Gillian Mason is a person with heaps of time-consuming medical appointments, is disabled, chronically ill, a physiotherapist and rehabilitation researcher. At Hunter Medical Research Institute, for the University of Newcastle, she manages the Priority Research Centre for Stroke and Brain Injury’s Stroke Research Register, and its consumer engagement and communication strategy. She is a science communicator for the NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence in Stroke Rehabilitation and Brain Repair. As a clinical research assistant for the Centre for Rehab Innovations, her focus is on innovating solutions for delivering individualised rehabilitation in the home and community setting. Living with multiple chronic illnesses, she has gained insight into and lost patience with inflexible healthcare. Without radical change, the way healthcare is delivered in Australia will continue to both restrict people with chronic illness from accessing healthcare itself, by design, and limit the time, energy and cash left over for participation in employment and society more broadly. Gillian is busy overcoming her own learned ableism to properly value and leverage her lived experience expertise as an advocate for meaningful consumer involvement in health and medical research.

A strategic leader with considerable experience of leading change at the system and institutional level and at the NHS, academic/NHS and industry/NHS interfaces with a strong commitment to innovation and knowledge transfer. A track record in informatics and health data science research coupled with a track record of achievement and trust acknowledged at the highest level of NHS, government and by peers in the public, higher education and private sectors.

What has been clear throughout my career and never more than now is the power that information has to help support patients & professionals to improve care. We are at a pivotal moment in history to be able to witness and influence this digital transformation in health & care. It is therefore more important than ever that we act collectively with the public to drive through the changes needed.

Lital is an experienced IT Manager with proven a record in managing multi-functional teams and complex IT projects. Lital holds a BSc in Information Systems Engineering and MBA specialized in Entrepreneurship.

Lital’s 12 years of experience leading IT projects and teams across various industries (Telecom, Finance, Marketing and Healthcare), creates a unique blend of technical experience and leadership skills.

Dr Daniel Ting is the Consultant Vitreo-retinal surgeon in the Singapore National Eye Center, Assistant Professor in Ophthalmology with Duke-NUS Medical School Singapore. He is also the visiting Full Professor in Ophthalmology in Zhongshan Ophthalmic Eye Center, Sun Yat-Sen University, China; 2017-2018 US-ASEAN J. W. Fulbright Scholar to Johns Hopkins University, the founding member of the American Academy Ophthalmology (AAO) AI Taskforce committee. At present, he serves in several editorial boards, including Ophthalmology, Ophthalmology Retina, Translational in Vision and Science Technology and Asia-pacific Journal of Ophthalmology. He is also the section editor for AI and big data for British of Journal of Ophthalmology and the Associate Editor of Frontiers in Medicine (Ophthalmology).

Dr Anthony (Tony) Bartone was elected Federal President of the AMA in May 2018, having served as Vice President since May 2016. He served as President of AMA Victoria (AMA VIC) from 2014 to 2016, and as Vice President of AMA VIC from 2012 to 2014.

Dr Bartone is an experienced General Practitioner and management executive, working in two General Practices in the northern suburbs of Melbourne. His principal specialty interests include men’s health, mental health counselling, care co-ordination of patients with multiple chronic illnesses, and aged care.

Karen has worked as a primary health care nurse and nurse manager in general practice since 1998. Her roles include acute care, preventative health and chronic disease management, care coordination, data management, accreditation, administration, staff training and mentoring. Karen has recently moved into practice management.

Karen’s true passion is preventative health care and utilising surveillance and health checks to identify health problems so that care can be initiated early to prevent damage to a person’s health and wellbeing. Key to this is the development of systems to utilise skills of the whole general practice team to support health prevention activity and care.

Focusing on the healthcare sector, I manage teams that build digital products that have a real impact. I’m details focused, people oriented and am able to craft and execute a strategic vision. I have strong skills in:

– Human Centred Design (personas, wireframes, prototypes)
– Team management (with engineers & designers) including Pivotal Tracker and scrum
– Operations management
– Business and design strategy (lean)
– Client and stakeholder management
– Roadmapping and feature prioritisation
– Customer development (user interviews, discovery research)
– Service design
– Data collection and analysis

Overall, I have a passion for building products that bring people joy and have a positive social impact.

Rhonda Collins, DNP, RN, FAAN, is the Chief Nursing Officer at Vocera where she works closely with nurses, physicians, IT professionals and hospital leaders around the world to improve the lives of patients, families and care teams by simplifying workflows and improving clinical communication. A nurse for more than 30 years, Dr. Collins is a co-founder of the American Nurse Project dedicated to elevating the voices of nurses. She recently published her second CNO Perspective report on cognitive overload and its impact on clinician well-being and patient safety, offering strategies to mitigate cognitive burden for nurses, doctors, and other care team members during and after COVID-19.

During his career, Mr Kinsela has been an adviser to the Commonwealth Minister for Health and Minister for Social Services and Aged Care. He has worked as a clinical nurse educator and trauma intensive care specialist and most recently was Chief of Staff at the Australian Digital Health Agency. Mark’s career has taken in all aspects of health care, from delivery through to policy. It has given him an exceptional level of expertise and insight into the challenges facing Australia’s health care systems and potential solutions, such as innovation and multidisciplinary care.

