speakers
Dr Claire Gaskin
Dr Claire Gaskin is trained in the assessment of Autism Spectrum Disorders and ADHD, as well as the management of comorbid issues in these disorders.
She has extensive experience in the management of depression, anxiety, OCD, psychosis and eating disorders in children and adolescents.Dr Gaskin is happy to see children, families and adolescents.
Professor Sharon Goldfeld
Prof Goldfeld is a paediatrician, public health physician, Theme Director Population Health and Co-Group Leader of Policy and Equity at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute and Director of the Centre for Community Child Health at The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne. Her career interest is in policy-focused public health, made up of complementary, synergistic and cross-disciplinary streams of work focused on investigating, testing and translating sustainable policy relevant solutions that eliminate inequities for Australia’s children. Sharon has a decade of experience in state government as a senior policymaker in health and education, including principal medical advisor in the Victorian Department of Education and Training. Sharon was recently awarded the inaugural Marles Medal for excellent and original research that led to outstanding achievement in research impact.
Dr Kristelle Hudry
Kristelle is Associate Professor of Developmental Psychology with La Trobe University’s Department of Psychology, Counselling and Therapy. She leads the Childhood Autism Phenotype Team (CAPTeam), teaches undergraduate developmental psychology and research methods, and supervises student research. Kristelle’s own training includes PhD at the University of Queensland followed by five years as post-doctoral researcher in the United Kingdom, including at the University College London Institute of Child Health and Institute of Education. She returned to Australia to join La Trobe University in 2010, maintaining her UK-based collaborations whilst forging new partnerships, locally and with the Perth-based Clinikids team.
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Professor Frank Oberklaid
Professor Frank Oberklaid AM was the Foundation Director of the Centre for Community Child Health at The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne. He is currently Co-Group Leader of Child Health Policy, Equity and Translation at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute and a Professor of Paediatrics at the University of Melbourne, and is Chair of the Victorian Children’s Council, which provides expert advice to the Victorian government on child health policies and services for children. He has long standing clinical, research and policy interests in children’s health, development and wellbeing. Most recently he was co-chair of the National Child Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy.
Dr Jin Russell
Jin (@drjinrussell) is a Community and Developmental Paediatrician at Starship Children's Health. She is a PhD student in paediatric epidemiology at the University of Auckland and has won competitive research awards and grants. Jin is a member of the RACP Community Child Health Advanced Training Committee, and is a previous RACP College Council member and Trainee Committee Co-Chair. Jin lives in Tamaki Makaurau, has two boys and is married to Matheson.
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Associate Professor Jill Sewell
Jill is a developmental behavioural paediatrician at the Centre for Community Child Health. Roles have included advocacy for early childhood, training in CCH, safety and quality and medical regulation as well as her clinical work. She has had a variety of leadership roles at state and national levels, including President of the RACP.
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Dr Jacqueline Small
In May 2020 Jacki was elected RACP President-Elect and will assume the Presidency for a 2 year period 2022-2024. This is an important leadership role for our profession, and an opportunity to continue to work with Fellows and trainees to improve the health of our communities. She has been a Member Director, RACP Board since 2018, and has also held roles that include Chair, Fellowship Committee, Chair Appeals Committee, Chair College Journals Committee and Chair College Policy and Advocacy Committee.
Jacki was Chair of the Paediatric Policy and Advocacy (PPAC) Committee for 6 years, leading the strategic development and implementation of paediatric policy and advocacy. She was also Chair of the Chapter of Community Child Health and Chair of the Paediatric Scientific Programme Committee.
She contributed to the governance of the Paediatric and Child Health Division for over 6 years as a member of Executive Committee, PCHD Council. During this period Jacki supported the establishment of the Academy of Child and Adolescent Health, increased engagement with paediatric special societies and paediatric response to substantial RACP governance changes.
Jacki qualified as a paediatrician in 1997. For over 25 years she has worked in multidisciplinary disability health teams that provides care across the lifespan for people with developmental disabilities. Her role has involved provision of clinical care for young children suspected to have a disability, older children with severe and complex conditions associated with their disability and transition to adult health services. She was President Australian Association Developmental Disability Medicine (AADDM) from 2015-2021. Other leadership roles include membership of both state and national intellectual disability strategic and COVID pandemic response initiatives.
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Dr Joanna Tully
Jo Tully was a general paediatrician for many years before deciding to specialise in forensic paediatrics. She now works full-time as the Deputy Director of the Victorian Forensic Paediatric Medical Service at the Royal Children’s and Monash Children’s hospitals and has a Master of Forensic Medicine. Her work with the VFPMS involves providing a medical service to children under the age of 18 years in whom physical or sexual abuse, neglect or emotional maltreatment is suspected. Jo has extensive experience in the clinical evaluation of infants and children who have experienced abuse or neglect, has presented evidence in court, published in the field and provides regular education and training in the field of childhood maltreatment. Jo has a special interest in technology-facilitated sexual harm of children and is supervising a PhD in the area.
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Cjt Professor Graham Vimpani AM
Graham Vimpani is a semi-retired general and community paediatrician based in the NSW Hunter New England Local Health District. He is a 1967 graduate of the University of Adelaide and became a Fellow of the RACP in 1976. He spent 4 years in Edinburgh from 1973-77 where he obtained his PhD for an epidemiological study of short stature in Scottish school children. He also visited a range of community child health services in Britain. He returned to Adelaide in 1977 taking up a position as Coordinator of Maternal and Child Health Services in the South Australian Health Commission for 4 years before taking up a senior position in the newly established Child Adolescent and Family Health Service from 1981-1985. Prior to moving to Newcastle in 1990 as Professor of Community Child and Family Health and Coordinator of Child and Family Health Services, he had a combined academic and clinical role at Flinders University/Medical Centre. During his 3 decades in Newcastle he has held a number of senior positions including an appointment as Clinical Chair in Kaleidoscope Children’s Health services and part-time leadership roles in community child health and child protection with the NSW Health Department. In his semi-retirement he conducted clinics in Tamworth and Inverell for children in out of home care, a significant proportion of whom were indigenous.
He has published over 120 papers and has had significant research contributions in child injury prevention (Kidsafe Australia), the impact of lead on child development (Port Pirie Cohort Study), child protection, the importance of positive experiences in the early years on later health and wellbeing outcomes, and the value of nurse home visiting on subsequent health and wellbeing. In the early years of the 21st century he contributed significantly to the establishment of an effective advocacy group, the National Investment for the Early Years (NIFTeY) and the Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth (ARACY).
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