26th Annual Conference 2015
Enable the Future: Change-Choice-Rights-Wellbeing-Practice
15 & 16 September 2015, Novotel Hotel Parramatta
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Conference Opening Senator the Hon. Mitch Fifield
Keynote Speaker Tim Wilson, Australian Human Rights Commissioner
Adjunct Professor Debora Picone AM,
Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care
Clinical Associate Professor Robyn Wallace
Clinical Specialist, Calvary Health Care, Tasmania
INVITED SPEAKERS
Kathryn McKenzie, Director Disability, NSW Ombudsman
Jayne Lehmann, RN, CDE, Specialist in diabetes and people with an intellectual disability, South Australia
Dr Lynette Cusack, Chair, Nursing and Midwifery Board, Australia
Gerard Stevens AM, Webstercare Australia
Dr Adith Mohan, Research Fellow, University of NSW, School of Psychiatry
PROGRAM SPEAKERS
WORLD Café
Sonya Carroll, PANDDA Committee
You are invited to participate in the power of conversation to create the future
And forever hold our standards high
Georgina Hoddle, Nurse Educator and Lindy Isaksen, Residential Unit Nurse Manager, Summer Hill
Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) for the intellectually disabled – A case presentation
Dr Eric Fraser and Rayvelle Lamplough, Registered Nurse, LRCSSL-SS North
A Brave New World: Understanding the Primary Care landscape – Opportunities and challenges for nurses in developmental disability
Lisa Craig, Registered Nurse and Senior Project Officer, Transition Team, LRCSSL-SS North
Getting under the skin
Trish Stedman, Clinical Nurse Consultant, Health and Wellbeing; Ruth Yum, Residential Unit Nurse Manager and Vicki Bell, Speech Pathologist, LRCSSL-SS North
Enabling the future of disability nursing skills and experience
Dr Chris Atkins, Educator, Royal Rehab College
Medicines Management: Managing risk with changing service systems – A pharmacy provider’s role and perspective
Sally Monsted, Manager Professional Services and Lynne Freebairn, Manager Aged Care and Disability Services, McBeath
Planning for a healthy life
Liz Brown, General Manager, Disability Services, Anglicare AT HOME, Tasmania
Catatonia in Autism Spectrum Disorder
Andrew Pridding, Nurse Practitioner, Victoria
Supported decision making: Autonomy and protection
Justine O’Neil, Assistant Public Guardian, Advocacy and Policy, NSW Public Guardian
The Dying to Talk project: What do people with intellectual disability understand about the end of life? A research presentation
Roger Stancliffe, Professor of Intellectual Disability and Michele Wiese, Research Associate, Centre for Disability Research and Policy, University of Sydney
An update on the Draft Context Report and Toolkit for Health services for people with intellectual disability
Tracey Szanto, Manager, Intellectual Disability Network, NSW Agency for Clinical Innovation
A Brave New World: Understanding the Primary Care landscape – Opportunities and challenges for nurses in developmental disability
Lisa Craig, Registered Nurse and Senior Project Officer, Transition Team, LRCSSL-SS North