Sydney Children's Hospital

Sydney

Ian graduated from medicine at UNSW in 1979 and trained in Paediatrics at the (then) Prince of Wales Children's Hospital, Sydney from 1981.  He undertook his paediatric neurology training and subsequent faculty appointment at Duke University in the USA from 1989 to 1995, where he developed research interests in Rasmussen's Encephalitis and Myasthaenia Gravis.  Upon return to Sydney Children's Hospital in 1995 he was program director for the UNSW Undergraduate Paediatrics Program until 2010 and has maintained a busy clinical practice in paediatric neurology.  Within this clinical role, his interest in paediatric headache has emerged, and this experience underlies some of the concepts discussed in this presentation.

Starship Childrens Complex Pain Team
New Zealand

Linda has worked with the Paediatric Complex Pain Team at Starship since its formulation over 20 years ago.  Linda’s focus is on supporting young people with complex pain and their families to develop coping strategies for management.  

Linda has also worked closely with the University of Auckland previously as a lecturer in Child and Adolescent Mental Health and continues to lecture clinical practioners in the area of Child Psychology and behavioral management.

Sydney Childrens Hospital Network

Sydney

Matthew Crawford is a specialist in anaesthesia, intensive care and pain medicine at the Sydney Children’s Hospital, the Prince of Wales Hospital Public and Prince of Wales Private Hospital. He is also an administrator at the Sydney Children’s Hospital, managing the procedural directorate, which includes anaesthesia, surgery, trauma and pain and palliative care.

After graduation from university in 1975, he undertook further training at the Prince of Wales and Prince Henry Hospitals and entered the anaesthesia training program there in 1977. Following completion of anaesthesia training he obtained further training in anaesthesia, research and pain management at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester Minnesota USA for a period of two and a half years.

Upon returning to Australia in 1984 he became a member of the anaesthesia department at Prince of Wales Hospital (POWH) and the then Prince of Wales Children’s Hospital (POWCH) at Randwick. In 1985 he obtained qualifications in intensive care and undertook the development of paediatric cardiac anaesthesia and intensive care services at POWCH. Dr Crawford was instrumental in establishing new and innovative technology in the paediatric intensive care unit, including continuous airway pressure for the treatment of asthma in children, high frequency ventilation in neonates and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for children with respiratory failure.

In the 1986 he developed the Pain Treatment Clinic at POWH, followed by the Paediatric Pain Clinic at POWCH in 1992. He has been involved in Pain Medicine both in paediatric and adult practice ever since. He helped form the Eastern Suburbs Pain Clinic at the Prince of Wales Private Hospital in 2001 and remains one of its busier consultants, offering medical evaluations, interventional pain management techniques and ongoing supportive care.

Dr Crawford remains involved in paediatric anaesthesia, intensive care and pain medicine and has widespread research interests in all these areas. He is a member of the Special Committee Investigating Deaths under Anaesthesia (SCIDUA) with the Clinical Excellence Commission (CEC) of NSW, A member of the Agency for Clinical Innovation (Pain- Paediatric Clinical Advisory Group CEC), an examiner for the Faculty of Pain Medicine of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthesia (FPMANZCA), and a member of the Training Unit Accreditation Committee of FPMANZCA.

He is involved in numerous overseas medical missions providing cardiac surgical services to underprivileged children in third world countries, including PNG, Burma and Rwanda. For his services to PNG he was awarded a Paul Harris fellowship by Rotary International in 2008 and the status of Member of the Order of Logohu by the PNG government in 2009.

Princess Margaret Hospital for Children, Perth

Anna Hilyard is the the manager of the Complex Pain Service at Princess Margaret Hospital for Children in Western Australia. Her background is in sports and musculoskeletal physiotherapy.

During her career she has established and coordinated a wide variety of adult, adolescent and paediatric interdisciplinary pain services in the public and private sector.

Anna’s key areas of interest lie in the development of cost-effective service delivery models for interdisciplinary pain management including remote delivery.

She has recently been awarded a Churchill Fellowship to explore ways of improving the delivery of paediatric chronic pain management services using digital technology. 

Retired

Often referred to as, ‘The Headmistress’ by many doctors at the Sydney Children’s Hospital, SCH (and my partner!), officially I was Principal at SCH School for 5 years. I trained and obtained my degree in Education in the UK, worked there as a classroom teacher, travelled to Australia and completed other educational courses here in Australia after 1979.

 A year as a Hospital/Home tutor, in an east London Borough, servicing students on the Children’s ward of a local general hospital, altered my course of work and I started in the special needs area of education.

After working in a variety of teaching situations in Sydney, I eventually became High School teacher at SCH School and continued to support/teaching students in varied settings. Distance Education was one of these settings, in both support and mainstream areas. Here I encountered a lot of students with chronic pain and non attendance in mainstream schools.

 Eventually, becoming the principal at the SCH School, I had gained a lot of experience along the way to support the needs of hospitalised students.

Now retired, I travel, swim, lunch and annoy my partner!

SKiP - Support Kids in Pain

Sunshine Coast

Huong Nguyen is the Clinical Coordinator for SKiP, job shares as a Team Leader for the Sunshine Coast Persistent Pain Management Service, is a committee member for the Statewide Persistent Pain Management Clinical Network (SPPMCN) in QLD and occupational therapist. She has been involved in several of south-east Queensland’s interdisciplinary paediatric/adolescent pain management services (including those as an extension of previously adult-centred services) and whole heartedly believes that group treatment programs for kids, teens and their families can be powerful.

The Children's Hospital, Westmead

Sydney

As senior Physiotherapist on The Children’s Hospital at Westmead’s multidisciplinary Complex Pain Team, Meg is passionate about integrating education with mind and movement strategies to improve quality of life and reduce pain. Current research she is involved with includes the prevalence of and outcomes for children with hypermobility presenting to paediatric pain clinics and pain education for 8-12 year olds. Her previous experience includes orthopaedics, neurological rehabilitation and mental health as well as tutoring and lecturing for the University of Sydney.

Bounce Health Group

Melbourne

Rachael’s special field of interest within the realm of Physiotherapy has arisen from her own personal experience as a junior elite swimmer. Over the last decade, spending considerable time with junior female athletes, Rachael has developed a passion for the challenges of working with adolescent and young adult populations in unravelling then navigating the complex interactions of social, physiological and psychological contributors to ongoing pain.

From her time spent in Ghana, Rachael’s exposure to limited resources early on in her career quickly emphasised the importance of innovation, resourcefulness and education in creating change both to the individual and surrounding loved ones. This experience has helped shape her approach, adopting a simplistic view to regaining function through empowering the individual to access their own powerful pain modulators.

In addition to her training as a Physiotherapist, Rachael has obtained further qualification in Psychology, which assists in supporting the patient from a holistic perspective and gives an insight into the complexities of pain and the human brain.

Rachael’s approach is one that is pragmatic, evidence based and multi-disciplinary, respecting the roles that everyone plays in recovery and return to function, but ultimately, puts the patient in the centre of all that is going on.

Princess Margaret Hospital

Perth

Pavla is a Specialist in Paediatric Rheumatology and Pain Medicine. She practices at Princess Margaret Hospital in Perth, Western Australia, and maintains private rooms for both Paediatric Rheumatology and Pain Medicine. As a dual trained specialist, she has a particular interest in the overlap of conditions between different fields of medicine.

Christchurch Hospital
New Zealand