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