Immunise for Life

a local and global approach

9 December - 10 December 2011

Presenter Details
A/Prof Kristine Macartney

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Kristine is a paediatrician specialising in infectious diseases. Kristines Doctorate of Medicine was on rotavirus infection, in particular the mucosal immune response to novel vaccine candidates. Kristine was a founding member of the Vaccine Education Center at the Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia, and is currently Deputy Director of Government Programs at the National Centre for Immunisation Research & Surveillance (NCIRS) and a paediatric infectious diseases consultant at The Childrens Hospital at Westmead. She was a co-editor of the Australian Immunisation Handbook (9th Edition, 2008) and has authored many peer-reviewed publications. Kristine is a member of the Advisory Committee on the Safety of Medicines (ACSOM) of the TGA.

Professor David Durrheim

David is Professor of Public Health Medicine, University of Newcastle and Director - Health Protection, Hunter New England Area Health Service, Australia. David is an outspoken advocate for equitable global access to effective public health measures, particularly immunization. In the past decade he has served as an expert adviser and consultant to a number of World Health Organization (WHO), regional and national health programmes in the African and Pacic Regions. He also served as the Director of a World Health Organization Collaborating Centre in Vectorborne Diseases. Professor Durrheims research interests include novel infectious disease surveillance methods, control of zoonotic diseases and strategies for reducing inequity in public health service delivery. He has over 160 peer-reviewed publications, and has published several scientic monographs and chapters in leading public health texts.

Dr Julie Leask

Julie Dip AppSc, RM (midwifery), MPH, PhD is a social researcher with academic qualications in public health, midwifery and nursing. Julie is the manager of the social research program at NCIRS and is a conjoint senior lecturer within the Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health and the School of Public Health, University of Sydney. Julies MPH and PhD focused on the impact of public controversies about vaccine safety. Since then, her research has focused on public and professional perceptions and behaviours regarding vaccines and vaccine preventable diseases. She has published work on program evaluation, decision aids, risk communication, ethics, media discourses, and audience studies using qualitative and quantitative methods.

Kathryn Cannings

Kathryn is a Clinical Nurse Consultant who has completed a Master of Public Health as well as post graduate qualications in immunisation and infection control. Kathryn has been working with the NCIRS for 12 months after 10 years of experience as Immunisation Coordinator for the Northern Sydney Public Health Unit. Kaths main role is the management and follow up of children and adults who have experienced an adverse event following immunisation.

Dr Christine Carr

Chris PhD, MedSc, MRCN, MCN is a current world traveller and volunteer and HNE immunisation champion. Chris worked as the Immunisation Coordinator of Hunter New England Health for over 13 years. Chris completed her Doctor of Philosophy in 2007 researching collaborative strategies to improve immunisation coverage and the quality of data forwarded to the Australian Childhood Immunisation Register.

Dr Sarah Moberley

Sarah is a new Mum and a Post-doctoral Fellow at Menzies School of Health Research. She is the lead author of the Cochrane Review of Vaccines to Prevent Pneumococcal Disease in Adults and is involved in research relating to the use of the pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine in Indigenous adults (revaccination and maternal vaccination).

Peter Massey

Peter is a Clinical Nurse Consultant and Program Manager in Health Protection with Hunter New England, based in Tamworth. He has worked in the north-west of NSW in immunisation and communicable diseases for many years. Peter has completed a number of research projects on zoonotic infections and is a leader in the eld of rural epidemiology in NSW. Peter will complete his Professional Doctorate in 2011.

Dr Murray Webber

Murray is a local Newcastle medical graduate and became a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians in 2003. Murray has lectured in Paediatrics and Child Health at The University of Newcastle co-ordinating the paediatric course for undergraduate medical students. Murray was recently appointed as a staff specialist community paediatrician for the Child & Family Health Team Wallsend. Murray was instrumental in piloting health clinics for refugee children and families which have now evolved into an area-wide refugee health program. The program has assessed and treated more than 600 refugees in the last 4 years in multidisciplinary clinics.Murrays research interests include the health outcomes and needs of refugees in our region and how better to support and meet these needs.

Dr Nicholas Wood

Nicholas MBBS, DCH, MPH, FRACP is a staff specialist general paediatrician and senior lecturer in the Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health at the University of Sydney. He is involved in the Immunisation Adverse Events Clinic and Refugee Clinic at The Childrens Hospital at Westmead. He is interested in maternal and neonatal immunisation, as well as immunisation in lndigenous communities and developing countries

Dr Scott Nightingale

Scott is a paediatric gastroenterologist and hepatologist, appointed since 2010 at Kaleidoscope, based at John Hunter Childrens Hospital. He is also a conjoint lecturer in paediatric and child health at University of Newcastle. Scotts clinical and research interests are in paediatric hepatology. Scott is a local lad graduating in Medicine at the Univeristy of Newcastle and completeing his paediatric training at John Hunter Childrens Hospital. Scotts paediatric gastroenterology training was at the Childrens Hospital Westmead before a further hepatology/transplant fellowship at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada.

