BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:Australia/Sydney X-WR-TIMEZONE:Australia/Sydney BEGIN:VEVENT UID:4@medicolegal.org.au DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20180606T181500 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20180606T220000 DTSTAMP:20181010T150026Z URL:https://medicolegal.org.au/events/prescription-overdoses-drugs-of-addi ction/ SUMMARY:Prescription Overdoses - Drugs of Addiction DESCRIPTION:Dr Ingrid van Beek AM is a public health and addiction medicine physician who has been working at the sharp end of harm reduction for the last 30 years. Ingrid was the Director of the Kirketon Road Centre in Kin gs Cross from 1989 until 2017. She was also the founding Medical Director of the Australia’s first Medically Supervised Injecting Centre from 2000 until 2008. Most recently Ingrid chaired the Expert Advisory Group for th e soon to be opened Medically Supervised Injecting Room in Melbourne\, Vic toria. Ingrid was awarded a Doctor in Medicine in 2010 in recognition of h er body of published scholarly work in the international field of Harm Red uction\, and is a Conjoint Professor at UNSW Sydney’s Kirby Institute fo r Infection and Immunity. Her contribution to improving the health of soci ally marginalised populations was recognised in 2010 when she was awarded Membership of the Order of Australia.\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\nMr Aleksand ar Gavrilovic\, Manager\, Clinical Policy Unit\, Alcohol and Other Drugs B ranch\, Centre for Population Health. Alex graduated from the University o f Sydney in 1978 and practiced as a community pharmacist for over 20 years . In 2005\, Alex joined the Pharmaceutical Regulatory Unit as a Senior Pha rmaceutical Officer in the Inspections and Investigations Team. He has hel d the role of Principal Pharmaceutical Officer (Monitoring and Compliance Section) and acted in the Chief Pharmacist and Deputy Chief Pharmacist rol es.\n\nAlex has investigated hundreds of cases for the Ministry of Health involving illegal or inappropriate supply\, administration\, prescribing a nd dispensing of medicines by health professionals\, many progressing to p rosecution at professional tribunals or local court.\n\n \;\n\nAlex is currently the Manager of the Clinical Policy Unit in the Ministry of Heal th’s Alcohol and Other Drugs Branch\, focusing on:\n\n• Implementation of the NSW Government Drug Package\n• Improving access to the NSW Opioi d Treatment Program\n• Reorienting NGO and LHD services to improve acces s to treatment and harm reduction and prevention programs\n\nRSVP with pay ment and please advise your booking via email if posting:\nKathryn McKenzi e\, Executive Secretary Medico-Legal Society of NSW Inc. ABN: 70 880 915 6 45 GPO Box 1741\, Sydney 2001 T: 0488 220 386 E: executive@medicolegal.org .au W: www.medicolegal.org.au\n\nNSW Bar Association has accredited attend ance at this meeting for 1 CPD point. Solicitors who find this meeting rel evant may claim credit for attendance at this meeting towards their MCLE o bligation at 1MCLE unit per hour.\n\nThis educational activity has been ap proved in the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons CPD program. Fellows who participate can claim 1 point per hour (max. 2 points) in Category 4: Maintenance of Knowledge and Skill CATEGORIES:Scientific Meetings LOCATION:Union University and Schools Club of Sydney (UUSC)\, 25 Bent St\, Sydney\, NSW\, 2000\, Australia GEO:-33.8650727;151.21129559999997 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=25 Bent St\, Sydney\, NSW\, 2000\, Australia;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Union University and Schools Club of Sydney (UUSC):geo:-33.8650727,151.21129559999997 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Australia/Sydney X-LIC-LOCATION:Australia/Sydney BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20180401T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+1100 TZOFFSETTO:+1000 TZNAME:AEST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR