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Our Schedule
Plan Your Day
We’re happy to share the full schedule for Australasian Mobile FEES Symposium 2020. Check out the information below to see what’s planned and when each activity is taking place. Feel free to reach out with any questions!
0830 - 0900
Registration
0900 - 0915
Introduction to the day:
Olga Birchall
0915 - 1000
Death by Chocolate Cake is no longer a figurative phrase
Professor Jo Ibrahim
1005 - 1050
Changes in swallowing in older age
Dr Anna Miles
1050 - 1130
Morning tea,
poster viewing and networking
1130 - 1205
Shining the endoscopic light on dysphagia:
insights into FEES practices in Australia
Michelle Cimoli
1205 - 1250
Mobile FEES: the power of choice
Olga Birchall
1250 - 1340
Lunch,
poster viewing and networking
1345 - 1420
Policy considerations and innovation in dysphagia care in Australian Residential Aged Care Homes
Dr Michelle Bennett
1425 - 1455
i. Remarkable anatomy, an ENT perspective
ii. Adverse event management
Dr Amanda Richards
1455Â - 1515
Mobile FEES experience: practical considerations
Dr Gustavo Knoffs
1515Â - 1630
Discussion Panel
Moderated by Nadine Lawson,
Manager Speech Pathology and Dietetics, Cabrini Health
Professor Joseph E IBRAHIM
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MBBS, GradCHE, PhD FAFPHM, FRACP
Joseph is a Professor at the Department of Forensic Medicine, Monash University, Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine where he is head of the Health Law and Ageing Research Unit, an Adjunct Professor at Australian Centre for Evidence Based Aged Care, LaTrobe University, and a practising senior consultant specialist in geriatric medicine with over 30 years experience. Joseph’s ongoing research is investigating approaches to reducing harm to older persons living in Residential Aged Care Services, improving quality of life and ensuring proper clinical and medical care standards are maintained and practiced. Joseph is also a producer, co-writer and narrator of three short films about ethical issues facing health professionals when providing care for persons with dementia and ageing including Dignity of Risk (2017), Not for resuscitation and dementia (2015) and, Driving and dementia (2013).
Dr Anna Miles
PhD, Speech Pathologist, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
Dr Anna Miles is a practising speech-language therapist with 20 years of experience working in the acute and community setting. Anna is a senior lecturer at The University of Auckland. She is a researcher, lecturer and clinician in the area of voice and swallowing disorders. Anna runs a hospital-based student teaching clinic as well as an outpatient voice and swallowing rehabilitation clinic. She is the New Zealand Speech-language Therapists’ Association Clinical Expert in Adult Dysphagia.
The Swallowing Research Laboratory in the Centre of Brain Research at The University of Auckland, led by Dr Miles, strives to improve the lives of people with swallowing difficulties through improved assessment, treatment and medical education. The laboratory hopes to reduce the risks of pneumonia and death associated with swallowing difficulties as well as improve the quality of life of suffers.
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Dr Michelle Bennett
BSpHgSc, MSpLgPath, PhD,
Speech Pathologist
Dr Michelle Bennett is a speech pathologist and researcher with current research focus on facilitating independence and choice for older people within consumer-directed models of care. Michelle is a strong advocate of the right of older people to continue to be independent in their decisions and to be supported to participate in meaningful life activities. Michelle has a long history of representation of speech pathology and allied health on government sector reference groups with an ongoing interest in the influence of policy on clinical care and consumer well-being.
Michelle Cimoli
Speech pathologist, CPSP, PhD Candidate
Michelle Cimoli is a speech pathologist with over 20 years of experience working in the area of dysphagia. She has worked in a range of clinical settings in Australia and UK. She currently works part-time at Austin Health in the radiation oncology setting. She also leads the FEES training program at Austin Health.
Michelle was one of the early-adopters of FEES in Australia. She was involved in establishing FEES at Austin Health where FEES has been part of clinical practice since 2004. She has studied the use of FEES in USA, UK and Singapore while engaged in two travelling fellowships. She has led state-based and national projects to establish FEES practice and training guidelines.
Michelle is a PhD candidate at La Trobe University. Her project is focused on developing and evaluating a FEES assessment tool.
Dr Amanda Richards
MBBS (Hons), FRACS
Otolaryngologist, Head and Neck Surgeon
Dr Amanda Richards is an Australian ear, nose and throat surgeon with dual fellowship training both laryngology and head and neck oncologic surgery. Along with her private voice, swallow and airway practice at Pinnacle Surgery, Amanda leads the Laryngology service at The Royal Melbourne Hospital. Amanda is the recent past president of the Australian Voice Association and a current board member of the Laryngology Society of Australasia.
Dr Gustavo Knoffs
Otolaryngologist
Gustavo has worked for nine years as an Otolaryngologist Surgeon and lecturer in Brazil with focus in laryngology (voice and swallowing). He was responsible for training ENT residents in laryngology at two universities. He also routinely conducted home and facility-based FESS assessments through his private practice. Â He is currently studying the interactions between voice, speech and neurodegeneration as a PhD student at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
Olga Birchall
Speech Pathologist, PhD candidate
Olga Birchall is a speech pathologist with a passion for informed decision making and equity in service delivery.
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She graduated from La Trobe university with first class honours in 2000. Over the past 19 years she has worked in multiple acute teaching hospitals in Australia and the UK with diverse clinical caseloads, published in academic journals, and participated in an award winning Speech Pathology Australia media campaign. Olga runs a successful mobile Speech Pathology practice servicing residential aged care homes and acute hospitals. The mix of skills acquired through managing diverse clinical caseloads across the continuum of care has ignited Olga’s passion to explore creative solutions for improved dysphagia care in older adults. Currently, she is undertaking PhD studies on a scholarship through the University of Melbourne examining instrumental swallowing assessment in adults in residential aged care homes.
Sponsors
Working Together
Flavour Creations
Flavour Creations is dedicated to enhancing the quality of human life through its constant pursuit of ground-breaking dysphagia and nutritional product innovations. For 22 years, the company’s range of great-tasting pre-thickened drinks, high quality thickening powders and advanced nutrition offerings have delivered better patient outcomes and restored dignity and independence back to its customers.
Precise
Precise is an Australian Manufacturer of liquid thickeners, pre-thickened beverages, and Nutritional Supplements. Marketed into the Healthcare Markets across Australia, primarily to Hospitals, Aged Care Facilities, and Community. Well known for its unique liquid thickener, Precise Thick’n Instant, and it’s dairy based Nutritional offering, Enprocal.
Tristel
Tristel is the global leader in chlorine dioxide disinfectant solutions for infection prevention and contamination control. Its lead technology has been a ground-breaking innovation in the world of Infection Control. Tristel has been providing hospitals around the world with the safest, fastest and smartest disinfectant solutions for over two decades.
Nestle Health Science
Nestlé Health Science is advancing the therapeutic role of nutrition to change the course of health management for consumers, patients and our partners in healthcare. Through investing in innovation and leveraging leading edge science, we are striving to forge a new industry based upon nutritional therapies, quality of life benefits and proven clinical and health economic value.
C. R. Kennedy Medical Solutions
C.R. Kennedy and Company Pty. Ltd. is Australia’s foremost importer and distributor of Photographic, Survey, Medical and Surveillance equipment and is a 100% family owned. Since 2012 CR Kennedy has been the distributor of the award-winning Xion Medical products from Germany.
Xion Medical offers state-or-the-art Stroboscopy, FEES Stations, mobile solutions & instrumentation.
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