Dr Vinay Lakra became a RANZCP Fellow in 2007. He is the Clinical Director of North West Area Mental Health Service, North Western Mental Health. He served as the Deputy Chief Psychiatrist of Victoria for three years during 2016–19. He is a surveyor for the Australian Council on Healthcare Standards and a member of the AMA Victoria council.

Dr Lakra graduated in medicine from JN Medical College, India in 1999 and then completed his MD in psychiatry from Central Institute of Psychiatry, India in 2002 before moving to Australia in 2004. He is also a Fellow of Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators, has a Masters in Health Management from University of New South Wales and is a Graduate of Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Dr Lakra’s interest and expertise includes leadership and management, clinical governance systems, patient safety and quality, assessment and training standards for Specialist International Medical Graduates; and supervision and mentoring of junior doctors and early career psychiatrists. He also continues to be involved in clinical practice in general psychiatry including electroconvulsive therapy.

Dr Lakra joined the RANZCP Board for a two-year term from May 2018 and assumed the role of President Elect of the RANZCP from May 2019 – May 2021. Dr Lakra will assume the role of President in May 2021.

Ben is a Biomedical Engineer with demonstrated business acumen and more than 10 years’ healthcare experience across technology assessment, business development, health economics, regulatory affairs and quality assurance. He is passionate about the power of emerging technologies to improve patient outcomes, and have led a number of digital initiatives both within and outside healthcare.

George is a medical doctor with strong experience in software development and marketing. Interest in improving quality and delivery of healthcare utilising information technology.

George is currently involved in development and implementation of innovative healthcare solutions delivered over the internet.

His specialties are Medical and health related software application development and management.

Dr Ewen McPhee is a Rural Family Doctor and GP Obstetrician, resident in Emerald Central Queensland since 1989.

Dr McPhee is a Fellow of the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine and has had recent involvement in government health policy through membership of the Primary Health Care Advisory Group and the eHealth Implementation Taskforce.

Dr Harry Nespolon has more than 30 years’ experience in general medical practice. He is the principal of three general practices: in the City of Sydney, the lower North Shore and Northern Beaches.

Dr Nespolon is an experienced chair and company director. He is President of the RACGP and a member of its Board. He is a director of the Northern Sydney Local Health District.

Eric is the Chief Executive Officer at Swoop Aero, leading the overall business strategy and managing the global relationships with our partners. His aviation heritage was built as an Air Force Pilot, where he was a qualified C130J Hercules Captain, and led missions in the Middle East.

Silvia has more than 15 years experience with Web video and has worked for Accenture, Google, Mozilla, NICTA and CSIRO. Coviu is her second startup. She co-edited standards that made video a prime citizen of the Web and underpin Coviu. Silvia has a PhD in computer science, a masters in business management, has published two books on HTML5 video, and one on video consultations for healthcare businesses.

Hosna is a Postgraduate student of Health Information Technology in Iran University of Medical Sciences in Tehran. Hosna has experiences in Cancer Registry, Mobile Health, Internet of Things (IoT), Research and Development centre (R&D), Virtual Education and E-learning centre of the University and also the recipient of several awards from various centres including the National Elites Foundation and Gifted and Talented Student Centre, Tehran, Iran.

Dr Louise Schaper is an innovator and a change agent who doesn’t sit still and whose passion and enthusiasm for digital health and health informatics is contributing to shaping the future of Australian healthcare. Her appointment as CEO came on the back of 10+ years of experience in, and applied passion for, health informatics. With a background as an occupational therapist and a PhD on technology acceptance amongst healthcare professionals, Louise is a world leader in allied health informatics and is intimately connected to Australia’s substantial health reform efforts, where digital health is a key enabler to achieving high quality, safe, sustainable and patient-centred care.

Alison is Chief Executive of the Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association, the independent peak membership body and advocate for the Australian healthcare system and a national voice for universally accessible, high quality healthcare in Australia.

Ruth has worked in clinical and administrative mental health for over three decades, including executive roles in in Forensic Mental Health, Department of Health and Human Services and NorthWestern Mental Health in Victoria. During her periods as Chief Psychiatrist and Director of Mental Health, Ruth was the Chair of AHMAC National Mental Health Standing Committee, National Mental Health Workforce Committee National Safety and Quality Committee. Ruth also worked with the Department of Health and Aging on the 4th National Mental Health Plan and the National Standards for Mental Health Services.

Ruth has contributed to policy and service initiatives across mental health, disability, and alcohol and drugs services including government policy, legislation and service delivery.

Leanne is the Chief Executive Officer of the Consumers Health Forum of Australia She is a health advocate and service executive with over thirty years’ experience. Leanne has held executive positions within federal government and in national and state non-government organisations, most recently as CEO of a state-based primary care organisation. Throughout her career, she has worked in the health and social care sectors. Leanne is a Board Director of Coordinare South East New South Wales Primary Health Network, the Ozhelp Foundation, PainAustralia and Advancing Pharmacy Practice.