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2023 Mental Health Service Innovation Conference
The inaugural Mental Health Service Innovation Conference will feature the following speakers. The table below outlines who is speaking, the biography and what they will be speaking about.
| Name | Bio | Talk |
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| Adriana Nevarez Flores | Adriana is a medical graduate who trained as a psychiatrist overseas whose primary clinical focus was adult psychiatry. She is an early career mental health researcher with research interests including schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders, mood disorders and suicide prevention. Adriana is member of the Society for Mental Health Research (SMHR) and is the Tasmanian representative of the SMRH’s Early and Mid-Career Researcher Committee. | The presentation will provide an overview of the Evaluation of the Tasmanian Suicide Prevention Strategy Implementation Plan One. The Evaluation has been commended to the TCMHSI to monitor the performance of the implementation plan and review the progress towards compliance with key activities and impacts of its priority actions. The evaluation is to be formative and will provide recommendation to guide the next Implementation Plans. |
| Alicia Belbin | Alicia is a Clinical Nurse Educator with Forensic Health Services. Alicia’s current role oversees the provision of education within the Forensic Mental Health and Correctional Health Organisations. Her passion for clinical practice development has led to her current role and provides a critical link in the rollout of Safewards Secure in Tasmania. | Safewards Secure: The challenges of implementing Safewards in the Forensic Mental Health setting. |
| Alison Lai | Alison Lai is the Chief Executive Officer of the Alcohol, Tobacco and other Drugs Council (ATDC). The ATDC is the peak body representing community managed organisations delivering alcohol, tobacco and other drug services and programs across Tasmania. The ATDC also currently coordinates the AOD Lived Experience Advocate Service connecting Tasmanians with a lived experience of drug use with opportunities to inform policy, program and service delivery and opportunities to have their voices included into discussions on AOD priority issues. | Alison will be taking part in the "Lived Experience" open panel discussion. |
| Ana Lusicic | Ana is a youth psychiatrist with an interest in the mental health of young people. She is especially interested in addressing needs of youth with range of mental health difficulties through cooperation with young people, youth health providers and government. | Ana will talk about planning the new Youth Mental Health Service in Tasmania and will also present on Engaging and Teaching – current priorities of Tasmanian Youth Mental Health Service. |
| Andrew Badcock | Andrew Badcock is the Policy & Support Manager at Working It Out, Tasmania’s LGBTIQA+ education and support service. Over the years he has also worked with young people in a variety of community health settings. He holds a postgraduate qualification in Health and Human Services Leadership and a special interest in LGBTIQA+ advocacy. | The focus of the presentation will be on creating engagement spaces for young LGBTIQA+ people to support positive mental health outcomes. Discussion will also cover examples to show how it is done well. |
| Anita Reimann | Anita is a psychologist with over 20 years of experience in clinical practice and service management in mental health, addictions, palliative care, family violence, and trauma. She has led a range of health care strategic policy initiatives and health reform and innovation programs and projects in Tasmania, including the establishment of the Family Violence Counselling and Support Services and the roll out of the MCAP clinical review tool. | The Road to TEDS: Establishing a Specialist Eating Disorder Service for Tasmania. There are currently no statewide specialist adult eating disorder services in Tasmania. The Tasmanian Eating Disorder Service (TEDS) is being established to bridge the current gaps and create a system of care that can meet the needs of people with an eating disorder. TEDS will be informed by a co-design methodology and will engage with stakeholders to ensure that it is effective and sustainable. |
| Anna Norris | Dr Anna Norris is on the cusp of completing her psychiatric fellowship. She has worked in states around Australia and spent a period at the Tavistock Clinic in London. Anna has an interest in psychodynamic psychotherapy, managing developmental trauma and its multitudinous sequelae, and assisting Tasmanian families to navigate the peripartum period well. | This talk details a quality improvement project aimed at understanding the experience for health care workers (HCW) referring to perinatal and infant mental health services (PIMHS) in Tasmania. It involved liaison with numerous public hospital departments and General Practitioner networks, and the distribution of a survey related to the above. Results demonstrated that HCW in less resourced areas rated their experiences lower, and that investment in a Statewide public PIMHS has the strong support of referring HCW. |
| Antonio Mendoza Diaz | Tony is a researcher and psychologist with the Tasmanian Centre for Mental Health Service Innovation, his research and clinical work focus on the aetiology of psychopathologies in children and young people. | Tony will provide an overview of data- informed approaches to clinical practice from service design to formulation using examples from CAMHS. |
