Sharing the latest in Midwifery and Maternal & Child Health CONFERENCE Saturday 30 July 2016 CQ Functions 113 Queen Street Melbourne Program 8.30am Registration - Tea & Coffee on arrival 8.50am Welcome 9.00am A/Prof Ricardo Palma-Dias MD, PhD, FRANZCOG, DDU, Dip US (O&G), Dip Fet Med (Clinical Director, Ultra-sound services at RWH) High Risk pregnancies 09.45am Di Halloran (Senior Project Officer in the Centre for Community Child Health Training and Development team, RCH) Administering PEDS Mary Gill (Maternal and Child Health Nurse, City of Whittlesea) Brigance in practice 10.45am MORNING TEA 11.00am Dr Thao Lu FRACP, MBBS (Clinical Head of Neonatology, Sunshine Hospital) 'Frequent concerns about recently discharged neonates' 11.45am Karen Cusack (Corporate Counsel, RWH) 'Documentation and other legal considerations in healthcare settings' 12.30pm LUNCH 1.15pm Dr Pam Cooke MB, ChB, DRANZCOG, FRACGP, FRANZCP (Psychiatrist) 'Insights and understandings about parental anxiety' 2.00pm Helen Rimington (Senior Project Worker at Drummond Street Services, Carlton) Family Violence program-what the family?! 2.45pm AFTERNOON TEA 2.55pm Lael Ridgway RN RM GCHEd(CTL) PgDAdNsg (Child, Family & Comm) MNSc IBCLC (Coordinator, Child Family and Community Nursing course, School of Nursing and Midwifery, La Trobe University) What Apps? 3.25pm 3.30pm Close of conference FINISH
Presenters A/ Prof Ricardo Palma-Dias MD, PhD, FRANZCOG, DDU, Dip US (O&G), Dip Fet Med Clinical Director Ultrasound Services (The Royal Women s Hospital) Ricardo Palma-Dias is an obstetrician-gynaecologist with special interest in prenatal diagnosis and fetal medicine. He qualified as a subspecialist in obstetric and gynaecological ultrasound in Brazil, where he also completed a MSc and a PhD in the area. Ricardo has worked with the Fetal Medicine Foundation (London, UK) in different research projects involving ultrasound in pregnancy and is a holder of their Diploma in Fetal Medicine. He is currently Clinical Associate Professor at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Melbourne and the Director of Ultrasound Services at the Royal Women's Hospital. Ricardo is Chairman of the Nuchal Translucency Ultrasound Education and Monitoring Program Steering Committee. His main areas of interest and research involvement are first trimester screening including cfdna, the role of MRI in prenatal diagnosis and prediction and prevention of preterm birth. Dianne Halloran Registered Nurse (Royal Children s Hospital and St Vincent s Hospital, Melbourne), Graduate Diploma in Early Childhood Studies, University of Melbourne, Master of Child and Family Health Nursing, University of Western Sydney (deferred). Honorary Clinical Lecturer, Department of Paediatrics. University of Melbourne 2014/2015 Over the past eight years Di has worked as a senior project officer in the Centre for Community Child Health. During this time Di has acted as a clinical advisor on several projects, facilitated training, completed a literature and policy review, developed elearning and participated in the development of practitioner and parent education programs. Di also coordinates the Child Public Health subject (PAED90005) offered as part of the University of Melbourne, Masters of Public Health program. As a paediatric and child health nurse, Di is passionate about supporting practitioners to better meet the health and wellbeing needs of children and their families. Di leads the facilitation of training in the use of the developmental screening tool PEDS (Parents Evaluation of Developmental Status). While continuing to provide face-to-face training across Australia and New Zealand Di is now translating this knowledge into elearning. Di has previously contributed to the development of elearning modules focusing on child development for the Australian Psychological Society. Di is also starting work on the creation of elearning modules that address the learning needs of early childhood practitioners. Di also contributes to the ongoing review of the child development content of the Raising Children Network website. Di worked with children, adolescents and their families in rural Victoria for over 20 years, in various roles including service management (acute health and community), nursing education and sexual assault counselling. During this time Di was involved in the Department of Human Services (DHS) Shepparton Innovations Project, Shepparton Best Start, and DHS Safe from Harm Working Group and was a also member of the Nurses Board of Victoria. After leaving Shepparton Di worked in urban, regional and remote communities in the Northern Territory developing parenting support and child health programs. In recent years Di returned to the clinical work place as clinical nurse consultant and Director of Nursing at an early parenting centre in Melbourne.
