Program

The Conference Organising Committee are pleased to present a draft Program for the COSA Cancer Care Coordination 2012 conference.

Conference Themes

1. Increasing Demands Verses Quality Care
2. Survivorship
3. Care of the older patient
4. Career Development – expanding horizons

Monday 5th March - draft subject to change

5:00pm-6:30pm | Registrations, Poster Session, Welcome to Country and                              Welcome Drinks

Tuesday 6th March - draft subject to change 

9:00am-9:10am | Official Welcome  
     Prof Patsy Yates, Professor of Nursing at Queensland University of Technology

9:10am-9:30am | Helen Zorbas, CEO of Cancer Australia

9:30am-10:30am | Prof Emma Ream, Professor of Nursing, King's College London -  Evolving Perspective of Coordinated Care

10:30am-11:00am | Morning Tea

11:00am-12:30pm | Coordinated Care for the Elderly – presenting the art of the possible!
Chair: Robyn Sharman

• Christopher Steer - Medical Oncology Perspective (15mins)
  
• Kheng Soo - Geriatric principles in cancer treatment of the elderly (15mins)
• Janette Prouse - Royal Adelaide Geriatric Oncology Service - What do we do and how do we do it (10mins)
  
• Jane Phillips (10mins)
  
• Jenny O'Connor  - Supportive Care Screening - the Community Context (10mins)
• Discussion Panel (30mins)
  

12:30pm-1:30pm | Posters & Lunch

1:30pm-3:00pm | Workshops

Workshop 1 - Caring for Ourselves
Facilitator: Jane Gray

Workshop 2 - Future Research: Where are the gaps & what is the question?
Facilitator: Patsy Yates

Workshop 3 - Experience Based Co-Design: An innovative method to identify and bring about service developments
Facilitator: Emma Ream

3:00pm-3:30pm | Afternoon Tea

3:30pm-5:00pm | Abstract Presentations - 15mins each, 6 per stream

Stream 1 - Professional Practice.  Chair: Marcia Fleet
Stream 2 - Research, Evaluation and Development.  Chair: Megan Rogers
Stream 3 - Supportive Care.  Chair: TBA

5:15pm-6:00pm | Optional Conference Activity - Promenade walk

7:00pm+ | Conference dinner at Novotel 

Wednesday 7th March - draft subject to change

8:00am-9:30am | Survivorship - When does it start and when does it end?
Chair: Violet Platt

• Michael Jefford – The UK experience on survivorship concerns
• Bogda Koczwara – The standards of survivorship care - US model and what it may mean for Australia
• Amanda Robertson – A nurse led cancer survivorship clinic
• Jacinta Elks – Survivorship Intervention - A Cancer Care Coordination Initiative 
• Discussion Panel (20mins) "What can be achieved working as a network and how we can progress better management of cancer survivors."
  Featuring Todd Harper, CEO Cancer Council Victoria

9:30am-10:30am | Indigenous Health: Engaging & Support for Indigenous Communities
Chair: Louise Underhill

• Veronica Saunders – Aboriginal Patterns of Cancer Care Study + Cancer Learning resources 
• Ali Drummond – Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural Capability in contemporary health practices associated with dying and death     
• Josie Owens and Carolyn Selby - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders patients with cancer: Stories, Issues and Outcomes
  

10:30am-11:00am | Morning Tea

11:00am-12:30pm | "I'm the only one under 60 in the waiting room!"- Aged based screening tools & assessment measures to provide best practice supported care for Adolescents & Young Adults.
Chair: Jacinta Elks

• Pandora Patterson
• Kate Thompson
• Gillian Myles
  

12:30pm-1:15pm | Posters, Prizes & Lunch

1:15pm-2:00pm | Where are we now? - COSA Cancer Care Coordination Working Group Updates
Chair: Patsy Yates

• Douglas Bellamy - Education & Conference 
• Jacinta Elks - Networking & Communication
• Patsy Yates - Research
• Violet Platt - Nurse leaders
  

2:00pm-2:15pm | Close