APIC1 – 1st Asia Pacific Conference on Integrated Care

Principal Conference Partners

Knowledge Partners

Dr Jenny Ziviani Professor, Children’s Allied Health Research, Children’s Health Queensland and The University of Queensland Jenny is an occupational therapist and inaugural professor of children’s allied health research, a collaboration between Children’s Health Queensland and the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at The University of Queensland. With an extensive background in research related to intervention strategies for children with a range of developmental disabilities and acquired injuries she is particularly concerned with the way therapy services are delivered to children and families in order to optimize therapy engagement and optimizing outcomes. She is a chief investigator on the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence, Australasian Cerebral Palsy Clinical Trials Network established in 2016. As an active researcher with a commitment to multidisciplinary collaborations she manages large national and international competitive research grants, publishes widely and extensively, supports a productive group of postgraduate students and advises to all levels of government and professional bodies on issues of childhood disability. In 2016 she was made a Fellow of the Research Academy of the American Occupational Therapy Foundation and in 2017 an inaugural Fellow of the Australian Occupational Therapy Research Foundation.

Dr Robyn Littlewood Director, Dietetics and Food Services, Children’s Health Queensland and The University of Queensland Dr Robyn Littlewood is the Director, Dietetics and Food Services, Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital, Children’s Health Queensland and Co-Chair, Queensland Child and Youth Clinical Network within the Clinical Excellence Division, Department of Health, Board Director, Dietitians Association of Australia and previously held the A/Director of Research role, Children’s Health Queensland. Dr Littlewood holds an Adjunct Associate Professor position at the University of Queensland, Queensland University of Technology and Griffith University and lectures in paediatric obesity and health management. She has completed both a Masters of Medical Science and PhD in the area of Paediatric Nutrition and is currently completing an MBA. Dr Littlewood has held editorial board membership positions in the area of paediatric dietetics and has published international papers in the area of paediatric nutrition and rehabilitation, chronic disease, head injury, malnutrition and obesity. Dr Littlewood continues to maintain a clinical position in the area of tertiary Paediatric Obesity for Children’s Health Queensland and maintains special interests in the area of Paediatric Food Services and infant obesity prevention.

Professor Stephen Greene Director of Research Children’s Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service Stephen Greene qualified from UCL, London and then pursued a career in Child Health with positions in Oxford, Great Ormond Street and Guy’s Hospital, London and the Kinderspital Hospital, Zurich. He was appointed Professor at the University of Dundee in 2010. He is currently Emeritus Professor of Child & Adolescent Health at the University of Dundee. He was Secretary to the Academic Board of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (1998-2003) and the International Fellow of the RCPCH (2005-2010). He has a specific research interest in diabetes in the young and was elected President of the International Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Diabetes (ISPAD) in 2012 -2015. In 2014, he was awarded the Diabetes UK, ‘Arnold Bloom Lecture’. He was appointed as Director of the Scottish Children’s Research Network in 2013 -2016. In February 2017, he took up the appointment of Director of Research, Children’s Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service

Fiona Lyne  Director of Communications International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC) In 2014, Fiona joined the International Foundation for Integrated Care as Director of Communications. Fiona is responsible for developing the overall brand, marketing and communication strategy for the Foundation including membership development. She leads on various projects including Project INTEGRATE, the Annual International Integrated Care Conference Series and the World Congresses. Fiona has worked in public policy communications since 2003. She began her career as a community stakeholder engagement manager at Fingal County Council in North Dublin supporting the local Community and Voluntary Forum to have an impact on local decision-making bodies. She went on to hold various project co-ordination and communication roles in both the public and private sector including periods with NHS North West London and the Royal Society of Arts. In 2010 she joined the King’s Fund, an internationally renowned healthcare policy think tank, as Head of Events and in subsequent years was responsible for moving the Fund into a leading position in the healthcare conference market. Fiona has a BA in Politics and Economics from the University of Limerick, an MA in Community Development and Stakeholder Engagement from the National University of Ireland, Galway and a Diploma in Management from the Dublin Business School.

