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Professor Elaine Mardis, PhD

Co-Executive Director, Institute for Genomic Medicine at Nationwide Children's Hospital

Elaine Mardis, PhD is co-Executive Director of the Steve and Cindy Rasmussen Institute for Genomic Medicine at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and holds the Rasmussen Nationwide Foundation Endowed Chair in Genomic Medicine. She also is Professor of Paediatrics at The Ohio State University College of Medicine.

Dr. Mardis was previously on faculty at Washington University School of Medicine for 22 years, where she was named the Robert E. and Louise F. Dunn Distinguished Professor of Medicine. Dr. Mardis serves on the Supervisory Board of Qiagen N.V. and on the Board of Directors of Singular Genomics Systems, Inc.

She is an internationally recognized expert in cancer genomics and immunogenomics, with over 430 published manuscripts. Her ongoing research interests lie in the integrated characterization of cancer genomes, defining DNA-based somatic and germline interactions and RNA-based pathways and immune microenvironments that lead to cancer onset and progression, with a focus on paediatric cancers and precision oncology.

Dr. Mardis is the former President of the American Association for Cancer Research. In 2019 she was elected a Fellow of the American Association for Cancer Research and a member of the U.S. National Academy of Medicine.

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Professor Neil Sebire

Professor of Pathology GOSH UCL and Chief Research Information Officer (CRIO), Director of the GOSH Clinical Informatics Research Programme

Neil Sebire is Professor of pathology at Great Ormond Street Hospital Institute of child health. He is an active clinical academic, having co-authored >1000 publications (h-index 108), with a particular interest over recent years in clinical informatics and making secondary use of routine health data.

He is the chief research information officer at Great Ormond Street Hospital and was the inaugural national chief clinical data officer for health data research UK (HDRUK). He runs the GOSH clinical informatics research program which currently has more than 20 PhD students working in this area.

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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)

Gary L. Freed MD, MPH is the Percy and Mary Murphy Professor of Pediatrics in the School of Medicine and Professor of Health Management and Policy in the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan. He serves as Associate Chair for Government Relations in the Department of Pediatrics and the Directory of Research for the Office for Health Equity and Inclusion in the Medical School.

Dr. Freed has more than 30 years of experience in children's health services research. He founded the first pediatric health services research center in the US and directed the first NIH-funded pediatric health services research fellowship in the nation.  He has been the principal investigator of numerous grants on child health policy and health economics, immunizations, health care quality measurement, health inequities, physician behavior and the medical workforce.

He is a past president of the Society for Pediatric Research, the largest research society in child health. He is past chair of the Department of Health and Human Services National Vaccine Advisory Committee and a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics. He recently completed his term as the President of the International Pediatric Research Foundation, an organization comprised of the leading pediatric research societies in the US and Europe.  His research outside of the US has included health policy and economic studies in both western and eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Israel, Japan and Australia.  He just completed work as a 2021-22 Fulbright Scholar to The Netherlands where he conducted foundational research into the health care delivery for children and worked to develop the field of pediatric HSR in that country.

He spent 3 years in Australia as a visiting scholar at the Royal Children’s Hospital and as a Professor in the School of Population and Global Health.  While at the RCH he started the health services research program.

In 2023 he founded the Program for Equity and Child Health (PEACH) and the Michigan Child Health Equity Collaborative (Mi-CHEC), the first quality collaborative in the US focused on child health equity.

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Adjunct Professor Jean-Frédéric Levesque, MD PHD FRCP

Deputy Secretary Clinical Innovation and Research
Chief Executive Agency for Clinical Innovation at NSW Health

Dr Jean-Frédéric Levesque is the Deputy Secretary, Clinical Innovation and Research and Chief
Executive, Agency for Clinical Innovation at NSW Health.

He is an Adjunct Professor at the Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity at the University of New
South Wales. He has authored more than 150 peer reviewed publications and his seminal research
on healthcare access and inequity has been cited more than 2,000 times.

Jean-Frédéric Levesque has a Medical Degree, a Masters in Community Health and a Doctorate in
Public Health from the Université de Montréal, Canada. He brings extensive leadership in healthcare
systems analysis and improvement, combining experience in clinical practice in refugee health and tropical medicine, in clinical governance and in academic research.

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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

A/Prof Mark Cowley

Deputy Director, Enabling Platforms & Collaboration and Group Leader, Children’s Cancer 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.

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 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

A/Prof Anai Gonzalez-Cordero

Group Leader Stem Cell Medicine and Head of the Stem Cell & Organoid Facility, Children’s Medical Research Institute

Prof Adam Jaffe

Paediatric Respiratory Consultant Sydney Children’s Hospital and the John Beveridge Professor and Head of Paediatrics and Child Health UNSW Sydney.

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

Prof Natasha Nassar

Chair in Translational Childhood Medicine, Financial Markets Foundation for Children, The University of 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

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

Prof Michelle Farrar

Professor of Paediatric Neurology at UNSW Sydne, Specialist Child Neurologist Sydney Children’s Hospital Randwick

Dr Paul Fennessy

Paul Fennessy Advisory

A/Prof Sarah Garnett

Paediatrics & Child Health, Children's Hospital, Westmead

A/Prof Leszek Lisowski

Unit Head, Translational Vectorology Unit, Children’s Medical Research Institute

A/Prof Vanessa 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

Emeritus Professor Les White

AM, Director, Children’s Cancer Institute

Facilitators

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

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