Keynote speakers
Dr Michael Harhay
Deputy Director of the Division of Epidemiology and Director of the Center for Clinical Trials Innovation, University of Pennsylvania
Dr Marylyn Ritchie
Chief AI Officer, and Director AI Center for Health Innovation and Informatics, Medical University of South Carolina
Dr Kim Sutherland
Executive Director, Office for Health and Medical Research, NSW Health
Professor Adam Jaffe
John Beveridge Professor and co-head of Paediatrics and Child Health at UNSW, Sydney
Speakers
Professor Hilda Pickett
Head of the Telomere Length Regulation Unit at Children’s Medical Institute (CMRI), and Professor in the Faculty of Medicine and Health at The University of Sydney
Professor Robyn Jamieson
Director, Eye Genetics Research Unit, Children's Medical Research Institute
Professor Tracy Bryan
Head of the Cell Biology Unit at Children’s Medical Research Institute (CMRI) and Professor in the Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney
Natasha Eaton
Training Manager , Single Digital Patient Record Implementation Authority , NSW Health
Professor Wendy Gold
Head of School, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, and group leader of the Molecular Neurobiology Research group at Kids Research, The Children’s Hospital, Westmead.
Professor Mark Cowley
Deputy Director, Enabling Platforms & Collaboration and Group Leader, Children’s Cancer Institute
A/Prof Anai Gonzalez-Cordero
Group Leader Stem Cell Medicine and Head of the Stem Cell & Organoid Facility, Children’s Medical Research Institute
Professor Tom Snelling
Director of the Health and Clinical Analytics, School of Public Health, University of Sydney, and an infectious diseases physician in the Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network
Professor Louis Chesler
Professor of Childhood Cancer Biology and Therapeutics Executive Director, Children’s Cancer Institute of Australia Co-Director, The Minderoo Comprehensive Children’s Cancer Centre, Sydney Children’s Hospital, Randwick, Australia
Professor Maria Kavallaris AM
Professor and Head of Translational Cancer Nanomedicine NHMRC Investigator Children's Cancer Institute
Professor Matt Dun OAM
Chair in Medical Sciences and Professor of Paediatric Haematology/Oncology Research at the University of Newcastle
Dr Rebecca Poulos
Group Leader (Multi-Omics and Childhood Cancer) and Senior Research Fellow in ProCan at Children’s Medical Research Institute, and a Conjoint Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney.
Professor Philip Hog
Director, ACRF-Centenary Cancer Research Centre, University of Sydney
Dr Richard Mitchell
Paediatric Haematologist/Oncologist and Co-Director of the Minderoo Comprehensive Cancer Centre at Sydney Children’s Hospital, Randwick
A/Prof (Elizabeth) Emma Palmer
Clinical Geneticist, Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network
Professor Natalie Taylor
Director of Implementation to Impact (i2i) and Director of Research for the School of Population Health at UNSW Sydney
Professor Andrew Wilson AO
Co-Director of the Menzies Centre for Health Policy and Economics at The University of Sydney and Professor of Public Health in the Sydney School of Public Health
Professor Michelle Dickson
Director of the Poche Centre for Indigenous Health, The University of Sydney; and NH&MRC Leadership Fellow
A/Professor Michelle Lorentzos
Advanced Therapeutics Medical Lead at The Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network
Lani Attwood
Acting Director Research Operations for Kids Research at Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network (SCHN)
Allen Stanley
Senior Project Manager Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network (SCHN) Aboriginal Health Directorate
Associate Professor Sarah Norris
Associate Professor of Practice, Health Technology Assessment, School of Public Health, the University of Sydney
Professor Rebecca Guy
Head of the Surveillance Evaluation and Research Program at the Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney.
Professor Brendon Monahan
Director of MedChem Australia at the Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences (MIPS)
Professor Karen Zwi
Consultant Community Paediatrician at Sydney Children’s Hospital Randwick, Conjoint Professor UNSW Sydney, Clinical Services Director for Child Youth and Family, Northern Sydney Local Health District (NSLHD).
Panellists
Professor 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 Hospitals Network.
Professor 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
Professor Ian Street
Director, THerapeutic INnovations for Kids (THINK), Children’s Cancer Institute
Dr Kavitha Kothur
Paediatric neurologist at the Children's Hospital at Westmead (CHW) and NHMRC Senior Research Fellow
Dr 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
Emeritus Professor Richard Henry AM
Board Member, Luminesce Alliance; Director, Children's Cancer Institute
A/Prof Antoine de Weck
Group Leader Computational Drug Discovery Biology Group, Children’s Cancer Institute
Professor Parmjot Bains
Chief Medical Officer of the UNSW RNA Institute and Professor of Translational Medicine at UNSW Medicine & Health.
Professor Glenn Marshall AM
Group Leader, Clinical Lead of Zero Childhood Cancer Program, Children's Cancer Institute
Dr Janette Lee
Research Fellow, Kids Advanced Therapeutics Program, Sydney Children's Hospitals Network
Professor Kristine Barlow-Stewart AM
Senior Research Genetic Counsellor, Children’s Cancer Institute
Dr Lucinda Freeman
Head of Genetic Counselling, School of Clinical and Health Sciences, University of Technology Sydney
Dr May Aung-Htut
Senior Research Fellow, Personalised Medicine Centre, Health Futures Institute, Murdoch University
Dr Noemi Fuentes-Bolanos
Paediatric Cancer Genetics Research Fellow and Conjoint Lecturer, UNSW Sydney
Dr Julia Warning
Principal Policy Officer and A/Director, Advanced Therapeutics at OHMR, NSW Ministry of Health
Kathryn Greiner AO
Chair Luminesce Alliance Chair – Pennington Institute Chair – Ministerial Advisory Council on Ageing Chair – Lifestart Co-op Ltd Director – Paul Ramsay Foundation Board Director – Relationships Australia (NSW)
Professor Michelle Haber AM
Head of the Experimental Therapeutics Group, Children's Cancer Institute
Professor Sandra Cooper
Co-Head and Scientific Director of Kids Neuroscience Centre at the Children’s Hospital at Westmead
Dr Radek Zzmyd
Senior Research Officer, Genome Integrity Unit, Children's Medical Research Institute and Luminesce Alliance Scientific Committee Member
Dr Fran Evesson
Senior Lecturer, School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health The University of Sydney, Luminesce Alliance Scientific Committee Member
Master of Ceremonies
Professor 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
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
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
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
Alunya Wilkinson
Parent Research Advisor
