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SpeakersNigel Armfield
Senior Research Assistant Nigel is involved in developing, managing and evaluating the use of mobile telemedicine within the telepaediatric service. His research interest is focussed on paediatric telemedicine and in particular applications in neonatal and paediatric intensive care. He is also interested in mobile telemedicine and developing scalable approaches to telemedicine service management. As a PhD candidate, he is researching a novel real-time telemedicine application to support consultation between a tertiary neonatal intensive care unit and distant referring hospitals within Queensland. He is also a graduate student in the UQ School of Population Health studying public health. Nigel's previous roles have included communications engineering, management, teaching and research. Lucy Au
Student I am Lucy and come from Kundiawa in the Simbu province of Papua New Guinea. I have just completed a Master of Health Sciences (majoring in Telehealth) at Canterbury University, Christchurch, New Zealand. I am a registered paediatric nurse practicing at both clinical and middle administrative management level in Kundiawa Provincial Hospital. My experiences and expertise are in working with children for over 15 years. Apart from nursing duties, I also involve with other non-Government Organizations that deal with social issues affecting women and children in the country. Most of my researches are focused on issues that relate to children's health. Mark Bensink
Senior Research Assistant Mark is currently a senior research assistant with the University of Queensland Centre for Online Health (COH). His PhD thesis (submitted in September 2009) focuses on the feasibility and cost-effectiveness of webcam based, hospital to the home support in paediatric oncology and includes palliative care, intra-family support and discharge support. Mark is also completing a Master’s Degree in Health Economics and Pharmacoeconomics with the Universitat Pomeau Fabra in Spain. Formerly a registered nurse, Mark’s clinical experience, including Intensive Care, outpatient care and nursing education gives him a unique perspective on his research work which he hopes to expand more broadly to the application of health economic evaluation to telehealth.
Dr Dominique Bird
Research Fellow Dr Dominique Bird is a Research Fellow with the International Public Health Unit in the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, based at the Centre for Online Health, University of Queensland. She completed her Medical Degree in France and a Master of Human Services (Rehabilitation Counselling) at Griffith University, Brisbane. Her research interests have focused in the past 5 years on innovative approaches to improve support for chronic disease self-management. She manages the TLC Diabetes programme, an evaluation of an interactive telephone system for diabetes management. Liam Caffery
Lecturer Liam Caffery is the currently the manager of PACS and teleradiology support with the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital and the Royal Children’s Hospital. Liam holds the honorary academic title of Lecturer with the The University of Queensland’s Centre for Online Health. Liam research interest focuses on store-and-forward telemedicine. His PhD (submitted in September 2009) compares advantages and disadvantage of delivering telemedicine with ordinary email programs and with purpose-written email applications. He aims to provide health-care organisations knowledge of the best-way to implement their email-based service, and therefore enhance the chance of success. His work includes the development of secure and encrypted email applications. These secure email services are used by Child and Youth Mental Health Services to perform psychiatric tele-consultations with patients living in rural and remote areas of Queensland and for e-Mentoring systems used Queensland Health’s Office of Rural Health. Liam has also worked extensively with a number of organisations providing email-based counselling — namely, the Kid’s Help Line and the Carer’s WA charity. Vivian Cheung
PhD Student Vivian Cheung is a computer and biomedical engineering graduate from the Faculty of Engineering at the University of New South Wales, Australia. She is currently a full-time PhD student at the Centre for Research in Geriatric Medicine, School of Medicine at the University of Queensland, Australia. The main objectives of her PhD project are to validate and improve the accuracy of an activity classification algorithm, with the use of a triaxial accelerometer device in monitoring the physical activity of geriatric inpatients, and to determine the usefulness of reporting patient activity patterns to clinicians in terms of patient management. Jennifer Chipps
Lecturer Jennifer is a lecturer in the Department of Telehealth in the Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. She is the course coordination of the Masters in Telemedicine and is currently completing her PhD in Telepsychiatry. She left South Africa in 1990 to complete a Masters of Public Health from the University of NSW, Australia and prior to her return to South Africa in 2005, she worked as an epidemiologist in the Centre for Mental Health at the NSW Department of Health and as a Project Manager for a mental health outcomes project at the NZ Health Research Council. Dr Mark Coulthard
Staff Specialist Dr Mark Coulthard has been a paediatric intensive care specialist at the Royal Children's Hospital, Brisbane since 1996 following training in Melbourne and Dallas, Texas. He completed a PhD in 2007 in the molecular biology of the EphA1 receptor in Professor Andrew Boyd's laboratory at the Queensland Institute of Medical Research. He was appointed Head of the Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health last year. His research interests include medical education, telemedicine in intensive care and the basic science of critical illness. Sharyn Cowie
Area Manager, Telehealth Sharyn has been involved with the NSW Telehealth Network since it’s inception in 1995 and been the Area Manager for Telehealth for the Far West Area Health Service and then the Greater Western Area Health Service after the amalgamation of a number of Area Health Services in NSW in 2005. She has been a committee member for a number of the NSW Telehealth Initiative research projects including, the Connecting Critical Care, Wound Management and Renal projects. Living in Broken Hill, Sharyn has a strong interest in ensuring the rural and remote communities have equitable access to specialist clinical services.
