation of Emergency Medicine. In his free time (if he gets any), Ankur loves to play and workout with his son, read, socialize, get new tattoos and as every other EM physician – party!
@anksv251520 – 1600
Chair: Greg Kelly
CPD Domains: Ethics & Communication
1600 – 1730
Time | 1600 – 1730 |
This session aims to capitalise on the clinical and socio-political issues explored during the Coda Conference and explore tangible ways our community can transfer motivation into practice. This session will be a facilitated panel discussion around hypothetical events to draw on the perspectives of a diverse panel of experts including co-design in cultural research and under-privileged groups, documentary and visual media for social change, social media for scientific communication and crowd sourcing for rapid-cycle evidence-based practice review.
Dr Marnee Shay is an ARC DAATSIA Senior Research Fellow in the School of Education and an affiliate Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Policy Futures at the University of Queensland. She is an Aboriginal woman with maternal connections to Wagiman Country (Daly River region, Northern Territory), born in Brisbane, with strong ties to Indigenous communities in South East Queensland. Dr Shay has an extensive externally funded research program that spans the fields of Indigenous education, policy studies, flexi schooling, and youth studies. She has published in many journals, books and scholarly media outlets. Her research addresses social justice and equity and is underpinned by strengths-based approaches. Dr Shay’s current research explores the concept of co-design in Indigenous research, policy, and practice settings to understand how this approach can support transformative outcomes for Indigenous peoples.
Time | 1600 – 1730 |
This session aims to capitalise on the clinical and socio-political issues explored during the Coda Conference and explore tangible ways our community can transfer motivation into practice. This session will be a facilitated panel discussion around hypothetical events to draw on the perspectives of a diverse panel of experts including co-design in cultural research and under-privileged groups, documentary and visual media for social change, social media for scientific communication and crowd sourcing for rapid-cycle evidence-based practice review.
Jessica is a Registered Nurse and experienced teacher and educator, in undergraduate and post-graduate settings, using interactive methods to achieve optimal learning outcomes. She has over 12 years’ experience in a range of industry sectors, complex domains and occupational settings. Jessica is active in clinical practice in Intensive Care Nursing and currently works as an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Bond University.
@j_stokesparish
Time | 1600 – 1730 |
This session aims to capitalise on the clinical and socio-political issues explored during the Coda Conference and explore tangible ways our community can transfer motivation into practice. This session will be a facilitated panel discussion around hypothetical events to draw on the perspectives of a diverse panel of experts including co-design in cultural research and under-privileged groups, documentary and visual media for social change, social media for scientific communication and crowd sourcing for rapid-cycle evidence-based practice review.
Maya is a director and impact producer. She directed acclaimed feature In My Blood It Runs (2019) about ten-year-old Arrernte/Garrwa boy Dujuan and his community made in collaboration with those onscreen. It was selected for Goodpitch² Aus, a Sundance Institute Fellowship, was nominated for Best Doc/Best Cinematography at the AACTAs and screened at festivals worldwide. The families onscreen led a multi-year impact campaign targeting juvenile justice, education rand anti-racism. Previously, she has made short documentaries, and feature doc Gayby Baby (2015). Gayby Baby screened at festivals internationally, won many awards and sparked a national conversation about the rights of children raised in LGBTIQ families. Her new doc The Dreamlife of Georgie Stone about transgender teen Georgie will premiere as a Netflix Original in September 2022 in parallel to a impact campaign centring Georgie’s goals for change.
Time | 1000 – 1700 |
Faculty | Nicholas Chrimes, David Brewster, Adam Rehak, Gerri Khong, Tim Cook, Andy Higgs, Matt Humar, Jon Gatward, Brooke Dench, Ben Meadley, Ian Summers, Georgie Harris, Drew Heffernan, David Anderson, Bill Bestic, Andy Shrimpton, Forbes McGain, Jo Simpson, Jonathan Begley |
Capacity | 200 |
Price | Specialist non-member - $550 Specialist member- $450 Resident/Registrar/Nurse/Paramedic non-member - $350 Resident/Registrar/Nurse/Paramedic member - $300 |
CPD Domains | Clinical Skill & Knowledge / Scholarship & Teaching / Teamwork & Collaboration |
Brought to you by The Safe Airway Society. A stellar line-up of ANZ and international speakers from all the varied professions who manage airways, will cover a wide range of airway management topics from pre-hospital to leaving the hospital.
We start with an interactive human factors session, where the audience and an expert panel will react to tachycardia-inducing videos of a rapidly deteriorating airway scenario. Then the first of three Airway Innovators sessions – where we see how surgeons and anaesthetists are pushing the boundaries in difficult airway management. We follow with a session on Out-of-Theatre intubation, taking the pulse of current evidence and practice in critical care and prehospital airway management. Then a scoop for SAS – selected highlights of the long-awaited PUMA guidelines – from two of the lead authors, Nicholas Chrimes and Andy Higgs (who is flying out to join us!).
After lunch – Aerosol Generating Procedures – do they even exist? AGP researchers including the lead author of the AERATOR studies will shed some light on this topic, then Tim Cook OBE will bring the session together with his insights on healthcare worker safety. We round off with a session on the blight of unrecognised oesophageal intubation – some case studies followed by another scoop – the PUMA guidelines for the prevention of unrecognised oesophageal intubation- a truly international project complete with cognitive aids, presented by Chrimes, Higgs and Cook.
Remember, SAS members get discounted rates at SAS 2022, so JOIN NOW!
Click here to view the program.
SAS 2022 can now be booked as a standalone event. Whilst we recommend registering for all 4 days of Coda22 to have the best experience possible, you can attend SAS 2022 on its own if you wish.
Time | 0800 – 1200 & 1300 – 1700 |
Faculty | Joseph Mathew, Chris Groombridge, Amit Maini, Michael Noonan |
Capacity | 24 |
Price | $990 |
CPD Domains | Clinical Skill & Knowledge |
The Procedures Course is designed to enable emergency and critical care physicians develop the mastery necessary to confidently perform a wide range of basic and complex resuscitative procedures when the time comes. Procedural teaching will be conducted by a group of renowned experts in trauma management from the Alfred Emergency & Trauma Centre, Australasia’s largest trauma service. Teaching is enhanced by the use of un-embalmed cadavers and a low cadaver-to-patient ratio.
Morning Session
– Lateral Canthotomy and Cantholysis
– Burr Hole Craniotomy
– Hyperangulated Videolaryngoscopy
– Emergency Surgical Airway (Cricothyroidotomy)
Afternoon Session:
– Resuscitative Vascular Access (MAC line / RIC line / Interosseous access)
– Thoracostomy and Chest Tube Insertion
– Resuscitative Thoracotomy
Supported by Teleflex.
Time | 0800 – 1200 & 1300 – 1700 |
Faculty | Joseph Mathew, Chris Groombridge, Amit Maini, Michael Noonan |
Capacity | 24 |
Price | $990 |
CPD Domains | Clinical Skill & Knowledge |
The Procedures Course is designed to enable emergency and critical care physicians develop the mastery necessary to confidently perform a wide range of basic and complex resuscitative procedures when the time comes. Procedural teaching will be conducted by a group of renowned experts in trauma management from the Alfred Emergency & Trauma Centre, Australasia’s largest trauma service. Teaching is enhanced by the use of un-embalmed cadavers and a low cadaver-to-patient ratio.
Morning Session
– Lateral Canthotomy and Cantholysis
– Burr Hole Craniotomy
– Hyperangulated Videolaryngoscopy
– Emergency Surgical Airway (Cricothyroidotomy)
Afternoon Session:
– Resuscitative Vascular Access (MAC line / RIC line / Interosseous access)
– Thoracostomy and Chest Tube Insertion
– Resuscitative Thoracotomy
Supported by Teleflex.
