Speakers

Abdel-rahman Bassal

Manager of South Australia's Digital Telehealth Network

Abdel-rahman is the Manager of South Australia’s Digital Telehealth Network.  Abdel has been involved in the development of the network since inception.  His work with clinicians has focused on building a service that supports remote clinical assessment.  Abdel is passionate about improving clinical outcomes especially for rural and remote consumers of health services.

Abdel has been working in the health industry for over five years in various roles including Business Analysis and Project Management.  He has worked on IT implementation projects in the areas of patient administration, patient identification, radiology, security and most recently Telehealth.

Alexis Nicholson

Country Health SA Local Health Network

My position of Senior Project Manager is responsible for leading the establishment of the South Australian Country Cancer Service, which includes 15 chemotherapy units. 

My role is responsible for working with metropolitan cancer services to support country cancer patients to be treated closer to home. This is inclusive of undertaking treatment closer to home, whilst also supporting the uptake of telemedicine opportunities, preventing patients travelling unnecessarily to metropolitan Adelaide for review appointments.

Previous career highlights include our team winning the SA Health Award for ‘Enhancing Hospital Care’ in 2013 and the National Lead Clinicians Group ‘Award for excellence in innovative implementations of clinical practice’ in 2014 – each for the work in establishing the Country Cancer Service.

Amy Clark

Bendigo and District Aboriginal Coooperative

Amy Clark is a division 1 registered nurse with a background in acute and emergency nursing, project management and a post graduate qualification in Clinical Research.  Amy has a keen interest in telemedicine and has previously undertaken 2 projects in this area.  Amy is the Clinical Program Manager at Bendigo and District Aboriginal Cooperative in Victoria and sees telemedicine as a way for improving access to mainstream services for Aboriginal people, particularly in regional and remote areas of Australia.  Amy has worked in partnership with VACCHO to increase the access to Specialist via Telehealth consultations.

Amy Holmes

Queensland Health, Telehealth Cooridnatior

Currenty Telehealth Coordinator for teh Sunshien Coast Hospiatl and Health Service.  Responsible for Nambour, Gympie, Maleny, Claoundra and The Sunshine Coast University Public Hospitals Telehealth programs,  implemenation and governance.

Formerly worked in rural and remote Queensland as a Clinical Nurse Consultant. 
Received Nurse of the year in 2010

Registered as a Medicare Eligble Midwife

Anna Finnane

University of Queensland

Dr Anna Finnane is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Dermatology Research Centre, with a background in public health and epidemiology. She has particular interests in study design and outcome measures in health research, and the impact of these on the success of translational research.  Dr Finnane has training and experience in quantitative research methodologies and statistical methods and has taught Epidemiology and Research Methods units across multiple health disciplines. Her current interests are in exploring the barriers preventing successful translation of research into Telehealth practice.

Anthony Deacon

Centre for Online Health, School of Medicine, The University of Queensland

Current MPhil candidate and MBBS student at the University of Queensland. Thesis title: Investigating the effect of different mobile application design techniques for managing type one diabetes among adolescents. 

Previously completed a Bachelor of Information Technology (QUT), Master of Information Technology (QUT), Master of Business (QUT), and Graduate Certificate of Executive Leadership (UQ).

Part-time teaching academic at the Queensland University of Technology in the School of Information Systems.

Anthony Smith

Centre for Online Health, The University of Queensland

Associate Professor Anthony Smith is the Deputy Director of the University of Queensland’s Centre for Online Health (COH) in Brisbane.  He has more than 15 years’ experience establishing, managing and evaluating a broad range of telehealth programs, principally in paediatrics and more recently in the adult and aged care disciplines.  Dr Smith is a chief investigator of the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence (CRE) in Telehealth, focussing on telehealth applications in ‘small rural’ and ‘Indigenous’ communities.  He is also the President of the Australasian Telehealth Society and scientific program chair for the SFT Conference.

Carolyn Bourke

Darling Downs Hospital and Health Service, Clinical Nurse Consultant

Carolyn is a Registered Nurse and Midwife with Qualifications in Child and Family Health, Immunisation, Rural and Isolated Practice, Certificate IV in Training and Assessment.
Carolyn currently holds the position of Clinical Nurse Consultant /Telehealth Coordinator for the Darling Downs Hospital and Health Service.
Her keen interest in service improvement together with the ability to engage, educate and coach clinicians in Telehealth processes has seen an increase in the uptake of services across all specialities. She is driven to achieve results by challenging the norm to enhance the patient’s experience throughout the health care journey and provide more care locally.
During the past 12 months she has assisted in enhancing the Antenatal Telehealth Model, Hospital in the Home Telehealth Model and TeleDentistry for residents in DDHHS Aged Care Facilities to receive oral health care without the need to leave their homes maintaining comfort and continuity of care.

