Plan for your future

Physiotherapy Business, Education and Leadership Symposium

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October 31 November 2, 2014. Cairns, QLD

Delegate E-Book and Program

2Business, Education & Leadership Symposium Program Committee 2014

Symposium Program Committee Chris Barnett, Chair

Michelle Crowther

Adam Govier

Libby Jamieson

Maureen McEvoy

Jackie Robertson

Karen Schubert

Pre-Symposium Workshops Working Group MembersBusiness WorkshopScott Smith

Matthew Squires

Educator and Leadership WorkshopSara Carroll

Kerstin McPherson

Debra Schulz

Marilyn Webster

Symposium 2014 Organiser: Australian Physiotherapy AssociationNational Office, Level 1, 1175 Toorak Road, CAMBERWELL, VIC 3124

Phone: +61 3 9092 0888 Fax: +61 3 9092 0899Website: www.physiotherapy.asn.au

Kylie BiermanConference & Event ManagerEmail: kylie.bierman@physiotherapy.asn.au

Rebecca DonnetLearning & Development CoordinatorEmail: rebecca.donnet@physiotherapy.asn.au

Maree WhittinghamSenior Advertising & Business Development CoordinatorEmail: maree.whittingham@physiotherapy.asn.au

Vicki SmithGeneral Manager, Learning and Development DivisionEmail: vicki.smith@physiotherapy.asn.au

Symposium 2014 Exhibition Venue: Pullman Cairns International Hotel17 Abbott Street, CAIRNS, QLD 4870

Phone: +61 7 4031 1300 or Toll Free (within Australia): 1800 079 100Website: www.pullmancairnsinternational.com.au

The Australian Physiotherapy Association would like to thank the Symposium 2014 Platinum Sponsor

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Welcome Message

We are very pleased to welcome you to the APA 2014 Business, Education and Leadership Symposium in tropical Cairns.

The 2014 Symposium Program Committee have developed a relevant, engaging, and topical program for this event.

The Symposium theme New frontiers: plan for your future has evolved from the InPractice 2025 report. This document communicates a vision for the physiotherapy practice of the future and highlights eight strategic drivers that will shape the health industry in the coming decades and six key features that the physiotherapy profession must incorporate to continue to thrive in the future. As we know the APA is a broad church with a wide range of interests; however, we plan on giving everyone some essential take-home strategies and key messages to impact upon their practice, teaching facility and office (real or virtual). Ultimately, the Program offers something for everyone. The themes of InPractice 2025 have so much commonality and crossover across the profession we truly believe that the hardest thing for delegates will be for them to choose the sessions that they will attend.

Over four days, from 30 October to 2 November, the Symposium 2014 Program and pre-Symposium Workshops will feature six themes based on the key features that the physiotherapy profession must incorporate to continue to thrive in the future.

Symposium 2014 themes:1. A broader range of services2. Consumer and outcomes focused3. Responsive to the needs of a changing workforce4. Equipped with business acumen5. Connected with technology6. A partner in teaching, training and research

Abstract submissions have been invited and accepted in line with the Symposium themes, these presentations will complement an impressive list of invited speakers who will share their experience and expertise.

The three day Program includes three social functions specially designed to help you to relax and catch up with colleagues, expand your network as well as make some new friends.

There are so many things to do in Cairns; sometimes its hard to know where to start. While the Symposium program is designed to promote professional excellence and career success, we encourage you to take some me time whilst in Cairns. We hope you make the most of your time in Cairns it is a magnificent location for this Symposium!

On a personal note, Id like to thank the Committee and APA staff for their time, energy, enthusiasm and commitment to Symposium 2014. All Committee positions are voluntary and all members certainly went above and beyond their duties. This Program is a reflection of their hard work and dedication to the physiotherapy industry in Australia.

Chris BarnettChair, Symposium Program Committee

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Table of Contents

Welcome Message 3

Program at a Glance 6

Symposium APP 7

Venue Floorplan 8

Pre-Symposium Business Workshop Program 10

Business Workshop Invited Speakers 11

Business Workshop Speaker Abstracts 12

Educator and Leadership Workshop Program 13

Educator and Leadership Workshop Invited Speakers 14

Educator and Leadership Speaker Abstracts 16

Symposium 2014 Program 18

Invited Speakers 22

Invited Speaker Abstracts 30

Accepted AbstractPresentations 36

Partners Sponsors and Exhibitors 46

Exhibition Floor Plan 47

Symposium 2014 Partner Listing 48

Social Program 49

General Information 50

Notes 53

Index 58

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6Program at a Glance

Thursday 30 October 2014 pre-Symposium Workshops

7.30am onwards Registration open for pre-Symposium Workshops

9.00am 5.30pm Business Workshop

9.00am 5.00pm Educator and Leadership Workshop

2.00pm 5.30pm Registration for Symposium participants arriving in Cairns on Thursday wishing to register early.

6.00pm 8.00pm PBA Networking Evening (at Salt House Restaurant)

Friday 31 October Symposium day one

7.30am onwards Registration open

8.30am 4.30pm Symposium sessions

7.30am 4.30pm Exhibition Open

5.00pm 7.00pm Welcome Reception (pool deck at Pullman Cairns International)

Saturday 1 November Symposium day two

7.00am onwards Registration open

8.30am 4.30pm Symposium sessions

8.00am 4.30pm Exhibition Open

7.00pm onwards Symposium Dinner (at Pullman Reef Casino)

Sunday 2 November Symposium day three

7.00am onwardsRegistration openMindfulness session participants to be at dock no later than 7.30am

8.00am 12.00pm7.30 11.45am

Social Media sessionMindfulness session (at Fitzroy Island)

7.30am 1.30pm Exhibition Open

1.30pm Symposium Close

7Symposium APP

Symposium 2014 New frontiers: plan for your future is a paper-free, app-based event making Symposium 2014 our most intelligent and interactive Symposium to date.With Symposium 2014 being paperless, the Symposium App is an essential part of your experience. The app enables you to access Program and session details, view speaker bios and abstracts, create a personalised schedule, take notes, view exhibitor and sponsor profiles, answer poll questions and view the live results, check venue maps, and much more.

The web-based app will keep you up to date with all aspects of Symposium 2014.

The app is suitable for all electronic devices including your iPhone, iPad, all android devices, windows PCs and laptops. You are able to view the app on your smart device while you are off-line, however you will not receive updates or alerts while off-line.

To ensure access to the app throughout the Symposium free Wi-Fi internet will be available at the venue along with mobile charging stations for your phones.

Visit the APA App Help Desk at the Symposium for tips & tricks on how to personalise the app.

The app can be accessed via www.eventmobi.com/apasymposium2014

8Venue Floorplan

Pullman Cairns International Hotel

Ground floor registration desk, exhibition and ballroom

Ballroom

Registration desk

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Level one meeting rooms and APA lounge

APA Lounge

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Pre-Symposium Business Workshop Program

Thursday 30 October Symposium Workshop

9.00 9.10am Welcome an introduction to the day.Facilitator: Jackie Robertson

9.10am 12.10pmIncludes break for morning tea 10.45 11.15am

Unlocking your staffs potential.Samantha Dean, 3AM Business Advisers Facilitator: Jackie RobertsonAs an owner of a physio practice you find that as you get more experienced your client facing hours increase. Your profits are driven by personal exertion by you rather than by your staff. You seem to be working for your staff rather than the other way round! This 3 hour interactive workshop will assist business owners on how to attract, retain, motivate and manage their staff. Using a case study, this workshop will show owners how to introduce and maintain a working environment that: improves business performance (ie. profits & business value) by focussing on key business drivers (KPIs) improves staff motivation & retention makes it easier to attract the right people is easier to administer

12.10 1.10pm

Growing private practice into an occupational rehabilitation company.David Brentnall Facilitator: Scott SmithDavid will discuss the experience of his business growing from a sole practitioner to more than 30 staff in 4 states working with local, national and international companies. He will share key thoughts on this journey and highlight a few significant events that changed the direction of his practice.

1.10 2.00pm Lunch

2.00 3.00pmConcurrent sessions

Big Practice: Your Practice Your Manager.Angela Mason Lynch Facilitator: Matthew SquiresConcepts of practice management to grow your business from medium size to large. How to make your team work for you.

Small Practice: Big vision.Andrew Gallagher Facilitator: Scott SmithSmall practice with a big vision. Grow into your own space and deliver results as a solo practitioner. New doors to open through networking and education, to position yourself as a specialist physiotherapist.

