Dr David Hansen
CEO
The Australian E-Health Research Centre, CSIRO

Bio >> David Hansen is CEO of the Australian E-Health Research Centre, a joint venture between CSIRO and the Queensland Government. David leads a research portfolio developing information and communication technologies for the healthcare system. These include projects for resource planning, biomedical imaging, mobile and tele-health and technologies that will underpin the e-health architecture in Australia. Prior to joining CSIRO, David worked for LION bioscience Ltd in the UK, developing genomic data and tool integration software that was used to publish the first human genome and is now used at over 200 pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies and research institutes worldwide.

A/Prof Christine Jorm
Associate Dean Professionalism
Sydney Medical School

Bio >> Christine Jorm is an anaesthetist with doctorates in neuropharmacology and sociology. Her book 'Reconstructing Medical Practice - Engagement, Professionalism and Critical Relationships in Health Care' examines why doctors are limited in their ability to admit to error or engage with the system. Barriers include the uncertain nature of their work and care for individual patients. Regulation is a limited approach to ensuring good care but rebuilding organisational engagement - with relationships underpinned by data is possible.

Angelo Joseph
Head of Sales Engineering
Google Enterprise

Bio >> Angelo Joseph holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering with a telecommunications major from the University of Technology, Sydney. Angelo leads pre-sales engineering for Google's enterprise solutions for business, government and education in Australia and New Zealand. Angelo brings more than two decades of experience in the IT industry and has been on the forefront of adoption of new IT such as Web, Java, Portals Thin Clients, Identity Management and Cloud. Before Google, Angelo held leadership positions within pre-sales divisions at IBM, Sun Microsystems and Oracle.

Dr Brendan Lovelock
Health Practice Lead
Cisco

Bio >> Dr Brendan Lovelock is the Health Industry Practice Lead for Cisco Australia. In this role, Brendan is responsible for developing transformative information technology solutions and services facilitating the delivery of safe, affordable and accessible healthcare. The focus is to drive quality and performance through improved utilisation of healthcare resources across the whole care provider ecosystem. Brendan has an extensive background in business management and technology commercialisation, having held senior executive positions with Telstra and Eastman Kodak, both in Australia and internationally. He has also managed a number of smaller Australian software and consulting organisations, delivering reporting and business management systems into the telecommunications and technology services markets. Brendan has chaired numerous conferences and symposia on healthcare systems design and has published on that subject. He currently leads the Digital Hospital Design group at the Health Informatics Society of Australia and The Foundry, an industry collaborative to bring technology developers and solution designers together with clinicians and healthcare managers.

Dr Mirana Ramialison
Group Leader in Systems Developmental Biology
Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute

Bio >> Dr Ramialison is an NHMRC/Heart Foundation Career Development Fellow. After her PhD at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Germany, she conducted her post-doctoral research at the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute in Sydney. She is now a Faculty member of the Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute, where she leads her laboratory researching on heart development, evolution and disease using Bioinformatics.

Dr Maia Sauren
ThoughtWorks Australia
@sauramaia

Bio >> Dr Maia Sauren is a biomedical engineering researcher turned software consultant. Maia moonlights for the Open Knowledge Foundation, a not for profit that aims to help organisations make data and information available and open.

Dr Bern Shen
Chief Medical Officer
HealthCrowd (USA)

Bio >> Bern Shen is Chief Medical Officer and co-founder of HealthCrowd. Bern practiced emergency medicine for 15 years and has 15 years of health tech experience in large companies, startups, and as an angel investor. He holds an A.B. from Harvard and an MD, MPhil. from Yale.

Prof Terry Speed
Head, Division of Bioinformatics
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research

Bio >> Terry Speed's research interests lie in the application of statistics to genetics and genomics, and to related fields such as proteomics, metabolomics and epigenomics. He works at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne, and is an active emeritus professor in Statistics at the University of California at Berkeley.

A/Prof Andrew Way
CEO
Alfred Health

Bio >> A/Prof Andrew Way commenced as CEO of Alfred Health, Melbourne on 1 July 2009 having had an extensive career in the English NHS. Andrew's main interests are quality and safety, patient access to healthcare, embedding translational and clinical research, and sound financial clinical services. Andrew has been a major driver behind the development of the Monash Partners Academic Health Science Centre, Victoria's first AHSC. Andrew has been appointed to several Ministerial and other advisory committees and is a Director on a number of Boards.

Julie Brophy
Manager Health Information Workforce Strategy
Health Workforce Branch
Department of Health, Vic

Bio >> Julie Brophy currently holds the position of Manager, Health Information Workforce Strategy, with the Department of Health Victoria in which role she is responsible for the Victorian strategies to meet the current and future demand for an appropriately skilled and qualified Health Information Workforce. Prior to this she has held other positions in the Victorian Department of Health, including Principal Advisor, Costing Policy and Analysis, which oversaw the development of standards for costing and reporting of cost data in Victoria and Manager Funding Systems and Costing, which was responsible for the development of the Victorian funding models and the cost data collection. She has also held positions with the QLD Department of Health assisting with the implementation of their Casemix Funding Model, and several positions in Victorian health services in roles including managing Decision Support Units, Business Intelligence, Clinical Costing, Strategic Planning, and as a Health Information Manager. Julie originally graduated as a Health Information Manager, but has since also completed post graduate qualifications in Information Technology and Health Statistics.

