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** Award Cocktail Gala Event Only (Western Plains Cultural Centre) (Award event tickets available as a standalone ticket if not attending the Symposium)	$70	Purchase this ticket

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DAY 1 – MONDAY 24th OCTOBER WORKSHOPS

CONCURRENT WORKSHOPS

Aboriginal Research	Adolescent Health	Arts & Health	Collaborative Commissioning
Workshop 1 9am-12pm Aboriginal community-led research yarn-up	No session	Workshop 4 11am-12pm Recreation is Medicine	Internal session (not open to public)
LUNCH OVERLAP 11.45AM – 12.30PM	LUNCH 12-1	LUNCH 12-1	LUNCH 12-1
Workshop 2 12pm-3pm Introduction to 8 Aboriginal Ways of Learning and how this can transform the way you provide health services and programs. **please note this workshop will start with a 30 minute lunch break to allow morning workshop delegates to join without missing lunch.	Workshop 3 1pm-2pm Adolescent Rural Cohort Study – ARCHER That’s a Wrap 4pm – 5.30pm Putting young people at the Centre of health care research and provision	These workshops are at WPCC Workshop 5 – Arts Room – WPCC 1pm-2.30pm Virtual Art Snacks Workshop 6 Drama Room WPCC 2.30pm-4pm Listening to Voices	Workshop 7 1pm-4pm Care Partnership – Diabetes, Collaborative Commissioning: Locally-driven design, implementation, and evaluation embedded in a state-wide initiative: how to make it work?

Delegates who have registered for the Awards event are welcome to arrive at 5pm to view the current exhibition at the Western Plains Cultural Centre (WPCC) prior to the awards event commencing at 5.30pm

Workshop 1: Aboriginal community-led research yarn-up

Presented by: Amy Davidson (Wiradjuri) and Dr Emma Webster

Would you like to explore how Aboriginal communities can lead, govern and benefit from research? Aboriginal community members from across western and far western NSW are cordially invited to join a conversation about Aboriginal community-led research. In the spirit of cross-cultural learning, non-Aboriginal people are also welcome to join the yarn.

Topics to be covered during the yarn (you can suggest additional topics on the day):

How would you describe Aboriginal community-led research?
How should research change to follow cultural protocols in decision making?
How should research practices change to improve cultural safety?
How do we develop pathways for Aboriginal communities and people to work in research (valued and remunerated for their cultural knowledge)

Workshop 2: Introduction to 8 Aboriginal Ways of Learning and how this can transform the way you provide health services and programs

Presented by: Allan Hall (Gamilaroi/Eualaroi), Yvonne Hill (Wiradjuri) and Dr Emma Webster

Health workers and clinicians are invited to come and learn about 8 Aboriginal Ways of Learning (an Aboriginal Way of learning and teaching) and how this might be used in health programs, projects and services. The workshop is a ‘taster’ and will help you understand the 8 processes and consider which of these you already use (without even knowing it!) and bring new insights to improve cultural responsiveness for health services or programs you deliver.

Workshop 3: Putting young people at the Centre of health care research and provision

Presented by: Professor Kate Steinbeck, Phillipa Collin, Wellbeing (Health & Youth NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence), Jessie Whan
Adolescent Rural Cohort Study – ARCHER That’s a Wrap will present a summary of the findings from the ARCHER (Adolescent Rural Cohort Hormones Health Education Environment and Relationships) which was conducted across the central and western areas of NSW from 2011 to 2017. Presented by Professor Kate Steinbeck

Putting young people at the Centre of health care research and provision
Youth participation in health research is now broadly recognised as best practice and necessary to achieve research that can effectively lead to improved outcomes. But how can researchers engage effectively with a broad range of young people beyond advisory boards and one-off projects?

In this hands-on workshop, we invite young people and researchers to learn and generate ideas for engagement – together. We will share principles, processes and resources for effective youth participation in health research: from conception to translation. We will also host a discussion about what is working and what barriers to engagement exist for both researchers and young people.

