2023 Program

The program below is subject to change.

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Wednesday 11 October

8:00 Registration | The Great Room Pre-Function Area
9:0010:00 RACMA Annual General Meeting | Crystal Ballroom
10:00 – 10:30 Morning Tea | Crystal Pre-Function Area
Workshops
Crystal 1 Crystal 2 Vista 1
10:30 – 12:00 Supervisor Workshop A Better Culture: How RACMA Candidates Can Lead the Journey Towards Better 10:30 – 12:15 An Introduction to Restorative Health Systems Part I
12:00 – 12:30 Lunch | Crystal Pre-Function Area 12:15 – 12:45 Lunch | Vista 3
12:30 – 2:00 RPASC | RACMA and the Rural Medical Workforce Crisis Being the Best You
Candidate Workshop
12:45 – 2:15 An Introduction to Restorative Health Systems Part II
2:00 – 2:30 Afternoon Tea | Crystal Pre-Function Area 2:15 – 2:45 Afternoon Tea | Vista 3
2:30 – 4:00 Advancing Women in Leadership 2:45 – 3:30 An Introduction to Restorative Health Systems Part III
4:30 – 6:30 Conferment Ceremony and Langford Oration
Gowning from 2:30pm
Room The Great Room 1
Langford Oration
Sir Ashley Bloomfield KNZM
6:30 – 8:30 Welcome Reception | The Great Room 3 & 4

Thursday 12 October

7:45 Registration | The Great Room Pre-Function Area
Official Opening and Pōwhiri
Room The Great Room 1
8:30 – 9:50 Pōwhiri

Welcome by RACMA President | Dr Helen Parsons, CSC

Official Opening | Her Excellency the Rt Hon. Dame Cindy Kiro GNZM, QSO, Governor-General of New Zealand

9:50 – 10:30 Presentations | Leadership
Chair | Dr Andrew Simpson
9:50 – 10:10 Leading for better outcomes
Ms Morag McDowell | Health and Disability Commissioner
10:10 – 10:30 Enabling consumer engagement
Mr Deon York | Director of Consumer Engagement, Health Quality and Safety Commission, New Zealand
10:30 – 11:00 Morning Tea & Exhibition | The Great Room 3 & 4
11:00 – 12:30 Presentations | Equity
Room The Great Room 1
  Chair | Dr Debbie Holdsworth
11:00 – 11:20 A meme, a parable and a cluster of challenges
Dr Rawiri McKree-Jansen | CMO Te Akai Whai Ora / Māori Health Authority
11:20 – 11:40 Leadership in Action: RACMA can take on cultural safety to effect Māori equity
Dr David Tipene-Leach | Chair, Te ORA (Māori Doctors Association)
11:40 – 12:00 The role and Impact of Clinical Equity Leads
Dr Myra Ruka | Equity Lead, Waikato District Hospital & Te Aho o Te Kahu / Cancer Control Agency
12:00 – 12:20 Equity in Screening
Dr Karen Bartholomew | Director Health Equity, Service Innovation and Improvement, Te Whatu Ora
12:25 – 1:30 Lunch & Exhibition | The Great Room 3 & 4
Candidate Open Forum | Gallery 4
1:30 – 3:00 Presentations | Digital
Room The Great Room 1
  Chair | Dr Donald Mackie
1:30 – 1:50 Digital in Action: Using digital infrastructure to design, not fix, the patient experience
Professor Trish Williams | Flinders University
1:50 – 2:10 Clinical Governance in the Digital Sphere
Ms Becky George | Clinical Informatician, BScOT, PGDip RehabSci, Doctoral Candidate, FHiNZ, AFAIDH, CHIA
2:10 – 2:30 Ask not….
Dr Lara Hopley | Chief Clinical Informatics Officer – Te Whatu Ora Data and Digital
2:30 – 3:00 Digital Equity is a given right?
Dr Karl Cole | MB CHB FRNZCGP PGDIP HEALINFO
3:00 – 3:30 Afternoon Tea & Exhibition | The Great Room 3 & 4
3:30 – 5:00 Margaret Tobin Challenge Award
Room The Great Room 1
  Chair | Professor Alan Sandford AM
Judging Panel | Dr Helen McArdle (TAS), Professor Pooshan Navathe (QLD), Dr Greg Watters (NSW)
3:30 – 3:35 Welcome
3:35 – 3:55 Dr Simon Collins | NSW Representative
3:55 – 4:15 Dr Alison Ryan | QLD Representative
4:15 – 4:35 Dr Nathan Vos | VIC Representative
4:35 – 4:55 Dr Ruth Large | NZ Representative
4:55 – 5:00 Closing remarks
5:00 – 6:00 New Zealand Members Meeting | Gallery 4
 7:00 – 11:30 Gala Dinner | The Great Room 1 & 2
“A touch of sparkle”