Bernard Crowe
Researcher Bernard Crowe has a twenty five year history of involvement with major hospitals in Australia and New Zealand in the implementation of new computer technology involving Hospital Information Systems, Radiology Information Systems, Telemedicine, and E-Health. He has been associated with the development and evaluation of hospital information systems and medical imaging systems in Australia, New Zealand and Canada. He has presented a wide range of papers at both national and international scientific and health informatics conferences in the areas of international health technology assessment and evaluation. He has been a Program Committee member of the international Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery Conference (CARS) since 1993. He is a member of the Australian Computer Society (ACS) and of the Health Informatics Society of Australia (HISA). He obtained a Master of Public Health (MPH) Degree from the University of Sydney in 1983. He was a Visiting Fellow at the University of New South Wales, School of Health Services Management, from 1997 to 2000. In 2004 he was appointed as a Visiting Fellow at the University of Queensland, Center for On-Line Health where he lectures in a post graduate course in E-Health Evaluation. He worked with the Australian Federal Department of Health and Ageing in the areas of Research and Policy and Health Technology Assessment from 1980 to 1996. Since then, he has been engaged as a senior health consultant and as a lecturer in e-Health, with an emphasis on the evaluation of the influence of computer based information systems on clinical decision making. He has a particular interest in evaluation and cost-effectiveness studies. His publications as co- author include: Dr. Madan DharmarDr. Madan Dharmar Dr. Madan Dharmar is Assistant Research Professor in Pediatric Telemedicine Program in the Center for Health and Technology at UC Davis Children's Hospital. He received his medical degree from Madras Medical College; Tamilnadu Dr. MGR Medical University, India. His area of interest is health services research, specifically in quality of care and satisfaction of care in children. His research focus is in the development of quality measures to evaluate health care. He is currently working on research projects evaluating the impact of telemedicine in the pediatric critical care consultation and child abuse consultation in Northern California. Josie Di Donato
Project Officer- Health Information System Josie Di Donato is Project Officer- Health Information System at the Royal Flying Doctor Service in Brisbane. Key Responsibilities include: develop and manage implementation of projects as the RFDS reforms its information management practices and systems. Career highlights include Senior Program Leader for Information Management at General Practice Queensland and immediately prior to this an extensive career in the academic environment within the discipline areas of health information and health services management. She sits on the Queensland State Branch Council of the Australian College of Health Service Executives and The Prince Charles Hospital Health Community Council. She has a keen interest in the effective use of information to drive health care reform. Dr Rob Eikelboom
Senior Scientist, Ear Science Institute Australia Dr Rob Eikelboom is a Senior Scientist at the Ear Science Institute Australia, and Adjunct Associate Professor at the Ear Sciences Centre, School of Surgery, The University of Western Australia. He has been involved in medical research for over 20 years, the last 10 in telehealth. His primary research interests are in the ear telehealth and computer aided diagnosis. He has facilitated the setting up of ear telehealth services in a number of regions in Western Australia, and was recently part of a collaborative team that investigated the economic benefits of ear telehealth. Galen Elliott
Project Officer Galen is involved in the development, management and evaluation of Health-e-Screen-4-kids/Health-e-Piccaninnies, a mobile screening service incorporating telemedicine for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in rural communities. Her education qualifications include a Bachelor of Science/Bachelor of Arts – (Human Movement Science and Sport Studies) and a Graduate Certificate in Business Administration. She is currently enrolled in a Graduate Certificate in Public Health. She has conducted previous projects across Australia and in rural areas in Rajasthan, India. Galen is interested in the improvement of health and well-being for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in Australia. Abdul Hafeez-Baig
