Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital will host the Herston State of the Art Healthcare Symposium showcasing the facilities strengths in research and innovation, fostering partnerships and reinforcing the commitment to provide a wealth of opportunities for physicians, nurses and health professionals.
The symposium offers an opportunity to join colleagues and to be informed on national and international best practice and innovative healthcare.
Shaun Drummond, Health Service Chief Executive will be joined by Professor David Paterson, Director of The University of Queensland Centre for Clinical Research (UQCCR); Professor Ross Young, Executive Dean of the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) Faculty of Health; Professor Frank Gannon, Director of QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute and CEO; Professor Paul Scuffham, Director of the Centre for Applied Health Economics, Griffith University, to discuss their vision for the Herston Healthcare and Research Precinct.
Keynotes
Tuesday 10 September
Big Data: The Answer is digital, but what is the question? Professor Keith Mcneil
Wednesday 11 September
Transforming Healthcare: Implementing Genomics in Queensland - David Bunker
Thursday 12 September
Building a sustainable Biobanking infrastructure in Queensland: Opportunities and Challenges - Prof Sunil Lakhani
Other multidisciplinary sessions include:
Monday 9 September
12.30pm-2.30pm - Neurovascular Thrombectomy: changing times, changing lives
3pm-5pm - Men, mothers, marijuana – the fights and the rights of fertility
Tuesday 10 September
9.00am - 10.00am - Insidious inequity: why diversity matters in science, medicine and leadership – and how everyone can help make things better
12.30pm-2.30pm - Value-based healthcare at the end of life
3pm-5pm - Everything you wanted to know about drugs but were afraid to ask: health and substance use disorders
5.30pm-7.30pm - Community Showcase
Wednesday 11 September
12.30pm-2.30pm A whole-of-campus approach to personalised care in renal medicine: Bringing the many to the one
3pm-5pm - Teamwork makes the Dream Work – Improving the care of multi-trauma patients
5.30pm-7.30pm - GP Forum - Interdisciplinary cancer management procedures and world-class outcomes
Thursday 12 September
7.30am to 9.30am, Clinico Pathological Conference, CPC (can you guess the diagnosis). Breakfast Included
12.30pm-2.30pm - Accepted but unacceptable: hospital associated complications
3pm-5pm - The critically unwell patient with cancer: a multidisciplinary challenge
RBWH Foundation Symposium Gala Dinner
