Sexual Health Conference Opening Plenary 1
Monday, September 16, 2019 |
8:30 AM - 10:30 AM |
Riverside Theatre |
Speaker
Ingrid Cumming
Welcome to Country
8:35 AM - 8:40 AMBiography
Prof Nicholas Medland
Researcher
The Kirby Institute
ASHA Welcome
8:40 AM - 9:00 AMBiography
Nick Medland is a Sexual Health Physician at Melbourne Sexual Health Centre and Royal Melbourne Hospital and a researcher at the Kirby Institute, UNSW. He has more than 20 years of clinical experience in HIV medicine and HIV program delivery, oversight and management, including international aid programs in Vietnam.
Prof Sharon Cameron
Consultant
University Of Edinburgh and NHS Lothian
Putting contraception into maternity care
9:00 AM - 9:30 AMBiography
Consultant Gynaecologist, Chalmers Centre and the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh and Professor (Hon) University of Edinburgh. She is Clinical Lead for Sexual Health Services in NHS Lothian. She is Co- director of Clinical Effectiveness Unit (Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare). Her international roles include member of the Steering committee of World Health Organization Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use, President of International Federation of Abortion and Contraception Professionals (FIAPAC), and deputy chair of the Internal Scientific Committee of the European Society for contraception. She has over 20 years of clinical research experience in field of contraception and sexual and reproductive health.
Professor Jane Tomnay
Director, Centre for Excellence in Rural Sexual Health
University of Melbourne, Department of Rural Health
ASHA Oration, Presented by the ASHA Distinguished Services Awardee
9:30 AM - 10:00 AMBiography
Jane Tomnay has worked in sexual health for 30 years, she is a Registered General and Psychiatric Nurse and has a Master of Health Science and a PhD in Public Health. The focus of her work for the past 25 years has been partner notification and rural sexual health.
Clinical A/Prof David Speers
Chair Of Discipline
Pathwest Microbiology
Gonorrhoea: From Les Clapiers to our clinics, a Sisyphean challenge
10:00 AM - 10:30 AMBiography
Dr David Speers is an ID Physician, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Chair of Microbiology, PathWest Laboratory Medicine WA and Clinical Associate Professor for the Department of Medicine, University of WA. He is a fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia, and the Australasian College of Tropical Medicine.
Co-chair
Lewis Marshall
Sexual Health Physician
Fremantle Hospital
Meredith Temple-Smith
Deputy Head, Dept General Practice
University of Melbourne