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The 31st Annual Medico Legal Congress will be returning to the Swissotel, Sydney in March 2022. We are also offering the option to attend the event virtually.
Join us at Australia’s premiere medico legal event and a highlight on the calendar of the nation’s medico legal professionals. The congress features a highly credentialed speaker faculty addressing complex and thought-provoking medico legal issues, reviewing recent cases, and discussing the future of healthcare and hospitals – from GPs to surgery in a post COVID world.
Topics to be addressed include:
- The liability around contracting COVID-19 as a Health Practitioner, who is responsible?
- Decision making frameworks and determining capacity in children
- Has the COVID-19 era, seen an increase in ‘medical negligence’ as a consequence of a reliance on telehealth?
- The key to medico legal case is being a good expert witness
- COVAX: vaccination exemptions and new developments
- Johnson & Johnson vaginal mesh litigation: what you thought you knew
- Voluntary Assisted Dying: Addressing the 3 new Bills
- NDIS – Recent Cases and Trends
- Ethical dilemmas in emergency; treating patients with specific cultural considerations
- The Australian Covid 19 compensation scheme
- Dental Consent issues: “informed consent” vs failure to warn
- Gender Dysphoria
- Addressing good medical practice: sexual misconduct within the clinical setting
- Police detain and transport powers under Australian mental health acts – community safety or violation of rights?
- Cosmetic surgery – myths, reality, and the solution
- Medicare and private health insurance – recent and emerging medico-legal issues
- Rural vs City medicine in Antenatal and Obstetric care
speakers

Bill Madden
Special Counsel, Carroll & O’Dea Lawyers

A/Prof Tina Cockburn
Co-Director, Australian Centre for Health Law Research, Faculty of Law, Queensland University of Technology

Janine McIlwraith
Principal Lawyer, Margalit Lawyers

Louise Cantrill
Partner, Mills Oakley

Dr Vijay Roach
Immediate Past President, RANZCOG

Nick Mann
Founder and Principal, Polaris Lawyers

Professor Ben White
Professor of End-of-Life Law and Regulation, Australian Centre for Health Law Research, Queensland University of Technology

Rebecca Jancauskas
Practice Leader, Class Actions, Shine Lawyers

Justine Anderson
Associate, Carroll & O’Dea Lawyers

Professor Marie Bismark
Professor of Law and Public Health (Centre for Health Policy), University of Melbourne

Dr Anne Tonkin
Chair, Medical Board of Australia

Tom Ballantyne
Principal Lawyer, Maurice Blackburn Lawyers

Bree Knoester
Founder & Principal, Brave Legal

Alison Choy Flannigan
Partner and Leader Health & Community, Hall & Wilcox

Kate Gillman
Head of Medico-Legal Advisory Service, Avant

Professor Damon Eisen
Acting Director Infectious Diseases and Infection Prevention, Peninsula Health

A/Professor David Hunter
Associate Professor of Medical Ethics in the School of Medicine, University of Adelaide

A/Professor Alexander Holden
Head of Specialist Services, Sydney Dental Hospital and Oral Health Services, Sydney Local Health District

Timothy Bowen
Manager – Advocacy & Legal Services, MIGA

Dr Katie Wynne
Conjoint Associate Professor, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Newcastle

A/Professor Charlotte Hespe
Chair, RACGP NSW/ACT faculty, Head, General Practice and Primary Care Research, School of Medicine, The University of Notre Dame

Justine Raczkowski
Senior Legal Counsel, The Royal Children’s Hospital

Dr Andrew Walby MBBS
Director of Emergency Medicine. St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne

Professor Anne-Maree Kelly
Director, Joseph Epstein Centre for Emergency Medicine Research, Senior Emergency Physician, Western Health, Melbourne, Adjunct Professor, The Australian Centre for Health Law Research, Queensland University of Technology, Professorial Fellow, The University of Melbourne

Susan Hertzberg
Senior Staff Specialist in Emergency Medicine, Prince of Wales Hospital, Senior Medical Advisor, Avant Mutual Medical Indemnity

Liz Nunn
Paediatric Endocrine CNC, Trans and Gender Diverse Health Services, Maple Leaf House, Hunter New England LHD

Rocky Ruperto
Legal and Policy Officer, Avant

Dr David Garne
Director: Community, Primary, Remote and Rural, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Wollongong

Dr Patrick Tansley
President, Australasian College of Cosmetic Surgery and Medicine

Ruanne Brell
Senior Legal Advisor, Avant

Jeremy Wiggins
Executive Officer, Transcend Australia

Dr Tram Nguyen
Consultant Psychiatrist, The Royal Children's Hospital Gender Service, Melbourne

Professor Julie Leask
Professor, Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney

Clare Kerley
Special Counsel, Hall & Wilcox

Christian Wright
Clinical Nurse Specialist, Midwife, and Maternal Health Researcher and Educator, Northern Territory Health

Dr Kiarna Brown
Gynaecologist and Obstetrician, Royal Darwin Hospital
Insights
How might voluntary assisted dying legislation in NSW compare with other jurisdictions?
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Wrongful birth damages – an interview with Bill Madden
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Professor Euan Wallace’s keynote address at the Medico Legal Congress
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The role and major challenges of a medical legal counsel
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What are the Trends and the Future of Medical & Health Law?
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The black, white and grey area of assisted suicide
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when & where
15 - 16 Mar 2022
Swissotel Sydney
68 Market St
Sydney NSW 2000
Ph: +61 (02) 9238 8888
Swissotel Sydney Special Accommodation Rate: 10% discount off best available rate at the time of booking. In order to qualify, please call the Reservations Team on 02 9238 8888 between 9:00am – 5:00pm Monday to Friday or email res.sydney@swissotel.com and quote INFORMA
contact
Still have a question?
Katrina Bowns
Conference Producer
katrina.bowns@informa.com.au
Danielle Newman
Senior Business Development Manager
+61 2 9080 4318
Danielle.Newman@informa.com