STATEWIDE STAKEHOLDERS
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Integrated Care in Action: A Model for Mental Health and Addiction Treatment
30 July @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Attend the live webinar to make the most of your professional development time, engage with a community of peers through the live chat, and have your CPD statement issued automatically to your MHPN account.
Meet the panel:
| Dr Ferghal Armstrong MRCGP FRACGP FAChAM Addiction Medicine Specialist, Eastern Health |
| Dr Ferghal Armstrong graduated from the Queens University Belfast in 1998. He qualified as a General Practitioner in 2003 and has worked in his own GP Practice, as an Occupational Health Consultant, as well as delivering medical services in prisons.
After moving to Australia in 2014, he completed Addiction Medicine training at Eastern Health under the auspices of Turning Point Statewide Services, achieving a Fellowship of the Australasian Chapter of Addiction Medicine (FAChAM) in 2020. Ferghal is committed to clinician education and improving outcomes for all people experiencing alcohol and other drug issues. His special interests include complex medical detoxes, lifestyle medicine and the recovery journey and cannabis medicine. Ferghal is also the host of the successful podcasts Cracking Addiction and MedHeads. |
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Benn Veenker |
| Benn is a passionate recovery advocate and is consistently working at breaking down the stigma associated with substance use and mental health. Benn has been sharing his lived experience over the past 12+ years, with the goal to shorten the time it takes for individuals to seek help for their substance use and/or mental health.
Benn is currently employed at Turning Point – Addiction, Treatment, Research and Education Centre – as the Manager for Lived Experience Workforce and Advocacy, where he intentionally uses both his lived and work experience to support the development and growth of the lived experience workforce across Turning Point. |
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Alice Frank |
| A senior clinical pharmacist with particular interest and expertise in mental health and substance use disorders, Alice has extensive experience in various clinical and leadership roles within Victorian Public Health Services.
Alice was responsible for establishing the clinical mental health pharmacist ward-based service at Northern Health and the expansion of clinical mental health pharmacist services at Austin Health, including to community teams. In 2021, she was also a contributing author to the report commissioned by the Department of Health that informed the addition of tramadol, pregabalin and gabapentin to SafeScript. Alice is passionate about the significant positive impact that pharmacists have in ensuring optimal, individual-centred, and evidence-based treatments, especially for those individuals experiencing co-occurring mental health and substance use concerns. |
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Dr Vicky Phan |
| Vicky (she/her) is an Addiction Psychiatrist with strong interests in mental health comorbidity, harm minimisation, pharmacotherapy, training and education.
She is the Medical Lead at Hamilton Centre Eastern Health and undertakes further clinical practice at Turning Point Eastern Treatment Service. Vicky is the current Director of Advanced Training in Addiction Psychiatry in Victoria, and Chair of the RANZCP Faculty of Addiction Psychiatry Victorian Subcommittee. |
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Annie Williams |
| Annie (she/her) is a registered nurse with a Master of Science (Pain Management).
In the past, Annie has held various senior nursing leadership roles, and while she held her position as clinical lead for the Eastern Health Acute and Complex Pain service, formed ongoing links with the Alcohol and Other Drug (AoD) sector and the Mental Health sector. From 2017-2023, Annie held the position of the chair of GATE (Victorian Pain Nurses Interest Group), facilitating education workshops and webinars to support Victorian pain nurses and has been a contributing author to published articles relating to opioid prescribing and pain nurse roles within multidisciplinary teams. |
