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18E. Voices from the field panel - approaches to integrated sexual and reproductive health in primary care

Tracks
Track 5
Friday, September 20, 2024
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
C2.5

Details

Chair:
Cherie Bennett, ASHM Health


Speaker

IUSTI World Congress

Panel Discussion

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Biography

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Karen Freilich
GP and Sexual Medicine and Therapy Consultant
Monash Health's Sexual Medicine & Therapy Clinic

Panelist

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Biography

Karen (she/her) is a GP and a consultant at Monash Health's Sexual Medicine & Therapy Clinic. Karen has completed a Masters of Reproductive and Sexual Health Research in London (LSHTM). In 2022, Karen was awarded the RACGP Australian Registrar of the Year Award. Karen was an Academic GP Registrar at Monash University researching nurse-led models of long acting reversible contraception and medical abortion provision in rural Australia. Karen currently lectures in Sexual Health through University of Melbourne's Medical School. She is a passionate medical educator, and hosts one of Australia’s top medical education podcasts, “Humerus Hacks”.
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Ms Catherine Bateman
Abortion, Contraception And Sexual Health Nurse
Latrobe Community Health Services

Panelist

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Biography

Cath Bateman is the Abortion, Contraception and Sexual Health nurse at the Latrobe Sexual and Reproductive Health Hub in Gippsland Victoria. Working across three sites and a headspace Cath provides nurse-led consultations on all things SRH in the primary health environment. Working with a dedicated, if somewhat brownbeaten bunch of fabulous GPs, Cath provides early medical abortion, contraception, STI screening and treatment and much more with a community health approach - meaning that services are almost exclusively bulk billed because sexual and reproductive health and rights is a community concern as well as an individual need. A dedicated community health comrade, Cath has worked in nursing in community health or community organisations since 2008 when she got her first job with YWCA Victoria during the Victorian Abortion Law Reform process.
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Dr Sharon James
Research Fellow
Monash University

Panelist

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Biography

Sharon James is an experienced primary healthcare nurse and APNA Board Director. She works at Monash University’s Sexual and Reproductive Health for Women in Primary Care (SPHERE) Centre of Research Excellence as a Research Fellow and Project Manager on the Australian Contraception and Abortion Primary Care Practitioner Support (AusCAPPS) Network.
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Mr Clinton Morgan
Nurse Practitioner
Prep Connect

Panelist

Biography

I am a Nurse Practitioner who specialises in primary care, sexual health, and HIV with a focused interest in improving the lives of diverse populations, particularly those living with HIV. I established Australia's first NP-led telehealth HIV PrEP clinic aimed at meeting the sexual health demands of a national client base, and champions the Nurse Practitioner identity through innovation.
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Mr Cameron Taylor
Aboriginal Health Practitioner
Derbarl Yerrigan Health Service

Panelist

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Biography

I am a Noongar man born in Perth. Worked lived in Northam which is a country town in the wheat belt 1 hour and 30mins drive east out of Perth I started my working journey in health there where I worked in the AMS for 5 years doing mostly community engagement work, but I have found that I have a passion in clinical work and so I moved to Perth to work for Derbarl Yerrigan Heath Service where I have been since, I am always looking for opportunities to engage in my community I am currently on the comity for a charity called Leading Youth Forward (LYF), I have been in health as an Aboriginal Health Practitioner for 11 years now where I found a new passion for Sexual Health. I have started my new role this year in the sexual health team at Derbarl Yerrigan Health Service, my hope is to get this subject of health a normal topic to talk about with our clients when they come through the clinic.
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Dr Bradley Forssman
Public Health Physician
Fountain Street General Practice

Panelist

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Biography

Bradley is a public health physician who works clinically in sexual health in both public and private sectors. He has extensive experience in providing sexual health care to priority populations, in terms of prevention, diagnosis and management of STIs. He has also been involved in public health and primary care research in STI epidemiology, management, contact tracing and service delivery.

Chair

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Cherie Bennett
Nursing Policy and Advocacy Lead
ASHM

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