3.00 3.30mE- QIP yourself for the future, creating a framework for success and to safe guard your practice. Stephen Clark Facilitator: Matthew Squires

3.30 4.00pm Afternoon tea

4.00 5.00pm

Onsite physiotherapy. Resourcing, risks and rewards.David Brentnall Facilitator: Scott Smith David is a specialist musculoskeletal physiotherapist who has worked in occupational rehab for over 14 years. He will discuss the challenges and opportunities of onsite physiotherapy and the specific competitive advantage of physiotherapists, when compared to other health professionals, in the field of occupational rehab.He will discuss the additional equipment, skills and knowledge that is essential to operate in the occupational health arena. He will also discuss the legal environment and the ever present exposure to legal proceedings as well as a discussion related to consent to communicate with employers about the workers you are treating.David will also reflect on the professional satisfaction of working in occupational health and how it may integrate with a private practice to either increase or decrease clinic productivity

5.00 5.30pm

Upskilling to position yourself for the practice of the future Panel discussion and Q&ADavid Brentnall, Stephen Clark, Sam Dean, Andrew Gallagher, Angela Mason LynchFacilitators: Jackie Robertson, Matthew Squires & Scott SmithClose

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Business Workshop Invited Speakers

David Brentnall BPhty, FCP GAICD is a Specialist Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist and managing partner at AXIS Rehabilitation at work; an occupational rehabilitation company. He has worked in the field of occupational physiotherapy for over 14 years and he is passionate about injury prevention and early intervention for musculoskeletal injuries in the occupational rehab setting. However, he believes that early intervention is only half the story and that the gold standard is the clinical prediction from the start of management and which cases require additional resources and support for a good outcome. David considers that being a health professional at the workplace gives you another dimension to your understanding of causation and prevention of injuries. Also, that more than ever it is imperative to consider the transition of care from an acute to chronic injury and the management of psychosocial factors. He believes that one of the challenges of delivering physiotherapy in industry is the complex presentations and it is critical that many stakeholders are involved. David is regularly invited to provide treatment in multicentre randomised controlled trials and he provides sessional lecturing at Griffith University. He is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. David lives in Brisbane where the head office of AXIS is based.

Stephen Clark (PhD, FAIM, FAICD, FCEOI) is Group Chief Executive of Quality Innovation Performance Ltd (QIP) and Australian General Practice Accreditation Ltd (AGPAL). Stephen has over 26 years senior leadership experience with 21 years as Chief Executive. His governance experience includes roles such as Chair of Board, National President, Company Secretary and Board Member for more than a dozen companies since the mid 1990s focused mainly in health and education. He has also chaired a range of sub-committees as a non-executive director. He is a member of council for the International Accreditation Program of the International Society for Quality in Health Care and is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management, Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and a Fellow of the CEO Institute. He holds qualifications in Teaching, Psychology, Counselling and Special Education, as well as holding a Doctorate in Philosophy. He is married in a blended family with six children and is passionate about sailing and travelling.

Samantha Dean has a career spanning over 25 years in client advisory and a passion to help practice owners align both their business and personal goals. She is the principle of 3am Business Solutions a firm offering specialised services to Allied Health practices. She has used her experience both as an advisor and as a practice owner to develop strategies and tools to help practice owners realise their personal goals through building great practices. One of the key areas she works with practice owners on is unlocking their most important business asset their staff.

Andrew Gallagher graduated from Lincoln Institute in 1982,and after several rears working in Geriatric Rehabilitation he went into private practice establishing two clinics in suburban Melbourne which also provided onsite services for manufacturing companies in the food processing textiles and whitegoods industries. Along side his physiotherapy practice Andrew established the Australian School of Therapeutic Massage and through this developed an interest in the treatment Myofascial pain, leading eventually to introducing the first formal program in myofacsial pain management and dry needling technique for physiotherapists in 1988. Since this time Andrew has delivered over 300 lectures, workshops and presentations to Medical and Allied health professionals on the clinical applications of Myofascial techniques including dry needling. After a tree-change move to Daylesford in 1997, Andrew established the The Craniomandibular Rehabilitation Clinic in Ballarat focusing on the treatment of orofacial, TMJ, head and neck pain. Whilst this remains the focus of the clinic the success of Andrews approach to pain management has resulted in an expansion of treatment services to other clinical areas such as male pelvic pain, and more recently collaboration with a local Cardiology practice in the assessment and treatment of troponin negative chest pain. Andrew also acts as a consultant to the Independent Medical Panels, as well as pharmaceutical company Reckitt Benckiser in providing Pain Management education to Pharmacists.

Angela Mason Lynch, RN, Post Grad Nurse Management, Dip. Practice Management, GAICD, is the owner and Managing Director of Healthy Practice Solutions. She is a management, risk and audit consultant for the health care industry working with multiple organisations, private practices and government bodies. Her knowledge spans over various health disciplines including physiotherapy, general practice and specialist practice. Angela is a past educator for the APA. She was nominated for Small Business Woman of the Year 2009. Professional profile Immediate past NSW President, AAPM Fellow & Certified PM, Past National President, Health Care Business Manager, Health Care Management Consultant, Honorary Board Member (Multiple Health Bodies), Nurse Manager and Supervisor, Accreditation Surveyor, Lecturer and Presenter, Training Supervisor, RACGP Expert Committee member - Standards for General Practices (NECSGP), Standards for Rural GP (NECCSGP-Rural), Standards for Telehealth, Computer Security Standards, Past member Expert Steering Committees Medicare Australia and Divisions of General Practice.

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Business Workshop Speaker Abstracts

Growing private practice into an occupational rehabilitation company.David BrentnallDavid will discuss the experience of his business growing from a sole practitioner to more than 30 staff in 4 states working with local, national and international companies. He will share key thoughts on this journey and highlight a few significant events that changed the direction of his practice.

Onsite physiotherapy. Resourcing, risks and rewards.David BrentnallDavid is a specialist musculoskeletal physiotherapist who has worked in occupational rehab for over 14 years. He will discuss the challenges and opportunities of onsite physiotherapy and the specific competitive advantage of physiotherapists, when compared to other health professionals, in the field of occupational rehab.David will discuss the additional equipment, skills and knowledge that is essential to operate in the occupational health arena. He will also discuss the legal environment and the ever present exposure to legal proceedings as well as a discussion related to consent to communicate with employers about the workers you are treating. David will also reflect on the professional satisfaction of working in occupational health and how it may integrate with a private practice to either increase or decrease clinic productivity.

E- QIP yourself for the future, creating a framework for success and to safe guard your practice.Stephen ClarkThe safety and quality of health care delivered in Australia seems to be on multiple radars. Governments have mandated quality or encouraged registered health professional providers to seek external validation of their practices. Consumers are becoming more aware of quality and accreditation and business owners are seeking to differentiate their quality validation in order to market their services.Where is all this heading and whats in it for a physio practice?This presentation will outline the present quality / accreditation continuum as it exists in Australia, the role of the Australian Commission for Safety and Quality in Health Care and detail what we are doing as world leaders in this area.There is no doubt as physiotherapists you have three options make quality happen in your profession; watch it happen around you (probably directed by others); or sit back and one day say @#^* what happened!

Unlocking your staffs potential.Samantha DeanLeading a practice has its unique challenges particularly for physiotherapy practice owners where the owners are often the highest earners for the practice and do the most hours in client treatment leaving little time to nurture their entire team on an individual level as well as a complete unit. Given this Sam

has developed a three hour workshop to help you unlock your staffs potential.The workshop will work through interactive activities achieve the following: Clarify the practice owners role in their teams, and their working

relationship with other team members. Clarity other team members roles and what motivates them to

perform successfully. Work through issues that may exist in your practice that effect

the motivation of your team. Understand the balance between leading your team and

managing your team Strategies to help lead a small team to achieve results

Small practice: Big vision.Andrew Gallagher Are the days of the solo practitioner over? In this session Andrew will discuss the process of developing your special interest into a Specialist Practice. Andrew will talk specifically about the development of his own pain management practice, however he will identify specific key principles that he believes will assist other physiotherapists achieve the same.1. What is your specialty.2. Matching your specialty with a potential market .3. Developing an idiosyncratic marketing strategy.4. Education as a networking tool to colleagues and other

health professionals.5. Managing relationships with your physiotherapy colleagues.6. Developing a specialist practice within your existing practice.7. The Physiotherapist as consultant, opportunities beyond

the treatment room an example of involvement in a national health initiative.

