The next webinar in ACRRM's Drug and Alcohol Addiction Education (DAAE) Program series will be held on Thursday 21 July at 6:30pm AEST.
The webinar will be hosted by DAAE lead educator Dr Jennifer Delima and features an impressive panel of presenters - Dr Basiliki Lampropoulos (developmental paediatrician), Dr Anthony Liu (general paediatrician) and Popi Iatrou (senior psychologist).
Presenter bios
Dr Basiliki (Bessy) Lampropoulos
Dr Basiliki Lampropoulos is a Developmental Paediatrician at Nepean Hospital and Adolescent Physician at Westmead Hospital. She worked together with Popi Iatrou over the first 10 years of the Teenlink program at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead for older children of parents in treatment for substance abuse.
Dr Anthony Liu
Dr Anthony Liu is a general paediatrician employed by the University of Sydney as Senior Lecturer - Paediatrics. He has worked alongside Dr Lampropoulos for the past 17 years at Nepean Hospital and runs the outpatient clinic where all neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) babies are reviewed. Dr Liu has several publications on the topic of NAS and is currently exploring implementation of recent recommendations of the management of NAS. He will be sharing these in this presentation.
Popi Iatrou
Popi Iatrou is employed as a Senior Psychologist at the CICADA Family Service at the Children’s Hospital at Westmead working with children, youth and families affected by substance use since 2001. This service was originally known as Teenlink which was developed by Dr Bessy Lampropoulos and Popi with the support of Western Sydney Drug Health and Adolescent Medicine across Westmead adults and children’s hospitals. Popi also spent 13 years working with the adolescent substance use service within CICADA based in Adolescent Medicine. More recently she has created Wellness Arts which integrates psychology, yoga, dance and art for holistic wellbeing.
Learning objectives
The learning objectives of the webinar include:
- Understanding the effects of parental alcohol and other drugs on the child’s physical health, developmental, behavioural, and emotional child health
- Understanding how to identify and manage neonatal abstinence syndrome
- Providing guidance for developmental surveillance
- Becoming aware of the importance of ensuring child safety and identifying and reporting the child at risk
- Understanding the effects of trauma on attachment and child development
This webinar accrues 1.5 hours worth of CPD (educational activity) and offers a $200 incentive grant to eligible members who attend and complete the survey.