Dr Nick Goodwin CEO International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC) Nick was the co-Founder of IFIC in October 2011 and became its first Chief Executive Officer in March 2013. Nick is also the Editor-in-Chief of IFIC’s open-access and impact rated scientific periodical the International Journal of Integrated Care. Nick holds a range of research, educational and consultation roles worldwide. These international commitments include several European R&D projects such as the EU FP7 Project INTEGRATE, the Horizon 2020 project SUSTAIN and the ICT-PSP projects SMARTCARE, BEYOND SILOS, and CAREWELL. Nick is an active member of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing B3 Action Group on Integrated Care. Nick has also been working with the World Health Organisation to support the development of its Global Strategy on People-Centred Integrated Health Services and is on the Expert Advisory Team to WHO Regional Office for Europe’s Framework for Action Towards Coordinated/Integrated Health Services Delivery (CIHSD) leading work related to change management and adoption of integrated care in policy and practice. Over the past year, Nick has also worked as an international consultant to the Agency for Integrated Care, Singapore; the Pan American Health Organisation, Washington; the WHO’s Western Pacific Regional Office; and to NHS England’s Better Care Fund Support Programme. In previous roles, Nick worked as a Senior Fellow at the King’s Fund (2007-2013) leading key work on integrated health and social care as well as a two-year Inquiry into the quality of care in English general practice. Nick has also worked as a Senior Lecturer at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (2003-2007) where he directed MSc and DrPH courses and worked as a lead academic for the National Institute for Health Research commissioning key studies into the service delivery and organisation of health care. In January 2016, Nick received the Avedis Donabedian International Award for his contribution to Healthcare Excellence and Integrated Health and Social Care.

Dr Viktoria Stein Director of Education and Training International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC) Dr Viktoria Stein, Senior Fellow in Integrated Care and Director of Education and Training, International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC)Dr. Viktoria Stein joined the International Foundation for Integrated Care in September 2015 as Senior Fellow in Integrated Care and Head of the Integrated Care Academy©. As such, she is responsible for the development of IFIC’s Education and Training programme, which provides a range of courses and tools to support knowledge transfer, skills development and technical know-how. Among the portfolio is the International Summer School on Integrated Care, webinar series and content provision for Master’s programmes around the world. The courses are relevant for students, researches and professionals alike and are adapted to the needs of partners, such as universities or local health boards, on demand. Viktoria holds a PhD in health economics and in her work focuses on health systems and their organization, specifically how to design contextualized integrated models of care and how to manage the change process towards such models. She previously worked with the WHO Regional Office for Europe coordinating the development of the Framework for Action on Coordinated/Integrated Health Services Delivery, and supporting WHO Member States in reforming their health systems to better address the challenges of providing services for ageing populations and people with multi-morbidities. Prior to joining WHO, she was a research assistant at the Medical University of Vienna, working on the development of Austrian national priorities regarding integrated care and a national integrated care programme for dementia patients and their caregivers, among other things. In 2009, she was the Scientific Programme Coordinator and Organiser of the 9th International Conference on Integrated Care in Vienna. Throughout her career, Viktoria had a strong interest and focus on education and training, teaching students and professionals around the world, as well as developing her own course programmes.Viktoria was a founding member of the Board of IFIC and is on the editorial board of the International Journal of Integrated Care. Moreover, she is the founding president of the Young Researchers in Health Network (YRIHN), which will be further developed under the auspices of IFIC.

Leo Lewis Senior Fellow International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC) Leo joined the International Foundation for Integrated Care Team in early 2013 as a Senior Fellow leading IFIC’s work in the EU funded SmartCare integrated care project. Since this time, Leo has expanded IFIC’s role in Europe through involvement in two other integrated care projects as well as the United4Health telehealth study. In addition, Leo is a member of the IFIC team collaborating with WHO Europe in the development of their Coordinated and Integrated Health Services Delivery: Developing the Framework for Action.Leo is an experienced programme manager having working in academia, the NHS and Welsh Government leading eHealth, chronic conditions management service improvement and research projects and was responsible for the development and testing of NHS Wales’ predictive risk modelling (Prism) tool. Through the building of strong relationships with stakeholders, Leo works with others to bring her knowledge, skills and expertise together to co-design new transformational change approaches for delivering ICT-enabled integrated care solutions to meet the needs of different populations. Leo has a keen interest in rural health and wellbeing and also works part time for the Institute of Rural Health. As well as gaining NHS management qualifications early on in her career and Prince 2 training, Leo studied an MSc in Health Informatics at Swansea University and most recently gained a Diploma in Leadership for Collaboration from University of Wales Institute in Cardiff.

