The COINN program is coming along and we will be updating the speakers page as we confirm the invited International and National
speakers over the coming months.
International Invited Speakers
Renée Flacking is a neonatal nurse by background and is now Professor in Paediatric Nursing, at the School of Health and Welfare, Dalarna
University, Sweden. She is also a Visiting Professor at University of Central Lancashire, UK. Renée’s main research interests are parenting
and feeding in families with preterm infants focusing on emotional, relational and socio-cultural influences. She has written more than 65
scientific papers and is the co-author of the book: Ethnographic Research in Maternal and Child Health.
National Invited Speakers
Dr Natalie Duffy is a Consultant Neonatologist working in both NICU at the Mercy Hospital for Women and for PIPER, the emergency infant retrieval team at the Royal Children’s Hospital. She is also a trainer with NBO Australia. Natalie has a particular interest in infant mental health and ways we can improve not only physical health but cognitive, emotional and social health for hospitalised infants. Her PhD seeks to understand from the infants themselves what their hospital experience is like. By giving infants, a voice in matters which directly affect them she hopes to develop new strategies to deliver the best possible neonatal care.