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Preventing Overdiagnosis 2019 – Sydney

Abstracts/Registration Open

We are very excited to announce that Wiser Healthcare will be hosting the 7th international Preventing Overdiagnosis scientific conference in Sydney, 5-7 December 2019. Bringing some of the world’s leading experts on overdiagnosis to Australian shores, this event promises to be an exciting, mind-stretching exploration of what’s causing overdiagnosis, where and how it’s happening, and what we can do about it. Conference themes are:

  • Commercial Drivers of Overdiagnosis/Commercial Determinants of Health
  • Genomics/Precision Health/AI
  • Overdiagnosis and the Media
  • Addressing Overdiagnosis and Overtreatment in Musculoskeletal Conditions
  • Screening and Overdiagnosis in the Asia-Pacific Region

This news launches with some exciting keynote speakers already confirmed, including one of the world’s most influential editors, BMJ Editor-in-chief Dr Fiona Godlee, and Professor Adam Elshaug, world expert on health policy and low-value care. More to come.

Abstracts and early bird registration close 30 April 2019.

For up-to-date information, to submit an abstract, or to register, please go to the conference website: www.preventingoverdiagnosis.net/

Here’s to winding back the harms of too much medicine.


Keynote speakers include

Dr Fiona Godlee
BMJ Editor in Chief

Fiona Godlee is the Editor in Chief of The BMJ. She qualified as a doctor in 1985, trained as a general physician in Cambridge and London, and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. She has written and lectured on a broad range of issues, including health and the environment, the ethics of academic publishing, evidence based medicine, access to clinical trial data, research integrity, open access publishing, patient partnership, conflict of interest, and overdiagnosis and overtreatment.

Fiona is honorary professor at the Netherlands School for Primary Care Research (CaRe), honorary fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners, a senior visiting fellow at the Institute of Public Health at the University of Cambridge, honorary fellow of the Faculty of Public Health and a by-fellow of King’s College Cambridge.

She is on the advisory or executive boards of the Health Improvement Studies (THIS) Institute, Alltrials, the Peer Review Congress, the International Forum for Quality and Safety and Healthcare, Evidence Live, Preventing Overdiagnosis, the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change and the Climate and Health Council.

She was a Harkness Fellow (1994-5), President of the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME) (1998-2000), Chair of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) (2003-5), and PPA Editor of the Year (2014). Fiona is co-editor of Peer Review in Health Sciences.  She lives in Cambridge with her husband and two children.

 

Professor Adam Elshaug
Co-Director of the Menzies Centre for Health Policy, The University of Sydney

Professor Adam Elshaug, PhD, MPH, is Co-Director of the Menzies Centre for Health Policy (MCHP) at The University of Sydney, where he returned in late 2013 after 3.5 years in the United States; one as a Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellow based at AHRQ and two in the Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School.

Adam is also Senior Fellow with the Lown Institute in the US. He sits on 5 national health care advisory panels, including as a Ministerial appointee to the MBS Review Taskforce and is a Board member of the NSW Bureau of Health Information (BHI).

Professor Elshaug has pioneered methods for measuring the prevalence of low-value care in administrative data sets, and regularly advises international governments, third-party payers, and NGOs, on quality and efficiency enhancements.

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