Program
| 7:30 am | Registration opens | ||
| 8:45 am | AI. Care Day One Opening Plenary – Crown Melbourne | ||
| 9:00 am | Welcome Anja Nikolic, CEO AIDH | ||
| 9:10 am | Welcome to Country | ||
| 9:20 am | Opening Address Amanda Cattermole PSM, CEO, Australian Digital Health Agency |
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| 9:35 am | OPENING KEYNOTE
The Moral Compass: Ethical Considerations for AI in Healthcare – How Ethics Can and Should Shape Regulation, Development, and the Use of AI in Australia’s Healthcare System |
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| 10:30 am | Morning Tea | ||
| 11.15 am | Morning Concurrent | ||
| Session 110 – AI in Real Life | Session 111 – The Science of Implementation | Session 112 – EIDH | |
| 11:15 am | From Models to Medicines: Implementing AI-Assisted Drug Discovery Pipelines in Healthcare Research Dr Moji Ghadimi, QCIF Digital Research |
Building a Trusted AI Health Companion: Implementation Lessons From Healthdirect’s Proof of Concept Dr Thomas Hambly, Healthdirect Australia |
EIDH SESSION – How to Demonstrate Trustworthy AI in Health Services Chair: David Kempson LESSONS FROM THE FRONTLINES Artificial intelligence holds genuine promise for improving care quality, equity and efficiency across Australia’s health system. Yet public and clinician trust in health AI remains fragile, and the consequences of getting it wrong, for patients, for institutions, and for the broader digital health agenda are significant. This session asks the question that matters most to health leaders right now: how do you demonstrate, credibly and concretely, that your organisation is using AI in a trustworthy way? |
| 11:30 am | Open-source, Bias-aware AI Fact-checking of Therapeutic Claims for Clinicians
Dr Horst Herb, Queensland Health |
GP Clinical Notes to Structured FHIR Data: An Agentic Approach Using SMART on FHIR
Dion McMurtrie, Australian eHealth Research Centre |
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| 11:45 am | You’re hacked! From Compliance to Resilience: Privacy Reform, AI Governance and Cyber-Incident-Response in Digital Health
Leah Mooney, Wotton Kearney |
Real-world AI Adoption: How Northern Imaging Victoria Evaluated and Implemented Lunit Insight CXR
Asim Jaleel, Northern Imaging Victoria, Northern Health |
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| 12:00 pm | Practical Implementation of AI
Dr Raymond Wen, Telecare Australia |
Implementing Ambient AI Clinical Documentation in Regional and Rural Australian General Practice and Urgent Care
A/Prof Eric Miller, Ochre Health |
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| 12:15 pm | VaxPulse: AI-driven learning health system for real-time vaccine public intelligence Dr Muhammad Javed, Centre for Health Analytics, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute |
From Algorithm to Action: Deploying a Real-Time AI Deterioration Prediction Tool at Scale Alan Scanlon CHIA, Manager Data & Analytics Service, Metro South Health Service |
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| 12:45 pm | Lunch | ||
| 1:45 pm | Afternoon Concurrent Sessions | ||
| Session 120 – Safe and Ethical use of AI | Session 121 – A View of the Future | Session 122 – AI in Priority Populations | |
| 1:45 pm | Large Language Models in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health
Bronwyn Krieg, Central Adelaide Local Health Network |
A View of the Future: Multimodal Synthetic Data as a Catalyst for Medical AI Innovation
Prof Sandeep Reddy, Queensland University of Technology |
Closing the Care Continuity Gap: Clinical Intelligence for Chronic Disease Management in Australian General Practice
Smriti Bangera, Chloris Labs |
| 2:00 pm | Investing in Workforce Readiness for Safe and Ethical AI Use Dr Rafiah Ansari, Federation University |
The Threat that Learns: AI-driven Cyber Attacks and the Case for Collective Defence in Healthcare Dr Huon Curtis, CI-ISAC Australia |
Building Cultural Intelligence into AI: Developing an Indigenous-led Rubric for LLM-based Research Appraisal Dr Lucy Shinners, The University of Queensland |