| Barbara Lloyd & Doug Cooper |
Barbara Lloyd is a Social Worker specialising in mental health and addiction. She has post graduate qualifications in CBT, ACT and Solution Focused Therapy. Barbara has spent several years working overseas in remote locations and with culturally diverse populations. She has a particular interest in community development and mental health. Doug Cooper is a Carer Peer Worker at the Peacock Centre’s Safe Haven. He finds meaning and purpose in listening and connecting with people in suicidal or situational distress so they can find their own way back to hope, meaning, wellness and safety. |
Barbara and Doug will be speaking about their work in Safe Haven, a walk-in service offering compassionate support and care to people experiencing distress. |
| Belinda Martin | Belinda is a social worker with over 15 years of clinical experience; having worked in the acute care sector in London, Melbourne and Launceston. To compliment this clinical experience, she also has more than 5 years of project experience; supporting systemic patient change, including leading the statewide implementation of the Making Care Appropriate for Patients (MCAP) clinical review tool and activities within hospital patient access and flow. | The project team will provide an overview, including what has been discovered during the scoping phase and the vision for moving forward for two perinatal mental health projects: |
| Ben-Sion Elijah | Executive Director Medical Services - Statewide Mental Health Services | Dr Elijah will provide a brief welcome to the conference and give a broad overview of the days ahead. |
| Brett McDermott | Professor Brett McDermott is a co-director of the Tasmanian Centre for Mental Service Innovation. He is the Statewide Specialty Director, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, Tasmanian Health Service and is the Clinical Professor within the School of Medicine at the University of Tasmania. | Lifespan panel discussion: A discussion on patients’ journeys from early childhood and onto old age, using the expertise of the SMHS panellists. Liberate the inner artist: An interactive morning workshop on the relationship between art and wellbeing, using drawing and in particular the drawings of hands, as a case study. |
| Catherine Schofield |
In 2006 Catherine was appointed as the inaugural manager for Tasmania’s first dedicated forensic mental health facility. In 2008, she relocated to the north of Tasmania for a period of 4 years and worked as a Strategic Nurse Coordinator and led significant reform of local mental health services. In both roles, Catherine’s main focus was the development of a person-centred culture of inclusion, the least restrictive practice and the upholding of consumer rights. She served as the chair of the Australian College of Mental Health Nurses 2008-2010 and remains a member of this organisation. In 2018, Catherine was appointed as the Tasmanian representative on the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) having previously served as the chair of the Tasmanian NMBA from 2010- 2018. Catherine was inducted into the Tasmanian Nursing and Midwifery Honor Roll in 2021. |
Catherine will speak about her role leading the Statewide Mental Health Service and lead the Strategic Directions panel. |
| David Castle | David is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Tasmania and Co-Director of the Tasmanian Centre for Mental Health Service Innovation. Previous positions include inaugural Scientific Director of the Centre for Complex Interventions at the Centre for Addictions and Mental Health, University of Toronto and Professor of Psychiatry St Vincent’s Health and The University of Melbourne. | Professor Castle will talk about his vision for the Tasmanian Centre for Mental Health Service Innovation, including future directions and opportunities to work together. |
| Dion Butler | Dion is a team leader for the extended CAMHS Northwest team and the youth hospital-in-the-home (Y-HiTH) service. He has a background in social work and a long history of working in SMHS (in alcohol and drug) and working with children and young people. | Dion will talk about the Youth Mental Health and the Youth Hospital in the Home and theand will also present on - Engaging and Teaching – current priorities of Tasmanian Youth Mental Health Service. |
| Faline Howes | Dr Faline Howes is the General Practice liaison Officer in the South. She has a background in general practice and public health medicine. | Dr Howes will be providing a reflection on managing mental health issues in general practice. |
| Gillian Mee | Dr Gillian Mee has a background in General Practice and has worked at the Roy Fagan Centre since 2017. She has been practicing Zentangle since first discovering it in 2009 and travelled to the USA to train as Certified Zentangle Teacher in 2011. She is passionate about Zentangle as a therapeutic tool. | Zentangle is a "mindfulness meets art" practice that we are using as a quality improvement activity for staff and for patients at the Roy Fagan Centre. Dr Mee is aiming to improve staff wellbeing by using zentangle as an innovative method to manage stress in the workplace as well as utilising it as a therapeutic engagement tool with patients. |
