Aboriginal Health Conference

Program and speakers

Please note: the program may be subject to change without notice.

Saturday 19 November

TIME	SESSION	PRESENTER
8.30am	REGISTRATION - welcome tea and coffee
9.00am	Conference opening
9.45am	Keynote address	Professor Dawn Besserab The University of Western Australia
10.30am	MORNING TEA AND E-POSTER PRESENTATIONS
11.00am - 11.45am	CONCURRENT SESSIONS
11.00am	Uptake and influence of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention Evaluation Project (ATSISPEP)	Jessica Leonie Knight Centre of Best Practice in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention (CBPATSISP)
11.00am	Syphilis: ‘What about the antenates?’ Practical clinical and public health management	Dr Simon Slota-Kan Australasian Society for HIV, Viral Hepatitis and Sexual Health Medicine
11.00am	The Brain Injury Yarning Circles Project	Professor Beth Armstrong, Lenny Papertalk and Kerri Colgate School of Medical and Health Sciences - Edith Cowan University, WA Centre for Rural Health, St John of God Midland
11.00am	SEWB: More than a mental health perspective, an Aboriginal Model of Service	Gemma Daniels and Kim Gates The Aboriginal Health Council of Western Australia
11.00am	KICA and Good Spirit Good Life: Cognition and wellbeing assessments for older Aboriginal people	Dr Kate Smith Centre for Aboriginal Medical and Dental Health, University of WA
11.45am - 12.30pm	CONCURRENT SESSIONS
11.45am	Improving choice in cervical screening: The expansion of self-collection	Stacey-Mae Partridge WA Cervical Cancer Prevention Program, North Metropolitan Health Service
11.45am	Session 1; Working together to prevent Strep A, acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease 1. Sharing culturally secure ways of engaging with Aboriginal patients and supporting families 2. Communicating RHD health information: learnings from the Yolŋu people	Dr Emma Haynes Centre for Aboriginal Medical and Dental Health, School of Global and Population Health, UWA
11.45am	Clinical Yarning: a framework for clinical communication in Aboriginal health care	Dr Ivan Lin and Professor Dawn Bessarab WA Centre for Rural Health, Geraldton Regional Aboriginal Medical Service, UWA Medical School
11.45am	Piriwa wellbeing project	Clare Wood Enterprise Partnerships WA
11.45am	DESY - Diabetes Education Self-Management Yarning Program	Di Ledger, Natalie Jetta and Kathy Heut Diabetes WA
12.30pm	LUNCH
1.30pm - 2.15pm	CONCURRENT SESSIONS
1.30pm	Mooditj Kulunga's - Aboriginal Child and Youth Health	Melanie Robinson Child and adolescent health service
1.30pm	The Australian Syphilis Outbreak: Assessment and Management of Congenital Syphilis	Dr Timothy Ford Perth Children's Hospital
1.30pm	Enabling End of Life Care at Home	Dr Abby Harwood and Tammy McGrath Rural Generalist Pathway WA, WA Country Health Service
1.30pm	Doctor Potential: Mentoring Doctors in Training	Dr Nicole Liesis Joondalup Health Campus
1.30pm	Identifying the cause for the growing number of drug and alcohol related issues amongst Indigenous children and young people	Stephen Morrison Hope Community Services
2.15pm - 3.00pm	ABSTRACT PRESENTATIONS
3.00pm	AFTERNOON TEA
3.30pm	Healthy body, healthy kidneys	Dr Mark Thomas
4.15pm	Keynote address Yuyukatha - A Lived Experience Yuyukatha - To Dream (Mutti Mutti)	Kutcha Edwards
5.00pm	Close of conference day one
5.00pm	SUNDOWNER

Sunday 20 November

TIME	SESSION	PRESENTER
9.00am	Keynote address	Deng Thiak Adut
9.45am	Videography to mark AMS efforts to combat COVID in the Pilbara - panel discussion	Facilitated by Chris Pickett Pilbara Aboriginal Health Alliance
10.30am	MORNING TEA
11.00am - 12.30pm	CONCURRENT SESSIONS
11.00am	Communication between languages	Aboriginal Interpreting WA
11.00am	Session 2: The impacts of acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease 1. The long-term health outcomes in Australians diagnosed with ARF/RHD 2. The role of the RHD register in WA Session 2a; Better detection and diagnosis of ARF and RHD 1. Incidence and prevalence of ARF and RHD in WA 2. Diagnosing ARF and RHD - applying the guidelines 3. Improving detection - Hand-held echos - online presentation Session 2b; Preventing ARF from progressing to RHD 1. Derbarl Yerrigan – Improving management of ARF and RHD 2. Alternative modes of administering secondary prophylaxis	1. Ingrid Stacey University of Western Australia 2. Cheryl Liddiard WA Country Health 1. Judith Katzenellenbogen University of Western Australia 2. Dr Jim Ramsay Perth Children's Hospital 3. Alexander Kaethner School of Health Research and NT Cardiac 1. Katie Gould and Daniel Hunt Notre Dame University, Derbarl Yerrigan Health Services 2. Laurens Manning University of Western Australia
11.00am	Basket weaving (with a Yarning cirlce)	Emma-Jane Hunt Emma-Jane's Weaving
11.00am	Syphilis Point-of-Care Testing (POCTT) operator training workshop	April Rivers-Kennedy and Emma de Courcy-Ireland Flinders University International Centre of Point-of-Care Testing
12.30pm	FAREWELL LUNCH
1.30pm	CLOSE OF CONFERENCE