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Speakers involved in the Healthy Immune Ageing Masterclass
Immunity, disease and immunisation in older adults
MBBS, FRACGP, DCH, FACTM, FFTM, AFEWM, AusDipDerm, Dip Dermoscopy (SCCA), BBus(Man), Cert Travel Health
Dr Sarah Chu is a General Practitioner at Turbot Street Medical Centre. She is a member of the Immunisation Coalition and the International Society of Travel Medicine.
Sarah is committed to ongoing professional education, ensuring that her patients receive the highest quality of care. She is actively involved in teaching the next generation of doctors and is also one of the assessors for the RACGP exams.
BHB, MBChB, FRACP, FRCPA, AAICD
Dr Daman Langguth is the Director of Immunology at Sullivan Nicolaides Pathology and a Visiting Medical Officer at the Wesley Hospital. He is a member of many professional standards committees for both the Australian Society for Clinical Immunology and Allergists and The Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia. His research focus is in vasculitis, having started with colleagues the Australian and New Zealand Vasculitis society.
Multi-morbidities and risk factors for infectious diseases in older adults
Rod Pearce is a practicing grass roots General Practitioner (GP) and policy adviser. He was President of The Australian Medical Association (SA) from 1998 to 2000, GP Nationally Elected Representative on the Federal AMA and Chair of the AMA Council of General Practice for 3 terms from 2004 to 2010. In 2008 he was appointed by the then Health Minister, The Hon. Nicola Roxon, to the External Reference Group to develop Australia’s National Primary Health Care Strategy for the national health reforms.
He is a member of the Asia Pacific Alliance for the Control of Influenza (APACI) and former Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI) member. On Australia Day 2012 Dr Pearce was admitted to the Order of Australia (AM) for service to medicine as a general practitioner, through contributions to national medical organisations, and to education.
Dr Paul Russo is qualified in both rheumatology and clinical immunology and allergy. He has also trained (but did not pursue qualification) in immunopathology and dermatology, as well as spending a year as the Chief Medical Registrar at the Canberra Hospital in 2010. Obtaining 1 st Class Honours in Immunology at the University of Sydney prior to studying medicine, Paul has trained up and down the East Coast of NSW, as far north as Lismore and as far south as Albury. He also trained in Edinburgh, Scotland and Kiel, Germany, gaining additional clinical experience in Papua New Guinea.
Having published over 40 papers in the peer-reviewed literature, he completed his training after moving to and settling in Adelaide with his wife and young family. Paul now works privately as a sole practitioner in the Adelaide foothills, not far from the McLaren Vale.
Seizing opportunities to reduce infectious disease risk in older adults with comorbidities
A/Prof Woodward MBBS, FRACP is the Director of Aged Care Research, the Memory Clinic, and the Wound Clinic at Austin Health. He has a keen interest in vaccinations for older people, has conducted several randomised controlled trials of vaccines, and having coordinated 4 editions of the Vaccination Position Paper of the Australian and New Zealand Society for Geriatric Medicine (ANZSGM) and overseen the Vaccination of Older People series of articles published in Modern Medicine. He is on the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Immunisation Coalition and a member of the Department of Veterans Affairs MATES Editorial Committee, that advises doctors on quality use of medications, including vaccination. A/Prof Woodward is also involved with healthcare professional training for the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) and has been President of the Victorian Division of the Australian Association of Gerontology and a federal counsellor for the ANZSGM. In 2016, A/Prof Woodward was honoured to receive Membership of the Order of Australia for his work in geriatric medicine.
Dr Victoria Hayes is a General Practitioner based in metro Melbourne, Victoria. She has a particular interest in women’s and children’s health,
mental health, preventative health, immunisations and travel.
Empowering older adults with CVD to reduce vaccine-preventable disease risk
MBBS, FRACGP, DCH, FACTM, FFTM, AFEWM, AusDipDerm, Dip Dermoscopy (SCCA), BBus(Man), Cert Travel Health
Dr Sarah Chu is a General Practitioner at Turbot Street Medical Centre. She is a member of the Immunisation Coalition and the International Society of Travel Medicine.
Sarah is committed to ongoing professional education, ensuring that her patients receive the highest quality of care. She is actively involved in teaching the next generation of doctors and is also one of the assessors for the RACGP exams.
BAPPSC (RMIT), MBBS (UQ), FRACP 2013
Dr Anthony French is a Geriatrician in the private sector, working out of Greenslopes Private Hospital and Brisbane Private Hospital. He also runs a busy group private practice and is the Director of Queensland Geriatric Medicine Group.
Dr French is active with the UQ medical school as a senior lecturer, in training of physician trainees and is an examiner with the university for almost 20 years and the RACP since 2014. His professional interests include Orthogeriatrics, Perioperative Medicine in the older person, Rehabilitation, and cognitive impairment as well as healthy ageing.
These educational activities were developed by Lateral Connections at the request of and with funding from GSK.
NX-AU-SGX-WCNT-220007 Date of approval: June 2023