Participants will hear about and generate new possibilities for meaningful engagement of young people in their work – with young people who have the interest and ideas to do so!

Workshop 4 – Recreation is Medicine

Presented by: Dr Nicole Peel (Academic Program Advisor, Undergraduate Health Sciences, Western Sydney University)

Recreation Therapy, the best kept secret in health. Come and engage with your senses. Warning; this session will involve having fun, engagement in activities that will allow you to experience recreation therapy and the health benefits it brings to you and your patients.

Intended audience: community, academics & professionals

Workshop 5: Virtual Art Snacks

Presented by: Christine McMillan (Arts OutWest), Rosalie Burns and performer Catherine McNamara

‘Virtual Art Snacks’ is a series of interactive creative arts activities which are presented online to residents in aged care in rural Multi-Purpose-Services in the Western New South Wales Local Health District. The feedback from residents and health staff has been overwhelmingly positive highlighting that the workshops create social connections, are fun and a creative way to connect with residents in other rural settings across the district.

In this workshop we will share the outcomes of the Virtual Art Snacks program and lead you through a practical multi arts experience. Visual artist Rosalie Burns and performer Catherine McNamara will work together to present a workshop blending performance and visual arts. No experience in the arts is needed.

Workshop 6: Listening to Voices presents: Actually, it’s Me

Presented by: Gateway Health

Powerfully-crafted theatre from one of Australia’s leading community development artistic directors, Catherine Simmonds OAM, that encourages audiences to see through a new lens. It challenges stigma around mental illness and increases general understanding about experiences such as hearing voices. It gets us to connect by asking, not “what’s wrong with you”, but “what has happened to you.”

“This work is relevant in so many spaces to drive other initiatives and conversations; domestic violence and childhood trauma, mental health, suicide, bullying and importantly, stigma and its personal and social impacts” ~ Kate Fiske, Project Manager, Gateway Health

“Standing up and speaking out isn’t always easy. Sometimes it feels impossible. The weight of expectation and fear can even stop us from being true to ourselves” ~ Ben, performer

Workshop 7 – Care Partnership – Diabetes, Collaborative Commissioning: Locally-driven design, implementation, and evaluation embedded in a state-wide initiative: how to make it work?

Presented by: Western and Far Western NSW Local Health Districts, Western NSW Primary Health Network and the Rural Doctors Network.

This workshop will identify and explore the research priorities, gaps, and synergies related to identifying people with diabetes type 2 across the Western region of WNSW and improving their access to quality care. It will be of interest to people working in primary health care, integrated care, and chronic disease and diabetes services. The workshop will introduce Care Partnership – Diabetes, a local partnership between WNSWLHD, FWLHD, WNSW PHN and RDN. This initiative was developed within the context of an NSW Health initiative, Collaborative Commissioning, which has a bigger picture goal of greater regional control of how health services are planned and managed.

In this participatory workshop, we would like to invite local service providers and researchers to help shape the research and evaluation questions related to Care Partnership – Diabetes and explore synergies and how we might work together.

Examples of issues to be discussed by stakeholders in the workshop:

What are the complementary initiatives addressing diabetes underway in the region…how are these being evaluated? What are the key uncertainties/questions?
As service providers, clinicians and program managers, what information do you need to improve the services you provide?
What are the barriers and enablers to understanding how these initiatives are working in the Western region of NSW?
What are the benefits and risks in conducting evaluations like this?
How can we best work together in research and evaluation on these topics?

5.30pm – 7.30pm Western NSW Researcher of the Year Awards event

Venue: Western Plains Cultural Centre, Wingewarra Street, Dubbo.

