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Session 3D: Abstracts - Workforce Capacity Development

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Tuesday, November 12, 2024
12:40 PM - 2:10 PM

Speaker

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Ms Sara Newton
Research Fellow
Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University Of Melbourne

Barriers and Facilitators to Implementing a Young Person’s Health Check in General Practice: Findings from Qualitative Interviews with General Practice Staff in Victoria

12:40 PM - 12:52 PM

Abstract Document (PDF)

Biography

Sara Newton is a Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne currently working in the adolescent health space on the RAd Health randomised controlled trial. Her key areas of research are in sexual and reproductive health, with a particular interest in abortion and contraception access.
Ms Nadishani Fernando
Clinical Psychologist
The Sydney Children's Hospital Network

What can we learn from across the water? An international fellowship in functional and somatic conditions in children and adolescents

12:55 PM - 1:07 PM

Abstract Document (PDF)

Biography

Nadishani Fernando is a Clinical Psychologist at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, NSW and supports the Complex Adolescent service and Consult-Liaison Psychiatry service. Nadishani is also a Winston Churchill Fellow, and completed her project in 2023, investigating international models of care in supporting young people with functional and somatic symptoms.
Ms Rebecca Mounsey
Advanced Youth AOD Workforce Educator
Dovetail, Queensland Health

Equipping frontline workers to address youth vaping: The Vape Check initiative

1:10 PM - 1:22 PM

Abstract Document (PDF)

Biography

Rebecca is a Social Worker who has supported young people and adults in her roles as youth worker, case manager, group facilitator and alcohol and other drugs (AOD) counsellor. Now with Dovetail, she provides AOD education to professionals. Rebecca’s work has a strong focus on tobacco and novel nicotine products.
Ms Lyndal Gray
Senior Leisure Therapist
Princess Alexandra Hospital

Developing a Work Instruction for the Identification and Inpatient Care of Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) Patients at Princess Alexandra Hospital

1:25 PM - 1:37 PM

Abstract Document (PDF)

Biography

Lyndal is a Senior Leisure Therapist who has had the privilege of working with Adolescent and Young Adult patients with cancer and other serious health conditions for the past 15 years. She is passionate about advocating for their unique needs within an adult tertiary hospital environment.
Ms Fiona Henderson
Nurse Practitioner
Princess Alexandra Hospital

Transforming a Clinical Nurse Consultant Position in Youth Cancer Care into a Nurse Practitioner Role to Enhance Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Care

1:40 PM - 1:52 PM

Abstract Document (PDF)

Biography

Fiona has been a cancer nurse specialist for over 25 years working across both public and private health care settings. Fiona has post graduate qualifications in cancer nursing and completed a Master of Nurse Practitioner in 2022. Fiona has worked specifically in youth cancer care for over 10 years.
Dr Natalie Shearer
Paediatric Registrar
Sunshine Coast University Hospital

Evaluation of the Royal Australian College of Physicians (RACP) Advanced Training Program in Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine (2017-2023)

1:55 PM - 2:07 PM

Abstract Document (PDF)

Biography

Natalie Shearer is an Advanced General Paediatric and Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine Trainee. She has a keen interest in the field of adolescence and is a first author to a paper published in ATCA Paediatrica titled Insights into adolescent well-being from computerised analysis of written language.

Chair

Jonathan Chandran
Adolescent Physician
Westmead Hospital

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