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Keynote Speakers

Clinical Professor Fiona Wood, FRACS AM 2005 Australian of the Year

Western Australia’s only female plastic surgeon is a mother of six, Head of Royal Perth Hospital’s Burns Unit and Director of the Western Australia Burns Service. She is also co-founder of Clinical Cell Culture, a private company recognised in medical circles for its translational research in the treatment of burns. In addition, Fiona Wood is also a Clinical Professor with the School of Paediatrics and Child Health at the University of Western Australia and Chair of the McComb Research Foundation. Back to Top

Glenn Capelli

Glenn Capelli is a keynote speaker and trainer who spent seven years travelling the world with a back pack and an inquiring mind. He worked as a fish farmer on a kibbutz in Israel, a stand up comedian in a Los Angeles club, a travel writer in Kenya, a barman in London, a youth worker in North Carolina and a high school teacher in Belfast before returning to Australia in 1987 to establish The True Learning Centre - a centre for quality and esteem based education and training. Glenn has a unique presentation style and ability to apply a diversity of teaching methodologies. His message is one of being a learner and thinker in today’s fast paced and changing world, through the application of creative thinking skills, humour, health, enthusiasm and attitude. Back to Top

Feature Presenters

Dr Keryln Carville PhD, RN, STN(Cred) Associate Professor Domiciliary Nursing, Silver Chain Nursing Association and Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia

Keryln has an expansive clinical practice in wound and ostomy management and has an ongoing commitment to research and education within these domains. Keryln is a Founding and Life Member of the Western Australia Wound Care Association. She was admitted as an Inaugural Fellow of the Australian Wound Management Association (AWMA) in 2006. Keryln is Chairperson of the Australian Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel (APUAP) and Chairperson of the Australian Wound Management Association Subcommittee for the development and review of Australian Standards of Wound Management, and a member of the AWMA Venous Leg Ulcer Committee (VLUC). In addition, she sits on the Editorial Board for Primary Intention and the Journal of Stomal Therapy Australia and is actively involved in the development and role out of the WoundsWest© project. The latter Western Australian Health Department initiative is a key program under the reform package of Ambulatory Care and Chronic Disease Management. Silver Chain is the largest home nursing agency in Western Australia and Keryln has a joint position at Curtin University of Technology for the development and coordination of postgraduate programs in domiciliary nursing. Back to Top

Dr Hannes Gebauer MB, BS, (UWA) FACD 1986

Dr Gebauer is a Clinical Dermatologist practising at Fremantle Dermatology and Rockingham Dermatology in partnership with his brother Associate Clinical Professor Kurt Gebauer. He is a Emeritus Consultant to and former Head of Department of Dermatology at Fremantle Hospital. He has held numerous administrative roles including Secretary and Chairman of the WA Faculty of Dermatologists and is a former Council member of the Australasian College of Dermatology. He is also a member of the American Academy of Dermatology. He maintains a broad interest in all aspects of clinical dermatology and assists his brother Associate Professor Kurt Gebauer with his various research interests. Back to Top

Prof Timothy Davis

Timothy is a diabetologist and general physician at Fremantle Hospital, and Professor of Medicine, University of Western Australia. He has had research interests in diabetes since 1978. He was principal investigator of the Fremantle Diabetes Study, an 8-year, large-scale prospective study of diabetes in a community-based cohort than ran between 1993 and 2001. His group was recently awarded a large research grant to conduct an enhanced and more comprehensive version over the next 5 years. He also works as an associate investigator on the United Kingdom Prospective Diabetes Study (UKPDS). His research team conducts a number of epidemiological and multi-centre pharmaceutical intervention studies. He is on the Management Committee of the Fenofibrate Intervention and Event Lowering in Diabetes (FIELD) Study. He has been a Councillor on, Secretary to, and is immediate past Vice-President of, the Australian Diabetes Society. He is a member of the American Diabetes Association. He has served on the Australian Government’s National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Council (2004-2006) and has been a Board Member of the National Institute of Clinical Studies (2004-2006), serves on the Busselton Population Medical Research Foundation Scientific Committee and Board, and was appointed to the NHMRC Council and Research Committee in 2006. Back to Top

Dr Andrew Wesseldine, MBChB, FRACP Stroke Physician and General Physician, Departments of Internal Medicine and Neurology, Royal Perth Hospital Consultant Physician and Geriatrician, St John of God Hospital Subiaco

Dr Wesseldine graduated from the University of Auckland Medical School, New Zealand in 1993 and travelled and worked extensively in NZ and Australia. He completed dual training in Internal Medicine and Geriatrics under the RACP in 2004, and received the Dick Lefroy prize for best original paper as an Advanced Trainee in Geriatrics from the Australian Society of Geriatric Medicine in 2004.