Big Practice: Your Practice Your Manager.Angela Mason-LynchYou are a great practitioner but are you a great business manager?As the owner of your business you need to adopt a helicopter philosophy to help you work ON the business instead of getting bogged down IN the business.This session identifies the importance of having someone to oversee the business while you are busy consulting with patients or working off site. It outlines the role of a Practice Manager and their impact on financial efficiency, risk management and consumer perception.You will understand the importance of designing an appropriate job description to best suit

your practice, implementing reporting strategies so you know what is

happening in your business, setting KPIs for your manager to enhance and measure

performance and attracting the right person for your business. There are only 24 hours in the day; you need support you can trust. You need to work smarter to achieve a good practice.

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Educator and Leadership Workshop Program

Thursday 30 October Symposium Workshop

9.00 9.15am Welcome an introduction to the day. Facilitator: Sara Carroll

9.15 12.45pmIncludes break for morning tea

Developing resilience in students and graduates morning workshop.Presenters: Clare Delany and Samantha McLeod Facilitator: Sara CarrollBeing resilient means being able to adapt to life stressors. It is an essential skill to reduce perceived stress and to optimise professional performance. Educators, managers and leaders need to model resilience as a form of self-care and as an essential skill for promoting optimal patient care. This workshop will be delivered by Dr Sam McLeod a clinical health psychologist with a special interest in clinical health and performance psychology, and A/Prof Clare Delany an experienced educator with expertise in clinical education pedagogy and teaching methods. The workshop will be interactive and will explore the concept of resilience and its impact on health, clinical teaching and clinical management. Drawing from cognitive behavioural therapy, positive psychology and performance psychology, positive coping strategies will be presented. Participants will have an opportunity to practice these strategies to enable them to build resilience, self-efficacy, and confidence in others.

12.45 1.30pm Lunch

1.30 2.45pm

The transition and challenges a new graduate perspective.Presenters: Daniel Mahony Student to Physiotherapist- How can we support our future health workforce?Chasely Grimes Trials and triumphs: An insight into the new graduate physiotherapy experience.Facilitator: Sara CarrollDan and Chasely will present and discuss, as new graduates on their perspective, experience and advise on transitioning from student to physiotherapist. These presentations will be followed by a workshop session discussing challenges, surprises, barriers and enablers for students transitioning to employee.

2.45 3.15pm Afternoon tea

3.15 4.30pm

The transition and challenges an employer perspective.Presenters: Libby Jamieson Survival in private practice.Tristan White Graduates getting started in Aged Care.Debbie Schulz Transition making it work.Facilitator: Fiona Kent Libby, Debbie and Tristan will present and discuss, as employers on their perspective, experience and advise on the transition of new graduates into employment.

4.30 5.00pm

Meeting the challengesPanel discussion and Q&A with Clare Delany, Chasely Grimes, Libby Jamieson, Daniel Mahony, Samantha McLeod, Debbie Schulz and Tristan White.Facilitator: Fiona Kent The panel and Q&A session will end the Workshop with discussions around the importance of developing resilience in student and graduate physiotherapists, understanding some potential challenges faced by new graduates when entering their first place of employment, identifying the components of an effective new graduate professional development program and more.

5.00pmCloseFacilitator: Sara Carroll

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Educator and Leadership Workshop Invited Speakers

Clare Delany is an Associate Professor in clinical ethics and education at the Melbourne School of Health Sciences and the Childrens Bioethics Centre at the Royal Childrens Hospital (RCH). At the University, Clare teaches in professional ethics, qualitative research and critical thinking and reasoning in health care. Clare leads a program of professional development in teaching and learning in clinical education within the physiotherapy department and co-ordinates a Masters of Clinical Education in the Melbourne Medical School. At the RCH Childrens Bioethics Centre, Clare is a member of the Clinical Ethics Response Group and is involved in education and clinical consultation in paediatric bioethics. Research interests and publications include legal and ethical obligations of health practitioners; critical thinking and reasoning in clinical education, and the role of resilience in clinical placement learning.

Clare has Masters degrees in Health and Medical Law and Physiotherapy and a PhD in Health Law and Ethics from The University of Melbourne. Clare is the Chair of the Australian Physiotherapy Association National Professional Standards Panel.

Chasely Grimes is a Physiotherapist who recently completed a Bachelor of Physiotherapy (Hons) at the University of Queensland. Throughout her time at University, Chase was particularly taken with the amazing way Physiotherapy can positively influence ones life and the quality of that life.

She is working currently in a metropolitan Hospital and is enjoying the new learning challenges each day brings. Chase believes in constant reflection in practice so that each new clinical experience is shaped from previous highs and also any challenges.

In the future, Chase hopes to be a skilled, experienced clinician who is able to positively influence other younger Physiotherapists and students of the profession.

Libby Jamieson is an experienced Sports Physiotherapist and business owner with over 25 years experience. She owns and manages 2 large busy practices in Western Australia, Grange Physiotherapy (Rockingham) and Mandurah Physiotherapy. Grange Physiotherapy has been the recipient of a variety of small business awards in 1999 and 2012. Both clinics are involved in student placements and new graduate mentoring programs.

Libby graduated with a Bachelor of Science (Physiotherapy) in 1987. After working and travelling overseas in both England and Europe for 3 years, she completed her Post Graduate Diploma in Sports Physiotherapy in 1992 and opened up practice, focusing on active rehabilitation. She was a sports Physiotherapist at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. She currently consults for complex cases, and manages Grange and Mandurah physiotherapy clinics.

Libbys passion is good management in small business. She has a Diploma in Small Business Management and is involved in Business consulting and lecturing. She has also authored national resources for both clinical and business education. She feels strongly that physiotherapy practices should be thriving entities if managed correctly and the focus is on good clinical and customer service. She is currently the WA representative on the National Physiotherapy Business Australia Committee, and is on the advisory committee for the Perth South Coastal Medicare Local.

Libby has 4 children and enjoys musical theatre. In 2001 she was the proud recipient of the Kim Beasley Service to the Community Award.

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Daniel Mahony is a 25 year old Senior Physiotherapist working in the South West of Western Australia making waves in Australias healthcare system. He is currently Co-Chair of Future Health Leaders, the peak national organisation for student and early career health professionals to actively engage in the health reform agenda to improve the health of all Australians. Future Health Leaders promotes collaboration across professions and aims to ensure Australia works towards a sustainable health system of the future for all Australians.

Upon graduating from the School of Physiotherapy at the University of Notre Dame Australia in 2010, Daniel was the recipient of both the Australian Physiotherapy Association (APA) National Board of Directors Student Award and APA WA Branch New Graduate Award for work achieved with the National Rural Health Students Network (NRHSN) Allied Health Portfolio and his rural health club in promoting and advocating for rural health careers and better health care in the bush. Daniel was also a Young Leaders Finalist at the HESTA Primary Health Care Awards in 2013. At the age of 22, he became the youngest person ever elected to the Board of Services for Australian Rural and Remote Allied Health (SARRAH) and is currently the Rural Representative on the APA National Advisory Council.

On top of his part time postgraduate studies in Health Services Management, Daniel is working with Future Health Leaders to encourage leadership development and collaboration to create a workforce that will work together for the benefit of the patient and their community.

In his spare time Danile is a Volunteer Fire and Rescue Fire Fighter and enjoys rowing, mountain biking and fishing.

Samantha McLeod is Clinical Health and Performance Psychologist who has many years experience in her private practice working with allied health student clients who seek psychological intervention for stress, anxiety and performance concerns during their clinical placements at both undergraduate and post-graduate levels. With this practice, she has provided Clinical Supervision (both individual and group) to her peers and provided clinical placements and supervision to provisional psychologists.

Samantha is an experienced educator and has consulted at 3 Melbourne-based universities to provide specialist and guest lecturing to students to students enrolled in allied health, physiotherapy, and psychology courses at both undergraduate and post-graduate levels.

Samantha also delivers professional development seminars and focus groups, with a multidisciplinary focus for staff, treating providers, and medical experts in her role as a TAC and WorkSafe Clinical Panel Consultant, and within a sport medicine context.

Debra Schulz is the Director of Allied Health at Barwon Health, Geelong. She trained as a physiotherapist and has post graduate qualifications in Gerontology, Business and a Doctor of Physiotherapy. Debbie is a member of the Australian Physiotherapy Association (APA) and is the Physiotherapists in Leadership and Management representative on the National Advisory Council of the APA.

Debbie is the project lead for the Health Workforce Australia (HWA) Clinical Supervision Support Program project in the Barwon-South Western region and was successful for a 2012 HWA Clinical Supervision Support Program Fellowship to identify clinical supervision capabilities in allied health, nursing and medical clinical supervisors: Development of clinical supervision capability self efficacy tools for novice and advanced clinical supervisors.