David Evans

Queensland Health

Dr David Evans has qualifications in Medicine, IT, OH&S and Medical Administration. His standards and electronic health record involvement commenced in the 90s with the National EHR Task Force then Health Connect and finally NEHTA. He was a member of HealthConnect. He remains a NEHTA Clinical Advisor passionate about holistic safety in health ICT systems design along with information overload and knowledge management, classifications and terminologies and developing a SEHR for Telehealth episodes. He is Co-Chair for the Australian Clinical Terminology User Group. He takes pride in having played a role in bringing SNOMED-CT to Australia. He is on three IT14 subcommittees and on the Quality Assurance Subcommittee of IHTSDO and previously the Content Committee. He is a QH Clinical Advisor in eHealth and clinical sponsor of Queensland's electronic enterprise discharge summary, e-referral and The Viewer projects. He is a member of the QH Architecture and Standards Board.

Di Xiao

Australian e-Health Research Centre, CSIRO

Dr. Di Xiao obtained his Ph.D from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 2004. From 2002-2007, he worked at Singapore General Hospital and National University Hospital, Singapore as a scientist and senior research fellow for medical robotic system development. During the period, he also worked at James P. Wilmot Cancer Centre, University of Rochester, USA as visiting instructor and project consultant. He joint CSIRO in 2007. Now, he is working at telehealth team in Australian e-Health Research Centre, CSIRO as a scientist. In the past 5 years, Dr. Xiao focused on retinal image processing method for eye disease related feature detection and also worked on clinical decision support approach for telemedicine application. The new algorithms he developed for retinal image processing and DR feature detection as well as telemedicine system has been applied for patent. His main research interest is medical image processing, medical robotic system and telemedicine system.

Elaine Saunders

Managing Director and Co-founder, Blamey Saunders hears

Elaine is Managing Director and Co-founder of Blamey Saunders hears, supplying the world-leading IHearYou® hearing aid and self-fit programming system through an innovative and industry disruptive tele-audiology service based in Melbourne.   She has received multiple industry and community awards for her work, both in Australian and internationally. 

Elaine, a Churchill Fellow, has a Master of Clinical Audiology from the University of Manchester and a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Southampton.  She is an Adjunct Professor and member of the Biodevices Advisory Board for Swinburne University and is a former Non-Executive Director of Alfred Health.

Farhad Fatehi

Centre for Online Health, The University of Queensland

Dr. Farhad Fatehi is a PostDoc with CSIRO and UQ. The topic of his PhD study was the use of video-conferencing for remote consultation of diabetes. His current research focus is on mobile health for the management of chronic diseases.

Frank Po-Chao Chiu

University of Queensland

Fourth year medical student at the University of Queensland with an interest in dermatology and rural health.

Jacinta Collins

Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation

VACCHO Telehealth Support Officer
Jacinta Collins is a Division 1 nurse with a Master of Health Sciences and Graduate Diploma of Health Administration. Jacinta’s particular passion is tackling diverse change management challenges across acute/primary and public/private healthcare sectors. Jacinta has a strong action research background with a particular emphasis on chronic disease care in culturally diverse and socially disadvantaged communities.
Currently Jacinta is the Telehealth Support Officer at VACCHO where she is promoting the uptake of Telehealth services to specialist medical services in the twenty four member Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services (ACCHOs) across rural and regional Victoria. Support and education is provided to embed technical and patient-focused videoconferencing protocols and practices and to encourage best practice in the management of patient information, billing, patient records and procedures around Telehealth consultations.

Janice Lee

The University of Quieensland

Medical Student, The University of Queensland

Jayne Kirkpatrick

Cunningham Centre, Darling Downs Hospital and Health Service, QLD Health

Jayne Kirkpatrick is a senior program coordinator at the Allied Health Education and Training department, Cunningham Centre, DDHHS. Jayne’s current role encompasses telehealth capacity building in allied health service delivery and the development of training packages and resources to increase capacity. Jayne holds a concurrent position as clinical educator for the Nutrition and Dietetics Department at the Toowoomba Hospital, supporting students and supervisors during practical placements. Jayne has completed a Graduate Diploma in Teaching and Learning at the University of Southern Queensland and is inspired by everyday science and creative, engaging educational techniques.

Jennifer Chipps

University of the Western Cape

Jennifer Chipps is an Associate Professor in the School of Nursing at the University of Western Cape where she has been a faculty member since 2014. She is responsible for coordinating the Post Graduate Portfolio in the School of Nursing and teaching the Quantitative Research Methods Module. Jennifer completed her PhD at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa her MPH at the University of New South Wales, Australia and completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Witwatersrand and UNISA South Africa. Jennifer has previously worked at University of Sydney, the University of KwaZulu-Natal, the NSW Department of Health in Australia and the NZ Health Research Council in New Zealand.  Jennifer’s research interests are eHealth, Telenursing,  Mental Health, Ageing, Elearning and Systematic reviews

Joanna Smith

Silver Chain Group

As the Research Support Manager at Silver Chain,  Joanna has worked on numerous research studies that have benefited older people.  Over the last few years, Joanna has commenced research for Silver Chain in the field of telehealth, specifically remote monitoring of chronic disease. To date, this research has shown that for older people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, remote monitoring of their symptoms results in a measurable improvement in quality of life, reduced feelings of anxiety, a greater feeling of control over their disease as well a substantially reducing hospital admissions. This research has led to Silver Chain being funded for a respiratory model of care utilising telehealth to improve health outcomes for older people who use domiciliary oxygen.

