Program
Invited Speakers
Professor Jeremy Chapman
Dr Bruce Cooper
Dr Steve May
Ms Robyn Speerin
Dr Tim Spicer
Dr Sean Kennedy
Mr Richard Knight
Breakfast Sessions
Amgen: Dialysis Access Nursing - People & Practices"
Baxter Healthcare: PD a Good Choice for ESRD Patients"
Roche: Improving Patient Outcomes in Anaemia Management"
Fresenius Medical Care: Body Composition Monitor - A Tool for Individual Patient Fluid Assessment"
Mr Alan W Barclay
Alan graduated from Curtin University of Technology in Perth, Western Australia in 1993 with a distinction in nutrition and dietetics. Since then, he has worked in clinical dietetics at a variety of hospitals and in private practice throughout Australia. He recently submitted a PhD to the University of Sydney on the association between glycemic carbohydrate (glycemic index and glycemic load) and the risk of developing lifestyle-related diseases like type 2 diabetes, heart disease and some cancers. To-date, he has had 8 scientific papers published in scientific journals on this topic over the last 4 years, and has presented this research at numerous conferences both locally and internationally.
Alan has consulted to the National Office of Diabetes Australia since 1998. He is currently a member of the Editorial Board of Diabetes Australia's Consumer magazine Conquest, and Health Professional magazine, Diabetes Management Journal, and has written a significant number of the associations fact sheets and booklets on the nutritional management of diabetes over the last 10 years.
In addition to his interest in diabetes and associated conditions, Alan has a keen interest in food law, and therapeutic goods law, representing the Dietitians Association of Australia, Diabetes Australia and other consumer health groups on numerous occasions. Alan is currently the Dietitians Association of Australia representative on the Standards Development Advisory Committee for nutrition, health and related claims with Food Standards Australia New Zealand. Alan was recently presented with a National Service Award for his contributions to the dietetic profession by the Dietitians Association of Australia.
Finally, Alan has completed a presenting to camera course at the National Institute of Dramatic Art, and is an official Media Spokesperson for the Dietitians Association of Australia and has appeared frequently in local newspapers, magazines, radio and television news. Alan is also one of the co-authors of the latest book in the New Glucose Revolution series: Diabetes & Pre-diabetes handbook.
Professor Lesley Campbell
Professor Lesley Campbell is the Director of Diabetes Services, Senior Staff Specialist at St Vincent's Hospital, a Professor of Medicine at the University of NSW, and a Principal Research Fellow in the Diabetes and Obesity Program at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research. She is involved in clinical research and practice in diabetes, obesity, metabolic syndrome and nutrition. She has published over 140 peer-reviewed papers of studies in the United Kingdom and Australia. She edited "Diabetes for Dummies", and wrote chapters in many books and manuals. She was on the Organising Committee of the 2006 International Congress on Obesity, and the NHMRC Type 2 Diabetes Guidelines Committee, The International Consensus for the Diabetic Foot Working Group. She is a past President of the Australasian Society for the Study of Obesity.
Professor Mary Chiarella
Mary Chiarella is a respected nurse, midwife, author and academic. She has worked as the Chief Nurse for NSW where she was responsible for a workforce of over 45,000 nurses in NSW, providing clinical and planning advice to the Minister for Health. She was a founding member of the Australian Bioethics Association and the Australian Institute for Health, Law and Ethics. She helped establish the world's first Doctor of Midwifery course at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), was the Foundation Professor of Nursing in Corrections Health, NSW and has been a key player in a host of nursing, education and health planning committees. She holds qualifications in nursing, education and law. She has lectured and published extensively both nationally and internationally. Currently she works as the Professor of Clinical Practice Development and Policy Research at the University of Technology, Sydney, a personal Chair funded by NSW Health.
Dr MK Mani
Dr MK Mani is one of the pioneers of nephrology in India, and played a major part in establishing dialysis and transplantation there. He has trained more than sixty nephrologists who are now established in different parts of the country and overseas. His current interest is the prevention of chronic renal failure at low cost.
Professor Jeremy Chapman
Professor Jeremy Chapman is a renal physician with a special interest in transplantation and is Director for Renal, Urology and Transplant Services at Westmead Hospital, Consultant Medical Director to the NSW Australian Red Cross Blood Service Tissue Typing Laboratory and Chairman of the Australian Bone Marrow Donor Registry, the Australian Cord Blood Bank Network and the National Clinical Taskforce on Organ Donation and Transplantation and Past President of the Transplantation Society of Australia and New Zealand. On a global level he is President Elect of The Transplantation Society, Immediate Past President of the World Marrow Donor Association and Chair of the Global Alliance for Transplantation.
Professor Chapman's clinical work is in renal medicine, transplantation of kidney and pancreas and diabetic renal disease and islet transplantation, while he is currently pursuing research interests in transplantation, tissue typing and xenotransplantation.
Professor Chapman is actively involved in the academic field having over 250 clinical papers to his name. He is a Professor at the University of Sydney. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in the United Kingdom and a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians.
Dr Bruce Cooper
Dr Bruce Cooper is a Renal Physician at the Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney. He is the trial coordinator and a steering committee member of the IDEAL (Initiating Dialysis Early and Late) Trial. This trial has significant funding from various sources including competitive grants (NHMRC, AHMAC and the Don and Lorraine Jacquot Fellowship) and industry.
He is also co-investigator at Royal North Shore Hospital of several other multi-centre trials initiated by investigators and industry.
Dr Steve May
Steve May graduated from the University of New South Wales in 1981.
He trained in nephrology at St George, Prince Henry and Prince of Wales and The Queen Elizabeth in Adelaide. Steve started as a VMO nephrologist and general physician at Tamworth in 1989. His major medical interests are the broad scope of nephrology, interventional nephrology diabetes and medical education. His major life interests are his family, bush walking, wind surfing and folk music.
Ms Robyn Speerin
Robyn Speerin is an authorised Nurse Practitioner in the specialty of Cardiac Rehabilitation and community Heart Failure service delivery. She is currently on secondment to NSW Health working on chronic care initiatives across NSW, especially related to rehabilitation, self-management and case management for people with chronic disease/s in all settings to meet consumer needs no matter their acuity and place of residence across NSW. Robyn is the President of the Australian Cardiovascular Health & Rehabilitation Association from August 2007.
Dr Tim Spicer
Tim Spicer is a staff nephrologist working in South West Sydney, based at Liverpool Hospital. His research background is in the immune mechanisms of glomerulonephritis, and his main clinical interest is in the use of ultrasound in the field of Nephrology.
He runs an annual course at Liverpool in diagnostic and interventional ultrasound/duplex for nephrologists and renal advanced trainees.
Dr Sean Kennedy
Sean Kennedy is a Paediatric Nephrologist at Sydney Children's Hospital, Randwick. He has a background in both paediatric and adult nephrology. This has allowed him to gain unique insight into the specific needs of adolescents with chronic kidney disease and led to an ongoing clinical and research focus on improving the outcomes of adolescent transplant recipients.
Mr Richard Knight
Mr Richard Knight migrated from South Wales to Australia in 1991, and after working within the renal department of Prince Henry / Prince of Wales Hospitals in Sydney, moved to Geelong taking up the role of Nurse Unit Manager in 1999.
Over the last three years, Richard has been instrumental in the development and implementation of an electronic health record, which has demonstrated major improvements in clinical communication throughout the unit.