| Greg Taylor | Greg Taylor is the Director - Lived Experience at the Alcohol, Tobacco and other Drugs Council (ATDC). The ATDC is the peak body representing community managed organisations delivering alcohol, tobacco and other drug services and programs across Tasmania. Greg is a dedicated advocate for the establishment of an independent lived experience organisation for the alcohol and drug sector in Tasmania. | Lived experience panel |
| Hannah Miller & Ella Polley |
Hannah Miller is an Occupational Therapist who has worked at MH-HITH since its opening in 2019, with a background in Forensics. More recently she has taken on the role of part-time Clinical Lead within the MH-HITH team. She has a special interest in sensory modulation and emotional dysregulation. Ella Polley is a Registered Nurse and works as a ANUM within MH-HITH. Ella is a passionate early career clinician and brings a holistic and consumer led focus to her work. Ella is currently studying her Masters of Mental Health at the University of Newcastle. |
Mental Health Hospital in the Home (MH-HITH) opened in 2019 as an innovative program aimed at working with individuals who are experiencing mental distress and their supporters; to promote recovery and avoid hospital-based admissions. MH-HITH operates as a 12-‘virtual’ bed service staffed by allied health professional, nurses, lived experience workers and medical staff. We have the privilege of being able to provide an intense, consumer led, short-term service servicing the Greater Hobart Region. |
| Ian Guinan | Dr Ian Guinan is a UK trained GP with a long interest in management of withdrawal, particularly in community settings. He joined ADS in 2014 and since then has been primarily responsible for the Inpatient Withdrawal Unit. | Dr Guinan will be presenting a topic on the service Detox@Home, providing a narrative overview of the main elements of the service and its implementation. |
| Ian Navin | Ian is an early career psychiatrist in the sub-specialty of Psychiatry of Old Age. He has an interest in neuropsychiatry as well as the legal, ethical and sociocultural structures of healthcare. | "In search of clarity: The application of restrictive practice in the hospital environment." The protection of human rights is fundamental to excellence in clinical care however the definitions of restrictive practice and frameworks for substitute decision- making are not always clear. |
| Ignatius Kim & Kent Jackson |
Iggy Kim is Clinical Lead/Clinical Nurse Consultant at the CAMHS South Community team. While he is also a qualified psychodynamic psychotherapist working in the Conversational Model, his passion is in socially holistic mental health care – therapy out in the ‘real world’. Kent Jackson is Team Leader of Core CAMHS NW, with a Master’s in Social Work (Forensic Studies). Prior to moving to CAMHS in 2011, Kent was working with young offenders at Youth Justice Services. He has a particular interest in comorbid mental health and disability, the social determinants impacting on our communities’ mental health and wellbeing and advocating for consumer groups’ input into service design. |
This presentation is about the unique challenges for CAMHS in a ‘battler’ state like Tasmania, particularly highlighted by the Northwest region. The presentation will use a de- identified client’s journey to illustrate the challenges as well as the positive impacts that the growth and reform of CAMHS can offer. |
| Ingrid Altena | Ingrid Altena is a Clinical Supervisor in Multisystemic Therapy (MST). She has postgraduate qualifications in social work and a Masters in Counselling. She has 30 years of experience working within Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services as a senior social worker and Team Leader. She worked for several years for the University of Auckland in Child and Adolescent Workforce Development implementing evidenced based parenting before moving to Australia in 2017 to develop her practise as a clinical supervisor in Multisystemic Therapy. | Ingrid will be providing a presentation on Multisystemic Therapy, an evidenced based program targeting youth offenders in the community by working with the young person and their ecology to support long term change. She will be providing a brief overview of MST and its implementation within Tasmania CAMHS services including a case presentation on a recent treatment program with one of our families in Tasmania. |
| Jane Cooper & Rhyan Davey |
Jane Cooper is a Social Worker in the Clinical Lead role for the Mental Health Integration Hub at Peacock Centre. Jane’s practice experience includes workforce training and practice development in the context of community mental health. Jane also has extensive coaching in strategies for optimising conditions for resilient and trauma-informed workplaces. Rhyan Davey is a Peer Support worker in the Integration Hub. It has been his experience that people who seek mental health support and are experiencing suicidal distress have a wide range of contributing factors. Often, people will have self-criticism and stigmatic expectations. It is rewarding to see that people become open to the idea of mental health support when they realise that Peacock Centre has a very different look, feel and approach to being supportive. |
Jane and Rhyan’s presentation will explore early learnings from the operationalisation of the Integration Hub model; what is the community telling us? How integrated service systems create space within our models of care for interacting with human distress in a compassionate way. |
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Jo Poole |
