Friday, 2 August - Program


Friday, 2 August 2024 | Official Program


7:30amREGISTRATION OPEN
8:30am Welcome
Ming Yew - RACS WA State Chair

Welcome to Country
Aunty Dianne Appleby
8:45amSession 1 - Culture
Chair: Ming Yew
8:45amJillann Farmer, CEO, A Better Culture - Culture - eats everything, not just Strategy
9:05amAudrey Koay, Executive Director of Patient Safety & Quality Assurance, Department of Health WA - Joy at Work 
9:25amTina Chinery, CEO, St John of God Hospital, Subiaco - Safety Leadership
9:45amKerin Fielding, President, RACS - Building a Culture of Respect
10:05amPanel Q&A
10:15amMORNING TEA WITH INDUSTRY
10:45amSession 2 - Culture
Chair: Sharon Lee
10:45amHemi Patel - Chair NT Medical Board - Medical Regulation for Dummies. Complications and their Unintended Consequences.
11:05amRajesh Sehdev, Emergency Physician, Civility Saves Lives - Why "play nice"
11:25amMichael Levitt AM, Colorectal Surgeon - How much do we really care?
11:45amChallenging Cases Panel Discussion, Culture Sessions 1 & 2 Presenters + Steve Crabb, WorkSafe 
12:15pmLUNCH WITH INDUSTRY
1:15pmSession 3 - Accountability
Chair: Christine Lai
1:15pmStephanie Clota, CEO RACS - Accountability 
1:35pmWilliam Edmond, Trier Medical, Chairman and Co-Founder - Can you build an AI Surgeon? Future opportunities and limitations of AI
1:55pmBernard Carney, RACS SA State Chair - Accountability in Plastic Surgical Billing
2:15pmEva Denholm, Surgical Co-Director, Royal Perth Bentley Group - Accountability - Mine? Yours? Ours.
2:35pmPanel Q&A
2:55pmSponsor Presentations
3:07pmAFTERNOON TEA WITH INDUSTRY
3:30pmSession 4 - WAASM Symposium
Chair: Mark Edwards
3:30pmJames Aitken, Clinical Director, Western Australian Audit of Surgical Mortality - A divergent view of the culture of accountability
3:50pmAudrey Koay, Executive Director of Patient Safety & Quality Assurance, Department of Health WA and Kirstine Sketcher-Baker, Executive Director of Patient Safety & Quality Assurance, Department of Health QLD - Panel Discussion - Strengthening the ASM processes
4:20pmPhilip McCahy, Clinical Director, Victorian Audit of Surgical Mortality - Case Study of how the Victorian Audit of Surgical Mortality has responded to the demands of Safer Victoria
4:40pmGuy Maddern, Chair, Australian and New Zealand Audit of Surgical Mortality - How the Australian and New Zealand Audit of Surgical Mortality will respond
5:00pmPanel Q&A
5:15pmEND OF DAY ONE
6:30PM2024 ASM DINNER
Kimberley by Moonlight
Poolside - Cable Beach Club Resort & Spa
6:30pm - 10:30pm

Hanrahan Oration
Speaker: James Brown, Pearls of Australia, Cygnet Bay Pearls WA & Broken Bay Pearls NSW