Keynote speakers
Professor Elaine Mardis, PhD
Co-Executive Director, Institute for Genomic Medicine at Nationwide Children's Hospital
Professor Neil Sebire
Professor of Pathology GOSH UCL and Chief Research Information Officer (CRIO), Director of the GOSH Clinical Informatics Research Programme
Professor Gary L. Freed MD, MPH
Percy and Mary Murphy Professor of Pediatrics, Professor of Health Management and Policy, Director, Program on Equity for Adolescent and Child Health (PEACH), Director, Michigan Child Health Equity Collaborative (MI-CHEC)
Dr Kim Sutherland
Executive Director, Office for Health and Medical Research, NSW Health
Speakers
A/Prof Greg Arndt
Head of Drug Discovery, Drug Discovery Centre, THerapeutic INnovations for Kids (THINK), Conjoint Associate Professor, School of Clinical Medicine, UNSW Medicine
Ms Tiffany Boughtwood
Managing Director, Australian Genomics
Prof Jennifer Byrne
Director of Biobanking, NSW Health
A/Prof Mark Cowley
Deputy Director, Enabling Platforms & Collaboration and Group Leader, Children’s Cancer Institute
A/Prof Paul Ekert
Deputy Director, Research Themes and Group Leader, Children’s Cancer Institute
A/Prof Wendy Gold
Head, Molecular Neurobiology Research Group, Kids Neuroscience Centre, Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network, Adjunct Research Scientist, Children’s Medical Research Institute, Faculty of Medicine and Health, School of Medical Sciences The University of Sydney
A/Prof Anai Gonzalez-Cordero
Group Leader Stem Cell Medicine and Head of the Stem Cell & Organoid Facility, Children’s Medical Research Institute
A/Prof Kate Hetherington
Post-doctoral Research Fellow/Clinical Psychologist School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health, UNSW, Sydney, Australia. Team Leader Ethics and Genetics, Behavioural Sciences Unit, Kids Cancer Centre, Sydney Children's Hospital Randwick
Prof Adam Jaffe
Paediatric Respiratory Consultant Sydney Children’s Hospital and the John Beveridge Professor and Head of Paediatrics and Child Health UNSW Sydney.
Dr Warren Kaplan
The National Computational Infrastructure (NCI)
A/Prof Leszek Lisowski
Unit Head, Translational Vectorology Unit, Children’s Medical Research Institute
Prof Raghu Lingam
Professor in Paediatric Population and Health Services Research UNSW Sydney, Honorary Professor of Population Child Health at Kings College London and the Black Dog Institute (NSW), Consultant Community Paediatrician Sydney Children’s Hospital Network.
A/Prof Grant Logan
Children’s Medical Research Institute, Sydney Medical School Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney
Dr Michelle Lorentzos
Paediatric Neurologist, Clinical Trials Medical Lead, Head of Neurogenetics Service
Mrs Emma Maly
Parent Advocate
Dr Emily Mould
Children’s Cancer Institute
Prof Natasha Nassar
Chair in Translational Childhood Medicine, Financial Markets Foundation for Children, The University of Sydney
Anne O’Neill
Director, Enterprise, International Partnerships and Clinical Trials, NSW Health
Dr Katarina Ostojic
Research Fellow, The University of Sydney & Adjunct Associate Lecturer, UNSW Sydney
Dr (Elizabeth) Emma Palmer
Clinical Geneticist, Sydney Children's Hospitals Network Randwick, Clinical Senior Lecturer, School of Clinical Medicine, UNSW Medicine & Health Randwick Clinical Campus Discipline of Paediatrics
Ms Kris Pierce
Director Child Unlimited
Prof Tom Snelling
Director of the Health and Clinical Analytics, School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Children’s Hospital at Westmead
Prof Ian Street
Director, THerapeutic INnovations for Kids (THINK), Children’s Cancer Institute
Josh Studdert
Children’s Medical Research Institute
Dr Gabor Tax
Research Officer in the Translational Drug Testing and Pharmacogenomics Children's Cancer Institute, Conjoint Lecturer in the School of Medicine, UNSW.
Prof Claire Wakefield
Behavioural Sciences Unit, Kids Cancer Centre, Sydney Children’s Hospital Randwick
Dr Shafagh Waters
Scientia Senior Lecturer at UNSW Sydney, Honorary Senior Scientist Sydney Children’s Hospital Randwick
Prof Sue Woolfenden
Director of Community Paediatrics, Sydney Local Health District, Professor of Community Paediatrics, Central Clinical School, Sydney Medical School, the Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Co-chair Sydney Institute Women, Children and their Families
A/Prof Antoine de Weck
Group Leader Computational Drug Discovery Biology Group, Children’s Cancer Institute
Prof Karen Zwi
Community Child Health and Clinical Program Director for Priority Populations at Sydney Children’s Hospital, Randwick and Professor with the School of Women's & Children's Health at UNSW Sydney, Consultant Community Paediatrician, Conjoint Associate Professor School of Women's & Children's Health, UNSW Sydney
Panellists
Prof Ian Alexander
Director Laboratory Research and Senior Staff Specialist, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Professor in Paediatrics and Molecular Medicine, University of Sydney, Head of the Gene Therapy Research Unit Children’s Medical Research Institute and The Children’s Hospital at Westmead
Dr Teresa Anderson AM
Chief Executive, SDPR Implementation Authority
Brett Anslow
Rett Research Australia
Dr May Aung-Htut
Murdoch University, Rare diseases specialist
Mr Jack Calderan
Young Adult Research Advisor
Dr Paul Fennessy
Paul Fennessy Advisory
Vanessa Fitzgerald
NSW Ministry of Health
A/Prof Sarah Garnett
Paediatrics & Child Health, Children's Hospital, Westmead
Dr Helen Goodwin
NSW Health
Miss Lauren Jensen
Parent Advocate
Dr Andrea Perez-Iturralde
Children’s Medical Research Institute
Dr Sophy Shih
Kirby Institute
Dr Clarissa Schilstra
UNSW Sydney
A/Prof Ness Tyrrell
Program Leader, Zero Childhood Cancer, Co-Head of Theme, Personalised Medicine, Children’s Cancer Institute
Ms Seaneen Wallace
Priority Populations Care Navigator, PEACH Project Co-ordinator, Diversity Health Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network Randwick
Dr Jess Smith
Investment Manager, Brandon Capital Partners
Dr Julia Warning
A/Director, Advanced Therapeutics Office for Health and Medical Research, NSW Ministry of Health
Alunya Wilkinson
Parent Research Advisor
Emeritus Professor Les White
AM, Director, Children’s Cancer Institute
Prof David Ziegler
Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network
Facilitators
Lani Attwood
Associate Director Research Operations, Kids Research, Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network
Adj A/Prof Paula Bray
Director of Research, Sydney Children's Hospitals Network
Adj A/Prof Cathryn Cox PSM
Chief Executive Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network
Ms Kathryn Greiner AO
Chair Luminesce Alliance
Prof Michelle Haber AM
Executive Director, Board Member , Co-Head of Theme , Group Leader, Children’s Cancer Institute
Prof Roger Reddel AO
Sir Lorimer Dods Professor, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Director, Children's Medical Research Institute, Head, Cancer Research Unit, Children’s Medical Research Institute
