Schedule

Registration and Arrival Refreshments

Welcome

By Professor George Rubin, Master of Ceremonies and Associate Medical Director, South Eastern Sydney LHD, Professor of Public Health, USYD and UNSW.

Introduction

By Dr Tom Wenkart, Conference Convenor, Pen CS Director

Delivering Precision Based Patient Care for the NHS

By Dr Julian Brown, Clinical Lead, General Practitioner, and Director of Prescribing Services – NHS England

PIP QI Incentive – 7 weeks in

By Martin Rocks, Assistant Secretary, Primary Health Network Strategy Branch, Department of Health

State-Wide Implementation of PIP QI

By Lucy Patel, Practice Manager, WA Primary Health Alliance (WAPHA)

PHN General Practice Expectations

By Dr Michael Moore, CEO, Central and Eastern Sydney PHN

Panel Q&A

By Matthias Merzenich (Moderator), Quality Assurance and Training Program Manager, Pen CS

Morning Tea

Cardiovascular Research: On the Trail to Save Lives and Limbs

By Dr Mary Kavurma, Group Leader of the Vascular Complications Group and Associate Director of Research and Education, the Heart Research Institute

Dr Stephen Hollings, CEO, the Heart Research Institute. 

Precision Prevention – Approaches to Combatting Chronic Disease

By Phil Offer, CEO, George Health Technologies

Closing the Gap: Indigenous Health and Data Sovereignty

By Associate Professor Luke Burchill, Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiology), Royal Melbourne Hospital Adult Congenital Heart Disease Program.

Lunch

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The Current State of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare

By Professor Enrico Coiera, Professor of Medical Informatics and Director, Centre for Health Informatics at Macquarie University.

Genomic Technologies for Whole of Life Healthcare

By Associate Professor Sarah Kummerfeld, Head of Science of the Kinghorn Centre for Clinical Genomics, Garvan Institute of Medical Research.

Cloud-native Machine Learning 

By Dr Denis Bauer, Senior Research Scientist, Research Team Leader, Bioinformatics, The Australian E-Health Research Centre, CSIRO. 

Afternoon Tea

How We Increase Consumers’ Access to Information So They Can Make More Informed Health Care Decisions

By Tess van der Rijt, CEO and Founder, Patient Connector and CEO, Medinet Australia

What Is the Cloud?

By Lorraine Pyefinch, Director, Best Practice Software

Transparency: How Software Enhances Privacy and Health

By Emma Hossack, CEO, Medical Software Industry Association (MSIA)

Primary Care Data Linkage in NSW: Lumos

By Samantha Moubarak, Senior Manager, Systems Integration Monitoring & Evaluation (SIME), System Information & Analytics (SIA) Branch, NSW Ministry of Health.

Pre-Dinner Refreshments

Dinner & Table Talk

Community Wellness – The New Paradigm for Better Health

By Dr Harry Nespolon, RACGP President, General Practitioner

Creating, Improving and Tracking your QI Program 

By South Western Sydney PHN

The Road to Data Management in Western QLD PHN

By Western QLD PHN

Northern Sydney Frailty Initiative

By North Sydney PHN

GP Data Report

By Murray PHN

PAT BI – A Granular Database

By Tasmania PHN

Q&A

Professor George Rubin and James Alcorn (Moderator)

Cardiovascular Disease Risk Assessment – All You Need to Know

By Professor Kim Greaves, Director of Cardiac Research, Consultant Cardiologist, Sunshine Coast University Hospital

Heart Wellness Program – Prevention is Always the Way

By Dr Ross Walker, Consultant Cardiologist, Sydney Heart Health Clinic

How Well Are We Tracking in CVD?

By Professor George Rubin, Associate Medical Director, South Eastern Sydney LHD, Professor of Public Health, USYD and UNSW.

Optimising Detection of Heart Disease at its Early Stages

By Professor Gemma Figtree, Professor, Medicine, Northern Clinical School, Kolling Institute of Medical Research, Member of the Charles Perkins Centre

Q&A

By Professor George Rubin (moderator), Associate Medical Director, South Eastern Sydney LHD, Professor of Public Health, USYD and UNSW.

Morning Tea

HPV Vaccine: From Inception to a World First Impact

By Professor Ian Frazer, Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Affiliate Professor, the University of Queensland Diamantina Institute. Affiliate Professional Research Fellow, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland. 

Cancer Screening – Challenges and Opportunities

By Professor John Zalcberg, OAM, Professor & Tony Charlton Chair of Oncology, Cancer Research Monash University.

Cancer Screening and Primary Care: a Quality Improvement Toolkit

By Sara Gloede, Quality Improvement Toolkit Officer, Cancer Institute NSW.

Lunch

Precision Education and Quality Improvement in General Practice

By Professor Mark Harris, Scientia Professor and Exec Director of Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity, UNSW

Patients and Clinicians Beating Diabetes Together

By Professor Glen Maberly, Senior Endocrinologist and Director, Western Sydney Diabetes

Three Strategies to Improve Indigenous Health and Welfare

By Dr Vladislav Matic, Chairman, Northern Queensland PHN

Precision Based Health Care in Indigenous Communities

By Dr Sam Heard, OAM, Medical Director at the Central Australian Aboriginal Congress, Associate Professor at Flinders University.

Sum Up and Future Direction

By Edweana Wenkart, Conference Convenor, Pen CS Director, Business Growth and Development