| 2:15 pm | Governing Autonomous Agentic AI Safely: A Framework for Graded Autonomy
Dr Sing Chee Tan, Northern Health |
Wearable Technology and AI in Paediatric Oncology: Beyond Proof of Concept to Real-World Implementation
Lane Collier, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute |
Can I Be Myself Here? How Algorithmic Spaces Impact Identity Disclosure & Connectedness Among LGBTQIA+
Dr Cindy Branch-Smith, Edith Cowan University |
| 2:30pm | Towards a National Federated Learning Solution for AI Driven Healthcare Research Peter Marendy, QCIF Digital Research |
Development and Evaluation of Dynamic Prediction Models in Intensive Care: A Systematic Review Eugene Slaughter, The University of Queensland |
AI Safety and AI Ethics for Australian Healthcare, with Particular Focus on Children Dr Sandra L J Johnson, Child Development Paediatrics & The University Of Sydney |
| 2:45pm | Right-sizing Safety: A Proportionate, Governable Virtual Research Environment for the Safe-ethical use of AI Dr Gnana Bharathy, ARDC |
Catchlight: AI-assisted Breast Cancer Referral Triage System Trial at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre Breast Unit Dr David Speakman, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre |
Moving Aged Care from Reactive Compliance to Proactive, Evidence-led Preventive Care: The Evidencea Platform Ben Shemesh, Monash University |
| 3:00pm | Automating Clinical Information Extraction in Radiation Oncology: A Systematic Review of Real-world Methods & Performance Gabriella La Macchia, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital |
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| 3:15 pm | Afternoon Tea | ||
| 3:45 pm | Afternoon Plenary | ||
| 3:45 pm | Keynote Panel – Data in the Age of AI – Value, Sovereignty, Storage and Politics The value of health data in the age of AI cannot be overstated. However, the rapid expansion of data centres in Australia has raised important questions about how we balance the extraordinary medical advances enabled by AI with broader community, social, environmental, and human health considerations. Facilitator: Panel Speakers: |
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| 4:45 pm | DAY 1 CLOSE | ||
| 8:00 am | Registration opens | ||
| 8:45 am | Day Two Opening Plenary – Crown Melbourne | ||
| 9:00 am | Welcome to Day 2 | ||
| Keynote Presentations – Developing and Deploying AI in Australia; a Technologist’s View The current development and deployment of AI in Australia is relatively unconstrained – we don’t have onerous standards or restraints – and yet deployment is not at scale. Are infrastructure, governance, and workforce constraints stifling capability? How can we create an environment for software and technology developers to flourish and make Australia more competitive and self-reliant? Facilitator: Angela Ryan FAIDH and Board member of AIDH, Lead Healthcare Executive, Oracle Health |
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| 9:10 am | Kate Quirke: Group Managing Director and CEO, Alcidion | ||
| 9:20 am | Dr Vinod Seetharaman, Chief Medical Officer, Australia and NZ, Dedalus | ||
| 9:30 am | Dr Emeline Ramos: Physician Executive at InterSystems | ||
| 9:40 am | |||
| 9:50 am | Facilitated Q&A | ||
| 10:30 am | Morning Tea | ||
| 11.15 am | Morning Concurrent Sessions | ||
| Session 110 – AI Around the World | Session 111 – AI in Real Life | Session 112 – The Science of Implementation | |
| 11:15 am | AI and Digital Health for Aged Care: a Global Bibliometric Analysis A/Prof Gordana Dermody, Federation University |
Designed Elsewhere, Used Everywhere: How Digitized Clinical Risk Tools Fail Remote Health Practice Alexandra Shine, Central Queensland University |
AI Readiness in the Health Workforce: Education and Training Approaches Dr Josephine Okurame, The University of Queensland |
| 11:30 am | Predict, Prepare, Personalise: SOMIP AI – the Future of Surgical Risk Prediction Ka Shing Yim, Hong Kong Hospital Authority |
