2023 School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences Research Conference
This year, the theme of the conference is Collaborating for the Future: Co-designing for a Resilient Healthcare System.
This theme highlights the importance of collaboration between patients, professionals and stakeholders in developing innovative solutions in healthcare and emphasises the need to adapt to the changing healthcare landscape.
Our program has been developed using an interdisciplinary model under the SHRS key research themes:
- Communication
- Paediatrics: Healthy Start to Life
- Musculoskeletal: Movement in Health
- Neurorehabilitation and Ageing
- Professional Education
- Telerehabilitation
- Knowledge Translation and Impact
The 2023 SHRS Research Conference Collaborating for the Future: Co-designing for a resilient healthcare system will be held on Thursday 30 November 2023 from 8:30am–4:30pm at the Sir Llew Edwards Building (14) on the St Lucia Campus.
This year’s conference will feature:
- Keynote-speakers
- Expert discussion panel
- Oral presentations
- Poster presentations
- SHRS Early Career Rising Star Plenary
- Networking opportunities
There will be several awards for outstanding posters and presentations, as well as door prizes for the members of the audience.
Come join us for this wonderful opportunity to gain insight into SHRS research. Meet consumers, clinicians, researchers, and industry partners as we collaborate for the future to create a more resilient and sustainable healthcare system.
Keynote speakers
Professor Stewart Trost
Professor Stewart Trost is a Professor in Paediatric Allied Health Research with a conjoint appointment with Children’s Health Queensland Health and Hospital Service and the School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences at The University of Queensland. Prof Trost leads the Children's Physical Activity Research Group (CPARG) at the QLD Centre of Children's Health Research. His program of research seeks to enhance the health and quality of life of children, both typically developing and those with chronic and complex health conditions, by generating the knowledge needed to design and implement effective programs to promote habitual physical activity, enhance movement competence, and increase aerobic fitness. He is an internationally recognised research leader in the use of artificial intelligence and wearable sensors in the assessment of movement behaviours, community-based PA interventions, and client-centred therapeutic exercise programs for children and youth with chronic and complex health conditions.
Prof Trost has a career total of over 250 publications in high-quality peer-reviewed journals such as JAMA Pediatrics, Pediatrics, Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, and Journal of Pediatrics. He has won >$39M in grants, including CI on 15 NHMRC projects. He has published 8 articles with > 1000 citations, 37 articles with > 200 citations, and more than 75 articles with > 100 citations (career total 49,150 citations, 16,915 since 2018, FWCI = 3.54). Major current funding support as CIA includes: 2019-2023 AU$1M NHRMC: BREATH RCT in children with bronchiectasis and the 2020-2023 AU$1M MRFF First 2000 days: Healthy Conversations at Playgroup RCT. 2023-2026 MRFF Effective Treatments and Therapies Implementation and scale-up of a consumer co-designed physical activity promotion program for people with moderate-to-profound disabilities.
Ms Jennifer Muller
Ms Jennifer Muller has a lived experience of stroke and has been a consumer advocate for stroke survivors on various state and national committees. She was the Non-Executive Director of the Stroke Foundation Board, representing the interests of Consumers, and Chair of the Consumer Council for nine years. During this period, she was a consumer member of the Commonwealth government expert committees on the National Action Plan for Heart and Stroke and the National Clinical Quality Registries. She also draws on her experience and knowledge of public health, health systems and strategic planning. She held the position of Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Public Health and Social Work, Faculty of Health, Queensland University of Technology for six years.
Currently Jennifer is the consumer member of the Surgical, Treatment and Rehabilitation Service (STARS) Research Advisory Committee and is actively involved in advocating for the engagement of consumers in research projects and is a participant in several ongoing projects.
Prior to her current role, Ms Muller was a Senior Executive in Queensland Health and led the development and implementation of the state-wide cancer screening services BreastScreen Queensland, the Cervical and Bowel Cancer Screening Programs including; establishing information systems, state level clinical quality registers and ensuring equitable access to services for people in rural and remote areas, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, people from diverse cultures and disadvantaged groups.
Ms Muller holds a Master of Environmental and Community Health from Griffith University, a Graduate Diploma of Health Education from Queensland University of Technology and a Diploma of Radiography (Diagnostic) from NSW University of Technology and is the recipient of an Australian Public Service Medal Honours Award and an Australia Day Achievement Medallion.
Dr Michelle King
Dr Michelle King is a sociologist, lawyer, and consumer advocate. Her research work focuses on decision-making, and how law works in practice for people with disabilities and other impairments to legal capacity. Michelle works as a Research Fellow at QARC on the Better Conversations about Care project. She researches communication, inclusion, and decision-making in aged care, and coordinates the lived experience and co-design elements of the project.
Michelle is also a health consumer and disability advocate. She has lived experience in complex disability as a parent and supporter of her 24-year-old daughter, Daelle, who has profound intellectual and multiple disabilities. Michelle serves in a range of roles as an advocate and consumer, including as co-chair of the Consumer Panel and member of the National Guidelines Leadership Group on Australia's National Living Evidence Taskforce (producing the national clinical guidelines for Covid-19 and Monkeypox), and as board chair of Child Unlimited (the national research alliance for children and young people with chronic illness and disability). She is a consumer member of Queensland Health's Adolescent and Young Adult SubNetwork; Metro North HHS’s Disability Service Plan Steering Committee; Brisbane North PHN’s Consumer Advisory Committee; and STARS Hospital’s Education and Research Consumer Group.
As disability advocates, Daelle and Michelle have co-presented at national conferences; been invited to roundtables for the NDIS, the Disability Royal Commission; and the Queensland Public Advocate; and co-presented with Kurt Fearnley about Accessibility at a national Facilities Management Network event in 2022. This year, they were invited advocates at a Parliamentary session for young people with chronic ill health and disabilities in Canberra, and keynote speakers at the upcoming ASID national conference in November.
Registration
All attendees and presenters are required to register for the conference.
Registration opens on Tuesday 1 August and will close on Friday 24 November 11:59pm.
We look forward to seeing you on 30 November 2023!
Conference program
Abstract submission
Abstract submissions have now closed.
Social media
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Get in touch
To contact a member of the PGRC Committee, please email SHRS-RC@uq.edu.au