Conference Keynote Speakers
Angela Brown |
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Associate Professor and Head of the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Indigenous Health, University of Wollongong.She is a registered nurse and has worked in the UK and Australia. Angela has been involved in Practice Development for over a decade,this work includes Critical Companionship
through the Expertise in Practice Project and Clinical Leadership Development. Within the school Practice Development is a critical component of educational development and research and Angela is one of the leader for theresearch stream Initiatives in Health, Education, Leadership and Practice Development (ihelpd) |
Jan Dewing |
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Jan works in a joint appointment between East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust and Canterbury Christchurch University in the south
east coastal region of England. She is also a Visiting Professor with
the Institute of Nursing Research at the University of Ulster in
Northern Ireland and at the University of Wollongong in NSW (in
partnership with Uniting Care Ageing South Eastern Region) She is the
academic editor for the International Journal of Practice Development
launched in 2011. Jan has a portfolio of Practice Development
scholarship and research activities, all driven by her passion for
improving the experience people get when they come into in health care. |
Carrie Jackson |
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Carrie Jackson, Director of the England Centre for
Practice Development, Faculty of Health and Social Care, Canterbury
Christ Church University, Kent, EnglandCarrie is Director of The England
Centre for Practice Development which launched on 5 October 2011. The
Centre is a partnership of international networks led by and based at
Canterbury Christ Church University, and supported by members of the
International Practice Development Collaborative (IPDC). The Centre
activity includes commissioned research, consultancy practice and
development of workplace cultures and programmes of education that are
geared to transform health care services and the experiences of front
line staff and service user experiences of care. She currently holds
Visiting Appointments in the UK at the University of Swansea, an
honorary Clinical Academic Fellowship in clinical practice and is
Associate Professor in the Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences,
University of Wollongong, New South Wales. |
Debbie Horsfall |
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Debbie is a passionate leader in the field of
inclusive, democratic, qualitative research in health, human services
and community development. She has pioneered photo-voice in end of life
and aged care research, and performance ethnography in social care and
community work. Her transformative agenda privileges people’s voices
during a myriad of challenging life events. This has led to her being
invited to participate in numerous research projects including work
with: HOME Hospice; Cancer Council NSW; Multicultural Health; Carers
NSW; Community Mental Health Programs; The Department of Ageing,
Disability and Home Care, and the Prime Ministers Youth Action Task
Force. As a result of her extensive scholarly work in the area of
creative, community development and practice based research she has
served on several editorial boards, co-edited and contributed to 4
scholarly research books, and is continually approached as a reviewer
across disciplinary fields. Working with informal carers and service
providers in end of life care her current research explores how dying at
home develops death literacy, health promoting palliative care,
creative partnerships and compassionate communities. |
Karen Luxford |
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Dr Karen Luxford is Director - Patient Based Care at the Clinical Excellence Commission, Sydney, Australia (CEC). In 2010, Dr Luxford founded the Partnering With Patients program at CEC to promote patients, family and carers as care team members and the role of patient-based care in improving patient safety and quality in health care services. In 2008-2009, Dr Luxford was a Harkness Fellow in Healthcare Policy & Practice, Harvard Medical School, Boston and studied exemplar patient-focused organizations in the USA and the role of leadership, patient engagement and patient feedback in improving service quality. Dr Luxford is the Convenor of the international 'Patient Centred Care Community' for the ISQua Knowledge portal of the International Society for Quality in Health Care. Dr Luxford was formerly General Manager of the National Breast and Ovarian Cancer Centre. |
Brendan McCormack |
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Brendan leads a number of practice development and research projects nationally and internationally. His writing and research work focuses on gerontological nursing, person-centered nursing and practice development and he serves on a number of editorial boards, policy committees, and development groups in these areas. Brendan has over 110 peer-reviewed publications as well as 5 books published. He is the Editor of the "International Journal of Older People Nursing". Brendan has been appointed as a standing member of Sigma Theta Tau's Global Health Advisory Council, President of the All-Ireland Gerontological Nurses Association [AIGNA] and Chairman of the charity 'Age NI'. In 2011 Brendan was awarded the University of Ulster's award of 'Senior Distinguished Research Fellow'. |
