Hybrid Event
Time & Date: Friday 9th - Sunday 11th August 2024
Location: Large Lecture Theatre, Ground Floor, PED Building, Gold Coast University Hospital
Catering throughout the conference included
We are excited to invite you to the Waves of Change Conference which integrates the Annual National Stillbirth Forum and the QLD Maternal Fetal Medicine Symposium. This year we will be holding the conference at Gold Coast University Hospital.
We have an exciting program planned for you to stimulate discussion and engage all involved in pregnancy care from new research findings to implement into everyday care to new horizons all with an equity lens. Importantly the program will include a focus on best practice care after perinatal loss.
Please join us for three days of connecting and learning to improve pregnancy care and outcomes for women and families across Australia and beyond.
Prof. Vicki Flenady and Prof. Fabricio Costa (Co-chairs)
Prof. Adrienne Gordon, Dr Glenn Gardener and Prof Sailesh Kumar (Deputy chairs)
Inviting all health practitioners dealing in pregnancy care
In-person Medical Practitioners/Researchers/Policy makers: $300
In-person Nursing/Midwifery/Health Practitioners $200
In-person Students/Parents: $100
Online tickets: $200
From 26/07/24 all registration fees increase by $100
We are thrilled to have some incredible speakers joining us!
Professor Andy Shennan OBE from King’s College London, is a professor of obstetrics and champions initiatives aimed at preventing preterm birth, preeclampsia, and improving global maternal and perinatal outcomes.
Professor Caroline Homer AO is the leading midwifery researcher in Australia and has an international reputation as a scholar and leader in maternal and newborn health care and service delivery.
Professor Aris Papageorghiou is the Clinical Research Director of the Oxford Maternal and Perinatal Health Institute. With a wealth of expertise in AI applications for pregnancy imaging and screening, he's a key figure at the forefront of medical innovation.
Professor Sue Walker AO is a Maternal Fetal Medicine Specialist and Co-Director of Mercy Perinatal and Head of Department Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Newborn Health at The University of Melbourne. Prof. Walker has a focus on high-risk pregnancy, particularly novel markers of fetal growth restriction and therapeutics for preeclampsia.
Professor Vicki Flenady AM is the Co-Director of the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Centre of Research Excellence in Stillbirth. Vicki’s research focusses on collaborative programs in Australia and globally to effectively reduce the numbers of babies who are stillborn and to improve care for families who experience this loss.
Professor Fabricio Costa is a Consultant at the Maternal Fetal Medicine Unit, Gold Coast University Hospital and Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Griffith University. Fabricio’s integrated program of perinatal research spans laboratory-based discovery research, clinical trials, implementation science, and health policy.
Professor Sailesh Kumar is a Maternal Fetal Medicine Specialist and Mayne Professor and Head of the Academy of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at The University of Queensland. Prof. Kumar’s research interests are in complex pregnancies and fetal therapy with a particular focus on complications related to placental dysfunction. He heads the Genesis Maternal Fetal Research Group at the Mater Research Institute-University of Queensland.
Deanna Stuart-Butler is a key figure in Indigenous health research, focusing on stillbirth. She leads Indigenous initiatives within the Stillbirth CRE providing strategic direction and advocacy. She believes Indigenous people's diversity, equity and inclusion requires going beyond intervention to systemic change.
Associate Professor Kirsten Palmer is a clinician-researcher specialising in maternal fetal medicine at Monash Health, leading efforts to improve outcomes for complex pregnancies. She also heads the Maternal and Perinatal Medicine Translational Research group at Monash University.
Professor Lisa Hui is a maternal fetal medicine specialist at Mercy Hospital for Women and The Northern Hospital and professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Newborn Medicine at The University of Melbourne. She also leads the Reproductive Epidemiology group at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and is a member of the Victorian Consultative Council on Obstetric and Paediatric Mortality and Morbidity Stillbirth subcommittee. During the pandemic she established research collaborations to measure and understand the impact of the Covid 19 pandemic on maternity care and perinatal outcomes, including stillbirth and preterm birth.
Vicki Culling, PhD, is a bereaved parent, experiencing the stillbirth of her first daughter over 25 years ago. Vicki Culling Associates, was established in 2011 with the audacious goal of changing the landscape of perinatal and infant loss in New Zealand through better information and support.
Dr Valerie Slavin is the Assistant Director of Midwifery Research, a conjoint appointment between GCHHS and Griffith University. As a midwifery researcher who remains deeply embedded in clinical practice, Valerie is a leading expert in the measurement and delivery of value-based approaches in maternity care.
Kirstin Tindal is a perinatal researcher and bereaved parent. She co-leads the Stillbirth CRE bereaved parent advocacy program, facilitating partnerships between researchers and bereaved parents to improve perinatal outcomes and ensure that our voices shape the conduct and translation of research.
Plus many more speakers!
This year’s theme will cover all things pregnancy care including prediction, prevention and management of adverse pregnancy outcomes covering:
Prediction: Abnormal growth and placental dysfunction; Digital health revolution; How AI is transforming healthcare.
Prevention: New research directions to improve pregnancy outcomes; Balancing higher risk models of care and intervention.
Bereavement Care: Best practice after Stillbirth and Neonatal Death; Pregnancy and Perinatal Loss Clinics in Australia: establishing a practice and research network.
Disparities: Best practice maternity care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and priority populations in Australia.
Program coming soon!!
