Last updated 28.02.08 |
International Keynote Speakers
Reidar Tyssen from Norway and Richard Gunderman from the United States.
Professor Reidar Tyssen
Reidar Tyssen, Professor of Behavioural Medicine at the University of Oslo, was a general practitioner in communities in Northern Norway before training in Psychiatry in Oslo. He has undertaken research on mental health among medical students and young doctors, while also maintaining a part-time private practice in psychiatry. His current research involves a large survey which started in 1993 and encompasses two nationwide cohorts of 1000 Norwegian doctors, followed up at five-year intervals. |
 |
Professor Richard Gunderman
Richard Gunderman completed his medical degree and PhD at the University of Chicago. He is now Associate Professor of Radiology, Paediatrics, Medical Education, Philosophy, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy at Indiana University. He is a five-time recipient of Indiana University's Trustees’ Teaching Award and has written over 190 scholarly articles. Among his many interests is the challenge of sustaining professional resilience and wellbeing across an entire medical career. |
 |
Australian Keynote Speakers
Professor Sue Kurrle
Susan Kurrle is a geriatrician at Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital in northern Sydney. She also holds the Curran Chair in Health Care of Older People in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Sydney. She has had a long interest in the prevention, diagnosis, and management of cognitive impairment and dementia and runs a memory clinic at Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital. This work has led her to look at the practical implications of ageing with respect to the medical profession, and how ageing affects performance positively and negatively. |
 |
Dr Mitchell Smith
Mitchell Smith, a Fellow of the Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine, has been the Director of the New South Wales Refugee Health Service, Sydney, since the Service’s creation in 1999. This role includes the oversight of clinical and project staff, education of health professionals and students, and advice on refugee health matters at local, state and national levels. Dr Smith has worked previously in general practice, public health, and with overseas medical aid organisations. In 1999-2000, he assisted in the coordination of health care for evacuees to Sydney from Kosovo and East Timor. |
 |
Professor Kay Wilhelm AM
Kay Wilhelm AM is Director of Consultation Liaison Psychiatry at St. Vincent's Hospital, Sydney and a Conjoint Professor of Psychiatry at the University of New South Wales. She has been associated with the clinical and research arms of the Mood Disorders Unit (now part of the Black Dog Institute) for over 20 years. She is a member of the New South Wales Medical Board and has been Chair of the Board’s Health Program for the past eight years. She is the author of more than 175 papers and book chapters and a number of educational workshops, mainly for general practitioners. Her main interests are depression, deliberate self-harm, smoking cessation, treatment planning for patients with complex problems, general hospital psychiatry and the health of doctors. |
 |
Dr Hilton Koppe
Dr Hilton Koppe is a general practitioner in Lennox Head, Northern New South Wales, and Senior Medical Educator there for GP Training. He has been a GP Supervisor and Medical Educator since 1990. In 1997, Hilton started the Northern Rivers Division of General Practice Wellbeing project. He is nationally recognized as being an innovative and inspirational teacher, with expertise in small-group learning and GP wellbeing. He regularly presents this work around Australia and has recently developed programs exploring the interface of medicine and the humanities. |
 |
Dr Michael Valenzuela
Michael Valenzuela is a research fellow at the School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, and leads a number of dementia-related studies at the Prince of Wales Hospital in eastern Sydney. His background is in psychology, clinical medicine and neuroscience research. In 2006, he was awarded the prestigious Eureka Prize for Medical Research for his research on the relationship between dementia and complex mental activity. Dr Valenzuela is currently studying the competing forces of neuroplasticity and neurodegeneration and how these can lead to dementia. With the problem of dementia crucial in today's society, Dr Valenzuela is committed to communicating ideas on the prevention of dementia to the public. |
 |
Professor Jim Hawkins AM
Jim Hawkins received both his undergraduate and post-graduate training at Sydney University. Certified by the Australian Orthodontic Board, he practises orthodontics in Sydney and Orange, NSW.
He teaches orthodontics at Sydney University, where he co-ordinates the Continuing Education Orthodontics Program. In 1999, he was appointed Adjunct Associate Professor in the Faculty of Dentistry.
Other professional activities include Trustee and Chair of the Australian Society of Orthodontists Foundation for Research and Education, Chair of the Dental Care Assessment Committee of the Dental Board of NSW and member of the Committee for Continuing Education in Dentistry. He is currently Chair of the Impaired Registrants' Panel of the Dental Board of NSW and a Member of the Dental Tribunal.
|
|
|
|
|