From Pop-Up Clinics to Persistent Prevention: Implementing AI-Assisted Skin Cancer Detection in Regional Australia Scott Maggs, Skin Check Champions |
Machine Learning for Outcome Prediction in Pediatric Cardiac Surgery: Evidence, Reporting Quality, and Translational Readiness Dr Supreet Marathe, Queensland Children’s Hospital |
| 11:45 am | Population-scale Risk Models for Severe Outcomes of Respiratory Infectious Disease in New Zealand Dr Steffen Albrecht, The University of Auckland |
The Chatbots Are Already in the Room: AI’s Unsupervised Reality in Mental Health Care Amber Macdonald, ANTSA |
Using AI to Map the Implementation Gap in Australian Residential Aged Care Dr Marian Sassoli, Griffith University |
| 12:00 pm | Safe, Responsible Use of AI Quality Control for Human Cognition-AI Cardiotoxicity System Engineering Behavior Change Dr Pantea Keikhosrokiani, The University of Oulu |
Automatic Classification of Free-text Indications in EMRs to Support Antimicrobial Stewardship at Scale Dr David Martinez, RMIT |
Deep Understanding versus Deep Learning approaches for Case Identification and Autocoding of Cancer Pathology Reports Prof Jon Patrick, Health Language Analytics |
| 12:15 pm | Using the AI Pre-Implementation Evaluation Framework to Guide AI Governance Decision-Making in Aotearoa New Zealand A/Prof Rosie Dobson, University of Auckland and Health NZ |
Thinking Machines at the Bedside: An Evidence About AI in Clinical Diagnosis and Decision Support Iqra Mumtaz, IMT Lucca |
Navigating AI Radiology Platform Implementation in an Australian Metropolitan Hospital Network: Approach and Learnings Dr Caitlin Farmer, Monash Health |
| 12:30 pm | Implementing Digital Health in Primary Care for Chronic Diseases: Barriers, Facilitators, and Lessons from India Prof Purabi Phukan, All India Institute Of Medical Sciences, Guwahati |
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| 12:45 pm | Lunch | ||
| 1:45 pm | Afternoon Concurrent Sessions | ||
| Session 120 – A View of the Future | Session 121 – Safe and Ethical Use of AI | CSIRO | |
| 1:45 pm | Heterogeneity in Brain Microplastic Detection: A Scoping Review of AI-Assisted Recognition Pipelines Prof Nasim Salehi, Bond University |
From Classification to Quantifiable AI Assurance: Operationalising Risk and Trustworthiness for Healthcare Prof Fang Chen, University of Technology Sydney |
TBA |
| 2:00 pm | Beyond AI Training: Building Workforce Capability for Digital Health Transformation A/Prof Tangerine Holt, Centre For Digital Transformation Of Health, University Of Melbourne |
Integrating Digital and AI determinants of Health into Primary Care for Young Australians Prof Nasim Salehi, Bond University |
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| 2:15 pm | Epistemic Integrity in Clinical AI: Quantum Cognitive Neural Networks for Uncertainty-Aware Diagnosis Milan Maksimovic, AI and Cyber Futures Institute |
Clinician-Governed AI: Visible Support in the Between-Session Space Sally-Anne McCormack, ANTSA |
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| 2:30pm | Integration of Artificial Intelligence into Mammogram Reading Luke Neill, Breastscreen Victoria |
AI Guidance for Health Service Organisations Rachael Simons, Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care |
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| 2:45pm | Forecasting the Future Nursing Workforce: Leveraging AI and Hybrid Models for Smarter Healthcare Staffing Dr Ahmad Mousa, Edith Cowan University |
Understanding LLM Behavioural Limitations for Safe Adherence-Relevant Extraction: Toward a Patient–Clinician–AI Artefact Triad in Oncology Prof Nilmini Wickramasinghe, La Trobe University |
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| 3:00pm | |||
| 3:15 pm | Afternoon Tea | ||
| 3:45 pm | Afternoon Plenary | ||
| 3:45 pm | Closing Keynote
Before the Click: Health Advice & Navigation in the Zero-Click Era Bettina McMahon, CEO of Healthdirect |
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| 4:45 pm | DAY 2 CLOSE | ||