Joanne Grey

Centre for Online Health, The University of Queensland

Joanne has worked across a range of communications roles since 1994, with the most recent being the Media and Communications Manager for the COH and CRE in Telehealth based in Brisbane. Joanne is a PhD Candidate at the COH, investigating the ways clinicians communicate with patients during paediatric telemedicine consultations

Karen Lucas

Metro South Health

Karen Lucas is the Senior Telehealth Coordinator for Metro South Health. She transitioned to this role in early 2014 following 18 months as the Service Manager for the Princess Alexandra Hospital’s Telehealth Centre. Her role is focused on supporting the promotion and expansion of telehealth services within Metro South Health and to rural and remote areas of Queensland. Karen has a background in project administration, ICT management and Telehealth services. Previously she worked for the Centre for Online Health at the Royal Children’s Hospital in the early days of the Telepaediatric service as well as in the areas of rural paediatric allied health services and rural medical education.

Kathleen Bagot

The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health; Monash University, Research Fellow

Dr Kathleen Bagpt is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the VST Program. Her primary responsibility is to coordinate and undertake research activities across the VST Program. Kathleen has previously worked in a number of translationalresearch roles, taught research design and statistics as well as supervised student research. Kathleen has a Bachelor of Behavioural Sciences (Hons) and a PhD (Psychology) from Monash University.

Liam Caffery

Centre for Online Health, The University of Queensland

Liam is a Senior Research Fellow and Director of Telehealth Technology for the University of Queensland’s Centre for Online Health. He is an executive member of the Australasian Telehealth Society. Liam is an associate investigator of the National Health and Medical Research Council’s Centre for Research Excellence in Telehealth.

He is actively involved in telehealth service delivery via his work programs including: Res-e-care, Health-e-regions, PAH Telehealth Centre and Queensland Telepaediatric Service. He has an active research agenda in health services research and health informatics with a special interest in imaging informatics, Indigenous health and rural health.

Marlena Hoskin

Myall Medical Practice

I commenced in the role of Practice Manager at Myall Medical Practice back in July 2010.  I work with, and support, a very professional and dedicated team of GP's, GP Registrars, practice nurses and medical receptionists with 25 people currently working in the Practice.

My key responsibilities are business development, quality improvement and overseeing the general running of the Business.  I also provide strategic support to the Associate Doctors in the management of the business with a significant focus for the past 18 months on the development of a new purpose built health precinct for our practice and community.

My experience is in business and frontline management and I achieved my Diploma in Practice Management in 2012 through UNE Partnerships.

Mary Lam

Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Sydney

Mary has received training in Psychology, Bioinformatics, Health Information Management, and Health Informatics. She is also a Certified Health Informatician (CHIA) and a lecturer in e-Health at the University of Sydney.  As an e-health professional, she was working in the New South Wales Health sector for a number of years before joining the University of Sydney as an academic. She is currently the Deputy Course Director of the Bachelor of Health Science program offered by the Faculty of Health Sciences.  Mary is also an active researcher in the area of e-Health education and has been leading a number of eHealth-related studies, such as the longitudinal study into allied health students’ attitude towards eHealth and their readiness in engaging in eHealth upon graduation.  Mary also has research expertise is the area of big data analysis and record linkage, and has been developing local and international collaborative studies in the area.

Maurice Mars

University of KwaZulu-Natal

Maurice Mars MBChB, MD is Professor and Head of the Dept of TeleHealth at the Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. He is the founding President of the South African Telemedicine Association. Mars is active in eHealth capacity development and chairs the International Society for Telemedicine and eHealth’s Education Working Group, serves on the Telemedicine Working Group of the International Medical Informatics Association and is chair of the American Telemedicine Association’s International Special Interest Group. With over 20 years in eHealth he has published widely, is a founding editor of the Journal of the International Society for Telemedicine and eHealth and serves on several editorial boards. His Department provides postgraduate education in both medical informatics and telemedicine with over 100 postgraduate students in nine countries in Africa and Asia. He sees eHealth as the future for health care delivery in Africa.

Michael Williams

Childrens Health Queensland

Michael Williams is Director of Child & Adolescent Health Service at Mackay Base Hospital, Queensland. He has been a paediatrician in Mackay for over 30 years, providing outreach clinics and Telehealth support for rural sites. He has worked as a paediatrician in UK, Saudi Arabia and Canada. 

Over the last 18 years he has undertaken telehealth consultation with associated research conducted in conjunction with UQ Centre for Online Health. He has developed a telepaediatric service which provides sub specialty consultation for the patients of his region, as well as general paediatric consultation for those at rural sites.

