RHRC 2007 - Provisional Program Outline also Poster Program
TUESDAY 15TH MAY, 2007 |
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12:30pm-5:00pm 12:30pm 1:00pm-5:00pm |
IRCST Rural Research Program Candidates Meeting Lunch provided prior to sesssion Students' Meeting with convenor, Linda Cutler |
The Board Room, Tamworth Rural Referral Hospital |
2:00pm |
Business meeting, ARHRC Executive | Board Room, UDRH |
4:45pm |
Shuttles meet arrivals at Tamworth Airport, deposit delegates at conference hotels - Quest Apartments and Powerhouse Hotel | Tamworth Airport, nr Hire Car counters |
5:45pm |
Shuttle collects from Conference Hotels for transport to Welcome Reception (included in registration) | Meet at Reception |
6:00pm: |
Welcome Reception; entertainment provided by an Ensemble from the Conservatorium of Music | Tamworth Art Gallery |
7:30pm: |
Make up a party and dine in town at one of Tamworth's great restaurants - there will be one to suit all budgets! | Tamworth Restaurants (see TTD page on website) |
WEDNESDAY 16TH MAY, 2007 |
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All Keynote lectures are held in the University Department of Rural Health (UDRH) Education Centre, Tamworth Rural Referral Hospital. Concurrent sessions are held in Lecture theatres and rooms located on the Hospital site, as listed on the website and in the program. | |
8:00am |
Shuttle collects from Conference Hotels | Meet at Reception |
8:00am-9:00am |
Registration open | UDRH Education Centre Foyer |
8:30am-8:45am |
Welcome to Country | UDRH Lecture Theatre |
8:45am-9:00am |
Welcome and Colloquium opening | UDRH Lecture Theatre |
9:00am-10:10am |
Session 1: Rural communities and Health issues Chair: \ Linda Cutler |
UDRH Lecture Theatre |
9:00am-9:35am |
Keynote speaker: Professor Tony McMichael, NCEPH, ANU, Australia |
The big dry - long term drought: rural communities, families and health |
9:35am-1010am |
International Keynote speaker: Dr Harvey Thommasen, University of British Columbia, Canada |
Don’t forget Rural physicians can do research too! |
10:10am-10:40am |
Coffee & Posters | The Marquee |
10:40am-11:40am |
CONCURRENT SESSIONS | |
10:40am-11:40am |
Concurrent Session I: Influences on health in rural communities Chair: \Emma Webster |
Location: TBA |
10:40am-11:00am 11:00am-11:20am 11:20am-11:40am |
Massey P: Risk factors for chronic disease across different settings in rural areas Kolbe A: The impact of bush fire smoke Albury 2003 Lyle D: (Boreland F) Managing environmental lead in Broken Hill - a public health success |
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10:40am-11:40am |
Concurrent Session iI: Health and safety issues in the Farming community Chair: Brian Kelly |
Location: TBA |
10:40am-11:00am 11:00am-11:20am 11:20am-11:40am |
Fragar L: Pesticides and adverse outcomes in Australia Forsyth K: Health Concerns of older rural women Pollock K: Drivers for Change in farm health and safety in Australia |
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10:40am-11:40am |
Concurrent Session III: Rural Health Services Chair: Robyn Considine |
Location: TBA |
10:40am-11:00am |
Hart C: Rural, Telephone Based Mental Health Intake - Development of benchmark Key Performance Indicators Greenwood M: Refugee Health in a rural setting Edwards H: Perception of rural community, unique health needs of people with disabilities |
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11:40am-11:50am |
Bio Break | |
11:50am-12:50pm |
Session 2: Research in rural Areas Chair: Maggie Jamieson |
UDRH Lecture Theatre |
11:50am-12:25pm |
Keynote speaker: Dr Rob Grenfell West Victoria Division of General Practice, Australia |
Research in the rural context: The barriers, the challenges and the opportunities. |
12:25pm-12:50pm |
Louisa Jorm | Research and Rural Health outcomes: The 45 and up study |
12:50pm-1:50pm |
Lunch and Poster viewing | The Marquee |
1:50pm-2:25pm |
Session 3: Aboriginal Health Chair: Peter Jones |
UDRH Lecture Theatre |
1:50-2:25pm |
Keynote speaker: Dr Yin Paradies, Menzies School of Health Research, Australia |
Exploring the Health effects of racism for Indigenous people |
2:25pm-3:25pm |
CONCURRENT SESSIONS | |
2:25pm-3:25pm |
Concurrent Session IV: Aboriginal Health Chair: Peter Jones |
Location: TBA |
2:25pm-2:45pm 2:45pm-3:05pm 3:05pm-3:25pm |
Hawkins A Action research to ensure Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Farm safety Coffin J Indigenous Researchers for Indigenous research Fuller J Process tools for evidence – Indigenous – mainstream partnerships |
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2:25pm-3:25pm |
Concurrent Session V: Rural communities and Health issues: Farming community Chair: Linda Cutler |
Location: TBA |
2:25pm-2:45pm 2:45pm-3:05pm 3:05pm-3:25pm |
Fragar L: Dermal Decomposition of Diazinon Temperley J: Adoption of Farm injury prevention – Farm safety Benchmarks and Bench Marking groups. Payne D: The physical challenges of Older farmers |
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2:25pm-3:25pm |
Concurrent Session VI: Approaches to Rural Health Services Chair: Trish Strachan |
Location: TBA |
2:25pm-2:45pm 2:45pm-3:05pm 3:05pm-3:25pm |
