Dr Susie Piper and Dr Sandy Hopper on managing acute illness in children without hospital admission.
Speaker biography:
Susie Piper has been the Director of Paediatrics and Child Health for the Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District since 2012. She graduated from UNSW in 1990 and trained as a paediatrician at the Sydney Children's Hospital and the Children's Hospital at Westmead over the next ten years, including a six month stint in Tanzania during the Rwandan refugee crisis. With an interest in ambulatory care and 'hospital in the home', Dr Piper worked at Wyong Hospital and Campbelltown Hospital prior to coming to Illawarra, where she helped to establish a Paediatric Assessment Unit that aimed to treat kids locally and avoid hospital admission if possible. Dr Piper is hoping to establish similar models of care in Illawarra, particularly at Shellharbour Hospital.
Sandy Hopper is a dual-qualified Emergency Physician and Emergency Paediatrician, working at the Emergency Department of the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne. He holds special interests in adolescent emergency medicine, mental health, observational and short stay medicine, and medical education.
From the 2014 APLS Paediatric Acute Care Conference in Sydney.