Keynote Speakers
Keynote 1: Anthony Capon, Professor of Planetary Health, University of Sydney
Keynote 2: Anthony Shakeshaft, Professor and Skye Bullen, PhD Candidate, National Drug & Alcohol Research Centre, UNSW
Keynote 3: Lucie Rychetnik, Professor and Deputy Director, The Australian Prevention Partnership Centre
Emerging Research
2: Kathleen Hain: Rural Emergency Department Patients without GPs: A Retrospective Study
3: Josie Newton : Aboriginal health research capacity building: What happens here doesn’t always happen there
4: Jen Mannell : “Why would I want to do that?”. The factors that influence participation in physical activity for people with Parkinson’s Disease.
5: Penelope Monroe: MUSiCON: Using music to connect and improve brain health for individuals with dementia.
6: Julie Quade: Protein intakes and muscle mass in chemotherapy patients
General Research
1: Megan Williams: Aboriginal program evaluation framework: Introducing ‘Ngaa-bi-nya’
2: Lesa Towers: Working and growing together from the ground up will enhance Aboriginal careers in health
3: Imogene Rothnie: Untangling the web: a many-faceted approach to a multi-disciplinary health workforce needs assessment.
4: Ruth Jones: The lived experience of a diagnosis of cancer in the Central West of NSW
5: Rachel Rossiter: Building Evidence to Support Best Practice Specialist Nursing Services for People with Parkinson’s disease in regional NSW: A retrospective analysis
6: Xenia Dolja-Gore: Mental health service use and cost by women in metropolitan and rural areas
7: Jon Garner: What are the activity levels across diagnosis groups of inpatients admitted to rehabilitation units in two regional hospitals?
8: Dilhan Fernando: Implementation of a cognitive assessment protocol for patients receiving electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in a regional psychiatric hospital
9: Bridget Honan: Assessment and management of pain in hip fracture patients presenting to a regional emergency department
10: Sandra Wharton: Patients’ knowledge of the types, risk factors and measures to prevent hospital-acquired infections in rural health settings in Australia.
11: Helen Cheng: Foot growth as a novel marker of early puberty: findings from the ARCHER adolescent rural cohort study
12: Georgina Luscombe: Digital health inequalities: the experience of adolescent males in rural NSW
13: Kam Wong: Assessing needs-driven electrocardiogram (ECG) interpretation training for urban and rural general practitioners
14: Deborah Warr: Shaking things up: co-producing health research with rural communities
