Invited Speakers

Keynote update:

The GP10 steering committee would like to advise that due to unforseen circumstances, Professor Barbara Starfield is unable to attend the GP10 conference in Cairns. We apologise for any inconvenience this may have caused.

Professor Paul Glasziou

‘Navigating the Future: steering between innovation and fashion'

Professor Paul Glasziou MB BS, PhD, FRACGP was the Director of the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine at Oxford University until June 2009. He recently took up an NHMRC Australia Fellowship to undertake research on the causes and cures for the evidence practice gap. He is now the Director of the Centre for Research in Evidence-Based Health Care at Bond University, and Professor of Evidence-Based Medicine in the department of Primary Care at the University of Oxford, and also continues work as a part-time General Practitioner.

His research and teaching interests are in improving medical decision making, including clinical trials, systematic reviews and evidence-based medicine. He has authored over 160 peer-reviewed journal articles, which have a total of over 10,000 citations. Dr Glasziou's key interests include identifying and removing the barriers to using high quality research in everyday clinical practice. He is the author of six books related to evidence based practice: Systematic Reviews in Health Care, Decision Making in Health Care and Medicine: integrating evidence and values, An Evidence-Based Medicine Workbook, Clinical Thinking: Evidence, Communication and Decision-making, Evidence-Based Medicine: How to Practice and Teach EBM, and Evidence-Based Medical Monitoring: Principles and Practice.

As Director of the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine since 2002, Professor Glasziou has lead numerous workshops, in several countries, on both practicing Evidence-Based Medicine, and how to teach Evidence-Based

Dean Barton-Smith

‘Your future is whatever you make it: an Olympian perspective’

Dean has accumulated more than 22 years experience in the field of marketing / public affairs and strategic / corporate planning within the telecommunication, sport, government, retail, health care, community and disability sectors.

A Masters in Marketing degree (Monash University), Dean served in a senior role in marketing & communication for a national telecommunications service organisation for close to a decade. One of his projects saw him winning a state marketing award and also finalist in the National Marketing Awards. He has served in a CEO capacity for a New Zealand based organisation and currently CEO for the Australian Association of Practice Managers.

Dean has served on a number of Boards and Committees for state / national organisations (including not for profit) and is often sought for presentations and motivational speeches ranging from community organisations to high level business, health care and government departments.

Dean’s involvement in sports is extensive having represented Australia at the 1990 & 1994 Commonwealth Games and 1992 Olympic Games in his chosen event, Decathlon (Athletics).

A medalist at the Australian Surf Life Saving Championships (Beach Relay) and State Beach Sprint & Relay Champion (South Australia), Dean has also competed in a number of professional running events such as the Bay Sheffield in South Australia.

He was awarded the Advance Australia Award and the Australian Sports Medal for services to sport and community.

Professor Michael Kidd

'Shaping your future: what happens next?'

Michael Kidd is Executive Dean of Health Sciences (including the School of Medicine and the School of Nursing and Midwifery) at Flinders University based in Adelaide and with clinical schools and research centres in South Australia, the Northern Territory and Western Victoria. He also works as a general practitioner in South Australia and the Northern Territory with special interests in the care of people with HIV and Indigenous Health. He is the chair of the Australian Government’s Ministerial Advisory Committee on Blood Borne Viruses and Sexually Transmissible Infections which leads Australia’s national strategies for the prevention and treatment of HIV, hepatitis B, hepatitis C and sexually transmissible infections. He was President of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners from 2002-2006.

Professor John Murtagh

Professor John Murtagh is Emeritus Professor, Monash University and Professorial Fellow in the Department of General Practice, University of Melbourne. He is also Guest Professor, Peking University, Beijing and Adjunct Clinical Professor, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Notre Dame, Western Australia. He is Senior Examiner-Australian Medical Council, consultant to Global Family Doctor and Locumotion (of Ireland) and Patron of General Practitioners Registrar’s Association. He practices part-time in general practice and currently has teaching responsibilities at three universities in addition to conducting national workshops for registrars in the General Practice Training Program. He is the author of several internationally adopted text books including General Practice, Practice Tips, Patient Education and Cautionary Tales. Murtagh’s General Practice has been translated into 11 languages and has been adopted by the Russian and Chinese Ministries of Health. In 1995 he was awarded the Member of the Order of Australia for services to medical education, research and publishing.

