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APCRC - Q Seminar Series

Featuring the research of Professor Nicholas Graves of QUT's Faculty of Health and Miss Ester Barter of Mater Continence Service.
Event Type Seminar
When Nov 08, 2012
from 09:30 PM to 11:30 PM
Where Russell Strong Auditorium
Contact Name
Contact Phone 07 3176 7957
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Nick Graves

Professor Nick Graves

 

  • Professor of Health Economics, Faculty of Health, QUT
  • Academic Director - Australian Centre for Health Services Innovation
  • Investigator, APCRC-Q

"Using economics to improve health services.  What relevance for Prostate Cancer services?"

Nicholas Graves is Professor of Health Economics with a joint appointment in the Institute of Biomedical and Health Innovation, School of Public Health, Queensland University of Technology and the Centre for Healthcare Related Infection Control and Surveillance, Queensland Health, Australia.

His applied research brings economics to the study of health-care.

He has a programme of research that uses Bayesian methods for the synthesis of diverse sources of data that are subsequently used to inform parameters in decision models that address questions about the value of competing investments in health care sector alternatives.

He supervises PhD students, teaches economics to post-graduate students and has made research contributions of international significance publishing in Nature, BMJ, AIDS, Health Economics, Lancet Infectious Diseases, The Journal of Infectious Diseases and Emerging Infectious Diseases.

 

Ester Barter

Miss Ester Barter

  • Managing Therapist, Mater Continence Service, Department of Urology & Continence, Mater Health Services

 

"Hirst Shared Care Model"

Originally from the UK, Ester worked at various London teaching hospitals as a physiotherapist before moving to Brisbane in 2005.

At the Mater Private Hospital she worked with various urological and gynaecological specialists and set up inpatient and outpatient continence services for both men, women and paediatrics.

A move to the public hospital in 2010 saw Ester expanding the physiotherapy service to include men’s and paediatric pelvic floor dysfunction. In 2010 she was promoted to Managing Therapist in the Department of Urology & Continence, which provides services to both metropolitan Brisbane and 50% of remote and regional Queensland using the Hirst Shared Care model.

In 2011 she won a Winston Churchill Fellowship  and investigated models of service delivery at centers of excellence in Europe.

 

Russell Strong Auditorium
Basement Level, Main Building
Princess Alexandra Hospital
199 Ipswich Rd, Brisbane

Refreshments: from 4.30pm
Presentations: 5.00pm-6.00pm
Networking: 6.00pm-6:30pm

RSVP for catering purposes: prostatecentre@qut.edu.au