YFD Workshop: Contemporary Challenges in Youth Health
Schedule
Mon Sep 02 2024 at 05:30 pm to 08:30 pm
UTC+08:00Location
Level 1 Seminar Room; St John of God Midland Public and Private Hospitals | Midland, WA
About this Event
Join our leading youth health workshop with Dr Fiona Sluchniak and Dr Hayden Wilson for expert insights into ethics, the law, and Autism spectrum disorder.
CPD accredited, this workshop boosts your professional development and equips you with practical strategies for harm reduction and health promotion in young patients.
Attendees will receive pre-workshop readings ahead of the session to prepare for engaging and informed discussions.
SCHEDULE
- 5:30 pm: Case Study Discussion - Dr Fiona Sluchniak
- 5:40 pm: Presentation:Ethics Young People and the Law - Dr Fiona Sluchniak
- 6:55 pm: Break (20 Minutes)
- 7:15 pm: Case Study Discussion - Dr Hayden Wilson
- 7:25 pm: Presentation: Autism Spectrum Disorder in Young People - Dr Hayden Wilson
- 8:40 pm: Conclusion
COST
In-person: Free for AMA (WA) Members | $50 Non-Members
Online: Free for AMA (WA) Members | $25 Non-Members
Not an AMA (WA) Member?
PRESENTERS
Dr Fiona Sluchniak
Dr Fiona Sluchniak works in both General Practice and Clinical Forensic Medicine.She has been a GP for more than 25 years, is a Fellow of the Royal Australia College of General Practitioners, and is a co-owner of a Mount Lawley practice. Fiona has worked at the Sexual Assault Resource Centre (SARC) since 2003, and has completed a Masters in Clinical Forensic Medicine. She is a Founding Fellow of the Faculty of Clinical Forensic Medicine, of the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia. As part of this work, she regularly provides expert witness testimony and medico-legal reports in the areas of sexual and physical assault, and non-fatal strangulation.
Dr Hayden Wilson
Dr Hayden Wilson is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, who has completed his medical and psychiatric training here in Western Australia. He has experience in both public and private settings, and has a passion for delivering high-quality child and adolescent mental health care for young people and families. He spent several years overseas, pursuing leadership and management studies in Switzerland (Executive MBA), before returning to Perth to co-found a multidisciplinary mental health clinic in the private sector, the Swiss Family Clinic. He divides his work time with this and his public sector role, as the Director of Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry for the WA Country Health Service, leading mental health services who provide care to young people and their families living in regional and remote Western Australia. Among other things, he has clinical special interests in neurodevelopmental disorders, systemic work and psychotherapy.
Where is it happening?
Level 1 Seminar Room; St John of God Midland Public and Private Hospitals, 1 Clayton Street, Midland, AustraliaEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
AUD 0.00 to AUD 50.00
