President-Elect, Royal Australasian College of Physicians
Sydney, Australia
Professor Jennifer Martin will be appearing as a panel member in a session about Women in Medical Leadership at RACP Congress 2024.
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Professor Martin is President-elect of The Royal Australasian College of Physicians. She is a citizen of both Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand and a practising physician, educator and academic healthcare leader. She gained Fellowship in 2001 and continues to train Basic Trainees and Advanced Trainees in internal medicine and clinical pharmacology.
She has been the Southside Medical Dean at University of Queensland and is the current Chair of Clinical Pharmacology at the University of Newcastle. Her more recent leadership roles include the NSW State Secretary for Rhodes Scholars Australia where she has broadened the selection and representation of NSW Rhodes scholars, elected Councillor of the NSW Divisional Council and Corporate Governance Committee of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, and elected staff representative of the University of Newcastle Council.
President, Royal College of Physicians
London, UK
Dr Sarah Clarke will be appearing as a panel member in a session about Women in Medical Leadership at RACP Congress 2024.
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In July 2022, Dr Sarah Clarke was elected the 122nd President of the Royal College of Physicians, London. Only the fourth female president of the RCP.
She was previously Clinical Vice President RCP, President of the British Cardiovascular Society and Joint National Lead for cardiology for the Getting it Right First Time (GIRFT) program. She is Clinical Director for Strategic Development and an interventional cardiologist at Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge.
Dr Clarke brings a wealth of experience as a senior clinician, educator, leader of change and transformation within organisations and clinical services, and a leader of quality improvement. She has established a network of influence nationally and internationally through her work with NHS England, GIRFT, British Heart Foundation, European Society of Cardiology, and American College of Cardiology (ACC). In 2018 she was awarded the ACC International Service Award.
Immediate Past President, Royal College of
Paediatrics & Child Health
London, UK
Dr Camilla Kingdon will be appearing as a panel member in a session about Women in Medical Leadership at RACP Congress 2024.
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Dr Kingdon is President of the Royal College of Paediatrics & Child Health (RCPCH). Since 2000, Camilla has been a consultant neonatologist at the Evelina London Children’s Hospital with sub-specialty interests in neonatal nutrition, donor milk banking and neurodevelopmental follow up of high- risk neonates.
Dr Kingdon's involvement in medical education is at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She was Head of the London School of Paediatrics and Child Health for five years giving her unique opportunities to see first- hand the highs and lows of working in paediatrics and all its subspecialties, in a wide range of different clinical settings.
She has completed an MA in Medical Careers and particularly enjoys supporting doctors with challenging career dilemmas.
Dr Kingdon’s priorities are to tackle retention issues to sustain a first- class workforce including addressing equality, diversity and inclusion, and to advocate for child health in the context of climate change and wider health inequalities.
Professor of Defence Mental Health, King's College,
President-elect, Society of Occupational Medicine
London, UK
Professor Neil Greenberg will be delivering the Ferguson-Glass Oration at RACP Congress 2024 and will take part in a panel discussion about health and wellbeing in the healthcare sector.
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His work on psychological support for healthcare and other key workers has been published widely. He also runs a psychological health consultancy, March on Stress Ltd.
Professor Greenberg is a consultant academic, occupational and forensic psychiatrist based at King’s College London. Neil served in the United Kingdom Armed Forces for more than 23 years and has deployed, as a psychiatrist and researcher, to several hostile environments including Afghanistan and Iraq.
Professor Greenberg leads on military mental health projects and is a principal investigator within a Health Protection Research unit. He is a past chair of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCP) Special Interest Group in Occupational Psychiatry and led the World Psychiatric Association position statement on mental health in the workplace.
Professor Greenberg is a trustee with the Society and Faculty of Occupational Medicine and in 2023 he was awarded a prestigious honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland. He is the President- elect of the UK’s Society of Occupational Medicine.
Paediatrician-Scientist, University of Auckland
Auckland, New Zealand
Professor Alistair Jan Gunn will be delivering the Howard Williams Medal.
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Professor Gunn is a paediatrician-scientist who works in the Department of Physiology at the University of Auckland.
He has conducted groundbreaking research into the mechanisms and treatment of asphyxial brain injury, identifying compromised fetuses in labour and prevention of life-threatening events in infancy.
Professor Gunn’s research helped to establish mild cooling as the first ever technique to reduce brain injury due to low oxygen levels at birth. This simple and effective treatment is now standard care around the world.
Paediatric Registrar, Sydney Children’s Hospital
Sydney, Australia
Dr Aidan Tan will be a presenter in the Shaping the Physician of the Future session.
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Dr Tan is a Paediatric Registrar at Sydney Children’s Hospital, a scientific researcher and medical academic. He has experience in remote, low resource and low technology settings in The Gambia, Malawi and Mongolia.
Dr Tan has expertise in meta-research and research methods, which he does as a Research Affiliate at the NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre and Sydney Children’s Hospital.
Dr Tan has particular knowledge and skills in evidence-based medicine and clinical epidemiology. He works as an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Sydney and a Conjoint Associate Lecturer at the University of New South Wales and Western Sydney University.
He's the Deputy Chair and an Executive Member of the Council of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, a Council member of the Australian Medical Association (NSW), and a Board Member of the Association for Interdisciplinary Meta-research and Open Science.
Medical Division Director, Northern Health
Melbourne, Australia
Professor Don Campbell will deliver the Priscilla Kincaid-Smith Oration.
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Professor Campbell is a General and Respiratory Physician and Director, Staying Well Program and Hospital Without Walls Division, Northern Health, where he successfully oversaw the Covid Community Monitoring and Support Program in 2020. He is recognised internationally for contributions to healthcare reform and innovation using Systemic Design. He is currently implementing a novel program for high-needs complex patients at Northern Health (Patient Watch), and is a Principal Investigator on a trial of intranasal heparin to reduce Covid 19 transmission within households (Inherit Trial).
His adoption of systemic design principles to guide reform of General Medicine at Monash Health resulted in a reduction in hospital-standardized mortality for patients. He was an invited Faculty member, Innovation in Healthcare and Education, Monash Institute of Health and Education (MIHCE) with Harvard Macy Institute, teaching Design Thinking: 2016 to 2018. Don holds adjunct professorial appointments in both the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing, Health Sciences and Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture at Monash University. He is a Past President of the Adult Medicine Division of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and the Internal Medicine Society of Australia and New Zealand. He was granted Fellowship of Royal College of Physicians, London, 2018 in recognition of his contribution to healthcare.
Chief Health Officer and Deputy Secretary,
Population and Public Health, NSW Health,
Sydney, Australia
Dr Kerry Chant will be delivering the William Redfern Oration and taking part in our session on health reform.
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Dr Chant has extensive public health experience in New South Wales , having held a range of senior positions in NSW Health since 1991. In her current role as Deputy Secretary, Population and Public Health she is responsible for a broad portfolio including communicable disease control, Aboriginal health, surveillance and epidemiology, prevention of chronic diseases, drug and alcohol, oral health, and voluntary assisted dying.
Dr Chant has a particular interest in blood-borne virus infections, Aboriginal health and communicable disease prevention and control. Throughout her career, Dr Chat has provided leadership and advocacy on key public health issues including reducing obesity, aiming for the virtual elimination of HIV transmission in NSW, promoting tobacco control and supporting hepatitis C treatment and control.
