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Scientific Forum Agenda

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Virtual Scientific Launch

Day: Wednesday 1 December 2021 (Australia)

Time: 7am Australian WST/ 10am Australian EDST / 12pm NZ DST

North America: Tuesday 30 November 2021 3pm Pacific Standard Time/ 5pm Mountain Standard Time/ 6pm Eastern Standard Time

AGENDA

0700

Welcome by Professor Liz Davis, Co-Director of the JDRF Global Centre of Excellence in Diabetes Research, The Kids Research Institute Australia at Perth Children’s Hospital

0710

Key Objectives of the Centre and What the Collective Efforts of Centre Researchers can Achieve in 5 years by Professor Tim Jones, Co-Director of the JDRF Global Centre of Excellence in Diabetes Research, The Kids Research Institute Australia at Perth Children’s Hospital

0725

An Essential Missing Piece of Knowledge: the Full Burden and Cost of Diabetes in Children by Professor David Bloom, Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics and Demography in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

0740

Health Economics: Early Progress and Opportunities by Dr Anthony Pease, Endocrinologist at Monash Health and Peninsula Health. Early career researcher, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University

0810

Learning How To Change The System For T1D Patients And Their Families by Professor Jeffrey Braithwaite,  the Founding Director of the Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Director of the Centre for Healthcare Resilience and Implementation Science and Professor of Health Systems Research at Macquarie University and Associate Professor Yvonne Zurynski, Health System Sustainability, Australian Institute for Health Innovation, Macquarie University 

0840

Break

0850

Talent and Capacity Building the Future by Dr Amelia Harray and Dr Aveni Haynes, Senior Research Fellows in Diabetes Research, Children’s Diabetes Centre

0905

Consumers: the Key to Achieving the Aims of the Centre by Leanne Cromb, Community Involvement Coordinator, JDRF Global Centre of Excellence in Diabetes Research

0920

A Focused Lens: Digitalising Patient Care by Dr Craig Taplin, Paediatric Endocrinology Consultant, Perth Children’s Hospital

0935

Panel Discussion

Chair:

Professor Liz Davis, Co-Director of the JDRF Global Centre of Excellence in Diabetes Research, The Kids Research Institute Australia at Perth Children’s Hospital

With:

Professor Tim Jones, Co-Director of the JDRF Global Centre of Excellence in Diabetes Research, The Kids Research Institute Australia at Perth Children’s Hospital

 

Professor Jeffrey Braithwaite,  the Founding Director of the Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Director of the Centre for Healthcare Resilience and Implementation Science and Professor of Health Systems Research at Macquarie University.

 

Professor David Bloom, Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics and Demography in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

 

Professor Sophia Zoungas is Head, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University

 

Associate Professor Yvonne Zurynski is Associate Professor of Health System Sustainability, and leads the activities of the Coordinating Centre of the NHMRC Partnership Centre in Health Systems Sustainability

 

Associate Professor Tony Huynh, Director, Department of Endocrinology & Diabetes, Queensland Children’s Hospital, Children’s Health Queensland Clinical Unit, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland

 

Professor Jenny Couper, Head, Paediatrics, Women’s and Children’s Health, University of Adelaide

1020

JDRF Global Centre of Excellence: The Opportunity by Professor Liz Davis, Co-Director of the JDRF Global Centre of Excellence in Diabetes Research, The Kids Research Institute Australia at Perth Children’s Hospital

1030

Closing Remarks