Mirella Minkman Vice-Chair and Secretary International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC) Mirella is the Director Innovation & Research, Vilans, National Center of Expertise in long term care, The Netherlands Distinguished Professor, Innovation of the organisation and governance of long term integrated care, University of Tilburg/TIAS, the Netherlands Since 2016 Mirella holds a chair at TIAS/Tilburg University on the innovation of the organization and governance of integrated long term care. Her research focusses on new forms of organization and governance regarding the leadership, accountability and ways to purchase integrated person centered care, and what values lies beneath them. The focus is on both the organization of integrated care on the client level as on the collaboration in chains and networks. Mirella has been with Vilans since 2007, where she was the director of the Quality and Innovation in Elderly care department, the coordinator of the National Care for Better Program and involved in the coordination of the National Dementia Program. Since 2013 she is the director of the Research and Innovation department of Vilans, which executes a large number of innovative and practice oriented (international) research on topics like person centered care, integrated care, organisation and governance of care and innovation in care for instance by using e-health. She specialised in integrated care and completed a PhD on integrated care which won the EHMA Karolinski Research Award 2012. Her research resulted in the Development Model for Integrated Care which is being used in a large number of practices, care standards and projects in the Netherlands and abroad for improving integrated care. Further research of her focuses on the governance of integrated care and what this means for new roles, relations and leadership.

Robin Miller Senior Fellow and Director of Consultancy University of Birmingham Robin is a Senior Fellow and Director of Consultancy at HSMC, the social care lead within the Chronic Disease Theme of the West Midlands Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research & Care, and a Fellow of the School for Social Care Research. His research interests build on his practical experiences in the field, and centre on commissioning and management of integrated services, the role and impact of the Third Sector, and personalisation. He leads on a variety of knowledge exchange projects with health and social care organisations, with a particular focus on evaluating and learning from change initiatives. Robin is Co-Editor of the Journal of Integrated Care and an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Integrated Care. He convenes MSc modules at HSMC and is a cohort director on the national NHS Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Leadership Programme. Outside of his University role, Robin is a non-executive director on the Board of Trident Social Investment Group and the chair of the board of trustees of Trident Reach.

Professor David Perkins Professor of Rural Health Research Center for Rural and Remote Mental Health, University of Newcastle David Perkins is Professor of Rural Health Research at the Center for Rural and Remote Mental Health, University of Newcastle which is located in Orange New South Wales. He is editor in chief of the Australian Journal of Rural Health and an associate editor of the International Journal of Integrated Care. He has worked as senior health service manager in the UK and has held academic positions in England and Australia. He publishes in the fields of health service integration, service design and policy and is a member of the NSW Minster’s Advisory Committee on Rural Health. He is a Board Member of the International Foundation for Integrated Care.

Sharon Sweeney General Manager – Primary Health Brisbane South PHN Sharon is the General Manager – Primary Health at Brisbane South PHN, an organisation that seeks to understand the needs of the local community and engages and works within the health care system to improve health and wellbeing. Her role includes working with local health service providers, including Hospital and Health Services, to enhance integration and coordination. Sharon has worked in the health and human services industries for nearly 30 years in roles within public sector, private sector (consulting) and non-government organisations. She has contributed to the development and delivery of the national cancer screening programs – BreastScreen Australia, the National Cervical Screening Program and the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program, and more recently has worked at executive levels of primary health care organisations including the West Moreton-Oxley Medicare Local and the Central Queensland, Wide Bay, Sunshine Coast PHN. Sharon has a Masters degree in Health Services Management from Griffith University and a Masters of Population Health from the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health at the Australian National University. She holds an Adjunct Senior Lecturer position in the School of Medicine at Griffith University.

Melissa Fox Chief Executive Officer Health Consumers Queensland (HCQ) Melissa Fox is a Brisbane health consumer and mother of 2 daughters, aged 9 and 12. Having worked in documentary and reality television, Melissa now works to improve the safety, quality and consumer-centredness of health services through her positions as Chief Executive Officer of Queensland’s peak health consumer organisation Health Consumers Queensland (HCQ), a Board Member of the national peak health consumer organisation Consumers Health Forum (CHF), Independent Chair of Logan Together’s Community Maternity Hubs Governance Group and as a consumer representative on the Queensland Clinical Senate, Childrens Health Queensland’s Neurodevelopmental Disorders Steering Committee and the ACHS Qld/NT State Advisory Committee.

