TELEHEALTH CONFERENCE 2011 Speakers
Dr Michael Williams Director, Child & Adolescent Health Service, Mackay Base Hospital, Qld
Michael Williams is a consultant paediatrician and Director of Child & Adolescent Health Service at Mackay Base Hospital Queensland. He has also worked as a paediatrician in Victoria, UK, Saudi Arabia and Canada. He has been appointed to advise and develop the Queensland statewide telepaediatric services in conjunction with the opening of the Queensland Children's Hospital in 2014.
Over the last 14 years he has undertaken telehealth consultation with associated research conducted in conjunction with the Centre for Online Health, University of Queensland. He has developed a telepaediatric service for the patients of his region which provides both sub specialty consultation as well as general paediatric consultation for those at rural sites. He has published and spoken widely on telehealth over the last 10 years.