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Challenges and Breakthroughs in VAD in South Australia

Thursday, August 14, 2025
3:00 PM - 3:10 PM
Ballroom 2 and 3

Overview

Dr Chloe Furst


Speaker

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Dr Chloe Furst
Central Adelaide Local Health Network

Challenges and Breakthroughs in VAD in South Australia

Biography

Dr Chloe Furst is a dual trained geriatrician and palliative care physician working across both specialties within the Central Adelaide Local Health Network (CALHN) in South Australia. She is the Medical Lead for the Acute and Urgent Care program at the Royal Adelaide Hospital and is the South Australian state division president of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Geriatric Medicine. She has a special interest in capacity, cognitive impairment, multimorbidity and end of life care and the ethics around these complex issues. She has a strong commitment to the care of the older adult and ensuring that our hospital systems are safe for patients and doctors alike and that patients get treatment aligned to their goals of care in the right environment and is a member of the comprehensive care national advisory panel for the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care. She has been heavily involved in the roll out of Voluntary Assisted Dying (VAD) in SA as part of the SA VAD implementation task force and as South Australia’s VAD clinical liaison and has clinically been an active VAD practitioner. She is a board member of VADANZ Australia’s peak body for VAD clinicians and recently presented as part of the UK’s select committee in to assisted dying.

Session Chair

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Andrew Denton
Go Gentle Australia

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