Paul Madden
Deputy Secretary and Chief Information and Knowledge Officer
Department of Health

Bio >> Mr Paul Madden was appointed to the position of Deputy Secretary and Chief Information and Knowledge Officer in 2010. His role includes the development and implementation of visions, strategies and plans for information, knowledge, technology, and performance management. Paul also provides strategic guidance and advice in relation to technical aspects for the various health reform projects including the Personally Controlled eHealth Record (PCEHR), Telehealth, ePrescribing and health system performance reporting. Paul has also initiated projects to implement the enterprise information management strategy, and new enterprise IT governance and approval processes aimed at maximizing the department’s investment in information and technology. Mr Madden is a member of the Departmental Executive Committee and is also the chair of the Departmental Information, Knowledge and Technology Committee which provides advice and makes recommendations to the Executive Committee on information, knowledge and technology strategies and plans. He also Chairs the Data Governance Council which provides advice and assists with the implementation of consistent information management policies and approaches. Prior to joining the Department, Mr Madden was Program Director of the Standard Business Reporting (SBR) Program led from the Australian Treasury from 2007 - 2010.

Dr Tim Churches
SURE Epidemiologist and Technical Advisor
Sax Institute

Bio >> Dr Tim Churches has designed and implemented several population health and research information systems, including the ANZICS intensive care outcome monitoring system, a population health data warehouse for NSW Health, a near real-time ED surveillance system, a communicable disease outbreak control system, a probabilistic record linkage engine, and SURE, a highly secure remote-access analysis facility for health researchers. He has authored papers on privacy-preserving methods for record linkage and guidelines for personal information disclosure control in research output.

Dr Peter Croll
CEO
Peter Croll and Associates

Bio >> Dr Peter Croll is a leader in health informatics who founded PeterCroll.com, a consultancy specialising in trustworthy ICT solutions. In Australia he has held four profes9orships at universities, been appointed as National Fellow for CSIRO, a past Vice President for HISA Ltd. and currently chairs the IMIA working party on Health Information Privacy and Security.

Jessica Dean
President
Australian Medical Students' Association

Bio >> Jessica Dean is the President of the Australian Medical Students' Association, which is the peak representative organisation for Australia's 17,500 medical students. Jessica is a 6th year Medicine/Law student at Monash University. She is currently completing an Honours Project at The Alfred Hospital in Bioethics.

Emma Hossack
President
International Association of Privacy Professionals

Bio >> Emma Hossack stopped practising law to become CEO of Extensia in 2007. Extensia's shared electronic health record has been deployed across Australia giving Emma a deep understanding of how medical software can be deployed in a privacy enhancing manner. Emma is also CEO of EDOCX, another privacy compliant product, President of the International Association of Privacy Professionals, Vice president of the Medical Software Industry Association and on the Board of CIRCA!

A/Prof Trish Williams
School of Computer and Security Science
Edith Cowan University

Bio >> Associate Professor Trish Williams is the E-Health Research Group Leader in the School of Computer and Security Science, Edith Cowan University, WA. Trish is internationally recognised for her medical information security expertise. She has over 28 years' experience in healthcare computing with 15 years industry experience in general practice and pharmacy computing before joining academia in 2001. Trish is the primary author of The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners Computer and Information Security Standards, advises the General Practice Data Governance Council, and is a member of the E-Health Industry Clinical Safety and Security Committee. Trish is Chair of HL7 Australia, International Co-Chair of HL7 Security, expert of numerous health informatics ISO standards and has over 70 medical information security publications.

Prof Ingrid Winship
Executive Director of Research
Melbourne Health

Bio >> Professor Ingrid Winship is the Executive Director of Research for Melbourne Health and the Chair of Adult Clinical Genetics at The University of Melbourne. A medical graduate of the University of Cape Town, she completed postgraduate training in genetics and dermatology. In 1994, Professor Winship took up an academic position at the University of Auckland and later became Professor of Clinical Genetics and Associate Dean for Research in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences. Professor Winship is a member (immediate past Chair) of the Bio21 Victorian Hospital Director's Forum and a member of the Bio21 Scientific Advisory Council. She is a member of the Victorian Cancer Agency, NHMRC Human Genetic Advisory Committee and the Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative Steering Committee. Professor Winship serves on the Board of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute and the Peter Doherty Institute Council.

Alison Choy Flannigan
Partner
Health Aged Care & Life sciences, Holman Webb Lawyers

Bio >> Alison Choy Flannigan leads the specialist Health, Aged Care and Life sciences team at Holman Webb. She has over 20 years of corporate and commercial experience. Alison was previously General Counsel of Ramsay Health Care Limited (one of Australia's largest private hospital operators and a top ASX listed company with operations in Australia and offshore) and was previously a partner of a major Australian National law firm. She has also been Company Secretary of Research Australia Limited and a member of a number of hospital committees, risk management committees and advisory boards. In each year between 2008-2014, she was nominated by her peers in Best Lawyers International: Australia as one of Australia's 'best lawyers' in the areas of health and aged care. Alison regularly advises healthcare providers on IT and privacy issues and advised NEHTA on privacy issues associated with the personally controlled electronic health records.

Dr Louise Schaper
CEO
HISA

Bio >> Louise is an innovator and a change agent who doesn't sit still and whose passion and enthusiasm for health informatics is shaping a new future for HISA. 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, Louise has a PhD on technology acceptance amongst healthcare professionals and is a graduate of the Stanford executive leadership program for non-profit leaders. Louise is a world leader in health informatics and is intimately connected to Australia's substantial health reform efforts, where e-health is a key enabler to achieving high quality, safe, sustainable and patient-centred care. Under Louise's leadership HISA is leading the discussion in big data in healthcare and hosts Australia's preeminent conference on big data & healthcare analytics.