Debbie is the Chair of the Barwon-South Western Clinical Training Network and holds the secretary/ treasurer position with the Victorian Allied Health Leaders Council and is the inaugural chair of the Barwon South Western Regional Allied Health Leaders Network.

Tristan White is a qualified physiotherapist & is best known as the founder & CEO of The Physio Co.Tristans passion is building The Physio Co to have a strong family-like culture. The simple approach of being honest, treating people with the respect they deserve and doing it all with a smile is working for Tristan and his TPC team! The Physio Cos team of 70 will deliver almost 200,000 physiotherapy visits to Australian aged care residents in 2014.

Tristan loves to share what hes learnt. He believes that Culture is Everything to business success. With his progress so far it seems to be working. In 2013, The Physio Co was named the 5th Best Place to Work in Australia by BRW magazine. With this award, The Physio Co has been in Australias Top 50 Places to Work for 5 consecutive years in its 10 year history.

Tristan is married to Kimberley, and dad to Alexandra & Harriet.

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Educator and Leadership Speaker Abstracts

Developing resilience in students and graduates.Clare Delany and Samantha McLeodBeing resilient means being able to adapt to life stressors. It is an essential skill to reduce perceived stress and to optimise professional performance. Educators, managers and leaders need to model resilience as a form of self-care and as an essential skill for promoting optimal patient care. This workshop will be delivered by Dr Sam McLeod a clinical health psychologist with a special interest in clinical health and performance psychology, and A/Prof Clare Delany an experienced educator with expertise in clinical education pedagogy and teaching methods. The workshop will be interactive and will explore the concept of resilience and its impact on health, clinical teaching and clinical management. Drawing from cognitive behavioural therapy, positive psychology and performance psychology, positive coping strategies will be presented. Participants will have an opportunity to practice these strategies to enable them to build resilience, self-efficacy, and confidence in others.

Trials and triumphs: An insight into the new graduate physiotherapy experience. Chasely GrimesThis presentation provides a brief exploration of the various experiences a New Graduate Physiotherapist is exposed to. Some key highlights are considered which demonstrate the inspiring nature of Physiotherapy as a Profession. Conversely, some particular challenges for a New Graduate are discussed, including avenues for addressing and managing such challenges. Overall, the presentation will take the audience on a journey encouraging personal reflective back to their experiences as a New Graduate, and as a result, may prosper professional discussion regarding support of New Graduate Physiotherapists and avenues for prospering the development of each clinician starting out in the profession.

Survival in Private Practice. Libby Jamieson-Soderholm These days a large percentage of new graduates enter private practice as primary care health practitioners with minimum prior work experience. This presentation discusses at a grass root level, the challenges new graduates face when first entering private practice and the coping mechanisms they must address in order to survive this transition. It describes the type of new graduate that will have an improved chance of survival in this area. It will look at basic private practice skills that must be learnt on the job and new graduate programs that can assist that journey. It also discusses the barriers to transition from university to primary health care worker and the ability to create value as a new graduate. It also addresses issues if its just not working and procedures that may assist in the successful transition. Libby runs two busy practices with new graduate programs running in each practice.

Student to Physiotherapist- How can we support our future health workforce?Daniel Mahony For many new graduate physiotherapists, the transition from student to clinician can be a scary thought. With a wide range of settings and industries available for new graduates to put their skills into practice, finding a job in an area you are interested in along with the support you need is often challenging. Discussion around who is responsible to ensure this transition is as smooth as possible is frequently debated. Is it the university or the employer who needs to facilitate the development of other skills including for instance business and leadership? How can we ensure this transition provides the right amount of support to the benefit of the new graduate, the employer, and most importantly the community they will work in? And how does this translate in rural and remote practice where the number of physiotherapists per person is significantly less compared to our cities?This presentation will provide some practical ways and topics for debate as to how we can support, recruit and retain early career physiotherapists and ensure your investment pays off. Turning these challenges into solutions will ensure the next generation of physiotherapists continue to provide high quality health care to the Australian community for generations to come.

Transition making it work. Debbie Schulz Orientation programs for physiotherapy graduates have existed for many years. The Victorian Statewide Interprofessional Allied Health Graduate Program was released in 2014. This presentation will provide a brief overview of the Statewide Interprofessional Allied Health Graduate Program and subsequent implementation across the state. What have been the outcomes and what does the future hold?

Graduates getting started in Aged CareTristan White In 2014, The Physio Co was named as BRWs Best Place to Work in Australia. It has 70 team members and will deliver close to 200,000 unique consultations to Australian aged care residents this year.In this session, Tristan will share his insights of leading The Physio Co over the past 10 years and learnings on the best ways to recruit, develop and retain graduate Physios in aged care. You will hear practical tips of what does and doesnt work along with stories about Graduate Physios who have developed into fantastic independent and long term team members.

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Symposium 2014 Program

The Symposium 2014 theme New frontiers: plan for your future aligns with the APAs InPractice 2025: Final report. This document communicates a vision for the physiotherapy practice of the future. The Symposium themes are based on the six key features that the physiotherapy profession must incorporate to continue to thrive in the future.

1. A broader range of services

2. Consumer and outcomes focused

3. Responsive to the needs of a changing workforce

4. Equipped with business acumen

5. Connected with technology

6. A partner in teaching, training and research

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Friday 31 October 2014 Symposium day one 7.30am Registration, Arrival tea/coffee & Exhibition (Registration desk will stay open until 5.00pm)Symposium Registration will be open from 2pm Thursday 30 October for those arriving in Cairns on Thursday wishing to register early.

8.30 10.00amOpening plenary session

Welcome to country Gimuy Walubara peopleAPA Welcome to Symposium 2014 Marcus Dripps an introduction to the InPractice 2025 report and welcomeKeynote speaker: Rob Moodie In the eye of the Melbourne Storm what happens when it all hits the fan

10.00 10.45am Morning Tea & Exhibition

10.45am 12.00pmFriday morning concurrent sessions

Think outside the 4 walls of the treatment room (Theme Broader range of services)Chair, Jackie Robertson Troy Morgan Creating a multi-disciplinary corporate health productAntony Hirst Does under-servicing stop us from achieving best outcomes

Partnering with consumers for a win, win (Theme Consumers and outcomes)Chair, Phil CalvertDebra Kay Patient partnerships what are consumers looking for from physiotherapy?John Fitzgerald Who are our consumers? It may surprise you

Expanding the scope of physiotherapy practice (Theme Changing workforce)Chair, Adam Govier Paula Harding Results from the Health Workforce Australia Expanding Scope of Practice for Physiotherapists in the Emergency Department Project: A lead sites perspectiveKatie Vine Extended Scope of Physiotherapeutic Practice in Emergency Its NEAT!

12.00 1.00pm Lunch & Exhibition

1.00 2.15pmFriday afternoon concurrent abstract sessions

Current business updates from now to 2025 (Theme Business acumen) Abstract submission and invited presentations. Chair, Libby JamiesonJulie Godfrey Non clinical upskilling of practitioners the stuff you dont learn at university (20mins)Samantha Dean Is your business delivering to your personal plan? (20mins invited presentation)Siona Hardy Managing employee expectations and business needs a tricky balance (20mins)Q&A

Standards of Practice into 2025 (Merged theme) Abstract submission presentations. Chair, Karen SchubertCharles Flynn The Physiotherapy Board of Australia and Workforce Mobility: How the National Health Practitioner Law has helped (10mins) Leanne Percy Accreditation Standards Review (10mins) Liisa Laakso Can teaching and training partners agree on a minimum number of clinical placement hours? (10mins)Melissa Locke Review of the overseas qualified physiotherapist assessment process (10mins)Alison Bell Utility of entry level standards to two registration boards a case for developing shared standards (10mins)Rose Boucat Towards the development of OHS Resources for Physiotherapy Practices (10mins)Q&A

Building the new breed: teaming teaching, training and research (Theme Teaching, training and research) Abstract submission presentations. Chair, Maureen McEvoySara Carroll Demand for and barriers limiting the use of private practices for undergraduate clinical placements (10mins)Andrea Bialocerkowski Development of an evidence-based clinical assessment workload model for the health professions: medicine, nursing, occupational therapy, physiotherapy and podiatry (10mins)Sheila Lennon Embedding interprofessional team working in pre-registration education for occupational therapy & physiotherapy (10mins)Cherie Hearn Its not the load that breaks you down, its the way you carry it Creating a clinical education model in a busy Physiotherapy Department (10mins)Sarah Barradell La Trobe Universitys Clinical Schools Model: new teaching, learning and research partnerships in physiotherapy (10mins)Joanne Connaughton Has our profession overlooked the psycho in the bio-psycho-social model? (10mins)Q&A

2.15 2.55pm Afternoon Tea & Exhibition

3.00 4.30pm Friday afternoon plenary session

The Great Debate and Q&A session The physiotherapy graduate is prepared for the health workforce of 2014 and beyond? Facilitator: Fiona Kent. Participants: Jenny Aiken, Cath Dean, Linda Denehy, John Fitzgerald, Louisa Remedios, Debbie Schulz.