Together with Professor Graeme Hankey he runs the Stroke Unit at Royal Perth Hospital, and is a member of the Department of Internal Medicine. He is currently the Head of Advanced Training in General Medicine at Royal Perth Hospital. He also works as a private physician and geriatrician at St John of God Hospital Subiaco, runs the rehabilitation unit there and is deputy Head of the Department of Medicine. He sits on St John of God Hospital’s Medical Advisory Committee.

His particular areas of interest include epilepsy in the elderly and cardioembolic stroke. Back to Top

Gwen Higgins

Gwen is currently the Deputy Manager Divisions’ Program, Education and Quality Assurance Program of the National Prescribing Service (NPS).

She develops and provides support and training for NPS Facilitators delivering therapeutic programs to GPs and pharmacists in Divisions of General Practice and Primary Care around Australia.  Gwen has also been involved in developing several NPS pharmacy practice audits.

Gwen’s background is primarily hospital pharmacy in specialist settings of paediatrics in the past decade and geriatrics and rehabilitation prior to that.  She has also been actively involved in professional organisations at state and national levels. Back to Top

Jeff Elliott

Jeff is currently working for the National Prescribing Service Limited (NPS), where he has been a member of the Education and Quality Assurance Program for Health Professionals (EQAP) team for more than two years. He develops materials for use by health professionals as part of NPS therapeutic programs and has a keen interest in pharmacoepidemiology, clinical audit and behavioural change in prescribing. Jeff has previously worked in New Zealand and the United Kingdom, principally as a hospital pharmacist in several roles, but also as a prescribing advisor for a primary care trust (PCT) and as a clinical lecturer for the School of Pharmacy, University of London. Back to Top

Catherine Bergin

Economist Catherine Bergin is one of the Pharmacy Guild of Australia’s most industrious employees.  She is currently performing double duties in the demanding positions of acting ACT Branch Director and Divisional Manager – Health Economics in the National Secretariat.

Joining the Guild in 2004 after six years with Treasury, Catherine has become and invaluable contributor in the crucial areas of health economic policy and program development, as well as negotiation and implementation of the five-year Community Pharmacy Agreements.

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LCDR Jim Howard RFD RANR

Jim Howard joined the Royal Australian Navy as a sixteen year old cadet midshipman over forty years ago and is still on the Reserve list for the Navy. He has had two parallel careers as he left the permanent forces and joined the Reserves he continued to advance his naval career whilst he gained a Bachelor of Economics with majors in Economics and Mathematics and a Masters Degree in Business Administration. Jim has worked in Retail Operations with organisations such as John Martins, Venture Stores ,Clark Rubber, David Jones and Adelaide Steamship .More recently, for the last twelve years he has been the Managing Director of National Pharmacies and President of the Australia Friendly Society Pharmacy Association.

His naval career includes time as the Executive Officer or Navigator of a number of Patrol boats, Hon ADC to the Governor of South Australia, working in Maritime Headquarters and as Deputy Director Reserve Utilisation Policy. He was awarded the Reserve Forces Decoration.

Jim has a keen interest in Maritime history, strictly as an amateur. Back to Top

Noelene Bloomfield

Noelene Bloomfield is a former Senior Lecturer and now a Research Fellow in European Languages and Studies, at The University of Western Australia. She has travelled many thousands of kilometres both in France and Australia, in the wake of various French navigators, such as Saint Aloüarn, La Pérouse, D’Entrecasteaux, Baudin, Hamelin and Freycinet, all of whom left a lasting ‘footprint’ on Western Australia’s early history.

In fact, the western half of this vast continent could very easily have been French. And although the French did not finally settle here, they left a legacy of over 400 French names on the Australian coastline, which provide an intriguing inventory of the prominent people and scientists of pre- and post-revolutionary France, including the Napoleonic period.

As well as making thousands of scientific discoveries, the French hatched plans for a possible convict settlement on the south coast of WA. However, in late 1826, concerned about the intense French interest, the NSW Colonial Government sent Major Edmund Lockyer in the brig Amity, to establish a British presence at Albany; this caused France to miss its final opportunity to form a colony on this continent. Back to Top

Kim Trouchet

Kimberly Ross Trouchet is the grandson of Louis Joseph Alex Trouchet (known as Alex).  Whilst Kim did not know his grandfather (who died in 1934 before he was born) his father, Philip Alex Trouchet (known as Pat) told him many stories about Alex’s exploits, business ventures and adventures, many of which Kim will relate to you today.

Kim was born in Melbourne, educated at Melbourne Grammar School and came to Western Australia for his final 2 years of schooling at Hale.  His career has spanned several industries, including construction, petrochemical, mining, manufacturing and, in later years, renewable energy for stand alone power systems in remote areas of Australia and South East Asia.  Kim has worked in over 40 different countries, being based in the UK twice and in 3 different states of Australia.

