Program

Please note the IFHE Congress will be presented and printed in English.
This program is an outline only and the organisers reserve the right to change the topics, times and presenters if necessary.
All updates will be made here, please check back at a later date.
Program outline current as at 8 August 2018.
 

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9:00 AM to 4:30 PM

IFHE Executive Committee Meeting

Location: Concord Boardroom, Concord Level, Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre
9:00 AM to 5:00 PM

IFHE Council Meeting

Location: P10 & P11 Meeting Rooms, Plaza Level, Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre
3:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Registration Desk Open

The registration desk will be open from 3.00PM for any delegates wanting to collect their namebadge and satchel bag prior to the Welcome Reception.

Location: outside Plaza Terrace Room, Plaza Level, Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre
5:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Welcome Reception

The Welcome Reception is the first official social event of the congress and is an opportunity to network with colleagues and meet new friends. Enjoy an Aussie BBQ networking function and get a photo with a wombat!

Please collect your namebadge and social function tickets from the registration desk, located outside Plaza Terrace Room, Plaza Level.

Location: Plaza Terrace Room, Plaza Level, Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre
Dress: Smart Casual

Partnered By

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Enware

7:00 AM to 5:30 PM

Registration Desk Open

Location: Plaza Level, Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre.

The registration desk is staffed by the congress organisers, Iceberg Events.
8:30 AM to 10:40 AM

Plenary Session

Location: Plaza Auditorium, Plaza Level

8:30AM - Official Congress Opening & Housekeeping
Emcee Madonna King

8:45AM - Welcome To Country
Songwoman Maroochy

8:55AM - Welcome Performance
Nunukul Yuggera

9:15AM - IHEA & IFHE Welcome Address
IHEA & IFHE Presidents

9:40AM - Keynote Speaker Address: The climate emergency and its impact on the healthcare industry 
Professor David Hood AM

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Madonna King | Professor David Hood AM | Veolia Water Technologies

10:00 AM to 5:30 PM

Partners Program: Mt Cootha Lookout, Lunch & Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary

Meet at the congress registration desk on Plaza Level of the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre at 10.00am. Staff will then walk all attendees to the bus departure point. 

Bring/wear: water bottle, camera, comfortable walking shoes and sun protective clothing.
10:40 AM to 11:15 AM

Morning Tea & Exhibition

All catering breaks will be held in the exhibition area, located in the Plaza Ballroom on the Plaza Level of the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre.
11:15 AM to 12:15 PM

Concurrent Session 1: Healthcare Planning, Design and Construction

Location: Plaza Auditorium, Plaza Level

11:15AM - Appropriate Sizing of Operating Theatres with High Satisfaction - a Japanese Model
Hiroshi Yasuhara, University of Tokyo Hospital

11:45AM - The Rehabilitation and Upgrading of Mulago National Referral Hospital, Uganda
Isaac Ilukor & Joel Aita, Uganda National Association for Medical and Hospital Engineering (UNAMHE)

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Hiroshi Yasuhara | Isaac Ilukor | Joel Aita

11:15 AM to 12:15 PM

Concurrent Session 2: Sustainability

Location: P6 & P7, Plaza Level

11:15AM - Improving sustainability in hospital wastewater management – a Danish case study
Jakob Søholm, GRUNDFOS BioBooster A/S

11:45AM - Searching for Sustainability: Low-tech design for the Hillside Clinic in the arid Karoo, South Africa
Yusuf Jacob & Ulrike Kuschke, Department of Transport and Public Works (Western Cape)

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Jakob Søholm | Ulrike Kuschke | Yusuf Jacob

12:15 PM to 1:45 PM

Lunch & Exhibition

All catering breaks will be held in the exhibition area, located in the Plaza Ballroom on the Plaza Level of the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre.
12:15 PM to 12:45 PM

IHEA Annual General Meeting

AGM will be held in the Plaza Auditorium
1:45 PM to 3:25 PM

Concurrent Session 3: Healthcare Planning, Design and Construction

Location: Plaza Auditorium, Plaza Level

1:45PM - Precinct-based Energy Trigeneration - the large hospital experience at Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital, Brisbane  Queensland
Michael Campbell, Children's Health Queensland

