JBI gLOCAL Solution Room: Adelaide

Join us for a dynamic, interactive and inspiring free event focused on embedding person-centred care —from mental health and aged care to acute, community, and specialist services.

Featuring internationally renowned keynote speaker Professor Brendan McCormack (University of Sydney), this half day session will explore how person-centred cultures, practices, and processes can transform health outcomes and care experiences.

Hear short talks from leading local experts Professor Nicolas Procter, Dr Paul McLiesh and Tom Elliott followed by a panel discussion hosted by Dr Kylie Porritt, including nurse leaders Susan Dyer and Amanda Clark, and gain from practical insights across care of older adults, mental health, and education.

The JBI gLocal Solution Room is a free event – occurring in June across 20+ countries globally – which aims to provide pragmatic solutions to challenges in getting evidence into practice in local settings.

In strengthening the local use of global evidence, the JBI gLocal Solution Room is designed to bring together clinicians, academics and policy makers interested in evidence-based healthcare, and serve as a synchronised, collaborative and widely accessible inter-regional space to promote evidence-based practice discussion and debate.

Presented in partnership with Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN).

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

• Nurses, nurse consultants, nurse educators and registered midwives
• Clinical leads, advanced practitioners and managers
• Mental health and aged care professionals
• Health policy makers and healthcare managers
• Students and researchers in health sciences
• Plus, anyone interested in person-centred care and how this will impact your work in the future.

WHAT YOU'LL GAIN

• Inspiration from national and local experts in person-centred care
• Strategies for embedding person-centred practices in all care contexts
• Tools for enhancing collaboration, communication, and patient outcomes
• Insight into culture change and system-level improvement

WHY JOIN US?

• Advance your skills and mindset for person-centred practice
• Be part of a growing care movement focused on dignity, partnership, and wellbeing
• Take actionable ideas back to your team, service, or study
• Learn more about JBI’s unique approach to evidence-based healthcare
• Receive Continuing Professional Development (CPD) recognition
• Enjoy networking opportunities + door prizes + free lunch!

MEET THE SPEAKERS

KEYNOTE

Professor Brendan McCormack
D.Phil (Oxon.), BSc (Hons.), FRCN, FEANS, FRCSI, PGCEA, RMN, RGN, FAAN, MAE

Professor Brendan McCormack is Head of School and Dean at the Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Sydney, and Academic Chair of the CARE Program at Sydney Policy Lab. A global leader in person-centred healthcare, his work focuses on building person-centred cultures across all care settings. Brendan is a specialist in gerontology and dementia care, with over 700 publications, including 14 books, and is widely recognised for shaping international nursing practice and policy. He is a Fellow of multiple prestigious academies and was recently appointed to the Lancet Global Commission on People-Centred Healthcare at Harvard University.

SHORT TALKS

Professor Nicholas Procter RN, BA, Grad Dip Adult Ed, MBA, PhD, MACN, MACMHN, MAICD
Chair: Mental Health Nursing, UniSA Clinical & Health Sciences

Professor Nicholas Procter leads UniSA’s Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Research and Education Group. He is author of more than 300 academic outputs and for the past 25 years has been working specifically in practice development, development of state and national policy, lived experience co-design, trauma informed practice and suicide prevention. His latest book ‘Mental Health: A Person-centred Approach’ (published in its 3rd edition by Cambridge University Press in 2022), is a standard textbook in Australia and is well known internationally. A 4th edition is currently in preparation. Professor Procter currently serves as Chair of the National Suicide Prevention Office Advisory Board and as Australia’s National Representative to the International Association for Suicide Prevention.

Dr Paul McLiesh
Senior Lecturer, University of Adelaide

Dr Paul McLiesh currently works as a senior lecturer at the University of Adelaide and an Associate Professor at St Andrews Hospital in innovation, risk and safety role. He is a teaching specialist with the Adelaide Academy and a member of the College of Reviewers at the University of Adelaide. His PhD considered how healthcare systems require nurses to conduct and document patient assessments- and how those requirements, which have increased in complexity over time, resulted in a range of unintended consequences that are poorly recognised and measured, contributing to patient risk. 

Tom Elliott
Nurse Consultant, CALHN

Tom Elliot is a nurse practitioner candidate currently working in the Geriatric Outreach Service for Central Adelaide Local Health Network. Tom has been working in the Geriatrics space since 2018 and specifically in community Geriatrics since 2021. Tom has worked through the Royal Adelaide Hospital on the Acute Geriatrics ward specialising in BPSD before moving into community-based programs such Geriatrics in the Home, Specialist Dementia Care Program and now Geriatric Outreach Service. Tom also has graduate certificate in Health and Aging from the University of South Australia and is currently completing a graduate diploma in Gerontology through the University of Tasmania.

AGENDA

Thank you to our program partners at Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) and the University of Adelaide.