On-Demand VERA Webinar | Use of systems thinking in healthcare and applications to veterinary science | Dr Erika Meler
11 December, 2025 @ 8:00 pm - 11 December, 2026 @ 9:00 pm AEDT
Free - $50.00
Systems thinking is an approach that views healthcare as an interconnected network of people, processes and resources in which each component influences another. In human healthcare, systems thinking has been instrumental in optimizing workflows, enhancing interdisciplinary collaboration and designing more resilient and adaptive health systems. While many of the challenges are similar in veterinary medicine, the use of systems thinking is much less prominent. In this talk, I will present the state of the field in human healthcare and talk about the opportunities systems thinking might open for veterinarians.
Who should attend
All AVA members
Further details
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Our speakers
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- Name
- Dr Erika Meler
- Biography
Dr Erika Meler is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Queensland and Specialist in Small Animal Internal Medicine. Erika has worked in the academic and private setting both as a GP and as a specialist so she knows what it is like to be in the shoes in a GP too! Erika has trained in her career many students, interns, residents, mentored nurses and junior colleagues. Erika's current academic activities encompass 1) clinical management of referral cases and leadership of the small animal internal medicine service at the University of Queensland Veterinary Teaching Hospital, 2) clinical and classroom teaching for veterinary students in their 3d, 4th and 5th years as well as 3) clinical research, leading grant applications and managing large scale projects. Erika’s research areas of interest are minimally-invasive techniques and infectious diseases such as MRSA. She is very much into the use of new technologies such as laser and stenting hence this talk today.
- Job title
- Senior Lecturer in Small Animal Internal Medicine