Lecturer Abdul Hafeez-Baig is a Lecturer in the School of Information Systems within the Faculty of Business at USQ. Abdul is the technology expert within the USQ Health Informatics Research Group at USQ. His research interests include wireless technologies in health care, systems analysis and design, adoption diffusion, and infusion of information technology, outsourcing, networking, and re-engineering of business processes. Abdul is currently finalising his PhD in the area of information systems in the health care domain. Niall Higgins
Nurse Educator Niall Higgins is manager of e-learning for Queensland Health Skills Development Centre (SDC) and works with a highly talented team of multimedia programmers and designers. Niall is also working closely with the Department of Anaesthetics and Peri-operative Care at Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital as a PhD candidate through the Central School of Medicine at University of Queensland. His study is focused upon distance education with health professionals using related telecommunication technologies. He enjoys the challenging work at SDC and finds his study rewarding and directly applicable to learning approaches at the Skills Development Centre. Anthony Hopcraft
Adjunct Associate Lecturer Anthony Hopcraft joined the Royal Australian Air Force in 1995 as a Communications and Information Systems Controller. In 2005, he was seconded to academia where he assisted in telemedicine and public health research at the Centre for Military and Veterans’ Health. He holds a Masters degree in Electronic Healthcare from the University of Queensland and vocational qualifications in Training and Assessment. Olive Joseph
Researcher Olive Joseph is a Noongarr, Yamatji woman from Western Australia. Olive completed her Aboriginal Health Worker training in 2000. She has worked for the Aboriginal Medical Service at Jigalong in the Western Desert and Port Hedland Hospital and Community Health Service before becoming a researcher with the Combined Universities Centre for Rural Health. Olive’s work has been to establish the Pilbara ear teleotology project.
Dr Tim KellyRural Medical Education Coordinator I am a procedural rural GP in Crystal Brook, in South Australia's mid North. My clinical practice involves office-based primary care medicine as well as hospital based care in local and surrounding hospitals, including anaesthetics and obstetrics. I am a supervisor of medical students, PGPPP interns and GP registrars within our practice. Dr Quynh Lê
Lecturer, Rural Health Dr Quynh Lê is a Lecturer in Rural Health and the Graduate Research Coordinator at the University Department of Rural Health, Tasmania. She has contributed to a wide range of publications in the areas of rural health, intercultural health, health workforce issues, social epidemiology, spatial research and the application of Information Technology in education and health. Siti Maon
RHD Student Siti Noorsuriani Maon is an academic staff at the Faculty of Office Management and Technology, University Technology MARA Malaysia (UiTMM). She earned her first degree in human sciences (Psychology) at International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) and her master's program in information management at UiTMM. Currently, she is pursuing her studies in Doctoral program at The University of Queensland, Australia. Her research interests in health informatics are in the areas of innovative technology (ICT) use in administrative, education and training. Professor James Marcin
Professor - Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Dr George Margelis
Industry Development Manager George took on the role of Industry Development Manager for Intel’s new Digital Health Group in November 2005. For him it was an opportunity to take an active role in changing the way healthcare was delivered in Australia. Prior to moving to Intel Australia he has been very active in the healthcare informatics arena as the CIO of a private hospital group in Sydney, manager of an innovative software development group developing solutions for healthcare providers and consumers, and board member at the state and national level of the Health Informatics Society of Australia. He is a registered medical practitioner having graduated from the University of Sydney. He is also a registered optometrist and holds a graduate degree in E-Business from the University of Southern Queensland. He ran a successful software company during the heady days of the late 80’s and early 90’s and has been an active computer enthusiast from the late 70’s when he acquired his first PC, a Sinclair Z80.