Dr Christine Aus

Christine is Newcastle born and bred and after graduating with Honours in medicine at the University of NSW has acquired postgraduate qualications in travel medicine (James Cook University, ISTM), and Public Health and Tropical Medicine (at the prestigious London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine). She has worked for 20 years at provincial, district, and national levels in a number of African countries and been a medical consultant to a variety of international aid organisations. Christine has successfully raised two children in Africa, personally survived tropical diseases, and also speaks French, Dutch, Portuguese and limited Mandarin. Christine has been practising travel medicine in the Hunter since 2001 and remains a passionate traveller, committed to the concept of responsible travel. Christine also has a strong interest is Reproductive Health and is a VMO for the Sexual Assault service.

Dr Michael J. Boyle

Michael is Director of HIV Medicine and Director, Immunology and Infectious Diseases Unit, John Hunter Hospital. Michael was a guest researcher with the Laboratory of Immunoregulation, at the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in the US. Michael has been presented with a number of awards and scholarships including; the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia Scholarship at the Garvan Institute, Sydney, National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia Postgraduate Scholarship at the Centre for Immunology, the J.B. Hickie Award for excellence Award, Centre for Grand Round presentation, the Sandoz Young Investigator Award, Centre for Immunology, St. Vincents Hospital, Sydney and a Commonwealth AIDS Research Grants Committee Traveling Fellowship, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD. USA. Michael has recent being undertaking study and research in the areas of: Changes in immune function during acute viral infections predict viral clearance and outcome, the role of Epstein Barr Virus and the immune response and non-eosinophilic asthma: mechanisms and treatment.

Karinne Andrich

Karinne has been working with Refugee Health for 2.5 years as the Refugee Health CNS. Prior to this appointment, she worked at the JHH ED for 11 years and has qualications in International Health.

Patrick Cashman

RN, BHSc, MPH&TM, GCertAppMgt(Health). Patrick is the Immunisation Coordinator for HNE based in Forster. His operational focus includes Closing the Gap strategies, AEFI management and improving education for immunisation providers.

Program
Day 1 - FRIDAY 9 DECEMBER 2011 Newcastle Town Hall
Time Frames 8.00 am 9.00 am 9.10 am 9.15 am 10.00 am 10.30 am 11.00 am 11 45 am 12.00 pm 12.30 pm 1.30 pm 2. 00 pm 2. 30 pm 3. 00 pm 3.30 pm 4.00 pm 3 x 20 mins Registration Opens Opening remarks Patrick Cashman Welcome To Country HNE Aboriginal Health Rep Keynote address Dr Kristine Macartney Summary of the National Pertussis Workshop - Patrick Cashman Morning Tea Adverse events following immunisation - Dr. Nick Wood & Kath Cannings Pneumococcal vaccines Dr Sarah Moberley Immunise for life - Dr Kristine McCartney Lunch Refugee Immunisation - Dr Murray Webber and Karinne Andrich Vaccine communication and perception of risk Dr Julie Leask Rebutting vaccine myths from an immunological perspective Dr Michael Boyle Panel discussion led by Peter Massey Afternoon Tea) Venue A: 1) Rotavirus vaccines an Australian investigation 2) Immunisation clinical skills 3) Childhood inuenza vaccines in Australia in 2010 Networking Drinks & Nibbles Grind, Darby St Newcastle 5pm -7pm Venue B: 1) Basic immunology of vaccines 2) Improving rates: what works? 3) Changes to immunisation incentives & the MBS

5.00 pm

SATURDAY 10 DECEMBER 2011

8.30 am 9.00 am 9.10 am 9.40 am 10.10 am 10.40 am 11.10 am 11.25 am 12.00 pm 3 x 20 mins Registration Opens Welcome to Day 2 Chris Staples Prevention and follow up of HBV infection in newborns.- Dr Scott Nightingale Q Fever Current epidemiology and vaccines issues Peter Massey Morning Tea Travel vaccines Dr Christine Aus Vaccine travelogue - Dr Chris Carr Rabies Vaccines Prof David Durrheim Venue A: 1) Aboriginal & Torres Straight Islander Immunisation in HNE 2) Pregnant women: awareness and attitudes towards immunisation 3) Polio eradication: A progress report Lunch & Close Venue B: 1) Achieving immunisation compliance among health care workers 2) Pneumococcal serotype replacement. 3) Vaccines in Sexual Health

13.00 pm

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