Speakers

Keynotes

Keynotes

Keynotes

DR IAN NORTON

Specialist Emergency Physician

MATTHEW AMES

Sepsis Survivor


DAY 1

PROF THE HON GREG HUNT

Former Cabinet Minister

DR ALISTAIR SOON

Dental Officer (Forensic)

PROF JOANNA GLENGARRY

Forensic Pathologist

DR VANESSA ANDEAN

Anaesthetist

DR ALICE MORGAN

Clinical Psychologist

DR LARA WIELAND

Rural generalist

PIP LUKAN

Midwife

DR GLENN HARRISON

Emergency Physician

DR RACHEL COGHLAN

Physiotherapist with Interest in Palliative Care

MS TARA MACKAY

Embalmer

DR DAVID BELL

Cofounder/CEO Remedy Robotics

DR SHADY SAIKALI

Senior Clinical Fellow, Global Robotics Institute

A/PROF HELEN MOHAN

Colorectal Robotic Surgeon

PROF GEORGE BRAITBERG

Professor of Critical Care and Head of Emergency Medicine Stream

DR MATTHEW MCALPINE

Rural Generalists

DR LIBBY GARONI

Rural Generalists

DR ABI ESTELLE

Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon


DAY 2

DR DIANA BADCOCK

Director of the Emergency Department at Bendigo Health

DR PRIYANKA PINTO

Junior Doctor

PROF AVNI SALI

Founding Director of NIIM

PROF AJAY MAHAL

Professor of Health Economics and Global Health Systems Research

PROF SARATH RANGANATHAN

Group Leader of the Respiratory group at MCRI

PROF SHARON LEWIN

Infectious Diseases Physician

PROF VIRGINIA BARBOUR

Editor-in-Chief and Head of Academic Publishing of the Medical Journal of Australia

A/PROF GEHAN ROBERTS

Developmental Behavioural Paediatrician

PROF MARGIE DANCHIN

Paediatrician

DR NICK CARR

Retired GP and Board Member of Dying with Dignity Victoria

PROF ANDREW PERFORS

Director of the Complex Human Data Hub in the School of Psychological Sciences

DR ALISON YEUNG

Principal Clinical Geneticist at VCGS

PROF JOHN MASSIE

Clinical Director of the Children’s Bioethics Centre & Respiratory Paediatrician

PROF MARIE BISMARK

Psychiatrist, Public Health Physician, Health Lawyer, and Company Director

MS AMY YANG

Medical Negligence Lawyer

PROF LEEROY WILLIAM

Director of Palliative Care at Southwest Healthcare

MS NADIA GAVIN

Harm Reduction Victoria Program and Services Manager

MS DANI GOLD

Senior Social Worker

MS DESIREE LEGRAPPE

Lecturer in the School of Nursing and Midwifery

MS SUSAN SALDANHA

Research Fellow

PROF JANE FISHER

Professor of Global Health at Monash University

DR JERRY LUO

Inaugural Intern of Austin Health's Clinical Ethics and Decision Support Unit

PROF DANYA VEARS

Associate Professor in Ethics and Professionalism at Deakin University

PROF JOHN ZALCBERG

Medical Oncologist


DAY 3

PROF JEE HYUN KIM

Head of Molecular Psychiatry at Deakin

DR JAIME LEIGH

Senior Clinician, Cochlear Implant Clinic Clinical Lead, Victorian Cochlear Implant Program

PROF RICHARD DOWELL

Professor Emeritus in Audiology at the University of Melbourne Senior Consultant to the Victorian Cochlear Implant Program

PROF STEPHEN O'LEARY

William Gibson Chair of Otolaryngology at the University of Melbourne Senior Otolaryngologist at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital

MR ROSS BROAD

Chief Strategy Officer of Royal Melbourne Hospital

PROF ERWIN LOH

President of the Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators Director of Medical Services at Peninsula Private Hospital