5.00 7.00pm WELCOME RECEPTION join us on tropically themed pool deck.

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Saturday 1 November 2014 Symposium day two

7.30 8.30amBreakfast sessions

Symposium 2014 Breakfast sessionsKaren Finnin Treating patients in your pyjamas the advantages of TelerehabilitationChair: Jackie RobertsonAntony Hirst The 4 Cs for success: Commercialisation, Clinical ability, Cornflakes & Customer service Chair: Libby JamiesonTroy Morgan Culture eats strategy for breakfast dont let yours be on the menuChair: Maureen McEvoy

7.00am Registration, Arrival tea/coffee & Exhibition (Registration desk will stay open until 4.30pm)

8.30 10.10am Saturday morning plenary session

Morning welcome wrap up of day one and whats to come for days two and threePaul Shinkfield Risk based regulation: an update from the Physiotherapy Board of Australia

Physiotherapy on the pathway to prescribing? (Theme Changing Workforce) This session is an APA Member Value Webinar with Q&A from the Symposium audience and webinar participants. Chair: Chris BarnettMarcus Dripps Prescribing Rights: The APA setting the scenePaul Shinkfield The role of the Physiotherapy Board in prescribing Lorraine Sheppard Chair of the Australian Physiotherapy CouncilLinda Denehy Prescribing rights from the academic, teaching perspectiveTim Noblet The prescription of progression for PhysiotherapyJo Morris ACT Health Trial of Physiotherapy prescribing and injectingHenry Heron Therapeutic access, landmines and razor wire an Optometrists perspective Q&A

10.10 10.50am Morning Tea & Exhibition

10.50 12.05pmSaturday morning concurrent abstract sessions

Consumer care comes first, for now and future practice (Merged themes Broader range of services & Consumers and outcomes) Abstract submission presentations. Chair, Jackie RobertsonPippa Tessmann 20 years in private practice in Central Australia, a rewarding experience (10mins) Errol Lim Integrated Care its all talk but can we really deliver it? (20mins) Jason Smith The Voice what our clients are saying about you! (10mins) Darrin Neumann Private health insurance physiotherapy rebates- a lost decade (10mins) Bernadette Brady Does research evidence reflect culturally diverse practice? (10mins)Q&A

The intersection of Business, Education and Leadership in the new frontiers of physiotherapy (Merged themes) Abstract submission and invited presentations. Chair, Maureen McEvoyPhil Calvert Public and private sector intersections, and the role of professional leadership (15min invited presentation)David Schmidt Partnering for the future: creating a public-private partnership for new graduate physiotherapy recruitment and education program (10mins)Jenny Aiken Graduate mentoring program (15min invited presentation)Sara Carroll A solution for sweaty palms and trembling knees (10mins)Rob Moodie Private practice and prevention do they mix? (15min invited presentation)Q&A

An eye on the APA workforce of the future (Theme Changing workforce) Abstract submission presentations. Chair, Chris BarnettLiisa Laakso New health and the future of physiotherapy A way forwards (10mins)Kerrie Walter Implementing a common Clinical Education Framework into Advanced Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy A Victorian Department of Health State-wide workforce and innovation initiative (10mins)Patrick Swete Kelly Implementation and outcomes of a work based clinical education program to improve workforce readiness or advanced scope of practice roles in musculoskeletal physiotherapy (10mins)Ilsa Nielsen Scoping clinical requirements of rural and remote generalist physiotherapists (10mins)Nancy Low Choy Innovative inter-professional post-graduate education in aged and neurological rehabilitation to meet current and future needs for advanced allied health practitioners (10mins)Jenny Setchell Physiotherapists demonstrate weight stigma: Implications for leadership in clinical practice and physiotherapy education (10mins)Q&A

12.05 1.00pm Lunch & Exhibition

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Sunday 2 November 2014 Symposium day three7.00am Registration, Arrival tea/coffee & Exhibition (Registration desk will stay open until 1.30pm)

Sunday morning concurrent sessions x 2 options. Attendees MUST select one of the two options during the registration process or prior to attending Symposium 2014.

#apasymposium The social media maze (Social media in the workplace)The social media maze can be confusing and some of us are getting lost let us help you find your way out Chair, Jackie Robertson Presenters:Presenters: Mark Merrolli, Troy Morgan, Jackie Robertson, and Nicky Jurd

This session will take place at the Pullman Cairns International Hotel

7.30am Arrival tea/coffee & Exhibition 8.00am Commence workshop10.30am Morning tea and exhibition11.00am Commence workshop part 212.00pm Workshop concludes12.00pm Lunch boxes and exhibitionClose.Social Media Sunday Session participants wanting to enjoy Fitzroy Island for the afternoon must be at the dock at 1.00pm. Returning to Cairns at 5.00pm.(Indicate your preference to head to Fitzroy Island during the registration process.)

Mindfulness we are all in the same boat (Common issues that affect us all)Chair, Karen SchubertPresenter: Helena Popovic The key that turns stress into successWere all in the same leaky boat that has shipwrecked us in the modern world of speed and stress. Excessive demands on our time, energy and finances drag down our performance, reduce our productivity, and leave us feeling exhausted and overwhelmed. Can we build a better boat that will keep us afloat? Not only afloat but feeling buoyant and balanced? This session will steer you in the right direction.

This session will take place on Fitzroy Island off the coast of Cairns (via charter boat)

7.30am Arrival at dock for departure to Fitzroy Island.8.45am Arrival at Fitzroy Island, head to function centre 9:30am Commence workshop part 110:30am Morning tea11:00am Commence workshop part 211:45am End of workshop12:00pm Arrival at dock, depart Fitzroy Island to Cairns (45 mins)Charter boat returning from Fitzroy Island to Cairns at 12.00pm and again at 5.00pm.(Indicate your return preferences during the registration process.)

Saturday 1 November 2014 Symposium day two

1.00 2.15pmSaturday afternoon concurrent sessions

Use your head not your hands (Theme Business acumen)Chair, Jenny Aiken Antony Hirst Business and staff KPIs to maximise successLibby Jamieson The ideal client journey for patient retention and business success

The tricks of treating with technology (Theme Technology)Chair, Jackie RobertsonKaren Finnin Tech lessons from Telehealth cloud and proudMark Merolli PsychoSocial Media? Web 2.0 and chronic disease management

Educating for Business and Leadership (Theme Teaching, training and research)Chair, Karen SchubertFiona Kent Bringing it to the coalface: students on placement in private practiceLouisa Remedios Leadership and management: an oxymoron or a perfect partnershipCath Dean The long arm: moving beyond clinical skills for physiotherapy programs

2.20 3.00pm Afternoon Tea & Exhibition

3.00 4.30pmSaturday afternoon plenary session

Social Communities, making a long lasting effective change Chair, Chris BarnettDebra Kay Back to the future: practice (into 2025), from a consumer viewpointHelen Bevan Why mobilising from the ground up is a better tactic than changing systems

Close The Intersection between business, education & leadership. Where to from here?

7.00pm onwardsSYMPOSIUM DINNER Cairns Reef Hotel Casino, including best abstract award. Dinner proudly sponsored by HESTA.

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Invited Speakers

Keynote Speakers

Professor Rob Moodie is Professor of Public Health and Director of Teaching and Learning at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health. He has the great privilege of teaching a wonderful group of talented and enthusiastic Australian and international students (including Dr Physio students). Rob also teaches in Mozambique. He teaches about health promotion and the practice of leadership in public health.

He trained in medicine at the University of Melbourne, in tropical medicine at Paris University and in public health at Harvard. Since 1979 he has worked for Save the Children Fund and Mdecins Sans Frontires in the Sudan; for Congress, the Aboriginal Health Service in Alice Springs, and for the Burnet Institute Australias largest virology and communicable disease research Institute and the World Health Organisation.

He was the inaugural Director of Country Support in the joint UN Program on AIDS (UNAIDS) in Geneva from 19951998 and was the CEO of the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation (VicHealth) from 1998-2007.

