Dr Wanpen Pinyopasakul

Dr Wanpen Pinyopasakul is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Medical Nursing and a former Associate Dean for International Relations at Faculty of Nursing, Mahidol University, Thailand. She is a leading nursing expert in critical care nursing, especially in stroke care, with over twenty years of national and international experience in clinical practice and education. She obtained a doctoral degree in nursing from La Trobe University, Australia in 2000 before resuming her teaching and administrative roles in Thailand.

Dr. Wanpen Pinyopasakul has worked with national and international health administrative and education expert with extensive experience in a variety of health service management and education roles. In Thailand, she has been a consultant at the Prasat Neurological Institute for the development of clinical nursing practice guideline for stroke patients. She has also worked with the Health System Research Institute, Ministry of Public Health and the Nation Health Security Office for development of health care management. International experience has included working as a steering committee to host a number of international conferences and workshops, establishing faculty and student exchange programs, collaborating with the World Health Organisation to establish training programs for nurses and midwives in Southeast Asian Regions, and strengthening research and networking with nursing scholars overseas. With her expertise in international nursing, she has been an invited speaker in many countries, including China, Japan, Sweden, and Australia.

Dr. Wanpen Pinyopasakul has also published widely. Her well-known books in Thailand include ‘Discharge planning: Concepts and application’ and ‘Nursing Case Management: Strategies toward practice’. Her teaching roles have involved baccalaureate, master, and doctoral programs offered in the faculty, and contribution to national nursing development through professional forums. The role in the university includes national curriculum planning and international curriculum redesign as well as teaching and research supervision. Wanpen is on the editorial board of the international journal called 'Nursing and Health Sciences'.

Dr Julie Considine
RN, RM, BN, EmergCert, GDipNurs(AcuteCare), MNurs, PhD, FRCNA

Dr Julie Considine is a Senior Research Fellow in the Deakin University-Northern Health clinical partnership. Through this jointappointment she enages in education & research in the Emergency Department at The Northern Hospital while also teaching in the postgraduate emergency nursing and Master of Nursing (Nurse Practitioner) programs at Deakin University. Julie's major research interests are risk management, clinical decision making and integration of evidence into clinical practice. Julie is a well published nursing researcher who has presented at both national and international conferences. She is a member of CENA Victorian Branch Management Committee, State Editor (Victoria) for the Australasian Emergency Nursing Journal, represents CENA on the Australian Resuscitation council and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing, Australia.

Clinical Professor Fiona Wood, FRCS, FRACS, AM
Professor Wood is currently Director of the Western Australian Burns Service. She is the Chairman of the McComb Research Foundation, established in 1999 with scientist Marie Stoner. She is also co-founder and Director of Clinical Cell Culture (C3), a skin tissue engineering company, and Chair of its Scientific Advisory Board. In addition, she is a consultant plastic surgeon to Royal Perth and Princess Margaret Hospitals, Perth.

Professor Wood's research through the McComb Foundation involves several collaborative research projects focused on the multidisciplinary clinical and scientific team approach to the treatment of burn injury. The ultimate aim is scar-less healing to ensure the quality of the outcome is worth the pain of survival.

Professor Wood was named Western Australian of the Year for 2004, and was nominated as a National Living Treasure and Australian Citizen of the Year in 2005. In 2005 she received the honour of being named Australian of the Year, and elected as Member in the Order of Australia (AM).
 

Dr Clive Cooke
Dr Cooke is Chief Forensic Pathologist for Western Australia and Head of Department of Forensic Pathology, a position he has held for 17 years. His professional interests include injury interpretation, particularly how injuries may be forensically useful. Following the Bali bombings in 2002 he was the lead pathologist examining the bodies of the deceased victims in the mortuary at Denpasar, work for which he was subsequently awarded the Order of Australia Medal (OAM).

Máiréad Doyle BE CEng AFAIM MIAEM MAIES

Máiréad Doyle is currently National Coordinator - Operations for Emergency Services at Red Cross. She is responsible for the operational development of Red Cross emergency services across the state, aiding people and communities before, during and after emergencies.

A mechanical engineer by profession, Máiréad spent most of her career in operations management in the oil and gas industry in Europe. She was awarded chartered engineer status for her operations management expertise. She is an Associate Fellow of the Australian Management Institute, and a member of the Australian Institute of Emergency Services (AIES) and the International Association of Emergency Management (IAEM).