Dr Áine Carroll National Director for Clinical Strategy and Programmes, Health Service Executive (HSE) Dr Áine Carroll is Ireland Health Service Executive’s National Director for Clinical Strategy and Programmes since November 2012, a division encompassing the National Clinical Programmes, Integrated Care Programmes and The Office of the Nursing & Midwifery Services (ONMSD). The National Clinical Programmes were established to improve and standardise patient care throughout the health services by bringing together clinical disciplines to develop and share innovative healthcare solutions in individual specialty delivery. Dr Carroll is currently building on the successes of the Clinical Programmes through the development of Integrated Care Programmes for older persons, chronic disease, children and patient flow, to promote coordinated care and team work across services and specialties, ensuring that care is provided effectively and seamlessly to patients as they move through the system. Prior to her appointment as National Director, Dr. Carroll was the Clinical Lead of the Rehabilitation Medicine Programme. She is a Consultant in Rehabilitation Medicine, Associate Clinical Professor at University College Dublin School of Medicine, past Chair of the Medical Board of the National Rehabilitation Hospital and past President of the Irish Association of Rehabilitation Medicine. Her works on a wide variety of topics are widely published, with presentations at national and international conferences

Professor David Perkins Professor of Rural Health Research Centre for Rural and Remote Mental Health, University of Newcastle David Perkins is Professor of Rural Health Research at the Centre for Rural and Remote Mental Health, University of Newcastle which is located in Orange New South Wales. He is editor in chief of the Australian Journal of Rural Health and an associate editor of the International Journal of Integrated Care. He has worked as senior health service manager in the UK and has held academic positions in England and Australia. He publishes in the fields of health service integration, service design and policy and is a member of the NSW Minster’s Advisory Committee on Rural Health. He is a Board Member of the International Foundation for Integrated Care.

Fiona Lyne  Director of Communications International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC) In 2014, Fiona joined the International Foundation for Integrated Care as Director of Communications. Fiona is responsible for developing the overall brand, marketing and communication strategy for the Foundation including membership development. She leads on various projects including Project INTEGRATE, the Annual International Integrated Care Conference Series and the World Congresses. Fiona has worked in public policy communications since 2003. She began her career as a community stakeholder engagement manager at Fingal County Council in North Dublin supporting the local Community and Voluntary Forum to have an impact on local decision-making bodies. She went on to hold various project co-ordination and communication roles in both the public and private sector including periods with NHS North West London and the Royal Society of Arts. In 2010 she joined the King’s Fund, an internationally renowned healthcare policy think tank, as Head of Events and in subsequent years was responsible for moving the Fund into a leading position in the healthcare conference market. Fiona has a BA in Politics and Economics from the University of Limerick, an MA in Community Development and Stakeholder Engagement from the National University of Ireland, Galway and a Diploma in Management from the Dublin Business School.

Dr Viktoria Stein Director of Education and Training International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC) Dr Viktoria Stein, Senior Fellow in Integrated Care and Director of Education and Training, International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC)Dr. Viktoria Stein joined the International Foundation for Integrated Care in September 2015 as Senior Fellow in Integrated Care and Head of the Integrated Care Academy©. As such, she is responsible for the development of IFIC’s Education and Training programme, which provides a range of courses and tools to support knowledge transfer, skills development and technical know-how. Among the portfolio is the International Summer School on Integrated Care, webinar series and content provision for Master’s programmes around the world. The courses are relevant for students, researches and professionals alike and are adapted to the needs of partners, such as universities or local health boards, on demand. Viktoria holds a PhD in health economics and in her work focuses on health systems and their organization, specifically how to design contextualized integrated models of care and how to manage the change process towards such models. She previously worked with the WHO Regional Office for Europe coordinating the development of the Framework for Action on Coordinated/Integrated Health Services Delivery, and supporting WHO Member States in reforming their health systems to better address the challenges of providing services for ageing populations and people with multi-morbidities. Prior to joining WHO, she was a research assistant at the Medical University of Vienna, working on the development of Austrian national priorities regarding integrated care and a national integrated care programme for dementia patients and their caregivers, among other things. In 2009, she was the Scientific Programme Coordinator and Organiser of the 9th International Conference on Integrated Care in Vienna. Throughout her career, Viktoria had a strong interest and focus on education and training, teaching students and professionals around the world, as well as developing her own course programmes.Viktoria was a founding member of the Board of IFIC and is on the editorial board of the International Journal of Integrated Care. Moreover, she is the founding president of the Young Researchers in Health Network (YRIHN), which will be further developed under the auspices of IFIC.