Time	Topic	Presenters
5pm	WPCC Gallery open for delegates viewing prior to the awards commencement
5.40pm	Commencement	MC Brinae Smith
	Smoking Ceremony	Dubbo Aboriginal Lands Council
	Year in Review	Associate Professor Catherine Hawke WHRN Chair
	2022 Research Symposium Best Abstract awards in Emerging, General and Open categories	Associate Professor Georgina Luscombe Chair, WHRN Scientific Committee
	Western NSW Local Health District address	Mr Mark Spittal – Chief Executive, Western NSW Local Health District
	Clinical Research Leader of the Year presentation	Nominees: Dr Peter Fox Dr Sumitha Gounden Dr Ruth Jones, Director Cancer Services and Innovation. Dr Shannon Nott, Rural Health Director of Medical Services.
	Emerging Researcher of the Year presentation	Nominees: Danielle Allen Dr Kimberley Dean Cristen Fleming Catherine Osborne Dr Giti Haddadan Rod Hammond Stephen How Mrs Kristie Sweeney
	Aboriginal Health Researcher of the Year presentation	Nominees: Ms Lynette Bullen (WNSWLHD) Professor Linda Deravin
	Presentation – Health Research Academic Leader of the Year	Nominees: Associate Professor Debra Jones, Senior Lecturer, School of Public Health, Broken Hill University Department Rural Health. Associate Professor Melissa Nott, Principal Research Fellow, Three Rivers Department of Rural Health
7.15pm	Wrap up, special WHRN awards and acknowledgments	Catherine Hawke and Brinae Smith (MC)
7.30pm	Close

DAY 2 – TUESDAY 25^th OCTOBER 2022

Registration desk opens 8.30am

9.00 (5)	Introduction	Kate Smith MC
9.05 (10)	Welcome to Country	Aunty Marg Walker, Elder, Dubbo Aboriginal Lands Council
9.15 (5)	Introduction to WHRN	A/Prof Catherine Hawke, WHRN Co-Chair
9.20 (15)	WHRN2022 Research Symposium Official Opening	Bronnie Taylor, Minister for Women, Minister for Regional Health, and Minister for Mental Health Mark Spittal Western NSW Local Health District
9.35-9.55 (20)	Keynote 1: Regional Health Division	Luke Sloane Coordinator-General, Regional Health Division of NSW Health.
9.55-10.25 (30)	Keynote 2: You can’t find this in any textbook.	Kate Fiske & Tracey Parnell Listening to Voices Project, Gateway Health Sponsored by Three Rivers Department of Rural Health
10.25-10.45 (20)	Keynote 3: Consumer Engagement and Co-design	Melissa Kang Specialty of General Practice, University of Sydney
10.45–11.15 (30)	MORNING TEA	Includes poster viewing and voting
11.15–12.30 (75)	CONCURRENT SESSIONS	See expanded programme below
12.30-1.30 (60)	LUNCH	Network with colleagues and students
1.30-1.50 (20)	Keynote 4: Aboriginal Health Safely Sleeping Aboriginal Babies in SA	Julian Grant, Associate Dean (Research) Charles Sturt Uni
1.50-2.05 (15)	Audience Participation	Arts OutWest
2.05-2.25 (20)	Keynote 5: Partnership Models RRR-CTEP Rural, Regional, and Remote Clinical Trial Enabling Program	John Lawson, Medical Director – Rural, Regional, and Remote Clinical Trial Enabling Program
2.25-3.00 (35)	Panel Discussion: What is the thread that ties research and policy together? Convener: Dr Shannon Nott WNSWLHD	Panellists: – Uncle Frank Doolan [Wiradjuri] Dubbo Elder – Andrew Coe (Western NSW Primary Health Network), – Donna Waters (Far Western NSW LHD & Broken Hill DRH) – Dr Liz Dale [Worimi woman] University of Wollongong
3.00-3.30 (30)	AFTERNOON TEA	Includes poster viewing and voting
3.30-4.45 (75)	CONCURRENT SESSIONS	See expanded programme below
4.45-5.05 (20)	Keynote 6: Therapeutic Recreation	Nicole Peel
5.05-5.15 (10)	Symposium close and Awards for Best presentation (General, Emerging, Open) and Best poster	Kate Smith (MC) A/Prof Georgina Luscombe (Chair WHRN Scientific Committee)

