27th February 2024 - Sydney Health Partners Diabetes and Obesity Clinical Academic Group (DO-CAG) Half-Day Strategic Planning Workshop

We are looking forward to inviting you to our very first Strategic Planning Half-Day Workshop at the Westmead Hospital Block K Level 6 (Enter via Entrance 10) Learning Studio Rooms 6204 and 6205 on Tuesday 27th February from 9am-1230pm with a FREE lunch. Face to face and virtual tickets are limited! Please see below information about Sydney Health Partners and the Diabetes and Obesity Clinical Academic Group that will help you understand our objectives. Thank you for contributing your insights to guide our future work. 

For in person arrivals, please check in at the Concierge Desk. P4 and P5 Secure Parking rates start from $6.80 to a maximum of $20.20 for 5+ hours.

Order of nearly finalised program below with tea/coffee/biscuits/water served throughout:

Time	Facilitator	Activity	Speaker(s)
0900-0920	24 BP	Acknowledgement of country, welcome, introductions, housekeeping, overview of the day	Prof Stephen Twigg Prof Louise Baur
Overview of SHP Overview of Diabetes & Obesity CAG
920-940am		Framework walk through	Duncan Peppercorn Mary Parbery
0940-10am		Visualising success and Market Context	Duncan Peppercorn Mary Parbery
1000-1100am		Breakout groups for Capacity Building: -Engaging stakeholders -Research priorities -Capability -Resources -Competitiveness and impact	Duncan Peppercorn Mary Parbery
1100-1145am		Review break-out group outcomes	Duncan Peppercorn Mary Parbery
1145am-1230pm		Prioritisation and summary of core research ideas	Duncan Peppercorn Mary Parbery
1230-1pm		Lunch and workshop close

What is Sydney Health Partners

• An Advanced Health Research Translation Centre that has partnered with the University of Sydney, its affiliated Local Health Districts and 11 medical research institutes to improve local capacity and capability for clinical translational research.
• At the end of 2023, SHP funded eleven Clinical Academic Groups (CAGs) that are each united around a single clinical problem or patient group i.e. Cardiovascular, Geriatric Medicine, Perioperative Care of Surgical Patients, Sydney Cancer Partners, Sydney Musculoskeletal, Child and Adolescent Health, Diabetes and Obesity, Genomics and Precision Medicine, Reproductive/Maternal/Newborn Health, Sleep Health and Virtual Care CAGs.
• CAGs are multidisciplinary teams focussed on building capacity and capability, ensuring community and consumer involvement in research, fostering collaboration and improving impact and competitiveness in research translation. Research translation bridges the gap between knowledge gained through research and its application in policy and practice.
• More information on Research Translation vs Translational Research is available on the SHP website.

Who is the Diabetes and Obesity Clinical Academic Group?

• One of the Sydney Health Partners Clinical Academic Groups
• >120 members across – listed Sydney LHDs and USyd - covering many areas of clinical, public health health, lived experience and research expertise relevant to diabetes and obesity across the life-course
• To sign up for free membership, which includes receiving our newsletters, please go to: https://sydney.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eQY2EuT9nbOVc3A

Our aims:

• To bridge the gap between clinicians, academics and consumers and to deliver health outcomes of people with diabetes and obesity, across the life-course, through enabling high quality multidisciplinary research that is translatable back to clinical practice
• To mentor early and mid-career researchers
• To grow our network of translational and clinician researchers
• To improve the competitiveness and impact of our translational research
• To build long-lasting collaborations with our partners and stakeholders

What do we do?

• Recruiting and surveying members about what they would like from the Diabetes & Obesity Clinical Academic Group
• Holding showcases, webinars, and workshops and incubator sessions for idea generation and peer review
• Reaching out to our partners and stakeholders to collaborate with research and on prioritisation of strategies

Leadership team

• The co-chairs are Professor's Stephen Twigg (SLHD and USYD) and Louise Baur (SCHN and USyd), with Project Officer, Ms Stephanie Noonan
• The full list of the Leadership Group is at Diabetes and Obesity » Sydney Health Partners
  

We want to be of service to our members and to have impact. Hence the need for broad membership and engagement especially of early and mid-career clinician leaders and researchers, as well as of people with lived experience.

Thank you for contributing to today’s meeting (as well as to our most welcome launch in November 2023), which brings together key partners and stakeholders to inform development of our strategic plan.