He chaired the National Preventative Health Taskforce from 2008-2011 and is a member of the World Health Organizations Expert Panel on Health Promotion. He has co-edited and co-authored four books, including Promoting Mental Health, Hands on Health Promotion, and his most recent Recipes for a Great Life with Gabriel Gate.

He is married to Anne, a physiotherapist and they have two children, Nick and Penny. He was Chair of the Melbourne Storm Rugby League Club from 2005 to 2010.

His contribution to population health and disease prevention was recognised this year when he received an Order of Australia for services to medicine through HIV/AIDS research and through various leadership roles.

Dr Helen Bevan has been a leader of large scale change in the English National Health Service for more than 20 years.

She led the ground-breaking Business Process Reengineering transformation programme at The Leicester Royal Infirmary in the 1990s. As a result, she was asked to become a national leader of initiatives to improve patient access to NHS care for which she was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 2001. Helen has been at the forefront of NHS improvement initiatives that have made a difference for thousands of patients ever since. She introduced the first nationwide collaborative programmes to improve the delivery of cancer care across England in 2000. She designed the highly influential Ten High Impact Changes for Service Improvement and Delivery in 2004 and conceived the impactful Productive Series, starting with The Productive Ward in 2007.

In 2010, Helens team launched a call to action, utilising social movement leadership principles, which contributed to a 51% reduction in prescribing of antipsychotic drugs to people with dementia across the country. Helen initiated NHS Change Day, in partnership with a group of young clinical and managerial leaders in 2012. NHS Change Day 2014 was the largest ever voluntary collective action for improvement in the history of the NHS with more than 700,000 pledges made to take action to improve experience and outcomes for patients. NHS Change Day also won the global Leaders Everywhere challenge run by Harvard Business Review and McKinsey.

Helen Bevan is acknowledged globally for her expertise in large scale change and ability to translate it into practical action and deliver outcomes. She provides advice, guidance and training on transformational change to leaders of healthcare systems across the world. She is a source of energy and inspiration for change and helps to think the unthinkable. In 2008, the 60th anniversary of the National Health Service, Helen was recognised as one of the 60 most influential people in the history of the NHS.

Dr Helena Popovic is a medical doctor, best-selling author, international speaker and leading authority on how to improve brain function and how our lifestyles impact our health and performance.

Helenas philosophy is that education is more powerful than medication and she believes in slow ageing despite fast living. She is passionate about teaching individuals, businesses and organisations the Neuroscience of Success and empowering people to live longer, stronger, healthier and happier.

She graduated from the University of Sydney and is the founder and CEO of Winning at Slimming thinking the light way. Winning at Slimming is a ground-breaking weight loss program based on the principles of neuroplasticity: changing the brain to change the body. Helena is the author of the inspiring book, In Search of My Father Dementia is no match for a daughters determination. Her story is a warm and humorous account of how we can build a better brain at any age or stage of life.

Helenas dynamic presentations produce measurable results in terms of enhanced performance, increased productivity, sharper thinking, incisive problem solving, effective stress management and greater life satisfaction. She enables people to discover the power of their moment by moment choices in reigniting their zest and vitality for life and work.

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Invited Speakers

Jenny Aiken is currently a General Manger with Health Networks Australia overseeing physiotherapy clinics and other allied health businesses across three states.

She is a Sports Physiotherapist who has spent the majority of her career in private practice and is passionate about ensuring that physiotherapy businesses continue to grow and thrive in the private sector.

It is essential to Jenny that practices under her leadership deliver exceptional quality of care so that the physiotherapy profession retains a high degree of respect within the community. Being an inspirational and dynamic leader is an important aspect of her professional life and she is currently the Chair of the Central Sydney Allied Health Network, a member of the Advisory Board for Macquarie Universitys Doctor of Physiotherapy and the National PBA representative for the APA National Advisory Council.

Phil Calvert, APAM, MPhty, BAppSci(Physio), GradCert (Mgt), GAICD, APA National Vice President.Phil graduated from the University of South Australia with a Bachelor of Applied Science (Physiotherapy) degree in 1997. He has also completed a Master of Physiotherapy degree and a Graduate Certificate in Health Service Management from Flinders University.

Phil currently works as Regional Manager of Physiotherapy for the Womens and Childrens Hospital, Adelaide, which is the tertiary paediatric and womens health service for South Australia and the NT. He consults in private paediatric practice in Adelaide and holds an adjunct lecturer appointment with the University of South Australia.

With experience as a South Australian branch councillor and treasurer for the APA, Phil has also been a member of the National Advisory Council. He is a member of both the Paediatric and Physiotherapy in Leadership and Management national groups.

In 2014, Phil was elected as a National Vice President of the APA.

Special Responsibilities include Deputy Chair, Board of Directors and Chair, Nominations and Remunerations Committee

Catherine Dean is a researcher and educator in neurological physiotherapy. In May 2011 she joined Macquarie University as the inaugural Director and Head of the Physiotherapy Program. Previously Professor Dean has worked as an academic with teaching, administrative and research responsibilities at the University of Sydney since 1991. She was the recipient of prestigious scholarships to undertake Masters, Doctoral and Post-doctoral studies.

Her research interests are developing and testing of rehabilitation strategies to increase activity and participation after stroke, translating evidence into practice and clinical education. She has over 60 publications, two with over 200 citations and over $3.5 million in grants for research and education. Her research has been published in high impact international journals in neurology (Stroke), rehabilitation (Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation) and basic science journals (Gait and Posture) as well as in international and national physiotherapy journals. Her doctoral study involving a randomised controlled clinical trial of a sitting balance training protocol was published in the prestigious journal Stroke and was the first randomised controlled trial of physiotherapy intervention to be published in that journal. Professor Deans research publications have described important new findings and have effected change in physiotherapy practice in neurology. For example the sitting balance and circuit training interventions she developed have been implemented in stroke rehabilitation units throughout Australia and North America. Her research has been included in the Australian Clinical Guidelines for the Management of Stroke and the Canadian StokeEngine website. Professor Dean has a wealth of experience in new curriculum development and learning and teaching innovation in Physiotherapy.

At Macquarie she has developed and implemented NSW first Doctor of Physiotherapy Program. The program is a three year Masters extended program which includes advanced physiotherapy skills and business management, leadership, policy and advocacy units.

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Linda Denehy is a PhD-qualified physiotherapist who is Head of the Department of Physiotherapy at the University of Melbourne. She has been a teaching and research academic since 1993 and obtained her PhD in 2002. She has extensive teaching and learning experience, has developed curricula in cardiorespiratory physiotherapy both at under and post graduate level and lead the implementation of the new Doctor of Physiotherapy course at The University of Melbourne. Linda has supervised over 25 research higher degree students to completion and has extensive research expertise in the area of cardiorespiratory physiotherapy, particularly in patient populations who are acutely unwell, including in critically ill patients in the intensive care unit. She has over 100 research publications in peer reviewed journal papers, invited papers and book chapters.

Professor Denehy has been successful in obtaining funding from over 30 applications of over $6million for research into physiotherapy related topics, including as a chief investigator on five nationally competitive grants in rehabilitation after critical illness, lung cancer and breathlessness in COPD. She has been invited to speak at over 20 national and international conferences. Prof Denehy reviews for national and international competitive granting bodies and for several international scientific journals.

Marcus Dripps, APAM, APA National President, BPhty, is a physiotherapist based in Geelong, VIC. He is the CEO of Corio Bay Health Group, the largest multidisciplinary sports medicine group in regional Victoria. He continues to be an active clinician, and has a clinical interest in occupational health and adolescent sporting injuries. He has business interests in health information technology and clinical education. Marcus has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Australian Physiotherapy Association since 2007, and has been appointed National President for 2013-2014.

He is a clinical advisor to the Transport Accident Commission and Worksafe Victoria, and Chairs the Victorian Health Ministers advisory council on Allied Health.

Marcus has been a member of the Board of Directors at Barwon Health, the public health service in the Geelong region, since 2008. He chairs their Primary Care and Population Health group.

Marcus is a father of five, with an interest in running, surf lifesaving and sailing.

Karen Finnin graduated as a Physiotherapist from LaTrobe University in Melbourne, Australia, and has since completed a Masters in Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy. With over 14 years working in Private Practice settings, Karen has developed extensive experience in managing spinal injuries, general sporting injuries and work related conditions. She has travelled interstate and overseas with sporting teams, and has developed a number of education programs in fields such as core stability retraining, fit ball use, and injury management.

Karen has nurtured her flair for business through practice ownership, health services contract management, and participation in business programs.