DR SEAN FABRI

Director of Clinical Training

PROF FORBES MCGAIN

Director of the Footscray Hospital ICU

PROF MARK STEVENSON

Epidemiologist, Professor of Urban Transport and Public Health

PROF SHELLEY DOLAN

Chief Executive of Royal Melbourne Hospital

DR ELLIOT WOLLNER

Anaesthetist

DR JONGSAY YONG

Economist and Researcher into Microeconomics

MR JAMES BAE

Managing Director and Principal Immigration Lawyer at Visa Plan Lawyers

DR DAE HWAN

Fellow of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners

DR SHAMITHA KATHURUSINGHE

Specialist Gynaecologist

PROF DAVID VAUX

Honorary Fellow of WEHI

MS LIZ DAWES

Founder and CEO of the Robert Connor Dawes (RCD) Foundation

DR UDANI REETS

Chief Executive Officer of Children's Cancer CoLab

PROF KATHRYN NORTH

Director of the MCRI and the David Danks Professor of Child Health Research

DR KATIE MOORE

Paediatric Oncologist, Family Therapist and Bioethicist


DAY 4

A/PROF WAN TEH

Gynaecologist

DR LINNY PHUONG

Paediatric Infectious Diseases Physician

DR SKYE KINDER

Psychiatry Registrar

DR NIGEL STRAUSS

Psychiatrist and psychedelic Psychotherapist

PROF RICHARD HARVEY

Psychiatrist

DR RAELIA LEW

Medical Director of Melbourne IVF

A/PROF DAVID ANDERSON

Medical Director of Ambulance Victoria

PROF GEOFFREY DONNAN

Professor of Neurology at The University of Melbourne and Co-Chair of the Melbourne Mobile Stroke Unit Program

PROF STEPHEN DAVIS

Professor of Translational Neuroscience at the University of Melbourne, Director of the Melbourne Brain Centre at RMH

MS JESSICA CHAPPELL

Head of Corporate Affairs at GeelongPort

PROF ANTHONY HOLMES

Senior Plastic Surgeon at the RCH

Workshop hosts

DR PRIYA RAO

Anaesthetist

DR BENJAMIN HO

Neurosurgeon

DR TREVOR TNAY

Cardiothoracic Surgeon

DR PATRICK JAHNS

Anaesthetist and Intensivist

DR LONA BROWN

General Practitioner and Medical Educator

DR DAVID CHOROVSKI

Emergency Medicine Physician and Head of the Epworth Richmond Emergency Department

DR DANIEL WILKS

Plastic Surgeon

DR MARK CORDEN

Paediatric Emergency Physician

DR MORGAN RAYNER

Doctor of Medicine Year 2 and 3 Coordinator

Researchers

Researchers

DR SALLY NG

Plastic Surgeon

A/PROF JAMES MCFAYDEN

Haematologist

DR CATHERINE JOHNSON

Doctoral Candidate MCRI

PROF LAURENCE WEINBERG

Anesthesiology

PROF FIONA RUSSEL

Paediatrician

PROF BRETT MANLEY

Neonatologist

PROF JUSTIN YEUNG

Colorectal Surgeon

DR CHENG SOH

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

DR SARAH ALEXANDER

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

DR CLAUDINE KRAAN

Cognitive Neuroscientist

DR KATIE MCBAIN

Research Officer MCRI

DR CAITLIN HARRIS

Research Officer SVI

DR JOCELYN LIPPEY

Breast Surgeon

DR STEPHEN MUHI

Infectious Diseases Specialist

PROF SONIA GROVER

Gynaecologist and Pain Specialist

PROF FINLAY MACRAE

Gastroenterology

PROF CHRISTOBEL SAUNDERS

Breast Surgeon

PROF STEVEN TONG

Infectious Diseases Specialist

DR ANNELIESE WILLEMS

Senior Lecturer, Primary Care

Wellness Hosts

Wellness Hosts

JO GIBBS

Certified Nurse and Yoga Instructor

AUNTY BRONWYN RAZEM

Gunditjmara Elder, Artist and Master Weaver

DR TOM JUDD

Psychiatry Registrar

MS MADI MERCER

Wadawurrung Artist