Dr Nick Goodwin CEO International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC) Nick was the co-Founder of IFIC in October 2011 and became its first Chief Executive Officer in March 2013. Nick is also the Editor-in-Chief of IFIC’s open-access and impact rated scientific periodical the International Journal of Integrated Care. Nick holds a range of research, educational and consultation roles worldwide. These international commitments include several European R&D projects such as the EU FP7 Project INTEGRATE, the Horizon 2020 project SUSTAIN and the ICT-PSP projects SMARTCARE, BEYOND SILOS, and CAREWELL. Nick is an active member of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing B3 Action Group on Integrated Care. Nick has also been working with the World Health Organisation to support the development of its Global Strategy on People-Centred Integrated Health Services and is on the Expert Advisory Team to WHO Regional Office for Europe’s Framework for Action Towards Coordinated/Integrated Health Services Delivery (CIHSD) leading work related to change management and adoption of integrated care in policy and practice. Over the past year, Nick has also worked as an international consultant to the Agency for Integrated Care, Singapore; the Pan American Health Organisation, Washington; the WHO’s Western Pacific Regional Office; and to NHS England’s Better Care Fund Support Programme. In previous roles, Nick worked as a Senior Fellow at the King’s Fund (2007-2013) leading key work on integrated health and social care as well as a two-year Inquiry into the quality of care in English general practice. Nick has also worked as a Senior Lecturer at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (2003-2007) where he directed MSc and DrPH courses and worked as a lead academic for the National Institute for Health Research commissioning key studies into the service delivery and organisation of health care. In January 2016, Nick received the Avedis Donabedian International Award for his contribution to Healthcare Excellence and Integrated Health and Social Care.

Professor David Perkins Professor of Rural Health Research Centre for Rural and Remote Mental Health, University of Newcastle David Perkins is Professor of Rural Health Research at the Centre for Rural and Remote Mental Health, University of Newcastle which is located in Orange New South Wales. He is editor in chief of the Australian Journal of Rural Health and an associate editor of the International Journal of Integrated Care. He has worked as senior health service manager in the UK and has held academic positions in England and Australia. He publishes in the fields of health service integration, service design and policy and is a member of the NSW Minster’s Advisory Committee on Rural Health. He is a Board Member of the International Foundation for Integrated Care.

Dianna Crebbin Founder and Director DCC Conferences Dianna formed DC Conferences in 1987 in response to what she perceived was a market need for professionally run scientific and medical meetings. Her science background (BSc Biochemistry/Microbiology, Syd U) has helped DCC understand the needs of professional associations particularly in the areas of health and science.

Rosanna Ditton Conference Manager DC Conferences Rosanna joined DC Conferences at the start of 2014 as a Conference Manager having previously assisted on many DCC events. Rosanna has undergraduate degrees in Science, from The University of Sydney, and Commerce from Monash University, and has previously worked for a National Sporting Organisation where she was responsible for organising National Teams and events.

Fionnagh Dougan CEO Children’s Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service Fionnagh has a long and successful history in leading change in complex healthcare environments and a lifelong commitment to improving children’s health. She was appointed Chief Executive of Children’s Health Queensland in January 2015. Prior to this, she had overarching responsibility for all hospital, clinical support and community services, including paediatric and mental health services, in her role as Director of Provider Services, Auckland District Health Board (ADHB). She is also a former General Manager of Auckland’s Starship Children’s Hospital and Child Health Services where she implemented a service-wide healthcare excellence framework. Fionnagh began her career as a Staff Nurse in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. She has postgraduate qualifications in health management, an honours degree in communication, and has held dual registration and experience as both a Mental Health and a General Nurse.

Tory Smith  Senior Coordinator Dc Conferences Tory joined DC Conferences as a Senior Coordinator in June 2017. She completed an Advanced Diploma in Events Management at Kings College in London in 2013 and an Advanced Diploma in Marketing at TAFE Sydney in 2015. She has 10 years administration experience and 1.5 years association management experience. More recently Tory has specialised in the healthcare sector, with over 3 years’ managing pharmaceutical client events. Originally from the UK, Tory is looking forward to growing her career and industry knowledge in a country she loves.

