Rehabilitating Aged Care: A fresh look at Rehabilitation and Aged Care Services
HammondCare Aged Care Conference 2011
23 - 24 June
Australian Technology Park, SydneyHammondCare’s amalgamation with Hope Healthcare is showing that while aged care and rehabilitation services have different funding bases, different histories and even different philosophies they have much to offer each other. This conference will explore issues of common interest to these two fields and ask the question ‘Just how close can they get?’
Keynote speaker: Joseph G Ouslander, M.D.
Joseph G. Ouslander, M.D. is Professor of and Associate Dean for Geriatric Programs at the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, and Professor (Courtesy) at the Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing of Florida Atlantic University (FAU) in Boca Raton Florida. He also serves as Professor of Medicine (Voluntary) in the Division of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine of the Department of Medicine at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.
Dr. Ouslander is an internationally recognised geriatrician. He is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University and the Case Western Reserve School of Medicine. He has served as a Professor at the UCLA School of Medicine, where he spent 15 years developing research, educational, and clinical programs. From 1996-2007 he served as the Director of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia where he had responsibility for leading the clinical, teaching, and research programs in Geriatrics. He is a past-President and Board Chair of the American Geriatrics Society, and serves as the Executive Editor of the most widely read journal in Geriatric Medicine, the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. He has published over 200 original articles and book chapters and is a co-author of two popular textbooks, Essentials of Clinical Geriatrics and Medical Care in the Nursing Home, and an editor of a major textbook in Geriatrics, Hazzard’s Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology. He has been a visiting professor at numerous universities in the U.S. and throughout the world.
Call for papers now open!
For more informtion about submitting abstracts and the guideline and submission form please click here. Submissions close 29 October, 2010.
Registration
The conference registration brochure will be available in December. Please click here to express your interest in attending.
Sponsorship and Exhibition Opportunities
Please call contact Carmella Rowsthorne for information on available packages:
P (02) 8586 6118
E carmella@intermedia.com.au