Adolescent Physician and General Paediatrician,
Melbourne, Australia
Dr Davina Buntsma will be presenting in the Shaping the Physician of the Future session.
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Dr Buntsma is a recent New Fellow in General Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine working at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne. She has 8 years experience as a trainee representative on RACP committees including as Chair of the College Trainees' Committee and Trainee Board Director. Davina has an ongoing passion and interest in physician training and education.
Master, Academy of Medicine Malaysia
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Professor Rosmawati Mohamed will be speaking in the Women in Medical Leadership Panel.
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Professor Mohamed is a Consultant Hepatologist who has worked tirelessly as an advocate for hepatitis and liver cancer.
She was appointed as the Founding Co-chairperson of the WHO Strategic and Technical Advisory Committee for Viral Hepatitis and is currently the Co-chairperson of the Coalition to Eradicate Viral Hepatitis in the Asia Pacific and a member of the WHO Strategic and Technical Advisory Group on HIV, viral hepatitis, and sexually transmitted infections (STAG-HHS).
She is the Master at the Academy of Medicine of Malaysia (AMM), a professional organisation representing various medical specialties in Malaysia, embracing 12 Colleges and 24 Chapters.
Prof Rosmawati serves in various committees of the Malaysian Medical Council (MMC) governing specialists recognition and continuous professional development (CPD). She worked closely with the IT vendor to develop the specialist register online application system and database currently being used by a formal Memorandum of Agreement between AMM and MMC.
She also assisted to develop the AMM Medical CPD system for Specialist, one of the three CPD Administrators for MMC.
Incoming Chair, College Trainees' Committee
Tasmania, Australia
Dr Kristof Wing will be a presenter in the Shaping the physician of the future session.
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Dr Wing is the incoming Chair of the College Trainees' Committee. He is a Basic Trainee and participates in several peak College committees including the College Education Committee and the recently convened Cross-College Examinations Review Advisory Group. He has worked in diverse settings including Darwin, the remote Northern Territory, rural South Australia and Hobart. He has extensive experience in medical industrial relations, having participated in the negotiation of two state and territory agreements. He is passionate about improving the health status of First Australians, including by addressing Australia's workforce maldistribution.
Paediatric Endocinologist and General Paediatrics Advanced Trainee
Nepean Blue Mountains and Western Sydney Local Health Districts,
Sydney, Australia
Dr Rachel Debono will be presenting in the Shaping the Physician of the Future session.
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Dr Debono is the Paediatric Co-Chair of the NSW/ACT Trainees’ Committee at RACP. She has recently attained RACP Fellowship as a paediatric endocrinologist and is nearing completion of general paediatric advanced training. She currently works in western Sydney, and has a strong commitment to the community she grew up in. She has been involved in trainee advocacy from early in her career and will be part of our panel exploring if we are on the right track to shaping future physicians.
Lead Fellow, Māori Health,
Royal Australasian College of Physicians
Auckland, New Zealand
Dr Dawn-Louise Adair (Ngati Whatua, Nga Ruahine) is taking part in our Indigenous Women in Healthcare Excellence session.
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Dr Adair is a Māori Rehabilitation Medicine Physician and Lead Fellow, Māori Health for the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. She is passionate about supporting, nurturing and serving her Māori whaanau and the community she serves in Spinal Cord Impairment and Amputee Rehabilitation care.
Professor Of Epidemiology and Public Health,
Australian National University,
Canberra, Australia
Professor Emily Banks will be taking part in the Cottrell Memorial Lecture Session.
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Professor Banks is a public health physician and epidemiologist. She works mainly on using large-scale evidence to identify actions to improve health and health care, at an individual and population level. Her main areas of work are in chronic disease, tobacco control, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and healthy ageing. She is Head of the Centre of Epidemiology for Policy and Practice at the Australian National University, an NHMRC Investigator Fellow, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences, a Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford and a Member of the Order of Australia.
Occupational Physician, Positive Medicine
Otago, New Zealand
Dr David Beaumont is taking part in our panel discussion on health and wellbeing in the healthcare sector.
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Dr Beaumont is a consultant occupational physician and former President of the Australasian Faculty of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (AFOEM). He is the author of the award-winning book Positive Medicine: Disrupting the Future of Medical Practice. He widely presents on cutting edge concepts of health, disease and healing.
Executive Director, Health Consumers NSW,
Sydney, Australia
Dr Anthony Brown will be taking part in our session on health reform.
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Dr Brown is the Executive Director of Health Consumers NSW (HCNSW), the health consumer advocacy peak body in NSW. HCNSW works to increase the participation of health consumers in the design, delivery and governance of health services, health policy, and health and medical research.
Anthony is an Adjunct Fellow at the School of Health Sciences, Western Sydney University and a Visiting Fellow at the Australian Centre for Health Engagement, Evidence and Values (ACHEEV), University of Wollongong.
Chair, RACP Regional and Rural Physician Working Group, Queensland, Australia
Professor Nick Buckmaster is chairing our session on health reform.
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Professor Buckmaster is passionate about healthcare improvement through system reform. He has been active in many roles within the College throughout his career, including as a previous Board Director, Chair of College Council and Chair of the Queensland Regional Committee. He is currently chairing the Regional, Rural and Remote Physicians Working Group.
He has been active in many policy and advocacy working groups and has been president of several health organisations including the Internal Medicine Society of Australia and New Zealand (IMSANZ).
Medical Director, Climate Risk & Net Zero Unit,
NSW Health,
Sydney, Australia
Dr Kate Charlesworth will take part in the Practical Climate Action for Physicians panel.
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Dr Charlesworth is a public health physician in Sydney and leads the Climate Risk and Net Zero Unit at NSW Health. Kate initially worked as a hospital doctor in Perth and Sydney, before undertaking much of her public health medicine training in the UK.
In England, she worked in the world-leading Greener NHS program, the leading healthcare decarbonisation program in the world. Kate has worked in sustainability roles across NSW Health since 2018 and has a PhD in low-carbon healthcare.
Director, Centre for Health Informatics,
Macquarie University,
Sydney, Australia
Professor Enrico Coiera will be presenting in the session about Artificial Intelligence in the Healthcare sector.
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Professor Coiera has worked at the intersection of information technology and healthcare for over three decades. Trained in medicine and with a computer science PhD in Artificial Intelligence, he began his postdoctoral career with 10 years at the prestigious Hewlett-Packard Research Laboratories in Bristol, UK.
He is founding Professor in Medical Informatics at Macquarie University and founding Director of the Centre for Health Informatics (CHI), the longest running biomedical and health informatics academic research group in Australia. Professor Coiera is also founder of the Australian Alliance for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare (AAAiH), formed in 2018, and responsible for the National Policy Roadmap for AI in Healthcare launched in 2023. In 2024 he joined the editorial board of New England Journal of Medicine AI.
Professor Coiera has been Chief Investigator on multiple NHMRC grants including two Centres of Research Excellence, and currently has over 417 publications, more than 25,600 citations, and an h-index of 79 (Google Scholar). His internationally recognised textbook, ‘Guide to Health Informatics’, is in its third edition. In 2022, Professor Coiera was editor-in-chief for a special issue on climate change and digital health for the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.
Consultant Occupational Physician
Sydney, Australia
Dr David Crocker will chair the session on Health and Wellbeing in the Healthcare Sector.