Registration opens
8:45 am
AI. Care Day One Opening Plenary – Crown Melbourne
9:00 am
Welcome Anja Nikolic, CEO AIDH
9:10 am
Welcome to Country
9:20 am
Opening Address
Amanda Cattermole PSM, CEO, Australian Digital Health Agency
9:35 am
OPENING KEYNOTE
The Moral Compass: Ethical Considerations for AI in Healthcare – How Ethics Can and Should Shape Regulation, Development, and the Use of AI in Australia’s Healthcare System
Prof Jeannie Paterson, Professor of Consumer Protection and Technology Law, Director of the Centre for AI and Digital Ethics, The University of Melbourne; Affiliated Researcher ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society
Morning Tea
11.15 am
Morning Concurrent
Session 110 – AI in Real Life
11:15 am
From Models to Medicines: Implementing AI-Assisted Drug Discovery Pipelines in Healthcare Research
Dr Moji Ghadimi, QCIF Digital Research
11:30 am
Open-source, Bias-aware AI Fact-checking of Therapeutic Claims for Clinicians
Dr Horst Herb, Queensland Health
11:45 am
You’re hacked! From Compliance to Resilience: Privacy Reform, AI Governance and Cyber-Incident-Response in Digital Health
Leah Mooney, Wotton Kearney
12:00 pm
Practical Implementation of AI
Dr Raymond Wen, Telecare Australia
12:15 pm
VaxPulse: AI-driven learning health system for real-time vaccine public intelligence
Dr Muhammad Javed, Centre for Health Analytics, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute
Session 111 – The Science of Implementation
11:15 am
Building a Trusted AI Health Companion: Implementation Lessons From Healthdirect’s Proof of Concept
Dr Thomas Hambly, Healthdirect Australia
11:30 am
GP Clinical Notes to Structured FHIR Data: An Agentic Approach Using SMART on FHIR
Dion McMurtrie, Australian eHealth Research Centre
11:45 am
Real-world AI Adoption: How Northern Imaging Victoria Evaluated and Implemented Lunit Insight CXR
Asim Jaleel, Northern Imaging Victoria, Northern Health
12:00 pm
Implementing Ambient AI Clinical Documentation in Regional and Rural Australian General Practice and Urgent Care
A/Prof Eric Miller, Ochre Health
12:15 pm
From Algorithm to Action: Deploying a Real-Time AI Deterioration Prediction Tool at Scale
Alan Scanlon CHIA, Manager Data & Analytics Service, Metro South Health Service
Session 112 – EIDH
11:15 am
EIDH SESSION – How to Demonstrate Trustworthy AI in Health Services
Chair: David Kempson
LESSONS FROM THE FRONTLINES
David Kempson and Dr Natalie Smith
Artificial intelligence holds genuine promise for improving care quality, equity and efficiency across Australia’s health system. Yet public and clinician trust in health AI remains fragile, and the consequences of getting it wrong, for patients, for institutions, and for the broader digital health agenda are significant. This session asks the question that matters most to health leaders right now: how do you demonstrate, credibly and concretely, that your organisation is using AI in a trustworthy way?
12:45 pm
Lunch
Afternoon Concurrent Sessions
Session 120 – Safe and Ethical use of AI
1:45 pm
Large Language Models in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health
Bronwyn Krieg, Central Adelaide Local Health Network
2:00 pm
Investing in Workforce Readiness for Safe and Ethical AI Use
Dr Rafiah Ansari, Federation University
2:15 pm
Governing Autonomous Agentic AI Safely: A Framework for Graded Autonomy
Dr Sing Chee Tan, Northern Health
2:30pm
Towards a National Federated Learning Solution for AI Driven Healthcare Research
Peter Marendy, QCIF Digital Research
2:45pm
Right-sizing Safety: A Proportionate, Governable Virtual Research Environment for the Safe-ethical use of AI
Dr Gnana Bharathy, ARDC
3:00 pm
TBA
Session 121 – A View of the Future
1:45 pm
A View of the Future: Multimodal Synthetic Data as a Catalyst for Medical AI Innovation
Prof Sandeep Reddy, Queensland University of Technology
2:00 pm
The Threat that Learns: AI-driven Cyber Attacks and the Case for Collective Defence in Healthcare
Dr Huon Curtis, CI-ISAC Australia
2:15 pm
Wearable Technology and AI in Paediatric Oncology: Beyond Proof of Concept to Real-World Implementation
Lane Collier, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute
2:30pm
Development and Evaluation of Dynamic Prediction Models in Intensive Care: A Systematic Review
Eugene Slaughter, The University of Queensland
2:45pm
Catchlight: AI-assisted Breast Cancer Referral Triage System Trial at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre Breast Unit
Dr David Speakman, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
3:00pm
Automating Clinical Information Extraction in Radiation Oncology: A Systematic Review of Real-world Methods & Performance
Gabriella La Macchia, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital
Session 122 – AI in Priority Populations
1:45 pm
Closing the Care Continuity Gap: Clinical Intelligence for Chronic Disease Management in Australian General Practice
Smriti Bangera, Chloris Labs
2:00 pm
Building Cultural Intelligence into AI: Developing an Indigenous-led Rubric for LLM-based Research Appraisal
Dr Lucy Shinners, The University of Queensland
2:15 pm
Can I Be Myself Here? How Algorithmic Spaces Impact Identity Disclosure & Connectedness Among LGBTQIA+
Dr Cindy Branch-Smith, Edith Cowan University
2:30pm
AI Safety and AI Ethics for Australian Healthcare, with Particular Focus on Children
Dr Sandra L J Johnson, Child Development Paediatrics & The University Of Sydney
2:45pm
Moving Aged Care from Reactive Compliance to Proactive, Evidence-led Preventive Care: The Evidencea Platform
Ben Shemesh, Monash University
3:00pm
TBA
Afternoon Plenary
3:45 pm
Keynote Panel – Data in the Age of AI – Value, Sovereignty, Storage and Politics
The value of health data in the age of AI cannot be overstated. However, the rapid expansion of data centres in Australia has raised important questions about how we balance the extraordinary medical advances enabled by AI with broader community, social, environmental, and human health considerations.
Facilitator:
Panel Speakers:
Prof Jeannie Paterson: Professor of Consumer Protection and Technology Law, Director of the Centre for AI and Digital Ethics, The University of Melbourne; Affiliated Researcher ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society
Marina Yastreboff: General Counsel, ServiceGen and Managing Director Onmarq Pty Limited
Chloe Shorten: Australian company director, corporate affairs specialist, author, and public advocate
Abigail Boyd: MLC, NSW Parliament
David Dzienciol: Chief Customer and Commercial Officer NEXTDC
4:45 pm
DAY 1 CLOSE
Registration opens
8:45 am
Day Two Opening Plenary – Crown Melbourne
9:00 am
Welcome to Day 2
Keynote Presentations – Developing and Deploying AI in Australia; a Technologist’s View
The current development and deployment of AI in Australia is relatively unconstrained – we don’t have onerous standards or restraints – and yet deployment is not at scale. Are infrastructure, governance, and workforce constraints stifling capability?
How can we create an environment for software and technology developers to flourish and make Australia more competitive and self-reliant?
Facilitator: Angela Ryan FAIDH and Board member of AIDH, Lead Healthcare Executive, Oracle Health
9:10 am
Kate Quirke: Group Managing Director and CEO, Alcidion
9:20 am
Dr Vinod Seetharaman, Chief Medical Officer, Australia and NZ, Dedalus
9:30 am
Dr Emeline Ramos: Physician Executive at InterSystems
9:40 am
TBA
9:50 am
Facilitated Q&A
10:30 am
Morning Tea
11.15 am
Morning Concurrent Sessions
Session 110 – AI Around the World
11:15 am
AI and Digital Health for Aged Care: a Global Bibliometric Analysis
A/Prof Gordana Dermody, Federation University
11:30 am
Predict, Prepare, Personalise: SOMIP AI – the Future of Surgical Risk Prediction
Ka Shing Yim, Hong Kong Hospital Authority
11:45 am
Population-scale Risk Models for Severe Outcomes of Respiratory Infectious Disease in New Zealand
Dr Steffen Albrecht, The University of Auckland
12:00 pm
Safe, Responsible Use of AI Quality Control for Human Cognition-AI Cardiotoxicity System Engineering Behavior Change
Dr Pantea Keikhosrokiani, The University of Oulu
12:15 pm
Using the AI Pre-Implementation Evaluation Framework to Guide AI Governance Decision-Making in Aotearoa New Zealand
A/Prof Rosie Dobson, University of Auckland and Health NZ
12:30 pm
Implementing Digital Health in Primary Care for Chronic Diseases: Barriers, Facilitators, and Lessons from India
Prof Purabi Phukan, All India Institute Of Medical Sciences, Guwahati
Session 111 – AI in Real Life
11:15 am
Designed Elsewhere, Used Everywhere: How Digitized Clinical Risk Tools Fail Remote Health Practice
Alexandra Shine, Central Queensland University
11:30 am
From Pop-Up Clinics to Persistent Prevention: Implementing AI-Assisted Skin Cancer Detection in Regional Australia
Scott Maggs, Skin Check Champions
11:45 am
The Chatbots Are Already in the Room: AI’s Unsupervised Reality in Mental Health Care
Amber Macdonald, ANTSA
12:00 pm
Automatic Classification of Free-text Indications in EMRs to Support Antimicrobial Stewardship at Scale
Dr David Martinez, RMIT
12:15 pm
Thinking Machines at the Bedside: An Evidence About AI in Clinical Diagnosis and Decision Support
Iqra Mumtaz, IMT Lucca
12:30 pm
TBA
Session 112 – The Science of Implementation
11:15 am
AI Readiness in the Health Workforce: Education and Training Approaches
Dr Josephine Okurame, The University of Queensland
11:30 am
Machine Learning for Outcome Prediction in Pediatric Cardiac Surgery: Evidence, Reporting Quality, and Translational Readiness
Dr Supreet Marathe, Queensland Children’s Hospital
11:45 am
Using AI to Map the Implementation Gap in Australian Residential Aged Care
Dr Marian Sassoli, Griffith University
12:00 pm
Deep Understanding versus Deep Learning approaches for Case Identification and Autocoding of Cancer Pathology Reports
Prof Jon Patrick, Health Language Analytics
12:15 pm
Navigating AI Radiology Platform Implementation in an Australian Metropolitan Hospital Network: Approach and Learnings
Dr Caitlin Farmer, Monash Health
12:30 pm
TBA
12:45 pm
Lunch
1:45 pm
Afternoon Concurrent Sessions
Session 120 – A View of the Future
1:45 pm
Heterogeneity in Brain Microplastic Detection: A Scoping Review of AI-Assisted Recognition Pipelines
Prof Nasim Salehi, Bond University
2:00 pm
Beyond AI Training: Building Workforce Capability for Digital Health Transformation
A/Prof Tangerine Holt, Centre For Digital Transformation Of Health, University Of Melbourne
2:15 pm
Epistemic Integrity in Clinical AI: Quantum Cognitive Neural Networks for Uncertainty-Aware Diagnosis
Milan Maksimovic, AI and Cyber Futures Institute
2:30pm
Integration of Artificial Intelligence into Mammogram Reading
Luke Neill, Breastscreen Victoria
2:45pm
Forecasting the Future Nursing Workforce: Leveraging AI and Hybrid Models for Smarter Healthcare Staffing
Dr Ahmad Mousa, Edith Cowan University
Session 121 – Safe and Ethical Use of AI
1:45 pm
From Classification to Quantifiable AI Assurance: Operationalising Risk and Trustworthiness for Healthcare
Prof Fang Chen, University of Technology Sydney
2:00 pm
Integrating Digital and AI determinants of Health into Primary Care for Young Australians
Prof Nasim Salehi, Bond University
2:15 pm
Clinician-Governed AI: Visible Support in the Between-Session Space
Sally-Anne McCormack, ANTSA
2:30pm
AI Guidance for Health Service Organisations
Rachael Simons, Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care
2:45pm
Understanding LLM Behavioural Limitations for Safe Adherence-Relevant Extraction: Toward a Patient–Clinician–AI Artefact Triad in Oncology
Prof Nilmini Wickramasinghe, La Trobe University
CSIRO
1:45 pm
TBA
3:15 pm
Afternoon Tea
Afternoon Plenary
3:45 pm
Closing Keynote
Before the Click: Health Advice & Navigation in the Zero-Click Era
This session explores how AI can be used to improve access to healthcare, drawing on Healthdirect’s experience and insights from the past 12 months. It will highlight key lessons learned, practical challenges encountered, and opportunities for using AI to create more accessible, responsive and effective healthcare services.
