HITH 2023 Speakers

The Hospital in the Home Society Australasia 2023 Conference Organising Committee is pleased to have the following speakers presenting at the 15th Annual Scientific Meeting.  More to come soon.

  • A/Prof Ben Rogers

    Monash Health and Monash University

  • A/Prof Michael Montalto

    Epworth Richmond

  • A/Prof Peter Hibbert

    Australian Institute of Health Innovation

  • Andrew Sluggett

    CPIE Pharmacy Services

  • Chris King

    Central Adelaide Local Health Network

  • Dr Alexander Beath

    Northern Sydney Local Health District

  • Dr AnnMarie Crozier

    Sydney Local Health District HITH and E-HITH

  • Dr Emily Kirkpatrick

    Calvary Medibank Joint Venture

  • Dr Erica Cameron-Taylor

    Silverchain

  • Dr Helena Williams

    Silverchain

  • Dr James Pollard

    Cabrini Health

  • Dr Jared Conley

    Harvard Medical School / Massachusetts General Hospital

  • Dr Karyn Cuthbert

    Canberra Health Services

  • Dr Lee Fong

    Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care

  • Dr Leena Patel

    Silverchain

  • Dr Michael Young

    Hospital In Your Home

  • Emma Cornwell

    Silverchain

  • Kate McLeay

    SA Health

  • Laureen Hines

    Clinical Excellence Queensland

  • Margie Reid

    Northern Adelaide Local Health Network

  • Michelle Horsnell

    Cabrini Health

  • Neil Gunn

    Monash Health

  • Rebecca Clarke

    Health Roundtable

  • Siegi Schmidmaier

    Silverchain

  • Tracey Warhurst

    Silverchain QLD

  • Usha Ritchie

    Central Adelaide Local Health Network

  • Voni Leighton

    Vitalis Health

  • Wendy McInnes

    Northern Adelaide Local Health Network

A/Prof Ben Rogers

Monash Health and Monash University

A/ Prof. Ben Rogers in an Infectious Disease and HITH specialist at Monash Health and the Monash University School of Clinical Sciences, Victoria. His research is supported by an NHMRC Emerging Leadership grant focused on to optimising HITH use of antimicrobial therapy.

https://research.monash.edu/en/persons/benjamin-rogers

 

A/Prof Michael Montalto

Epworth Richmond

Michael is the Medical Director of Hospital in the Home at Epworth Health, a large not-for-profit private hospital group in Melbourne. He has been involved in Hospital in the Home for 29 years in senior clinical roles, and has written extensively on HAH research, policy and development. He has consulted internationally to HIH groups and governments.

He is a Co-Convenor of the World Hospital At Home Congress and a Director of Mobile Radiology Australia. Michael is Home Hospital International Fellow at Ariadne Labs, a joint centre for health systems innovation of the T.H. Chan Harvard School of Public Health and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

A/Prof Peter Hibbert

Australian Institute of Health Innovation

Associate Professor Peter Hibbert (B.App.Sc.(Physio), Grad.Dip.Comp., Grad.Dip.Econ., PhD) is a Program Manager at the Australian Institute of Health Innovation. He has worked for the last 20 years in research and policy implementation in patient safety and measurement of evidenced-based care, including three years as an Associate Director at the National Patient Safety Agency in the UK. He previously worked as a physiotherapist for 12 years.

His interests are quality and safety in healthcare, indicator development, measuring evidence-based care, patient safety investigations, and analysing patient safety incidents. He provides expert advice to the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Healthcare and developed their current national Incident Management Guide.

As well as research, Hibbert has hands-on clinical governance roles including membership of Board level committees for quality and safety at Central Adelaide Local Health Network and South Australian Ambulance Service, and undertaking high profile investigations when patients are harmed.