Melinda Martin-Khan
Research Fellow and NHMRC Researcher Melinda Martin-Khan is a Research Fellow and NHMRC researcher for the Centre for Research in Geriatric Medicine at the University of Queensland. Her post-doctoral work is in the development of a quality framework for the care of patients with dementia in the acute care setting and is supported by an Alzheimer’s Australia Viertel Foundation Post-Doctoral scholarship. She is a health scientist with qualifications in education, accounting, management and gerontology. Her areas of research interest are dementia and rural initiatives including telehealth innovations. Her PhD research focused on telemedicine and the reliability of assessing dementia in older adults using video consultation.
Dr Jim Muir
Research Associate Dr Jim Muir is the director of the department of dermatology at the Mater hospital, South Brisbane. He is also in private practice at Carindale. Dr Muirs areas of interest include; teledermatology, medical education, psychiatric disease and the skin, the skin in systemic disease, legal issues related to skin disease, acne, skin cancer and dermoscopy. He is a moderator for the International Dermoscopy Society.
Dr. Teemu Paavola
Managing Director and CEO Dr. Teemu Paavola is the Managing Director and CEO of LifeIT Plc, a consulting company owned by a Finnish health district, municipalities and private parties, such as Tieto Plc. The company is currently coordinating one of the largest health care IT projects in Finland. Dr. Paavola has contributed to numerous articles on health care technology and management, including the textbooks Tietotekniikan linkki liiketoimintaan (1999), Linking IT to Business (2001), Clinical Knowledge Management (2005), Managing Worldwide Operations and Communications with Information Technology (2007), Encyclopedia of Portal Technologies and Applications (2007), Exploring IT System Benefits in Health Care (2008), and Medical Informatics (2009). Dr Brenda Powell
Telehealth Project Officer Brenda currently works as the Telehealth Project Officer for the Department of Health, WA, a role she has been enjoying for the past 18 months. Previously Brenda worked in medical research, both in Australia and overseas. Since joining the Telehealth team in Western Australia Brenda has been working to help develop both strategic and operational aspects required to drive forward Telehealth in WA. Much of her recent energy has been focused on the development and implementation of an online scheduling and booking system to be used for clinical videoconferences in WA. Antti SarelaProject Leader Marie-Thérèse Schneiders
Ph.D. student Marie-Thérèse Schneiders studied Communication Science at RWTH Aachen University. She is a full-time Ph.D. student and scientific assistant at the Centre for Learning and Knowledge Management and the Department of Computer Science in Mechanical Engineering (ZLW/IMA) at RWTH Aachen University. She is supporting software development projects with sociological research approaches. Within the national research project Med-on-@ix she is developing a change management approach to introduce the telematic support system into the emergency medical services of Aachen. She is furthermore responsible for the acceptance research and the development of the professional training concepts. Beth SperringACNC, Plastic Surgery Beth has worked in the area of Plastic Surgery and Burn management for nearly 30 years, focusing ambulatory care management of non major trauma. Her extensive knowledge and experience in Plastics and wound care has been shared with health professionals throughout Western Australia through her role as a clinician and as the Coordinator of the Burn Management Programme and Wound Care for Rural Health Professionals. In 2007 she was instrumental in establishing the multidisciplinary Plastics Telehealth Service which plans and implements the review of remote and rural patients throughout the State. Dr Victoria Wade
PhD Candidate, Discipline of Public Health, University of Adelaide Dr Laurie Wilson
Post-Retirement Fellow Laurie Wilson received a PhD in cosmic ray physics from the University of Sydney, and after a brief period at the University of Oxford Department of Atmospheric Physics, began a career working at the interface of technology and medicine. He contributed to many advances in medical ultrasound, especially tissue characterisation and Doppler, and later worked in knowledge based medical image analysis. From 1989 to 2008 he was a research scientist in Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, where he led research groups in image analysis, eHealth, Telemedicine and Human Factors. Since retiring from full time work in 2008, he continues to contribute to telehealth through a part time CSIRO post-retirement fellowship and through the Australasian TeleHealth Society, which was formed through his efforts and of which he is currently Honorary Secretary. |
This event has now passed. The Centre for Online Health, The University of Queensland wishes to thank all whom attended and supported the 2009 International Successes and Failures in Telehealth (SFT-09 Australia) Conference. |
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