Time | 0800 – 1200 & 1300 – 1700 |
Faculty | Evan Alexandrou, Nicholas Mifflin, Craig McManus (more to come) |
Capacity | 30 |
Price | $350 |
CPD Domains | Clinical Skill & Knowledge |
Whether you are just beginning your procedural practice in vascular access or you are a seasoned operator, this workshop will greatly enhance your technical skill. The workshop commences with an overview of key concepts including ultrasound guided vascular assessment, optimising catheter insertion and exit site, micro-puncture technique and intracavitary ECG for non-radiological tip placement confirmation. The high ratio of both equipment and faculty to delegates will ensure an intense kinaesthetic learning experience.
Supported by the Australian Vascular Access Society (AVAS).
Time | 0800 – 1200 & 1300 – 1700 |
Faculty | Evan Alexandrou, Nicholas Mifflin, Craig McManus (more to come) |
Capacity | 30 |
Price | $350 |
CPD Domains | Clinical Skill & Knowledge |
Whether you are just beginning your procedural practice in vascular access or you are a seasoned operator, this workshop will greatly enhance your technical skill. The workshop commences with an overview of key concepts including ultrasound guided vascular assessment, optimising catheter insertion and exit site, micro-puncture technique and intracavitary ECG for non-radiological tip placement confirmation. The high ratio of both equipment and faculty to delegates will ensure an intense kinaesthetic learning experience.
Supported by the Australian Vascular Access Society (AVAS).
Time | 0800 – 1200 |
Faculty | Liz Crowe, Sue Wilson, Angela Tonge, Heidi Cable, Jeanette Kennelly |
Capacity | 25 |
Price | $200 |
CPD Domains | Professionalism / Communication |
This workshop is for people who have forgotten how to have fun and create joy out of the simple things in life. It is for people who want to remember how to do something simply for fun and not to achieve. Wellbeing is all about balance and connection and this workshop will offer both. Come and make some new friends. There will be no individual expectation to achieve or be on show. We will take some work tasks and make them fun, so that you can bring this back to your place of work and share it with abundance! A love of music is preferable, though not compulsory.
Time | 1300 - 1700 |
Faculty | Jenny Holman, Louise Sayers, Roger Harris |
Capacity | 100 |
Price | $200 |
CPD Domains | Clinical Skill & Knowledge / Leadership & Management / Health Advocacy / Communication |
End of Life Care is everyone’s business. This workshop will be relevant at the bedside in ED, ICU and palliative care and GP’s rooms. This workshop is next level. Our superb faculty will be going beyond the basics. Punchy presentations on hot topics like withholding and withdrawing treatment, resuscitation planning, palliative sedation, organ donation, navigating legal and ethical minefields, advanced EOL communication and shared decision making, bereavement and caring for the staff when it is all said and done. It will challenge you to think and reassess your practice. You will leave having built a new level of expertise and confidence to provide ultimate End of Life Care.
Time | 0800 – 1200 |
Faculty | Paul Grinzi (more to come) |
Capacity | 100 |
Price | $200 |
CPD Domains | Clinical Skill & Knowledge / Communication |
Chronic persistent pain is a common clinical issue, and yet most of us have received very little training in how to best manage patients experiencing this. Not only do we have to manage the clinical and psychosocial issues presented by the patient, we have to recognise and manage our own biases as clinicians. The format for the workshop utilises patient experiences, clinical cases and new frameworks to help further our understanding of persistent pain and how to assist our patients. There is a specific focus on management within the community, but also opportunities to explore the challenges within the emergency and inpatient hospital interfaces. By the end of this half-day, you’ll have optimised your approach, and may find this topic a little less painful.
Time | 1300 - 1700 |
Faculty | Oli Flower, Celia Bradford, Tessa Garside |
Capacity | 100 |
Price | $200 |
CPD Domains | Clinical Skill & Knowledge |
Featuring the hottest topics in neuro critical care, this session is designed to provide updates on clinical practice guided by the best research and evidence. We’ve chosen the most engaging experts and combined them in a format guaranteed to keep you both informed and entertained.
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Time | 0800 – 1200 |
Faculty | Alexandra Rowell, Lachlan Donaldson (more to come) |
Capacity | 100 |
Price | $200 |
CPD Domains | Clinical Skill & Knowledge |
This half day mini congress is designed to dig deep into the most up to date evidence in critical care. We have assembled experts who are also fantastic teachers and chosen the hottest clinical topics. If you are wanting a good dose of data and to discuss how this might shape your practice at the bedside, well this session is for you!
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Time | 1300 – 1700 |
Faculty | Chris Bowles & Nada Hamad |
Capacity | 150 |
Price | $200 |
CPD Domains | Leadership & Management / Health Advocacy / Communication |
Calling all leaders, clinicians, educators, and researchers. Do not miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to shape the future of healthcare. In this forum, we will hammer out what the problems are, which approaches work, and what we’re going to do right now to turn equality into reality. Everyone will have a voice: our roving MC equipped with cutting edge tech will ensure that no one is left out. On the final day of Coda (14 Sept), we will present on the main stage. This will seed ideas, conversations and actions which will grow until the next Coda in 2023. Come ready to work, and assume nothing. Equity is the right thing to do. It’s time.
Time | 0800 – 1200 |
Faculty | Nicola Cunningham, Jo Ann Parkin, Caroline Bolt, Brendan Morrissey |
Capacity | 24 |
Price | $300 |
CPD Domains | Clinical Skill & Knowledge / Scholarship & Teaching / Leadership & Management |
Back by popular demand, the team from VIFM are running a half-day forensic medicine workshop that offers delegates a rare opportunity to discuss and learn first-hand, how to manage forensic issues that arise in the course of their work. Through a combination of lectures, small group teaching, and a simulated moot court, the VIFM team will cover a broad range of forensically relevant scenarios in clinical practice. From responding to police requests, and examining patients involved in interpersonal violence, to injury documentation, evidence preservation, and report writing, the team will demystify the police and court processes and provide participants with a solid foundation of forensic medicine principles.
Time | 1300 – 1700 |
Faculty | Fran Lockie, Matt Hooper, Alison Boast, Tony Norris, Warwick Teague, Elliot Long, Krista Mos, Charlotte Harper |
Capacity | 100 |
Price | $200 |
CPD Domains | Clinical Skill & Knowledge / Communication |
Acute paediatrics is a must for anyone caring for sick kids. Short, high impact talks on the hottest topics and with an emphasis on the best evidence. Bringing together an interprofessional, multidisciplinary team of experts, this session will not only examine the data but also how you can incorporate the evidence into your everyday practice.
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Time | 1300 - 1700 |
Faculty | Andrew Chow, Alexander Handrinos, Joseph Matthers, Jenny Jamieson, Dave McCreary, Yolanda Coleman, Nilru Vitharana, Kate Jordinson, Loren Gallagher, Dinesh Palipana, Michaela Michael, Luke McDonald, Mya Cubitt, Jeremy Pallas, Virginia Newcombe |
Capacity | 100 |
Price | $200 |
CPD Domains | Clinical Skill & Knowledge |
The Trauma 2022 half day mini-congress is a structured series of punchy updates on four key topics: Penetrating Trauma, Blunt Trauma, Paediatric Trauma & Elderly Trauma. We have a diverse multidisciplinary panel of experts who incorporate evidence-based medicine into their care of Australasian trauma patients and their families. You’ll be shattered if you miss it!
