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The 31st Annual Medico Legal Congress will be returning to the Swissotel, Sydney in March 2022. We are also offering the option to attend the event virtually.
Join us at Australia’s premiere medico legal event and a highlight on the calendar of the nation’s medico legal professionals. The congress features a highly credentialed speaker faculty 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.
Topics to be addressed include:
- The liability around contracting COVID-19 as a Health Practitioner, who is responsible?
- Decision making frameworks and determining capacity
- Has the COVID-19 era, seen an increase in ‘medical negligence’ as a consequence of a reliance on telehealth?
- The key to medico legal case is being a good expert witness
- Dental & body modification consent issues including “informed consent” vs failure to warn
- Johnson & Johnson vaginal mesh litigation: what you thought you knew
- Voluntary Assisted Dying: Addressing the 3 new Bills
- NDIS – Recent Cases and Trends
- Ethical dilemmas in emergency treating patients with specific cultural considerations
- Addressing good medical practice: sexual misconduct within the clinical setting
- The Australian Covid 19 compensation scheme
- Medical negligence and the Pandemic
- Affirmative Management of Gender Dysphoria
- Police detain and transport powers under Australian mental health acts – community safety or violation of rights?
- Rural vs City medicine in Antenatal and Obstetric care
speakers
Bill Madden
Special Counsel, Carroll & O’Dea Lawyers
A/Prof Tina Cockburn
Co-Director, Australian Centre for Health Law Research, Faculty of Law, Queensland University of Technology
Janine McIlwraith
Principal Lawyer, Margalit Lawyers
Louise Cantrill
Partner, Mills Oakley
Dr Vijay Roach
Immediate Past President, RANZCOG
Nick Mann
Founder and Principal, Polaris Lawyers
Professor Ben White
Professor of End-of-Life Law and Regulation, Australian Centre for Health Law Research, Queensland University of Technology
Rebecca Jancauskas
Practice Leader Class Actions, Shine Lawyers
Justine Anderson
Associate, Carroll & O’Dea Lawyers
A/Professor Marie Bismark
Associate Professor of Law and Public Health (Centre for Health Policy), University of Melbourne
Dr Anne Tonkin
Chair, Medical Board of Australia
Tom Ballantyne
Principal Lawyer, Maurice Blackburn Lawyers
Dr Ian Freckelton AO QC
Co-Director of Studies, Health and Medical Law, University of Melbourne, Professorial Fellow, Victorian Bar
Bree Knoester
Founder, Brave Legal
Alison Choy Flannigan
Partner and Leader Health & Community, Hall & Wilcox
Kate Gillman
Head of Medico-Legal Advisory Service, Avant
Professor Damon Eisen
Acting Director Infectious Diseases and Infection Prevention, Peninsula Health
A/Professor David Hunter
Associate Professor of Medical Ethics in the School of Medicine, University of Adelaide
A/Professor Alexander Holden
Head of Specialist Services, Sydney Dental Hospital and Oral Health Services, Sydney Local Health District
Sara-Ann Harn
Nursing and Midwifery Co-Director, (Division of Women, Children and Youth), Royal Darwin Hospital
Dr Jeremy Chin
Medical Co-Director (Women, Children and Youth), Royal Darwin Hospital
Timothy Bowen
Manager – Advocacy & Legal Services, MIGA
Dr Katie Wynne
Conjoint Associate Professor, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Newcastle
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when & where
15 - 16 Mar 2022
Swissotel Sydney
68 Market St
Sydney NSW 2000
Ph: +61 (02) 9238 8888
contact
Still have a question?
Katrina Bowns
Conference Producer
katrina.bowns@informa.com.au
Danielle Newman
Senior Business Development Manager
+61 2 9080 4318
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