QUT Real Health Panel Series - Navigating Trauma Care: Complexity, Costs, and Collaborative Solutions

QUT's Real Health Panel Series unpacks the latest issues affecting the health and wellbeing of our communities. 

The panel discussion will bring together leading clinicians, patients with lived experience researchers, rehabilitation engineers, and insurance scheme regulators to outline the complexities of traumatic injury care, rehabilitation and the escalating associated costs.
The expert panel will discuss the multifaceted clinical pathways required to manage severe injuries, including advances in acute interventions, long‑term rehabilitation, and the integration of emerging technologies.
The conversation will highlight the financial and operational pressures facing hospitals and health systems, alongside the broader societal and economic impacts of trauma.
By combining academic insight with practical industry and regulatory perspectives, the event aims to illuminate current challenges, showcase innovative solutions, and identify opportunities for collaborative improvement across the continuum of care.

Panellists:

• Professor Michael Schuetz, FRACS, FAOrth.
  Director, Jamieson Trauma Institute
  Chair of Trauma, QUT
  Department of Orthopaedics and Trauma, RBWH

• Ms Gaenor Walker
  A/Insurance Commissioner, Motor Accident Insurance Commission
  A/CEO, National Injury Insurance Scheme Queensland

• Professor Kirsten Vallmuur
  Chair of Trauma Surveillance and Data Analytics, QUT / Jamieson Trauma Institute

• Professor Dylan Flaws
  Chair of Trauma-Related Mental Health, Jamieson Trauma Institute
  Chair of Rehabilitation Services, QUT
  Theme (co) Lead – Rehabilitation and Outcome Measurement

• Dr Alejandro Melendez-Calderon
  Principal Research Fellow, Jamieson Trauma Institute
  Theme (co) Lead – Rehabilitation and Outcome Measurement

Moderated by Matt Jennings, Consumer Representative (Multiple Trauma & Rehabilitation) - Jamieson Trauma Institute & Surgical Treatment and Rehabilitation Service

Free registration and breakfast provided. Parking is available on QUT Campus in the blocks marked F and J (found on map).

For more information, please visit our website: QUT - Real Health Panel Series