Monthly Meeting February 2024
DATE: February 29, 2024 7:00 pm
VENUE: Maroochydore Surf Club Function Room
ADDRESS: 34/36 Alexandra Parade, Maroochydore QLD 4558
RSVP BY: 26/02/2024
DATE: THURSDAY 29 FEBRUARY 2024
FIRST MEETING FOR 2024
Presenter: Dr Russell Wiseman, General Practitioner.
Topic: “ What are the real world challenges to respiratory medicine in Primary Care”.
Presenter: A/Prof Debbie Rigby, Clinical Lead, National Asthma Council.
Topic: “Device matters: selection and assessment of inhalers technique”
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TOPIC: “ What are the real world challenges to respiratory medicine in Primary Care”
PRESENTER: Dr Russell Wiseman, General Practitioner.
DR RUSSELL WISEMAN, General Practitioner, Suncoast Medical Centre – Coolum
Dr Russell Wiseman is an Australian-born and trained GP, having graduated from the Uni of QLD in 1981. He has wide experience in Rural Family Practice and practised in Yamba, Northern NSW for 15 years before returning to QLD in 1998.
His particular interest is Asthma & Respiratory Medicine and he is a foundation member of GPAG (General Practitioner Asthma Group) and sits as a committee member of the National Asthma Council and Lung Foundation Australia. He was an avid snow skier and traveller along with his wife Carrie and children Michael and Jeb, but now enjoys his acreage and Grandsons.
TOPIC: “Device matters: selection and assessment of inhalers technique”
PRESENTER: A/Prof Debbie Rigby, Clinical Lead, National Asthma Council.
A/PROF Debbie Rigby, Clinical Lead, NAC
The National Asthma Council Australia (NAC) is delighted to announce that Debbie Rigby has joined the organisation in the newly created role of Clinical Executive Lead.
Ms Rigby is an Advanced Practice Pharmacist with over 40 years’ of experience across clinical pharmacy practice, interdisciplinary care, policy and advocacy, clinical governance, guidelines development and education.
Rhonda Cleveland, CEO of the National Asthma Council Australia, said that Ms Rigby will help the NAC promote best-practice care to people living with asthma and their families.
“Debbie has a specific interest in respiratory conditions and has been credentialed as an asthma educator. She is also passionate about improving the care and support for people living with asthma through multidisciplinary patient-centred care, shared decision making and evidence-based medicine,” said Ms Cleveland.
Ms Rigby has had extensive experience in supporting the National Asthma Council Australia in the past, as well as other organisations such as the International Primary Care Respiratory Group (IPCRG).
She was a Director of NPS MedicineWise for 12 years, is part of the newly established Leadership Group for the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia’s Respiratory Community of Special Interest Group and is a member of the Respiratory Pharmacy Taskforce, chaired by global expert Professor Sinthia Bosnic-Anticevich.
Ms Rigby said that she was looking forward to her new role with the NAC and utilising her knowledge of current and emerging asthma management issues, evidence and guidelines in her work alongside asthma, respiratory and primary care experts.
“Through post-graduate qualifications and adjunct appointments at three universities, I have significant experience in critical evaluation of the literature, and translation of evidence into practice.
“I look forward to bringing my experience and ideas to the NAC as we work to reduce the health, social and economic impacts of asthma in the Australian community,” she said.
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