With a background in Occupational Therapy, small business and most recently Practice Management, Kate is now Co-Founder and CEO of health-tech startup, MediBetter. Kate is a mother to two teenage children and thoroughly enjoys the journey of never-ending self-improvement, recently obtaining her Advanced Diploma of Neuroscience of Leadership. Kate is passionate about working with people and improving and optimising workplace processes, leveraging off tools that go beyond simple administrative functions. Her personal experiences working in General Practice has led to her, alongside her fellow Co-Founders, creating MediBetter.

Emma Siegel brings over 15 years of experience in project management and public health research to her current role as manager of the Lismore Women’s Health and Resource Centre. She has extensive experience in clinical governance and quality improvement in both health and research settings. Emma has a particular interest in using health service data to inform policy and improve clinical practice. Emma is here today representing Women’s Health NSW, a peak body for 22 women’s health services across NSW, specifically their work on strangulation and sexual choking via Itleftnomarks.com.au.

Steve Macfarlane is an Associate Professor of Aged Psychiatry at Monash University, and is the national Head of Clinical Services for Dementia Support Australia. He has been a consultant psychiatrist since 2003, with research interests that include subjects as diverse as Alzheimer’s Disease, psychiatry in film, and senile squalor. His past appointments have included periods of service on the Victorian Ministerial Advisory Council for Mental Health and on the Commonwealth Psychogeriatric Expert Reference Group. Steve served a period as Deputy Chief Psychiatrist for the State of Victoria in 2008, and has been Director of Aged psychiatry at Peninsula Health and Alfred Health. He provided expert testimony to the Royal commission on Aged Care Safety and Quality on two occasions. He is a past Chair of the Faculty of Psychiatry of Old Age for the RANZCP and has authored over 40 papers in peer-reviewed journals. He was a regular on the Melbourne radio programme “Radiotherapy” (3RRR-FM) between 1995-2018, discussing psychiatry in film.

Dr Leilani Corbett is a medical educator with True and a medical officer at the Toowoomba True Clinic. She completed her MBBS at the University of Queensland in 2010, attainted RACGP fellowship in 2017 and has a particular interest in sexual and reproductive health. In addition to her roles with True, she is employed as a Senior Medical Officer in Sexual Health/Public Medicine at Toowoomba Hospital. She is an HIV S100 Prescriber, participates in the Forensic Medical Examination roster for Darling Downs Health and is a GP Clinical Editor with Darling Downs HealthPathways.

MBChB, FCFP(SA) Leon Geffen is a family physician in general practice in Cape Town. He is an Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Division of Geriatric Medicine at the University of Cape Town (UCT) and conducts sessions in the Groote Schuur Hospital/UCT Memory Clinic. He actively teaches and examines Registrars in Family Medicine at the university. He is a member of the the South African Geriatrics Society (SAGS), the South African Academy of Family Physicians (SAAFP), the South African Medical Association, the Allergy Society of South Africa and the Southern African HIV Clinicians Society (SAHCS). Geffen is the president and honorary medical superintendent of Highlands House, a Jewish Aged Home in Cape Town. Geffen has published on stroke, the management of infective endocarditis, ageing and sexuality, ageing and immunology, the management of patients in a memory clinic and research in general practice. His current research interests include improved quality of long-term care and the use of quality indicators and assessment instruments in community-dwelling older persons. He is currently engaged in a public-private partnership programme with the Western Cape Department of Health to provide medical services at a primary care level. He is the Medical Director of Agewell, an international multi-centre project being implemented at two sites in Cape Town to develop and evaluate support services for older persons in the community. Geffen recently completed an evaluation of oral health in older persons in Cape Town as part of an international collaborative study. He was appointed a Fellow of interRAI.

A/Prof Stephan Foy is a graduate of University of Otago and completed his coronary interventional fellowship at Royal Perth Hospital, WA.
His first consultant engagement was at Launceston General Hospital, Tasmania, where Stephan set up Tasmania’s first Cardiac Cath Lab outside of Hobart. This resulted in implementing a diagnostic cardiac catheterisation and pacemaker implant service.
Stephan moved to Geelong in late 1997, where he established Heart Centre St John of God, a private cardiology practice in which he remains a practice principal.
He was instrumental in instituting the cardiac services at St John of God Geelong Hospital. Stephan was the key advisor for development of the hospital’s Cardiac Catheter Labs and Cardiac Care Unit. His association with Geelong-based cardiac surgeons was vital to SJGGH developing its cardiac surgery programme, with the first cardiac operation in a Victoria state regional centre performed in 2017.

Karen Tuesley is an early career researcher at the School of Public Health, University of Queensland. Karen’s research focuses on women’s health and cancer epidemiology using large longitudinal datasets. Her PhD research used large-scale data to explore the associations between the use of chronic disease medications and the risk of ovarian cancer. She also researches long-term health outcomes for women after gynaecological surgery. Karen works with large observational studies with longitudinal data and is experienced with different analytic techniques and methods including emulated trials and Mendelian randomisation.

Dr Jordan is a medically trained cancer epidemiologist who is currently Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the School of Public Health. Before starting her PhD, she worked in rural and urban general practice for over 10 years and brings that clinical experience to her research. She currently leads projects on ovarian and thyroid cancers, examining aetiology, patterns of care and survival. Her research employs a broad range of methods including individual patient and clinician surveys, molecular epidemiology and pooling of consortia data, but she has particular expertise in large-scale data linkage.

Kate is a fertility specialist, gynaecologist and reproductive endocrinologist. She completed university in Melbourne and trained in obstetrics and gynaecology at The Women’s Hospital and The Mercy Hospital, with further work and experience in this field during two years in the UK. Kate then spent three years specialising in infertility and reproductive endocrinology and is CREI qualified. She has led and participated in many research studies, both at Melbourne IVF and with other researchers. Kate has authored and co-authored over 45 research papers published in scientific journals. She is Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Melbourne, Royal Women’s Hospital, and the Head of the Endocrine and Metabolic Service and Acting Head of Reproductive Services both at the Royal Women’s Hospital Melbourne. She is also the Clinical Director and Head of Clinical Research at Melbourne IVF. Kate’s special interest is in medical fertility preservation and she established and coordinates the Fertility Preservation Services at the Royal Women’s Hospital and Melbourne IVF. She currently co-chairs the COSA Medical Fertility Preservation Guidance development group and is also a member of the international Pancare working group for development of the European Fertility Preservation Guidelines. Kate’s patients appreciate her accessibility and strong commitment to research guiding best practice. She is dedicated to ensuring every patient is given the best chance of having a family.

I am an Emergency Physician working in the Emergency Department of the Royal Hobart Hospital. Originally from the UK, I left in 2005 for a year long working holiday, only to find myself pursing a career in emergency medicine in New Zealand and then Australia. I became a Consultant in 2012 and over the last decade have developed a range of additional medical interests, including Diving & Hyperbaric Medicine, Complex Wound Management and Hospital in the Home. I am passionate about vulnerable patients receiving timely care and over the last few years have been bringing acute hospital level care to patients in the community. I am proud to have been an EM Masterclass Mentor since 2015 and have had the joy of mentoring many Dutch EPs since.

Dr Janet Green is a highly qualified academic with over 25 years of recent clinical experience at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead in Sydney, and a nursing academic for 30 years. She is a Senior Lecturer at University of Notre Dame (Sydney based) and Adjunct Senior Lecturer at The University of Tasmania (Sydney based)