He has recently taken up the ½ time role of Director of Children’s Advice & Transport Coordination Hub (CATCH) within Childrens Health Qld, based at the LCCH. This aims to improve support for rural doctors and their paediatric patients, increasing care of children in their community and facilitate transport planning when needed.

Michelle Cottrell

University of Queensland

Under the supervision of A/Prof Trevor Russell, she has recently commenced a RHD with the support of the Centre of Research Excellence in Telehealth. The primary aim of her thesis will be evaluating the effectiveness of telerehabilitation for the management of chronic musculoskeletal conditions and determining if it is equivalent to conventional care. Ms Cottrell comes from a clinical background of musculoskeletal physiotherapy.

Mohan Karunanithi

CSIRO

Mohanraj Karunanithi obtained his doctorate in Biomedical Engineering at the University of New South Wales. He has worked in cardiac research for 10 years on ventricular function. He is a senior member of the IEEE and founding chair of the Engineering Medicine Society in Queensland, Australia.

Monique Hines

University of Sydney

Dr Monique Hines is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Sydney. As a member of the Wobbly Hub Rural Research Team, she conducts research into the delivery of allied health services for people with disability living in rural and remote areas. She is a speech pathologist, and is specifically interested in the use of technology in the delivery of speech pathology services. She is currently conducting a range of projects in this field, including an evaluation of a comprehensive speech pathology teletherapy program incorporating mixed methods. She is a member of the Interdisciplinary e-Health Advancement and Research Team (IeHART) at the University of Sydney and is involved in a qualitative exploration of the opportunities for eHealth in supporting interdisciplinary allied health practice in brain injury.

Natalie Bradford

Centre for Online Health

Natalie is currently the Research Fellow for the Indigneous and Small Rural Hospitals theme for the CRE in Telehealth. Natalie has a clinical background as nurse specialising in paediatric oncology and palliative care.  Her PhD thesis investigated the use of home telehealth to support families and healthcare clinicians in local areas.  Natalie has a keen interest in research, particularly health services research, investigating models of care for optimal health care delivery.  Natalie also has an interest in promoting the integration of telehealth into models of care.

Natasha Moller

West Moreton Hospital and health Service

Speech Pathologist currently working within the Community Based Rehabilitation Team (CBRT), in the West Moreton Hospital and Health Service. Key areas of responsibility includes providing intervention and rehabilitation to adult patients with neurological difficulties, progressive diseases  and traumatic / acquired brain injury.

Nazli Bashi

CSIRO

I am registered nurse who spends  last few years in researching. During Master degree, I researcher the effect of web-based intervention in improving knowledge, self-management and self care of patients with heart Failure. Now, as a PhD candidate in CSIRO, my  research topic is to develop and  validate a new mobile based ambulatory-care delivery  model  for  patients post MI through a randomized controlled trial.

Niamh O'Connor

Territory Palliative Care, Royal Darwin Hospital

Having completed my specialist training in Palliative Medicine in Ireland I relocated to Australia in 2014 and worked as a Palliative Care Fellow in Barwon Health, Geelong for a year. I am now working as a Palliative Care Specialist in The Royal Darwin Hospital. I have a Masters  Degree in Medical Ethics and Law with a particular interest in Justice and the fair distribution of quality healthcare to all-regardless of location or income. I see telehealth as an essential tool in our aim to provide specialist Palliative Care to all patients and their carers who need our input in the Top End.

Nigel Armfield

The University of Quieensland

Nigel is based at Lady Cilento Children's Hospital (LCCH)  in Brisbane where his research is focussed on paediatric clinical telemedicine. While broadly interested in paediatric telemedicine applications, he has a long-standing special interest in its role in neonatal and paediatric critical care settings. More generally, Nigel is interested in the nature of evidence in telemedicine. While it is not a new field, the formal evidence base remains limited. It is still unclear what constitutes useful evidence for clinicians and policy makers, how that evidence should be generated, and how it may be best disseminated to influence practice and policy.

Nivedita Deshpande

Institute For Urban Indigenous Health

Nivedita Deshpande is coordinating telehealth services regionally across South East Queensland for the Institute for Urban Indigenous Health. She was also the first telehealth officer in Australia working with the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine. Nive brings with her more than eight years of healthcare experience from USA, India and now Australia. She has a Master’s in Public Heath -Health Policy & Management from the University of Pittsburgh USA and is currently pursuing her PhD in Telehealth with UQ. Her first stint with Telemedicine was with the Veterans Association of Pennsylvania when they were establishing satellite Tele-Derm locations for retired war Veterans in 2010. In her current role with IUIH she is supporting seventeen Aboriginal Medical Center’s to establish a sustainable telehealth program.

Olivia Taylor

Lady Cilento Children's Hospital & Centre for Online Health (UQ)

Olivia has worked as a paediatric speech pathologist since 2005, and is currently a Senior Speech Pathologist at the Lady Cilento Children's Hospital, Brisbane.  Olivia is an MPhil Candidate at the Centre for Online Health (University of Queensland), investigating the use of telehealth for speech pathology management of children with complex medical conditions.