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Dr Crocker is a medical graduate of the University of Sydney and following his placements at Royal North Shore Hospital and Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital in Sydney he undertook work in General Practice. He then further trained to become an occupational and environmental medicine physician. David is also an Approved Medical Specialist for the State Insurance Regulatory Authority undertaking medico-legal assessment and training doctors for the AMA in impairment evaluation.
Dr Crocker holds a number of positions on RACP committees. He is currently on the Australasian Faculty of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (AFOEM) Council and is Chair of the AFOEM NSW/ACT Regional Committee. He is a current member of the Congress Program Committee (CPC) for RACP Congress 2024.
Haematologist and Obstetric Physician,
Royal North Shore Hospital
Sydney, Australia
Dr Natalie Cromer will be a presenter in the Specialty Society Rapid Fire Clinical Updates taking place on Friday.
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Dr Cromer is a haematologist and obstetric physician.She works at Royal North Shore Hospital within both the Haematology and Obstetrics Departments. She is also a consultant at Mothersafe at Royal Hospital for Women, advising on medication safety in pregnancy.
She is currently involved in numerous research projects, including non-invasive prenatal testing of foetal RhD status and fetomaternal haemorrhage testing.
Dr Cromer is passionate about the convergence of haematology and obstetric medicine and in providing patient-focused, evidence-based care. She has a strong teaching and education focus, is actively involved in mentoring and is the Trainee Representative on the SOMANZ Council.
Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and General Health and Department of General Practice University of Melbourne,
Melbourne, Australia
Dr Stephen Duckett will be a presenter in the Health Reform session.
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Dr Duckett is an Honorary Enterprise Professor in the School of Population and Global Health and in the Department of General Practice at the University of Melbourne. He has held top health sector leadership positions in Australia and Canada and wrote the book The Australian Health Care System.
Dr Duckett is also an economist, a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, and of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences. He was made a Member of the Order of Australia in January 2023 for significant service to public health policy and management, and to tertiary education.
Professor in Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Sydney
Sydney, Australia
Professor Elizabeth Elliott will be a presenter in the Specialty Society Rapid Fire Clinical Updates taking place on Thursday, and will be chairing the Women in Medical Leadership panel.
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Professor Elliott is a Distinguished Professor in Paediatrics and Child Health at the University of Sydney, Head of the NSW Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) assessment service at the Sydney Children's Hospitals Network, and Chair of the Australian Government's FASD Advisory Committee.
Chief Executive Officer, A Better Culture
Brisbane, Australia
Dr Jillann Farmer will take part in a panel discussion about Health and Wellbeing in the Healthcare Sector.
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Dr Farmer was Medical Director of the United Nations for eight years. During her tenure at the UN, she was responsible for the health, safety and wellbeing of all UN personnel deployed throughout the world and was responsible for the standards in healthcare facilities operating under the UN flag. She managed the UN’s response to the New York wave of COVID-19 in 2020.
Since leaving the UN, she has worked as a Deputy Director General at Queensland Health and as a front-line clinician in primary care and emergency medicine. Prior to serving in the UN, she was the Medical Director of the Patient Safety Centre at Queensland Health, and the inaugural Director of the Clinician Performance Support Service.
Dr Farmer is currently the Chief Executive Officer of a 'A Better Culture', a project to shift the culture of medical practice to one of respect, inclusion and equity.
Clinical and Interventional Cardiologist
Sydney, Australia
Dr Fiona Foo will take part in the Practical Climate Action for Physicians panel.
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Dr Foo is a Clinical and Interventional Cardiologist in Sydney. She attained her MBBS from the University of Western Australia with Honours, and was awarded the prize for medicine.
Dr Foo completed her Basic Training in Concord Hospital and her Advanced Training in Cariology at Fremantle Hospital in Perth. She is one of the first South East Asian (Malaysian/Chinese) woman to qualify as an Interventional Cardiologist in Australia, having completed her Fellowships in Canada and Scotland.
Dr Foo has strong interests in heart disease in women, climate change and cardiovascular disease and sports cardiology, and has presented and written extensively on these. She is an active member of Doctors for the Environment Australia and started the Macquarie University Hospital Sustainability Committee.
For the past ten years, Dr Foo visits Fiji to provide interventional cardiology services and teaching. She has also done aid work in Nepal. Dr Foo practices what she preaches, exercising regularly and has a healthy diet and lifestyle.
Director, Research and Practice Evidence, NDIS Commision
Sydney, Australia
Dr Donna Gillies will be presenting a national linked data analysis and systematic review of international risks to the health of people with disability.
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Dr Gillies has worked as a researcher in a wide range of health and disability-related areas for over 25 years and for the past three years has been Director of Research and Practice Evidence at the NDIS Commission.
She has also worked with national and international experts to identify, analyse, and synthesise research evidence to inform best practice policy and guidelines. Dr Gillies is committed to using high quality research to inform the development and uptake of evidence-based practice for people with a disability.
Clinical Geneticist, Hunter Genetics
Sydney, Australia
Dr Himanshu Goel will be a presenter in the Specialty Society Rapid Fire Clinical Updates taking place on Friday.
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Dr Goel completed his MBBS in 2000 from All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India. He went on to complete his Paediatric and Medical Genetics training in India. He came to Australia as a Fellow in Metabolic Medicine at Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne in 2008. He won a travel scholarship to present his work in the International Congress in Inborn Errors of Metabolism 2009 in San Diego.
He started working as a Clinical Geneticist at Hunter Genetics, NSW Health in 2010. He was a Clinical Lead in General Genetics Service at Hunter Genetics from 2013-2022. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health and Vice President of the Australasian Association of Clinical Geneticists (AACG). His interest areas are general genetics, prenatal genetics, dysmorphology and neurogenetics.
Managing Director, Dr Warren Harrex PTY LTD
Canberra, Australia
Dr Warren Harrex will chair the Ferguson-Glass Oration.
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Dr Harrex was elected President of the Australasian Faculty of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (AFOEM) in May 2022. He has been a consultant occupational and environmental physician in private practice in Canberra for the past two decades.
He has an interest in strategic health policy and for the past decade, has been an active member of RACP committees, mainly in AFOEM.
He is the Chair of the RACP Accelerated Silicosis Lead Fellows Group. He is also the AFOEM representative on the RACP COVID-19 Clinical Expert Reference Group. He was a co-author of an article in Respirology: ‘COVID-19 infection and the broader impacts of the pandemic on healthcare workers’.
Dr Harrex has been a past Chair of the AFOEM Policy and Advocacy Committee. From 2015 to 2022, he was the Chair of the RACP Executive Committee promoting the Health Benefits of Good Work™ campaign. He received a President’s Award for this contribution.
In addition to his private practice, he has provided consultancy services to several government departments, mainly the Australian Department of Veterans. He was the principal investigator for the Korean War Veterans Mortality Study and co-author of several health studies of veterans. From 2005 until 2022, he was contracted part-time to DVA as the Senior Medical Advisor in health care policy.
Before entering private practice, he served in the RAAF for 26 years. He was promoted to the rank of Air Commodore and was the Director General of Clinical Services for the Australian Defence Force and the Director General of Air Force Health Services. In 1998 he transferred to the RAAF Reserve and saw active service with the UN peacekeeping mission in East Timor in 2003. He chaired the ADF medical officers credentialing committee from 2003 until he retired from the RAAF in 2022.
