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11th G-I-N
Conference
20-23 August 2014
Melbourne Convention &
Exhibition Centre
Melbourne, Australia
Creation and Innovation:
Guidelines in the Digital Age
Program Book
www.gin2014.com.au
A joint project between
&Table of Contents
Welcome 3
Message from G-I-N 4
General Information 5
G-I-N 2014 Scientific Committee 6
G-I-N 2014 Conference Program 7
Poster Presentations 19
Plenary Speakers 22
G-I-N 2014 Scholarship and
Grant Recipients 26
Social Program 26
Venue Map 28
Exhibition Floor Plan 29
Thank You to Our Sponsors 31
Sponsor and Exhibitor Profiles 32
G-I-N 2015 37
Notes 38
Conference Organiser
ICMS Australasia
G-I-N 2014 Conference Secretariat
PO Box 5005
South Melbourne VIC 3205
Tel: +61 3 9682 0500
Fax: +61 3 9682 0344
Email: info@gin2014.com.au
2Welcome
Dear colleagues
n behalf of the Board of Trustees of the Guidelines International Network (G-I-N), the local host
O Therapeutic Guidelines Ltd, and the Scientific Committee, we are delighted to welcome you to
Melbourne for G-I-N 2014, the 11th G-I-N Conference. It promises to be a stimulating
international forum.
The theme for G-I-N 2014 is “Creation and Innovation: Guidelines in the Digital Age”. Over the next
three and a half days, conference participants will consider the critical role technology plays in
developing and implementing leading-edge guidelines.
High quality guidelines remain an essential tool for improving patient health and clinical care, and we
congratulate the Scientific Committee on bringing together local and international experts to share
their experiences in using technology platforms, guideline development tools and electronic integration
systems to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of guidelines.
G-I-N 2014 has been designed to provide you with ample opportunities, whether in plenaries, working
group meetings, panel sessions or workshops, to explore and debate solutions to current guideline
challenges. We encourage you to use the next few days to network, debate and share your knowledge
and experience with other delegates, including many who have travelled from over 40 countries to
make G-I-N 2014 a truly international collaboration.
So, welcome to Melbourne! Thank you for being a part of G-I-N 2014. We hope you enjoy the
conference and all that Melbourne and its surrounds have to offer.
Dr Amir Qaseem Dr Sue Phillips Prof Paul Glasziou
Chair, G-I-N Board of Co-President, G-I-N 2014 Chair, G-I-N 2014
Trustees Chief Executive Scientific Committee
Co-President, G-I-N 2014 Officer, Therapeutic
Guidelines Ltd
3Message from G-I-N
elcome to G-I-N 2014 in the spectacular city of Melbourne. Guidelines
W International Network (G-I-N) has worked in partnership with Therapeutic
Guidelines Ltd to present this year’s conference, with the topical theme of
“Creation and Innovation: Guidelines in the Digital Age”.
G-I-N is a network for stakeholders in the guideline development world, where our aim
is to be the connector of people in our field, providing the best possible opportunities
for engagement, collaboration and mutual learning and development, whether through
webinars, targeted mentoring or taking part in a Working Group or Regional
Community. At 30th June 2014, our rich network spanned 48 countries with 100
organisational members and 131 individual members.
If you are new to G-I-N or even if it is your first time at our conference, please come to
the GINtro session on Wednesday evening at 18:00, between the AGM and the
Welcome Reception. Here you will have the opportunity to learn a bit about orientation
at the conference, as well as meet some of the Working Group chairs.
If you would like to learn more about how membership could benefit you, please
approach one of our Membership Committee, Working Group chairs or G-I-N Board
members, who will be wearing blue rosettes; drop by the G-I-N stand during a break or
visit us online at: www.g-i-n.net
New membership applications received during the conference will benefit from a one-
off discount in membership fees for this year.
I look forward to meeting you,
Elaine Harrow
G-I-N Executive Officer
4General Information
Accommodation Dietary Requirements
Crown Metropol If you have advised the Conference Secretariat of special
8 Whiteman Street dietary requirements, please speak to a member of
Southbank VIC 3006 catering staff at the commencement of each meal break /
Ph: +61 3 9292 8888 social function.
Crown Promenade
8 Whiteman Street Duplication / Recording
Southbank VIC 3006 Unauthorised photography, audio taping, video recording,
Ph: +61 3 9292 6688 digital taping or any other form of duplication is prohibited
Hilton South Wharf in the conference sessions.
2 Convention Centre Place
Melbourne VIC 3006 Emergency Details
Ph: +61 3 9027 2000
In an emergency, telephone 000 for Ambulance, Fire
Pensione Hotel Melbourne Service or Police.
16 Spencer Street
Melbourne VIC 3000 Internet and WiFi Access
Ph: +61 3 9621 3333
Free WiFi is available throughout the Melbourne
Vibe Savoy Convention & Exhibition Centre. To access the WiFi, select
630 Little Collins St the “M Connect” network on your device, create an
Melbourne VIC 3000 account to log in and then follow the prompts.
Ph: +61 3 9622 8888
Oaks on Market Lanyards
60 Market Street Lanyards should be worn at all times during G-I-N 2014 for
Melbourne VIC 3000 security purposes and to assist the organisers with
Ph: +61 3 8631 1111 identifying participants.
Conference Satchel Mobile phones and other electronic devices
All G-I-N 2014 delegates will receive a conference satchel As a courtesy to speakers and your fellow delegates,
including a printed Program Book and other sponsor please switch your mobile phones and other electronic
inserts. devices to ‘silent’ during presentations and while in
Sponsored by sessions.
Abstract Book and Delegate List Registration Desk
The Abstract Book and Delegate List are available for The registration desk is located in the Level 1 foyer of the
download from the conference website: Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre and will be
www.gin2014.com.au. open at the following times:
Wednesday 20 August 8:00 am–6:00 pm
Conference Venue
Thursday 21 August 8:00 am–6:00 pm
Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre (MCEC)
2 Clarendon Street Friday 22 August 8:00 am–5:30 pm
Southbank VIC 3006
Saturday 23 August 9:00 am–1:30 pm
Ph: +61 3 9235 8000
Smoking
Smoking is not permitted indoors at Melbourne
Convention & Exhibition Centre. Smokers must always
remain at least 4 m from any doorway when smoking.
Fines can be imposed for smoking in prohibited places.
