Practice Managers’ Conference: Speaker’s Details Speaker: Tracey Spicer Organisation: Keynote Speaker (Sponsored by Novartis) Session: Saturday 830-930 Background: Tracey Spicer AM is a multiple Walkley Award winning author, journalist and broad-caster who has anchored national programs for ABC TV and radio, Network Ten and Sky News. The inaugural national convenor of Women in Media, Tracey is one of the most sought-after keynote speakers and emcees in the region. In 2019 she was named the NSW Premier’s Woman of the Year, accepted the Sydney Peace Prize alongside Ta-rana Burke for the Me Too movement, and won the national award for Excellence in Women’s Leadership through Women & Leadership Australia. In 2018, Tracey was chosen as one of the Australian Financial Review’s 100 Women of Influence, winning the Social Enterprise and Not-For-Profit category. She was also named Agenda Setter of the Year by the website Women’s Agenda. For her 30 years of media and charity work, Tracey has been awarded the Order of Australia. Highlights of her outstanding career include writing, producing and presenting docu-mentaries on women and girls in Bangladesh, Kenya, Uganda, Papua New Guinea and India. She is an Ambassador for ActionAid, World Vision, Cancer Council NSW, Domestic Violence NSW, the Full Stop Foundation, QUT’s Learning Potential Fund, SISTER2sister and Purple Our World, and Patron of the Pancreatic Cancer Alliance. Her first book, The Good Girl Stripped Bare, became a bestseller within weeks of publication, while her TEDx Talk, The Lady Stripped Bare, has attracted more than five million views worldwide. Tracey’s essays have appeared in dozens of books in-cluding Women of Letters, She’s Having a Laugh, Father Figures, Unbreakable, and Bewitched & Bedevilled: Women Write the Gillard Years. She is currently working on a documentary about the #metoo movement, which she spearheaded in Australia through tireless investigative journalism. Email: [email protected] Facebook: The Real Tracey Spicer Twitter & In-stagram: @TraceySpicer Presenting: 45 mins plus Q+A/meet and greet for 15 mins Speaker: Julie Larkin Organisation: Wageloch (Associate Sponsor) Session: Saturday 1030-1100 Background: Julie has worked in the payroll and labour management field for over 13 years. She met Lachlan Sedsman, the owner of WageLoch 12 years ago and referred clients to his business. With her vast experience she understands the complexities of awards and how they can be interpreted. There are a lot of grey areas the team at WageLoch come across and expert advice from FairWork or a HR advisor is sometimes required. It’s hard for a business to maintain compliance and to eliminate risks in this ever evolving area of employee conditions. Presenting: A Fully Fitted Out Toolbox Will Keep You Compliant RANZCO 51st Annual Scientific Congress – Sydney – Practice Managers’ Conference, Speakers Details – Page 1 of 11 Compliance around pay rates, payroll, certifications is an ongoing and ever evolving commitment to your business. How do you keep up to date? How do you know you if you are underpaying staff? What are the risks? There are a lot of grey areas within awards, EBA’s, FIA’s or other employment agreements and its up to you to keep up to date. Julie, from WageLoch, will be outlining the risks and how to overcome them. Speaker: John Stokes Organisation: Inservio (Premium Sponsor) Session: Saturday 1105-1205 Background: John has over 25 years’ experience in pharmaceuticals working in R&D, strategic planning, marketing and sales and general management. Prior to his current role as Director of Inservio – a leading provider of services to specialty medicine clinics and patients, John was Assistant CEO at Novartis (Switzerland), Regional Head of Novartis Ophthalmic (Asia Pacific) and General Manager of Sandoz ANZ. John holds a PhD from The University of Sydney and is currently Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Biomedical Sciences at Charles Stuart University. Presenting: The impact of anti-VEGF treatment costs on patient outcomes A large pharmacy dispensary database was analysed to understand current treatment patterns and patient adherence rates for anti-VEGF therapy in Australia. A subanalysis explored the effect of cost on these key metrics of patient outcome. With these learnings in mind, the potential impact of recommendations of the Medicare Benefits Schedule Review Taskforce: Ophthalmology Report (October 2019) patients with nAMD and DMO and the clinics who treat them will be discussed. Speaker: Laila Tabassum Organisation: Australian Digital Health Agency Session: Saturday - Lunch Session 1230-1330 Background: Laila is a medical doctor with experience in General Practice, Oncology and Psychiatry research. She has been working