Dr Nick Goodwin CEO International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC) Nick was the co-Founder of IFIC in October 2011 and became its first Chief Executive Officer in March 2013. Nick is also the Editor-in-Chief of IFIC’s open-access and impact rated scientific periodical the International Journal of Integrated Care. Nick holds a range of research, educational and consultation roles worldwide. These international commitments include several European R&D projects such as the EU FP7 Project INTEGRATE, the Horizon 2020 project SUSTAIN and the ICT-PSP projects SMARTCARE, BEYOND SILOS, and CAREWELL. Nick is an active member of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing B3 Action Group on Integrated Care. Nick has also been working with the World Health Organisation to support the development of its Global Strategy on People-Centred Integrated Health Services and is on the Expert Advisory Team to WHO Regional Office for Europe’s Framework for Action Towards Coordinated/Integrated Health Services Delivery (CIHSD) leading work related to change management and adoption of integrated care in policy and practice. Over the past year, Nick has also worked as an international consultant to the Agency for Integrated Care, Singapore; the Pan American Health Organisation, Washington; the WHO’s Western Pacific Regional Office; and to NHS England’s Better Care Fund Support Programme. In previous roles, Nick worked as a Senior Fellow at the King’s Fund (2007-2013) leading key work on integrated health and social care as well as a two-year Inquiry into the quality of care in English general practice. Nick has also worked as a Senior Lecturer at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (2003-2007) where he directed MSc and DrPH courses and worked as a lead academic for the National Institute for Health Research commissioning key studies into the service delivery and organisation of health care. In January 2016, Nick received the Avedis Donabedian International Award for his contribution to Healthcare Excellence and Integrated Health and Social Care.

Professor David Perkins Professor of Rural Health Research Center for Rural and Remote Mental Health, University of Newcastle David Perkins is Professor of Rural Health Research at the Center for Rural and Remote Mental Health, University of Newcastle which is located in Orange New South Wales. He is editor in chief of the Australian Journal of Rural Health and an associate editor of the International Journal of Integrated Care. He has worked as senior health service manager in the UK and has held academic positions in England and Australia. He publishes in the fields of health service integration, service design and policy and is a member of the NSW Minster’s Advisory Committee on Rural Health. He is a Board Member of the International Foundation for Integrated Care.

Fionnagh Dougan CEO Children’s Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service Fionnagh has a long and successful history in leading change in complex healthcare environments and a lifelong commitment to improving children’s health. She was appointed Chief Executive of Children’s Health Queensland in January 2015. Prior to this, she had overarching responsibility for all hospital, clinical support and community services, including paediatric and mental health services, in her role as Director of Provider Services, Auckland District Health Board (ADHB). She is also a former General Manager of Auckland’s Starship Children’s Hospital and Child Health Services where she implemented a service-wide healthcare excellence framework. Fionnagh began her career as a Staff Nurse in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. She has postgraduate qualifications in health management, an honours degree in communication, and has held dual registration and experience as both a Mental Health and a General Nurse.

Claire Jackson  Director and Chief Investigator, Diabetes Stream Lead The University of Queensland Claire has been an active leader in research and advocacy for improved delivery of primary care to patients, particularly those with chronic diseases, for many years. Claire was appointed to the Chair in General Practice at the University of Queensland in May, 2005. Active in general practice undergraduate and postgraduate education and research for many years, Claire has been extensively involved in health services research and reform since the early 90s. In 2008 Claire was appointed to the National Primary Care Strategy Expert Reference Group providing a commissioned paper for the National Health and Hospital Reform Commission on new models in primary care. Her description of the ‘beacon’ practice model, developed at Inala Primary Care, was adopted as both the clinical prototype for the Australian Association of Academic General Practitioner’s endorsed model for GP Superclinics, and the basis for UQ’s successful Superclinic tenders in 2009. As Director of the University of Queensland Field Support Service, she was heavily involved in the development of Australian Divisions of General Practice in the mid 90s. Claire’s research focus is in improved health system integration, a topic on which she has published and presented internationally. Her MD Thesis was entitled ‘Building an Integrated Health Care Delivery System around Primary Care’. With Inge de Jong, Claire co-authored “Achieving Effective Health Care Integration – the Essential Guide” in 2000. Claire has been involved in numerous research, educational and policy development projects at state and national level, including the National Demonstration Hospitals Programs (3 and 4), the national Divisions / Hospital Integration Program, Health Connect, and the national GP / Hospital Demonstration sites program. Claire is an active clinician and GP supervisor in part-time general practice in Brisbane. She is also Director of the Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute Centre for Research Excellence in Clinical Microsystems.

Sanjeev Arora  Director ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) Sanjeev Arora, MD, FACP, FACG, is the Director of Project ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes). He is a tenured Professor of Medicine, in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center (UNMHSC). He has been involved in management of viral hepatitis for over 15 years, and led the development and implementation of the Hepatitis C Disease Management Program at UNMHSC. Dr. Arora developed the Project ECHO model as a platform for service delivery, education and evaluation. Using video-conferencing technology and case-based learning, primary care providers from rural and underserved areas and prisons are trained and mentored by ECHO’s medical specialists to deliver best-practice management of complex health conditions in their communities or correctional institutions.