5G-I-N 2014
Scientific Committee
Speakers’ Preparation Room Professor Paul Glasziou, G-I-N 2014 Scientific
Committee Chair (AUSTRALIA)
The speakers’ preparation room is located at Speakers
Room 101, Level 1. All plenary and parallel session Professor Lubna Al-Ansary (SAUDI ARABIA)
speakers must visit the speakers’ preparation room at Associate Professor Melissa Brouwers (CANADA)
least two hours before their session start time to load
Dr Heather Buchan (AUSTRALIA)
their presentation. The speakers’ preparation room will be
open at the following times: Professor Enrico Coiera (AUSTRALIA)
Wednesday 20 August 7:00 am–5:00 pm Professor Leonila Dans (PHILIPPINES)
Thursday 21 August 7:00 am–5:00 pm Professor Hernando Gaitán Duarte (COLOMBIA)
Dr María Eugenia Esandi (ARGENTINA)
Friday 22 August 7:00 am–5:00 pm
Professor Sally Green (AUSTRALIA)
Saturday 23 August 8:00 am–11:00 am
Professor Ina Kopp (GERMANY)
Dr Tamara Kredo (STH AFRICA)
We invite you to join the G-I-N 2014 Twitter
conversation @GINConference Professor Ilkka Kunnamo (FINLAND)
Ms Catherine Marshall (NEW ZEALAND)
Dr Sue Phillips (AUSTRALIA)
Ms Elizabeth Shaw (UK)
Professor Paul Shekelle (USA)
For photos and bios of the Scientific Committee
members, please see the conference website:
www.gin2014.com.au.
6G-I-N 2014 Conference Program
Wednesday 20 August
Abstracts for plenary and parallel sessions are included in the Abstract Book, which is available for download from the
conference website: www.gin2014.com.au.
Pre Conference Workshops
0830-1630 GRADE and Guideline Development
Room 104
0830-1630 Information technology in the development, dissemination and implementation of guidelines
Room 111 & 112
0900-1330 Translating research findings and evidence-based guidelines into clinical practice
Room 103
0900-1630 Contextualising international guidelines: A practical approach in guideline construction
Room 107
0900-1630 Adding to evidence – the role of clinical and lay members and health economics in developing
clinical guidelines
Room 108
1630-1800 AGM
Room 103 *Registration starts from 1615
1800-1830 GINtro
Room 103
1830-2000 Welcome Reception
Level 1 Foyer
7G-I-N 2014 Conference Program Thursday 21 August
0800-0830 Registration
0830-0900 Welcome Ceremony
Room 109 & 110
0900-1030 Plenary 1: Guideline development: Where does technology begin and end?
Room 109 & 110
Chairpersons: Dr Craig Robbins (G-I-N Board) and Professor Ilkka Kunnamo (Scientific Committee)
Associate Professor Winfried Häuser, Technical University Munich, Germany - Internet portal for the
development of clinical practice guidelines–benefits and limitations
1030-1100 MORNING TEA
1100-1230 Room 101 & 102 Room 103 Room 104
Parallel Session 1.2: Oral Parallel Session 1.3: Oral
presentations presentations
Chairperson: Cindy Farquhar Chairperson: Anna Gagliardi
1100-1115 Workshop Challenges in developing Identifying high priority topics for
Systematic patient involvement in recommendations about medical management of frail and elderly
clinical guideline development in tests: in-depth interviews with patients with chronic kidney disease
the Dutch context: Applying guideline developers (CKD) - scoping an European guideline
strategies for consultation among Miranda Langendam Ionut Nistor
the patient population
1115-1130 Formulating Recommendations for WE WILL SHARE! Why would every
Daniëlle Meije
Medical Tests: Assessing Relevance hospital make its own clinical
of Evidence and Clinical Significance practice guidelines?
of Effect Sizes Integrated into Wiki- Espen Helvig
based Guideline Development
Laura Holliday
1130-1145 How do evidence based guidelines The Australian Asthma Handbook
in Oncology address cancer Version 1.0: harnessing technology
screening tests? to publish guidelines involving 100
Corinna Schaefer contributors, 500 recommendations
and 50,000+ users
Siobhan Brophy
1145-1200 Making recommendations about The challenges of providing
medical tests: a tool for finding the guidance when evidence is
clinical pathway incomplete: managing glycaemia in
Miranda Langendam type 2 diabetes
Georgina Kilroy
1200-1215 The use of Cochrane breast cancer Developing a series of clinical
reviews by guideline developers and practice guidelines simultaneously
Cochrane (public) users in a bi-national context
Melina Willson Mark Oakley Browne
1215-1230 Guidance Development Project Using telephone triage protocols to
(GDP): harmonising process and support nurse video triage
methods across programmes Mary Byrne
Sarah Cumbers
1230-1330 LUNCH
8Dr Julian Elliott, Alfred Hospital, Australia - Living evidence
Dr Fergus Macbeth, NICE, UK - From GOBSAT to GRADE: a twenty year stroll through the
wonderland of guidelines
MORNING TEA
Room 109 Room 110 Room 111 & 112
Parallel Session 1.4: Oral presentations Parallel Session 1.5: Oral presentations Parallel Session 1.6: Oral presentations
Chairperson: Davina Ghersi Chairperson: Leigh-Anne Claase Chairperson: Craig Whittington
Rating the confidence we can place in Position statements: a method to Challenges in implementing GRADE.
studies that evaluate the importance of expedite advice from Cochrane reviews Lessons learned in changing
the outcomes of interest Stephanie Goodrick methodologies
Holger Schünemann Moray Nairn
How do systematic review users and Training physical therapist guideline Updated Acute Coronary Syndrome
producers interpret the stability of developers Guidelines 2015 - Aspiring to new
research findings based on GRADE Sandra Kaplan standards in guideline quality
quality of evidence ratings? Ian Scott
Kylie Thaler
Standard wording for formulating Predictors of Success in the Guideline Implementing the AGREE II instrument to
evidence conclusions and implications Development Process: The American an Australian ambulance service - a case
for recommendations Academy of Neurology Experience study
Emmy De Buck Thomas Getchius Scott Bennetts
Systematic Reviews: How accurate are Digital guidelines: a flexible user-friendly Antibiotic guidelines version 15: from
they, and how can we do better? online format that facilitates interactive little things big things grow
Gerald Borok external consultation during the Melanie Rosella
guideline development phase
Katrina Anderson
What are clinical practice guidelines? A Adapting a large point-of-care information Stimulate effective and eliminate
typology analysis within the context of a database of evidence-based clinical ineffective healthcare
new taxonomy of scientific knowledge guidelines and decision support scripts: Dieuwke Leereveld
Sue Lukersmith a process description and evaluation
Stijn Van De Velde
Database of Evidence Profiles (DBEP) - Updating clinical guidelines in the digital When Guidelines Carry the Force of
challenges and solutions for sharing of age Public Policy
summaries of evidence for decision making Carol Norquay David Birnbaum
.
Jan Brozek
LUNCH
continued next page 9Thursday 21 August (cont.)
1300-1400 Kaiser Permanente Sponsored Workshop Making the Right Thing Easy to Do: Optimizing people, process,
and technology in the development and implementation of evidence-based guidelines at KP
Room 101 & 102
Working Group Meetings/Networking/Posters
1245-1330 Working Group Meeting: G-I-N Nordic regional community Room 107
1330--1430 Working Group Meeting: Implementation Room 111 & 112
1330--1430 Working Group Meeting: Performance Measures Room 107
1330--1430 Working Group Meeting: Adaptation Room 103
1330--1430 Working Group Meeting: AID Knowledge Room 104
1330--1430 G-I-N 2015 Scientific Committee Meeting Room 108
1430-1600 Plenary 2: Guideline implementation: Is technology the magic fix?