TUESDAY 25th OCTOBER CONCURRENT SESSIONS

CONCURRENT SESSION 1

Stream	Timeslot	Presenter	Entry
FIRST NATIONS			MACQUARIE ROOM 1 – Chairperson – Patricia Canty
FN1	11:15-11:30	Ms Lynette Bullen	Beliefs of drug and alcohol clinicians when considering referral of Aboriginal clients to involuntary drug and alcohol treatment: A qualitative study
FN2	11:30-11:45	Dr Emma Webster	Swimming this river together: integration of Aboriginal pedagogy in mainstream healthcare
FN3	11:45-midday	Veronica Matthews, Talah Laurie, Kris Vine	CQI our way: working together respectfully and culturally to strengthen Aboriginal primary health care delivery
FN4	Midday-12:15	Veronica Matthews, Talah Laurie	Working it Out Together! Aboriginal led co-design of strong and deadly health workforce models
FN5	12:15-12:30	Dr Holly Randell-Moon	Promoting critical race literacies for health professionals
WORKFORCE			MACQUARIE ROOM 2 – Chairperson – Kerrie Noonan
WF1	11:15-11:30	Dr Jessica Harris	Challenges and opportunities – findings from the Health Workforce Needs Assessment for rural NSW.
WF2	11:30-11:45	Mrs Sally Butler	Drivers of workforce location amongst nurses, midwives, and allied health professionals.
WF3	11:45-midday	Dr Giti Haddadan	The Strength of Cross-Sector Collaborations in Co-Designing an Extended Rural and Remote Nursing Placement Innovation
WF4	Midday-12:15	Dr Heather Russell	Rural social histories: evaluating an innovative teaching program
WF5	12:15-12:30	Ms Linda Cutler	Medical Workforce Data-degree of difficulty 10
INEQUITIES/GEOGRAPHIC VARIATION			OXLEY ROOM – Chairperson – Anne Field
IGV1	11:15-11:30	Mr Tristan Bouckley	Towards identifying a framework to address health equity during implementation of health system reforms in NSW: A scoping review protocol and early findings
IGV2	11:30-11:45	Ms Josephine Canceri	Serious Toilet Talk – Rural General Practitioners perspectives on the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program
IGV3	11:45-midday	Mr Tyler White	Geographic and demographic variation of cardiovascular disease risk in western New South Wales
IGV4	Midday-12:15	Ms Jorja Armstrong	Mapping mental health: a hotspot analysis of the use of Western NSW Mental Health Emergency Care service 2013-2019
IGV5	12:15-12:30	A/Prof Georgina Luscombe	Reducing inequities in current models of rural ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI) care: evaluation of a Western NSW LHD Centralised Management System with Hot Transfer
MATERNAL AND CHILD			THEATRE – Chairperson – Tony Brown
MC1	11:15-11:30	Ms Mariam Ebrahim	Anaemia in pregnancy at a NSW regional base hospital in 2020: a retrospective audit of screening and treatment compared to Australian guidelines.
MC2	11:30-11:45	Ms Anna Noonan **	“She basically just sort of threw pamphlets at me for Canberra” A qualitative exploration of how women in Western NSW negotiate the rural health system for unintended pregnancy.
MC3	11:45-midday	Dr Kate Freire	Hearing the child’s voice in healthcare: a systematic review of participatory approaches
MC4	Midday-12:15	Mr Edward Yates	Describing paediatric eye injuries in Western NSW
MC5	12:15-12:30	Mr Rohan Gupta	Can health promotion programs improve the mental health of school-age children living in rural Australia? A narrative review