2:15PM - Engineering Queensland’s largest health infrastructure project – a Public Private collaboration
Mark Reardon, Metro North Hospital and Health Service

2:45PM - Change Management in Hospital Projects - a Necessary Evil or an Essential Element? A Ugandan Case Study
Ruth Sengonzi, Ministry of Health Uganda

3:05PM - Healthcare Infrastructure Planning & Design in the Western Cape Province, South Africa – Finding appropriate solutions to inappropriate problems
Duncan Rendall, Western Cape Government

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Duncan Rendall | Mark Reardon | Michael Campbell | Ruth Sengonzi

1:45 PM to 3:25 PM

Concurrent Session 4: Safety

Location: P6 & P7, Plaza Level

1:45PM - International Standards for Electrical Safety in Healthcare - IEC60364-7-710, AS/NZS 3003 and AS/NZS 4510
Matthias Schwabe, Bender GmbH / WGKT & George Kotenko, CAPTECH

2:15PM - Onsite Clinical Waste Management - the Experience of a Large New Hospital that improves Compliance and Infection Control
Peter Atherton, AWS Clinical Waste

2:45PM - A Risk Management Culture that works - the experience of the technical team at UZ Leuven Hospital in Belgium
Eddy De Coster, UZ Leuven

3:05PM - Ensuring Standard of Care - Compliance for Hot Water Systems
Marcel F. van Dijck, Armstrong International

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Eddy De Coster | George Kotenko | Marcel F. van Dijck | Matthias Schwabe | Peter Atherton

3:25 PM to 4:00 PM

Afternoon Tea & Exhibition

All catering breaks will be held in the exhibition area, located in the Plaza Ballroom on the Plaza Level of the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre.
4:00 PM to 5:20 PM

Concurrent Session 5: Energy Efficient

Location: Plaza Auditorium, Plaza Level

4:00PM - New Ways to Provide Emergency Power for Healthcare: Fuel Cells and Microgrids
Walt Vernon, Mazzetti

4:30PM - Improving the Steam Plant through Maintenance
Denton Smith, Western Cape Government: Department of Health

5:00PM - Replacing High Voltage Electrical Transformers at the Copenhagen University Hospital. Improving safety and sustainability
Preben Byberg & Thomas Stentoft Flackeberg, Copenhagen University Hospital

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Denton Smith | Preben Byberg | Thomas Stentoft Flackeberg | Walt Vernon

4:00 PM to 5:20 PM

Concurrent Session 6: Case Studies

Location: P6 & P7, Plaza Level

4:00PM - Doctors Without Borders (MSF), much more than field hospitals
Elvina Motard & Maria Ten Palomares, Medecins Sans Frontières / Doctors without Borders

4:30PM - Designing the ICU for the Future - Seinäjoki Central Hospital, Finland
Tiina Yli-Karhu, South Ostrobothnian Hospital District

5:00PM - Chronic Cladding Disorder: Diagnosing and Treating the Risk of Hospital Facade Fires
Oat Tukaew, RED Fire Engineers Pty Ltd

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Elvina Motard | Maria Ten Palomares | Oat Tukaew | Tiina Yli-Karhu

5:30 PM to 7:30 PM

Trade Night

The Trade Night will be held in the exhibition area in the Plaza Ballroom of the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre. Canapes and beverages will be served. The trade night is an opportunity to network with industry colleagues.

Location: Exhibition Area, Plaza Ballroom, Plaza Level, Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre
Dress: Smart Casual

Partnered By

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Ventia

7:30 AM to 5:00 PM

Registration Desk Open

Location: Plaza Level, Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre.

The registration desk is staffed by the congress organisers, Iceberg Events.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM

Plenary Session

Location: Plaza Auditorium, Plaza Level

8:00AM  - Welcome & Housekeeping
Emcee Madonna King 

8:15AM - Keynote Speaker Address
Tim Longhurst

9:15AM - Professional Development - A new approach to recognition of learning incorporating work based activity
Dr Mark Keough, Intrinsic Learning

9:45AM - IFHE General Assembly Meeting

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Madonna King | Mark Keough | Tim Longhurst

9:45 AM to 2:00 PM

Partners Program: Brisbane City River Cruise & Lunch Tour

Meet at the congress registration desk on Plaza Level of the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre at 9.45am. Staff will then walk all attendees to the boat departure point. 