Room 109 & 110
Chairpersons: Ms Sue Huckson (G-I-N Board) and Dr Heather Buchan (Scientific Committee)
Associate Professor Per Vandvik, University of Oslo, Norway - The role of technology in creating,
disseminating and updating trustworthy guidelines
1600-1630 AFTERNOON TEA
1630-1800 Room 101 & 102 Room 103 Room 104
Parallel Session 2.2: Oral Parallel Session 2.3: Oral
presentations presentations
Chairperson: Sally Green Chairperson: Annette Kristiansen
1630-1645 Workshop The Dental Health Services Victoria Strengthen engagement and
Collaborative development of (DHSV) clinical guidelines pilot implementation using multiple
guidelines and systematic reviews study: measuring adherence to technologies
with Guideline Development Tool clinical practice guidelines (CPG) Brent Knack
(GDT) Richard Clark
.
Jan Brozek
1645-1700 Type 2 diabetes care in Australia: Improving guideline uptake by
Snap shot of guidelines adoption integrating an effective online
Nancy Huang education tool
Jutta Von Dincklage
1700-1715 General Practitioners knowledge of Will a mobile application improve
whiplash guidelines improved with the implementation of clinical
online education practice guidelines?
Trudy Rebbeck Deborah S Cummins
1715-1730 Effectiveness of peer-assessment Identifying domains for behavioural
for implementing a Dutch physical change and harnessing technology
therapy low back pain guideline: a to implement vancomycin clinical
cluster randomized, controlled trial practice guidelines in a South
Philip Van Der Wees Australian tertiary hospital
Cameron Phillips
1730-1745 The impact of evidence-based GAME-IT: Explore peoples choices
clinical practice guidelines on and facilitate teaching by turning
physiotherapy practice for low back Guideline-making into a game. A
pain MAGIC project
Susanne Bernhardsson Linn Brandt
1745-1800 Does a tailored implementation
strategy aimed at improving guideline
adherence in occupational physicians
improve patient outcomes?
Evelien Brouwers
10Professor Rod Jackson, University of Auckland, New Zealand - PREDICT: getting evidence in and out of practice
Dr Denise O'Connor, Monash University, Australia - Theory-informed approaches to designing and evaluating
implementation interventions
AFTERNOON TEA
Room 109 Room 110 Room 111 & 112
Parallel Session 2.4: Oral presentations Parallel Session 2.5: Oral presentations Parallel Session 2.6: Oral presentations
Chairperson: Duncan Service Chairperson: Ian Scott Chairperson: Jako Burgers
Characterizing the desirable The Veterans' Medicines Advice and Which barriers do nurses perceive to
characteristics of guideline Therapeutics Education Services implementing protocol-based care?
implementation tools (MATES) program: bridging the evidence A systematic review
Anna Gagliardi practice gap to improve medicine use Margot Joosen
and health outcomes for veterans
Elizabeth Roughead
The DECIDE evidence to Guideline Evaluation with the Aid of a Process mapping to identify barriers and
recommendation framework - adapted to Population Based Registry facilitators for the international translation
the public health field in Sweden Kees Ebben of the Australian PCOS lifestyle
Nils Stenstrom management guideline recommendations
Henry Ko
Collaboration, technology and innovation CORE Adult patient database provide Diabetes prevention in high-risk women:
in stroke guideline implementation: an useful tool to monitor VTE prevention many guidelines do not make light work
Australian example guidelines sustainability among Sharleen O'Reilly
Kelvin Hill Australian ICUs
Shaila Chavan
An Online Continuing Education Module Knowledge Mobilization: Application of Barriers to incorporating clinical practice
to Support Evidence-based Clinical Implementation Science and best guidelines in medical education: the
Guidelines practice guidelines to the diagnosis of junior doctors perspective
Craig Robbins Autism Spectrum Disorder Logan Manikam
Cyndie Koning
Presenting evidence-based clinical Implementing guidelines: A guideline Implementation of a tailored strategy to
guidelines to general practitioners in The developer's experience improve guideline adherence targeting
Netherlands Anne Nelson perceived barriers in occupational
Jolanda Wittenberg physicians
Margot Joosen
Developing guideline-based performance A Collaborative Approach to Guideline Developing a framework to structure,
measures for UK primary care: a multi- Development and Implementation: NPS select and reduce the measurement
stage consensus process MedicineWise and Therapeutic instruments for daily practice in physical
Tim Stokes Guidelines therapy
Robyn Lindner & Rob Moulds Guus Meerhoff
11G-I-N 2014 Conference Program Friday 22 August
0700-0800 Working Group Meeting: G-I-N Australia and New Zealand regional community
Room 103
0800-0830 Registration
0830-1000 Plenary 3: Guidelines in developing countries: Challenges and solutions
Room 109 & 110
Chairpersons: Mrs Sonja Kersten (G-I-N Board) and Ms Catherine Marshall (Scientific Committee)
Dr Emmy De Buck, Belgian Red Cross-Flanders, Belgium & Mr Brian Bilal, Red Cross Society, Uganda -
Implementation of evidence-based African First Aid Materials in Sub-Saharan Africa: a view from the field
Dr Maria Silvestre, Kalusugan ng Mag-Ina, Inc [Health of the Mother and Child], Philippines -
Scale-up Implementation of Essential Intrapartum and Newborn Care (EINC) Guidelines: Challenges and
Solutions, the Philippine Experience
1000-1030 MORNING TEA
1030-1200 Room 101 & 102 Room 103
Parallel Session 3.2: Oral presentations
Chairperson: Rob Moulds
1030-1045 Workshop Harmonising health, public health and social care
How to develop and publish a trustworthy guideline development methods for economics
recommendation through the MAGIC authoring and Bhashkaran Naidoo
publication platform
Per Vandvik
1045-1100 Budget Impact Analyses in Clinical Guideline
Development: Results from the Netherlands
Pieter Broos
1100-1115 Putting dollars to treatments varying from guidelines for
Malaria Treatment in Cameroon: An Economic
Evaluation
Ndong Ignatius Cheng
1115-1130 Cost-effectiveness decision-making in social care
guidelines
Tony Smith
1130-1145 Implementation Strategies for Genetic Coverage
Guidelines Within Amil Assistência Médica
Internacional, a Brazilian Privative Health Plan (BPHP)
Maria Elisa Cabanelas Pazos
1145-1200
1200-1300 LUNCH
12Dr Krisantha Weerasuriya, WHO (retired 2014), Sri Lanka - Guidelines in Middle And Low Income Countries - Existing
Challenges And Potential Solutions (The first step was 35 years ago and the next one is due)
Presentation of poster prize
MORNING TEA
Room 104 Room 109 Room 110
Parallel Session 3.3: Oral presentations Parallel Session 3.4: Oral presentations Parallel Session 3.5: Oral presentations
Chairperson: Krisantha Weerasuriya Chairperson: Leonila Dans Chairperson: Lubna Al-Ansary
The system development of quality Analyzing the source of evidence from Rapid adaptation of Clinical Practice
management for Clinical Practice Chinese Clinical Practice Guidelines guidelines: learned lessons under the
Guidelines in Korea based on Traditional Chinese Medicine developer team perspective, a qualitative
MooKyung Oh interventions approach
Liang Yao Fredy Orlando Mendivelso Duarte
Hepatitis C virus: introduction of best Revision and Validation of Tools for Adapting clinical guidelines in low
practice in Ukraine Classification of Study Designs in Korea resource countries: a study on guideline
Olena Lishchyshyna Sooyoung Kim on the management and prevention of
type 2 diabetes mellitus in Indonesia
Indah Widyahening
A new approach to CPG adaptation in Guideline development support tool and GRADE/DECIDE Evidence-to-Decision
Saudi Arabia: Adaptation of practice educational workshops for clinical framework to facilitate adaptation of
guidelines to a country-specific context practice guideline developers in Japan practice guidelines: A case study
using the GRADE/DECIDE evidence to Masahiro Yoshida Reem Mustafa
decision framework
Zulfa Al Rayess & Wojtek Wiercioch
Implementability issues in 23 Clinical Clinical practice guidelines in Peru: The Adaptation of Clinical Practice
practice guidelines in Colombia Quality assessment using the Agree II Guidelines (CPG) through a short
Angela Viviana Pérez Gómez instrument strategy. An experience in Colombia
Carlos Canelo-Aybar Hernando Gaitán Duarte
Pre-requisites for guideline Brazilian Implantable Cardioverter-
implementation: reflections from India Defibrillator (ICD) Protocol
Shilpa Karvande Marisa Santos
Development of evidence-based medical
care for patients with depression in
Ukraine
Yevgeniya Melnyk
LUNCH
continued next page 13Friday 22 August (cont.)
