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The 7th Annual Gippsland Palliative Care Conference is hosted by the Gippsland Region Palliative Care Consortium (GRPCC). For further information about the Conference or the GRPCC, visit www.grpcc.com.au or email [email protected].
Thursday 23 October 2014
9.30 am – 10.00 am Registration (morning tea available on arrival)
10.00 am – 10.15 am
Opening Ceremonies: Welcome, Amanda Cameron, Acting Chair, GRPCC Master of Ceremonies, Beth Wilson AM Welcome to Country, Carolyn Briggs, Senior Elder of the Boonwurrung Foundation Official Opening, Andrew Ronalds MLC, Member for Eastern Victoria
10.15 am – 11.15 am Keynote address: Dr Andrew Wilcock, Spotlight on palliative drugs
11.20 am – 12.20 pm Keynote address: Associate Professor Charlie Corke, Ethical considerations in intensive care
12.30 am – 1.30 pm Lunch
1.35 pm – 2.35 pm Keynote address: Professor Paul Komesaroff AM, The ethics of treatment
2.35 pm – 3.05 pm Afternoon tea
3.05 pm – 3.35 pm Presentation by the Gippsland Nurse Practitioner Candidates: Maryann Bills, Nicola Gorwell, Lisa Macdonald and Jenny Turra, ‘Let me make my own decisions’ – Ethical principles in palliative care
3.35 pm – 5.00 pm
Dementia Panel and Q & A Moderator: Beth Wilson AM Panelists: Emeritus Prof Ian Maddocks AM, Prof Paul Komesaroff AM, Dr Craig Clarke, Sondra Davoren, Audra Fenton and Elizabeth Fenwick
5.00 pm – 6.30 pm Free time
6.30 pm – 7.00 pm Pre-dinner canapés and drinks
7.00 pm – 10.00 pm
Conference Dinner Keynote address: Dr Ranjana Srivastava, Dying for a chat: the communication breakdown between doctors and patients
The 7th Annual Gippsland Palliative Care Conference is hosted by the Gippsland Region Palliative Care Consortium (GRPCC). For further information about the Conference or the GRPCC, visit www.grpcc.com.au or email [email protected].
Friday 24 October 2014
9.00 am – 9.15 am Conference recap Beth Wilson AM, Master of Ceremonies
9.15 am – 10.15 am Keynote address: Associate Professor Mark Boughey, In hospice / palliative care who needs evidence?
10.20 am – 10.50 am Morning tea
10.50 am – 12.10 pm Keynote address: Emeritus Professor Ian Maddocks AM, Putting evidence to work in palliative care
12.10 pm – 1.00 pm Lunch
1.00 pm – 1.45 pm
Concurrent sessions:
Professor Robert Iansek OAM, The refocus of comprehensive care towards the end of the Parkinson journey
Dr Jenny Hynson, Paediatric palliative care: helping families live with uncertainty
1.50 pm – 2.35 pm
Concurrent sessions:
Dr Craig Clarke, Decision-making around late life
Dr Leeroy William, Renal end-of-life care
2.35 pm – 3.05 pm Afternoon tea
3.05 pm – 3.50 pm
Concurrent sessions:
Dr Michael Franco, Towards better end-stage cancer prognosticating: the Monash Prognostic Indicators
Sondra Davoren and Dr Deborah Lawson, Understanding the role of law in end-of-life care
3.55 pm – 4.30 pm Conference summation and close Beth Wilson AM, Master of Ceremonies