Paulette Kelly

Networking Health Victoria

Currently Statewide Coordinator paediatric telehealth in Victoria.  In this role I have worked with seven hospitals including tertiary and regional hospitals.  The telehealth model we have favoured in dual care consultations supporting the inclusion of regional paediatricians  or GPs in telehealth consultations with sub specialists.  

I will shortly embark on a new adventure focusing on the primary and tertiary care linkages.

Peter Blamey

Blamey Saunders hears, Executive Director, Technology and Operations

Peter Blamey’s is the Scientific and technical lead at Blamey Saunders hears and holds an Honorary appointment at the University of Melbourne in the Faculty of Medicine. His previous research roles have been primarily in cochlear implants and bionic eye research.  His inventions are used in hearing aids, cochlear implants and headsets from major international manufacturers. In 2007, he was presented with the American Academy of Audiology’s International Award, and in 2012, Peter was awarded the prestigious Clunies Ross Science and Technology Medal for his research and development of hearing aids.
In 2015, his work was honoured with the Australian Good Design award in Social innovation, with a highly commended in the Medical Devices Category. 

Rachael Rietdijk

The University of Sydney

Rachael Rietdijk is a speech pathologist and current doctoral student within the Faculty of Health Sciences at The University of Sydney. Her research focuses on the use of telehealth to provide support to people with traumatic brain injuries and their families. Rachael's research is supervised by Professor Leanne Togher and Dr Emma Power.

Rajiv Jayasena

Victorian Lead for e-Health Research Program of CSIRO

Dr Rajiv Jayasena is the Victorian Lead for e-Health Research Program of CSIRO. He has extensive experience in medical research, commercial industry and project management and held academic positions at Monash University and The University of Melbourne. In recent years Rajiv has focused on primary and acute healthcare reform and Telehealth models of care for management of chronic disease. Rajiv has an Honours Degree in immunology, a PhD in Medicine, qualifications in Business and in Operational Excellence Programs.

Richard Colbran

Royal Far West

Richard Colbran is an experienced non-government and not-for-profit organisation manager in health and social services.
 
Richard is currently Business Director at Royal Far West - an independent non-government charitable organisation which has been providing health services for rural and remote children across NSW since 1924. His previous roles include a national directorship with the Australian Drug Foundation and CEO of NSW Squash. 

A strong advocate for social leadership, Richard's interests include discovery and innovation, building capacity of individuals and organisations  for the community's health, safety and wellbeing, drawing on evidence to create effective change, and the commercialisation of services and products to support NGO sustainability.

Richard has a commitment to partnership and collaboration. He has experience managing federal, state and local government service contracts, fostering University and academic institution collaborations and development Corporate - NGO business and marketing partnership initiatives.

Richard O'Driscoll

Mater Hospital Brisbane

Richard is a final year advanced trainee in General and Acute Care Medicine at Mater Health Services and is a graduate of University College Dublin. His main interest is in Perioperative and Vascular Medicine and helped establish the Perioperative Telehealth Unit at the Mater which commenced in February 2014.

Robert Lippiatt

SPD Group

Robert Lippiatt is a Strategic Business Advisor with over twenty four years experience in positioning and restructuring organisations in the Public, Private and Not for Profit Sectors across a number of Industry Sectors.  For the past 12 years Robert has been working on a mix of projects concerned with the development of new service and delivery models in the Health, Aged and Community Care Sectors.  Since 1999 he has held a number of senior advisory roles and been on the Boards of a number of Health and Care Organisations including as Chairman of RSL Care one of Australia’s largest NFP Aged and Community Care providers and Chairman of the National Defence Community Forum.

Ruth Skinner-Smith

Tunstall Healthcare

As Clinical Services Manager, Ruth is involved in stakeholder engagement, business development, project implementation, training programs, and Clinical Governance for Tunstall’s telehealth solutions.

Joining Tunstall in 2010, Ruth has over 30 years of experience in theatre and community nursing.

Previously, Ruth has worked for the Holy Spirit Northside Private Hospital and was Director of Nursing at Chermside Day Hospital, which she helped commission.

Ruth is a Registered Nurse with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA).

Sarah Johnson

Mater Hospital Brisbane

Hired to coordinate the new Perioperative Telehealth service at Mater Hospital Brisbane my role is to contact patients and GPs and advocate, coordinate, encourage, arrange and trouble shoot telehealth consultations. Organise and complete all administartive requirements. To liaise with telehealth profesasionals around the state, to advocate for the benefits of the service, to present the service to hospital management. With a background in social work I am uniquely positioned to work with all levels of hospital staff, patients and medical professionals.