1230-1330 EBSCO Health DynaMed Sponsored Workshop DynaMed: supporting guideline development and dissemination
Room 103
Working Group Meetings/Networking/Posters
1215-1300 Working Group Meeting: G-I-N North America regional community Room 104
1300--1400 Working Group Meeting: Multimorbidity Room 101 & 102
1300--1400 Working Group Meeting: Allied Health Room 107
1300--1400 Working Group Meeting: Accelerated Guideline Development Room 111 & 112
1300--1400 Working Group Meeting: G-I-N Arab World regional community Room 104
1300--1400 Working Group Meeting: Evidence Tables Room 108
1400-1530 Plenary 4: Panel debate – Use Twitter @GINconference #GINdebate to join the debate
Room 109 & 110
Chairperson: Dr Sue Phillips (G-I-N Board and Scientific Committee)
Panel 1: Are guidelines old technology?
Moderator: Professor Ina Kopp, Association Of The Scientific Medical Societies In Germany, Germany
Panellists: Professor Sally Green, Australasian Cochrane Centre, Australia, Dr Fergus Macbeth, NICE, UK,
Professor Ian Olver AM, Cancer Council Australia, Australia, Professor Holger Schünemann, McMaster
University, Canada and Dr Krisantha Weerasuriya, WHO (retired 2014), Sri Lanka
1530-1600 AFTERNOON TEA
1600-1730 Room 101 & 102 Room 103
Parallel Session 4.2: Oral presentations
Chairperson: Corinna Schaefer
1600-1615 Panel Session Have new conflict of interest policies made a
Incorporating evidence-based deprescribing difference to guidelines?
recommendations into clinical practice guidelines Geraint Duggan
Ian Scott
1615-1630 Disclosure situation of funding source and conflict of
interest in clinical practice guidelines developed in
Japan
Akiko Okumura
1630-1645 Managing conflicts of interest in the UK National
Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Clinical
Guidelines Programme: qualitative study
Tim Stokes
1645-1700 Conflicts of interest in the production of clinical
guidelines: update from Therapeutic Guidelines
Melanie Rosella
1700-1715 Risk Of Bias Assessment Tool For Non-Randomized
Studies (RoBANS): Revision And Validation
Jinkyung Park
1715-1730 Utility of Clinical Practice Guidelines in recommending
health technologies to be considered for the health
system and for regulatory agencies
Angela Viviana Pérez Gómez
14Panel 2: Overdiagnosis and the role of guidelines
Moderator: Professor Paul Glasziou, Bond University, Australia
Panellists: Professor Lubna Al-Ansary, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia, Associate Professor Cynthia Boyd,
Johns Hopkins University, USA, Professor Leonila Dans, University of the Philippines, Philippines, Professor Allen Frances,
Duke University, USA, Professor Rod Jackson, University of Auckland, New Zealand
AFTERNOON TEA
Room 104 Room 109 Room 110
Parallel Session 4.3: Oral presentations Parallel Session 4.4: Oral presentations Parallel Session 4.5: Oral presentations
Chairperson: Ian Olver AM Chairperson: Julian Elliott Chairperson: Joan Vlayen
Using computerized decision support Technology to assist with guideline Do clinicians want recommendations? A
systems (CDSSs) in primary care: development: software for systematic randomized trial comparing evidence
perceived barriers and suggestions to reviews summaries with and without
improve their implementation Skye Newton recommendations
Marjolein Lugtenberg Holger Schünemann
PLUGGED-IN (Providing Likeable and Using Technology to Increase the Health System Guidelines Appraisal Tool -
Understandable Guidelines using GRADE Reliability of Systematic Reviews Better Guidelines for Better Health
in the EMR with Direct links to INdividual Gerald Borok Systems
patient data) phase 3 Denis Ako-Arrey
Linn Brandt
The National Guidelines of the highlighted Quickly developed guidelines (QDG) on Education Program Experience for the
breast cancer recommendations delivered contraception: a French experiment Appraisers of Guidelines using AGREE II
in a structured way to help developing Sophie Blanchard Scoring Guide in Korea
decisions support Ein-Soon Shin
Lotti Barlow
TRUST-IT - Can we trust the advice given What is needed to realize a dynamic The Guideline Development Checklist
in clinical decision support systems process of guideline updating (GDC)
Linn Brandt Kristie Venhorst Holger Schünemann
Guidelines, technology and data - coming 5-step adaptation process for Evaluating a guideline program with the
together to drive change in general practice trustworthy guidelines Guideline Development Checklist (GDC)
Nancy Huang Annette Kristiansen Ton Kuijpers
Harder, better, faster, stronger*: Can recommendations be updated Assessing quality components of clinical
amplification of development, without an evidence review? practice guidelines
implementation and evaluation of clinical Khalid Ashfaq Jodie Clydesdale
practice guidelines
Sonja Kersten
15G-I-N 2014 Conference Program Saturday 23 August
0900-0930 Registration
0930-1100 Room 101 & 102 Room 103
Parallel Session 5.2: Oral presentations
Chairperson: Hernando Gaitán Duarte
0930-0945 Workshop From the quality library, through the Assessment
Producing and Using Generic Decision Aids Linked to Framework, in the Register: a complete online process
Guideline Recommendations to Enhance Shared- Ferry Nagel
Decision Making in Clinical Consultations
Per Vandvik
0945-1000 Technology for large-scale translation of guidelines: an
evaluation of the performance of a hybrid human and
computer-assisted approach
Stijn Van De Velde
1000-1015 Guidelines, Recommendations, Adaptations Including
Disability: A novel approach to obesity prevention for
individuals with disabilities
Kerri Vanderbom
1015-1030 Development of a reporting checklist for updated
guidelines
Denis Ako-Arrey
1030-1045 External review in the process of clinical practice
guidelines in Japan
Yosuke Hatakeyama
1045-1100 The incorporation of stakeholder considerations in
guideline development
Kristie Venhorst
1100-1130 MORNING TEA
1130-1300 Plenary 5: Guidelines in practice: Making recommendations for patients, not conditions
Room 109 & 110
Chairpersons: Dr Amir Qaseem (G-I-N Board Chair) and Professor Paul Glasziou (Scientific Committee Chair)
Associate Professor Cynthia Boyd, Johns Hopkins University, USA - Informing Patient-Centered Care of
People with Multiple Chronic Conditions: Addressing Co-existing Conditions in Guideline Development
1300-1330 Closing and G-I-N 2015 presentation
Room 109 & 110
16Room 104 Room 109 Room 110
Parallel Session 5.3: Oral presentations Parallel Session 5.4: Oral presentations Parallel Session 5.5: Oral presentations
Chairperson: Kelvin Hill Chairperson: Jenny Doust Chairperson: Jorma Komulainen
Lessons learned from patient Can evidence based appropriateness How many terms are used to describe
involvement in developing a clinical guidelines determine if complex practice guidelines?