Clinical Research Professor,
Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Health Advancement, Flinders Northern Territory,
Darwin, Australia
Professor Jaqui Hughes will be speaking in the Indigenous Women in Healthcare Excellence session.
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Professor Hughes is a Wagadagam woman of Mabuyag island in the Torres Strait. She has been leading a health systems cultural safety project within the RACP Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Committee. She practices as a nephrologist on Larrakia Country and leads clinical research at Flinders University (Darwin).
College Dean,
The Royal Australasian College of Physicians
Sydney, Australia
Associate Professor Kudzai Kanhutu will be chairing the Eric Susman Prize session .
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Associate Professor Kanhutu is the Dean of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians with a broad portfolio encompassing workforce planning, research, philanthropy and global health. A general infectious diseases physician, she continues to provide clinical care to patients at Royal Melbourne Hospital (RMH). Associate Professor Kudzai takes a keen interest in social justice and has received national award recognition for her contribution to refugee care and digital health initiatives. She has a particular interest in technical solutions to health problems from her experiences of health innovation in her birth country Zimbabwe and working in rural and regional Australia.
Manager Indigenous Strategy, Policy & Advocacy,
Royal Australasian College of Physicians
Sydney, Australia
Mr Lee Bradfield will be chairing the Cultural Safety session.
Dr Tony Gill is a public health physician who is a Principal Medical Adviser in the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) and heads the Advanced Biological and Therapies Section in the Prescription Medicines Authorisation Branch. In this role he leads a section involved in the clinical evaluation and market authorisation decision making for gene therapies and cell therapies as well as being involved in developing policy on emerging advanced therapies.
He commenced work at the TGA in February 2010 following 25 years in the Australian Army and has filled various roles including acting Chief Medical Adviser of the TGA and Senior Medical Adviser roles until before moving to his current position in February 2022. In the TGA he has been involved in the regulation of unapproved therapeutic goods, the clinical evaluation of medicines, biologicals and medical devices, and the scheduling of medicines. As well Dr Gill was the lead for the introduction of TGA’s medicine shortages section and its medicinal cannabis section. Dr Gill is the current President-elect of AFPHM and is the past Chair of both the Faculty Training Committee and the Faculty Education Committee. He is Chair of the Faculty Policy and Advocacy Committee.
Kaitohutohu Ahurea,
Royal Australasian College of Physicians
Bay of Plenty, New Zealand
Mrs Nicky McCurdy will be chairing the Indigenous Women in Healthcare Excellence session.
Dr Mann is Head of the Department for Rehabilitation Medicine at Ryde/Royal North Shore Hospitals and has a particular interest in policy and advocacy.
Principal Medical Adviser,
Therapeutic Goods Administration,
Canberra, Australia
Dr Tony Gill will be chairing the Development of the Australian Centre for Disease Control session.
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Dr Tony Gill is a public health physician who is a Principal Medical Adviser in the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) and heads the Advanced Biological and Therapies Section in the Prescription Medicines Authorisation Branch. In this role he leads a section involved in the clinical evaluation and market authorisation decision making for gene therapies and cell therapies as well as being involved in developing policy on emerging advanced therapies.
He commenced work at the TGA in February 2010 following 25 years in the Australian Army and has filled various roles including acting Chief Medical Adviser of the TGA and Senior Medical Adviser roles until before moving to his current position in February 2022. In the TGA he has been involved in the regulation of unapproved therapeutic goods, the clinical evaluation of medicines, biologicals and medical devices, and the scheduling of medicines. As well Dr Gill was the lead for the introduction of TGA’s medicine shortages section and its medicinal cannabis section. Dr Gill is the current President-elect of AFPHM and is the past Chair of both the Faculty Training Committee and the Faculty Education Committee. He is Chair of the Faculty Policy and Advocacy Committee.
Rehabilitation Medicine Physician,
Northern Sydney Local Health District
Sydney, Australia
Dr Jennifer Mann will chair the National Disability Insurance Scheme: What is the future? session.
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Dr Mann is Head of the Department for Rehabilitation Medicine at Ryde/Royal North Shore Hospitals and has a particular interest in policy and advocacy.
Staff Specialist, Sydney Children's Hospitals Network
Sydney, Australia
Dr Jane Ho will be a presenter in the Specialty Society Rapid Fire Clinical Updates taking place on Friday.
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Dr Ho is a paediatrician and adolescent physician at the Sydney Children's Hospitals Network. She started Trapeze, the transition to adult care service and also works in the Eating Disorder service at the Children's Hospital at Westmead. She is co-chair of NSW's Agency for Clinical Innovation Transition Care Network.
Staff Specialist, General Paediatrician,
John Hunter Children's Hospital,
Sydney, Australia
Dr Elkie Hull will be participating in the Indigenous Women in Healthcare Excellence session.
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Dr Hull is a proud Gamillaraay (Kamilaroi) woman from North West New South Wales. She is also a proud Indigenous Doctor and when she received her FRACP in August 2023, was one of only two paediatricians’ in Australia, and the only Indigenous paediatrician in NSW Health. As a passionate and dedicated paediatrician, she is seeking an opportunity to showcase her skills and experience to enable better health outcomes for young people. Dr Hull prides herself on her ability to provide exemplary patient care in the community and hospital setting. A strong interest in Indigenous and community health has allowed Dr Hull to expand her knowledge and skillset as she strives to better the health care for Indigenous children and families.
Director Paediatrician & Clinical Academic,
Child Development Paediatrics & University of Sydney,
Sydney, Australia
Dr Sandra Johnson will be a presenter in the Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare session.
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Dr Johnson is a consultant paediatrician in private practice and clinical academic at the University of Sydney. Sandra is a currently a member of RACP Digital Health Advisory Group, is the RACP representative to Australian Institute of Digital Health and was Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) representative on the Australian National Children’s Digital Health Collaborative. Dr Johnson has privately studied AI in healthcare over the past 10 years and she has published peer reviewed articles on AI. She has a textbook on Child Development, and she has written chapters in textbooks on Legal Medicine and Artificial Intelligence for health. She is fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine UK, Fellow of Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health UK, Fellow of Royal Australasian College of Physicians, Fellow of Australasian College of Legal Medicine and Honorary Fellow of American College of Legal Medicine. She was the President of the Australasian College of Legal Medicine in 2018 and 2019.
Professor, Alfred Hospital
Melbourne, Australia
Professor Paul Komesaroff will be participating in the Ethics and Access to Medicines - Conundrums and Practical Challenges session.
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Professor Komesaroff is a physician, medical researcher and philosopher at Monash University in Melbourne, where he is Professor of Medicine. He is also Executive Director of the international NGO Global Reconciliation and a former President of Adult Medicine in the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP).
His work spans a wide range of disciplines, encompassing clinical practice, laboratory, clinical and social science research and ethics. The latter addresses the impact of new technologies on health and society, consent in research, the experience of illness, end of life issues, psychological effects of trauma, impact of artificial intelligence, and cross-cultural teaching and learning. His international work covers reconciliation and healing after conflict and social crisis, the nature and impact of foreign aid, and capacity building in global health.
In addition to the roles mentioned above, Professor Komesaroff is a present or past member or chair of numerous committees in professional societies, institutions and government in Australia and internationally. He is a board member of various NGOs and is a Past President of the Australasian Bioethics Association.
