Introduction to Stroke Foundation resources
Tuesday 13 December 2022, 2–3 pm AEDT
Presented by Melita Stirling and Lisa Yates, Stroke Foundation
Stay up-to-date with existing and emerging Stroke Foundation resources available to support your patients’ stroke recovery and ensure best practice in stroke care.
About the presenters
Melita Stirling is the Stroke Quality Improvement Manager at Stroke Foundation. She works to strengthen the foundations of best-practice stroke care by enhancing organisational resources, engaging with health professionals and drawing on the voice of lived experience.
Melita has a background as a speech pathologist and she brings her experience of working with stroke survivors in acute, rehabilitation and domiciliary services to program design and delivery.
Lisa Yates is the StrokeLink Coordinator for Queensland. Lisa has a clinical background as a speech pathologist across acute, subacute and community services in both Australia and the UK.
More recently she has been working as an allied health team leader for a rehabilitation in the home service and in project management, health service performance reporting and health service improvement.