Sharifah Al Dossary

University of Queensland

Sharifah Al Dossary joined COH in October 2013 as a PhD student. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in Health Information Management and Technology from King Faisal University (Dammam - Saudi Arabia) in 2008. She was awarded her Master degree in Health Informatics with distinction from King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences (KSAU-HS) Riyadh - Saudi Arabia in 2011, her master thesis was a research project in the field of health informatics entitled “Hospital Physicians’ Use of Medical Literature Databases”. She joined the facility of College of Public Health and Health Informatics (KSAU-HS) as a lecturer in 2012. Sharifah is interested in research involving Telehealth. Her current work focuses on developing and studying the use of a model for telemedicine health service planning in small rural communities.

Sisira Edirippulige

Centre for Online Health, The University of Queensland

Dr Sisira Edirippulige is the Coordinator of e-Healthcare programs at the Centre for Online Health University of Queensland Australia. Dr Edirippulige has a PhD from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. His main responsibilities at the University of Queensland include coordinating graduate programs in e-Healthcare and CPD courses. His research interests include the development, promotion and integration of e-health education in the healthcare workforce.

Stephen Andrews

Princess Alexandra Hospital

Dr Andrews is presently completing his internship at the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane. He completed his MBBS, and previously a Bachelor of (Mechanical & Space) Engineering at the University of Queensland. Throughout his medical studies he assisted with a melanoma research project at the UQ Dermatology Research Centre. Separately, Dr Andrews has also been involved in a number of rural flying outreach dermatology clinics servicing both Central and Western Queensland. He is particularly interested in the different aspects of rural dermatology delivery, including both outreach and tele-dermatological services.

Sumudu Wickramasinghe

Center for online health, University of Queensland

I am a PhD Candidate at the center for Online health. My work is on studying the perceptions of indigenous Australians in rural Queensland regarding telehealth. This includes a description of the services that are developed with the community and AMS staff and a post implementation review of the services.

My current research interests: Telemedicine, Indigenous health, Healthcare systems, Tele-diabetes services

I am a medical doctor with over seven years of working experience in Sri Lanka as GP and a Medical officer of health (MOH) in the public health sector.

Susan Jury

Royal Children's Hospital

Susan is a New Zealand and United States Registered Nurse, has a Master of Public Health degree and a Graduate Certificate in eHealthcare from the University of Queensland. She has worked in New Zealand, Hong Kong, China and Australia.  
 
Within the telehealth arena, susan has delivered a range of private consultancy services and educational packages including the APNA – ANF telehealth CPD modules and customised regional telehealth training packages. 
 
The Melbourne Royal Children's Hospital telehealth program, which she started in 2012, has just been shortlisted for a Victorian Healthcare Award for “Excellence in person, family and community centred care”.

Teegan Green

University of Queensland UQ Business School

Teegan Green [(BA/BEd(Sec); BA/BBusMan(Hons 1)] is a PhD Candidate at the University of Queensland UQ Business School. She is supervised by Dr. Nicole Gillespie and Dr. Nicole Hartley, UQ Business School and Associate Professor Anthony Smith, Centre for Research Excellence in Telehealth, PA Hospital. Teegan's doctoral research is about understanding clinician's experiences of providing telehealth services across an array of technologies (email store-and-forward, video-based teleconferencing, robotic telepresence) and disciplines across private and public practice. Teegan also focuses on understanding the role that trust plays for clinicians engaged in telehealth service delivery.

Tessa Feinberg

LifeTec

Tessa is passionate about the use of assistive technology to meet communication, language and literacy needs. She has particular interest in supporting children, young people and their families, and using speech generating devices to enhance interaction, autonomy and participation in all aspects of life.

Tomoko Kamei

St. Luke's International University, College of Nursing, Tokyo, Japan

Tomoko Kamei is a Professor of Nursing, St. Luke's International University and participated telenursing/telehealth  development for more than 10 years. Dr. Kamei developed home monitoring-based telenursing system and brought for non-communicable diseases(NCD) patients, and formerly performed Randomized- Controlled Trials  In Japan and Meta-analysis to show the evidence of telenursing/telehealth.
In present study, Dr. Kamei presents a wireless, home monitoring-based telenursing/telehealth monitoring system for NCD patients and adapted to three  patients in trial and triage these patient.

Tori Wade

The University of Adelaide

Dr Victoria (Tori) Wade is a general practitioner and psychologist, Senior Research Fellow with the Discipline of General Practice at The University of Adelaide, Clinical Director of the Adelaide Unicare e-Health and Telehealth Unit, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare, and Vice President of the Australasian Telehealth Society. She completed a PhD two years ago on the uptake and sustainability of telehealth services in Australia. Previously, Tori Wade was the Medical Director and CEO of the SA Divisions of General Practice, where she focused on health systems and services development and reform.

Trevor Russell

University of Queensland

Trevor Russell is an Associate Professor in the Division of Physiotherapy at the University of Queensland, Australia, where is the founder and co-director of the Centre of Research in Telerehabilitation. He is recognized internationally for his research on the validation of rehabilitation assessments and treatment interventions performed at a distance via mobile technologies and telecommunication tools. He is a chief investigator on the NHMRC funded Centre of Research Excellent in Telehealth and his work includes some of the earliest in the field of telerehabilitation.

