PAH Health Symposium 2023
The 62nd Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH) Health Symposium will return to Brisbane from Tuesday 22–Friday 25 August 2023. This year's theme is Medicine and Wellness: Promoting whole of person well-being.
The committee are excited to announce the symposium will be held as a truly hybrid event once again, encouraging in-person attendance while also offering an online experience for attendees to access the content via a virtual platform. More details about the online experience will be released closer to the symposium.
More than 1,000 delegates from across Queensland health services and research institutes attended the 2022 PAH Health Symposium. We look forward to welcoming you this year.
Registration will open in May.
Fast facts
- Tuesday 22–Friday 25 August 2023
- Russell Strong Auditorium located on the Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH) campus
- 19 sessions to feature more than 70 renowned clinicians, researchers and expert speakers
- CPD points^
^Attendees are encouraged to consider the symposium program and how it can be used for their CPD. Certificates of attendance will be provided on request.
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Opening keynote speaker
Associate Professor Bethan Richards
Chief Medical Wellnesss Officer/Director, SLHD WellMD Centre, Head Department of Rheumatology, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Deputy Director of the Institute for Musculoskeletal Health, Sydney Local Health District
Throughout her career, Bethan has had extensive experience and a passion for designing and implementing mentoring, teaching and medical wellbeing programs. Following a successful pilot, her MDOK wellbeing program has been rolled out to over 3000 doctors in Sydney Local Health District and is now in the process of being extended to all 14,000 staff as “MyDistrictOK”.
Kurt Aaron Orator
Professor Fiona Wood - AM, FRCS, FRACS
Director, Burns Service of Western Australia (BSWA), Consultant Plastic Surgeon, Fiona Stanley Hospital and Perth Children's Hospital, Winthrop Professor, School of Surgery, The University of Western Australia, Co-Founder, Fiona Wood Foundation
Fiona Wood has been a burns surgeon and researcher for over 30 years. Professor Wood’s greatest contribution and enduring legacy is her work with co-inventor Marie Stoner, pioneering the innovative ‘spray-on skin’ technique (Recell), where today the technique is used worldwide.
Contact
For all enquiries please contact:
Event and Sponsorship Manager
Media and Communications
Princess Alexandra Hospital
199 Ipswich Road Woolloongabba QLD 4102
t. 07 3176 3259
e. PAHSymposium@health.qld.gov.au