guideline on chronic fatigue syndrome polypharmacy patients are suitable for Yaolong Chen
Hans De Beer deprescribing of Proton Pump Inhibitors?
Emily Reeve
How to develop patient versions of Comorbidity forces physiotherapists to Using relevant primary care evidence in
guidelines: updating the GIN PUBLIC deviate from guideline recommendations clinical guidelines: mixed methods study
Toolkit resulting in various treatments for the Tim Stokes
Shaun Treweek same patient: a Vignette study
Sarah Dörenkamp
Communicating clinical practice On automated execution of clinical Are clinical guidelines a type of applied
guidelines to patients and the public: An practice guidelines for patients with scientific framing study? An analysis of
analysis of patient versions of clinical comorbidity the interaction between guideline
practice guidelines (CPGs) Yuanlin Zhang recommendations and using different
Nancy Santesso sources of knowledge in clinical reasoning
Sue Lukersmith
Listening not shouting: designing N of one guidelines - further steps to Implementation of guideline
versions of guidelines for the public that manage multimorbidity recommendations using online patient
take account of what people want Martin Scherer portals in electronic health records: a
Shaun Treweek prospective cohort study
Philip Van Der Wees
Patient Decision Aids linked to Accounting for multimorbidity in Rehabilitation and functional capacity in
Guidelines: an Approach to Preference economic models: implications for Clinical Practice Guidelines. A Collaboration
sensitive Decisions clinical guidelines of the G-I-N Nordic Regional Community
Corinna Schaefer Moray Nairn Piia Vuorela
Developing national guidelines for Determining Minimal Important
service delivery Differences (MIDs) for Clinical
Bhashkaran Naidoo Effectiveness in Practice Guidelines
Judith Thornton
MORNING TEA
Dr Rae Thomas, Bond University, Australia & Mr Ross Smith, Bond University, Australia - Community consent for
screening using community juries
Professor Allen Frances, Duke University, USA - Don't Have Foxes Guarding Henhouses
17Poster Presentations
P
osters will be on display in Rooms 105 and 106, Level 1 at the Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre from
Thursday 21 August to Saturday 23 August 2014. The poster prize will be announced on Friday 22 August
following the morning plenary session in the plenary room (Room 109 & 110).
Poster presenters will be standing by their posters to answer questions at the following times:
• Posters with odd numbers: Thursday 21 August 10:30 to 11:00 am and Friday 22 August 10:00 to 10:30 am
• Posters with even numbers: Thursday 21 August 4:00 to 4:30 pm and Friday 22 August 3:30 to 4:00 pm
Abstracts for poster presentations are included in the Abstract Book, which is available for download from the conference
website: www.gin2014.com.au.
Please note: if a poster number is missing, it has been withdrawn.
P01 P11
How many journals adopt reporting guidance for RCTs, Does public consultation improve the quality of clinical
Systematic reviews and Clinical practice guidelines in practice guidelines?
Instructions for Authors: a cross section survey from 150 Stephanie Goodrick
medical journals
P13
Liang Yao
Building Brazilian Network for Guidelines
P02 Marisa Santos
Low scores on AMSTAR may lead to unreliable quality of
P14
evidence
Key points of MINDS handbook for clinical practice
Yaolong Chen
guidelines development 2014 in Japan: indirectness,
P03 patients’ values and preferences, and resource use
Influential factors of treatment outcome in patients with Masahiro Yoshida
Intermittent Claudication: Patient characteristics and
P15
comorbidity
Development of Teaching & Learning Materials for COPD
Sarah Dörenkamp
in Korea
P04 Kyunghee Cho
Korea’s National Health Screening Program Guideline
P16
evaluation process
How to Produce Quickly Developed Guidelines (QDG)?
Eun Young Kim
Sophie Blanchard
P05
P17
How should we resolve local problems in the guidelines
The emergence and development of GRADE
for cancer screening programs? Evaluation of
centers/networks around the world
mammographic screening with and without physical
Yaolong Chen
examination
Chisato Hamashima P18
Guidelines to tackle the feeling of loneliness and social
P06
isolation in elderly: an evidence-based approach by
Would acute kidney injury definitional concordance across
Belgian Red Cross-Flanders
generalist & specialist health professional groups improve
Emmy De Buck
patient outcomes?