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Time | 0800 – 1200 |
Faculty | Nick Watts, Roslyn Morgan, Forbes McGain, Catherine O’Shea, Sonia Chanchlani, Clare Arnott, Ramsey Awad, Kate Charlesworth, Eugenie Kayak |
Capacity | 100 |
Price | $200 |
CPD Domains | Professionalism / Leadership & Management / Health Advocacy |
In collaboration with Doctors for the Environment Australia – Healthcare organisations are increasingly committing to emissions reduction targets (ERTs), although the pathways to achieve such targets are generally not well developed. Healthcare workers themselves are increasingly frustrated by the uncertainty and lack of coordinated direction in relation to what actions to take.
This mini-congress will aim to address this lack of coordinated direction by presenting a series of projects (small to large) from around Australia, representing a range of stakeholder groups and identifying pathways at the “Micro, Meso and Macro” levels to inspire action. Each presentation will be complemented by facilitated discussion led by renowned experts including Dr Nick Watts, Chief Sustainability Officer, NHS Greener Program (UK).
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Time | 1300 – 1700 |
Faculty | Naomi Hammond, Chris Andersen, Derick Adigbli, Amy Freeman-Sanderson, Kelly Thompson |
Capacity | 100 |
Price | $200 |
CPD Domains | Clinical Skill & Knowledge / Scholarship & Teaching / Leadership & Management / Health Advocacy |
Effective care of critically ill patients with sepsis requires much more than good medical care. In this transdisciplinary workshop, we pay homage to the many specialists involved in caring for patients with sepsis, from pre-ICU admission to post-sepsis recovery. We will hear from experts from diverse backgrounds and settings including nursing, physiotherapy, speech pathology, nutrition and dietetics, medicine and academia. This workshop will expose evidence and equity gaps across the spectrum of specialists involved in providing sepsis care. We will improve your knowledge and ability to provide holistic patient centred care, with a focus on ensuring no patient or aspect of care is left behind.
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Time | 0800 – 1200 & 1300 – 1700 |
Faculty | Georgina Harris, Eric Levi, David Vokes (ENT surgeons) - Nick Chrimes, Andy Higgs, Drew Heffernan, Gerri Khong, Angeli Thakkar, Dan Broderick, Parita Patel, Matt James, Olly Snelgrove (Anaesthetists) - Phil Cheung (Paediatric Anaesthetist) - Andy Brainard (Emergency Physician) - Matthew Humar (Intensive Care Paramedic) - Selina Hole, Kerryn Taylor, Susan Helmrich (Nurse Educators/Sim Instructors) - Gordon Flynn, Jonathan Begley (Intensivist/Anaesthetists) - Jon Gatward, Maddi Anupindi (Intensivists) |
Capacity | 80 |
Price | $350 |
CPD Domains | Clinical Skill & Knowledge / Teamwork & Collaboration |
It doesn’t get better than this. We have gathered an amazing international expert faculty of anaesthetists, intensive care specialists, ENT surgeons, emergency physicians, paramedics and nurses to guide you through the four stations in this 4-hour workshop.
You’ll get hands-on coaching in:
Nasendoscopy and fibre optic techniques, including intubation via supraglottic airways
CICO rescue
Adult and paediatric videolaryngoscopy
Vortex simulation
The workshop is accredited for CME, and also as an ANZCA CICO Course.
Please note that the morning and afternoon airway workshops are the same so don’t book both (do another amazing coda workshop instead!)
Time | 0800 – 1200 & 1300 – 1700 |
Faculty | Georgina Harris, Eric Levi, David Vokes (ENT surgeons) - Nick Chrimes, Andy Higgs, Drew Heffernan, Gerri Khong, Angeli Thakkar, Dan Broderick, Parita Patel, Matt James, Olly Snelgrove (Anaesthetists) - Phil Cheung (Paediatric Anaesthetist) - Andy Brainard (Emergency Physician) - Matthew Humar (Intensive Care Paramedic) - Selina Hole, Kerryn Taylor, Susan Helmrich (Nurse Educators/Sim Instructors) - Gordon Flynn, Jonathan Begley (Intensivist/Anaesthetists) - Jon Gatward, Maddi Anupindi (Intensivists) |
Capacity | 80 |
Price | $350 |
CPD Domains | Clinical Skill & Knowledge / Teamwork & Collaboration |
It doesn’t get better than this. We have gathered an amazing international expert faculty of anaesthetists, intensive care specialists, ENT surgeons, emergency physicians, paramedics and nurses to guide you through the four stations in this 4-hour workshop.
You’ll get hands-on coaching in:
Nasendoscopy and fibre optic techniques, including intubation via supraglottic airways
CICO rescue
Adult and paediatric videolaryngoscopy
Vortex simulation
The workshop is accredited for CME, and also as an ANZCA CICO Course.
Please note that the morning and afternoon airway workshops are the same so don’t book both (do another amazing coda workshop instead!)
Time | 0800 – 1200 |
Faculty | James Rippey, Jason Scop, Adam O’Brien, Rob Buttner, Ari Horton, Casey Parker |
Capacity | 40 |
Price | $350 |
CPD Domains | Clinical Skill & Knowledge / Scholarship & Teaching |
Kids are made for ultrasound. Want to learn how to diagnose common kids problems and guide your Paeds procedures? Join our expert faculty to discover how ultrasound can transform your Paeds practice and make your patients happier. This workshop will cover: approach to abdo pain, Finding Pnemo, getting needles where they need to go and much more.
Time | 1300 – 1700 |
Faculty | James Rippey, Amaali Loukage, Kate Jutsum, Jason Scop, Casey Parker |
Capacity | 40 |
Price | $350 |
CPD Domains | Clinical Skill & Knowledge / Scholarship & Teaching |
So you think you can scan? You have done all of the courses and already know the wonders of the wand? This workshop is for you. Spend a few hours with the world’s most experienced and enthusiastic sonologists to explore the amazing diagnostic possibilities on offer. This is a masterclass for clinicians who have already mastered the technical skills but want to know more, want to go to the next level and see where the soundwaves can take them.
Time | 0800 – 1200 |
Faculty | Luke Phillips, Amaali Lokuge, Jana Alexander, Ben Land, Luke De La Rue, Emma Patterson, Jonathan Papson, Emma West, Faz Yousif, Dan Wornham, Michael Dunne, Jasmine Poonian |
Capacity | 40 |
Price | $350 |
CPD Domains | Clinical Skill & Knowledge / Scholarship & Teaching |
This critical care ultrasound workshop will teach you the latest advances in the management of the unwell critical care patient. Learn how to refine and guide your resuscitation using ultrasound and how to best integrate ultrasound into your management of cardiac arrests. The course will include some practical scanning, simulation and case reviews.
Time | 1300 – 1700 |
Faculty | Luke Phillips (more to come) |
Capacity | 40 |
Price | $350 |
CPD Domains | Clinical Skill & Knowledge / Scholarship & Teaching |
This workshop will allow you to practice and refine your skills in ultrasound needle guidance. Our faculty will guide you through a range of procedures such as central access, pericardiocentesis, pleural and ascitic drains, arthrocentesis and nerve blocks. You will have the opportunity to practice needle guidance on phantoms and identify relevant sono-anatomy on our models.
Time | 0800 – 1200 |
Faculty | Liz Crowe, Angela Tonge, Jenny Holman, Sue Wilson, Heidi Cable, Nick Pigott, Steve Philpot, Saf Rahiman, Andy Carter |
Capacity | 40 |
Price | $200 |
CPD Domains | Professionalism / Communication |
This will be a communication workshop tailored specifically for difficult conversations in health. We promise it will be unlike any communication training you have experienced before. This workshop will explore who you are as a communicator, active listening, listening as part of assessment and when to talk and when to listen. We will challenge the way you communicate in different situations. There will be a strong focus on remaining empathic and connected to those you are communicating with, teaching you how to attune yourself to individuals and groups to maximise communication outcomes. We will provide you with a framework of how to structure difficult and awkward conversations that will leave you empowered and confident. This workshop has received excellent feedback since 2015. If you really want to practice your communication, consider then going to the “Communication Intensive” workshop in the afternoon. This is an extensive simulation experience where you will experience supportive and individual feedback on your communication style.