Although neither Kim nor his father had any interest in the pharmaceutical industry, his son Mason (known as a “bucket chemist”) has developed his own formulas using natural products to successfully make and market dust suppression and clay road consolidation products.  Perhaps Alex’s genes have found their way back in the family to his great grandson.

Kim has been retired for several years and spends much of his leisure golfing and fishing, spending a third of his time on a farm in the southwest alongside the Deep River, Walpole. Back to Top

Prof Peter Thompson Heart Research Institute, Cardiologist, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of WA

Peter Thompson is a Clinical Cardiologist at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital and Mount Medical Centre in Perth. He is also Clinical Professor of Medicine and Population Health at the University of Western Australia. He trained in Cardiology and Clinical Research in Perth, Melbourne and Boston. He currently holds an Australian National Health and Medical Research Council Clinical Practitioner Fellowship to facilitate his research activities as well as maintaining active clinical coronary care and consulting. He is Director of Research Development at the Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital Medical Centre and is the Deputy Director of the West Australian Institute of Medical Research. He leads a busy clinical trials research team as Deputy Director of the West Australian Heart Research Institute. His research interests have linked clinical cardiology, cardiovascular epidemiology and clinical trials and he has been actively engaged in national programmes to monitor trends in coronary heart disease, the impact of new treatments, guideline development and recently lead the Heart Foundation of Australia's national campaign to reduce pre-hospital delay for chest pain. Back to Top

Assoc Prof Bob Longmore, BSc, MSc, PhD, FPS(WA) Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Pharmacy, Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia

Bob Longmore is a proud product of the University of Manchester Department of Pharmacy which laid the foundations of an academic career lasting some 34 years. It was there that he first became interested in plant chemistry while completing his PhD on the absolute configuration of the alkaloids of Physostigma venenosum.  Bob joined the School of Pharmacy at W.A.I.T (later to become the Curtin University of Technology) in December 1975.  While there, Bob taught pharmaceutical and medicinal chemistry, radiopharmacy, and pharmacognosy, in which he further developed his interests in herbal remedies and the role of phytochemicals in therapy.    Bob is an advocate of collecting information on the Australian Aboriginal use of indigenous medicinal plants, a knowledge which is at great risk of being lost as the Elder wise men pass on.

In July 2000 he retired, leaving his position of Senior Lecturer, to migrate to the rural idyll which is Nannup in the South West of Western Australia. He was appointed as an Adjunct Associate Professor to the School of Pharmacy where he has maintained his academic links of scholarship and continuing interests in herbal medicine and phytochemistry. 

For more than 11 years he has continued to write a popular series of articles on herbal remedies for Australian Pharmacist, and also provides commentaries and opinions in a similar vein for the WA Pharmaceutical Society ‘Rescript’ newsletter, and selected journals.

Bob continues to present brief cameos on gardening topics to Curtin University radio’s “Let’s Talk Gardening”, while he and Maggie gradually develop their 8 acre block.  His life in the Nannup ‘Garden Village’ is very busy with much active committee and Festivals involvement. Bob is also a passionate angler and grandfather to 5 grandchildren. Back to Top

Dr Jeff Hughes, PhD Associate Professor, School of Pharmacy, Curtin University of Technology

Jeff Hughes is an Associate Professor in the School of Pharmacy at Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia. Prior to taking up an academic position in 1995, he held the position of Pharmacist-in-Charge, Clinical Services at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital for 8 years. He graduated from Curtin University of Technology in 1978 and has since completed a Graduate Diploma of Pharmacy, a Master of Pharmacy Degree and a Doctor of Philosophy in the area of pharmacy education. Jeff’s other research interests include pharmacotherapy, pharmacy practice and quality use of medicines. In 1998 Jeff was awarded the Glaxo Medal of Merit by the Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia (SHPA) for his contribution to clinical pharmacy practice and was the recipient of the SHPA 2001 Clinical Pharmacy Award.  In 2004 Jeff received the Pharmacist of the Year Award from the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia. Recently, Jeff was awarded the Eric Kirk Memorial Award by the Pharmaceutical Society of Western Australia for his contribution to the profession of pharmacy. Jeff is also a joint proprietor of a community pharmacy, an accredited consultant pharmacist, Consultative Editor of “The Australian Pharmacist”, co-ordinator of the SHPA clinical pharmacy seminar program and a member of the National Advisory Group of the Australian Association of Consultant Pharmacy. He is also a keen surfer and hockey player. Back to Top

John Bell

 

Dr Joseph Hung Assoc Prof of Medicine, University of Western Australia, School of Medicine & Pharmcology, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Head, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital

Joseph has current appointments as Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Western Australia, and Director of Cardiovascular Medicine at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth, WA. He did his formative cardiology training at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, NSW. He then spent 4 years overseas as a Fellow in Cardiology at Stanford University, California, USA, and subsequently at the Montreal Heart Institute, Quebec, Canada. He has remained in clinical academic practice since return to Australia, and has maintained his research interests particularly in the area of epidemiology, risk factors, treatment, and prevention of atherothrombotic vascular disease.  More recently his research has focussed on obesity and the mechanisms by which obesity influences metabolic and cardiovascular disorders, including the role of genes. He has written extensively and authored over 100 publications in the scientific press.  He is a member of the Western Australian Heart Research Institute and contributes to the Cardiovascular Genetics Consortium of the Western Australian Institute of Medical Research (WAIMR).  He also sits on the National Heart Foundation Research Advisory Committee and Board of the Busselton Population Medical Foundation. Back to Top

S Daphine R Ayonrinde

Daphine is currently the Acting Chief Pharmacist of Graylands Hospital. She is a member of the Western Australian Psychotropic Drugs Committee, chairs the NMAHS-Mental Health Drugs and Therapeutics Committee, is a reviewer of the Australian Medicines Handbook and contributes to the Journal of Pharmacy Practice and Research. She teaches psychopharmacology and preceptors pharmacy interns. Professionally, Daphine is a member of the Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia, the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia, the Pharmacy Guild and the International Pharmaceutical Federation. Her areas of main interest include, psychopharmacology, continuity of care, multidisciplinary teamwork and education of health professionals regarding safe medication use. Back to Top

Robyn Martin B Pharm Post Grad Dip Pharm MPS

Robyn is a Senior Clinical Pharmacist specialising in Cardiology and is currently working in this role at Hollywood Hospital Pharmacy in Western Australia.  Robyn also lectures Postgraduate Diploma Clinical Pharmacy students in cardiology topics at Curtin University. She is an Executive member of the board of the Western Australian Cardiovascular Health and Rehabilitation Association (WACRA).

Robyn graduated with a Bachelor of Pharmacy in 1999 before spending her formative years working in hospital pharmacies in Perth Western Australia and then in the United Kingdom, giving her a broad depth of diverse experience.  On her return to Perth, she obtained her Postgraduate Diploma in Pharmacy in 2005.

Robyn has a keen interest in preventative medicine and believes in educating her patients to help improve their health and recovery. Back to Top

Allison Rieck University of Western Australia

Allison Rieck graduated with a Bachelor of Pharmacy degree from the University of Queensland in 1987 and has worked in all facets of the pharmacy profession over the past 20 years. Allison began working as a locum community pharmacist and then manager in Queensland and Western Australia. She pursued a career in hospital pharmacy in Western Australia and London, England. As a hospital pharmacist, Allison has worked as a clinical pharmacist, and her hospital pharmacy experience culminated with being pharmacist in charge of manufacturing at the Fremantle Hospital Pharmacy Department and Regional Pharmacist Nickol Bay Hospital, Karratha, WA.

 
In 1999 Allison began working as a drug information pharmacist for West Australian pharmaceutical company Orion. During this time she also began following her passion for health and wellness management becoming a qualified fitness leader and personal trainer through the Australian Council for Health Physical Education and Recreation.

She combined both pharmacy and health by lecturing on health and wellness management at School of Pharmacy Curtin University of Technology, and University of Western Australia Pharmacy Program while performing weight management programs in community pharmacies. As well as being a successful recipient and project leader of a Pharmacy Guild of Australia/Department of Health and Ageing project on weight management and community pharmacy.

In 2006 Allison commenced a PhD at the University of Western Australia studying community pharmacy and chronic disease management concentrating on weight management and the community pharmacist/general practitioner relationship.

Currently Allison has joined the UWA Business School to enhance her research into the general practitioner/community pharmacist relationship and how this relationship affects the practical delivery of chronic disease management programs in community pharmacies. Back to Top

Colin Chapman, BPharm, BVSc(Hons), PhD, FPS

Colin Chapman is Professor of Pharmacy in the Faculty of Pharmacy (Victorian College of Pharmacy) at Monash University.

He is a pharmacist (Victorian College of Pharmacy 1970) and a veterinary surgeon (University of Melbourne 1976) with a PhD awarded in 1981 in the field of immunoparasitolgy from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne.

He worked in veterinary research and practice for 11 years before being appointed Head of the Department of Pharmaceutics at the Victorian College of Pharmacy in 1987. In 1991 he was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy, and stepped down from that position in 2006 to pursue research, teaching and veterinary activities.

He has worked on a part-time in community pharmacies ever since registering as a pharmacist in 1971.His teaching centres on immunology, dermatology and veterinary pharmacy, and his research interests include workforce planning, primary health care, eHealth, medication reviews and veterinary pharmacology. Back to Top