with My Health Record since 2013. In her current role as an Education and Clinical Use Lead with the Australian Digital Health Agency Laila has been educating and training healthcare providers and consumer groups on My Health Record, secure messaging and other digital health technologies. Presenting: Realising the benefits of My Health Record: for your practice, practitioners and patients 9 out of 10 Australians now have a My Health Record, a tool which has the potential to improve medicines safety, enhance coordination of care and potentially reduce avoidable hospital admissions. At a practice level, use of My Health Record may introduce efficiencies to streamline existing business, administrative and clinical processes. The Australian Digital Health Agency is pleased to present an overview of the national My Health Record system highlighting the benefits for healthcare providers, the practice as a whole and, most importantly, for the patient receiving care. This session will focus on getting started with My Health Record and provide tips and strategies for embedding the use of My Health Record within practice workflow. RANZCO 51st Annual Scientific Congress – Sydney – Practice Managers’ Conference, Speakers Details – Page 2 of 11 Speaker: Angela Mason-Lynch Organisation: Avant Mutual Group Session: Saturday 13.30-1400 & Sunday 1500-1530 Background: Angela has extensive experience managing practices of various disciplines and size. A past State and National AAPM President, Fellow, Life Member & Certified Practice Manager. She has experience as a Board Member and expert committee member for multiple bodies in healthcare. Angela has experience as an accreditation surveyor and an assessor and trainer for University of New England Partnerships, she is a Registered Nurse with a Post Grad Certificate in Nursing Management, a Diploma in Practice Management and is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Angela has a history of commitment to ensuring health care is delivered safely with quality outcomes in a financially viable environment that is a desirable place in which to work. Presenting: Leadership in a Dynamic Environment This session is about the importance of strategic leadership; how to engage your team and lead them while effectively managing. It discusses strategies to help you keep your people on the desired practice journey. Presenting: Current Risk Evolution in Practice A quick look at some of the current risks challenging us in our health care environment and some tips to manage these. Specifically looking at Cyber Security, Effective Meetings, Educating the support team and setting clear expectations for our people. Speaker: David Wenban Organisation: Australian Health Industry Group (AHIG) Session: Saturday 1405-1505 / 1530-1630 / 1630-1730 Background: David is the Managing Director of the Australian Health Industry Group, a customer centric human resources solutions business aimed at the health, community services and not for profit sector delivering consulting, training, human resources, legal and corporate services to its clients across Australia. In addition to these activities the AHIG also owns and operates four of its own medical clinics in Victoria, including a GP clinic within the Emergency Department at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne. As a lawyer, David first commenced practice some 15 years ago where he specializes in employment, OH&S and industrial relations law, and he is well known for his understanding of the health & community services industry’s intricacies and his ability to deliver concise and pragmatic advice about most issues. As a business consultant and mentor David is well known and valued for his capacity to “keep it simple” by focussing on your customers, your people, your business strategy and its execution. Using his formal clinical, management and legal qualifications David has adopted his pragmatic approach to deliver presentations laced with humour, common sense and experience that have translated to him being in high demand as a presenter, coach and facilitator. He regularly writes articles and commentary for various corporate and professional newsletters journals, magazines and websites. Presenting: Emerging HR and Legal Issues RANZCO 51st Annual Scientific Congress – Sydney – Practice Managers’ Conference, Speakers Details – Page 3 of 11 When we speak of complying with our legislative obligations, we have to understand the legal framework within which you must operate, and how you are expected to treat your employees. This session will address the emerging legislative and HR related issues for managers in relation to staffing, setting policies, remuneration and benefits, retention, training, employment laws, and work health safety. What