Time | 1300 – 1700 |
Faculty | Liz Crowe, Angela Tonge, Meagan O’Keefe, Jenny Holman |
Capacity | 16 |
Price | $300 |
CPD Domains | Professionalism / Communication |
Using the communication framework from the workshop in the morning this will give participants the opportunity to simulate and trial their new knowledge and skills. This is an intensive workshop that uses simulations that allow participants to have several practice experiences with one-on-one feedback and mentoring. This intensive will put you on the path to building exceptional skills for communication in the health context and life. Scenarios will include a range of difficult and high-pressure conversations around death, poor prognosis, conflict with others, providing feedback and performance management. This intensive will build your skills professionally and personally. Previous attendees have stated this intensive has dramatically changed their communication style.
**Please note it is compulsory that delegates have attended the Critical Communication Skills workshop in the morning to attend this workshop**
Time | 0800 – 1200 |
Faculty | Andrew Dixon & Craig Hacking |
Capacity | 90 |
Price | $200 |
CPD Domains | Clinical Skill & Knowledge |
Turn down the lights and grab yourself…a coffee because Andrew Dixon and Craig Hacking from Radiopaedia.org are back for a Trauma Radiology Masterclass. Bring along your laptop and work through a series of scrollable cases, challenge yourself with hot-reads and quizzes, then brace yourself for an action-packed finale!
Chairs: Kate Charlesworth & Forbes McGain
CPD Domains: Professionalism & Social Responsibility, Leadership & Management
0830 – 1000
Time | 0830 -1000 |
The climate emergency is the greatest existential threat of our time and as trusted leaders within our communities’, healthcare providers need to take urgent actions. The challenge is analogous to the threat posed to our patients by the Tobacco industry. This session is all about reducing the large carbon footprint of healthcare by moving away completely from energy derived from burning fossil fuels. It will identify specific actions that we can all take at a micro-level (individual practice), meso-level (local practices and clinical units) to macro-level (whole of health policy).
Ben Dunne is a Thoracic Surgeon working at Royal Melbourne Hospital, is the Deputy Chair of the Victorian Doctors for the Environment Australia and is part of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Environmental Sustainability in Surgical Practice Working Group. He is passionate about reducing the carbon footprint of healthcare delivery.
Time | 0830 -1000 |
The climate emergency is the greatest existential threat of our time and as trusted leaders within our communities’, healthcare providers need to take urgent actions. The challenge is analogous to the threat posed to our patients by the Tobacco industry. This session is all about reducing the large carbon footprint of healthcare by moving away completely from energy derived from burning fossil fuels. It will identify specific actions that we can all take at a micro-level (individual practice), meso-level (local practices and clinical units) to macro-level (whole of health policy).
Heidi Lee is Chief Executive Officer of Beyond Zero Emissions, a leading Australian think tank demonstrating how the country can prosper in a zero-emissions economy. She led the organisation’s recent Million Jobs Plan, which showed how in just five years, renewables and zero-emissions projects can deliver 1.8 million new jobs in the regions and communities that these are needed most.
BZE’s current work is focused on Renewable Energy Industrial Precincts: demonstrating how Australia’s manufacturing sector can be powered by renewable energy, deliver regional jobs, secure domestic supply chains, and export zero-emissions products to global markets.
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Time | 0830 -1000 |
The climate emergency is the greatest existential threat of our time and as trusted leaders within our communities’, healthcare providers need to take urgent actions. The challenge is analogous to the threat posed to our patients by the Tobacco industry. This session is all about reducing the large carbon footprint of healthcare by moving away completely from energy derived from burning fossil fuels. It will identify specific actions that we can all take at a micro-level (individual practice), meso-level (local practices and clinical units) to macro-level (whole of health policy).
Nick Watts is the Chief Sustainability Officer of the NHS, responsible for its commitment to deliver a world-class net zero emission health service. Based in London, he leads the Greener NHS team across the country, which focuses on improving the health of patients and the public through a robust and accelerated response to climate change and the broader sustainability agenda. Nick is a medical doctor licensed in Australia and the UK, and has trained population health and public policy. Prior to the National Health Service, Nick worked internationally as the Executive Director of the Lancet Countdown and the Lancet Commission on Health and Climate Change, a collaboration of UN agencies and academic centres across the world. He has also focused on engaging the health profession on the links between public health and climate change, having founded both the Global Climate and Health Alliance and the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change.
@Watts_NickTime | 0830 -1000 |
The climate emergency is the greatest existential threat of our time and as trusted leaders within our communities’, healthcare providers need to take urgent actions. The challenge is analogous to the threat posed to our patients by the Tobacco industry. This session is all about reducing the large carbon footprint of healthcare by moving away completely from energy derived from burning fossil fuels. It will identify specific actions that we can all take at a micro-level (individual practice), meso-level (local practices and clinical units) to macro-level (whole of health policy).
Forbes is an anaesthetist and intensive care physician at Western Health, Melbourne, Australia, and an A/Prof. (Medicine) at the Universities of Sydney, and Melbourne. Forbes remains passionate about making seemingly small environmental, financial and social sustainability changes to how we practice medicine, as well as that become magnified through every nations’ hospitals.
Forbes is currently collaborating with colleagues at the University of Melbourne and friends within the Doctors for the Environment (DEA) examining ways to make hospitals more sustainable and being stewards for earth’s extraordinary biodiversity.
@ForbesMcGain1000 – 1045
Chair: Michelle Johnston
CPD Domains: Clinical Expertise, Communication, Professionalism & Social Responsibility
1045 – 1230
Time | 1045 - 1230 |
This session presents a series of medical cases with important clinical caveats. Additionally, a contextual discussion follows, focussing on the social determinants of health and their integral importance in delivering high quality care. The practice of acute medicine requires many skills to ensure the delivery of the highest quality care. Clinical knowledge and skill are essential, but equally communication, empathy, social/cultural awareness and advocacy are also vital. Knowing our patients and understanding their circumstances provides a foundation on which clinical practice can then be contextually applied. Without context raw facts can be misleading and even result in misdirected treatment plans.
Daniel Nour has a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery from James Cook University. Early in his career, he realised his passion to address the needs of underprivileged and vulnerable members of the community. This led to his ambition to start a mobile medical clinic which uniquely addresses the multiple health disparities experienced by the homeless and alleviates the many burdens present in accessing healthcare. With the support of mentors, colleagues, and countless others who assisted, Street Side Medics was created. Due to its success Daniel was awarded 2022 Young Australian of the Year and is the youngest person to have delivered the Australia Day Address. By day, Daniel is a Basic Physician Trainee with the Northern Sydney Local Health District.
Time | 1045 - 1230 |
This session presents a series of medical cases with important clinical caveats. Additionally, a contextual discussion follows, focussing on the social determinants of health and their integral importance in delivering high quality care. The practice of acute medicine requires many skills to ensure the delivery of the highest quality care. Clinical knowledge and skill are essential, but equally communication, empathy, social/cultural awareness and advocacy are also vital. Knowing our patients and understanding their circumstances provides a foundation on which clinical practice can then be contextually applied. Without context raw facts can be misleading and even result in misdirected treatment plans.