In 2011, inspired by her time residing in remote areas, Karen launched Physios Online, Australias first entirely online, publicly accessible private Physiotherapy Practice.Physios Online specializes in providing telerehabiliation consultations to people in rural and remote areas. It has been featured in publications such as the Body and Soul newspaper liftout, Good Health Magazine, CBS online, and Energy and Resources magazine. Through her work with Physios Online, Karen has been awarded 9th place in the SMART Top 100 Readers Choice Innovations in 2011, and first place in Pitchfest 2012, a pitching competition for leading entrepreneurs.

Karen is also an author, with her book Before You Break Simple Steps To Injury Proof Your Body published in 2013. The book is designed to educate the community, and subsequently do for injuries, what tooth brushing has done for tooth decay. Before You Break was born of Karens belief that the only thing better than managing injuries well, is preventing them in the first place.

John Fitzgerald is Practice Principal of Active Rehabilitation Physiotherapy, one of the largest and most respected private practices in Queensland, with a team of over 30 physiotherapists, 4 practice locations, and is contracted to provide inpatient Physiotherapy services to the Mater Private Hospital, South Brisbane.

John has a strong commitment to giving back to the Physiotherapy profession. Active Rehabilitation Physiotherapy employs full-time clinical educators, in a formal partnership with the University of Queensland, to provide placements for final year Physiotherapy students. John has been a Physiotherapy Practice Surveyor for Quality in Practice. He sits on the University of Queensland Physiotherapy Department Curriculum Consultative Committee, and Chairs the Sports Physiotherapy Australia Queensland Branch Committee. With extensive experience in knee and shoulder rehabilitation, John regularly lectures undergraduate and post graduate physiotherapists in these special interest areas. For many years, he has run partnered clinics in collaboration with some of Brisbanes top Medical Specialists.

John graduated with a Bachelor of Science (Hons) from the University of Queensland in 1979 and a Bachelor of Physiotherapy in 1983. He was awarded the title of APA Sports Physiotherapist in 1999. John commenced

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his physiotherapy career in 1983 at the Mater Public Hospital, Brisbane, and established a solo practice in 1986 on Wickham Terrace, Brisbane. He helped establish Brisbanes first multi-disciplinary rehabilitation centres within the Australian Sports Medicine Clinic and Brisbane Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Clinic in 1989.

John was Physiotherapist to the Brisbane Broncos from 1989 to 1996, the Brisbane Bullets and Queensland State of Origin Teams in the early 1990s, the Queensland Academy of Sport Netball Squad and many Queensland State Age and Open Netball Teams from 1996 to 2009, and the Queensland Firebirds from 2006 to 2009.

Paula Harding is a Grade 4 Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist at The Alfred hospital in Melbourne. Paula graduated from Lincoln Institute of Health Sciences in Melbourne and has over 20 years of experience working in the musculoskeletal area in both the private and public sector. In 2000, she completed a Masters of Manipulative Physiotherapy at La Trobe University and in 2012 completed a Clinical Doctorate of Physiotherapy at The University of Melbourne. Recent project manager roles at The Alfred have included the successful implementation of a primary practice musculoskeletal physiotherapy service into the Emergency and Trauma Centre and the introduction of a Physiotherapy Arthroplasty Review Clinic into the orthopaedic outpatient department.

Paula was the project manager for the Health Workforce Australia Expanding Scope of Practice for Physiotherapists in Emergency Departments project of which the Alfred Hospital was a lead site, and project manager for the Victorian Department of Health Advancing Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy project. An area of interest for Paula has been developing the education and training program, and work-based competency assessment for Advanced Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy roles.

Henry Heron is an Optometrist who was raise in Zimbabwe and graduated from a Bachelor of Applied Science (Optometry) in 1986 at Queensland University of Technology. He has worked as an Optometrist in North Queensland, Western Australia, Zimbabwe and the United Kingdom, before establishing his own independent practice in 1989 in Toowoomba.

Henry will present Therapeutic access, landmines and razor wire an Optometrists perspective as part of the Plenary Session Physiotherapy on the pathway to prescribing? Saturday 1st November.

Ocular Therapeutics is a large part of Henrys clinical practice and he also teaches optometry and medical students. Henry was integral to achieving prescribing rights for Optometrists in Queensland. He was heavily involved, legislatively and politically, to get Optometry over the line with prescribing rights.

Profession: Executive member of the Optometrists Association of Australia 1995-2008 President of the Optometrists Association (Qld Division) 1998 Recipient of the Hamblin R Brier award for Clinical Excellence 2000 Completed Graduate Diploma of Ocular Therapeutics 2005 (Queensland University of Technology Current member of the Optometrists Association of Australia and Contact Lens Society of Australia

Antony Hirst is a highly experienced and commercially focused physiotherapist who co-owns and runs Beleura Health Solutions a group of private practice clinics on the Mornington Peninsula, south of Melbourne. He has degrees in Physiotherapy and Applied Science (Human Movement) and more than 20 years experience managing and operating private practice clinics. With successful retail pharmacist parents, Antonys early work experiences helped him develop an appreciation for the concepts of customer service, stakeholder communication, clinical ability and profitability. These core principles would later become the foundation for Beleura Health Solutions.

A pioneer in the personal training industry in the late 1980s, Antony established and ran Private Fitness Services (PFS) in Melbourne until1992, when he made the decision to focus on physiotherapy as a career. Antony credits the experience in running PFS with giving him a greater understanding of the importance of the customer experience, and laid the foundation for his commitment to customer satisfaction and service excellence.

In 1997, after working in a variety of clinics across Melbourne, Antony established the first of Beleura Health Solutions practices in partnership with Lisa Wilson, on the Mornington Peninsula. With a long term strategic plan, hard work and a commitment to spend equal time on commercial aspects of the business as well as treating patients, Beleura Health Solutions achieved spectacular growth.

Antony is passionate about the profession and is committed to ensuring private sector physiotherapy is a thriving, profitable and rewarding career for motivated professionals. He is a member of the PBA Victorian Committee. Antony has appeared in positive business articles regarding Beleura Health Solutions in The Age, Sydney Morning Herald: Business Review Weekly and PBA news. He has spoken on private practice principles at National and State levels and has consulted to clinics across Victoria.

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Libby Jamieson is an experienced Sports Physiotherapist and business owner with over 25 years experience. She owns and manages 2 large busy practices in Western Australia, Grange Physiotherapy (Rockingham) and Mandurah Physiotherapy. Grange Physiotherapy has been the recipient of a variety of small business awards in 1999 and 2012. Both clinics are involved in student placements and new graduate mentoring programs.

Libby graduated with a Bachelor of Science (Physiotherapy) in 1987. After working and travelling overseas in both England and Europe for 3 years, she completed her Post Graduate Diploma in Sports Physiotherapy in 1992 and opened up practice, focusing on active rehabilitation. She was a sports Physiotherapist at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. She currently consults for complex cases, and manages Grange and Mandurah physiotherapy clinics.

Libbys passion is good management in small business. She has a Diploma in Small Business Management and is involved in Business consulting and lecturing. She has also authored national resources for both clinical and business education. She feels strongly that physiotherapy practices should be thriving entities if managed correctly and the focus is on good clinical and customer service. She is currently the WA representative on the National Physiotherapy Business Australia Committee, and is on the advisory committee for the Perth South Coastal Medicare Local.

Libby has 4 children and enjoys musical theatre. In 2001 she was the proud recipient of the Kim Beasley Service to the Community Award.

Nicky Jurd is a friendly and approachable geek from Cairns, where she owns and manages Far North Queenslands large web development and hosting firm, Precedence. The firm has a strong emphasis on creating profitable websites for their client base of small and medium Australian businesses.

Nicky has worked in the website development industry since 1996 and has assisted hundreds of businesses profit from their website through ethical marketing practices and well-planned website architecture. She has been a business owner for 13 ears.

She is a crazy foodie, coffee boffin and enthusiastic public speaker. Nicky has conducted many workshops on internet-related topics aimed at small business owners. She has been fortunate enough to hold workshops in conjunction with Facebook, the Queensland State Government, the Cairns Business Womens Club, Gulf Savannah Development and Mareeba Chamber of Commerce.

Debra Kay, PSM, originally trained and worked in South Australia as a school teacher. Debra undertook state and national health curriculum development and research and worked in state government as the Manager Interagency Health Care, responsible for physical and mental health care community policy and services. She has had roles in program and policy management with The Smith Family; was CEO of Asthma Australia and is currently a Guest Research Associate (Consumer Engagement) with the International Centre for Allied Health Evidence, University of South Australia.

Debra undertakes a wide range of state and national consumer advocacy, representation and governance activities.

Fiona Kent is a lecturer in the Health Professions Education and Educational Research (HealthPEER) Team, within the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University.

