Beginning of Academic Year 2018 Formal Dinner
Thursday, 1 March 2018 6:00-9:00 pm
Guest Speaker: Annmarie Hosie RN PhD
Post-doctoral Research Fellow
IMPACCT – Improving Palliative, Aged and Chronic Care through Clinical Research and Translation
Dr Annmarie Hosie RN PhD is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Technology Sydney, with expertise in palliative and aged care. From 1999-2015, she worked as a clinician across acute, sub-acute, community and residential settings, including advance practice roles and co-ordination of palliative care clinical trials. Her doctoral research, completed in 2015, contributed to knowledge of delirium epidemiology in inpatient palliative care, and the need to implement interdisciplinary recognition and assessment systems. Dr Hosie’s post-doctoral research is focused on interventions to improve outcomes for people receiving palliative and end of life care; in particular, strategies supporting optimal cognition.