Friday 13 October

7:45 – 8:45 Breakfast Session | Jade 2 & 3
Light breakfast provided
  Towards Better: Why Reculturing the Healthcare Sector is Vital
Dr Jillann Farmer

 8:30 Registration | The Great Room Pre-Function Area
9:00 – 10:35 Presentations | Workforce & Change
Room The Great Room 1
  Chair | Dr Dilky Rasiah
9:00 – 9:35 Probable Futures and Radical Possibilities: An Exploration of the Future Roles of Health Workers
Lord Nigel Crisp | Member of the House of Lords of the United Kingdom
9:35 – 9:55 365 days of reflection as a leader in the NZ health system
Mr Andrew Slater | Chief People Officer, Te Whatu Ora
9:55 – 10:15 Models of practice in rural and remote areas, and primary health care integration
Professor Jenny May |
Director of the University of Newcastle Department of Rural Health (UONDRH)
10:15 – 10:35 Leading reform of primary healthcare services in Hong Kong
Dr Libby Lee |
Undersecretary of Health Bureau, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
10:35 – 11:00 Morning Tea & Exhibition | The Great Room 3 & 4
11:00 – 12:30 Abstract Presentations
Equity in Action Digital in Action Change in Action
Room The Great Room 1 The Great Room 2 Jade 2 & 3
  Chair | Dr Peter Gootjes
Chair | Dr Jason Goh Chair | Dr Helen McArdle
11:00 – 11:20 Establishment of the first internship in an Aboriginal Health service in Australia
Dr Samuel Gluck
A digital referral platform combined with advice & guidance dramatically improved patient experience
Dr Daniel Jeffrey
Optimising the value in partnering with healthcare consultants in times of need
Dr Paul Eleftheriou
11:20 – 11:40 Doctors would like more say in the running of their department, their hospital and healthcare
Dr Paul Long
Process Mining and Customer Journey Mapping in Stroke Rehabilitation: Digitally Enhancing Patient-Centred Care
A/Prof Angie Shafei
Factors associated with the financial distress of hospitals: a systematic review
Dr Andrew Sayampanathan
11:40 – 12:00 Why do junior doctors leave regional hospitals? Attraction and retention of prevocational doctors
Dr Emma Hodge
Releasing the power of Bigdata: building a statewide Artificial Intelligence capability to enhance Patient Safety
Dr Paul Lane
The Utilisation of Cost Neutral Strategies to Improve Trainee Medical Officer Recruitment
Dr Samuel Gluck
12:00 – 12:20 Toward equitable access for rural/regional patients. Upscaling a public hospital’s virtual outpatient clinic service
Dr Christopher Sia
Remote Patient Monitoring and Wearable Technology in an ethnically diverse population, Counties-Manukau
Dr Mary Seddon
Perspectives and Insights from frontline critical care clinicians: lessons learned from the COVID-19 crisis management
Dr Krishnaswamy Sundararajan
12:30 – 1:15 Lunch & Exhibition | The Great Room 3 & 4
12:40 – 1:10 RACMA Digital Health Policy and Advisory Sub Committee Update | Jade Rooms
Facilitators: Dr Monica Trujillo & Dr Oliver Daly
1:15 – 2:45 Presentation followed by Panel Discussion | Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Room The Great Room 1
  Chair | Dr Lloyd McCann
  Presenter:
Learning to lead, leading to learn
Ms Ziena Jalil | Leadership, Governance, Keynote Speaker & MC, Stakeholder Engagement, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
If watching online, this talk will be live streamed only, it will not be recorded
  Panellists:
Dr Curtis Walker | Chair of Medical Council of New Zealand, Deputy Chair TeOra
Dr Sue Calvert | Chief Executive at Medical Sciences Secretariat
Ms Lorraine Hetaraka | Chief Nursing Officer
Mr Manase Lua | Kanorau, Pasifika, Diversity Manager, Pacific Equity Lead
Mx Moira Clunie | Project Lead Te Ngakau
Mr Abe Ropitini | Executive Director, Population Health
Dr Helen Nott | Non-Executive Director
2:45 – 3:15 Afternoon Tea & Exhibition | The Great Room 3 & 4
Poster Presenters Meet and Greet
3:15 – 4:20 Presentations | Change – Responding to Changes in Supply Chains and Shortages
Room The Great Room 1
  Chair | Dr Tracey Batten
3:15 – 3:40 Supply Chains and Sustainability 
Ms Sophie Prentice | Executive General Manager, Onelink and Healthcare Logistics, EBOS
3:40 – 4:00 Medical Supply Lines / Responding to Shortages
Ms Gillian Anderson | Manager – Procurement and Contracts
  Chair | Dr Peter Jansen
4:00 – 4: 20 The Changing World of Health
Dr Diana Sarfati | Director-General of Health and Chief Executive
4:20 – 4:45 Announcement of Margaret Tobin Award Winner, Conference Closing Session & Handover to RACMA 2024