Gemma Figtree is a Professor in Medicine at the University of Sydney. She co-leads the Cardiovascular Theme for Sydney Health Partners, a NHMRC Advanced Health Research and Translation Centre and is the Chair of the University of Sydney’s multi-disciplinary Cardiovascular Initiative. Gemma completed her DPhil at Oxford University in 2002 supported by a Rhodes Scholarship making fundamental discoveries regarding estrogen’s actions and factors regulating NO/redox balance in the cardiovascular system. She is committed to improving the care for heart attack patients- using her knowledge of molecular and cellular biology to develop methods of identifying those at highest risk of adverse outcome, and discovering novel therapies to prevent and treat events, inspired by her clinical work as an interventional cardiologist. She has dedicated herself throughout her career to unravelling key mechanisms underlying susceptibility and response to heart attack, with studies extending from the bench to large cohort studies and clinical trials. Having recently completed a co-funded NHMRC CDF and Heart Foundation Future Leader Fellowship, she was awarded a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Excellence Award for Top Ranked Practitioner Fellow (Australia), commencing in 2018. In 2019 she received the prestigious NSW Ministerial Award for Cardiovascular Research Excellence. She now chairs the Mission (CV) Expert Advisory Panel. She is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and serves/has served as a non-executive Director on multiple community Boards.
Time | 1045 - 1230 |
This session presents a series of medical cases with important clinical caveats. Additionally, a contextual discussion follows, focussing on the social determinants of health and their integral importance in delivering high quality care. The practice of acute medicine requires many skills to ensure the delivery of the highest quality care. Clinical knowledge and skill are essential, but equally communication, empathy, social/cultural awareness and advocacy are also vital. Knowing our patients and understanding their circumstances provides a foundation on which clinical practice can then be contextually applied. Without context raw facts can be misleading and even result in misdirected treatment plans.
Mya Cubitt is a New Zealander, living since 2005 in Australia with her South African husband and their three Australian children. There is always a winning rugby team in her household! Mya trained at Otago University, finishing her clinical training in Wellington and her first years as a doctor in Hawkes Bay, NZ. She then embarked on a peripatetic journey through NSW and QLD, completing her advanced training in Emergency Medicine in WA and VIC. Mya won the Buchanan Prize for the highest scoring candidate in the fellowship exam for the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM). Mya has lived in Melbourne since 2011 and completed a year long fellowship in Paediatric Critical Care and Emergency Medicine at The Royal Children’s Hospital, before beginning practice as an Emergency Physician at The Royal Melbourne Hospital – one of two adult major trauma units in the state. Mya also works in the Acute Medical Unit where she has evolved a passion for improving the care of injured older patients. In 2018, she completed a masters in Trauma Science at Queen Mary University with a dissertation on frailty assessments in trauma. In 2021, Mya convened the first seminar and research workshop on Geriatric Trauma, #GEMSEM2021. Mya is a member and past Chair of The Royal Melbourne Hospital Medical Advisory Committee, Chair of the Victorian Faculty Board for ACEM and an expert advisor to the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission review of Ambulance Victoria, and the National COVID19 Clinical Evidence Taskforce. You will also find her on your TV screens in Emergency – an observational documentary series filmed at The Royal Melbourne Emergency Department, and as a member of The Royal Melbourne Hospital scrub choir.
For an autobiography visit Feminista Journal.
@MyaCubittTime | 1045 - 1230 |
This session presents a series of medical cases with important clinical caveats. Additionally, a contextual discussion follows, focussing on the social determinants of health and their integral importance in delivering high quality care. The practice of acute medicine requires many skills to ensure the delivery of the highest quality care. Clinical knowledge and skill are essential, but equally communication, empathy, social/cultural awareness and advocacy are also vital. Knowing our patients and understanding their circumstances provides a foundation on which clinical practice can then be contextually applied. Without context raw facts can be misleading and even result in misdirected treatment plans.
Greg lives and works on beautiful Darug country in Sydney, Australia. He is a pediatric intensivist and co-lead of the cardiac ICU at Westmead Children’s Hospital as well as running the Pediatrica Intensiva podcast. He trained in pediatrics and ICU at the Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne, pediatric palliative care at Westmead Children’s Hospital and pediatric cardiac ICU at SickKids, Toronto. He has previously been the medical lead for Bear Cottage Children’s Hospice and spent several years working in both the Northern Territory and at Queensland Children’s Hospital. He has become increasingly interested in how things work, how they fail, and how we can make them better. In 2019 he completed an MBA at Melbourne Business School. During in the COVID crisis he, along with several other frontline healthcare workers, organised a series of campaigns to prompt governments to take the threat seriously and to protect healthcare workers and served on a key COVID strategic advisory body. He sees the key challenges of the health system as better reflecting and serving the community, enhancing survivorship and dealing with the immense challenges that the climate crisis requires.
@drgregkelly1230 – 1340
Chairs: Andrew Davies & Liz Crowe
CPD Domains: Ethics & Clinical Expertise
1340 – 1520
Time | 1045 - 1230 |
This session presents a series of cases all with clinical caveats but also which exemplify the complex relationship between timing and ethics. Clinical emergencies often require split second decisions to be made with incomplete data. So too, there are moments during the longitudinal trajectory of a patient’s care when important ethical decisions must be made. The relationship between a moment in time, the duration of that moment and the point that moment occurs in the trajectory of care is complex.
Intensivist & optimistic dystopian. Emigrant son of an immigrant. Father of daughters.
@psiridesTime | 1340 - 1520 |
This session presents a series of cases all with clinical caveats but also which exemplify the complex relationship between timing and ethics. Clinical emergencies often require split second decisions to be made with incomplete data. So too, there are moments during the longitudinal trajectory of a patient’s care when important ethical decisions must be made. The relationship between a moment in time, the duration of that moment and the point that moment occurs in the trajectory of care is complex.
Karen Price was awarded the 2016 RACGP FMCER grant to undertake her part time PhD with the Monash Department of General Practice. She is exploring the construct of peer-connection in general practice. This explores GP’s wellbeing, and goal-directed informal learning. Karen’s research builds on her lifetime expertise as a GP. She is the co-developer and facilitator of GPs Down Under, an 8000+ member community of Australian and New Zealand GPs. She has chaired committees and developed mentor programs for both the AMA and the RACGP. Karen began her general practice in a large procedural practice which included providing medical assistance to the local district police surgeon. She has also been a successful practice owner growing a languishing practice into a thriving community practice in under a decade whilst wrangling three young school-aged children (who are now fully grown). Karen continues to develop evidence-based medicine, leadership, advocacy, and peer support, in both research and her ongoing clinical general practice. Most recently her advocacy, research and lifetime experience have coalesced into running for RACGP President after her service as deputy chair of the Victorian Faculty of the RACGP and past chair of the Women in General Practice committee of the RACGP. Karen was elected RACGP President in the 2020 national election. She commenced her two-year term on 30 November 2020.
@brookmanknightTime | 1340 - 1520 |
This session presents a series of cases all with clinical caveats but also which exemplify the complex relationship between timing and ethics. Clinical emergencies often require split second decisions to be made with incomplete data. So too, there are moments during the longitudinal trajectory of a patient’s care when important ethical decisions must be made. The relationship between a moment in time, the duration of that moment and the point that moment occurs in the trajectory of care is complex.
Eric Levi is a Melbourne based Ear Nose & Throat, Head & Neck Surgeon with a special interest in paediatric airway reconstruction and Head & Neck tumours across the lifespan. He works at the Royal Children’s Hospital, St.Vincent’s Hospital and privately. He is part of the Head & Neck Cancer team, Complex Airway Team and the multidisciplinary Vascular Anomalies Group. He thinks he is funny but his children disagree.
