Advanced Trainee Weekend Invited Speakers
Dr Aisling Fleury is a senior specialist geriatrician working in Logan Hospital, where she leads the perioperative medicine unit. She is also deputy chair of the Queensland Dementia Ageing and Frailty Network. Outside of work she enjoys cooking, open water swimming and rock climbing.
Aisling Fleury
Logan Hospital
Christy Noble is the Clinical Learning and Assessment Lead in the Academy for Medical Education at The University of Queensland. Through her work Christy seeks to foster the development of learners’ capabilities to effectively learn through practice.
She started her career as a hospital pharmacist and through her pharmacist educator experiences, in the UK, her interest in health profession education grew. She completed a Masters of Education (Clinical Education), University of Leeds, 2006. When she returned to Australia, she completed a PhD at the University of Queensland (2014) exploring pharmacy students professional identity formation.
Christy has more than 40 publications aligned to her research interests including practice-based learning (especially in clinical settings) and workplace pedagogic practices including feedback and clinical supervision. She has generated more than $1 million in postdoctoral research funding as both chief and co-investigators through several national and international collaborations.
Christy Noble
The University of Queensland
Jeremy Hayllar has been the Clinical Director of the Alcohol and Drug Service of Metro North Mental Health since 2014. Prior to that he had a most interesting and varied careers spanning from the UK to regional Queensland in Mt Isa. It was in the hard drinking mining community of Mt Isa that he became interested in the care of people with substance use problems.
His interests include the management of patients with opioid use disorder and patients with co-occurring disorders. He represented the RACP during the planning for implementing real time prescription monitoring (QScript) and was a member of the Queensland Medicinal Cannabis Expert Advisory Panel.
He has been involved in the updating of Queensland Health guidelines into withdrawal management, opioid use disorder, and contributed to updating of the National Pharmacotherapy guidelines and Alcohol and Drug related resources with ACRRM
Jeremy Hayllar
Metro North Mental Health
Tracy has gained extensive experience in relation to medico-legal complaint management and litigation over more than 22 years. She is responsible for identifying and responding to emerging medico-legal issues which impact on Avant’s members. Tracy regularly presents at educational seminars and is actively involved in the medico-legal community in Queensland.
Tracy’s significant experience has been recognised by her peers in 2020 and 2021 by her listing as a Leading Queensland Defendant Medical Negligence Lawyer in the Doyle’s Guide. She is the immediate past president of the Medico-Legal Society of Queensland, former director of the Queensland Doctors’ Health Programme and currently a committee member for the Uniting Care Health Human Research Ethics Committee. She is also a member of the Steering committee for HEAL – Health, Ethics and Law in Queensland.
Tracey Pickett
Avant Law
Ruth E. Hubbard is a Consultant Geriatrician at the Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane and the Masonic Chair in Geriatric Medicine at the University of Queensland.
Based on the impact of her publications, she is currently ranked number 4 in a list of frailty experts worldwide.
She is currently supervising 6 clinicians undertaking PhDs as well as numerous student projects. In the last 5 years, she has has generated $19.9M in grant income: including as CIA on the recent MRFF Dementia Ageing and Aged Care Mission ($5M), a Centre for Research Excellence in Frailty ($2.5M), an Ideas Grant ($1.6M) and the NHMRC Targeted Call for Frailty Research ($1.5M).
Ruth E. Hubbard
Princess Alexandra Hospital
Dr Catherine Yelland is a general physician and geriatrician who is the Medical Director of the Medicine Service Line at Redcliffe Hospital. She is a past president of both the RACP and ANZSGM. Her interests are in service development, geriatric rehabilitation and dementia.
Catherine Yelland
Redcliffe Hospital
Dr Kristen Lefever is a Neurologist at the Princess Alexandra and Mater Private hospitals Brisbane. She is currently under taking a PhD in the neuroimaging characteristics of patients with pain as a complication of multiple sclerosis. Outside of medicine Kristen enjoys coffee, gardening and spending time with her young family.
Kristen Lefever
Princess Alexandra & Mater Private Hospitals