Royal Melbourne Hospital, Australia

Teater Fusentat; Norway

Speaker bio to follow.

KK Women’s & Children’s Hospital, Hong Kong

Ms Neo Jun Rong is a Senior Staff Nurse in KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Department of Child Development. She graduated from Diploma in Nursing in 2006 and holds a Bachelor of Nursing (Post-Registration) from Curtin University, where she honed her skills and deepened her knowledge in pediatric care.

Jun Rong is one of the pioneer nurses in the clinic who is being trained to perform developmental screening competently on the children newly referred to DCD. Besides screening, she provides excellent support to doctors in their daily clinic sessions.

In her role, she coordinates multidisciplinary care for children with developmental needs, working closely with families to provide the necessary support and resources. Her meticulous approach and commitment to her patients have made a significant impact on the lives of the children and their families. She is enthusiastic and willing to share her knowledge and expertise with the junior nurses, to prepare them to be trained as specialized developmental nurses so that children with special needs and their families can be constantly supported continuously.

Zhongshan Opthalmology Center, China

Dr. Haotian Lin is the President, Professor, Investigator, PhD mentor of Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center of Sun Yat-Sen University, and the PhD candidate tutor of School of Biomedical Engineering of Sun Yat-Sen University.

He is currently the Director of Asia Office of Afro-Asian Council of Ophthalmology (AACO-AO) , the Deputy Chairman of Intelligent Medical Special Committee of Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI), the Executive Vice President and Secretary of Guangdong Association of Young scientists and the member of Ophthalmic Division of Chinese Medical Association. Dr. Lin was awarded as the “the 24th China Youth May Fourth Medal”, the winner of “the 1st Zhong Nanshan Youth Science and Technology Innovation Award” and “2021 Wu Wenjun Science and Technology Award for Artificial Intelligence”, picked as the “National Youth and Middle-aged Technological Innovation Leaders”.

He is the Chief Scientist of the National Key R&D Program as well as Major Research Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China, working on the transformation and application of medical big data in diagnosis and artificial intelligence. Pioneered and successfully implemented the new AI-based “three-level diagnosis and treatment” model, adopted by 35 institutions nationwide and along the Belt and Road Initiative for screening millions of individuals. He has edited 2 books as the editor-in-chief, co-written 6 monographs and published more than 200 SCI papers as the first or the corresponding author, including Nature, Science, Lancet, BMJ, Nature Medicine, Nature Biomedical Engineering, Lancet Digital Health, etc.

He also developed a number of medical equipment and software that successfully applied to clinic. He owned more than 10 patents from China, the US, and Japan with exceeding additional 20 patents filed. Led the development of the first batch of two Bay Area standards in medical AI (the only ones in this field).

Director; Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) and Founder and Director; Torchbearing Ltd, England

Selina Stephen is the Director for International Forums at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI). Selina has been working in Quality Improvement across Scotland, the UK and globally for the past decade, and has a special interest in the human side of change and how we communicate to help people make sustainable improvements.

 

Resident, Clinical Tutor (Honorary), Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong

Speaker bio to follow.

Vice President, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI); USA

Josh Clark, RN, MHA, Vice President, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), partners with health care systems to deploy a series of technology enabled workflows that seamlessly embed quality, safety, and experience within clinical operations across a variety of settings.

Prior to joining IHI, Josh served as the Senior Vice President of Quality and Safety Operations for Jefferson Health, an 18-hospital system covering the greater Philadelphia region and southern New Jersey. At Jefferson Health, he led the implementation of an industry-leading care operating system that was recognized for using technology-enabled workflows to embed outcomes of quality and safety within clinical operations. Josh previously served as Enterprise Senior Director of Quality and Safety at Carilion Clinic. At Carilion, Josh helped develop and lead one of the largest clinically-applied human factors teams in the country. Josh has participated in National Quality Forum Action Teams for both Opioid Safety and Medication Safety and serves on the Board of the Healthcare Improvement Foundation.

His work to integrate translational Human Factors within clinical operations was recognized by the National Quality Forum with its 2018 Next Generation Innovator Award. His work has also been recognized by ECRI and ISMP’s 2021 Safety Excellence Award and was a finalist in the AHA Quest for Quality 2024 award. Josh received his RN and Master of Healthcare Administration degrees from Jefferson College of Health Sciences.

Wednesday 28 August | 11:55-13:10

Join in to hear presentations from the below poster authors as they showcase their poster projects.

The presentations will be followed by an interactive discussion.

• Quality Improvement through online mentoring at health care facilities in remote area – Windhi Kresnawati Gatot Soebroto Military Hospital, Indonesia


• Joint Clinic model to relieve Medical SOPC caseload in HA – Xiao Rui Catherine CHEN Kowloon Central Cluster, Hospital Authority, Hong Kong


• Preventing Delays in Specimen Transportation through a Reminder System – Fung Ki Ma HA-KEC-HHH-Medical, Hong Kong


• Smart Ward System to Enhance Nursing Communication and Nursing Care Effectiveness – Ka Kit Lam TWGHs Wong Tai Sin Hospital, Hong Kong


• Reducing Average Length of Stay for Elective Total Hip Replacement (eTHR) Patients – Yan Mei Yap Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore

Wednesday 28 August | 09:55-11:25

Join in to hear presentations from the below poster authors as they showcase their poster projects.

The presentations will be followed by an interactive discussion.

• Initiation of new project to enhance patient’s service in plasma exchange – Shing Tak poon Hospital Authority, Hong Kong


• Preventing Falls in Older Adults Using Fall Warning Protection Technology – Siqi Liu Medical School of Chinese PLA, China


• Operating Theatre Control Centre at Department of Anaesthesia & Operating Theatre Services – Siu Lo Cheung Tseung Kwan O Hospital, Hospital Authority, Hong Kong


• Antiviral Prophylaxis for the Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of Hepatitis B Virus – Vivien Wai-Man Tsui HA-HAHO-Q&S, Hong Kong


• Nurse-led empowerment program on self-management for patients with heart failure in cardiac-rehabilitation-unit – Wang Lik LEE Tung Wah Eastern Hospital, Hospital Authority, Hong Kong


• Improving the care of longstayers at a public hospital in Singapore – Norhisham Main Ng Teng Fong General Hospital, Singapore

Tuesday 27 August | 15:00-16:30

Join in to hear presentations from the below poster authors as they showcase their poster projects.

The presentations will be followed by an interactive discussion.

• Keys to the success of discovering malnutrition patients in Siriraj Piyamaharajkarun Hospital – Kanicha Bumrungcheep Siriraj Piyamaharajkarun Hospital, Thailand


• Enhancing Knee Osteoarthritis Care with Patient-Reported Outcome Measures in Physical – Therapysamah al mushawih AFHD, Saudi Arabia


• Enhancing Postoperative Recovery after Emergency Surgery through Strategic Physiotherapy Integration in Qatar – Mohammed Burhan Khan Hamad Medical Corporation, Qatar


• Reducing Harm from Antipsychotic-Induced Extrapyramidal Side Effects (EPSE) – Ziwen Gao Institute of Mental Health, Singapore


• Strategies for Venous Thromboembolism Prevention – Ying Qiu, Shenzhen Hospital; China


• Effectiveness of a community-based health-social partnership program for community-dwelling older adults: A randomized controlled trial –  Dr Arkers Wong, School of Nursing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong