Gwandalan Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Palliative Care Webinar Series

Organ Donation

Organ Donation

Organ Donation


15-12-2022
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Date: 15-12-2022
Time: 12:00pm - 1:00pm AEST
Presenter: Leigh Hill and Namomi Nelson
 
The Gwandalan team are proud to present our next webinar: Organ Donation and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. With organs from donors who are Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people being more compatible for their fellow community members, it's important that families and clinicians are empowered to make informed, culturally appropriate decisions. This webinar will include:
  • Practical advice on how to communicate with culturally safety and appropriateness with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities on the topic of organ donation
  • Advice on discussing organ donation with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander palliative care patients and their families
  • Sharing of resources to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to register as an organ donor

Leigh Hill has been a registered nurse for 15 years. With family heritage from Ireland, he was born and grew up on Bunurong Country of the Kulin Nation in Naarm/Melbourne, he started his career there and trained in neurosurgical nursing, before moving to Larrakia/Gulumoerrgin land in Garramilla/Darwin working in oncology/haematology. He moved back to Naarm to train in critical care and worked in intensive care before returning to Garramilla where he has continued working in this field since 2015. He has been a Donation Specialist Nurse Coordinator with DonateLife Northern Territory (NT) since 2018, covering Garramilla and Mparntwe/Alice Springs, working to offer and facilitate organ donation for families of loved ones at end of life and providing education across the many Nations of the NT. He is particularly passionate about improving inclusivity of the national DonateLife network, to ensure all families offered donation are able to make self-determined, informed and enduring decisions at such a difficult time. He is co-chair of the DonateLife network First Nations Engagement Group.

Naomi Nelson is a Njaki-Njaki Noongar woman with connections through Wadjak and Ballardong currently living in Boorloo (Perth). Naomi is the Aboriginal Health Co-ordinator with Public Health in Perth, where she has worked for the last 5 years. Starting in Aboriginal Health Administration she then moved into Community Engagement and from there, onto Public Health assisting within Communicable Diseases, Immunisations and assisting DonateLife WA. Naomi is the co-chair of the DonateLife network First Nations Engagement Group.