SESSION 240: <br/>Human, organisational and social aspects
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| Sunday, July 9, 2023 |
| 1:15 PM - 2:45 PM |
| C4.1 |
Overview
C4.1
Panels
Panels
Details
This session contains two 40 minute panels.
Panel: Successful antimicrobial stewardship in the digital ageThis panel will bring together thought leaders with experience and expertise in the design, implementation and evaluation of digital interventions for AMS. Panellists will discuss successful digital interventions, as well as challenges and lessons learnt. This will be followed by a group discussion of the opportunities that digitisation presents, the key barriers to designing, implementing, and evaluating technology, and potential ways for overcoming these barriers in moving forward.
Panel: Establishment of a university-wide digital health hub as a pipeline between industry and academia
The RMIT Digital Health Hub is a new model in higher education, whereby the Hub is a university-wide entity allowing industry partners to access all discipline and facility areas for transdisciplinary partnerships. The panel will discuss the various part of the Hub’s model, including research, training and workforce, and national and international partnerships. Other organizations seeking to establish institute wide models will hear from the panel about the journey of the Hub and key take away messages on how to develop a model for successful industry partnerships.
Speaker
Nathan Moore FAIDH CHIA
Chief Nursing Information Officer
Western Sydney Local Health District
Session chair
Biography
Nathan is the WSLHD Chief Nursing Information Officer and is responsible for supporting the adoption and improvement of clinical information systems and technologies for nurses, midwives, and other multidisciplinary care providers. He is completing a PhD exploring the design and deployment considerations for the use of VR in clinical education.
Prof Melissa Baysari FAIDH
Professor of Human Factors
The University of Sydney
Panel: Successful antimicrobial stewardship in the digital age
1:15 PM - 1:55 PMBiography
Melissa Baysari, Ph.D. FAIDH, Professor of Human Factors at the University of Sydney, Australia, and chair of the Healthcare Ergonomics Technical Committee of the International Ergonomics Association.
Fiona Doukas
Senior Project Officer
Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care
Panel: Successful antimicrobial stewardship in the digital age
1:15 PM - 1:55 PMBiography
Fiona Doukas works at the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care. She led work on the national Antimicrobial Stewardship Clinical Care Standard (2020) and the Sepsis Clinical Care Standard (2022). She also has clinical experience as an AMS Pharmacist, establishing and maintaining AMS programs including digital health initiatives and innovations.
A/Prof Angus Ritchie FAIDH
Chief Medical Information Officer
Sydney Local Health District
Panel: Successful antimicrobial stewardship in the digital age
1:15 PM - 1:55 PMBiography
Dr Angus Ritchie is Chief Medical Information Officer and Director of the Health Informatics Unit for Sydney Local Health District. He led development of new digital tools and workflows to adapt and enhance clinical stewardship models in an era of widespread adoption and use of electronic health record systems. His experience and expertise are in the safety, usability and adoption of digital health tools to improve health and healthcare in the hospital setting.
Prof Karin Thursky FAIDH
Director, National Centre for Antimicrobial Stewardship
The Royal Melbourne Hospital
Panel: Successful antimicrobial stewardship in the digital age
1:15 PM - 1:55 PMBiography
Prof Karin Thursky (MBBS, BSc, MD, FRACP, FAHMS, FAIDH) is an infectious diseases physician and health services researcher who has over 20 years’ experience in the fields of antimicrobial stewardship and infections in the immunocompromised host. She has successfully implemented and scaled programs to improve the quality and safety of healthcare and has a national leadership role in antimicrobial stewardship and sepsis.
Her roles include the Associate Director of Health Services Research and Implementation and the implementation stream for the NHMRC National Centre for Infections in Cancer Sciences at Peter MacCallum Cancer Hospital. In her role at the Doherty Institute, Karin leads the National Centre for Antimicrobial Stewardship which takes a One Health approach to AMS across all human and animal health sectors, and is the Director of the Guidance Group at the Royal Melbourne Hospital which develops, implements and scales information technology to support the judicious use of antimicrobials.
Bethany Van Dort
PhD Student
The University of Sydney
Panel: Successful antimicrobial stewardship in the digital age
1:15 PM - 1:55 PMBiography
Bethany Van Dort works with the Digital Health Human Factors Group at the University of Sydney. She has experience in applying qualitative methods to evaluate and optimise digital health technologies. Bethany is also completing a PhD exploring the implementation, acceptance, and use of digital tools for antimicrobial stewardship.
Prof Kerryn Butler-Henderson FAIDH CHIA
Director, RMIT Digital Health Hub
RMIT University
Panel: Establishment of a university-wide digital health hub as a pipeline between industry and academia
2:05 PM - 2:45 PMBiography
Professor Kerryn Butler-Henderson is the Director of the RMIT University Digital Health Hub. She has several large-funded research projects evaluating digital health interventions in various health settings and digital health workforce research and leadership. Kerryn was recognized for her expertise with several national and international awards.
Dr Mary Lam FAIDH CHIA
Lecturer, Digital Health
RMIT University
Dr Christine Grove
Vice-Chancellor Research Fellow
RMIT University
Panel: Establishment of a university-wide digital health hub as a pipeline between industry and academia
2:05 PM - 2:45 PMBiography
Dr Christine Grove is an educational and developmental psychologist, a Fulbright Scholar, and a Vice Chancellor Research Fellow in digital health. Alongside clinical practice, she lectures in inclusion and psychology and supervises research students within this area. Her research interests lie in engaging with the young person's perspective and experience across psychology and education, and the use of digital health.
Salma Arabi
Research Assistant
RMIT University
Panel: Establishment of a university-wide digital health hub as a pipeline between industry and academia
2:05 PM - 2:45 PMBiography
Salma Arabi is a HDR candidate at RMIT University. Her action-research based thesis will document the establishment of an international partnership between members of RMIT University’s Digital Health Hub and a rehabilitation centre in Indonesia. Salma’s research will address the lack of conceptual frameworks to guide international partnerships between developed and developing nations using a distributed leadership model.
Dr Robab Abdolkhani
Research Fellow
RMIT University
Panel: Establishment of a university-wide digital health hub as a pipeline between industry and academia
2:05 PM - 2:45 PMBiography
Dr Robab Abdolkhani is a health informatics research fellow at RMIT University. Her research is centered on digital health capability and literacy in healthcare workforce. She is a passionate advocate for women’s contribution to climate change actions.