CONCURRENT SESSION 2

Order	Timeslot	Presenter	Entry
FIRST NATIONS			MACQUARIE ROOM 1 – Chairperson – Deborah Kenna
FN6	3.30-3.45	Ms Danielle Cameron	‘Connecting our way’: Improving the Mental Health of young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children by connecting to culture
FN7	3.45-4.00	Tegan Dutton	Winanggaay Aboriginal pre-school program – happy and healthy children that are ready for school
FN8	4.00-4.15	Veronica Matthews, Kris Vine, Jessica Spencer	Healing Country: weaving knowledges for Aboriginal community-led climate change mitigation and adaptation planning
FN9	4.15-4.30	Mrs Tegan Dutton, Alison Amor	Winya Marang: the management and prevention of type 2 diabetes among Aboriginal families in Wellington, NSW
FN10	4.30-4:45	Ms Kerryann Stanley	Healing the Spirit Within
HEALTH SERVICES			MACQUARIE ROOM 2 – Chairperson – Linda Cutler
HS1	3.30-3.45	Dr Rebecca Venchiarutti	Cost savings to patients and the health system by providing specialist head and neck surgery outreach clinics in regional NSW
HS2	3.45-4.00	Ms Amelia Wagstaff & Sam Gersbach	Interweaving Antimicrobial Stewardship: a multidisciplinary team model of care improves optimal prescribing in rural and remote health care
HS3	4.00-4.15	Mr Adam Autore	Referral pathways for patients suffering Major Trauma in rural and remote NSW: a retrospective study comparing single and dual regional trauma service models
HS4	4.15-4.30	Mr Sharif Bagnulo	A One Health System approach: Working in partnership for better health outcomes through Care Partnership – Diabetes (CP-D) program planning in Western and Far West NSW
HS5	4.30-4:45	Dr Jessica Harris	Collaborative Care for Remote and Rural Communities (Documentary)
eHealth
eHEALTH			OXLEY ROOM – Chairperson – Meredith Makeham
EH1	3.30-3.45	Ms Catherine Wang	Perceptions of Remote In-home Monitoring in Rural Women with Gestational Diabetes Mellitus
EH2	3.45-4.00	Dr Genevieve Johnsson	Telepractice in early childhood intervention: A family-centred approach
EH3	4.00-4.15	Ms Lyra Egan	eHealth interventions to improve diet, alcohol use, and smoking among rural adolescents: A systematic review.
EH4	4.15-4.30	A/Prof Georgina Luscombe, Dr Anna Thompson	Evaluation of the Western NSW LHD Virtual Rural Generalist Service as an effective, “COVID-19 resilient” model of care
EH5	4.30-4:45	Mr Rik Dawson	Physiotherapy telehealth to improve mobility and reduce falls in aged care (TOP UP): feasibility and emerging qualitative analysis
MENTAL HEALTH			THEATRE – Chairperson – Melissa Nott
MH1	3.30-3.45	tba	to be advised
MH2	3.45-4.00	Ms Anushka Dashputre	Crossroads II rural mental health
MH3	4.00-4.15	Ms Clare Sutton	The mental health, wellbeing and work impacts of COVID-19 on Community Health Nurses (CHNs) in regional NSW
MH4	4.15-4.30	A/Prof Peter Simmons	Rural small business owner management of their mental wellbeing during 2020
MH5	4.30-4:45	Dr Hazel Dalton	Locating a Good SPACE for suicide prevention: updating a rural training program with evidence and lived experience.

Posters

Ms Julia Boyle	“Rural youth: How can we improve mental health and substance use prevention?”
Mrs Charlotte Finlayson	Not Just Individual Experience but Collective Experience: Using an Arts-based Participatory-informed method in Researching Suicidal Distress in Rural/Remote NSW
Mr Thomas Groth	Analysis of interventions afforded to out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest & Major Trauma patients in Rural NSW: Is there a case for upskilling rural paramedics?
Dr Brie Turner	Murray-Darling Medical Schools Network Research Collaboration – working together to grow our rural medical workforce.