Foskey R: Community wellbeing shaping familiar stories through theatre Ball P: How to avoid building on shifting sand Neumayer B: Using HIA to review a rural health service redesign |
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2:25pm-3:25pm |
Concurrent Session VII: Urban-Rural Issues Chair: John Fraser |
Location: TBA |
2:25pm-2:45pm 2:45pm-3:05pm 3:05pm-3:25pm |
Thornberry T: Navigating employees' reaction to Change Schofield D: Who will Work in rural Health?? Churches T: Syndromic surveillance during the 2007 Country Music Festival in Tamworth |
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3:25pm-3:55pm |
Afternoon Tea and Posters | The Marquee |
3:55pm-4:45pm |
Debate: There are Researchers and Practitioners and ne’er the twain shall meet Facilitator: David Lyle |
UDRH Lecture Theatre |
4:45pm |
Place questions for tomorrow's Panel Session in the Question Box | Box in UDRH Lecture Theatre Foyer |
| End of DAY 1 conference sessions and Shuttle to hotels | Meet in the Dean Road car park |
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6:15pm |
Shuttle collects from Hotels for transport to Conference Dinner at The Pavillion, Nemingha | Meet at Reception of conference hotels |
6:30pm |
Conference Dinner: The Pavillion, Nemingha ~ grazing Cocktails and canapés | The Gazebo |
7:00pm |
Dinner and entertainment | The Pavillion |
10:30pm |
Shuttle departs for Conference Hotels | The Carpark |
| THURSDAY 17TH MAY, 2007 | ||
8:00am |
Shuttle collects from Conference Hotels | UDRH Education Centre Foyer |
8:00am |
Coffee | Meet at Reception |
8:30am-9:40am |
Session 4: Urban-Rural Issues Chair: David Lyle |
UDRH Lecture Theatre |
8:30am-9:05am |
International Keynote Speaker: Prof Aleck Ostry, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Canada |
Urban-Rural Issues |
9:05am-9:40am |
Keynote Speaker: Prof John Humphreys, Monash University, Australia |
Innovative primary care models for small rural and remote communities |
9:45am-10:30am |
CONCURRENT WORKSHOPS | |
9:45am-10:30am |
Workshop A: Diabetes Amongst Aboriginal People: a review of the Canadian research |
Harvey Thommasen |
9:45am-10:30am |
Workshop B: Should we use Social Capital in Rural Health Research? Chair: Robyn Considine |
Aleck Ostry |
9:45am-10:30am |
Workshop C: Increasing rural participation in research Chair: Rod Cooper |
Trish Thornberry and Karin Fisher |
9:45am-10:30am |
Workshop D: Getting started - developing research proposals Chair: Maggie Jamieson |
Maggie Jamieson |
10:30am-11:00am |
Coffee & Posters | The Marquee |
11:00am-12:40pm |
CONCURRENT SESSIONS | |
11:00am-12:40pm |
Concurrent Session VIII: Research and Community Programs Chair: Jeffrey Fuller |
Location: TBA |
11:00am-11:20am 11:20am-11:40am 11:40am-12:00pm 12:00pm-12:20pm 12:20pm-12:40pm |
Gardiner H: Aboriginal health data in NSW - What can it tell us? Hornibrook J: Research informs campaign Blackman K: Fit and free Perkins, D: Assesible and acceptable means to improve mental health services in remote Australia Gow A: Integrating health with local government |
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11:00am-12:40pm |
Concurrent Session IX: The Rural research context and Public health issues Chair: Lyn Fragar |
Location: TBA |
11:00am-11:20am 11:20am-11:40am 11:40am-12:00pm 12:00pm-12:20pm 12:20pm-12:40pm |
Toohey : Identifying and responding to needs of same sex Fisher K: Private Information as it relates to (STIs) in a Rural Area of New South Wales Passey M: Diabetes prevention Johnson S: Chronic disease prevention 30-50yr olds Turner R: Impact of rurality |
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11:00am-12:40pm |
Concurrent Session X: Research and its impact on Service delivery Chair: Trish Strachan |
Location: TBA |
11:00am-11:20am 11:20am-11:40am 11:40am-12:00pm 12:00pm-12:20pm 12:20pm-12:40pm |
Anderson J: Issues relating to the development of MPS services Joyce T: Patient satisfaction primary care delivery Begg P: Health and community action- caravan residents Robinson T: Partnerships for health Webster E: Rural research capacity |
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12:40pm-12:45pm |
BIO-BREAK | |
12:45pm-1:20pm |
Session 5: Rural research: Social isolation and illness Chair: Lyn Fragar |
UDRH Lecture Theatre |
12:45pm-1:20pm |
Keynote speaker: A/Prof Ann Larson, Combined Universities Centre for Rural Health | What makes rural people sicker? An active research agenda to address social isolation |
1:20pm-2:20pm |
Lunch and posters | The Marquee |
2:20pm-2:50pm |
Session 6: Conference Review and future directions Chair: Kim Browne |
UDRH Lecture Theatre |
2:20pm-2:50pm |
Terry Clout, CEO, Hunter New England Health |
Future research directions - from a Rural Chief Executive's perspective |
2:50pm-3:20pm |
Expert panel: Harvey Thommasen, Aleck Ostrey, Rob Grenfell, Ann Larson, Yin Paradies | Response to CE's perspective and other issues emerging from the conference |
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3:20pm-3:40pm |
Closing remarks: David Lyle and Linda Cutler | UDRH Lecture Theatre |
3:40pm |
Afternoon tea | UDRH Education Centre Foyer |
3:40pm |
Shuttle departs for Tamworth Airport | Meet promptly in the Dean Road car park |
4:00pm |
Check-in for flight to Sydney | Tamworth Airport |
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