2021 WA Addictions Symposium: Alcohol...Where to from here?
ALCOHOL…Where to from here?
Presented by the RANZCP WA Faculty of Addiction Psychiatry
Event information
Program
08:30 – 08:45 Registrations
08:45 – 09:00 Opening address – Mental Health Commissioner, Jennifer McGrath
09:00 – 10:00 Associate Professor Kirsten Morley (USyd): National Guidelines for
Alcohol Pharmacotherapy and Emerging Medications
10:00 – 10:45 Professor Tanya Chikritzhs (NDRI): Minimum unit pricing for alcohol
10:45 – 11:00 Morning tea
11:00 – 11:45 Associate Professor Stephen Jurd (UNSW): Alcoholism is a
disease with treatments that work!
11:45 – 12:15 Professor Gary Jeffrey (SCGH): Alcohol-related liver disease
12:15 – 13:00 Dr Julia Butt and Annalee Stearne (NDRI): Approaches to Alcohol:
Policy and Practise – through an Aboriginal Lens
13:00 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 14:00 Dr Kelly Ridley (WACHS): Alcohol – Pickling the brain?
14:00 – 14:30 Dr Nathan Gibson (OCP): Alcohol – The MHA, other legislation,
standards of care and clinical reality
14:30 – 15:45 Panel Q&A: Scenarios, cases and complexity Associate Professor
Michael Christmass (NDRI), Dr Nathan Gibson (OCP), Dr Craig
Connolly (Next Step), Dr Kelly Ridley (WACHS)
15:45 – 16:00 Closing remarks
Speaker bios
Associate Professor Kirsten Morley (USyd) has one hundred and fifty-six research publications with over two thousand citations. She has been the lead author on five large, randomised control trials for interventions for substance use and comorbid mental illness. Chief Investigator on twelve randomised control trials of interventions for substance use.
She has authored one international and three Australian Treatment Guidelines, one statewide training portal for New South Wales health Drug and Alcohol clinicians to improve management of mental illness: nationally disseminated lecture series New South Wales Health Drug and Alcohol Medicine, and over seventy presentations at local and international conferences.
Professor Tanya Chikritzhs leads the Alcohol Policy and Strategy Research team at the National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University. She has qualifications in epidemiology and biostatistics, twenty five years’ experience spanning many areas of alcohol research and an international profile as an expert in her field. Tanya has published over 300 peer reviewed journal articles, reports and book chapters on evaluations of alcohol policy and alcohol epidemiology.
Engagement with stakeholders at all levels and real-world impacts are central to Tanya’s research work and she is regularly invited to contribute to public debate on alcohol issues. Tanya has led flagship projects at local, state and national levels and has received many awards across a range of sectors (research, community, NGOs, government) including the highly prestigious Commonwealth Health Ministers Award for Excellence in Health and Medical Research.
Associate Professor Stephen Jurd (UNSW) graduated in 1978 and trained in psychiatry at Macquarie Hospital. Dr Jurd developed the Drug and Alcohol Services at Royal North Shore Hospital (1984 to 2006). He chaired the Section on Alcohol and Other Drugs for six years and was the inaugural chair of the Subcommittee for Advanced Training in Addiction Psychiatry. Since 2006 he has been Director of Postgraduate Training in Psychiatry in northern Sydney and from 2008-2014, Chair of the RANZCP Committee for Training.
He has published thirty scientific papers, participated in the development of clinical guidelines, presented at national and international meetings and granted the title of Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Sydney. Stephen has been instrumental in developing and establishing successful addiction recovery services and twelve step recovery centres in Australia and the United States.
Professor Gary Jeffrey (SCGH) obtained his medical degree (MB BS) in 1980 from the University of Western Australia (UWA). His clinical specialty training in Gastroenterology and Hepatology was obtained at the Royal Free Hospital, London with Dame Prof Sheila Sherlock and at the Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth. His doctoral thesis “Natural history and pathogenesis of PBC and PSC” was awarded a Doctor of Medicine (MD) from the UWA in 1990. From 1990 to 1991 he was a post-doctoral fellow at the GI unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical school. In 1991 he was appointed as a Senior Lecturer in Medicine at UWA and a Consultant Gastroenterologist/Hepatologist at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital.
Most of his clinical practice has involved Hepatology and Liver Transplantation. He has been the Medical Director of the Western Australian Liver Transplantation Service since 1999 and the Head of the Department of Hepatology. He has an active clinical and basic research team working in the field of pathogenesis, prevention and treatment of liver diseases. His position has enabled him to experience clinical medicine and research in the United Kingdom, United States, Canada and New Zealand.
Dr Craig Connelly is a Consultant in Addiction Medicine working across the North Metropolitan Community Alcohol and Drug Service (Joondalup, Warwick) and Joondalup Health Campus. Dr Connelly is the current Chair of the WA Branch of the Australasian Chapter of Addiction Medicine, the Royal College of Physicians. He has a teaching role at the medical school of University of Notre Dame WA. Dr Connelly worked with Professor Gary Jeffrey to develop the first treatment program for chronic hepatitis C within a substance use disorder treatment service in WA.
Dr Julia Butt is a clinical psychologist and Associate Senior Research Fellow at the National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University. She is also a lecturer in the Master of Clinical Psychology program at Edith Cowan University. Julia has English heritage and is a first generation Australian. Julia has worked as a clinician, researcher and trainer within and alongside Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations for the past twenty years working in alcohol and other drug use and mental health. She is committed to culturally responsive and culturally safe service provision (at the individual and organisational level) underpinned by genuine partnerships and Aboriginal community control.
Annalee Stearne, a Nyungar women from Western Australia, has been working in the National Drug Research Institute’s Indigenous Australian Research Program since 2001. With a background in education and public health she has led evaluations of First Nations Australian Alcohol and Other Drug interventions in the Northern Territory, Western Australia and South Australia. She has a strong focus on First Nations Australian-led research, having supported the work of Tangentyere Council research Hub for many years.
Currently she sits on the board of National Centre For Clinical Research Into Emerging Drugs (based at St Vincent’s in Sydney), and Children’s Ground. Since 2019, she has been examining how First Nations Australians can lead and be involved in the development of alcohol policy in the Northern Territory, in partnership with the Centre of Research Excellence in Indigenous Health and Alcohol (University of Sydney).
Dr Kelly Ridley (WACHS) – Dr Ridley is a graduate of UWA and has completed her addiction psychiatry training in WA and at Turning Point in Melbourne in addition to a Master of Public Health. Having won the addiction psychiatry prize in 2017, she went on to win the rising star award for rural health west in 2019. Kelly is currently the director of acute mental health services in the Great Southern and has an active research program in substance and behavioural addiction in addition to developing innovative acute psychiatric services in resource poor areas.
Dr Nathan Gibson is the Chief Psychiatrist of Western Australia. He has a background in adult psychiatry, including inpatient, community and general hospital psychiatry.
The Chief Psychiatrist in WA is an independent statutory officer who has powers and duties prescribed by the Mental Health Act 2014. Central to those duties is the monitoring of standards of psychiatric care across defined mental health services, both in the public sector and in private psychiatric hospitals.
Dr Gibson’s focus has been on reducing restrictive practice, coordinated care and engaging clinical leadership.
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Cancellation Policy
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