He is the Chair of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry and Ethics Editor of the Internal Medicine Journal. He is the author of more than 500 articles in science, ethics and philosophy, and author or editor of seventeen books, including Riding a crocodile: a physician’s tale (2014), Experiments in love and death (2014 and 2008), Continent aflame (2020), Pathways to reconciliation (2008), Objectivity, science and society (2nd ed. 2009), and Troubled bodies (1996).
Endocrinologist, Royal Melbourne Hospital,
Melbourne, Australia
Dr Rahul Barmanray will be chairing the Rapid Fire Clinical Updates taking place on Friday.
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Dr Barmanray is an endocrinologist and general physician at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and is completing data collection for his PhD focussing on technology-enhanced proactive inpatient diabetes management and improving outcomes, particularly reducing healthcare-associated infection rates. He has a passion for education and has been involved in both teaching and curriculum development in the medical and Scouting fields. His special interest in endocrinology is in the management of type 2 diabetes and realising the promise of modern data analytical and patient-interface technologies.
President, Paediatrics and Child Health Division,
Royal Australasian College of Physicians,
Brisbane, Australia
Professor Nitin Kapur will be chairing the Howard Williams Medal session.
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Professor Kapur is a Respiratory and Sleep Paediatrician at the Queensland Children's Hospital. He is also the Director of Paediatric Education (DPE) and the Director of Clinical Training (DCT) at the same hospital. Nitin is the current President of the Paediatric and Child Health Division of the RACP.
Chief Medical Officer and Head of Interim Australian Centre for Disease Control,
Canberra, Australia
Professor Paul Kelly will be providing an update on the phased approach to the Australian government’s Centre for Disease Control.
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Professor Kelly is currently the Australian Chief Medical Officer and Head of the Interim Australian Centre for Disease Control at the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care. A public health physician and epidemiologist by training, Professor Kelly first joined the Department in March 2019 as the Chief Medical Adviser, Health Products Regulation Group. Prior to these appointments, Professor Kelly spent 8 years as Chief Health Officer for the Australian Capital Territory and Deputy Director-General of Population Health in the ACT Government Health Directorate.
Professor Kelly has previously worked in research, health systems development, post-graduate teaching and as a health service executive including Director of Australia’s field epidemiology program at the Australian National University (ANU), and in the Northern Territory working as a Principal Research Fellow with the Menzies School of Health Research, as well as with the Centre for Disease Control in the NT Department of Health. Professor Kelly has also worked in Malawi, Indonesia, East Timor and the UK.
Professor Kelly has over 30 years research experience and has published over 130 peer reviewed journal articles, book chapters and public health guidelines. He has supervised or mentored many trainees and post-graduate students and delivered lectures, workshops, seminars and conference talks in Australia and internationally.
Director Rehabilitation,
Royal Melbourne Hospital and University of Melbourne,
Melbourne, Australia
Professor Fary Khan will be delivering the George Burniston Oration.
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Professor Khan is the Director of Rehabilitation at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Victoria, Australia. She is Adjunct Professor at the Nossal Institute of Global Health and Vice President of the International Society of Physical & Rehabilitation Medicine (ISPRM). Professor Khan was also inducted into the US National Academy of Medicine, and awarded the Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for outstanding contribution to rehabilitation medicine and disability in 2022. She sits on the Board of the Rehabilitation Medicine Society of Australia & New Zealand (RMSANZ).
She is the Australian Representative at the Asia Oceanian Society of Neurorehabilitation and current elected Vice President of the society. She is an Executive member of various national and international committees including the WHO-ISPRM Liaison Committee, the UN-ISPRM Liaison Committee, the Women’s Health Task Force, the Cancer Rehabilitation Network ISPRM, ISPRM Disaster Rehabilitation Committee and ClinFIT Taskforce, RMSANZ Disaster Rehabilitation-SIG, and others. She is also sub-editor for rehabilitation for the Cochrane Collaboration in Milan; and the section editor for the new 7th Edition of Delisa: Principles of Rehabilitation Medicine.
Professor Khan has over 20 years of experience in neurological, cancer and trauma rehabilitation. She set up specialised rehabilitation programs for specific conditions such as multiple sclerosis, Guillain-Barre syndrome, stroke, oncology, musculoskeletal injuries and disaster management. She was awarded: the Sydney Licht Award by the ISPRM in 2018, the Haim Ring Award in 2020 for education and capacity-building efforts; and the Joel A. DeLisa Lectureship Award-2021, by the Association of Academic Physiatrists (AAP) USA and many others. These prestigious awards are given in recognition of her significant contributions to the advancement in developing Rehabilitation Medicine and consistent contribution to building evidence-based practices in Rehabilitation (>450 scientific publications), promoting community-based rehabilitation programs and various models for health service delivery, developing measurement and clinical outcome evaluation, innovation in disability-related healthcare, building global capacity in rehabilitation medicine and leading the international task force for developing disaster relief for rehabilitation services.
Paediatrician, Te Whatu Ora Lakes,
Bay of Plenty, New Zealand
Dr Danny de Lore will be participating in the Cultural Safety session.
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Dr de Lore is a general paediatrician at Rotorua Hospital and a Senior Lecturer with the Auckland School of Medicine and Te Kupenga Hauora Māori. He studied medicine at the University of Otago and trained in Paediatrics in Christchurch, Brisbane and Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. He is Deputy Chair of the Māori Health Committee of the RACP. His areas of interest include Māori Health, Medical Education and Paediatric Diabetes.
Gastroenterologist
and Consultant, Austin Health
Melbourne, Australia
Associate Professor Chris Leung will chair the Practical Climate Action for Physicians session.
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Associate Professor Leung is a gastroenterologist and consultant in general medicine at Austin Health. He is the Medical Lead in the Clinical Education Unit and the Clinical Lead for the Choosing Wisely program. He is also the Academic Lead of the MD Research Program at Austin Clinical School for Melbourne University.
He is also Deputy Chair of the Board at Doctors for the Environment and is on their Sustainable Healthcare Interest Group and the Research, Education and Advocacy Committee.
Associate Professor Leung is a member of the Gastroenterological Society of Australia (GESA) Sustainability Network and was awarded the inaugural 2023 GESA Sustainability Grant, a national competitive research grant in climate action.
Chris is on a number of RACP committees including the Congress Planning Committee for RACP Congress 2024, the MCQ Writing Panel, and the College Policy and Advocacy Council (CPAC), where climate justice, First Nations health equity and population health reform are priority areas.
His other appointments include Past Executive of the Chinese Health Promotion Coalition (aiming to ensure equity for CALD communities), Past-President of the Australasian Council of Chinese Medical Associations (Auckland, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria) and Past-President of the Australian Chinese Medical Association (Victoria). He has also provided endoscopic training through the World Gastroenterology Organisation and education through the Australian and New Zealand Gastroenterology International Training Association.
Professor of Respiratory Medicine, University of WA
Perth, Australia
Professor Y C Gary Lee is the Eric Susman Prize recipient and will be presenting his research.
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Professor Lee is a Professor of respiratory medicine at the University of Western Australia. He is also a consultant chest physician at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital where he set up and directs Australia’s first centralised hospital pleural service. Professor Lee is a world leader in pleural research and leads a translational research group at the Institute for Respiratory Health. His pleural program uniquely integrates clinical, lab and allied health research arms with his clinical pleural service.