Andrew Sluggett

CPIE Pharmacy Services

As the Chief Pharmacist and General Manager of CPIE Pharmacy Services (based in SA), Andrew is responsible for delivering a unique range of integrated pharmacy services to support infusions in the home. Andrew’s passion for drug delivery and infusion device safety has led him and his team to develop and commercialise a novel single-use ambulatory infusion pump, for which he is the Managing Director (Infusion Innovations Pty Ltd).

Chris King

Central Adelaide Local Health Network

Chris is the current Executive Director Allied Health for the Central Adelaide Local Health Network, having taken up this position in February this year.  Prior to this she held the Chief Allied Professions Officer role for Te Whatu Ora – Capital, Coast and Hutt Valley District based in Wellington, New Zealand, and has worked in Allied Health leadership roles over the last 15 years.  Chris trained as an Occupational Therapist.

Chris is passionate about the role of Allied Health as a key and relatively untapped solution to new and innovative approaches to address many of our challenges, of which the role of Allied Health within ambulatory, community and primary care models is fundamental to provider earlier intervention and support for patients to help maintain their health and wellbeing within their homes and community settings.

 

Dr Alexander Beath

Northern Sydney Local Health District

Dr Alexander Beath is a HITH Consultant with a background in internal medicine and emergency medicine before becoming a fellow with the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners.  Passionate to learn from the HITH experts of Australia and around the world to increase the capabilities of his HITH service and always looking to collaborate and innovate.

Dr AnnMarie Crozier

Sydney Local Health District HITH and E-HITH

Medical Director of Sydney Local Health District, Hospital in the Home services at Balmain, Canterbury, Concord and Royal Prince Alfred Hospital for the last 11 years. My background is general practice. I am currently participating in research on our new Emergency Hospital in the Home service providing acute care to our older community dwelling residents for a range of conditions with a proportion referred on to HITH.

Dr Emily Kirkpatrick

Calvary Medibank Joint Venture

Dr Emily Kirkpatrick is the Executive Medical Director of the Calvary Medibank Joint Venture, which has treated over 200,000 patients across five states through the NSQHS accredited virtual hospital. Emily is a passionate advocate for reform of the Australian healthcare system, notably in her previous role as SA’s Deputy Chief Medical Officer, bringing unique perspectives on whole of system and integrated care.

Dr Erica Cameron-Taylor

Silverchain

After training as a General Practitioner Erica spend a decade as a Staff Specialist in Palliative Medicine at Calvary Mater Newcastle and consulted privately in palliative care and supportive oncology at Lake Macquarie Private Hospital. She served as clinical lead of the palliative medicine program for the University of Newcastle and has a background that includes clinical research and provision of consultative expertise in the clinical piloting of medicinal cannabis in primary care. In late 2021 Erica became the Medical Director (NSW) for Silverchain. Based in Seven Hills the Western Sydney Silverchain service partners with Western Sydney Local Health District to provide in-home medical and nursing care to a large and diverse population living with life-limiting illness.  Her interests are in equitable care delivery, informed decision-making at the end-of-life and medical education.

Dr Helena Williams

Silverchain

Helena is GP of 30+ years’ clinical experience, with extensive corporate and clinical governance experience. She is Executive Medical Director for the Silverchain Group and a Board Director for both the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care (for which she also chairs the national Primary Care Committee), and the Barossa Hills Fleurieu LHN. Helena has a particular interest in trauma-informed, compassionate leadership-never more important than now.

Dr James Pollard

Cabrini Health

Dr James Pollard is an Infectious Diseases Physician, Chair of Infection Prevention and Control, and Clinical Director of Community Care at Cabrini Health, a large private hospital group in Melbourne, Australia. James has had a career long passion for extending acute care into the community, with particular focus on IV antibiotics and OPAT, and decentralised healthcare more broadly. He has other interests in HIV, Viral Hepatitis and healthcare design. James has been President of the HITH Society since 2019, and on the board since 2013.

