Senior Occupational Therapist, Queensland Children’s Hospital; Australia

Kath Dalton is an Occupational Therapist and an accredited hand therapist who has worked across Australian tertiary paediatric hospitals, delivered education with colleagues nationally and internationally, and contributed to raising the profile of paediatric hand therapy through numerous state, national and international committees. She has co-chaired worldwide hand therapy pre-courses, and scientific committees within international combined hand surgery and therapy conferences. She has completed education and service improvement project roles previously and has a Master of Health Service management. Kath strives to support and empower children and their families as the forefront of providing integrated health care services. Implementing the intersection of frontline clinical service delivery with research in health system design, consumer engagement and value-based health care is a recent interest of hers to translate and test within complex public health environments.