3rd Health4Life Conference
Keynote Speakers
Dr Trevor Adams
Dr Trevor Adams teaches dementia care nursing at the University of Surrey. He is a mental health and a general nurse and has experience of nursing in a wide range of dementia care settings. At the University of Surrey, he leads undergraduate and post-graduate modules in dementia care and supervises research studies. He has undertaken funded practice development projects in a variety of areas concerning dementia care such communication in residential care homes, advocacy and people with dementia, and the care of people in the early stages of dementia. Trevor has presented over 50 papers at conferences throughout the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia and has written/co-authored over 60 papers and chapters. He has co-edited three books on dementia care; including ‘Dementia Care Nursing’, published by Palgrave Macmillan this year.
Len Dalgleish
Len Dalgleish received a BSc in Mathematics and Statistics and then an honours degree and a PhD in Psychology from the University of Queensland in Australia. In 1981 he moved to the Department of Social Work at the University of Queensland where his interest in applied decision making flourished especially the assessment of risk and decision making in child protection cases. In 1988 he moved back to the School of Psychology where he further developed his model for judgment and decision making across a wide variety of applied settings. He was appointed to the Chair in Decision Making in the Department of Nursing and Midwifery at Stirling University in Scotland and a programme head at HealthQWest in February 2005. The research programme focuses on decision making in health care.
James Shanteau
James Shanteau, University Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Commerce Bank Distinguished Graduate Faculty, received his Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from University of California, San Diego. Since joining the faculty at Kansas State University (KSU), he has held visiting appointments at Universities of Michigan, Oregon, Colorado, Cornell, Toulouse, and National Science Foundation. His research interests include studies of expertise (especially medical decision making) and studies of consumer health-care choices (especially organ donation and transplantation). Professor Shanteau has received over $5.9 million from agencies such as National Institute of Mental Health, Division of Organ Transplantation, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and National Science Foundation. His publications include over 65 articles in referred journals, 10 books, 62 book chapters, 6 encyclopedia entries, 7 monographs, 21 proceedings papers, 14 technical reports, and 3 computer programs. He served on grant-review panels for the National Institute of Health, Environmental Protection Agency, and National Science Foundation. He served on a National Research Council Committee to redefine mental retardation standards, and on a DHHS Advisory Committee on Organ Transplantation (ACOT). He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and a Charter Fellow of the American Psychological Society.
Walter SERMEUS, RN, PhD, FEANS
He is Professor in Healthcare Management at the Centre of Health Services and Nursing Research, School of Public Health, Catholic University Leuven, Belgium. He is Program Director of the Master in Nursing/ Midwifery and the Master in Health Care Management & Policy. He holds a PhD in Public Health. He is trained as a professional nurse and holds a MSc in Nursing Science and MSc in Biostatistics. He is Fellow of the European Academy of Nursing Science (EANS). His main research interests are Nursing Minimum Datasets, Diagnosis Related Groups & casemix management, nursing intensity & nursing workload management, healthcare financing, health and nursing informatics, healthcare organization, nurse staffing and patient safety, clinical pathways.