Stephen McKernan Advisory EY Stephen specialises in health system design, strategy and policy development the successful management of change, and development and leadership of large and complex organisations. Stephen draws on unparalleled leadership in the health sector. As a former Director-General of Health for New Zealand, Stephen was the government’s principal advisor on health and disability matters. He led the development and the performance of the New Zealand health system, including responsibility for the allocation and monitoring of the $13 billion Vote Health spend. While in that role, Stephen represented New Zealand on the Executive Board and Programme Budget Committee of the World Health Organisation. He also represented New Zealand at the annual Commonwealth Fund Symposium on Health System Performance. Stephen was the Managing Partner of Health Partners Consulting Group, a leading health consultancy, which merged with EY in 2015.

Dr Sarah Dalton Clinical Lead Agency for Clinical Innovation (ACI) Dr Sarah Dalton is a Paediatric Emergency Physician at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead and President of the Paediatric and Child Health Division of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. Sarah has worked in different settings across NSW over the last 20 years, from regional centres to specialist tertiary units and from community care to acute care retrieval services. Sarah completed a Fulbright Scholarship in Clinical Leadership in 2013 and her current role is as Clinical Lead at the Agency for Clinical Innovation in NSW. Sarah is committed to improving the quality of healthcare through working with clinicians who deeply understand how healthcare is delivered and recognise opportunities for change.

John Allan Executive Director, Mental Health Alcohol and Other Drugs Branch, Clinical Excellence Division Department of Health, Queensland Government John completed his medical training and PhD in Queensland and his psychiatry training in Adelaide. John is the Executive Director of Mental Health Alcohol and other Drugs Branch in Queensland Health. He has previously been Chief Psychiatrist in both Queensland and New South Wales. He spent twenty years working in North Queensland where he developed a wide range of new mental health services. He is a clinician who is also highly experienced in government policy, mental health legislation and service development. His clinical interests include the mental health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and care for those with serious mental illness in community settings. His current research and policy interests focus on national mental health reform including integrated planning of services across sectors, reduction of restrictive practices, recovery oriented practice, rural and remote mental health, carer and consumer involvement and smoking reduction strategies. He recently led the introduction of the new Queensland Mental Health Act 2016. He is the President Elect of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists and also chairs the national Safety and Quality Partnerships Standing Committee for mental health.

Lindsay Cane Chief Executive Officer Royal Far West ‘Caring for Country Kids’ Lindsay Cane is an experienced Company Director and CEO. She brings with her a wealth of experience in leading, managing and inspiring organisational development and growth in the non-profit sector. She has a solid background in physiotherapy and healthcare management with previous directorship roles that include The Australian Physiotherapy Association, The Asthma Foundation (NSW) and Netball Australia.

Helen Morgan-Banda Chief Executive Royal New Zealand College Of General Practitioners Helen Morgan-Banda has been the Chief Executive Officer of the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners since 2012. The College is a professional body and postgraduate educational institute that sets standards for general practice, providing research, assessment, ongoing education, advocacy and support. It is a cornerstone member of organisations such as the General Practice Leader’s Forum and the Council of Medical Colleges. Helen’s previous roles include head of corporate affairs for ANZ, director of marketing and communications at Victoria University, and strategic communications manager in the Office of the Prime Minister. Helen gained an MBA (Distinction) from Massey University and studied at the London Business School, and is an award-winning (1995) Fellow of the Public Relations Institute of New Zealand.

Dr Kerri-Lyn Webb Paediatrician, Children’s Health Queensland Co-chair, Queensland Health’s Child & Youth Clinical Network (QCYCN) Dr Kerri-Lyn Webb is a Paediatrician with Children’s Health Queensland, and Co-chair of Queensland Health’s Child & Youth Clinical Network (QCYCN). Kerri has been the Chair of the QCYCN Child Development Subnetwork since 2009 and has had a lead role in shaping child development service provision across the state. She has a strong interest in adolescent service provision, service planning and redesign, intersectoral working and policy advocacy in children’s health. Kerri has been extensively involved in training health professionals in transdisciplinary practice and family centred care, and works with clinicians and consumers of healthcare to progress quality, safety and integrated care initiatives. She lives in Brisbane with her partner and four beautiful children.

