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