This group is dedicated to the timely benchmarking of
Rehabilitation and Geriatric Evaluation and Management (GEM) programs as
integral components of the patient journey.
2017 Guest Speakers
Dr Simone Dorsch
Simone is a physiotherapy clinician, researcher and
educator. She is a senior rehabilitation physiotherapist at Bankstown-Lidcombe
Hospital in Sydney, and a lecturer at the Australian Catholic University. Her
current research focuses on strengthening interventions after stroke and
strategies to increase practice intensity in rehabilitation.
She is a presenter with the StrokeEd group and teaches
workshops on evidence based stroke rehabilitation and intensity of practice in
Australia and internationally.
Associate Professor Mark Yates
Mark Yates is a consultant physician in geriatric medicine
and Director of Clinical Studies at the Grampians Clinical School, Deakin
University.
Mark is a consultant in the Grampians Region Cognitive,
Dementia and Memory Service (CDAMS) at Ballarat Health Services.
Mark is a member of the team at Ballarat Health Services
that developed the Dementia Care in Hospitals Program, which is an all of
hospital education program linked to a bedside cognitive impairment alert the
Cognitive Impairment Identifier. This program has been introduced into 25
public and private hospitals across Victoria. With grant funding from the
Australian Government, the DCHP had been rolled out to four hospitals across
four states and territories. This national rollout evaluation forms part of
Mark’s PhD candidature at the University of NSW.
Mark is on the NCSQHC Cognitive Impairment Advisory Group
and the Ministers Dementia Advisory Group he is a past member of the
Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee and a past President of AMA
Victoria.
NAO Humanoid Robot
The NAO Humanoid Robot is leading the way in innovative and
novel rehabilitation technologies.
Some of the current projects include; research into
rehabilitating brain and spinal cord injuries, assisting those on the Autism
Spectrum, and providing Occupational Therapists with a powerful new tool for
rehabilitation therapies
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