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The 30th Annual Medico Legal Congress will be held on 22-23rd March 2021 at the Swissotel Sydney. We are also offering the option to attend the event virtually.
Join us as we mark the 30th anniversary of Australia’s premiere medico legal event and a highlight on the calendar of the nation’s medico legal professionals. The congress features wonderfully credentialed speakers addressing complex and thought-provoking medico legal issues, reviewing recent cases and discussing the future of healthcare and hospitals – from GPs to surgery in a post COVID world.
Featuring keynote speakers:
The Honourable Justice Ian G. Harrison
Covid 19 in Australia: Perspectives from the frontline
Dr Stephen Parnis, Emergency Physician, St Vincent’s Hospital, Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital, Werribee Mercy Hospital and former Vice President, AMA
Topics we are aiming to address include:
- The future of healthcare and hospitals – from GPs to surgery in a post COVID world
- The Aged Care Royal Commission
- Covid class actions
- Should Australia should adopt a duty of candour as the UK has done?
- Doctors using social media – Recent changes, controversies and cases
- Impairment in physicians: Often not total and permanent
- Telehealth
- Gaining consent for medical treatment for trans and gender diverse youth in Australia
- Civil litigation or conduct actions relating to COVID 19
- Boxell & Ors v Peninsula Health [2019] VSC 830 – Courts and the acceptance of clinical uncertainty
- Medical Board updated Code of Conduct
- Medical staff burnout POST COVID19
- Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care new guidance for clinicians on how to obtain informed consent in health care
- Civil claims area of causation
- Changes in regulatory practice since independent review of the use of chaperones
- Wrongful birth – Persisting questions about damages
- The Patients behaving badly – Balancing duty of care and trespass to the person
speakers
Dr Stephen Parnis
Emergency Physician, St Vincent's Hospital, Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital, Werribee Mercy Hospital and former Vice President, AMA
The Honourable Justice Ian G. Harrison
Dr Kym Jenkins
Chair, Council of Presidents of Medical Colleges (CPMC), Immediate Past President, RANZCP
Bill Madden
Special Counsel, Carroll and O'Dea Lawyers
Professor Anne-Maree Kelly
Senior Emergency Physician, Western Health, Melbourne, Adjunct Professor, ACHLR, Queensland University of Technology
Timothy Bowen
Manager - Advocacy & Legal Services, MIGA
Kylie Agland
Partner, HWL Ebsworth Lawyers
Dr Steph Jowett
Australian Centre for Health Law Research, School of Law, QUT
Annabelle Mann
General Counsel, The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne
Richard Laufer
Chief Legal Officer, Northern Health
Janine McIlwraith
Principal Lawyer, Slater and Gordon Lawyers
Professor Susan Kurrle
Curran Professor in Health Care of Older People, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Clinical Director, Northern Sydney LHD Aged Care and Rehabilitation Network & Senior Staff Specialist Geriatrician, Hornsby Ku-ring-gai and Eurobodalla Health Services
Dr Vijay Roach MBBS MRCOG FRANZCOG
President, Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
Professor Damon Eisen
Acting Director Infectious Diseases and Infection Prevention, Peninsula Health
Associate Professor Tina Cockburn TEP
Co-Director, Australian Centre for Health Law Research, Faculty of Law, Queensland University of Technology
Dr Eliana Close
Australian Centre for Health Law Research
Philip Bates
Barrister, Sir Anthony Mason Chambers
Vicky Antzoulatos
Practice Leader Class Actions, SHINE LAWYERS
Shari R. L. Liby
Accredited Personal Injuries Specialist, and Principal Lawyer in Medical Negligence, Slater and Gordon Lawyers
Dr Amanda Smith
Private Practice Anaesthetist Perth, Western Australia; LLB student, Murdoch University
Professor David Watters AM OBE
University Hospital Geelong, Barwon Health, Alfred Deakin Professor, Deakin University & Chair, Victorian Perioperative Consultative Council
Dr. Sam Bendall
Deputy Director WellMD Centre, SLHD, Emergency Physician, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Retrieval Specialist and Director of Education, CareFlight & NSW Ambulance State Retrieval Consultant
Andrea de Souza
Barrister, Greens List
Dr Anne Tonkin
Chair, Medical Board of Australia
Richard O’Keefe
Barrister, Maurice Byers Chambers
Kate Gillman
Head of Medico-Legal Advisory Service, Avant
Insights
Wrongful birth damages – an interview with Bill Madden
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Professor Euan Wallace’s keynote address at the Medico Legal Congress
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The role and major challenges of a medical legal counsel
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The black, white and grey area of assisted suicide
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Health & Safety
Informa Australia’s events will be organised in accordance with Informa’s AllSecure health and safety standard. As the world’s leading events’ organiser, Informa has developed a detailed set of enhanced measures to provide the highest level of hygiene and safety at its events, providing everyone with reassurance and confidence they are participating in a safe and controlled environment.
Placing your safety at the heart of our events
When you join our event, you can expect to see that health and safety is a priority, and that a range of measures are in place to ensure everyone involved is able to enjoy a safe, hygienic, productive and high-quality organised event experience.
All Informa events will be run according to official government and local authority guidance in the first instance, as well as any venue or location-specific regulations. In addition, Informa Australia will follow ten Informa AllSecure priority commitments.
For more information about Informa Australia’s AllSecure Key Commitments and further details, please visit:
www.informa.com.au/allsecure
when & where
22 - 23 Mar 2021
Swissotel Sydney
68 Market St
Sydney NSW 2000
Ph: +61 (02) 9238 8888
Swissotel Sydney Special Accommodation Rate: 10% discount off best available rate at the time of booking. In order to qualify, please call the Reservations Team on 02 9238 8888 between 9:00am – 5:00pm Monday to Friday or email res.sydney@swissotel.com and quote INFORMA
contact
Still have a question?
Kate Twentyman
Conference Manager
kate.twentyman@informa.com.au
Danielle Newman
Senior Business Development Manager
+61 2 9080 4432
Danielle.Newman@informa.com
