The Subacute Care Improvement Group meeting is an excellent forum for discussion and a
well as gaining new knowledge from your peers.
Keynote Speakers
Prof Andrea Maier
Prof. Andrea Maier (1978) graduated in Medicine at the
Medical University Lübeck (Germany) in 2003 and registered as a specialist
Internal Medicine-Geriatrician at the Leiden University Medical Centre (The
Netherlands) in 2009. Her research is driven by her passion to unravel ageing
mechanisms and the interaction of ageing and age- related diseases, with a particular focus on
sarcopenia. In 2013, she was appointed as full Professor of Gerontology at the
VU University Amsterdam (The Netherlands). Since February 2016 she is
Divisional Director of Medicine and Community Care at the Royal Melbourne
Hospital and Professor of Medicine and Aged Care at the University of Melbourne
(Australia). During the last 10 years she conducted multiple national and
European observational studies as well as clinical trials and published more
than 190 peer reviewed articles in international journals. Her innovative,
multidisciplinary @Age research team works in the Netherlands (@AgeAmsterdam)
and in Australia (@AgeMelbourne). She is an invited member of several
international research and health policy committees to eventually increase the
visibility, quantity and quality of ageing research.
Louise McKinley
Discussion Breakout Session leads
Michael Bink
MBA,
BA (Social Science), BAppSci, GradDip (Prof Writing), Vincent Fairfax Fellow in
Ethical Leadership
Michael
has over 30 years’ experience in the disability sector. He has worked in a
range of executive operational roles, including allied health, employment and
community development. While at Scope (Aust) he had responsibility for the
organisation’s strategy and service development, and inaugurated their research
program. Since 2011, he has worked as National Program Manager for Ability
First Australia, an industry alliance of 14 leading disability service
providers. He is also General Manager of the Ability Roundtable, which provides
a platform for benchmarking and service improvement by disability service
providers around Australia.
Natalie Anderson
Natalie
has over 25 years’ experience in public healthcare and currently works as the
Program Manager for Ambulatory Rehabilitation at Barwon Health. Natalie has a
range of interests in health and is passionate about consumer driven care and
the role of innovation and assistive technology to improve the lives of people
living with disability. She believes that
improving equity and access to ‘next practice’ healthcare, is achieved by
co-designing systems that use the principles of universal design – where the
user’s experience is fundamental to design and the consumer view is central to
decision making from the word go. Having trained and worked as a Speech
Pathologist for 15 years Natalie’s has remained particularly interested in
building better systems around communication access for people with
communication support needs either as a result of disability or reduced health
literacy.
Natalie
is currently responsible for a number of programs that have transitioned to
NDIS and so brings some learnings with regards to the health-disability
interface and the challenges therein.
Matthew Parsons
PhD
MSc BSc (Hons) RGN
Matthew
currently holds the position of Professor in Gerontology across Waikato DHB and
The University of Auckland. He has a
strong working relationship with multiple health boards having reviewed or
supported implementation of services across many. He has been heavily involved in service
development around older person health, disability and rehabilitation for over
20 years and has been central to a number of key national initiatives including
development of supported discharge, implementation of interRAI, development of
the Health of Older Person Strategy and Specialist Health Services for older
people guidelines.
He
has also had significant involvement in the development of restorative home
support and the accompanying case-mix funding model across New Zealand and a
number of other countries and was has a keen interest in technology having led
a large telemedicine trial.
Matthew
has won in excess of $20 million in external research funds and has over 100
publications relating to older people, disability and technology.
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