Bettina McMahon, CEO of Healthdirect
4:45 pm
DAY 2 CLOSE
Prof Sandeep Reddy is a globally recognised expert in AI-driven healthcare solutions. With expertise spanning medical imaging, chronic disease management, and predictive analytics, Prof Reddy has pioneered frameworks for AI governance and evaluation. His research focuses on integrating AI technologies into clinical practice to improve patient outcomes, and he advises global organisations like the World Health Organisation (WHO) on AI policy and digital health strategies.
Mr Bruno Braga is a renowned digital health executive and AI strategist, known for his leadership in driving AI adoption in healthcare. As the former Director of Data and Digital Solutions at Mater Health, he developed MaterGPT, an AI-powered tool for hospital staff. With a background in digital transformation and AI governance, Mr Braga’s experience includes leading AI-driven initiatives that improve clinical workflows, decision-making, and patient care. He now applies this expertise at a national level, advising on AI adoption across multiple sectors.
Jeannie Marie Paterson is a Professor of Law and co-founding Director of the Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Ethics in the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology at the University of Melbourne (CAIDE). Jeannie’s research and teaching focuses on the ethical and regulatory challenges of AI. Her current projects cover misleading AI (incl deep fakes, scams and misinformation), and the regulation of AI agents, companions and assistants (incl for mental health support).
Marina Yastreboff is an award-winning General Counsel and technology law leader with senior roles at ServiceGen, Cochlear, UNSW, and Philips. She specialises in AI governance, data protection, IP, and complex R&D commercialisation. She serves on national standards committees for information security and brain-computer interfaces, as President of AUSCL (the Australasian Society for Computers & Law) and on several boards, including the Starlight Foundation's Data and Digital Advisory Board. She is recognised for bridging medicine, advanced technology, and law to shape responsible innovation.
With more than 30 years experience across corporate affairs and public policy, Ms Shorten brings deep expertise in stakeholder engagement and technology governance to the public services boards in Australia. She is recognised nationally for her work at the intersection of innovation, regulation, and community trust.
Chloe has led stakeholder strategies in some of Australia’s most highly regulated environments, including technology, infrastructure, public services and capital-intensive industries.
Her career has focused on translating complex industry and regulatory issues into strategies that serve both the organisation and the public interest.
Her governance portfolio spans public health services, profit-to-member super, mental health and disability services, youth homelessness, medical research, and domestic violence reform. As Deputy Chair of Alfred Health, she championed stakeholder inclusion in decision-making and governance of emerging technologies in healthcare.
At Industry Fund Services, a profit-to-member superannuation group, she has guided transformation amid major regulatory change. As Chair of the Enterprise Risk and Internal Audit Committee at Southern Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust, she fosters best practice in risk and cultural governance.
Abigail is a Greens MP in the NSW Legislative Council. Prior to her election in 2019, Abigail spent over two decades practising law in Sydney and London, specialising in global banking regulation for clients in over 40 different countries. During 2008 she worked on the frontline of the global financial crisis in London to manage the economic fallout of the crash.
Since being elected, Abigail has continued to work passionately to campaign for an economy that puts people before profit. She is widely recognised for her leadership in her many portfolios, and her work as Chair of numerous parliamentary inquiries. Most recently, she has been Chair of the NSW inquiry into data centres.
As Chief Customer and Commercial Officer at NEXTDC, David leads the company’s five core business units — Hyperscale, Colocation, Edge, Connectivity, and Asia - with full global responsibility for NEXTDC’s go-to-market strategy and customer engine. He oversees Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, Customer Delivery, Products, Regional and Vendor Management/Procurement, and drives international expansion across Asia.
Since July 2018, Kate Quirke has been the Group Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Alcidion Group, a company dedicated to providing smart technology to the health sector. Kate leads the business globally with current focus on Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom with a goal of developing mutually beneficial relationships with customers, partners and investors.
