Mind Games: Our Health System - doing better, but feeling worse

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Rob graduated in Science from the Australian National University in 1975. After a brief stint playing with animals at the CSIRO he enrolled in medicine at Flinders University, graduating in the inaugural year in 1980. After postgraduate training in family medicine he became a GP in 1983. Unable to quit the study habit, he obtained postgraduate qualifications in obstetrics, medical hypnosis, hyperbaric medicine and family planning. Rob completed a Masters in Health Service Management in 1998. He worked for the Commonwealth from 1995 to 2003 as Senior Medical Adviser in the General Practice Branch. In 2003 he returned to South Australia to the University of Adelaide and in 2005 took up his current position as Executive Director, Primary Health Care, Central Northern Adelaide Health Service. He remains in part-time general practice and is the honorary Secretary of the SA RACGP Faculty. In his spare time Rob reads good books, drinks good wine and messes about with old cars. He is co-leader of the Flinders Ambassadors in the Community (FACes) Health/Medical sub-group.

Panellists:

 

Professor Christopher Baggoley, BMBS 1980, BSocAdmin 1984 Flin

Christopher is currently the Chief Medical Officer with the SA Department of Health and immediately prior to this headed the Emergency Department of the Royal Adelaide Hospital. In 1986 he was admitted to the Australian College of Emergency Medicine, following his burgeoning interest in the new speciality of emergency medicine. Two years later he was appointed as Specialist-in-Charge of the Accident and Emergency Department of Flinders Medical Centre, and in 1990 he became the Foundation Director of Emergency Medicine. He was also a Senior Lecturer in the School of Medicine at Flinders University, producing extensive publications and regularly giving local, interstate and international presentations. Christopher served on the Editorial Board of the prestigious journal Emergency Medicine . He has been active in the development of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine and served as President. Christopher also found time to be the Director of Emergency Services at Ashford Private Community Hospital, spend many weekends at the Mt Gambier Hospital's Emergency Department, as well as serve on various State Government health related Committees. He has also served as a Board member of the International Federation of Emergency Medicine, thus testifying to international recognition from his peers. In 1999 he received the University's Convocation Medal for outstanding achievement by a graduate.

Associate Professor Pauline Glover, DipT(NursEd) 1980, MNgSt (Cwk) 1994, EDD 2001 Flin

Pauline is Associate Dean (Academic) in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Flinders University, and has made an enormous contribution to Midwifery education over the past 23 years in South Australia and Australia. Pauline was awarded a Distinguished Alumni Award in 2006 to acknowledge her work in developing both undergraduate and postgraduate education programmes, in professional development, and service to the profession of Midwifery, as well her contribution to Flinders University through service to the Alumni Association and Flinders Ambassadors in the Community (FACes).

Professor Ross Kalucy

Ross graduated in 1966 from the University of Sydney and did his training, firstly as a physician in the Royal Australian College of Physicians and then as a Psychiatrist in the Australian New Zealand College of Psychiatrists. He then did his post-graduate work in St George's Hospital in London, working mainly in the area of anorexia nervosa, obesity and migraine and psychosomatic disorders. He also pursued interests in psychoanalytic and group analytic therapy. He subsequently held a tenured position as Senior Lecturer in the University of London. He returned to Australia in 1976/77 as Foundation Professor of Psychiatry at Flinders Medical School and has remained there ever since. He spent many years with the National Health and Medical Research Council, including Chairmanship of the National Health and Research Council Ethics Committee, was a member of the Medical Research Advisory Committee and the Public Health Advisory Committee, and ran as Chairman the Priority Research Committee for the NH&MRC. He is the Director of Emergency Medicine in Mental Health and is developing programs in that area for patients who present in a state of crisis. His current area of research is crisis-oriented therapy.

Kathy Mott, BA 1982 Flin

Kathy became active in the consumer health movement in 1988 following the stillbirth of her first child, Christopher. Her involvement with the Stillbirth and Neo-Natal Death Support group (SANDS) has continued and she is now on its South Australian Advisory Group. Professionally, Kathy began her career in rural Victoria working closely with local people as a community development officer, a social planner and policy advisor. She was Executive Officer to one of the two urban Health and Social Welfare Councils in SA, with a key role in assisting local people with health issues influence service delivery and policy. Kathy was an active associate of the Consumers' Health Forum of Australia, both as a consultant and as a consumer representative on a range of Commonwealth policy and program evaluation committees. She developed a strong interest and expertise in primary health care policy and service delivery, primarily general practice and pharmacy services. She was the sole consumer representative on the Board of AGPAL (Australian General Practice Accreditation Ltd) for four years and has had extensive input to the development and evaluation of standards of practice for both general practice and pharmacy. Kathy has a Bachelor of Arts degree (Sociology) from Flinders and is currently the Business Development Officer with a private research company focusing on environmental contamination and remediation.

Jane Pickering, BNg (PostReg) 1994 Flin

Jane has worked in the health industry since 1980 in a range of settings and roles including acute care and midwifery, rural and remote, health promotion and community development. Her current role is as the CEO of Metropolitan Domiciliary Care, which provides community support services to help people to stay living in their homes. Jane has also been the chair of the research, workforce and education task group for the Generational Health Review in SA. She is a surveyor for the Australian Council on Health Care Standards and a Board member of the Aged and Community Services Inc and Advanced Community Care Association. She is a member of many different committees and working groups in health and aged and community care.

Dana Shen

As Executive Director, Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Health, Dana is responsible for ensuring the effectiveness of service delivery to local communities to work towards an improvement in overall Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Health outcomes. This position faces a range of challenges that include the under representation of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people in the health workforce. Dana began work with young people in the Hills Mallee Southern Region at Adelaide Hills Community Health Service and Murray Mallee Community Health Service. Supported by the Regional Health Service, she developed a Regional Youth Plan and worked with the Murray Mallee Aboriginal community in developing health services for the local community as a Project Officer and as the Chair of the local Aboriginal Health Advisory Committee. Following this, Dana moved to the former Office for Country Health (Department of Health) as Manager of Aboriginal Programs.

Leena Sudano, LLB (Grad Entry) 2001 Flin

Leena Sudano is SA's first Health and Community Services Complaints Commissioner. Her wide-ranging experience includes nursing and midwifery, community services, law and health service improvement. On April 4, 2005, Leena took up her leadership role resolving complaints about health and community services, across the public, private and non-government sectors. As Commissioner, she has broad powers to assess, investigate, conciliate and remedy individual complaints. Crucially, she also focuses on system-wide recommendations to improve the safety and quality of health and community services. HCSCC opened to the public on October 4, 2005 and its child protection complaints jurisdiction started in July 2006.

 

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