Opening Session
Thursday, 8 October 2009 08:30 - 10:15, Savoy Room 1
Chair Judith Brett VICPA
Welcome Address, VICPA and Housekeeping
Judith Brett, VICPA
Conference Opening - No presentation available
Hon. Daniel Andrews,
Minister for Health, Victorian Government
Measurement, Does it Improve Patient Outcomes?
Maarten Kamp, Centre for Health Care Improvement Queensland Health
Infection Prevention Vs Infection Control- A Focus on
Intervention - No presentation available
Glenys Harrington, Alfred Health
Session 1: Governance
Thursday, 8 October 2009 10:55 - 12:30, Savoy Room
1
Chair Donna Cameron
Private Hospitals Unit & Infection Control - What are They
Looking for?
Jan Wayland, St. Vincents and Mercy Private
Clinical Governance and Infection Control-a beautiful couple
Cathy Balding, Alfred Health
Role of the Senior Program Advisor Infection Control, Quality and
Safety Programs
Bernadette Kennedy, Quality and Safety Program,
Statewide Quality Branch. DHS Victoria
Victorian Advisory Committee on Infection Control-Dispelling the
mystery
Lucy Cuddihy, Barwon Health and Deakin University
Session 2: Public Health and the HCW
Thursday, 8 October 2009 10:55 -
12:30, Savoy Room 2
Chair Sue McLellan
Whoop Whoop Whoop- Impact of Pertussis in the community and health
care facilities
Rosemary Lester, Department of Human Services,
Victoria
Influenza Vaccination of Clinical
Staff--Overcoming the Barriers - Large file please email enquiries@vicpa.org.au for this
presentation
Maureen T Canning, Peninsula Health
The Costs of Containing Measles Within a Health Care Service
Dr Rhonda L Stuart, Southern Health
Immunisation Data
Bases-What we Need and What we Have Go - No presentation available
Lynette R
Hutchison, The Alfred, Bayside Health
Session 3: Engineering Issues
Thursday, 8 October 2009 10:55 - 12:30,
Savoy Room 3
Chair Dr Lorraine Wilson
The Challenge to Achieve a 5 Star Rating in Infection Control
Susan E Harper, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
Commissioning Operating Theatres -What are the Guidelines?
Despina Kotsanas, Southern Health
Maintenance of Critical Care Areas
Kevin Moon, Facilities
Engineering
The Climate and its Impact on Infection Control
Terry
McAuley, Steam Consulting
Free Papers - Occupational Health, Safety and Construction
Thursday, 8
October 2009 13:30 - 15:05, Savoy Room 2
Chair Louise Hobbs
Electronic Staff Health Database: The Home Grown Approach
Matthew Mason, Bairnsdale Regional Health Service
Achieving an Influenza Vaccination Rate Above 80%
Jill M
Wilson, Southern Health
Staff Blood and Body Exposure Management Clinical Pathway
Development - Streamlining the process
Cate M Forster, Peninsula
Health
Can eLearning be Effective for Product Training and the Reduction
of Needlestick Injury Rates?
Sue E Atkins, RDNS
Construction - Minimising the Risk
Maureen T Canning,
Peninsula Health
Free Papers - Surveillance and H1N1 (Swine)
Thursday, 8 October 2009
13:30 - 15:05, Savoy Room 1
Chair Ms Leanne Houston
Are
we There Yet? A review of Surveillance of Surgical Site Infections,
Antimicrobial Usage & Resistance in Australia
Claire J Boardman,
VICNISS CC
Systems Improvement in Central Venous Access Device Management
Tamla K Tait, Austin Health
An Investigation into a Cluster of Surgical Site Infections
Following Orthopaedic Surgery
Claire J Boardman, VICNISS CC
Dr Ann
Bull, VICNISS CC
Philip Russo, VICNISS CC* now HHA
Dr Michael Richards,
VICNISS CC
Managing H1N1 in Paediatrics
Sue M King, Royal Children's
Hosptial
Sue M Scott, Royal Children's Hosptial
The Impact of
Pandemic Influenza A (H1N1) on an Infection Control Team - Large file please
email enquiries@vicpa.org.au for
this presentation
Sue Borrell, Alfred Health
Free Papers - Hand Hygiene and Infection Control
Thursday, 8 October
2009 13:30 - 15:05, Savoy Room 3
Chair Jill Low
How Clean is Clean?
Jacqueline G Kennon, Austin
Health
VRE: The Journey and Looking Forward
Anita Lovegrove,
Monash Medical Centre, Southern Health
How Clean is my Ultrasonic Transducer?
Lesley J Lewis,
Rural Infection Control Practice Group
Handy and Amish: An Australian Phenomenom - Hand Hygiene
Australia
Phil L Russo, Hand Hygiene Australia
Can Pocket Packs Improve Hand Hygiene Compliance?