Program Manager – Recruitment – Tasmanian Mental Health Reform Program. I have been practising as a Mental Health Nurse for over 20 years. In the last few years I have focused on workforce projects, specifically recruitment of mental health professionals. I have previously published on the relationship between staff and consumer health. |
The Recruitment team will be speaking on their paradigm shift away from system-centred recruitment towards a person-centred approach. |
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Kimberley Norris |
Prof Norris is Director of Postgraduate Psychology Programs at the University of Tasmania, School of Psychological Sciences. Kim has a position in the executive team of the Tasmanian Centre for Mental Health Service Innovation and is passionate about clinical psychology. |
I can “C” the future: Challenge, collaboration and compassion in Tasmania’s MH service sector. This talk will focus on collaboration between the University of Tasmania and Tasmanian Health Services, highlighting areas in which common values offer promising avenues for working together. |
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Krishnendu Anup |
Krish is a Registered Nurse, working in the Wilfred Lopes Centre. Krish is a Safewards Champion and is currently involved in the implementation of Safewards interventions in the Secure Forensic Mental Health Setting in Tasmania. |
Safewards Secure: The challenges of implementing Safewards in the Forensic Mental Health setting. |
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Kristy Arrold |
Nursing Director - Acute Care Stream Community Mental Health Services |
Kristy will provide insights regarding the evolution of the Police Ambulance and Clinician Early Response (PACER) Team. |
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Lara McCartney |
Lara is a CL psychiatrist currently working with TEDS and CL at the RHH. She trained at North West Mental Health and has an interest in the treatment of patients with eating disorders. |
The TEDS team will present the model of care for the pilot program community clinic that started in June 2023 in the South. The Community clinic provides short term, wrap around care for people with eating disorders with the aim of transitioning them from acute services into community treatment. |
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Maree Tambasco |
Implementation Lead & Education Coordinator for the Recovery College. She is also part of the Swinburne University (Centre for Mental Health Research) Wellcome Trust (UK) international research team investigating early relapse of bipolar through actigraphy. Maree is currently undertaking her PhD studies on approaches to understanding and methods of learning for adults with bipolar disorder at the Tasmanian School of Medicine (UTAS) under the supervisory team of Prof. David Castle, Dr. Michelle Kilpatrick and Dr. Emily Hansen. |
This presentation will provide an overview of the Recovery College, its classroom / campuses and the student led curriculum that has included co-production that is underpinned by inclusive education principles and trauma informed educational practices. As an academic and educator with a lived experience of bipolar disorder, the presentation will include the value of lived experience in partnership with professional expertise within the Recovery College framework. |
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Mel Nichols & Claire Browning |
Mel Nichols is a Social Worker and is currently the Manager of the newly opened Peacock Centre. She is passionate about offering client-centred and trauma-informed care, exploring new models of care and the role of the social determinants of health in mental health care. Claire Browning is one of the Lived Experience Leads for the south of Tasmania. She is based at Peacock Centre in North Hobart. Her role is to support and provide a lived experience perspective to the people who are admitted to Peacock house. |
Mel and Claire will speak about the “Peacock House” which offers an exciting new approach to improving outcomes for people experiencing mental health issues. |
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Michelle Kilpatrick |
Dr Michelle Kilpatrick is a public health researcher with a background in psychology. She has extensive research, project management and collaboration experience, working in two National Health and Medical Research Council-funded research partnerships with the Tasmanian Government and an Australian Research Council Linkage grant with beyondblue and Workcover Tasmania over her research career. |
Michelle will provide an overview of the Tasmanian Centre for Mental Health Service Innovation’s strategic directions in relation to workforce research. This will include the Centre’s role in supporting the attraction, retention, and upskilling of mental health professionals. |
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Mike Jordan |
Mike Jordan has been working in Forensic Psychiatry since 2005. He was the Clinical Director of the Tasmanian Forensic Mental Health Services between 2009-2016. Dr Jordan works mainly in medico-legal work but also does some private clinical practice in addition to his FTAC duties. |
Mike will present on the Fixed Threat Assessment Centre. |
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Nicolle Ait Khalifa