Dr Jared Conley

Harvard Medical School / Massachusetts General Hospital

Dr. Jared Conley MD PhD MPH is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School and an emergency physician at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). He serves as the Associate Director of the MGH Healthcare Transformation Lab, where he leads a team of clinicians and engineers to enhance the quality and affordability of acute healthcare through technology and innovation. He additionally serves as an advisor to MGH’s Home Hospital program and as the Medical Advisor for the World Hospital at Home Community. His digital health work is broad but is particularly focused on new, tech-enabled models of care, including hospital at home (HaH). He recently chaired the first-ever HaH technology forum in Barcelona. His applied research has been featured in various medical journals and news outlets, including NEJM Catalyst, JAMA Internal Medicine, and Reuters. His clinical training was obtained at Harvard (MGH/BWH) and he completed a fellowship in healthcare delivery innovation at Stanford University.

Dr Karyn Cuthbert

Canberra Health Services

Dr Karyn Cuthbert B Med FACEM is the Canberra Hospital HITH Service Director and has a passion for “all things HITH” in which she has worked for 15 years. She has been involved in 2 HITH improvement and expansion projects, chaired the HITH Society ASM in 2021 and is an executive member of the HITH Society

Dr Lee Fong

Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care

Dr Lee Fong is a Medical Advisor at the ACSQHC and a Hunter GP, working in clinical governance, service development, guideline development and advocacy roles.

He has a particular interest in facilitating connections, collaboration and innovation across healthcare organisations, with the goal of realising system changes that improve healthcare equity.

Dr Leena Patel

Silverchain

Dr Leena Patel is the Medical Director for Silverchain Acute Care Services in WA; a GP working in the Silverchain WA Home Hospital service and a Clinical Tutor at the University of Notre Dame School of Medicine. Leena has worked as a GP for many years and has a passion for holistic healthcare in the community. Her focus is on exploring more treatment options that can be provided in the community where safe and appropriate.

Dr Michael Young

Hospital In Your Home

With a background in Rural Medicine, Dr Young has transferred his knowledge of acute and community-based medicine to the development of efficient and safe models of care in the home.  He is a passionate advocate for the Hospital in the Home model of care and has been involved in developing innovative service models that prides itself in providing patient focused, innovative and safe care in the home.  He is the CEO and founder of Hospital in Your Home which provides contracted HiTH and home based Palliative Care on behalf of hospitals and other healthcare providers.

Emma Cornwell

Silverchain

Emma Cornwell is the Director Commercial Business Development, Mergers and Acquisitions for Silverchain. Emma has more than 20 years’ experience in not for profit, business and health service organisations, uncovering, building and nurturing sustainable partnership frameworks. She is incredibly passionate about creating innovative value models to leverage partnerships, assets and services in both the health and aged care sectors to achieve quantifiable outcomes that enrich the lives of patients and communities.

Emma’s experience includes innovative wayfinding with public health organisations and with all levels of government, drawing from a plethora of strategic and operational knowledge, to create sophisticated strategies that are intuitive, responsive and scalable.

Kate McLeay

SA Health

Katie has been working as an endorsed Nurse Practitioner for over 13 years, with 20 years nursing experience. She has Nurse Practitioner experience working in Emergency Departments, Community, Hospital in the Home and more recently Hospital Avoidance Health Care. Katie has special interests in working with the elderly, dermatology and wounds/plastics.

Laureen Hines

Clinical Excellence Queensland

Laureen has over 20 years’ experience in nursing, including the establishment and expansion of HITH services, and leadership across the care continuum and corporate health department. As an executive leader within the Healthcare Improvement Unit, she has extensive experience in clinical service redesign and healthcare transformation. Using her formal and experiential training Laureen has been instrumental in working with clinicians to improve access to high quality care for Queenslanders.

Margie Reid

Northern Adelaide Local Health Network

Margie Reid is a Stoma & Wound Nurse Consultant, currently working at the Northern Adelaide Local Health Network. Completed her Stomal Therapy Nursing Certificate in 1998.

