ADEA Oral Prize Session 3
Tracks
Breakout 7: Room 8
Wednesday, August 20, 2025 |
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM |
Room 8 |
Speaker
Ms Gillian Dan
Clinical Nurse Consultant
Newcastle Community Diabetes Service
Optimising diabetes management for oncology patients: A collaborative approach
4:30 PM - 4:42 PMBiography
Registered nurse since 2001 with Hunter New England Health.
Working in field of diabetes for last 14 years.
Graduate Certificate in Person centred Diabetes Management from Western Sydney University.
Credentialled diabetes educator & Clinical Nurse Consultant.
Special interest in Gestational Diabetes and Technology.
Mrs Janine Wright
Credentialled Diabetes Educator
Private Practice + WACHS
Rural Australia and the issue with affordable access to diabetes education or how many GPMP visits do you have?
4:42 PM - 4:54 PMBiography
Janine lives in South West WA and works 4 part time jobs as she slows down from a full time nursing role.
Her roles include working for in a pharmacy as a CDE, working for WACHS as a CDE, marking and teaching at UTAS and providing private Diabetes Education
Prof Bodil Rasmussen
Professor in Nursing
School of Nursing and Midwifery / Deakin University
Guided Self-Determination: A co-designed self-management program for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples living with type 2 diabetes
4:54 PM - 5:06 PMBiography
Professor Bodil Rasmussen has worked in a variety of clinical, management, education and research roles across a range of public and tertiary health care settings. She held Course Directorship for the Graduate Certificate in Diabetes for 20 years. She leads multi-disciplinary local and international teams in diabetes and multimorbidity.
Mrs Diane Gargya
PhD Candidate, Credentialed Diabetes Educator
RMIT University
Self-management priorities and digital health preferences: A cross-sectional survey findings from people living with Type 2 Diabetes and their Family/friends
5:06 PM - 5:18 PMBiography
Diane Gargya is a pharmacist, credentialled diabetes educator, and PhD candidate at RMIT University. Her research uses co-design to explore patient-centred diabetes care in culturally diverse communities. With over ten years in pharmacy, she also contributed to the FIP Diabetes Handbook and works across education, health coaching, and diabetes management.
Mr Wayne Dawson
Diabetes Nurse Educator
Royal Melbourne Hospital
High impact, interactive and memorable; How diabetes technology awareness was raised to inpatient Health Care professionals during National Diabetes Week
5:18 PM - 5:30 PMBiography
Wayne Dawson is an experienced Diabetes Nurse Educator who has worked at Royal Melbourne Hospital for over 10 years. His particular area of interest is in the emerging technologies of Continuous Glucose Monitoring and Hybrid Closed Loop Insulin Pumps. These technologies will greatly assist patients to manage their diabetes.
Mrs Angela Martin
Nurse Practitioner
Hunter Primary Care
Implementing clinical governance frameworks for diabetes care in residential aged care homes
5:30 PM - 5:42 PMBiography
Angela Martin is an Aged and Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner and Credentialled Diabetes Educator (CDE) at Hunter Primary Care. She has broad experience in complex care and focuses on improving diabetes management in Residential Aged Care Homes through clinical governance, staff education, and person-centred approaches that enhance safety and outcomes.
