Mind the Gap: #Navigating Health Webinar
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Connecting Across Contexts and Geographies
Access to health systems can be difficult for patients and managing healthcare needs is often fragmented. Achieving patient-centred care at a systems and population level can be challenging.
Join us for a global conversation on #NavigatingHealth - Connecting Across Contexts and Geographies
Hear from leaders addressing the challenges to better enable navigation across healthcare.
Our international panelists will discuss the importance of a shared care approach to an individual’s care and share their experiences in connecting and helping people navigate their health journeys. You will have the opportunity to pre-submit questions for the panel to consider.
DATE
Australia 10 November, 8 - 9:30am AEDT
USA & Canada 9 November, 4 - 5:30pm EST
UK 9 November, 9- 10:30pm GMT
Meet the Panelists
Jennifer Greenwald, MPH, Vice President, Mission Strategy & Operations, American Cancer Society, National Navigation Round Table
Jennifer Greenwald is the Vice President for Mission Strategy and Operations at the American Cancer Society (ACS). Jennifer leads the development of patient support strategies across cancer and is leading development and execution of the re-launch of the Society’s oncology patient navigation across the continuum of care..
Professor Jane Gunn FAHMS, FRACGP, PhD, DRANZCOG, MBBS,
Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences at the University of Melbourne.
Professor Gunn is a medical practitioner and Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences. She has played key leadership roles in reforming healthcare, beginning with her work in shared maternity care and cervical screening programs, and more recently in transforming mental health care in primary care settings. Jane will be presenting on the clinical efficacy of a Decision Support Tool (Link-Me) to guide intensity of mental health care in primary practice.
Dr Linny Kimly Phuong B Pharm (Hons), MBBS, DCH, MPH, FRACP
Paediatric Infectious Diseases Physician & Founder/ Director of The Water Well Project
Dr Linny Kimly Phuong is a Paediatric Infectious Diseases Physician at the Royal Children’s Hospital, Austin Health, Cabrini Health and Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. She is also a PhD candidate studying invasive pneumococcal disease in children. Linny set up The Water Well Project to address the needs of increasing health literacy based on her own personal experiencesn.
Anthony J Levitt, MD, FRCP (C ), Medical Director, Family Navigation Project, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Toronto
Anthony’s research and clinical interest is in the area of treatment resistant mood disorders and more recently, as part of his role at FNP, he has explored the critical features of successful system navigation for youth and their families.
Heather Renton, CEO, Syndromes Without a Name (SWAN)
Heather is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Syndromes Without a Name (SWAN) Australia. Heather started SWAN based on the challenges faced navigating the health (disability and education) systems and will be talking about why all this matters and how we provide enabling support and remove barriers.
James Sanderson, Lead, Personalised Care, NHS England and Improvement
James Sanderson is Director of Community Health and Personalised Care at NHS England where he leads on a range of programmes that are supporting people to have greater choice and control over their health and wellbeing. supporting people having greater choice and control over their health and wellbeing. James will also speak to his previous role as CEO of the National Academy for Social Prescribing (NASP) connecting care across non-clinical supports.
Siân Slade, BSc Pharm (Hons) MPH, MBA, Nossal Institute for Global Health, University of Melbourne
As a healthcare professional who worked in HIV/AIDS in the 1990s, Sian was an active part of developing shared care approaches . Her PhD research, in Australia and UK, aims to identify the mechanisms that are being developed and deployed to enable patients to access and manage their healthcare across the levels of health.