She works within a dedicated team of Stomal Therapy Nurses, caring for patients with complex Stoma, Wound & Fistula needs, and has presented nationally and internationally at Stoma and Wound Conferences relating to Stomal Therapy practice and patient care. She has a passion for education and learning.

She recently held the role of Colorectal & UGI Cancer Nurse Consultant at NALHN, supporting patients living well during their cancer journey.

Michelle Horsnell

Cabrini Health

Michelle Horsnell is a registered Nurse with 29 years’ experience working within the community setting. Currently employed at Cabrini Health in Victoria as Program Director for Cabrini @ Home. Currently overseeing HITH, Chemotherapy in the home, post-acute care, Rehab in the home and the palliative home care service.

Michelle has completed a master’s in health management at Murdoch University and has particular interest in community care delivery and Safety and Quality in this setting.

Neil Gunn

Monash Health

Neil is a Director Clinical Operations at Monash Health, Victoria. He is operationally responsible for Monash at Home – Aged & Rehabilitation Care service, which started in 2020. He is also the project lead for the Monash at Home – Aged & Rehabilitation Care service expansion. Neil is a registered nurse with experience across Australia and Canada working across critical care, acute inpatient, community palliative care, community nursing, Hospital In The Home (HITH) & Complex Care (HARP). Projects roles in and across Primary Care Partnerships/Department of Health, private hospitals, and public hospitals. Management roles across Complex Care, Transition Care Program (TCP), Aged Care Assessment Service (ACAS). In addition to Bachelor of Nursing Neil he holds a Master of Public Health and Master of Business Administration.

Rebecca Clarke

Health Roundtable

Rebecca has worked in both in the Acute Care, Public Health and Community setting, as a clinician, leadership, and significant health project roles.  Rebecca manages multiple Health Roundtable Programs including HITH, Emergency, Nursing, Maternity and Paediatrics.

Siegi Schmidmaier

Silverchain

With two decades of expertise across health care strategy, policy, commercials, and complex project delivery, Siegi Schmidmaier leads Silverchain Group’s South Australian operations as the Executive Director of RDNS Silverchain. Siegi has previously led strategy and innovation at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, and has a Master of Science (Public Health) and a Bachelor of Nursing.

Tracey Warhurst

Silverchain QLD

With a deep commitment to healthcare leadership, a proven track record of driving operational excellence and a passion for high quality patient-centred care, Tracey is a seasoned healthcare Executive and clinician. With over 35 years’ experience across primary, secondary, tertiary and community healthcare settings, Tracey is currently the acting Executive Director Silverchain QLD.

Usha Ritchie

Central Adelaide Local Health Network

Usha is a pharmacist, currently leading Virtual Care programs and Allied Health for Integrated Care in the Central Adelaide Local Health Network. She carries a special interest in virtual care, technology innovation, out of hospital care pathway optimisation, adolescent transitional care, quality management systems and consumer engagement.

Voni Leighton

Vitalis Health

Voni Leighton, RN. MACN, is the Co-Founder and Clinical Director of Vitalis Health, which is the largest Independent HITH provider in Australia.

She serves on the Board of the HITH Society, Australasia and is an advisor to the New South Wales State Government Health Taskforce on Ageing.

Her Clinical training was obtained in Scotland before she specialised in ICU in London in the Late 1980’s before relocating to Australia 33 years ago.

She founded Vitalis Health in 2015.

Wendy McInnes

Northern Adelaide Local Health Network

Wendy McInnes is a Vascular Nurse Practitioner working within the Northern Adelaide Local Health Network based at Lyell McEwin Hospital. Endorsed in 2010 she runs a variety of nurse led outpatient clinics;  provides inpatient and Emergency Department consultations; works closely with the hospital avoidance teams and  Hospital in the Home to support patients in their journey across the continuum of care. She is able to provide telehealth services with aged care facilities;  support to GP services, community nurses local, rural and remote as well as patients themselves to aid with hospital avoidance strategies.

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