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Dr Ait Khelifa is a general adult psychiatrist and addiction medicine specialist, having obtained FRCPsych with sub-specialty addiction psychiatry from Royal College Psychiatrists UK and then FRANZCP and FAChAM since returning to Australia. Dr Ait Khelifa previously held the position of Consultant Addiction Psychiatrist for Camden Alcohol Service and North Islington drug service in London. |
Dr Ait Khalifa will be discussing an ADS project developed in collaboration with stakeholders: “Provide Long- Acting Injectable Buprenorphine (LAIB) administration by Pharmacists: Improving access to ORT in Tasmania” In 2019, buprenorphine became available on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme in Australia as a subcutaneous long-acting injection with access initially restricted to specialist settings. In April 2020, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) approved the availability of these products to a broader group of healthcare professionals. |
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Nina Manning & Daniel Stebbeings |
Nina Manning graduated from the University of Tasmania with a Bachelor of Social Work in 2010. Since her graduation Nina has held a variety of roles, including clinical, policy and project, across a range of services. Nina recently returned to the Alcohol and Drug Service (ADS) in the role of Principal Service Development Officer and is the Project Manager for the Continuing Care project. Daniel Stebbeings graduated from the University of Tasmania with a Bachelor of Nursing in 2006. Since his graduation Daniel worked across a range of different service areas, including aged care, correctional health, forensic mental health, and most recently alcohol and other drug with the Alcohol and Drug Service (ADS). Daniel has recently commenced in the newly established roleof Clinical Nurse Consultant, Consultation and Liaison – Secure Facilities. |
A recent increase in service capacity flowing from the Reform Agenda for the Alcohol and Other Drugs Sector in Tasmania has enabled the Alcohol and Drug Service (ADS) to establish a Secure Facilities Consultation and Liaison position that works between Tasmania’s secure facilities (Tasmania Prison Service, Wilfred Lopes Centre, and Ashley Youth Detention Centre) and the ADS. The position has a role in the delivery of clinical services and a project to develop a model of care in collaboration with partners from across the ATOD and secure facilities sectors to improve transitions of ATOD treatment care for people who are entering and exiting these facilities. The presenters will provide detail on the project, and share discoveries so far and plans for the future. |
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Simone Caynes |
Simone Caynes holds the position of Program Manager, Strategic Development, Statewide CAMHS. Simone is a registered psychologist with over 34 years of experience in systemic reform, policy, and service delivery in mental health and human services. She has extensive experience in mental health reform, in particular, whole-of-government and cross-sectoral action for mental health improvement, illness prevention and early intervention, suicide prevention, and child and family mental health and wellbeing. |
Head to Health Kids (H2HK) is a joint Commonwealth and Tasmanian Government initiative aimed at improving early intervention outcomes for children’s mental health and wellbeing. The presentation will overview the policy, strategic, and evidence context of H2HK. It will describe the process of co- defining and codesigning a secondary level and integrated mental health service for children experiencing emotional, behavioural, relational and developmental challenges. |
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Stephanie Lorimer |
Consultant perinatal psychiatrist in the Perinatal and Infant Mental health (PIMH) team in CAMHS South. Stephanie trained as a Consultation-Liaison psychiatrist and has a special interest in Women’s and Infant Mental Health. She has been working for PIMH in Tasmania since 2017. |
“A reflection on the early experiences of a public mother-baby unit; key learnings, challenges and solutions” |
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Tash Smyth |
Tash is the CEO of Tasmania’s peak body for the consumer voice in Tasmania. Tash is a passionate advocate for lived experience being embedded in the research, design, delivery and evaluation of mental health services – “How can we deliver services well if we don’t ask what the consumer wants and needs?” |
Lived experience panel |
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Trudy Schmitzer |
Trudy Schmitzer has been working in the Community sector for over 10 years in mental health/Psychosocial disability and is employed as the Lived Experience Workforce Coordinator with the Mental Health Council of Tasmania (MHCT). Trudy Schmitzer has been working in the Community sector for over 10 years in mental health/Psychosocial disability and is employed as the Lived Experience Workforce Coordinator with the Mental Health Council of Tasmania (MHCT). |
Lived experience panel |
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Zachary James |
Zac is a Registered Nurse, currently in the Clinical Coach role for State-wide Mental Health Services. Zac has been a part of the Wilfred Lopes Centre, Tasmania’s inpatient Forensic Mental Health Unit for nearly 15 years. Zac has a passion for safety, reducing restrictive practices and promoting patient choice |
Safewards Secure: The challenges of implementing Safewards in the Forensic Mental Health setting. |
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