KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
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DR NIGEL LYONS Deputy Secretary, Health System Strategy and PLanning Ministry of Health (NSW) BIOGRAPHY
Dr Nigel Lyons has over 30
years’ experience in the NSW Health system as a clinician, manager and
executive.
As Deputy Secretary, Health System Strategy and Planning
he is responsible for strategic health policy development, inter-jurisdictional
negotiations and funding strategies, system-wide planning of health services
including mental health and setting the direction for child and family health
policy.
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UNCLE RAY DAVISON Welcome to Country BIOGRAPHY
Ray
is a Gadigal man, director of the Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Lands Council
and recently retired Aboriginal Health Worker from Redfern Aboriginal Medical
Service.
Childhood
was spent at La Perouse, where on weekends Ray would “dive for a penny” off the
old pier for the tourists, collect golf balls and caddy on the golf course. A
move to Burragarang Valley during the initial development of Warragamba Dam
gave Ray and his siblings the opportunity of living in the bush for a few years
before briefly returning to La Perouse and then settling in Liverpool.
The
passing of both parents before adulthood sent Ray and siblings to Redfern,
Darlington, Forest Lodge, Annandale and other havens of the inner city. Early
adulthood gave Ray numerous work and career related experiences. All combined
to build a social consciousness that strived for equity and equality for his
fellow people.
For
more than 30 years Ray worked for the Redfern Aboriginal Medical Service, as
one of the founding health workers he was instrumental in the growth and
development of the service – a service dedicated to the health and well-being
of the local Aboriginal community.
Ray
worked in collaboration with the community, boards, management and fellow
health service providers to give the Aboriginal community of the heart of
Sydney a culturally appropriate and professional health service. Ray advocates
for social justice, community development and empowerment, equity and equality
for all.
As
an Aboriginal Health Worker Ray promoted and accredited fundamental qualities,
capacities and capabilities to be delivered by all people involved in the
health and well-being of the Aboriginal community.
Ray
is married with three sons and has nine grandchildren. His wife and life-long
partner Jan was until recently an Aboriginal Health Worker as are two of his
three sons.
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A/Prof STEPHEN ADELSTEIN MBBCh PhD FRACP FRCPA National training survey
BIOGRAPHY Associate Professor Stephen Adelstein is the Chair of the NSW Board of the Medical Board of Australia and a practitioner member of the National Medical Board of Australia. He has been involved in medical regulation since 2008, initially as a member of the former New South Wales Medical Board, and a past member of the Medical Council of New South Wales. A/Professor
Adelstein is Head of the Department of Clinical Immunology and Allergy and
Director of the Central Sydney Immunology Laboratory at Royal Prince Alfred
Hospital. He is Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of
Sydney where he teaches medical and science students. In addition to his
clinical and academic practice, he oversees undergraduate and postgraduate research.
He is the Chair of the Steering and the Advisory Committees of the Medical
Board of Australia that are tasked with the delivery of the National Training
Survey that all junior medical officers will be asked to complete in order to
ascertain the quality of postgraduate medical education in Australia and how it
can be improved
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 | PROF. ANNEMARIE HENNESSY Respect. Now. Always. What universities are doing about student wellbeing?
Professor Annemarie Hennessy is the Dean of Medicine at the School of Medicine and currently holds the position of Foundation Professor of Medicine as well. She is an active obstetric and renal physician based at Campbelltown Hospital.
Annemarie has a research interest in high blood pressure in pregnancy and has active research collaborations with universities and hospitals in Sydney, Sweden and the United States of America.
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DR ALEX MARKWELL BIOGRAPHY
Dr Alex Markwell is an Emergency Physician at the
Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital and Chair of the Queensland Clinical
Senate. She is a Senior Lecturer with the University of Queensland and Chair of
the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM) Continuing Professional
Development Committee.
Alex is passionate about Doctors' Health, wellbeing,
and work-life flexibility and is a founding member of Wellness Resilience and
Performance in Emergency Medicine (www.emrap.org).
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DR CHARLEY McNABB Keynote Speaker BIOGRAPHY
Dr Charley McNabb is an Emergency Physician living
and working in Brisbane. She has a passion for education, leadership, mentoring
and integrated wellness in the workplace.
She is extending her adventures by starting a
business as a professional coach and developing new networks within health and
beyond. Sometimes overcommitted, overwhelmed or just plain over it, she suffers
for her art with respect to wellness and what can be phrased as experiential
learning has seen her develop insight and empathy for life caring for others
and using science meaningfully.
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DR DINESH PALIPANA Overcoming challenges in internship BIOGRAPHY
Dinesh was the first quadriplegic medical intern in Queensland, and the second person to graduate medical school with quadriplegia in Australia.
Dinesh earned a Bachelor of Laws (LLB), prior to completing
his Doctor of Medicine (MD) at the Griffith University. He has completed an
Advanced Clerkship in Radiology at the Harvard University. Halfway through
medical school, he was involved in a catastrophic motor vehicle accident that
caused a cervical spinal cord injury.
As a result of his injury and experiences, Dinesh has been
an advocate for inclusivity in medicine and the workplace generally. He is a
founding member of Doctors with Disabilities Australia.
Dinesh is currently a resident medical officer at the Gold
Coast University Hospital. He is a lecturer at the Griffith University and
adjunct research fellow at the Menzies Health Institute of Queensland. He has
research interests in spinal cord injury, particularly with novel
rehabilitation techniques.
Dinesh is the Gold Coast University Hospital’s
representative in the Australian Medical Association Queensland’s Council of
Doctors in Training. He is a member of the scientific advisory committee of the
Perry Cross Spinal Research Foundation, and the Ambassador Council at the
Hopkins Centre.
Dinesh was the Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service’s
Junior Doctor of the Year in 2018. He was awarded the Medal of the Order of
Australia in 2019.
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DR TRACEY TAY (ACI) Is resilience a dirty word?
BIOGRAPHY Tracey is currently a senior staff anaesthetist at John Hunter Hospital in Newcastle and the Clinical Executive Director of the CATALYST Directorate at the NSW Agency for Clinical Innovation.
This Directorate covers a broad range of statewide
clinical networks including Aged Health, Paediatrics, Palliative Care,
Telehealth, Aboriginal Chronic Care, Mental Health and Emergency Care.
Amongst other roles, Tracey was also the Clinical
Lead for the Research, Innovation and Partnerships Unit in Hunter New England
and participated in many new initiatives such as the introduction of Health Pathways
and the Hunter Alliance. Other work has involved the development of a health
technology assessment capability for health services.
Tracey’s other interests are in promoting good
mental health for clinicians through the development of a national toolkit and
in returning disabled clinicians to meaningful work through her project with
severely injured doctors.
She
is the mum of James and Thomas, both now at University, and the wife of David,
retired engineer. She is a novice beekeeper and a mediocre, but enthusiastic,
ukulele player.
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DETECTIVE SERGEANT JOHN BREDA Keynote Speaker BIOGRAPHY
A NSW Police Officer for 22 years, 15 of those as a
Detective investigating serious crimes.
In 2014 he commenced as the Detective Sergeant
investigating serious criminal offences against children at the Child Abuse
Squad. On 26 January 2018, John was performing his duties and was stabbed twice
whilst effecting an arrest. This resulted in the knife going through his
kidney, through the liver, through the diaphragm, into the lungs and severing a
renal artery. John was admitted to St Vincent's Hospital and was saved by the
Doctors and nurses after a lengthy operation where he sustained the loss of 15
litres of blood. John hopes to inspire others who have suffered with traumatic
events and to assist with the importance of blood donations.
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