Noella Sheerin P19
Reporting Items for Practice Guidelines in Healthcare
P07
(RIGHT)
Creation and Innovation a guidelines from nursing
Yaolong Chen
information system-a big data of nursing care plan
Bi-Lian Chen P20
Actions developed for the elaboration and revision of
P09
guidelines in Brazilian Public Health System
Implementing multilayered guideline presentation formats
Ana Claudia Sayeg Freire Murahovschi
in a new generation of trustworthy clinical practice
guidelines
Annette Kristiansen
19Poster Presentations
P21 P31
Guideline Development Portal Clinical Practice Guideline Plain Language Summaries help
Leona Klemm to Empower Patients
Gene Cunningham
P22
Perceptions on developing clinical practice guidelines for P32
traditional medicine in Korea: Results of a web-based Evaluation of developing and updating the Patient Blood
survey Management Guidelines
Jiae Choi Leia Earnshaw
P23 P33
Guidance Development Project – towards structured The use of evidence in medical care of patients with
content sarcoidosis in Ukraine
Sarah Cumbers Olena Lishchyshyna
P24 P34
Simplify and improve: creating the new Dutch guideline Effective Procedure in Reviewing of Standard Treatment
colorectal cancer Guidelines
Eefje Verhoof Jeremaia Mataika
P25 P35
Consultation on scope determination in the development Developing expert consensus guideline using the Delphi
of a key cardiac care guideline Methodology
Maree Branagan Mark Oakley Browne
P26 P36
Virtual groups: Reaching your audience Sharing expertise and information: initiatives to support
Brent Knack guideline developers in the developing world
Carol Norquay
P27
Norwegian clinical practice guidelines with a sensitive P37
topic – most read in 2013 Methodology of review of externally produced guidelines
Nina M Kyno using the Appraisal of Guidelines for Research &
Evaluation II (AGREE II) instrument
P28
Mark Oakley Browne
What influences the size of a review question?
Khalid Ashfaq P38
The Quality Evaluation of Clinical Practice Guidelines from
P29
2012 to 2013 in China
Reference Rodeo
Liang Yao
Gene Cunningham
P39
P30
A content analysis of evidence-based clinical practice
A national guideline for diagnosis and treatment of acute
guidelines in Japan: A recent movement
ankle sprain
Hiromichi Suzuki
Joan Vlayen
P40
Appraisal of maternity management and family planning
guidelines using AGREE-II instrument in India
Devendra Sonawane
P41
Evaluation of Implementation of guidelines concerning
quality of French Microbiology Laboratories Practices
about Antimicrobial Resistance
Alain Durocher
P42
Influencing factors of fall prevention best practice in
geriatric hospitals in Korea
Sun Kyung Kim
20P43 P56
Best clinical practices checklists to implement guidelines: Barriers to inclusion of new treatments to clinical
the problems? protocols
Alain Durocher Olena Lishchyshyna
P44 P58
Effects of evidence based fall prevention and Implementation of the best practice for cancer screening
management program in geriatic hospital in Ukraine
Sun Kyung Kim Olena Lishchyshyna
P46 P59
Knowledge and adherence to evidence based practice CAN Implement – facilitating international evidence-based
guidelines for hemodialysis among nurses in dialysis units guideline adaptation through a software environment
Sun Kyung Kim Craig Lockwood
P47 P60
Development of a national strategy for guidelines Development and proposed implementation of a guideline-
dissemination based clinical pathway of care to improve health
Joan Vlayen outcomes following whiplash injury
Trudy Rebbeck
P48
Evaluation of a tailored, multi-component guideline P61
implementation intervention in Swedish primary care The developement of primary health care monitoring
physiotherapy: a prospective controlled trial system in Ukraine. First steps
Susanne Bernhardsson Olena Lishchyshyna
P49 P62
Can indicators with target levels and a National Clinical management of cranio-vertebral instability after
assessment and evaluation increase adherence of whiplash, when should guidelines be adapted? A case
National Guidelines in cancer care? report
Lotti Barlow Trudy Rebbeck
P50 P63
Duodecim Current Care evidence evaluated and updated Who is seeking NHMRC approval of clinical practice
to EBMeDS clinical decision support service guidelines?
Tuula Meinander Catherine King
P51 P64
Activity and reporting characteristics of clinical practice Do Australian clinical practice guidelines address
guideline implementation trials registered on the ANZCTR. Australian health priorities?
Henry Ko Geraint Duggan
P52 P65
Adaptation and implementation of clinical guidelines Using current practice information to prioritise areas for
‘Pneumothorax’ in the Republic of Kazakhstan guideline development
Kulsara Rustemova Sarah Cumbers
P53 P66
Guidelines in an Era of Universal Health Coverage: An Correlation between Clinical Practice Guidelines and the
Economic Evaluation main causes of morbidity and mortality in Mexico
Okwen Patrick Mbah Jesus Ojino Sosa Garcia
P54 P67
Health care quality indicators. First steps on the Clinical Guidelines in Brazilian Public Health System: a
implementation of the new performance measurement balance of the last five years
tools in Ukraine Carla De Agostino Biella
Olena Lishchyshyna
21Plenary Speakers
Professor Lubna Al-Ansary Center on Aging and Health. Dr. Boyd holds a joint
appointment in the Department of Health Policy and
Lubna A. Al-Ansary (MBBS, MSc, MRCGP,
Management. Dr. Boyd holds degrees from Yale University
FRCGP) is a Professor of Family Medicine at
(B.S.), Duke University School of Medicine (M.D.), and an
the College of Medicine, a part-time
M.P.H. in Epidemiology from the University of North Carolina
Consultant Family Physician at the Primary
at Chapel Hill. Dr. Boyd completed her internal medicine
Care Centre and the head of the Clinical
residency and geriatrics fellowship at Johns Hopkins
Practice Guidelines Committee at King
Hospital and the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. Dr.
Saud University, the oldest and largest university in the
Boyd conducts research on improving health and health care
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). Her efforts in promoting
of people with multiple chronic conditions, or multimorbidity,
evidence-based health care in KSA and the Gulf Countries
including how to inform patient-centered care for this
since the late 1990s, allowed her to hold the Bahamdan
population through evidence syntheses and clinical practice
Research Chair for evidence-based health care and
guidelines. Dr. Boyd received the American Geriatrics
knowledge translation at KSU, which focuses on evidence-
Society’s Award for Outstanding Clinical Investigation in
generation and implementation. Lubna has always been a
2010 for her body of work on multimorbidity.
strong believer of the mission and objectives of G-I-N. She
has been a co-opted Board Trustee for 2012/3 and an
elected member thereafter. In Jan 2013, Lubna has
Professor Leonila Dans
become a member of the Consultative Council, which is Leonila F. Dans MD MS is professor at the
the ‘Appointed Parliament’ in KSA as one of the first University of the Philippines, Department of
women MPs ever. She was selected to represent women Pediatrics and Department of Clinical
MPs at the Inter-parliamentary Union. Epidemiology. She is the pioneer in Pediatric
Rheumatology in the Philippines. She
Mr Brian Bilal started the fellowship program in Pediatric
Rheumatology at the Philippine General Hospital. She also
Brian Bilal is the programme manager for
received her Master degree in clinical epidemiology in
first aid in the Uganda Red Cross Society.
1991 at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada. She has
Together with his line staff of the
done research work within the field of Pediatrics and
emergence health directorate, he supports
Rheumatology. She has been a Cochrane Reviewer since
planning, implementation, monitoring and
2000. She has been involved in introducing Evidence-
evaluation of the first aid programme in
based Medicine and Evidence-based Clinical Practice
Uganda focusing on branches of Mbarara, Kabale,
Guidelines in the Philippines and in the Asia-Pacific region.