Bring/wear: water bottle, camera, comfortable walking shoes and sun protective clothing.
10:15 AM to 10:45 AM

Morning Tea & Exhibition

All catering breaks will be held in the exhibition area, located in the Plaza Ballroom on the Plaza Level of the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre.
10:45 AM to 12:15 PM

Concurrent Session 7: Management and Operation of Healthcare Facilities

Location: Plaza Auditorium, Plaza Level

10:45AM - Healthcare Facilities and Medical Equipment Whole-of-Life Cost Modelling Tool supporting policy makers – an eSwatini experience
Claudio Meirovich, Meirovich Consulting SL

11:05AM - Remote Health Engineering: Implementing Proactive Maintenance and Compliance methods that work
Andrew White, DMA Engineers

11:25AM - Strategies for sustainable maintenance - Addressing backlog maintenance and critical infrastructure risk in UK’s NHS assets
Efthimia Pantzartzis, ASSET Puglia and Loughborough University

11:55AM - Certified Healthcare Facility Manager (CHFM), the Malaysian Experience
Tauran Zaidi Ahmad Zaidi​, Ministry of Health Malaysia

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Claudio Meirovich | Duncan Stegmann | Efthimia Pantzartzis | Tauran Zaidi Ahmad Zaidi

10:45 AM to 12:15 PM

Concurrent Session 8: Healthcare Planning, Design and Construction

Location: P6 & P7, Plaza Level

10:45AM - Nuclear Medicine and Radiotherapy Cyclotron - PET / CT - An Argentinian project experience
Osvaldo Mario Donato, Arq. Osvaldo Mario Donato Y Asociados, Consultora En Salud

11:05AM - Taking control of your Building Management and Control Systems and delivering the ‘new digital promise’
David Oakeshott, A.G. Coombs

11.25AM - Changing Normal Patient Rooms into Simplified Airborne Infection Isolation Rooms to a Minimized Cost
Merethe Cecilie Lind & Trond Thorgeir Harsem, Norconsult AS

11:55AM - Improving Critical First-Aid Response at time of Disaster - an empirical assessment
Kana Egawa, Tokyo Denki University

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David Oakeshott | Kana Egawa | Merethe Cecilie Lind | Osvaldo Mario Donato | Trond Thorgeir Harsem

12:15 PM to 1:15 PM

Lunch & Exhibition

All catering breaks will be held in the exhibition area, located in the Plaza Ballroom on the Plaza Level of the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre.
1:15 PM to 2:15 PM

Concurrent Session 9: Technology & Case Studies

Location: Plaza Auditorium, Plaza Level

1:15PM - Cloud Computing - facilitating excellence in the Health Care Sector
Ryan Milne, Ecosafe International & Colin Nicol, Do Diligence

1:35PM - Modern Challenges in Hospitals with Ancient Foundations - Installing LinAccs and Solar PV in the UNESCO protected San Giovanni Addolorata Hospital, Rome
Virginia Caracciolo, Azienda Ospedaliera San Giovanni Addolorata

1:55PM - CASE STUDY - Redevelopment of Cattinara Hospital and the realisation of the new Burlo Garofolo Paediatric Hospital in Trieste, Italy
Marco Montevecchi, BVN

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Colin Nicol | Marco Montevecchi | Ryan Milne | Virginia Caracciolo

1:15 PM to 2:15 PM

Concurrent Session 10: Management and Operation of Healthcare Facilities

Location: P6 & P7, Plaza Level

1:15PM - Sustainable Procurement Strategies for Healthcare
Laura Vernon, Blue Environmental Performance

1:35PM Creating an Internet of Things-enabled Building: St. John of God Murdoch Hospital
Roy Arindam, BuildingIQ

1:55PM - Learning from National Initiatives within the National Health Service - a UK case study
James Hayward, York Teaching Hospital NHS FT

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James Hayward | Laura Vernon | Roy Arindam

2:15 PM to 2:45 PM

Afternoon Tea & Exhibition

All catering breaks will be held in the exhibition area, located in the Plaza Ballroom on the Plaza Level of the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre.
2:45 PM to 4:45 PM