@DrEricLeviTime | 1340 - 1520 |
This session presents a series of cases all with clinical caveats but also which exemplify the complex relationship between timing and ethics. Clinical emergencies often require split second decisions to be made with incomplete data. So too, there are moments during the longitudinal trajectory of a patient’s care when important ethical decisions must be made. The relationship between a moment in time, the duration of that moment and the point that moment occurs in the trajectory of care is complex.
Consultant anaesthetist.
Trained in NZ/London/Australia.
Associate Editor Anaesthesia journal.
Former head of anaesthetic department.
Councillor Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists.
Originally from New Zealand, now working in Wollongong NSW.
Interested in using social media to desilo medicine.
@GongGasGirlTime | 1340 - 1520 |
This session presents a series of cases all with clinical caveats but also which exemplify the complex relationship between timing and ethics. Clinical emergencies often require split second decisions to be made with incomplete data. So too, there are moments during the longitudinal trajectory of a patient’s care when important ethical decisions must be made. The relationship between a moment in time, the duration of that moment and the point that moment occurs in the trajectory of care is complex.
David is the Medical Director of Ambulance Victoria, an intensivist at The Alfred Hospital and an adjunct senior lecturer in the Department of Paramedicine at Monash University. He has trained and worked as a paramedic in Auckland and as a doctor in Auckland, Sydney and Toronto before settling in Melbourne. His clinical interests are prehospital and retrieval medicine, trauma, EMCO and bioethics. He has an embarrassingly large collection of Lego.
@expensivecare1520- 1600
Chairs: Naomi Hammond & Brett Abbenbroek
CPD Domains: Clinical Expertise, Professionalism & Social Responsibility
1600 – 1730
Time | 1600 - 1730 |
On May 26, 2017 the World Health Assembly (WHA), the WHO’s decision-making body, adopted a resolution on improving the prevention, diagnosis, and management of sepsis. The first action urged by the resolution was for member states to develop national policy and processes to improve the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of sepsis; this is best articulated as a national Action plan for sepsis. In this Plenary session, world experts will address some exciting progress and remaining challenges in high, middle and low-income countries and how realistic and achievable actions can save literally millions of lives.
Simon Finfer is a Pom who emigrated to Australia in 1993 to practice full time intensive care medicine. Despite being qualified 37 years and receiving a small NHS pension he still works as a bedside clinician and takes night calls. He loves his job because he works with fantastic people. He also designs and runs large clinical trials, writes papers and edits books. His current mission is to reduce the global burden of sepsis to which end he sits on the Board of the Global Sepsis Alliance, the Council of the International Sepsis Forum and established both the Australian Sepsis Network and the Asia Pacific Sepsis Alliance. He is a Professorial Fellow at The George Institute for Global Health and the Institute’s focus on equity and improving the health of underserved populations in both rich and poor countries aligns perfectly with his and with CODA. Simon lives on the outskirts of Sydney with his wife, sons, three horses, four chickens, three ducks and one dog.
Time | 1600 - 1730 |
On May 26, 2017 the World Health Assembly (WHA), the WHO’s decision-making body, adopted a resolution on improving the prevention, diagnosis, and management of sepsis. The first action urged by the resolution was for member states to develop national policy and processes to improve the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of sepsis; this is best articulated as a national Action plan for sepsis. In this Plenary session, world experts will address some exciting progress and remaining challenges in high, middle and low-income countries and how realistic and achievable actions can save literally millions of lives.
Abdulelah Alhawsawi, is the Former – founding Director General of the Saudi Patient Safety Center (SPSC), and MOH Advisor on Patient Safety. He led the efforts to establishing SPSC as a WHO Collaborating Center for patient safety policies and strategies (1 of only 5 WHOcc worldwide in this field). He holds Dual Certified Boards (American – Canadian) of general surgery with sub-specialty in Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgery. He is a consultant to several national and international quality and safety organizations and recently became a board member and Vice President of the Global Sepsis Alliance (GSA). He was part of the Expert Panel on the 3rd Global Patient Safety Challenge of the WHO and chaired the Organizing Committee for the 4th Global Ministerial Summit on Patient Safety in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia in 2019. Abdulelah has helped introduce Patient Safety as a G20 priority in the 2020 G20 of Saudi Arabia and i is a member of the WHO’s World Patient Safety Day steering committee.
@DrAlhawsawiTime | 1600 - 1730 |
On May 26, 2017 the World Health Assembly (WHA), the WHO’s decision-making body, adopted a resolution on improving the prevention, diagnosis, and management of sepsis. The first action urged by the resolution was for member states to develop national policy and processes to improve the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of sepsis; this is best articulated as a national Action plan for sepsis. In this Plenary session, world experts will address some exciting progress and remaining challenges in high, middle and low-income countries and how realistic and achievable actions can save literally millions of lives.
Madiha Hashmi is the founding CEO of southeast Asian Research in Critical Care Health (SEARCH) and leading the Pakistan Registry of Intensive Care (PRICE). Madiha is also the President of the Pakistan Society of Critical Care Medicine (PSCCM), a member of the World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine (WFSICCM) and INFACT.
Time | 1600 - 1730 |
On May 26, 2017 the World Health Assembly (WHA), the WHO’s decision-making body, adopted a resolution on improving the prevention, diagnosis, and management of sepsis. The first action urged by the resolution was for member states to develop national policy and processes to improve the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of sepsis; this is best articulated as a national Action plan for sepsis. In this Plenary session, world experts will address some exciting progress and remaining challenges in high, middle and low-income countries and how realistic and achievable actions can save literally millions of lives.
Karin Thursky (MBBS, BSc, MD, FRACP, FAHMS) is an infectious diseases physician and health services researcher who has over 20 years experience in the fields of antimicrobial stewardship and infections in the immunocompromised host. She has successfully implemented and scaled programs to improve the quality and safety of healthcare, and has a national leadership role in antimicrobial stewardship and sepsis. Karin was appointed as the inaugural Associate Director of Health Services Research and Implementation Sciences at Peter MacCallum Cancer Hospital in 2020 and has established a new Department of Health Services Research. She is also the Deputy Head of Infectious Diseases and the implementation stream for the NHMRC National Centre for Infections in Cancer. In her role at the Doherty Institute, Karin leads the National Centre for Antimicrobial Stewardship (NCAS) which takes a One Health approach to AMS across all human and animal health sectors); and is the Director of the Guidance Group at the Royal Melbourne Hospital which develops, implements and scales information technology to support the judicious use of antimicrobials.
Chairs: Chris Bowles & Ian Summers
CPD Domains: Professionalism & Social Responsibility, Leadership & Management
0830 -1000
Time | 0830 -1000 |
Gender Inequity within healthcare remains a major threat to the proper and efficient functioning of the systems providing care. Additionally, gender inequity (and inequity in general) threaten patient outcomes. This session is not only about identifying specific problems but also debriefing these issues to identify solutions. Prior to the conference we will crowd source current real-world examples of gender inequity occurring within healthcare. The anonymous cases will be curated to identify a number of core themes to guide the design of the session. Within the session itself, a number of immersive formats will be utilised to bring these themes to life and then allow our expert de-briefers to unpack the issues and seek advice from the expert panel on solutions.
Marie loves weaving threads of ideas together, moving back and forth between research, clinical care, leadership, and advocacy. A typical week might involve caring for patients as a psychiatry registrar with Melbourne Health, sitting around the board table of NZ’s fastest growing aged care company, teaching health law at Melbourne Law School, mentoring young doctors through Wahine Connect, and leading research on sexual misconduct in medicine. To keep all these threads from unravelling, Marie does yoga every day at dawn, hangs out with her three young adult kids, and belongs to the best book club in town.
