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Telepsychiatry
A Seminar for Mental Health Staff
8 December 2000
Department of Rural Health, University of Melbourne
Shepparton

Program

9.15am Coffee and tea, registration
9.45am Opening- Ms Deb Podbury, Assistant Director, Mental Health Branch
10.00am Telepsychiatry in the Future: What Does it Mean for Clinicians?- Professor Richard Wootton, Professor of On-line health, University of Queensland (by video link)
10.30am Cost -benefits of Telepsychiatry- Ms Gaye McCulloch, Mental Health Review Board (96k)
10.50am Innovative Uses of Telepsychiatry 1: Professional Supervision and Training at Warrnambool- Mr Ken Burnett, Warrnambool Area Mental Health Services and Dr David Barton, Melbourne Health
11.20am Morning Tea and launch of Collaboration between Public and Private Psychiatry by Dr Bill Pring, RANZCP and Ms Deb Podbury
11.40am Concurrent sessions in smaller groups
1) A practical session on how to use the equipment- GVT rep
2) Challenges and solutions- Dr David Barton
3) Clinical issues- Dr Howard Cooper, Victorian Child Psychiatry Training Program
4) Consumer and carer issues- Mr Ken Burnett, Mr David Mithin, Consumer
12.20pm A Carer Perspective on using Telepsychiatry- Ms Deb Rogers (carer)
12.40 Lunch
1.30pm Innovative Uses of Telepsychiatry 2: Tele-education- A Model for Rural Education in Children's Mental Health- Mr Harry Gelber, Mental Health Services for Kids and Youth, and Ms Anne Fahey, Bendigo Health Care Group Psychiatric Services (302k)
2.15pm Panel discussion: Making Telepsychiatry Work For You- Dr John Little, Grampians Psychiatric Services; Dr David Barton; Ms Deb Rogers; Mr David Mithin; Ms Gaye McCulloch; Dr David Monash, General Practitioner
3.00pm Innovative Uses of Telepsychiatry 3: The Provision of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Consultation and Supervision to Gippsland and Tasmania via Telepsychiatry- Dr Howard Cooper (443k)
3.30pm Innovative Uses of Telepsychiatry 4: Community Education on Depression and Anxiety- Dr Indranil Chakrabarti, Goulburn Valley Area Mental Health Service (144k)
3.50 Innovative Uses of Telepsychiatry 5: Clinical & Research Collaboration between Rural and Metropolitan Aged Persons' Mental Health Services- Dr Olga Yastrubetskaya, St Georges Aged Persons' Mental Health Service; Ms Deb Ryan and Ms Pam Evert, Goulburn Valley Aged Persons' Mental Health Service (183k)
4.10pm Close

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