Keynote Speakers
Dr Jim Howe FRCP(Lon), FRACP
Graduated from Queens University Belfast in 1970. Completed training in Neurology and Geriatrics in Newcastle upon Tyne and Leeds, and was a consultant at Airedale General Hospital in North and West Yorkshire for 23 years before emigrating to Melbourne in 2006.
He is currently working part time at The Statewide Progressive Neurological Disease Service Victoria, based at Bethlehem Hospital. This service provides comprehensive secondary consultation and care for nearly everyone with Motor Neurone Disease in Victoria, and some people living in nearby NSW, SA and Tasmania (usually around 260 outpatients are supported at any time). There is also a large Huntington’s Disease service. Smaller numbers of people with other progressive diseases are cared for, including those living with MSA, PSP, SCA, Muscular Dystrophies and Mitochondrial cytopathies. The service is active in research, including international and Australian multicentre treatment trials, neuropsychological and allied health research.
Mrs Carol Clymo
Carol has worked professionally within the aged care and child care industries for over 30 years.
Her professional experience and observations of both these industries has brought her intimately closer to the health services sector, providing for a greater understanding of the restrictions and difficulties in providing respectful, loving, and legal solutions for appropriate end of life care.
During this time period she had privately transitioned into the area of end of life care for various family members. Parents-in-law, parents and her husband have all personally progressed with her along their journeys of end of life care.
Carol has worked with various groups in Australia and overseas to identify and source best practices in end of life care.
Invited Speakers
Dr Kate Grundy MBChB, FRACP, FAChPM
Palliative Medicine Physician, Christchurch Hospital
Clinical Director, Canterbury Integrated Palliative Care Services
Christchurch, NZ
Dr Jackie Robinson BHSc, MPallCare, PhD, NP
Service Lead Clinician, Auckland City Hospital Palliative Care Service
Ms Andrea Coe
Nurse Practitioner, Paediatric Palliative Care
Hummingbird House Children’s Hospice
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