Tshepo Rasekaba

Northern Health and Univeristy of Melbourne

Current PhD candidate, University of Melbourne. The PhD topic explores telemedicine in the management of insulin treated gestational diabetes and the effects on service utilisation, maternal and foetal outcomes, costs, and patient and clinician experiences.

Yvette Blount

Macquarie University, Lecturer

I am a member of the Macquarie University Centre for the Health Economy.  I am currently investigating the delivery of telehealth services and the implications for service quality, productivity and well-being of the clinical health professionals that deliver telehealth.

Carolyn Bourke

Darling Downs Hospital and Health Service

Carolyn is a Registered Nurse and Midwife with Qualifications in Child and Family Health, Immunisation, Rural and Isolated Practice, Certificate IV in Training and Assessment.

Carolyn currently holds the position of Clinical Nurse Consultant /Telehealth Coordinator for the Darling Downs Hospital and Health Service.
Her keen interest in service improvement together with the ability to engage, educate and coach clinicians in Telehealth processes has seen an increase in the uptake of services across all specialities. She is driven to achieve results by challenging the norm to enhance the patient’s experience throughout the health care journey and provide more care locally.

During the past 12 months she has assisted in enhancing the Antenatal Telehealth Model, Hospital in the Home Telehealth Model and TeleDentistry for residents in DDHHS Aged Care Facilities to receive oral health care without the need to leave their homes maintaining comfort and continuity of care.

Carolyn Towers

MyCareManager, Telstra Health

Carolyn Towers RN (Div. 1), BApScAdvNsg, CertIV TAE

Carol is a Registered Nurse (Div.1) with 4 years’ experience as a Clinical Lead in Telehealth clinical implementation who commenced work with Telstra Health in April 2015. She provides clinical guidance into the design, functionality and implementation of MyCareManager to community health care organisations

She has many years of experience in the Community Nursing sector, previously working with RDNS Victoria for 28 years in various clinical roles in the community, more recently being involved as clinical lead on State and Commonwealth funded Telehealth Projects involving medication management via video conferencing and chronic disease management via telehealth technologies.

Carol enjoys the challenges that working in the area of health and technology while enjoying an active family life with adult children based in Melbourne. She attempts to play competitive tennis regularly and enjoys cooking and socialising with friends.

Ebrahim Oshni Alvandi

HDR researcher, Monash University

Ebrahim Oshni Alvandi is currently a HDR researcher who works in the department of Psychological Studies of Monash University. During his PhD period of study, Ebrahim develops a cognitive model of emotional agency for telecounselling. Computer-human interaction, cyber-psychology and engineering psychology are the focus of his PhD goal. Cognitive and informational modelling of emotions and computational psychotherapy are his other researching interests.

Farhad Fatehi

Centre for Online Health, The University of Queensland

Dr. Farhad Fatehi is a PostDoc with CSIRO and UQ. The topic of his PhD study was the use of video-conferencing for remote consultation of diabetes. His current research focus is on mobile health for the management of chronic diseases.

Jenny Rutherford

John Hunter Hospital

Clinical Business Analyst - clinical telelehealth - responsible for facilitation and adoption of clinical telehealth within usual practice within Hunter New England Local Health District. Prior to April 2015 employed as Cancer Care Coordinator in gynaeoncology for Hunter New Engalnd Centre for Gynaecological Cancer and responsible for the development and coordination of an ambulatory care telemedicine clinic for gynaeoncology patients.

Kamthorn Tantivitayatan

Golden Jubilee Medical Center, Mahidol University

Assistant Director
  Consultant in Anesthesiology and Critical Care
- Head of Hospital Registration
  Head of Telewound Project
- Health Informatics
  Patient Safety
  Quality Healthcare

Laurelie Wall

Centre for Functioning & Health Research, Queensland Health; & The University of Queensland

Laurelie is a speech pathologist who graduated with a university medal from The University of Queensland in 2012. She is currently undertaking her PhD, exploring telehealth applications in the assessment and management of dysphagia in patients receiving nonsurgical treatment for head and neck cancer. She also has a keen interest in wider applications of telepractice and is a research affiliate of the Centre for Research in Telerehabilitation at UQ and the NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence in Telehealth. Laurelie is also a member of the acute speech pathology department at the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane.

Mansour Ahwidy

Brighton University. PhD student

TBC

Mansour Ahwidy

PhD student, Brighton University

Mansour Ahwidy is from Libya.  He has a MSc in Software Engineering from Brighton University in 2011 and he began his PhD there in 2012 in health informatics systems.

His search area is the development and implementation of a new electronic and mobile healthcare system for the Libyan National Health services LNHs.

Melinda Martin-Khan

Centre for Online Health

Dr. Melinda Martin-Khan is a health scientist whose academic studies broadly include education, management, gerontology and biostatistics. She is employed full time in a co-joint appointment as a research fellow at the University of Queensland’s Centre for Research in Geriatric Medicine (CRGM) and the Centre for Online Health (COH). Research areas include dementia, telehealth and quality of care. 

