Clinical / Surgical: Quality, policy and practice
Tracks
Clinical/Surgical
Sunday, August 17, 2025 |
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM |
Mezzanine 3 |
Speaker
Mr Suchit Handa
Director, Measurement for Improvement
Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care
National framework for clinical quality registries
9:00 AM - 9:20 AMBiography
Suchit is an experienced health service executive with a demonstrated history of improving quality and outcomes across healthcare. He has a background in Mental Health, Drug & Alcohol, and has led health organisations through wide-ranging changes, including redevelopments, implementation of new models of care, and managing the COVID-19 pandemic in both a metropolitan CALD community and in rural remote NSW. With a Master’s Degree focused in Health Service Management, Suchit strives to deliver safe and innovative healthcare. Currently, he is the Director, Measurement for Improvement at the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care. Suchit is also a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Prof Julian Smith
Cardiothoracic Surgeon
Victorian Heart Hospital
Cardiac surgical care in ANZ: Insights from the ANZSCTS Cardiac Surgery Database
9:20 AM - 9:35 AMBiography
Julian Smith is Professor and Head of the Department of Surgery (School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health) at Monash University and the Senior Cardiothoracic Surgeon at the Victorian Heart Hospital. He is a past-President of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgeons (ANZSCTS) and is the current Chairman of the Australia and New Zealand Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery Research Institution, the corporate entity controlling the ANZSCTS Databases. He is a Member of the ANZSCTS Cardiac Surgery Database Steering Committee and is the Chairman of the Research Committee.
Prof Dion Stub
Cardiologist
The Alfred Hospital
National Cardiac Registry
9:35 AM - 9:50 AMBiography
Prof Dion Stub is an Interventional Cardiologist Alfred Hospital and Co-director of Centre Cardiovascular Research and Education in Therapeutics Monash University, with leadership positions on major pre-hospital and hospital cardiac registries in Victoria. Dion has published over 300 papers. He currently holds the National Heart Foundation Future Leader and NHMRC Fellowships to support his clinical research, and is cardiology medical advisor to Ambulance Victoria.
Mr William Vollbon
Manager Statewide Cardiac Clinical Informatics Unit
Queensland Health
Clinical quality program for cardiac services in Queensland public hospitals: The evolution of the Queensland Cardiac Outcomes Registry
9:50 AM - 10:05 AMBiography
William is the manager of the Queensland Cardiac Outcomes Registry (QCOR), the largest cardiac registry of its kind in Australia. QCOR is an initiative of Queensland Health with a focus on collecting and linking data to improve the outcomes of Queenslanders with cardiovascular disease.
Assoc Prof Isuru Ranasinghe
Senior Cardiologist & A/Prof In Cardiology
The Prince Charles Hospital / University of Queensland
Disease based virtual registries using linked data
10:05 AM - 10:20 AMBiography
A/Prof Isuru Ranasinghe is a Senior Staff Cardiologist at The Prince Charles Hospital and the Northside Clinical Unit of the Faculty of Medicine at The University of Queensland.
Dr Linh Ngo
Lecturer (Academic Title Holder)
University of Queensland
Incorporating PROMs/PREMs measures into routine practice
10:20 AM - 10:30 AMBiography
Dr Ngo is a highly successful recent PhD graduate from The University of Queensland who has led a project examining outcomes of catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation at a nationwide scale in Australia and New Zealand. Throughout her PhD study, Dr Ngo has excelled in outcomes research and her work has been selected as finalist for prize competitions at local and international conferences, most notably, the Young Investigator Award competition at Heart Rhythm Society Scientific Meeting 2020. Besides her success in academia, she is also a passionate junior doctor who currently works as a Basic Physician Trainee at The Prince Charles Hospital.
Prof Janet Bray
Professor
Monash University
Chairperson
Biography
Janet Bray is a critical care nurse and a Professor and Heart Foundation Fellow at Monash University. Janet Chairs the Australian and New Zealand out-of-hospital cardiac arrest registry and is the Director of the Aus-ROC NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence.
Assoc Prof Isuru Ranasinghe
Senior Cardiologist & A/Prof In Cardiology
The Prince Charles Hospital / University of Queensland
Chairperson
Biography
A/Prof Isuru Ranasinghe is a Senior Staff Cardiologist at The Prince Charles Hospital and the Northside Clinical Unit of the Faculty of Medicine at The University of Queensland.