Professor Lee has led several high-profile investigator-led multicentre randomised trials. He has an H-index of 66 (total citations 15,000+) from 330 publications including 10+ papers in the New Engl J Med, JAMA and Lancet journals. His publications have been cited in 20+ international guidelines directly impacting global practice.
Professor Lee was the recipient of the Research Medal of the Thoracic Society of Australia & New Zealand (2021) and of the Asian Pacific Society of Respirology (2016). He received the UWA Senior Research Award in 2023 and was the Cancer Council WA Researcher of the Year in 2019. He is currently a NHMRC Leadership Fellow after winning successive NHMRC/MRFF Fellowships. He has delivered ~400 invited lectures on pleural diseases in 32 countries and has trained 30+ clinical Fellows/PhD students.
Co-Founder and CEO, Lyrebird Health,
Melbourne, Australia
Mr Kai Van Lieshout will be participating in the Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare session.
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Kai is the Co-Founder and CEO of Lyrebird Health and has previously worked at St Vincents Hospital's ACMD lab and Tesla Motors in California. Kai is passionate about helping clinicians truly connect with their patients and enjoy the work they do instead of being burdened by documentation and administrative work.
General Practitioner, Hornsby Doctors
Sydney, Australia
Dr Michael Moore will be participating in the Health Reform session.
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Dr Moore trained as a GP, doing his internship at Hornsby Hospital in 1984, gained his FRACGP, and after some years in public hospital administration and in general practice took up the role of CEO at the original Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Division of General Practice, back in 1992.
Dr Moore worked in the organised primary care sector for the next 30 years, working in divisions of general practice, Medicare locals and most recently in primary health networks, building extensive experience in member engagement, clinical trial logistics and facilitating diffusion of best practice into the primary care sector. Michael was CEO of Central and Eastern Sydney PHN (CESPHN) from its inception in 2015 until he retired in 2022.
He has particular experience in integrating primary care systems with the public hospital system and has been involved in policy development and strategic planning at an organisational, local health district and at a state and national level. Under his leadership, CESPHN was one of only a few PHNs that maintained the Medicare local inclusive view of primary care and continued to involve local allied health providers in their core activities.
Dr Moore is a passionate about optimising the contribution of primary and community based care to the health of our wider community, maintained an active presence in general practice through most of this time, and in fact since retiring from his role as CEO of Central Eastern Sydney PHN can still be found working as a part time GP in private practice in Hornsby.
Associate Professor Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Public Health, Flinders University,
Adelaide, Australia
Associate Professor Tamara Mackean will be participating in the Indigenous Women in Healthcare Excellence and Cultural Safety sessions.
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Associate Professor Mackean is a Waljen woman and Fellow of Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine. She leads the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Public Health Research Team in the College of Medicine and Public Health at Flinders University. Her research includes examining the root causes of health and social inequity with a focus on the identification of barriers, enablers, and gaps within health systems and structures. Through a commitment to decolonisation and working at the interface of knowledge systems, she brings together her public health knowledge and her cultural standpoint to generate new ways of working and new evidence for best practice and policy.
Paediatric Basic Physician Trainee, Logan Hospital,
Brisbane, Australia
Dr Kimberley Male will be participating in the Cultural Safety session.
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Dr Male is a proud Dharug woman from north-west Sydney, NSW. She is training to become a paediatrician at Logan Hospital in Queensland and aspires to become a Fellow in Neonatology or Perinatal Medicine. In 2023, Dr Male received the prestigious Indigenous Health Scholarship in Paediatrics and Child Health.
In 2024, Dr Male was elected the Chair of the RACP Culturally Safe Supervision Project Working Group. Dr Male has been working with the College to develop an extraordinary suite of resources aiming to reform the cultural landscape of medicine. This work is more than just a single project, it's about igniting a revolution of cultural understanding and inclusivity for generations to come. Dr Male was also recently elected to be the new Chair of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Committee (ATSIHC), a role in which she is honoured to be given the opportunity to flourish in.
Dr Male is passionate about academics and clinical teaching of both medical students and junior doctors and is committed to supporting the diverse needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients.
Prior to embarking on her roles with the College, Dr Male has undertaken various other positions which have been formative in her career to date, including BPT representative for the Queensland Trainees’ Committee, clinical coaching for medical students and delivering sessions at the High School Health Adventure Program at Somerville House and the St Thomas More College “Becoming MORE Program”.
She has also been involved in research development at the Institute for Urban Indigenous Health, assessing the health and well-being of incarcerated Indigenous mothers and their children in Queensland prisons. This experience had a profound impact on Dr Male, highlighting the inequities in healthcare access and the need to advocate for change.
President, ASCEPT, St Vincents Hospital Sydney/UNSW
Sydney, Australia
Associate Professor Bridin Murnion will be participating the Ethics and Access to Medicines - Conundrums and Practical Challenges session and presenting in the Specialty Society Rapid Fire Clinical Updates on Thursday.
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Associate Professor Murnion studied pharmacology and medicine at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. She holds three fellowships: FRACP in Clinical Pharmacology, FFPMANZCA and FAChAM. She is currently a Senior Staff Specialist in Clinical Pharmacology at St Vincents Hospital Sydney and Clinical Pharmacology/Addiction Medicine at Northern Sydney Local Health District. She is Conjoint Associate Professor, School of Medicine and Health, University of New South Wales and Clinical Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney. Her current research interests focus on the clinical pharmacology of opioids and Quality Use of Medicines (QUM) in vulnerable populations.
Pro-Vice Chancellor Health Futures, Dean of Medicine,
Western Sydney University,
Sydney, Australia
Professor Rod McClure will be chairing the Gerry Murphy Prize session.
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Professor McClure is Professor of Public Health Medicine South Western Sydney Local Health District, and Pro-Vice Chancellor Health Futures and Dean, School of Medicine at Western Sydney University. Since being awarded his PhD in Epidemiology and Population Health in 1995, he has had a comprehensive international career with clinical, administrative, education and research contributions across the public, private and government sectors. He is the current Board Chair of the nib foundation, and is a Council Member of the Australian Faculty of Public Health Medicine.
Kulkalgul Elder, The Royal Australasian
College of Physicians,
Brisbane, Australia
Associate Professor Phillip Mills will be participating in the Cultural Safety session.
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Associate Professor Mills is a Kulkalgul Elder from Zenadth Kes Torres Strait, born into a reservation life and having experienced all the policies of termination, segregation to assimilations. Phillip worked in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health almost all of his working life, and in the last 17 years as CEO for the Health Service in the Torres Strait with Queensland Health, where he converted the mainstream core business to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health. His management responsibility covered the state public health system (hospitals and primary health care centres), population health (chronic lifestyle diseases and infectious disease outbreaks) and international health (cross-border communicable disease surveillance and early intervention program).
Paediatrician, Developmental Medicine Consulting,
Sydney, Australia
Dr Michael McDowell will be a presenter in the Specialty Society Rapid Fire Clinical Updates taking place on Friday.
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Dr McDowell is a paediatrician specialising in child development and behavioural disorders. He was the Foundation President of the Australasian Society for Developmental Paediatrics (formerly NBPSA) and continues to take an active role in this society.
