WHRN2023 Online Programme – View on demand

We were delighted to partner with Pyrus this year who streamed and recorded the Day 2 plenary sessions. The recording of the streamed programme will be available to download and view on demand here in mid October.

Tuesday 12 September – Day Two – ONLINE STREAMED PROGRAMME – WHRN2023 Research Symposium Scientific Programme
9.00 am	Introduction	Emcee Anna Noonan	PhD Candidate, University of Sydney
9.15 am	A Decade of WHRN – Reflection on the last 10 years of WHRN and the changes in the research landscape.	Catherine Hawke Deborah Kenna	WHRN Co-Chair WHRN First Nations Co-Chair
9.20 am	WHRN2023 Research Symposium Official Opening	Mark Spittal	Chief Executive, Western NSW Local Health District
9.35 – 10.00 am	Keynote 1 – Know Your Network.	Various Speakers	Agency for Clinical Innovation (ACI) Australian Rural Health Education Network Aboriginal Research Interest Group Regional Training Hub
10.00 – 10.30 am	Keynote 2 Harnessing Health and Medical Research for Health System Improvement	Jean-Frederic Levesque	Agency for Clinical Innovation (ACI)

11.00 – 11.15 am	A/Prof Rachel Rossiter	Building rural workforce capacity, the Western NSW Primary Health Network Nurse Practitioner Scholarship Program: A Realist Evaluation
11.15 – 11:30 am	Dr Giti Haddadan	Nursing Student Perspectives of an Extended Nursing Placement Program in Far West NSW and Regional Victoria: A Mixed Methods Study.
11:30 – 11:45 am	Mrs Katherine Shannon	Reframing the narrative of allied health student placements – from burden to breakthrough.
11:45 – midday	Dr Pip Southwell	Geographical compromise: A qualitative exploration of how medical students come to choose rural end-to-end medical training
Midday – 12:15 pm	Dr Catherine Keniry, Dr Emma Webster, Dr Levi Osuagwu, Dr Rajneesh Kaur	Developing research skills in a rural context: Rural medical student scholarly projects in Western NSW Health Research Network.
12.15 – 1.30 pm	LUNCH BREAK
1.30 – 1.55 pm	Keynote 3		Mr Tony Martin		Executive Director Aboriginal Health and Wellbeing, WNSWLHD
1.55 – 2.05 pm	Rural PhD Successes		Anna Noonan		Emcee
2.05 – 2.30 pm	Keynote 4 Rural Research Capacity Building Program		David Schmidt		Health Education Training Institute (HETI)
2.30 – 3.15 pm	Panel Discussion Building rural research capacity and prioritising rural health research nationally.		Panel Convener Julian Grant, CSU		Auntie Patricia Canty, Bourke Health Service. Deborah Kenna, Molong Health Service. Jamie Newman – Orange Aboriginal Medical Service (OAMS) Mr Tony Martin Vicki Flood, Lismore Rural Clinical School Mark Arnold – WNSWLHD
3.15 – 3.45 pm	AFTERNOON TEA BREAK
3.45 – 4.00 pm	Dr John Lawson	Decentralised Clinical Trials: a literature review. What is working and what needs work!
4.00 – 4.15 pm	Ms Katherine Smith	Virtual reality as an education tool for people with cancer undergoing immunotherapy: a protocol for a pilot study in a regional setting.
4.15 – 4.30 pm	Dr Ros Muirhead	PreBabe: Can a pre-conception weight loss program improve maternal and infant outcomes for women with overweight or obesity? A randomised controlled trial.
4.30 – 4:45 pm	Ms Shania Liu	Effect of a pharmacist-led opioid tapering intervention before total hip or knee arthroplasty: a randomised clinical trial.
4.45 – 5.00 pm	Summation and Day 2 Best presentations and poster awards			Emcee & A/Prof Georgina Luscombe (Chair WHRN Scientific Committee)

Morning Plenary Session – 12 September

Morning Concurrent Session – 12 September

Afternoon Plenary Session

Afternoon Concurrent session – 12 September