2026 Speakers

Magistrate Ken Archer

Coroner

ACT Coroner’s Court

Carly Kind

Privacy Commissioner

Office of the Australian Information Commissioner

Prof Erwin Loh

President, Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators; Director of Medical Services

Peninsula Private Hospital, Ramsay Health

Dr Sidney Chandrasiri

Chief Executive

Australian Institute of Health Executives (AIHE)

Marie-Clare Elder

Partner

Sparke Helmore Lawyers

Robyn Langham AM

Chief Medical Adviser

TGA

Dr Jamie Orchard

General Counsel

AHPRA

Dr Hester Wilson

GP, Chief Addiction Medicine Specialist

NSW Health

Bill Madden

Senior Legal Counsel, Carroll & O'Dea Lawyers, Adjunct Professor

Australian Centre for Health Law Research (QUT)

Dr Georgia Rigas

Senior Bariatric Medical Practitioner

St George Private Hospital Sydney

Dr Darran Foo

Co-Deputy Chair - Digital Health & Innovation SIG

RACGP

Dr Nisha Khot

Clinical Director O&G

Peninsula Health

Dr Marija Kirjanenko

Emergency Physician, Eastern Health and Victorian Virtual Emergency Department, Clinical Ethicist, Plunkett Centre for Ethics, Medical member

Mental Health Tribunal, Victoria

Butho Moyo

RPN, Principal Project Officer, eHealth

Department of Health Victoria

Lauren Cooper

Senior Social Worker

Sydney Local Health District Virtual Hospital

Dr Malcolm Linsell

Specialist Plastic Surgeon

Specialist Plastic Surgeon

Professor Tina Cockburn

Director

Australian Centre for Health Law Research

Professor William Rawlinson AM

Senior Medical Virologist, Director of Serology, Virology and OTDS Laboratories (SAViD)

NSW Health Pathology Randwick

Penelope June Weller

Health Law Professor, RMIT

Mental Health Tribunal Victoria

Julie Shooter

Special Counsel & Head of Health and Medical Law

Lander & Rogers

Ruanne Brell

Senior Legal Advisor

Avant Mutual

Dr. Owen Bradfield

Chief Medical Officer

MIPS

Nimesh Piyatissa

CEO & Co-founder

AKURU iScribe

Emma Baker

Special Counsel

Barry Nilsson

Dr Michael Ryan

Director

Sydney Specialist Physiotherapy Centre

Dr Amanda Cuss

Principal Medical Adviser and Director of Devices Clinical Section

TGA

Jason McHeyzer

National Director, Compliance and Regulatory Response

AHPRA

Dr Luis Prado

Senior Medical Administrator

Queensland Health

Dr Chris Ryan

Consultation-Liaison Psychiatrist

St Vincent’s Hospital, Adjunct Professor, University of Notre Dame, University of New South Wales

Dr Ainslie Senz

Emergency Physician, Director, Footscray Emergency Department

Western Health

Alice Robinson

Director & Principal Lawyer

Polaris Lawyers

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

Dr Aran Thillainathan

former Deputy Executive Director of Medical Services, Hospitals North

Launceston General Hospital, Tasmania

Bill Madden

Senior Legal Counsel, Carroll & O'Dea Lawyers, Adjunct Professor

Australian Centre for Health Law Research (QUT)

Dan Mabon

CEO/DON

Wyndham Clinic Private Hospital

Danielle Corden

General Counsel

Royal Women’s Hospital, Melbourne

Dr Marija Kirjanenko

Emergency Physician, Eastern Health and Victorian Virtual Emergency

Mental Health Tribunal, Victoria

Eraine Grotte

Barrister

Jack Shand Chambers

Fleur Katsmartin

Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary

The Royal Melbourne Hospital

Dr Ian Freckelton AO KC

Barrister

The University of Melbourne

A/Professor Julia Unterscheider

Consultant Obstetrician and Director of Birth Centre

Royal Women’s Hospital, Melbourne

Professor Mary Chiarella AM

Professor of Nursing

University of Sydney

Dr Michele Pathe

Forensic Psychiatrist, Professor

Swinburne University of Technology

Dr Owen Bradfield

Chief Medical Officer

Medical Indemnity Protection Society (MIPS)

Dr Robert Kuru

Spinal Surgeon, President, Spine Society, Independent Expert

Sinergy

Dr Susan Shedda

Colorectal Surgeon

Royal Melbourne Hospital

Professor William Rawlinson AM

Senior Medical Virologist, Director of Serology, Virology and OTDS Laboratories (SAViD)

NSW Health Pathology Randwick