Kate has 25+ years of digital health sector experience and has been involved in large procurements and implementations of healthcare information technology across Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and South-East Asia. Her background includes leading management roles at large healthcare software firms where she has driven strategic product direction. She strongly believes that the astute application of information technology will support the transformation of healthcare delivery worldwide.
Kate is a Non-Executive Director of ANDHealth and previously served on the Board of the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation for 16 years. During 2021, Kate was recognised as one of Telstra Health’s inaugural Brilliant Women in Digital Health and named Biotech Daily’s CEO of the Year.
In 2020, Kate won the Executive Leader award in the inaugural B&T Women Leading Tech Awards. She received her Bachelor of Applied Science Health Information Management degree from Latrobe University
Dr. Emeline Ramos is a Physician Executive at InterSystems, a creative data technology provider dedicated to helping customers solve critical scalability, interoperability, and speed challenges in healthcare and beyond. She leads clinical strategy and digital health initiatives across the Asia-Pacific region, with a focus on the practical implementation of AI within electronic medical records to improve clinician workflows, usability, and patient care.
Before joining InterSystems, Emeline was a Head & Neck surgeon in the UK, and held research leadership roles at AstraZeneca, including serving as Medical Director in the company's early-phase clinical trials unit. Her experience spans frontline medicine, pharmaceutical R&D, and digital health transformation, giving her a unique perspective at the intersection of clinical care, AI, and healthcare technology.
Bettina McMahon is the Chief Executive Officer of Healthdirect Australia. She is on the Board of SNOMED International, and former Board Chair of the Australasian Institute of Digital Health.
She has considerable experience in digital transformation in the health sector over the past 15 years, and across the public sector prior to that. Prior to joining Healthdirect, Bettina was the Interim Chief Executive Officer at the Australian Digital Health Agency, where she had also held executive roles since 2009. Bettina has postgraduate qualifications in public policy, applied finance, and business and technology.
Amanda Cattermole PSM is the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Digital Health Agency, a role she commenced in September 2020.
Auspiced by the governments of Australia, the Agency is the steward for digital enablement of Australia’s health system, with a lead role in coordinating national engagement, delivery and adoption of digital health to enable person-centred, connected healthcare.
Amanda has previously held senior roles in Commonwealth entities, including Treasury, the former Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and Services Australia. She has also held senior State government roles in the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services and the Western Australian Department of Indigenous Affairs.
In her earlier career Amanda worked as a lawyer in Victoria, the Northern Territory and Western Australia.
Amanda holds a Bachelor of Laws, a Bachelor of Commerce, a Master of Laws and a Master of Business Administration. In 2013, she received the Public Service Medal for outstanding public service leading reform in providing housing for Indigenous people in remote communities and the National Gambling Reform laws
Dr Seetharaman brings 23 years of medical and leadership expertise to the role, combining a strong foundation in medicine with deep expertise in healthcare digital transformation.
He has held leadership roles at major multinational corporations spearheading healthcare initiatives across technology and consulting domains. He has extensively worked with governments, public health agencies and provider networks across the Asia Pacific, Europe, US and Australia, contributing to advancement in national interoperability initiatives, digital patient engagement platforms, personalised medicine, disease surveillance, population health and preventive care. He’s currently at Dedalus as the Chief medical Officer for the ANZ region
David is a highly accomplished executive with over two decades of experience across Australia and the Asia Pacific, leading transformation, growth, and customer innovation across cloud services, data centres, AI infrastructure, and digital platforms.
As Chief Customer and Commercial Officer at NEXTDC, David holds full commercial and go-to-market responsibility across the company's five core business units — Hyperscale, Colocation, Edge, Connectivity, and Asia. He oversees Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, Customer Delivery, Products, and Regional and Vendor Management, while driving NEXTDC's international expansion across Asia.
David is at the forefront of NEXTDC's AI infrastructure leadership, spearheading the company's GTM for AI Factories and liquid-to-chip cooling platforms. He serves as NEXTDC's executive sponsor to NVIDIA and leads the growth of NEO and NEXTDC's next-generation cloud and AI platform partnerships. A proven leader in large, complex sales campaigns, David has led the teams behind some of NEXTDC's most significant strategic contracts — known for his ability to align customer ambition with commercial outcomes through operational precision, technical fluency, and a relentless focus on customer success.