Dr McDowell is an Associate Professor at the University of Queensland, and completed his medical and paediatric training in Sydney. He took further training at the Children's Hospital, Boston, USA, where he also competed an MPH at Harvard. He is a Churchill Fellow and has completed a PhD at the University of Queensland. He has recently retired from his Sydney private practice.
Infectious Diseases Clinician Researcher, Head of Infectious Diseases Clinical Research Unit Alfred Hospital ID Physician Monash Medical Centre
Melbourne, Australia
Associate Professor James McMahon will be a presenter in the Specialty Society Rapid Fire Clinical Updates taking place on Thursday.
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Associate Professor McMahon is an infectious diseases clinician researcher. He is Head of the Infectious Diseases Clinical Research Unit at the Alfred Hospital, President of Australasian Society for HIV, Viral Hepatitis and Sexual Health Medicine (ASHM) and an infectious diseases physician at Monash Medical Centre. His research interests are in clinical trials focused on HIV cure and treatment, on which he will provide an update at Congress.
Senior Staff Specialist, Gastroenterology and Hepatology,
The Prince Charles Hospital,
Brisbane, Australia
Professor Tony Rahman will be chairing the Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare session and Rapid Fire Clinical Updates taking place on Thursday.
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Adjunct Professor Rahman is a Pre-Eminent, Senior Staff Specialist, Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Past Chair, Queensland Gastroenterology Network, currently employed at Prince Charles Hospital. He is actively involved in national, statewide and local committees that have led to national and state-based Gastroenterology and Hepatology guidelines (Home Affairs/Refugee and Prison Health, CPC, Hepatitis-C fast track pathways (CURE-IT)), facilitating new, innovative and implemented clinical care pathways.
He runs a research group, with a successful track record in grant applications including NHMRC. He has recieved multiple awards including Australia Day Awards, local, national and international awards for Excellence in Patient Care. Collaborations include, QUT, UQ, Sunshine Coast University and James Cook University. He has authored chapters in books, papers in journals and abstracts at local, national and international meetings.
Cardiology Trainee, Canberra Hospital
Canberra, Australia
Dr Anupam Rao will be speaking in the panel discussion about Artificial Intelligence.
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Dr Rao is an Advanced Trainee in General Medicine with a passion for patient and clinician focused integration of technology into healthcare. With a broad range of experience as a junior medical officer and later as a medical registrar, Dr Rao has a deep understanding of chronic disease, the needs of complex patients as well as the challenges facing contemporary health care providers.
This is complemented by technical skills in programming and machine learning, as well as awards and prizes in Quality Improvement and Innovation. Dr Rao is a Clinical Associate Lecturer at the University of Sydney, a published author in both national and international peer-reviewed journals and is involved in special interest groups in Artificial Intelligence, AI Governance and the roll out of Digital Health Infrastructure.
In his spare time, he also enjoys making and breaking technology. Dr Rao is excited to bring this unique perspective to discussions on the future of AI in medicine.
Chief Medical Wellness Officer / Rheumatologist, Sydney Local Health District
Sydney, Australia
Dr Bethan Richards will take part in a panel discussion about Health and Wellbeing in the Healthcare Sector.
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Dr Bethan Richards is a Staff Specialist Rheumatologist at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney and Deputy Director of the Institute for Musculoskeletal Health. In 2019, following her return from Stanford, Bethan had the honour of being appointed Chief Medical Wellness Officer in the Sydney Local Health District – an Australian first. She is also the District’s inaugural MDOK Centre Director.
Dr Richards has a passion for research, and designing and implementing mentoring, teaching, leadership and wellbeing programs. Following a successful pilot, her MDOK wellbeing program offering over 200 initiatives has been rolled out to over 3000 doctors across the Sydney Local Health District and is now being extended to all 14,000 staff.
Clinical Director, RPAH
Sydney, Australia
Dr Arianne Sweeting will be a presenter in the Specialty Society Rapid Fire Clinical Updates taking place on Friday.
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Dr Sweeting is an endocrinologist and clinician researcher in maternal metabolic health at the University of Sydney and Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney. She is the immediate Past President and Chair of ADIPS, a member of the IADPSG Council, and was Chair of the ADA/EASD Precision Medicine in Diabetes Initiative for Gestational Diabetes Diagnosis Working Group.
Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Health Research, University of Notre Dame Australia,
Perth, Australia
Dr Rachel Skoss will be a presenter in the National Disability Insurance Scheme session taking place on Thursday.
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Dr Skoss is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Health Research, University of Notre Dame Australia. Informed by her equally important role as primary carer of a young person with intellectual disability, she is a member of the consumer advisory group for the Royal Australian College of Physicians, and a carer representative on the Neuro-psychiatric and Developmental Disability subcommittee of the Mental Health Network.
Dr Skoss holds a Doctorate and Bachelor of Science from the University of Western Australia, and a Masters of Evaluation from the University of Melbourne. Her research focuses on the interface between the disability sector and mainstream services in health, mental health, and education. She uses a health literacy approach to improve the health and wellbeing outcomes of people with intellectual disabilities.
She has been on the WA Disability Services Commission board, as chair of the Ministerial Advisory Council on Disability, and as a Director for Mosaic Community Care. She has contributed to the national reform of disability funding and services via the National Disability Insurance Scheme, from a governance role during early implementation of the scheme, state-wide consultation with consumers regarding the scheme, and through policy development for the National Disability Insurance Agency.
Congress 2024 Lead Fellow and Chair,
Congress Program Committee
Sydney, Australia
Dr Greg Stewart will be chairing the William Redfern Oration session.
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After forty years in the NSW Health system as a clinician, public health physician and senior manager, Dr Greg Stewart retired in April 2020 from his position as Director of Primary, Integrated and Community Health for South-Eastern Sydney Local Health District (2011-20).
His career has spanned a full range of management and public health activities in NSW Health, including as Director of the South-Western Sydney Public Health Unit (1990-96), Chief Executive Officer of Wentworth Area Health Service (2000-01), Chief Health Officer of NSW (2001-05) and Director of Population Health, Planning and Performance for Sydney South West Area Health Service (2005-11).
Dr Stewart undertook his medical training at the University of Sydney and graduated in 1979. In 1984, he undertook a Master of Public Health degree, also at the University of Sydney. He is a Foundation Fellow of the Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine (1990) and was President of the Faculty from May 2014 to May 2016.
He serves as Chair of the AFPHM NSW Regional Committee and is the NSW Regional Education Coordinator. He chairs the Faculty Training Committee and serves on the Faculty Education Committee. He served two terms on the RACP Board (2014-2016 and 2020-2021) and until April 2024 was a member of the RACP Ethics Committee.
He was recalled to duty from July to October 2020 and again from July to November 2021 to assist in the NSW Health COVID-19 Public Health Response Branch. There he was a Deputy Public Health Controller and Senior Medical Advisor, working on a range of activities related to prevention and response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Paediatric Endocrinologist,
The Children's Hospital Westmead,
Sydney, Australia
Associate Professor Shubha Srinivasan will be presenting in the Specialty Society Rapid Fire Clinical Updates taking place on Friday.
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Associate Professor Srinivasan is a senior staff specialist paediatric endocrinologist. She is co-director of The Institute of Endocrinology and Diabetes, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead and Clinical Associate Professor in the Discipline of Child and Adolescent Health in the Faculty of Medicine at The University of Sydney. Professor Srinivasan is an ANZSPED (Australia and New Zealand Society for Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes) Council Member. She co-chairs the Sydney Children's Hospital Differences of Sex Development (DSD) multidisciplinary team meetings and co-chaired the ANZSPED (formerly APEG) DSD subcommittee from 2013 to 2018.