Mary Gill RN RM Grad Dip (Child, Family & Community) Mary works as a Maternal and Child Health Nurse with City of Whittlesea. She has worked in many community health settings and has qualifications in Critical care, Midwifery, Immunisation, School Health, Diabetes Education, Child and Family Health, and Workplace Training and Assessment. She worked for over 10 years in Primary School Nursing and in 2010, spent 6 months researching Brigance and implementing a training program for Victoria s Primary School Nurses. Mary is also currently doing training for kinder teachers in the use of Brigance screens. She is passionate about clinicians having understandable, useful tools to assist in assessment and is an avid question asker, always seeking improvement in practice for workers on the ground. Dr Thao Lu (FRACP, MBBS) Dr Thao Lu is a neonatal paediatrician working at Western Health's Sunshine Hospital. Thao holds the position of Head of Neonatal Medicine at Sunshine Hospital and is also an Advanced Paediatric Life Support Instructor. Thao arrived in Australia at the age of 16 with no English and completed her medical training at Melbourne University. She has been working in Neonatology for over 15 years and works in a busy Maternity hospital situated in the fastest growth corridor in Australia. Thao and her team at Sunshine Special Care Nursery are in a unique position to help care for some of the smallest and sickest babies outside of tertiary perinatal centres. Outside her clinical work, Thao is also a busy mum with two beautiful daughters. Karen Cusack Karen Cusack is currently Corporate Counsel of The Royal Women s Hospital, Parkville. The Royal Women s Hospital is Australia s largest specialist hospital dedicated to improving the health of all women and newborn babies. In her role, Karen provides advice on a myriad of health law and other legal issues and deals with a wide range of health professionals on a daily basis. As an in-house lawyer at a large metropolitan health service, Karen s role is diverse and complex. Prior to joining the Women s, Karen was in private practice with Maddocks Lawyers and had performed a secondment to one of Maddocks clients in the role of in-house lawyer. She has also worked as a lawyer with the State government. Until recently, she held a Board appointment with a not-for-profit organisation and has undertaken various post-graduate study including a Master of Laws at Monash University. In 2015 Karen was appointed by the Minister for Health as a member of the Patient Review Panel, an independent statutory body established under the Assisted Reproductive Treatment Act 2008. The Patient Review Panel makes determinations on applications for assisted reproductive treatment. Karen has over 20 years experience as a lawyer and is passionate about the role she plays at the Women s. Dr Pamela Cooke MB, ChB, DRANZCOG, FRACGP, FRANZCP Dr Pamela Cooke was trained in the United Kingdom, and completed her GP training and Diploma of Obstetrics whilst there. She migrated to Australia and worked for 5 yeas as a rural GP in Victoria, including doing intrapartum obstetrics. She joined the RACGP Training Program as a Medical Educator, involved with training future GPs, and moved to a general practice in the Macedon Ranges. Soon after this she decided to retrain as a Psychiatrist, finally following her true area of interest in medicine. She trained at Austin Health, and spent time working in perinatal mental health, amongst other subspecialties. She is currently working as a Consultant Psychiatrist in Austin Hospital Acute Adult In Patient Unit, and has a small private practice.
Helen Rimington Helen Rimington has been working with families in the area of mental health and wellbeing for 25 years. Helen is a Senior Project Worker at Drummond street services in Carlton and oversees the roll out of an innovative new program aimed at preventing family Violence called What the Family?! Helens experience spans working in prisons running support groups, corporate training work and family work with the Royal Children s Hospital, Parenting Australia, The Brotherhood of St Lawrence and the Salvation Army. Helen will be presenting on: The What the Family?! program itself How we can identify pathways to family violence and other problems like mental illness and substance abuse How do we know when to be worried about new parents (where s the line?) What the research tells us about effective violence prevention How we can intervene effectively with new parents who have specific problems (I will provide them with part of the great intervention guide we have as a handout) Lael Ridgway RN RM GCHEd(CTL) PgDAdNsg (Child, Family & Comm) MNSc IBCLC (Coordinator, Child Family and Community Nursing course, School of Nursing and Midwifery, La Trobe University) Lael is the specialty coordinator for the Master of Nursing in Child, Family and Community Nursing at La Trobe University. She has represented both the MCH profession and the university on a number of State and Local Government committees and professional bodies. Her research has focussed on various aspects of early parenting and midwifery including MCH practice and education, electronic health records, early childhood development, autism, infant and maternal mental health and the use of information technology in MCH nursing. She has received research grants from the Telstra Foundation, Victorian Government and La Trobe University, and is currently part of the team developing the ASDetect app.
CQ FUNCTIONS CQ Functions is situated in the heart of Melbourne's CBD at 113 Queen Street, between Bourke and Little Collins Streets. On-site parking (off Little Collins St.) and overflow parking within 3 minutes walk. TRANSPORT TRAM Located only one block in any direction; trams at Bourke, Collins, Elizabeth and William streets. TRAIN Less than 10 minutes from Southern Cross Station and Flinders Street Station.