Follow on Twitter: @MMartinkhan

Natalie Bradford

Centre for Online Health, Research fellow

Natalie is currently the Research Fellow for the Indigneous and Small Rural Hospitals theme for the CRE in Telehealth. Natalie has a clinical background as nurse specialising in paediatric oncology and palliative care.  Her PhD thesis investigated the use of home telehealth to support families and healthcare clinicians in local areas.  Natalie has a keen interest in research, particularly health services research, investigating models of care for optimal health care delivery.  Natalie also has an interest in promoting the integration of telehealth into models of care.

Nazli Bashi

CSIRO, PhD Candidate

I am registered nurse who spends  last few years in researching. During Master degree, I researcher the effect of web-based intervention in improving knowledge, self-management and self care of patients with heart Failure. Now, as a PhD candidate in CSIRO, my  research topic is to develop and  validate a new mobile based ambulatory-care delivery  model  for  patients post MI through a randomized controlled trial.

Paula Snowden

Quitline New Zealand

Paula Snowden has wide state sector experience, including nine years at general management level. Paula is Chief Executive of The Quit Group, an appointment she took up in August 2009. Prior to that Paula was Director Community Relations at the Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) and  Before ACC, Paula was General Manager in charge of a number of social housing programmes at Housing New Zealand, including social services housing development and assistance, substandard housing in rural areas and home ownership for modest income families. Paula also has extensive experience at the Alcohol Advisory Council where, as Deputy Chief Executive, she was principally responsible for their social marketing programme.  Paula has had a number of policy roles including in the Ministry of Women’s Affairs and the Ministry of Maori Development. Paula is on the Board for the Smokefree Coalition and Unicef New Zealand.  Paula’s tribal affiliations are Ngapuhi.

Rachael Summers

Hunter New England Health

Rachael is currently a Transitional Nurse Practitioner in rural Northern NSW. She brings almost 20 years of experience as a registered nurse working internationally and also interstate. She has been heavily engaged with innovations in Telehealth both in Australia (NBN) and the UK (NHS Direct) and is instrumental in the use of new internet technologies within both Aged and Chronic Care for Hunter New England Health.  Rachael’s current work focuses on equitable service for Aged persons and those living with chronic diseases in rural and remote areas or Australia . The unique requirements of those living with morbid obesity has been a particular focus.  Rachael is passionate about innovation, customer centricity, and personalisation of service for rural, regional and remote consumers.

Seyed Mohammad Hossein Sadr

IRAN Electronic Health Association ( IEHA ) - National Membership of ISfTeH

www.drmsadr.com
www.ieha.ir

Sharifah Al Dossary

UQ, PhD Candidate

Sharifah Al Dossary joined COH in October 2013 as a PhD student. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in Health Information Management and Technology from King Faisal University (Dammam - Saudi Arabia) in 2008. She was awarded her Master degree in Health Informatics with distinction from King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences (KSAU-HS) Riyadh - Saudi Arabia in 2011, her master thesis was a research project in the field of health informatics entitled “Hospital Physicians’ Use of Medical Literature Databases”. She joined the facility of College of Public Health and Health Informatics (KSAU-HS) as a lecturer in 2012. Sharifah is interested in research involving Telehealth. Her current work focuses on developing and studying the use of a model for telemedicine health service planning in small rural communities.

Shayne Stenhouse

Darling Downs Hospital and Health Service

Shayne has very recently been appointed to the role of Telehealth Business Coordinator , Darling Downs Hospital and Health Service.  
Shayne has co authored two papers:- “The Practical Issues in Using Existing Digital Stethoscopes in Telehealth and “ The establishment of a Sustainable Telehealth Service for Preadmission Clinic Consultations “ .The latter he presented at the 2009 IARIA Telemedicine conference in Cancun Mexico. 

Shayne has been made an Adjunct Associate Professor Business and Law at the University of Southern Queensland, for his close working relationship with the faculty in developing a digital stethoscope that is compatible with Queensland Health’s Telehealth platform, and from mentoring students doing various research papers.

Shayne's current Telehealth projects include Oral Health within Aged Care Faciliites, Interpreter Services and Inpatient Telehealth within Dar ling Downs Hospital and Health Service.

Shayne believes “With Telehealth there are no Boundaries”.

Takuya Kanamori

St. Luke's International University

I'm nurse researcher of telenursing for diabetes and COPD Patient.
I'm in charge of telementoring for patient and development of telenursing protocol.

Tim Males

Telehealth Coordinator, Townsville HHS

With nearly twenty years’ experience in enterprise I.T and Communications, Tim has been involved in telehealth service delivery since 2009, as a Senior Telehealth Coordinator for the Department of Health in Tasmania before moving to Townsville in 2014 to take up the Telehealth Coordinator position for Townsville HHS.

Tim also coordinates telehealth service innovation and training activity across Northern Queensland for the newly formed Tropical Centre for Telehealth Practice and Research.