@mbismarkNada Hamad is a senior staff specialist bone marrow transpalnt, clinical and laboratory haematologist at St Vincent’s hospital in Sydney, where she is also director of the haematology clinical trials unit. She is President of the Bone Marrow Transplant Society of Australia and New Zealand, Chair of the ACI NSW BMT network and Chair of ALLG BMTCT working group. She is a senior lecturer at the University of Sydney and University of NSW. Nada studied Medicine at the University of Sydney and completed her Haematology training in Sydney. Prior to her career in medicine, she completed a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in Forensics, working in this field for a short period of time. She completed two post-graduate fellowships in BMT and lymphoma at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in Toronto Canada through the University of Toronto. She has a strong interest in clinical trials, has a specialist certificate in Clinical Research (Oncology) from the University of Melbourne and is an active member of the Australasian Leukaemia and Lymphoma Group (ALLG) as a member of a number of disease group committees. Her clinical research interests are in malignant haematology and bone marrow transplantation.
@nadahamadZoe is the Deputy Secretary for Public Health in the Victorian Government Department of Health. She has previously held roles as the Director of Clinical Governance at Bupa Australia and New Zealand, Chair of the Board of Dental Health Services Victoria and a Director on the Board of the Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation. Her passion and expertise in public health has driven formal and informal collaborations with the ICHOM, Harvard Business School and The University of Texas at Austin, Dell Medical School in value-based health care across multiple organisations. Zoe also has a continued advocacy focus on the importance of sex differences across health from basic research to health systems implications. Zoe holds a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery from Flinders University, and has a clinical background in cardiothoracic surgery and thoracic surgical oncology. She has a PhD and a Master of Public Health from The University of Melbourne, is a fellow of the Australasian College of Health Service Management and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
1000 – 1045
Chair: Jesse Spurr
CPD Domains: Clinical Expertise, Leadership & Management
1045 – 1230
Time | 1045 - 1230 |
“Resuscitation deconstructed & re-designed ” is a case-based panel with a twist. Each speaker will give a three minute thesis on their unique design experience and then Chris Hicks will load up a case of resuscitation to be deconstructed by the team. This will follow a stylised design sprint format, finishing with some prototypes for better resuscitation.
Victoria Brazil is an emergency physician and medical educator.
She is Professor of Emergency Medicine and Director of Simulation at the Gold Coast Health Service, and at Bond University medical program. Victoria’s main interests are in connecting education with patient care – through translational simulation for healthcare, and in developing high performing teams. She leads the Bond Translational Simulation Collaborative
Victoria is an enthusiast in the social media and #FOAMed world (@SocraticEM). She is co-producer of Simulcast and she hosts the Harvard Macy Institute podcast. She also serves as a faculty member with the Harvard Macy Institute.
Follow Victoria at @SocraticEM or look her up at drvictoriabrazil.com
@SocraticEMTime | 1045 - 1230 |
“Resuscitation deconstructed & re-designed ” is a case-based panel with a twist. Each speaker will give a three minute thesis on their unique design experience and then Chris Hicks will load up a case of resuscitation to be deconstructed by the team. This will follow a stylised design sprint format, finishing with some prototypes for better resuscitation.
Jeremy is primarily a husband and father with a day job as an emergency nurse with a little over a decades experience working in an adult & paediatric metropolitan trauma centre in Newcastle. Most recently he has occupied roles allowing him to guide practice development activities and clinical education within areas of emergency nursing and resuscitation. Jeremy has a background as a simulation educator and has also worked clinically in acute cardiac assessment roles. Jeremy is an enthusiastic amateur clinical researcher, most recently combining his clinical interests to investigate the role of nursing team leadership in cardiac arrest through the CANLEAD trial. Jeremy is currently studying a master’s degree as he works to advocate for the role of acute and critical care nurse practitioners in the emergency department.
Time | 1045 - 1230 |
“Resuscitation deconstructed & re-designed ” is a case-based panel with a twist. Each speaker will give a three minute thesis on their unique design experience and then Chris Hicks will load up a case of resuscitation to be deconstructed by the team. This will follow a stylised design sprint format, finishing with some prototypes for better resuscitation.
Eve Purdy (@purdy_eve) is an emergency physician and anthropologist from Canada. She is currently far away from home working on the Gold Coast doing part time clinical emergency medicine and part time applied anthropology, sorting out how teams can do work better, together. She’s been involved with SMACC since she was a medical student and finds that the relationships formed and values of this community have shaped her career.
@purdy_eveTime | 1045 - 1230 |
“Resuscitation deconstructed & re-designed ” is a case-based panel with a twist. Each speaker will give a three minute thesis on their unique design experience and then Chris Hicks will load up a case of resuscitation to be deconstructed by the team. This will follow a stylised design sprint format, finishing with some prototypes for better resuscitation.
Sarah Yong is an Intensivist at The Alfred Hospital. After graduating from The University of Melbourne, she completed physician training before obtaining her fellowship of intensive care medicine thereafter. Along with critical care, she has a strong interest in education, simulation and the FOAMed (free open-access medical education) revolution. She has completed a Masters in Clinical Education in non-technical skills in intensive care. A strong advocate for her peers, Sarah convenes the Victorian Primary Exam Course for CICM, chairs the Trainee Committee and is New Fellows’ Representative for CICM. She is a founding convenor of the ANZICS Women in Intensive Care Medicine Network, with published research on gender balance in critical care. Sarah’s clinical interests include cardiothoracic intensive care and crisis resource management.
@drsarahyongTime | 1045 - 1230 |
“Resuscitation deconstructed & re-designed ” is a case-based panel with a twist. Each speaker will give a three minute thesis on their unique design experience and then Chris Hicks will load up a case of resuscitation to be deconstructed by the team. This will follow a stylised design sprint format, finishing with some prototypes for better resuscitation.
Christopher Hicks is an emergency physician and trauma team leader at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, and Assistant Professor and Clinician-Educator in the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto. He is an education research scientist at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge institute, and appointee to the International Centre for Surgical Safety, with a program of research that focuses on simulation-based psychological skills training, human factors and clinical logistics. He has innovated in several areas of resuscitation and psychological skills, including mental practice, stress inoculation training and the trauma black box program. In 2018, Chris co-created and chaired resusTO, an inter-professional simulation-based resuscitation conference in Toronto with international acclaim. In 2020, he co-founded Advanced Performance Healthcare Design, consulting with hospitals and industry using simulation to inform the design of systems, spaces and teams. Chris is an avid speaker and lecturer, staunch #FOAMed supporter, occasional runner and cyclist, fledgling boxer, semi-retired pianist, and proud father of three lunatic boys.
@HumanFact0rzTime | 1045 - 1230 |
“Resuscitation deconstructed & Re-designed ” is a case-based panel with a twist. Each speaker will give a three minute thesis on their unique design experience and then Chris Hicks will load up a case of resuscitation to be deconstructed by the team. This will follow a stylised design sprint format, finishing with some prototypes for better resuscitation.
1230 – 1340
Chair: Jon Gatward
CPD Domains: Clinical Expertise, Professionalism & Social Responsibility, Communication
1340 – 1520
Time | 1340 - 1520 |
Each speaker delivers a short high impact clinical case from practice ranging from conflict zones to 2 week boarding in the emergency department in India. These cases have been chosen because of the profound personal impact upon the clinician. Following the clinical cases, Ben will facilitate a debrief to explore how these clinicians prepared for, performed in, or recovered from the situations.
