Overview

The Australian Lawyers Alliance (ALA) Medical Law Conference is a chance for delegates to enhance their professional development by gaining knowledge and practical advice across a wide range of medical litigation issues. The sessions will be presented by expert barristers, medical professionals and academics.

This event recording is presented by:

• Stabbed in the back! - Are epidural and spinal blocks really dangerous?
  Professor Brendan Smith, Professor And Discipline Leader In Critical Care, University of Notre Dame
• Triage
  Associate Professor Luke Lawton, Emergency Medicine Physician, IIME
• To do or not to do! The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune in genetic testing in litigation
  Geoff Diehm KC, Barrister, Jeddart Chambers
  Kirsten Van Der Wal, Senior Associate, Maurice Blackburn Lawyers
• Factual disputes and evidence of usual practice
  Amy Johnstone, Barrister, Victorian Bar
  Samuel Pearce, Principal Lawyer, Maurice Blackburn Lawyers
• Medical negligence in the media - Insights for lawyers
  Noor Blumer, Director, Blumers Personal Injury Lawyers
  Karyn Lemon, General Manager, Australian Lawyers Alliance
  Charlotte Grieve, Investigative Journalist, The Age
• Identifying medical negligence in arthroplasty and trauma: An orthopaedic surgeon’s perspective
  Dr Cameron Cooke, Orthopaedic Surgeon, Bend Orthopaedics
• Annual case review panel
  Bill Madden, Special Counsel, Carroll & O’Dea Lawyers
  Andrea De Souza, Barrister, Victoria Bar
  Julian Johnson, Principal, Julian Johnson Lawyers

• CRPS or CRPS, that is the question: Causation and Negligence in CRPS
  Dr Marc Walden, Anaesthetist & Pain Medicine Physician, Index Medicolegal

Event Details

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COST

Including GST (1.5% surcharge applies for credit card payments)

Member: $300
Non Member: $450