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The Future of Dementia Prevention, Research and Care.

CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SESSIONS

PROGRAM

Moderator: Dr Stephanie Daly

​Time

Session Title

Educator

8.30 am - 9.00 am

9.00 am - 9.30 am

9.30 am - 10.00 am

10.00 am - 10.30 am

10.30 am - 11.00 am

11.00 am - 11.30 am

11.30 am - 12.00 pm

12.00 pm - 1.00 pm

Comorbidity

Dementia in CALD Communities

Allied Health and Nursing

Associate Professor Mark Yates

Professor Lily Xiao

Professor Yun-Hee Jeon

Morning Tea

Post Diagnostic Interventions

Sleep Complaints

Voluntary Assisted Dying

Professor Kate Laver

Dr Elie Matar

Professor Ben White

Lunch

EDUCATORS

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Dr Stephanie Daly            

Continuing Professional Development Sessions' Moderator

General Practitioner, Adelaide​

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Dr Stephanie Daly is  a GP in Adelaide, she is founder of Sensus Cognition, a cognition clinic in primary care. Dr Daly is an RACGP medical educator and works for Dementia Training Australia as a GP educator. She is an active participating GP in research into better care for people living with dementia.


RACGP - training and education committee member
RACGP - women in General Practice - Committee Member
Advisory Board Member - Roche Educational Development Team - Alzheimer’s Disease
Associate Investigator - on 2 NMHRC grants - details available

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Lead GP Educator - Dementia Training Australia
GP Contractor - Golden Grove Family Health - Part Time
Director/Founder - Sensus Cognition - GP led memory assessment service in Blackwood

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Professor Ben White 

Professor of End-of-Life Law and Regulation

Australian Centre for Health Law Research 

 

Ben White is Professor of End-of-Life Law and Regulation and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow in the School of Law, Queensland University of Technology. He was a foundation Director of the Australian Centre for Health Law Research and still co-leads its End-of-Life Research Program. Ben has been researching end-of-life law, policy and practice for over 20 years and been part of interdisciplinary teams awarded $A65 million in the field of end-of-life decision-making, including from the Australian Research Council, the National Health and Medical Research Council, Commonwealth and State governments and philanthropic organisations. 

 

Ben’s research currently focuses on voluntary assisted dying (VAD). Current projects include an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship on ‘Optimal Regulation of Voluntary Assisted Dying’, a national study of VAD in practice, and an exploratory study of dementia and VAD. He (with colleagues) developed the mandatory training in Victoria, Western Australia and Queensland for clinicians providing VAD.

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Professor Kate Laver

Professor of Allied Health and Active Ageing, Flinders University

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Professor Kate Laver's research aims to maximise independence and quality of life in older people and people with disabilities. She co-designs, develops, implements and evaluates rehabilitation interventions and new models of care. She has extensive experience working with people with dementia and their families and has led research trials and developed national clinical practice guidelines in this field. She works collaboratively with health professionals and consumers to design and conduct high quality research that meets community needs. She is an experienced, registered occupational therapist.

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Kate has a particular interest in the use of technology in health services (virtual care, telehealth, virtual reality). She has postgraduate qualifications in implementation science (UCSF) with expertise leading Australia-wide applied translational research projects.

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Professor Laver was the founding Co-Chair of the FHMRI Consumer Advisory Board.

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Dr Elie Matar

Consultant neurologist and dual-trained sleep physician  at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital

Translational clinician-scientist and Horizon Fellow at the University of Sydney

 

Dr Elie Matar is a consultant neurologist and dual-trained sleep physician based at Royal 
Prince Alfred Hospital and a translational clinician-scientist supported by an NHMRC
Emerging Leadership grant and Horizon Fellowship at the University of Sydney. He has
subspecialty expertise in movement disorders and cognitive neurology developed through an Endeavour research fellowship at the University of Cambridge UK and dedicated clinical fellowships and visitorships at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London UK and the Mayo Clinic Rochester, US and. He currently leads a translational and multidisciplinary program of research investigating the phenomenology, pathophysiology, and progression of symptoms of synuclein-based diseases including idiopathic REM sleep behaviour disorder, Parkinson’s disease and Lewy body dementia on which he is considered a leading authority. His most recent interests include the interrelationship between sleep and the manifestation and progression of disabling symptoms of neurodegeneration. Despite an early career stage, he has secured > $5M of grant funding supporting methods spanning neuroimaging, sleep neurophysiology, neuropathology, actigraphy, clinical phenotyping and clinical trials.

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Professor Lily Xiao

Professor, Flinders University

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Professor Lily Xiao is an internationally recognised dementia caregiver researcher. She is one of four key contributors to the World Health organization (WHO) iSupport for Dementia program, a skill training program for informal carers of people living with dementia. She has led research teams to adapt the WHO iSupport program in multiple languages in the culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities. She is currently leading a NHMRC funded large project to test the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a ‘Culturally tailored iSupport model of care’ for people with dementia and their carers from the CALD communities. She is the Fellow of Australian College of Nursing and serves on the Health Ageing Faculty. She is also the Foundation Member of the Australian Hartford Consortium for Gerontological Nursing Excellence. She has been awarded the prestigious title of ‘Matthew Flinders Professor’ in the recognition of her distinguished contributions to research and leadership.

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Associate Professor Mark Yates 

Consultant Geriatrician, Grampians Health & Health and Clinical Associate Professor,

Deakin University

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Mark is a consultant Geriatrician in the Grampians Region Cognitive, Dementia and Memory Service (CDAMS) at Grampians Health, Ballarat, Health and Clinical Associate Professor at Deakin University.

 

Mark is a member of the team at Grampians Health 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. The DCHP was originally introduced into 22 Victorian hospitals. From 2015 to 2017, with grant funding from the Australian Government, the DCHP was rolled out and evaluated in four hospitals across four states and territories. It was implemented in the Northern Territory in 2019 and Queensland in 2021 at Redcliffe Hospital so now reaches of 7 of the 8 States and Territories in Australia.

 

He is a member of the National Dementia Reference Group and past member of the National Commission for Safety and Quality in Health Care’s Cognitive Impairment Advisory Group, the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee and a past President of AMA Victoria.

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Professor Yun-Hee Jeon

Susan and Isaac Wakil Professor of Healthy Ageing at The University of Sydney

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Yun-Hee is Professor of Healthy Ageing and Director of StepUp for Research at the University of Sydney. Trained as a registered nurse, she has dedicated the past 25 years to improving the health and wellbeing of older people in care through research and education. Her work spans evidence-building to knowledge translation in person-centred dementia care, rehabilitation, workforce development in long term care.

Yun-Hee has contributed to numerous national and international dementia-related initiatives including recent WHO’s Package of Interventions for Rehabilitation (Dementia) and WHO mhGAP update (Dementia module). She was recognised as the UN Healthy Ageing 50.

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