Fiona is also an APA neurological physiotherapist and has worked in recent years as a clinician at Peninsula Health and clinical educator in the Physiotherapy Department at Monash University.

She completed her Masters in Health Professional Education in 2009 investigating patient perspectives of student led care and is currently a PhD candidate investigating inter-professional education.

Recent projects are an investigation of patient and clinicians perspectives of student placements in private practice and an investigation of inter-professional student clinics.

Mark Merolli is a physiotherapist in private practice from Melbourne. His passion for physiotherapy is equalled only by his enthusiasm for technology.

While working as a physiotherapist in the UK he was able to successfully balance physiotherapy practice with part-time work for a digital media company, gaining experience in web-design, social media, online marketing and strategy. It was during this time that he was able to conceptualize the complimentary nature of technology and healthcare and look to further explore this evolving area. This culminated in the pursuit of a PhD at the University of Melbourne in the technology and health area.

Mark is in the final year of his doctorate, at the Health & Biomedical Informatics Centre (HaBIC), Melbourne Medical School and has founded illorem Consulting, a niche digital media consultancy supporting health

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professionals in their digital endeavours. Marks thesis focuses explicitly on how social media research and practice can be optimized in the effective management of chronic conditions. His work is shaped by the challenge to establish a sound evidence base for online and social media use in health management. This starts with the need to define criteria and methods to generate and evaluate evidence.

He is in the final year of his doctorate, at the Health & Biomedical Informatics Centre (HaBIC), Melbourne Medical School and has founded illorem, an online place to connect health professionals with digital media and support them with their online endeavours news, articles, content and consulting services. Marks PhD focuses explicitly on how social media research and practice can be optimized in the effective management of chronic conditions. His work is shaped by the challenge to establish a sound evidence base for online and social media use in health management. This starts with the need to define criteria and methods to generate and evaluate evidence.

Troy Morgan is Managing Director and CEO of Willows Health Group; the group includes Willows Health & Lifestyle Centre, Vision Exercise Physiology, Live Well Australia and Troy Morgan Coaching.

Troy started his own business in 2000 as an independent personal trainer within a large fitness facility. In 2003 he opened Vision Health & Fitness, an Exercise Physiology and Personal Training Studio that also incorporated Massage Therapy, Psychology and Dietetics. In 2008 Troy purchased Willows Squash and Fitness with a business partner and started the redevelopment of the 1970s site into Willows Health & Lifestyle Centre. The 2587sqm building houses a traditional fitness centre that also incorporates a 550sqm allied health practice. This practice includes Exercise Physiologists, Dieticians, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Massage Therapy and Corporate Health. Willows Health & Lifestyle Centre won 2010 Queensland Fitness Centre of the Year, 2011 Fitness Australia Finalist for Fitness Centre of the Year, 2012 Fitness Australia Gold Award and in 2013 Fitness Australias Award for the Advancement of Excellence.

The corporate health company he co-founded, Live Well Australia, was a finalist in the National Safety Awards of Excellence in 2013, in the best Corporate Health Initiative Category.

Troys business philosophy is very much built around creating a culture of health for the individuals his businesses touch, the organisations they work with and for the wider community. Troy is a sought after national speaker.

Joanne Morris graduated with a BSc (Hons) Physiotherapy from the University Birmingham (UK) in 1999. She worked in the UK in a variety of settings for 5 years, during which time she completed a Masters in Clinical Biomechanics at the University of Salford.

Since 2004 Joanne has worked Australia with a particular interest in musculoskeletal physiotherapy. In 2008 she returned to the UK and worked as an Extended Scope Emergency Department Physiotherapist for a year. Since returning to Australia she has been the project lead in the successful Extended Scope Physiotherapy Practice initiative for ACT Health. As a component of this she has undertaken part-time Extended Scope Physiotherapy roles in Orthopaedic Outpatients and the Emergency Department, which included a two-year injecting and prescribing trial.

Jo is currently enrolled in a PhD in Clinical Physiotherapy at the University of Canberra and has the important job of Mum to a 5 month old baby boy!

Tim Noblet is a Consultant Neuro-Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist and Extended Scope Practitioner on sabbatical from SWBH NHS Trust (UK). He is currently completing a Masters Degree in Musculoskeletal Medicine and Post graduate certificates in Manual Therapy and Musculoskeletal Injection Therapy.

Tim has worked in the UK, NZ and Australia within elite sport, tertiary pain management as well as working as an extended scope practitioner in Orthopaedic clinics and spinal clinics. He is an honorary lecturer at the University of Birmingham (UK) teaching at both undergraduate and masters levels. Tim has a keen interest in Spinal pain and those chronic niggling pains that people struggle to manage.

He has lectured both nationally and internationally about complex Musculoskeletal rehabilitation and advanced/ extended scope practice. He is currently undertaking his PhD investigating the use of independent medicine prescribing by Physiotherapists.

At present Tim is working with the APA as the Manager of Policy and External relations.

Louisa Remedios is the Coordinator of the Doctor of Physiotherapy (DPT) program and Director of Learning and Teaching, Melbourne School of Health Sciences, The University of Melbourne. Louisa has led the curriculum development of the DPT program to meet the contemporary priorities of the profession. Her belief that physiotherapy education creates or limits the next generation of physiotherapy leaders has her fully occupied trying to untangle the tensions between student-preferred learning practices and research informed teaching approaches. Her educational focus is on situated learning within the campus context, the

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design of sustainable assessment and curricula frameworks that scaffold the development of professional and graduate attributes.

Louisas PhD explored classroom culture and learning in novel cultural contexts and her research continues to use qualitative and cultural frameworks for understanding learning. She has published journal articles and written book chapters on culture and collaborative practice and her expertise as an educator has been recognised with invitations to present at overseas Universities including University of Lund, University of Otago, Witwatersrand University (Johannesburg), and Nantong University in China. She supervises PhD projects on aspects of student learning such as exploring the medical internship experience in Indonesia, small group collaborative learning activities in China, the Indigenous lived experience of chronic conditions and wellness and intensivists values informed reasoning in Intensive care. She is increasingly involved with research into the applicability of quality frameworks such as the Australian qualification framework and is involved with two OLT grants on the educational implementation of the AQF.

Louisa is also an active member of Universitas 21 health sciences group where she is involved with projects on social media in health professional education and the development of an international interprofessional student clinical placement in Kathmandu. One of the highlights of her career to date has been working with Professor Rob Moodie to implement a community informed health promotion subject within the DPT program.

Jackie Robertson is Director and Physiotherapist at Peak Performance Sports Physiotherapy; and Downs Physiotherapy. Jackie commenced private practice in 1988 with her early experience being based in hospital settings. Jackie has since developed three separate practices around Toowoomba and has merged and purchased several existing practices into one thriving business. Jackie started practice as a physiotherapist back in 1979 after graduating from the University of Queensland. After spending some time in the hospital setting, she opened a private practice in 1983 in Toowoomba which currently provides the physiotherapy services to St Vincents and St Andrews hospitals. Since then, the practice has grown to amalgamate Downs Physiotherapy and Peak Performance Sports Physiotherapy in partnership with David Veal and Casey McIntosh. These practices now employ over 25 people, including 16 physiotherapists and several administrative and support staff.

Jackie has worked as a physiotherapist in both private and hospital settings, and currently works closely with orthopaedic surgeons in Toowoomba and Brisbane in rehabilitation of patients who have had shoulder surgery. This has enabled her to develop her skills and passion in treating, diagnosing and rehabilitating shoulder injuries. Jackie is a member of the Shoulder and Elbow Physiotherapists of Australia and the Queensland Shoulder Society and has presented and lectured on shoulder rehabilitation nationally.

Over the last few years, with the emerging innovations in technology and the internet, Jackie has developed an interest in the use of Social Media within physiotherapy practices and its application to marketing and communication and connection with clients and other key stakeholders. More recently, Jackie has become involved in the QLD Branch of the PBA and is keen on sharing her knowledge of the Business of Physiotherapy.

Jackie enjoys keeping fit and has a passion for ballroom dancing and walking.

Debra Schulz is the Director of Allied Health at Barwon Health, Geelong. She trained as a physiotherapist and has post graduate qualifications in Gerontology, Business and a Doctor of Physiotherapy. Debbie is a member of the Australian Physiotherapy Association (APA) and is the Physiotherapists in Leadership and Management representative on the National Advisory Council of the APA.

Debbie is the project lead for the Health Workforce Australia (HWA) Clinical Supervision Support Program project in the Barwon-South Western region and was successful for a 2012 HWA Clinical Supervision