Plenary Session

Location: Plaza Auditorium, Plaza Level

2:45PM - Maintaining a First World Hospital Afloat (literally)
John & Sue Clynes, Mercy Ships

3:45PM - International Building Award Presentation

4:05PM - Closing Remarks & Awards
Peter Easson, IHEA

4:15PM - IHEA National Conference 2019 Presentation
Jon Gowdy, NSW/ACT Branch President

4:25PM - IFHE 2019 Presentation
David Whiteley, IHEEM

4:35PM - IFHE Congress 2020 Presentation
Daniela Pedrini, S.I.A.I.S. & Europe IFHE President

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John Clynes | Sue Clynes

5:45 PM to 11:30 PM

Congress Gala Dinner

Time: 5.45pm for 6.00pm bus departures
Location: Brisbane City Hall, 64 Adelaide Street, Brisbane City
Meeting Location: Meet at the entrance of the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre, Cnr of Merivale and Glenelg Streets
Buses will return guests progressively throughout the night from 10.00pm to the meeting point at BCEC.
Dress: Formal

 

6.30pm - 7.00pm: Pre-dinner drinks
7.00pm - 11.30pm: 3 Course Dinner

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NHP Electrical Engineering

8:30 AM to 10:00 AM

Joint Plenary Session & Morning Tea with the 42nd World Hospital Congress 2018

Disease, Disaster and Destruction: Providing Health Services in Times of Catastrophe, Epidemic and Conflict   

Plenary Session Location: Great Hall, Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre

For full congress registrations only (name badges must be worn to gain access)

For more information on the World Hospital Congress, visit the website: www.hospitalcongress2018.com

Glenn Keys AO
Executive Co-Chairman and Co-Founder, Aspen Medical

Bronte Martin
Nursing Director, Trauma & Disaster, National Critical Care Trauma Response Centre (NCCTRC)

Berna Marcelino
Provincial Director, Standardization, BC Clinical and Support Services

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Berna Marcelino | Bronte Martin | Glenn Keys AO

10:00 AM to 4:00 PM

Optional Technical Site Tours

Time: all tours are to meet at 10.00am for a prompt 10.15am bus departure
Meeting Location: Meet at the entrance of the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre, Cnr of Glenelg and Merivale Street 

Technical Tour 1 – Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital - bus will return to BCEC at 1.30pm
Technical Tour 2 –  Gold Coast University Hospital - bus will return to BCEC at 3.30pm
Technical Tour 3 - Royal Brisbane & Women's Hospital (Hyperbaric Medicine Service) - bus will return to BCEC at 12.45pm
Technical Tour 4 - Queensland Emergency Operations Centre - bus will return to BCEC at 12.45pm
Technical Tour 5 - Royal Brisbane & Women's Hospital (Skills Development Service) - bus will return to BCEC at 12.45PM

Click here to read more about the technical site tours.
4:30 PM to 10:30 PM

Optional Dinner: Australian Outback Spectacular Dinner & Show

Opportunity to experience the Australian Outback Spectacular Dinner & Show located on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. The Outback Spectacular is a live demonstration of theatre, horse riding, music and drama all combined into a single entertaining package.

Time: 4.30pm for a prompt 5.00pm bus departure
Meeting Location: Meet at the entrance of the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre, Cnr of Merivale and Glenelg Streets. The bus will depart at 9.30pm & return guests to the meeting point at BCEC at 10.30pm.

For congress delegates & partners who have purchased tickets to the Optional Dinner only
8:15 AM to 5:30 PM

Optional Social Day - Australia Zoo

Description: attendees will be transported by bus from Brisbane to Australia Zoo on the Sunshine Coast. Australia Zoo is the ultimate wildlife destination offering wildlife shows and over 1200 animals to encounter!
Time: 8.15am for a prompt 8.30am bus departure
Meeting Location: Meet at the entrance of the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre, Cnr of Merivale and Glenelg Streets
The bus will depart Australia Zoo at 3.30pm & return guests to the meeting point at BCEC at 5.30pm
Cost: $80pp (includes entry to Australia Zoo, transfers and a packed lunch). The Optional Social Day can be booked through the registration process only.
What to wear/bring: water bottle, camera, comfortable walking shoes and sun protective clothing

For congress delegates & partners who have purchased tickets to the Social Day only