About the Network

This Network will aim to identify and address key system issues to improve the quality and delivery of care of patients transitioning from adolescent to adult health services in South Australia.

Statewide Adolescent Transition Care Clinical Network Steering Committee

Applications for Steering Committee membership closed on 24 December 2020. We were delighted with the number and quality of applications received and sincerely thank all applicants for their willingness to be involved.

We have elected an Interim Steering Committee for 6 months before we formally establish a working structure based on the outcomes and impact the network wishes to have.

During the first six months we intend to gather as much information as possible from our network of clinicians, carers and people with lived experience to inform and define the impact we want to have and how we achieve that.

Please keep a watch on this webpage for opportunities.

Clinical Lead

Dr Jemma Anderson

Staff Specialist and Medical Unit Head, Adolescent Ward, Women's and Children's Hospital

Dr Jemma Anderson is a staff specialist and medical unit head of the adolescent ward at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital and the first Adolescent Physician in South Australia. She also holds a specialist qualification in Paediatric Endocrinology and is a senior lecturer with the University of Adelaide. She is the current editor for adolescent medicine with the Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health. Jemma has a longstanding passion for supporting healthy adolescent development and is committed to community and youth engagement in developing models of care and research for young people. She is the clinical lead for Paediatric Eating Disorders and Gender Medicine at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital and has a special interest in supporting and empowering young people in their transition across health services.

Dr Jemma Anderson	Chair
Mr Allan Hayward	Program Manager, Youth Cancer Service SA/NT, CALHN
Dr Betty-Jean Dee-Price	Research (UNSW) sessional work (Flinders), Flinders University, University of New South Wales
Mr Damon Fenech	Service Manager, NALHN
Mrs Dana Wright	Nurse Consultant, Disability Services, WCHN
Mrs Georgina Paterson	Nurse Unit Manager, Thoracics OPD, CALHN
Dr Jenna Paterson	Advanced Trainee in General and Acute Medicine, Austin Hospital, Victoria
Dr John Widger	Paediatrician and Clinical Director, SALHN
Associate Professor Josephine Thomas	Consultant General Physician and Director of Physician Education, CALHN
Dr Kate Lynch	Head of Inflammatory Bowel Disease Department, CALHN
Ms Kate Turpin	Nurse practitioner - Long term follow up/transition, WCHN
Dr Kenneth Hooper	Head of Unit, Southern Youth Mental Health Service, SALHN
Dr Kerry Whannel	GP Consultant, SALHN
Mrs Marie Capelle	Team Leader, Metropolitan Youth Health Elizabeth
Dr Muthuthantrige Ashani Couchman	Neuro-Urologist and Adolescent Urologist, CAHLN
A/Prof Robert Carroll	Renal Consultant Transition and Young Adult Renal Clinics, WCHN and CALHN
Mr Steven Wright	Executive Manager, Youth Services, Sonder, Edinburgh North and Adelaide
Ms Sujata Mylvaganam	Coordinator Youth Mental Health Consultation Liaison Service, Rural and Remote Mental Health Service
Mr Tim Crowley	Nursing Director, Manager - Acute and Statewide Services, Nurse Practitioner Complex Care & Trauma Mental Health Child and Adolescent Mental Health
Ms Usha Ritchie	Associate Director of Pharmacy, CALHN

Documents

Draft Terms of Reference (194 KB, PDF)

More information

You can stay up to date with what is happening in the Statewide Adolescent Transition Care Clinical Network by signing up to receive email news at CEIH.AdolescentTransition@sa.gov.au or contact Katie Taylor on (08) 8226 6962.