Session 127: Equity & inclusion
Track 8
Monday, August 5, 2024 |
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM |
Room P4 |
Overview
Room P4
Presentations & panel
Presentations & panel
Details
2:00pm - 2:30pm Presentations
2:30pm - 3:30pm PANEL | Femtech revolution: Pioneering women's health
2:30pm - 3:30pm PANEL | Femtech revolution: Pioneering women's health
Research - ironically, tells us that women and ethnic minorities are woefully underrepresented in research. Femtech has significant potential to support better representation of women in research.
This panel will discuss just how much the femtech industry is impacting women’s health and how it is contributing to longstanding challenges and disparities in this field.
Speaker
Janine Cox
Operations Director - Health System Integration and Innovation
Northern Queensland Primary Health Network
Session chair
Biography
Focusing on the implementation of Federal Government health initiatives, Janine is currently working for a not-for-profit organisation to lead the adoption and use of digital patient information applications and optimisation of external digital systems connectivity through emergent technologies.
She currently leads three dynamic teams across the areas of data & intelligence, aged care digital and technology implementation and General Practice digital and innovation.
Dr Georgina Chelberg
Postdoctoral Fellow - Centre for Ageing Research & Translation
University of Canberra
Is eHealth research with or on our people? Lessons learned using the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander quality appraisal tool
2:00 PM - 2:15 PMBiography
Georgina is a member of the Centre for Ageing Research and Translation (CARAT), Faculty of Health, University of Canberra. She contributes to the delivery and evaluation of the SPICE Program - a 12-wk multidisciplinary program for people living with dementia and their care partners.
Georgina completed a PhD with CSIRO and UQ that established the need for a best practice framework to guide research and deployment of digital health with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, including persons living with dementia. Georgina led the publication of the scientific protocol to develop the framework, as a key output of a collaboration led by CSIRO. Georgina has experience in research and project co-ordination within fields of dementia caregiving, digital health and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health through roles at Dementia Training Australia, Australian eHealth Research Centre (CSIRO), University of Queensland and Queensland Aboriginal and Islander Health Council (QAIHC).
Dr Andrew Goodman
Postdoctoral Fellow
CSIRO
Is eHealth research with or on our people? Lessons learned using the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander quality appraisal tool
2:00 PM - 2:15 PMBiography
Dr Andrew Goodman is a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Australian eHealth Research Centre (AEHRC), CSIRO. Andrew’s research seeks to explore novel approaches and/or solutions to improve Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ health and wellbeing using eHealth. His PhD (The University of Queensland, 2023) focussed on the co-design of an mHealth platform specifically tailored for the clinical management of CVD risk factors, in partnership with two ATSICCHOs in Far North QLD.
Prof Ray Mahoney
Indigenous Science Research Director
CSIRO - Australian e-Health Research Centre
Formalising a governance process for culturally appropriate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander digital health
2:15 PM - 2:30 PMBiography
Ray Mahoney is a Bidjara man with family ties to Central West Queensland. Ray has worked extensively to codesign, develop, implement and evaluate best practice public health and prevention programs to close the gap in health and wellbeing between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people. Since joining H&B's Australian eHealth Research Centre in 2018 Ray established the Indigenous Health Research Team. This Indigenous led research program has established an evidence base for technology in health care specific to the interests and needs of Indigenous people.
Dr Nyree Taylor
Senior Advisor, Business Informatics Strategy
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Ally
Formalising a governance process for culturally appropriate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander digital health
2:15 PM - 2:30 PMBiography
Danielle Bancroft
Chief Product Officer
Best Practice Software
PANEL | Femtech revolution: Pioneering women's health
2:30 PM - 3:30 PMBiography
Danielle is the Chief Product Officer at Best Practice Software.
Previously, she has worked on large-scale digital transformation projects including ePrescribing. She is a practising pharmacist with experience in community, hospital and defence. Danielle is passionate about delivering innovative software that delivers exceptional customer experiences and provides optimal patient-centred care.
