Keynote Speakers
Emeritus Professor John Corrigan
Ohio Valley Centre for Brain Injury
Prevention and Rehabilitation
Professor Jennie Ponsford AO
Director, Monash-Epworth Rehabilitation Research Centre
Professor Melinda Fitzgerald
Leader, Mission for Traumatic Brain Injury
Professor Paul van Donkelaar
University of British Columbia Canada
Karen Mason
Executive Director, Kelowna Women’s Shelter, British Columbia Canada
Professor Peter Schofield
Neuropsychiatrist, University of Newcastle
Professor Bruce Bonyhady AM
Melbourne Disability Institute, University of Melbourne
Kate Channer
Consumer Opening Address
Speakers
Nick Rushworth
Executive Officer Brain Injury Australia – Conference Chair
Liz Cairns
Head of Independence, Transport Accident Commission
Professor Beth Armstrong
Edith Cowan University
Professor Juli Coffin
Telethon Kids Institute
Dr Howard Flavell
Northern Territory
Dr Raphael Grzebieta
Professor Emeritus
Transport and Road Safety Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
Professor Jake Olivier
Transport and Road Safety Research Centre at UNSW Sydney
Jennifer Makovec Knight
Sports Concussion Research Group, Monash University
Professor Melinda Fitzgerald
Curtin University
Professor Roger Chung
Macquarie University, Chairperson Brain Injury Australia
Professor Alistair Nichol
University College Dublin, Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre, Monash University
Professor Andrew Udy
Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre, Monash University
Dr Hayley Letson
Heart, Trauma and Sepsis Research Laboratory, James Cook University
Professor Geoffrey Dobson
Trauma and Sepsis Research Laboratory, James Cook University
Professor Peter Schofield
University of Newcastle
Professor Malcolm Hopwood
Ramsay Health Care Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Melbourne
Professor Tony Butler
Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney
Dr Kate Gould
Monash-Epworth Rehabilitation Research Centre
Jodie Brown
Family Member
Mathew Ward
Consumer
Sue Sloan
Occupational Therapist, Neuropsychologist
Madeline Homewood
Parent
Dr Jo Tully
Deputy Director Victorian Forensic Paediatric Medical Service
Natalie Foley
Parent
Ethan Cheesewright
17 year-old ex-Australian Rules footballer
Professor Vicki Anderson
Murdoch Children’s Research Institute Melbourne
Professor Gary Browne
University of Sydney
Associate Professor Michael Buckland
University of Sydney
The Honorable Judge Eugene M. Hyman
Superior Court of California County of Santa Clara
Professor Paul van Donkelaar
University of British Columbia Canada
Magistrate Pauline Spencer
Victoria
Associate Professor Molly Townes O’Brien
Australian National University College of Law, Canberra
Professor Bruce Bonyhady AM
Melbourne Disability Institute University of Melbourne
Sammy Daly
Kitchenhand
David Best
Senior Policy Officer Disability Employment Australia
Dr Em Bould
Monash University
Ms Libby Callaway
Monash University