Dr Gillian Braunold

via video conference
General practice at the forefront of the electronic health record: lessons learned from the UK
Hosted by Dr Mukesh Haikerwal

Dr Gillian Braunold has been a general practitioner in London for 27 years practising in a socially deprived neighbourhood and as a trainer of GP registrars.

Gillian has a long standing interest in education and training with respect to health care informatics. During her time representing North and Central London on the GP committee of the BMA for seven years she was deputy chair of the IM&T subcommittee and a member of the BMA IT Committee. Responsibilities included ensuring the IT elements of the GP contract were sound and in particular the complexities underlying the Quality and Outcomes Framework section of the contract.

Gillian has lectured widely on how to achieving clinical engagement and enabling clinicians to engage with the Quality and Outcomes Framework of rewarding outcome measure within Primary Care.

Since 1997 Gillian has regularly worked for the General Medical Council as a performance assessor and as an expert witness.
In 2004 Gillian was appointed Joint national Clinical Lead for General Practice within NHS Connecting for Health- to ensure that products being developed were fit for purpose from the GP perspective, and at the same time to raise clinical engagement and to explain the nature of the Care Record Service and its various programmes to the clinicians.

She helped draw up the IM&T DES which has enabled GPs to be paid extra remuneration against data quality achievements measured through CHART that are separate to the Quality and Outcomes Framework. The data quality work has been an essential prerequisite before practices are able to send data to the Summary care Record – to enable “data fit for sharing”.
The role of National Clinical Lead enabled Gillian to help in the design and testing and clinical engagement necessary for success of the Summary Care Record. As the first early adopters were initiated Gillian was first asked to be clinical lead and then appointed Clinical Director of the Summary Care Record and HealthSpace programmes in 2007.

Dr Mukesh Haikerwal

Dr Mukesh Haikerwal is a practicing General Medical Practitioner, Commissioner to the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission and Professor in the School of Medicine in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia. He is currently working with the National e-Health Transition Authority (NEHTA) as the National Clinical Lead, leading a team of healthcare providers from multi disciplinary backgrounds, to assist in NEHTA’s liaison with the healthcare community and to provide input into the development of the NEHTA work program to deliver e-health for Australia. He was also the former head of the Federal Australian Medical Association (AMA) that is responsible for national policy development, lobbying with federal parliamentarians, co-ordinating activity across the AMA State entities and representing the AMA and its members nationally and internationally.

Dr Brad Murphy

'Our new faculty working together in shaping the future of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health.'

Dr Brad Murphy is the Inaugural Chair of the National Faculty of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health. An Aboriginal man from the Kamilaroi people of northwest NSW, he played a large, pivotal role in the establishment of the Faculty.

Dr Murphy knew he wanted to work in medicine from a young age. During his career as a GP, he has practiced in rural and remote areas, including 18 months as a medical student in Mount Isa (northwest Queensland) and several years in Theodore (west Queensland). He currently works as a solo general practitioner in Eidsvold (central Queensland), providing health care to a community of around 1,000 people.

Prior to becoming a GP, he worked in a variety of roles including a stint in the navy and working as an intensive care paramedic in NSW and as a paramedic with the Royal Flying Doctor Service at Uluru (Ayers Rock) before returning to study medicine as mature age student.

Dr Murphy hopes the new Faculty will provide support to general practitioners to enable them to provide culturally safe and relevant care to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People.

Key Dates

Abstract Submissions Open	March 2010
Abstract Submissions Close	14 May 2010
Registrations opened	May 2010
Authors notified of acceptance	July 2010
Early Bird Registrations close	Extended to 13 August 2010
Photo competition closes	27 August 2010
Presenter registration deadline	August 2010
GP10	6-9 October 2010