Paul E
Simpson, Infection Prevention & Surveillance Service, Melbourne Health
(during trial), currently at Hand Hygiene Australia, Austin Health
Resistant Micro-Organisms
Thursday, 8 October 2009 15:45 - 17:00, Savoy
Room 1
Chair Mr Matthew Mason
"Guidance for Antimicrobial Stewardship"- The Roll Out of
Computerised Antimicrobial Approval Systems in Victorian Hospitals
Kirsty Buising, St.Vincents Hospital, Melbourne Health and VIDS
VRE Working Party Report
Dr Lorraine Wilson, Quality and
Safety Program, Statewide Quality Branch. DHS Victoria
Community-Onset Staphylococcus Aureus Infections: Piecing Together
the Aetiology And Epidemiology
Catherine Bennett, Deakin
University
Pandemic Influenza Planning: Were We Really Ready and What Lessons Can We
Learn?
Friday, 9 October 2009 08:45 - 10:45, Savoy Room 1
Chair Wendy Bacalja VICPA
Welcome to Day 2 and Housekeeping
Wendy Bacalja, VICPA
Hospital Preparedness and Response Measures to Pandemic
Influenza
Brett Aimers, Hospital Emergency Management, Statewide Quality
Branch DHS Victoria
Health Service Emergency Controller
Fiona Middleton, The
Northern Hospital
Pandemic Influenza Preparedness an Infection Control
Perspective
Ms Fiona L Wilson, Western Health
A Health Service Emergency Department Physicians Perspective
Michael Geluk, Austin Health
Pandemic Influenza the General
Practioners Experience - No presentation available
Dr Nick Demediuk, RACGP
Clinical Aspects of H1N1 Influenza Admitted to Melbourne
Hospitals - No presentation available
A/Prof Allen Cheng, Alfred Health
& Monash University
Faciltated Panel Discussion - No
presentation available
Jane Canestra, DHS Victoria
Session 1: Infection Control in Private Hospitals and Regional Victoria
Friday, 9 October 2009 11:15 - 12:50, Savoy Room 1
Chair Ms Jacqueline G Kennon
Two Years On: The Commission on Safety & Quality in Health
Care's Impact on Australian Infection Control
Marilyn Cruickshank,
VICNISS CC
Introducing VICNISS into Private Hospitals
Noleen Bennett,
VICNISS Coordinating Centre
Lauren Phillips, Epworth Hospital
Accreditation in a Small Private Hospital
Heidi Gettons,
The Bays Hospital
The Development and Implementation of an Infection Prevention and
Control Compliance Audit
Lesley J Lewis, Rural Infection Control
Practice Group
Session 2: Device Related Infections
Friday, 9 October 2009 11:15 -
12:50, Savoy Room 2
Chair Ms Carmel Scott
What's In a Line?
Natasha Holmes, Austin Health
VICNISS Review of Central Line Associated Infections in Victorian Hospitals
- Large file please email enquiries@vicpa.org.au for this
presentation
Dr Leon J Worth, VICNISS Co-ordinating Centre
Reducing Staph. aureus Bacteraemias
Ms Jennifer Bradford,
Southern Health
Reducing Endemic MRSA in ICU Using General Quality Improvement
Measures
Michelle Ananda-Rajah, Alfred Health
Session 3: More on Resistant Organisms
Friday, 9 October 2009 11:15 -
12:50, Savoy Room 3
Chair Paul E Simpson
VRE Point Prevalence Study What Does it Tell Us - Large file please email enquiries@vicpa.org.au for this
presentation
Leanne Houston, Alfred Health
Role of the Environment in Transmission of Multi-Resistant
Organisms
Rhea Martin, Austin Health
The Battle of the
Bugs: Emerging Gram Negative Resistance; A Global Perspective - Large file
please email enquiries@vicpa.org.au
for this presentation
Associate Professor Eugene Athan, Barwon Health
MRSA Rapid Impact: Truth or Dare?
Catina Eyres, Bendigo
Health
Outside the Comfort Zone
Friday, 9 October 2009 14:00 - 16:00, Savoy
Room 1
Chair Lesley J Lewis
Infection Control within a Burning Ring of Fire - Large file please email enquiries@vicpa.org.au for this
presentation
Bronwyn Pyke, Alexandra Hospital
Working with
Medicins Sans Frontieres on the Thai-Burma Border - Large file please email enquiries@vicpa.org.au for this
presentation
Mohammad-Ali Trad, Austin Health
Can We
Eliminate Malaria? - Large file please email enquiries@vicpa.org.au for this
presentation
Professor John Reeder, Burnet
Institute
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