Presenters
Dr Susan Slayter
Susan is a registered nurse and holds a joint appointment as Research Fellow in the Centre for Nursing Research, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital and School of Nursing, Midwifery and Paramedicine, Curtin University. She was named 2016 WA Nurse of the Year and winner of the Research Excellence award in the WA Nursing and Midwifery Excellence Awards. Susan’s research areas include the care of older people in acute care and transitions in and out of hospital; improving care for people with dementia and support for their family carers; and the resilience and empowerment of nurses. She leads the Engaging in Research program that introduces and mentors multidisciplinary staff in research methodology and project management, and facilitates peer support to sustain clinically-based nurses in post graduate study.
Professor Fiona Wood
Fiona Wood has been a burns surgeon and researcher for the past 20 years and is Director of the Burns Service of Western Australia (BSWA). She is a Consultant Plastic Surgeon at Fiona Stanley Hospital and Princess Margaret Hospital for Children, co-founder of the first skin cell laboratory in WA, Professor in the School of Surgery at The University of Western Australia, and co-founder of the Fiona Wood Foundation.
Professor Wood’s greatest contribution and enduring legacy is her work pioneering the innovative ‘spray-on skin’ technique (Recell), which greatly reduces permanent scarring in burns victims.
Fiona was named a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 2003. In 2005 she won the Western Australia Citizen of the Year award for her contribution to Medicine in the field of burns research. That same year her contribution to burns care was recognised through Australia’s highest accolade when she was named Australian of the Year for 2005.
Fiona is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Science Fiona is married to fellow surgeon Tony Kierath and is mother to four boys and two girls.
Angela Pearce
Incoming President of NAON Association in the United States
Nurse Practitioner, Trauma Services/Orthopaedics - Parkland Memorial Hospital, Dallas, Texas.
Angie Monk
Australian Nurse of the Year, 2016.
Angie is a Perth nurse who developed a leading Blood Management Program for patients undergoing major surgery. She was recognised for her advocacy and leadership in developing the innovative program that improved outcomes and recovery for patients undergoing surgery involving significant blood loss.
Angie is a blood management consultant at Ramsay Health Care’s Joondalup Campus. She also consults on blood management to the Glengarry and Attadale Rehabilitation hospitals.