Bushenyi, Ntungamo, Masaka, Kampala, Mukono,
She is a Member Emeritus of the American College of
Luweero, Gulu and Kasese supported by the Belgium Red
Rheumatology, member of the International Clinical
Cross-Flanders. His work involves planning and advocacy
Epidemiology Network, and Advisory Editorial Board
at head quarter level, interacting with other programmers
member of Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. She is
from other directorates, stakeholders both the public and
presently a member of the WHO Expert Advisory Panel on
private, and supporting first aid trainings at the local
Clinical Practice Guidelines and Research Methods and
communities in schools, community women groups, and
Ethics and WHO Guidelines Review Committee. She has
even in churches. His main work centres at ensuring that
authored several journal articles and book chapters, with
the mentioned branches (and other branches in the whole
special interest on issues of applicability and equity. Her
country) have enough capacity in terms of trainers,
most recent publication is a user-friendly simplified book
volunteers, training equipment, knowledge and skills to
entitled “Painless Evidence-Based Medicine” targeted for
give correct, quality first aid in the field and trainings
EBM practitioners.
using evidence based AFAM approach.
Dr Emmy De Buck
Associate Professor Cynthia Boyd
Dr Emmy De Buck obtained her Master
Dr. Cynthia Boyd is an Associate
degree in Applied Sciences and a PhD in
Professor of Medicine at the
Medical Sciences at the Catholic University
Johns Hopkins University School
of Leuven, Belgium. In 2009 she started
of Medicine in the Division of
her career at the Belgian Red Cross-
Geriatric Medicine and
Flanders where she was co-founder of the
Gerontology, and is a core faculty
Centre for Evidence-Based Practice (CEBaP), which gives
member at the Johns Hopkins
scientific support to diverse activities of the Red Cross,
from blood supply to emergency aid. She is currently head
of CEBaP where she is responsible for developing
evidence-based guidelines (both national and international)
22and systematic reviews, all published in peer-reviewed He is the author of seven books related to evidence based
journals. She was selected as a representative for Europe practice: Systematic Reviews in Health Care, Decision
to take part in the development of the ILCOR (International Making in Health Care and Medicine: integrating evidence
Liaison Committee on Resuscitation) evidence-based and values, An Evidence-Based Medicine Workbook,
international first aid guidelines for 2015. Clinical Thinking: Evidence, Communication and Decision-
making, Evidence-Based Medicine: How to Practice and
Dr Julian Elliott Teach EBM, and Evidence-Based Medical Monitoring:
Principles and Practice. He is the recipient of an NHRMC
Dr Julian Elliott is Head of Clinical Research Australia Fellowship, which he commenced at Bond
in the Department of Infectious Diseases, University in July, 2010, and a member of the Board of
Alfred Hospital and Monash University and Directors of Therapeutic Guidelines.
Senior Research Fellow at the Australasian
Cochrane Centre. Dr Elliott’s research is
Professor Sally Green
focussed on the use of emerging
technologies to improve health outcomes, particularly for Sally Green is Co-Director of the
people with HIV and other chronic diseases. He has led Australasian Cochrane Centre and a
the development of Covidence, a non-profit online platform Professorial Fellow in the Faculty of
to improve the efficiency and experience of systematic Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences at
review production. This work is part of an ongoing program Monash University. She holds a PhD in
to enable high quality, up-to-date health evidence, Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine from
encapsulated in the living systematic review framework. Dr Monash University in addition to her clinical qualifications
Elliott also leads HealthMap, a cluster randomised trial of in Physiotherapy. Sally is an active Cochrane reviewer and
technology-enabled self-management for people with HIV, has several competitively funded research projects which
and chairs the Australian HIV guidelines panel. He aim to improve health outcomes by investigating the most
previously worked for the Cambodian government’s HIV effective and efficient pathway of knowledge from
program and served as a consultant to WHO, UNAIDS and research result to sustained change in clinical practice
the World Bank. and policy. She is a past member of the Cochrane
Collaboration Steering Committee.
Professor Allen Frances
Associate Professor Winfried Häuser
Allen Frances MD is Professor Emeritus of
Psychiatry and former Chair at Duke Winfried Häuser is a specialist in general
University. He was chair of the DSM IV Task internal medicine, psychosomatic medicine
Force and is the author of ‘Saving Normal’ and pain medicine. He is associate
and ‘Essentials Of Psychiatric Diagnosis’. professor of psychosomatic medicine,
He blogs regularly on Huffington Post, Technical University Munich. He is currently
Psychiatric Times, Psychology Today, and Education working as senior physician in the
Update and also tweets @AllenFrancesMD. department internal medicine 1 (gastroenterology,
hepatology, endocrinology, infectiology, oncology) and as
Professor Paul Glasziou consultant in psychosomatic medicine and pain medicine
in the ambulatory health care center, Saarbrücken St.
Paul Glasziou FRACGP, PhD is Professor of Johann. His research activities are fibromyalgia,
Evidence-Based Medicine at Bond University psychosomatic aspects of bowel diseases (inflammatory
and a part-time General Practitioner. He was bowel disease, celiac disease) and epidemiology and
the Director of the Centre for Evidence- health care services research of chronic pain. He is a
Based Medicine in Oxford from 2003-2010. member of the Cochrane musculoskeletal Group. He is
His key interests include identifying and the head of the steering committee of the German
removing the barriers to using high quality research in guideline on fibromyalgia and long-term opioid therapy in
everyday clinical practice. Professor Glasziou has authored chronic non-cancer pain, member of the steering
over 200 peer-reviewed journal articles – with a total of committees of the European guideline on fibromyalgia and
over 18,000 citations. His h-index is currently 57; 18 of of the German guideline on functional
these publications having been cited over 100 times. These syndromes/somatoform disorders and member of the
research articles have appeared in key general medicine German guideline groups on celiac disease, Crohn’s
journals such as the BMJ (30), Lancet (8), JAMA (5), NEJM disease, diverticular disease, irritable bowel syndrome
(3), Annals of Internal Medicine (3), PLOS Medicine (4) and and ulcerative colitis.
the MJA (15), as well as a variety of specialist medical and
methodological journals.
23Plenary Speakers
Professor Rod Jackson been Coordinating Editor of the Cochrane Lung Cancer
Review Group for 5 years and is currently Associate
Rod Jackson is a professor of epidemiology
Director of the Wales Cancer Trials Unit, Cardiff and
at the University of Auckland. He is
Honorary Professor at Cardiff University. He also teaches
medically trained, has a PhD in
for the UK Cochrane Centre and the Collaboration for
epidemiology and is a member of the NZ
Evidence Based Healthcare in Africa.