Liz Crowe has two and a half decades of expertise in grief, crisis, end of life care, bereavement work and staff wellbeing in pediatric critical care environments. Liz currently works at a tertiary adult hospital providing consultation, coaching, counselling and education for staff wellbeing. She is in the absolute final stages of completing her PhD examining risk and protective factors for staff wellbeing in critical care. Liz is a published academic involved in multiple research projects nationally and internationally focussing on the wellbeing of staff and the impact of COVID on clinicians. Liz is a passionate and humorous educator who regularly speaks internationally. Liz is the successful author of ‘The Little Book of Loss and Grief You Can Read While You Cry’. She is a proud member of the St Emlyn’s education team and an active member of #FOAMed, and can be found on Twitter @LizCrowe2.
@LizCrowe2Time | 1340 - 1520 |
Each speaker delivers a short high impact clinical case from practice ranging from conflict zones to 2 week boarding in the emergency department in India. These cases have been chosen because of the profound personal impact upon the clinician. Following the clinical cases, Ben will facilitate a debrief to explore how these clinicians prepared for, performed in, or recovered from the situations.
Gary has been a Critical Care Paramedic since 2003. He has worked as a flight paramedic in South Africa, Afghanistan & Australia. In 2009 he joined the Queensland Ambulance Service on the Gold Coast where he has held the positions of Critical Care Paramedic as well as Flight CCP & HARU. Gary has recently completed a Masters in Traumatology and is a Clinical Fellow at the Queensland University of Technology.
@fatambogaryTime | 1340 - 1520 |
Each speaker delivers a short high impact clinical case from practice ranging from conflict zones to 2 week boarding in the emergency department in India. These cases have been chosen because of the profound personal impact upon the clinician. Following the clinical cases, Ben will facilitate a debrief to explore how these clinicians prepared for, performed in, or recovered from the situations.
Rebecca Szabo is an Obstetrician/Gynaecologist and Medical Educator. She is a senior lecturer with The University of Melbourne Departments of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Medical Education and an honorary Senior Lecturer and PhD candidate with Department of Critical Care. Rebecca is Lead of Gandel Simulation Service and lead of Women’s Health Education at The Royal Women’s Hospital. She is the Chair of the Board and instructor of AMaRE – Advanced Maternal and Reproductive Education Australia (ALSO Asia-Pacific). Rebecca has lived and worked in various locations across Australia and also UK and Thailand. Rebecca has also regularly supported maternity safety education and simulation in Thailand and Mongolia. She currently practices clinically at The Women’s in Melbourne. Rebecca is passionate about women’s health, healthcare equity, advocacy, education as well as science and health care communication and the responsible use of social media. She is the co-host of the MedEd Stuff N Nonsense Podcast with anaesthetist Dr Tanya Selak www.mededstuffnn.com Rebecca is on Twitter @inquisitiveGyn and @MedEDStuffNN. She has led COVID preparedness work at The Royal Women’s Hospital and consulted widely on COVID19 preparedness particularly for maternity and perioperative settings. In 2020 and early 2021 Rebecca was a member of the COVID19 Healthcare Worker Taskforce Infection Prevention Subgroup, Department of Health, Victoria and has been an independent advisor on training, simulation and COVID19 preparedness for The Police Association of Victoria.
@inquisitiveGynTime | 1340 - 1520 |
Each speaker delivers a short high impact clinical case from practice ranging from conflict zones to 2 week boarding in the emergency department in India. These cases have been chosen because of the profound personal impact upon the clinician. Following the clinical cases, Ben will facilitate a debrief to explore how these clinicians prepared for, performed in, or recovered from the situations.
Trained in emergency medicine from the George Washington University, Dr. Ankur is currently a Senior Consultant and faculty of emergency medicine at the Max Super Specialty Hospital in New Delhi. Ankur is the creator-founder of the First and only emergency medicine podcast of India called the DESI EM PROJECT. He has a keen interest in Airways, Trauma, Academic EM, Resuscitation, and POCUS. Dr. Ankur conceived and coined the term #SATisfied airway and hopes to spread more awareness regarding the same. He has published many papers in national and international journals, authored a chapter and is a PEER reviewer for numerous journals. He is a stern follower of FOAMED and urges his peers and residents to take up the newer “social” ways of staying up to date. He also holds the post of President, Society for Emergency Medicine, India – Delhi Chapter and spearheaded the #EACH1SAVE1 initiative for bystander CPR training in the community. He is also a member of the Trauma Special Interest Group of the International Federation of Emergency Medicine. In his free time (if he gets any), Ankur loves to play and workout with his son, read, socialize, get new tattoos and as every other EM physician – party!
@anksv251520 – 1600
Chair: Greg Kelly
CPD Domains: Ethics & Communication
1600 – 1730
Time | 1600 – 1730 |
This session aims to capitalise on the clinical and socio-political issues explored during the Coda Conference and explore tangible ways our community can transfer motivation into practice. This session will be a facilitated panel discussion around hypothetical events to draw on the perspectives of a diverse panel of experts including co-design in cultural research and under-privileged groups, documentary and visual media for social change, social media for scientific communication and crowd sourcing for rapid-cycle evidence-based practice review.
Dr Marnee Shay is an ARC DAATSIA Senior Research Fellow in the School of Education and an affiliate Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Policy Futures at the University of Queensland. She is an Aboriginal woman with maternal connections to Wagiman Country (Daly River region, Northern Territory), born in Brisbane, with strong ties to Indigenous communities in South East Queensland. Dr Shay has an extensive externally funded research program that spans the fields of Indigenous education, policy studies, flexi schooling, and youth studies. She has published in many journals, books and scholarly media outlets. Her research addresses social justice and equity and is underpinned by strengths-based approaches. Dr Shay’s current research explores the concept of co-design in Indigenous research, policy, and practice settings to understand how this approach can support transformative outcomes for Indigenous peoples.
Time | 1600 – 1730 |
This session aims to capitalise on the clinical and socio-political issues explored during the Coda Conference and explore tangible ways our community can transfer motivation into practice. This session will be a facilitated panel discussion around hypothetical events to draw on the perspectives of a diverse panel of experts including co-design in cultural research and under-privileged groups, documentary and visual media for social change, social media for scientific communication and crowd sourcing for rapid-cycle evidence-based practice review.
Jessica is a Registered Nurse and experienced teacher and educator, in undergraduate and post-graduate settings, using interactive methods to achieve optimal learning outcomes. She has over 12 years’ experience in a range of industry sectors, complex domains and occupational settings. Jessica is active in clinical practice in Intensive Care Nursing and currently works as an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Bond University.
@j_stokesparishTime | 1600 – 1730 |
This session aims to capitalise on the clinical and socio-political issues explored during the Coda Conference and explore tangible ways our community can transfer motivation into practice. This session will be a facilitated panel discussion around hypothetical events to draw on the perspectives of a diverse panel of experts including co-design in cultural research and under-privileged groups, documentary and visual media for social change, social media for scientific communication and crowd sourcing for rapid-cycle evidence-based practice review.
Maya is a director and impact producer. She directed acclaimed feature In My Blood It Runs (2019) about ten-year-old Arrernte/Garrwa boy Dujuan and his community made in collaboration with those onscreen. It was selected for Goodpitch² Aus, a Sundance Institute Fellowship, was nominated for Best Doc/Best Cinematography at the AACTAs and screened at festivals worldwide. The families onscreen led a multi-year impact campaign targeting juvenile justice, education rand anti-racism. Previously, she has made short documentaries, and feature doc Gayby Baby (2015). Gayby Baby screened at festivals internationally, won many awards and sparked a national conversation about the rights of children raised in LGBTIQ families. Her new doc The Dreamlife of Georgie Stone about transgender teen Georgie will premiere as a Netflix Original in September 2022 in parallel to a impact campaign centring Georgie’s goals for change.
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