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 day 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)
Professor Andy Shennan OBE
Clinical Director South London CRN, United Kingdom
Professor of Obstetrics, Department of Women and Children’s Health, Kings College London
Professor Caroline Homer AO
Deputy Director (Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion), Burnet Institute
Professor Aris Papageorghiou
Professor of Fetal Medicine and Director of Research of the Oxford Maternal and Perinatal Health Institute (OMPHI)
Deanna Stuart-Butler
Senior Advisor Indigenous Research, NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Stillbirth
Associate Professor Kirsten Palmer
Obstetrician and Specialist in Maternal Fetal Medicine, Monash Health Head of Maternal Fetal Medicine, Monash Medical Centre
NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow, Monash University
Professor Lisa Hui
Maternal Fetal Medicine Specialist, Mercy Perinatal
Professor - MFM, The University of Melbourne
Vicki Culling PhD
Bereaved parent, Vicki Culling Associates
Plus many more speakers!
This year’s theme will cover all things pregnancy care including prediction, prevention and management of adverse pregnancy outcomes including:
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!!
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