Máiréad spent five years managing non-emergency patient transport operations at London Ambulance Service before moving to Australia in 2005. As Director of Non-Emergency Patient Transport, she was part of the team who responded to the London bombings in July 2005. Her perspective of this time, in terms of the impact on ordinary Londoners and the wider workforce, will be valuable to those in emergency nursing arena and in the wider healthcare and emergency management arenas.





 

Dr Jaya Earnest
International Educator, Sociologist, and Development Specialist

Dr Jaya Earnest is a science educator and sociologist who has worked for over 20 years with international and local organisations in India, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, East Timor and Australia.  Jaya worked in Africa for 10 years during this period she developed an interest in HIV/AIDS and post-conflict societies. She is currently Senior Lecturer and Postgraduate Research co-ordinator at the Centre for International Health at Curtin University of Technology in Western Australia. Jaya has carried out field research in the post-conflict societies of Uganda, Rwanda, Kosovo, Sri Lanka and Timor-Leste. Her focus is on the social, cultural, contextual and human dimensions of vulnerable populations. A skilled vulnerability assessor she uses rapid assessment methods, within a participatory psychosocial and vulnerability framework.

In recent times, Jaya have been involved in projects in East Timor, Sri Lanka, India and Western Australia. In Timor-Leste, she carried out a vulnerability assessment mapping (VAM) in six districts for the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) in 2005 and 2006. In early 2006, as UNICEF consultant, she developed a vulnerability framework for children in communities affected by conflict in the North and East Sri Lanka.  Since 2004, she is project supervisor supporting 5 research projects mapping the vulnerability, stigma and discrimination faced by women living with HIV/AIDS in India. 

In Western Australia, she was chief investigator on a Healthway project that examined the psychosocial well-being of adolescent refugee students in government schools.  In 2008-2009, she will be involved in two large projects documenting the perspectives and needs of refugee students at Universities in Western Australia. The Project will increase understanding of the specific needs of refugee students in order improve outcomes for refugee students in tertiary institutions.

Jaya has published extensively and has presented internationally. She is also recipient of several awards: In 2004, Jaya was awarded the Early Career Award by the West Australian Institute for Educational Research (WAIER). She was included in the 2007 edition of the Marquis Who’s Who in the World and was part of the Centre for International Health team that won a National Award for Excellence in Postgraduate Teaching in 2007. In early 2008, she was a recipient of the Curtin Student Guild Honourable Mention for Excellence in Postgraduate Research Supervision.

Etza Peers
RN, MHN, Dip Counselling, Ba Health Education, Grad Dip Aboriginal and Intercultural Studies, Grad Dip Alcohol and Drug Studies
Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth

Etza Peers has a background in general nursing and mental health with qualifications in alcohol and drug and aboriginal and inter-cultural studies. Etza has an extensive experience over 20 years working in the alcohol and drug field. For nearly a decade Etza has provided her expert clinical knowledge in a unique position as the Alcohol and Drug Clinical Nurse Consultant for SCGH managing 300 patients / month.

Etza is also well versed in the difficulties ED’s have when managing problematic patients spending 56% of her time in the Emergency Department. Working collaboratively with the Toxicology service has given Etza an extensive knowledge of the types of drug presentations to the ED.

Etza was instrumental in the development and implementation of alcohol, amphetamine, benzodiazepine, opiates, marijuana withdrawal management charts which are used extensively across the site

Etza also provides a consultancy service and expert input into the management of patients in acute withdrawals from any drug type. This also includes assessment of patients for ongoing counselling and clinical input into patients who present to the hospital with issues related to alcohol and drug use.

Etza liases extensively with other alcohol and drug agencies across WA to provide effective follow up management or rehabilitation post hospital discharge.

 

Wendy Porteous
RN, BN, Cert Accident and Emergency, Grad Dip Advanced Clinical Teaching, Masters Advanced Clinical Nursing, Cert IV WAT

Wendy has had extensive emergency nursing experience having worked in metropolitan Melbourne for 20 + years in Emergency Departments. Wendy has also worked in educational roles at Mercy Hospital For Women and for Philips Medical Systems. Currently Wendy is the Clinical Nurse Educator – Emergency at Ballarat Health Services.