Hobart hosts 2011 Diabetes event
The Royal Hobart Hospital will host the APodA Tasmania Diabetes Update on the 25th of June. T
he event is the second in the association's 2011 education series and will feature three highly credentialed presenters. Dr Rajna Ogrin, Dr Shan Bergin and Byron Perrin will cover a range of topics, providing practitioners with an update of recent research to guide clinical practice. The registration can be found as an attachment below.
Dr Rajna Ogrin
Working as a podiatrist in Australia, Dr. Ogrin identified gaps in clinical practice and patient care, particularly in people with diabetes and foot complications. This led Dr Ogrin to complete her PhD on prevention of foot problems in people with diabetes, and accelerate healing in the aged using electrical stimulation, which was funded by two National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) grants.
In 2008, Dr. Ogrin was awarded a Post Doctoral fellowship from the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation to work with Dr. Pamela Houghton in electrical stimulation and pressure ulcers at the University of Western Ontario in Canada. In 2009, she was also awarded a further post doctorate fellowship from the Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation. Also in 2009, Dr. Ogrin was awarded a Ministry of Health and Long Term Care Health Force Ontario funding to initiate an interprofessional diabetes foot ulcer team to undertake patient-centred management of people with diabetes in London, Ontario. This Team was successful in accelerating healing, improving quality of life, using an effective team environment of care of these complex patients.
Returning to Australia, Dr. Ogrin is the Diabetes Foot Service Co-ordinator, setting up an evidence based, patient centred service, spanning the inpatient, outpatient and community with the aim of accelerating healing, reducing hospital admissions and reducing amputations. Dr Ogrin’s research interests include: translating research into clinical practice, nerve stimulation to improve sensory nerve function in people with diabetes, & oxygen tension correlation with wound healing.
Dr Shan Bergin
Dr Bergin has been a clinical Podiatrist for 20 years. Worked for 15 years in the community health setting and is currently Senior Clinician at the Dandenong Hospital Diabetic Foot Unit and High Risk Foot Service. Dr Bergin was awarded her PhD in 2009 from Monash University and has been involved in several research projects around improvement of management pathways for acute diabetes related foot complications and improving the care continuum between community and acute health care.
Byron Perrin
Byron is currently Senior Lecturer in Podiatry at the La Trobe Rural Health School of La Trobe University and Honorary Podiatrist at Bendigo Health. He is undertaking a PhD at La Trobe University, focusing on the psychosocial and behavioural aspects of diabetes-related foot complications.
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