Pattie Hudson Chief Executive Officer, Adjunct Associate Professor, University of the Sunshine Coast Pattie Hudson commenced her career in Queensland Health in 1984 as an Enrolled Nurse in a rural Boonah Hospital. In her 27 years in Queensland Health, she worked in alcohol and drug services, mental and community health and in clinical and management roles across Queensland, as well as a term in health management in Western Australia. During her career, Pattie has managed many health service districts and major health reforms. She has also established innovative primary healthcare programs that have had a positive health outcome for the community in which she served. Pattie is accustomed to the constant change in the health environment, which has led her to stay true to her commitment to plan, develop and implement quality universal primary healthcare within our communities. As the CEO of the PHN, Pattie is committed to addressing the health issues that face the residents of Central Queensland, Wide Bay and Sunshine Coast, leveraging from the positive gains made across the region over the past years.

Dr John Wakefield Deputy Director General, linical Excellence Division, Queensland Health Adjunct Professor of Public Health, Queensland University of Technology   John has over 25 years experience in clinical and management roles in rural, regional and tertiary public sector health services in Queensland. After completing a Fellowship under Dr Jim Bagian, at the National Centre for Patient Safety of the VA Health System in the United States, he returned to Queensland in 2004 and established the Queensland Health Patient Safety Centre, which he led until late 2012. He established a state-wide network of patient safety officers and successfully established a legislative framework for incident analysis; ultimately demonstrating measurable reductions in preventable adverse events. John is actively involved in national efforts to improve patient safety in partnership with the Australian Commission for Safety and Quality in Healthcare. He chaired the National Open Disclosure Pilot Project and regularly teaches Open Disclosure and other patient safety curricula. His research interests include patient safety culture, safety performance measurement and Open Disclosure. In 2011, John was awarded a public service medal for services to patient safety as part of the national Australia Day Awards. Qualifications: MB CHB MPH (research) FRACGP FACRRM FRACMA

Bronwen Edwards CEO & Founder, Roses in the Ocean Bronwen lost her brother Mark to suicide in 2008 after supporting him for a number of years. In 2011, she founded ‘Roses in the Ocean’, a lead organisation for lived experience, which exists to change the way suicide is understood, spoken about and prevented, and works to increase the capacity of people with a lived experience of suicide to engage actively in suicide prevention within their communities. The organization offers a range of capacity building programs for people with lived experience, operates a national lived experience Speakers Hub, Voices of In-Sight; a Mentoring Program for all members of their Lived Experience Collective; and hosts community WSPD events, working closely with the Qld Mental Health Commission to raise the profile of WSPD in Qld. Bronwen has advocated for the inclusion of lived experience in all aspects of suicide prevention since 2011 and regularly consults and presents to organisations, PHN’s, community groups and Conferences as to the importance of lived experience. She is also a Career Transition Coach and professional Facilitator. Bronwen is Co-Chair of the Queensland Suicide Prevention Health Taskforce convened by the Qld Health Minister, Cameron Dick, in July 2016. She also represents lived experience in a number of other roles:

• Queensland Mental Health Commission – Suicide Prevention Action Plan for Qld Reference Group
• Black Dog Institute – LifeSpan Research & Advisory Committee
• Brisbane North PHN Strategic Partnership Group
• CRESP (Centre for Research Excellence in Suicide Prevention) Lived Experience Advisory Group
• The Learning Centre’s Clinical Reference Group
• IASP SIG Member – Development of effective National Suicide Prevention strategy and practice
• Qld Forensic Mental Health Services Steering Committee – Partners in Prevention project

Dr Robyn Littlewood Director, Dietetics and Food Services, Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital, Children’s Health Queensland Dr Robyn Littlewood is the Director, Dietetics and Food Services, Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital, Children’s Health Queensland and Co-Chair, Queensland Child and Youth Clinical Network within the Clinical Excellence Division, Department of Health, Board Director, Dietitians Association of Australia and previously held the A/Director of Research role, Children’s Health Queensland. Dr Littlewood holds an Adjunct Associate Professor position at the University of Queensland, Queensland University of Technology and Griffith University and lectures in paediatric obesity and health management. She has completed both a Masters of Medical Science and PhD in the area of Paediatric Nutrition and is currently completing an MBA. Dr Littlewood has held editorial board membership positions in the area of paediatric dietetics and has published international papers in the area of paediatric nutrition and rehabilitation, chronic disease, head injury, malnutrition and obesity. Dr Littlewood continues to maintain a clinical position in the area of tertiary Paediatric Obesity for Children’s Health Queensland and maintains special interests in the area of Paediatric Food Services and infant obesity prevention.