College of Public Health Medicine. He
teaches clinical and public health
epidemiology to undergraduate and postgraduate students
Dr Denise O’Connor
and to health professionals. He has over 30 years of Denise O’Connor is Senior Research Fellow
research experience in CVD epidemiology. He is one of the and Australian National Health and Medical
architects of New Zealand risk-based clinical guidelines for Research Council Public Health Fellow in
managing CVD risk. For the past 15 years his research the School of Public Health and Preventive
has been based around using web-based decision support Medicine at Monash University. Denise’s
tools linked to regional and national electronic health research focuses on the design, delivery
databases to implement, monitor and improve CVD risk and impact of health professional behaviour change
assessment and management. interventions to translate knowledge from research into
clinical practice. Her expertise is in assessing the causes
Professor Ina Kopp of implementation problems and designing theory-
informed interventions to support professional practice
Ina B. Kopp is Director of the German
change. She has contributed to the design of several
Association of the Scientific Medical
cluster randomised trials to evaluate the effects of
Societies Institute of Medical Knowledge-
implementation interventions in primary care and hospital
Management (AWMF-IMWi). AWMF-IMWi
settings. She is editor with Cochrane Effective Care and
coordinates and supports the development
Organisation of Care (EPOC) Group and Implementation
of Clinical Practice Guidelines by the 168
Science, and Co-Directs the Australian Satellite of
specialty societies organised under the umbrella of AWMF.
Cochrane EPOC.
Dr Kopp is involved in several quality initiatives in
Germany including the National Programme for Disease
Management Guidelines, the Programme for Guidelines in
Professor Ian Olver AM
Oncology and the National Project for Cross-Sectoral Ian Olver is a medical oncologist and
Quality in Health Care. She trained in general surgery bioethicist and currently a Clinical Professor
(1995-2000) and internal medicine (2001-2002), received at the University of Sydney and CEO,
her MD and her professorship from the University of Cancer Council Australia. In that role he
Marburg, did research work in the field of health services has responsibility for producing cancer
research and quality improvement and authored/co- treatment guidelines and has developed a
authored more than 150 publications. She is a member of wiki platform to aid rapid updates and dissemination and
the G-I-N Board of Trustees since August 2012 and Vice- developed Qstream education modules to link with them
Chair of G-I-N since August 2013. which are currently being evaluated. He has published
over 230 papers and 3 books. He was awarded
Dr Fergus Macbeth Membership of the Order of Australia (AM) in 2011 “For
service to medical oncology as a clinician, researcher,
Fergus Macbeth is a recently retired
administrator and mentor, and to the community through
oncologist who has been involved in
leadership roles with cancer control organisations.”
developing clinical guidelines since 1994
and for 3 years was Director for the Centre
for Clinical Practice at the National Institute
Professor Holger Schünemann
for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), and Succeeding eminent scientists including
on the Board of G-I-N. He still works part time as David Sackett, Mike Gent, Peter Tugwell
Mentor to NICE Fellows and Scholars and is and Brian Haynes, Dr. Schünemann is chair
chairing a NICE guideline group. He has a of the Department of Clinical Epidemiology
long standing clinical and research interest and Biostatistics at McMaster University,
in lung cancer, leading and participating widely considered the birthplace of
in important clinical trials. He has evidence-based medicine. He trained in internal medicine,
epidemiology, preventive medicine and public health.
Having contributed to over 400 peer-reviewed publications
(many focusing on guideline and systematic review
methodology) he is co-developer of the guideline
24development tool (www.guidelinedevelopment.org) and the Dr Rae Thomas
guideline checklist (cebgrade.mcmaster.ca/
Dr Rae Thomas is a Senior Research Fellow
guidecheck.html). He is co-director of the WHO
in the Centre for Research in Evidence-
collaborating center for evidence informed policy-making,
Based Practice at Bond University. She is a
co-chair of the GRADE working group, a member of the
Psychologist with over 20 years’ experience
Board of Trustees of G-I-N, the Cochrane Collaboration
providing psychological interventions. Her
Steering Group, and World Health Organization
program of research includes the
committees. He led or participated in numerous guideline
development, implementation, and evaluation of
panels at the WHO, the ACP, ACCP and ATS and drafted
randomised controlled trials and examining diagnostic
the WHO’s handbook on guideline development. He enjoys
tools and processes in patient decision making.
his second home in Italy and long distance bike rides.
Dr Maria Silvestre Associate Professor Per Vandvik
Per Olav Vandvik is associate professor at
Dr. Silvestre is a trained neonatologist who in
the Department of Health Management and
2004, helped develop a Situational Analysis
Health Economics, University of Oslo,
on Newborn Health in the Philippines, which
Norway. He is also researcher at the
shifted her perspectives towards health
Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health
systems approaches to Essential Newborn
Services in Oslo and acting consultant at
Care. She is currently Consultant of the
the Department of Medicine, Innlandet Hospital Trust-
Department of Health, WHO, UNICEF Philippines and WHO
Gjøvik, Norway. Dr.Vandvik spends most of his time
Western Pacific Regional Office in Essential Intrapartum and
heading a team dedicated to develop innovative solutions
Newborn Care (EINC) and leads Team Unang Yakap or The
for providing clinicians and patients with trustworthy
First Embrace. She convened an 11-hospital project in 2011
evidence summaries, guidelines and decision aids at the
and continues with EINC scale-up implementation, most
point of care (www.magicproject.org). Dr.Vandvik is also a
recently in post-disaster areas. She has consulted for
recognized teacher in evidence-based medicine and
UNICEF Cambodia and WHO Lao PDR for EINC adaptation.
guideline methodology for clinicians and decision-makers
She is a faculty member of the Asia – Pacific Center for
in health care.
Evidence-Based Medicine, and has co-authored “Painless
Evidence Based Medicine”, published by John Wiley & Sons,
Ltd (2008). She is President of Kalusugan ng Mag-Ina, Inc. a Dr Krisantha Weerasuriya
non-stock, non-profit organization dedicated to protecting Dr Krisantha Weerasuriya is a clinical
the mother-child dyad through research, policy development pharmacologist trained in the United
and program implementation. Kingdom and educated on the subject in Sri
Lanka and other countries and has recently
Mr Ross Smith retired from the Essential Medicines
section the World Health Organisation. His
Ross Smith recently retired after twenty five
experience in encouraging, shepherding, cajolling,
years as a State High School Principal in
implementing and finally monitoring rational drug use has
Queensland. He was on the Executive
been at national (Sri Lanka), regional (Southeast Asian
Board of his professional association for
region of WHO) and global (WHO HQ, Geneva) level
over a decade and as such was active in
through the roles of an educator (University academic)
and influential on education policy at both
medicines regulator, policy advisor and finally as the
the state and national level. He has worked on exchange
Secretary of the WHO Expert Committee on Selection and
both interstate and overseas as a teacher and education
Use of Essential Medicines. This journey also involved
administrator. He is a past District Governor of Rotary
side visits with NGOs, Civil Society Organisations and
International and is currently the President of the Rotary
monitoring of clinical trials. He continues to work in
Club of Palm Beach on the Gold Coast.
academia, medicines issues and health care financing
mainly in middle and low income countries. He has a fond,
eternal hope and optimism that the potential of essential
medicines will be realised for low and middle income
countries in his lifetime.
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