Professor Research Fellow, Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania
Tasmania, Australia
Professor Bruce Taylor will be a presenter in the Specialty Society Rapid Fire Clinical Updates taking place on Thursday.
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Professor Taylor is a clinician researcher with more than 25 years of experience in Multiple Sclerosis (MS) research. He has been involved in groundbreaking research into the causes of MS and the factors associated with a differential rate of disease progression.
He has expertise in developing and managing large and complex datasets and has led the development and implementation of some of the most important MS research outputs during the last 25 years.
He has also contributed to our current understanding of the genetic architecture of MS which has resulted in multiple high impact papers in journals such as Nature, Nature Genetics, Science and Cell. The AUSLONG study that he leads has been supported through three consecutive NHMRC grants and is one of the world's longest continuous study of early MS, with some participants entering their 21st year on the study. The findings from this study have greatly increased our understanding of the risk factors associated with MS onset and progression.
Overall, he has published over 400 manuscripts with more than 3,3000 citations and received 25 major research grants totaling more than $30M. Prof Taylor has supervised 20 PhD students to completion. He has served on the governing council of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Neurologists for the past 6 years and represented neurology on the council of the RACP for 2 years.
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Nuclear Medicine Physician, Austin Health,
Melbourne, Australia
Professor Sze Ting Lee will be presenting in the Specialty Society Rapid Fire Clinical Updates taking place on Friday.
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Prof Lee is a Nuclear Medicine Physician at the Department of Molecular Imaging and Therapy at Austin Health, Melbourne. She is the Deputy Director and Director of Training, the PET Lead in Theranostics and Lymphoma PET Trials in the department. Her clinical and research interests lie in the novel tracers and applications of Molecular Imaging and Therapy in Oncological diseases, from phase 1 antibody trials through to participating in multicentre phase 3 clinical trials in this space. Prof Lee is the Immediate Past President of the Australasian Association of Nuclear Medicine Specialists (AANMS), which is the representative body for education, training, advocacy and governmental relations of medical practitioners in nuclear medicine. Prof Lee chairs the AANMS Theranostics Committee, which also developed the first Guidelines in Theranostics Practice in Australasia. She is a member of the Committee for Joint College Training (CJCT) in Nuclear Medicine, AANMS Theranostics Course and Case Library Committee, and Australasian Training Site Accreditation Committee (TSAC). She has been a past Secretary-General of the World Federation of Nuclear Medicine and Biology (2014-2018). She is the nominated lead for establishing the Minimum Training Standards in Theranostics for the IAEA/Lancet Oncology Commission on Theranostics.
Clinical Ethics Consultant and Clinical Stream Director Palliative and End of Life Care,
South Eastern Sydney Local Health District Clinical Ethics
Sydney, Australia
Dr Linda Sheahan will be a presenter in the Ethics and Access to Medicines - Conundrums and Practical Challenges session .
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Linda is a Clinical Ethics Consultant and lead for South East Sydney Local Health Service in NSW. She is also the clinical Stream Director for Palliative and End of Life Care for SESLHD, and works clinically as a Palliative Care physician at St George Hospital in Sydney.
Distinguished Laureate Professor,
University of Newcastle,
Sydney, Australia
Professor Nicholas Talley will be participating in the Practical Climate Action for Physicians session.
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Professor Talley is currently the Director of the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Digestive Health at the University of Newcastle, Australia and an NHMRC Leadership 3 Fellow. He is a Senior Staff Specialist at the John Hunter Hospital, Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales and Distinguished Laureate Professor at the University of Newcastle.
He is a highly cited researcher and has a major research interest in low-grade gastrointestinal inflammation, small intestinal immune activation and the microbiome in unexplained GI diseases and disorders of gut-brain interactions.
Chair, Intellectual Disability Mental Health & Head, Department of Developmental Disability Neuropsychiatry, University of New South Wales,
Sydney, Australia
Professor Julian Trollor will be a presenter in the National Disability Insurance Scheme session taking place on Thursday.
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Professor Trollor is a neuropsychiatrist and holds the role of inaugural Chair of Intellectual Disability Mental Health at the University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney). He also heads the Department of Developmental Disability Neuropsychiatry (3DN) and is a NHMRC Leadership Fellow all at UNSW Sydney. Julian is also acting Director for the Centre of Excellence in Intellectual Disability Health, a new initiative in 2023.
Professor Trollor and his 3DN team work to improve health policy, practice and supports for people with an intellectual or developmental disability. The team is involved in teaching, training, health promotion, and the development of educational resources. 3DN conducts research with high translational benefit to the disability and health sectors and provides consultancy of the highest standard, including clinical consultations, advocacy and contributions to policy and legislative reviews.
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Director - Medical Education,
WA Country Health Service,
President of the Adult Medicine Division,
Perth, Australia
Professor Graeme Maguire will be chairing the Priscilla Kincaid-Smith Oration and the Cottrell Memorial Lecture.
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Adjunct Professor Graeme Maguire is the Director of Medical Education for WA Country Health Service (WACHS). He was previously the Deputy Dean of Medicine at Curtin University, head of General Internal Medicine at Western Health, Melbourne and a Divisional Director at the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute in Melbourne and Alice Springs.
Additionally, he has lived and worked as a general and respiratory physician and researcher across regional Australia and continues to provide remote physician outreach services whenever he can. He is also the President of the Adult Medicine Division of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and Chair of the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare’s expert advisory group on asthma and other chronic respiratory conditions.
Nephrologist, RPAH,
Sydney, Australia
Professor Kate Wyburn will be a presenter in the Specialty Society Rapid Fire Clinical Updates taking place on Friday.
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Professor Wyburn is a full-time clinical transplant nephrologist, Head of the Division of Medicine, Deputy Director of Renal Medicine, and Head of Kidney Transplantation at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. She is also President of the Transplantation Society of Australia and New Zealand. .
Haematologist/bmt Physician,
Royal North Shore Hospital,
Sydney, Australia
Professor Ian Kerridge will be chairing the Ethics and Access to Medicines - Conundrums and Practical Challenges .
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Professor Kerridge is Staff Haematologist/Bone Marrow Transplant physician at Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney and Professor of Bioethics and Medicine at Sydney Health Ethics at the University of Sydney. He is Chair of the South East Sydney LHD Clinical Ethics Committee, Steering Committee member of the Australian Ethical Health Alliance (AEHA), a member of the Health Ethics Advisory Panel (HEAP) for the NSW Ministry of Health and a Director of Praxis Australia – an Australian NFP devoted to education in research and research ethics. He was previously a member of the Australian health Ethics Committee and Chair of the RACP Ethics Committee. He trained in philosophy at the Universities of Sydney, Newcastle and Cambridge, medicine at the University of Newcastle and bone marrow transplantation (BMT) at the Royal Free Hospital in London and. He is the author of 6 textbooks of ethics and over 500 papers on ethics, philosophy, haematology and BMT.
Professor Wyburn is a full-time clinical transplant nephrologist, Head of the Division of Medicine, Deputy Director of Renal Medicine, and Head of Kidney Transplantation at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. She is also President of the Transplantation Society of Australia and New Zealand. .
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