Angela Ryan
Lead Healthcare Executive
Oracle Health
PANEL | Femtech revolution: Pioneering women's health
2:30 PM - 3:30 PMBiography
Angela has decades long experience across the health system, as a clinician, health informatician and executive, leading large-scale programs and policy reform at state and federal levels. She is a founding Fellow, former Vice chair and non-executive director of the Australasian Institute of Digital Health, former President of the Australasian College of Health Informatics and formerly Chief Clinical information Officer at the Australian Digital Health Agency. In 2021 Angela was the recipient of the inaugural Brilliant Women in Digital Health award and in 2017 was awarded a Churchill Fellowship through international research into patient safety. She joined Oracle Health as a Lead Healthcare Executive for JAPAC at the end of 2023, her first foray into the private sector.
Dina Titkova
Senior Manager Startups
UNSW Founders
PANEL | Femtech revolution: Pioneering women's health
2:30 PM - 3:30 PMBiography
Senior Manager Startups at UNSW Founders, leading a high performing team supporting 200 startups annually through their commercialisation journey and investing $4M+ into 30 of them. 15 years of experience dedicated to cultivating innovation ecosystems through strategic program management, forging partnerships, and driving business development. With a strong academic background in biomedical engineering, Dina has worked with numerous health startups, entrepreneurs, and researchers across Australia to support their business growth and ensure that new health solutions reach those who need them most. In 2023, she launched unique for Australia Women's Health Accelerator program, to provide tailored support and investment to startups solving for Women's Health challenges.
Dr Talat Uppal
Obstetrician & Gynaecologist
Women's Health Road
PANEL | Femtech revolution: Pioneering women's health
2:30 PM - 3:30 PMBiography
Dr Talat Uppal is an Obstetrician & Gynaecologist who works at the Northern Beaches and Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospitals as a Visiting Medical Officer. She has additional training using ultrasound in gynaecology. She is the Director of Women’s Health Road (RACGP accredited practice) and has set up an innovative integrated multidisciplinary model with a strong patient centred approach to women’s health care. Her niche interest is the management of women with abnormal menstrual bleeding (AUB) and have founded Australia’s first AUB management Hub. She has also organised a co located charity that has a bleed better initiative and is advocating for an International Heavy Menstrual Bleeding Day to raise awareness of HMB that affects 25% of women of reproductive age.
She is a Clinical Senior lecturer in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Macquarie University.
Her previous, decade long role was based at Manly and Mona Vale Hospitals, as a Senior Obstetrics Staff Specialist and Clinical Director of Women’s, Children & Family health.
She is the past Chair of both the NSW State Reference Committee and NSW RANZCOG Education Subcommittee. She is a Fellow of the Australian Association for Quality in Health Care as well as a Fellow of the Australasian College of Health Service Management
She is a clinical educator and passionate about supporting the role of General Practitioners in the Women’s health context. She is one of the RANZCOG media spokespersons.
Dr Amandeep Hansra
Chief Clinical Adviser
ADHA
PANEL | Femtech revolution: Pioneering women's health
2:30 PM - 3:30 PMBiography
Dr. Amandeep Hansra is a leader in digital health and innovation in Australia. She is a practicing GP and was recently appointed as the Chief Clinical Adviser for the Australian Digital Health Agency. Dr. Hansra has held several senior leadership and management positions in healthcare, including Senior Medical Adviser at Medibank, Head of Clinical Innovation at nib, and Chief Medical Officer of Telstra Health. She is passionate about start-ups and has served as the Director of the Australian Clinical Entrepreneur Program, as well as being a co-founder of Australian Medical Angels. Dr. Hansra is involved in various boards and committees in the digital health and innovation sector, and she is also an Adjunct Associate Professor in Biomedical Informatics and Digital Health at the University of Sydney. She holds an Executive MBA from the University of Sydney, a Master's in Public Health and Tropical Medicine and is a Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners, a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Digital Health and is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
