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DOT(WA) Bi-Monthly PD July 2025
Topic: Pain Through the Ages: The OT role across the life span
Date: Tuesday 22 July 2025
Time: 6.30pm
Presenter: Julia Kingsley, Occupational Therapist
This presentation explores the role of OT and the Allied Health team in managing chronic pain across the lifespan. It highlights key differences and explores the impact of pain on function, self-management and quality of life across the lifespan.
About the Presenter:
Julia is a Senior Occupational therapist at the Department of Pain Management OPH/SCGH. She has extensive experience in chronic pain management across all age ranges and in multiple health settings, including Singapore and the UK.
She did her initial training in Pain Management at INPUT pain unit, St Thomas’s Hospital, London, and has worked at the Complex Pain Service at Perth Children’s Hospital. She has a particular interest in topics including service delivery models, transitions from youth to adult pain services and the relationship between objectively measured activity behaviours and self-reports of physical capacity.
Zoom: TBA
Please Note: This PD will not be recorded or available after the Meeting.
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