Lindsay Oades |
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Dr Lindsay Oades is Director of the Australian Institute of Business Wellbeing, University of Wollongong. Lindsay is internationally recognised in the area of mental health recovery and recovery oriented service provision. His work on the Collaborative Recovery Model has been implemented in sites in all states of mainland Australia, and also in Canada and Hong Kong. Lindsay has over seventy publications related to this area, including co-authoring the recent book “Psychological Recovery”. A current project in which Lindsay is involved is examining the role of coaching in increasing the implementation of recovery oriented approaches in mental health services. |
Father Chris Riley |
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Father Chris Riley AM, Founder and CEO of Youth
Off The Streets, has worked with disadvantaged youth for more than 35
years in a variety of roles including teacher, youth worker, probation
officer, residential carer and principal. Father Riley officially
founded Youth Off The Streets in 1991. As CEO
of Youth Off The Streets, Father Riley oversees the operation of over 35
programs that employ over 180 staff and involve more than 250
volunteers. He has implemented innovative behaviour modification
strategies to help young people deal with a history of trauma, abuse and
neglect. Many of these strategies have been adopted by schools across
Australia and by Government agencies. Father Chris Riley believes there
is no such thing as a "child born bad", but acknowledges that there are
bad environments, circumstances and families that impact negatively on
our young. "We must have the courage to demand greatness from our youth." |
Cynda Rushton |
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Cynda Hylton Rushton, PhD, RN, FAAN is a
Professor of Nursing, with a joint appointment in the School of Medicine
in the department of Pediatrics, at the Johns Hopkins University. Dr.
Rushton is Core Faculty of the Berman Institute of Bioethics and
Co-Chair of the Johns Hopkins Hospital’s Ethics Consultation Service.
She also serves as a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Ethics and Program
Director of the Harriet Lane Compassionate Care Program at The Johns
Hopkins Children’s Center. She received her Master’s of Science in
Nursing with specialization as a Pediatric Clinical Nurse Specialist
from the Medical University of South Carolina and completed her
undergraduate degree in Nursing at the University of Kentucky. She
received a Doctorate in Nursing at the Catholic University of America
with a concentration in bioethics. Dr. Rushton is the recipient of two
fellowships: Robert Wood Johnson Nurse Executive Fellow (2006-2009) and a
Kornfeld Fellowship in end-of-life, ethics, and palliative care in
2000.
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Diane Watson |
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Dr Diane Watson is the inaugural Chief Executive
Officer of the National Health Performance Authority, taking up the
position on 1 June 2012 after being interim CEO since February 2012. Dr Watson was the inaugural Chief Executive Officer of the NSW Bureau of Health Information. The Bureau provides independent reports to government, the community and healthcare professionals on the performance of the NSW public health system. Dr Watson has proven experience in organisations dedicated to independent monitoring and reporting of healthcare organisations. As well as the Authority and the Bureau, Dr Watson worked at the Health Council of Canada which was established by the Prime Minister and Premiers to monitor and report to Canadians on the performance of their health system. She has held senior scientist and management positions at the Centre for Health Services and Policy Research, the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Dr Watson has also created health system performance reports with the Canadian Institute for Health Information and Statistics Canada. In 2005, she was a Harkness Fellow in the International Health Policy Program with the Commonwealth Fund. |
Nickolas Yu |
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Nickolas Yu is a CNC in Leadership & Facilitation at the Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney. He holds a Masters in Nursing (Hons), GradCert Child Adolescent Mental Health Care, Masters in HR Management & Coaching, and is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Sydney where he is investigating the impact of coaching on clinical leaders' proactivity, core work performance, and wellbeing. Nickolas is the founder of ONFIRE, a strengths-based program designed to cultivate hope, resilience, and wellbeing among children in families affected by mental health issues. He has national and international experience in coaching and facilitating people from a range of communities, organizations, companies, and industries. He is passionate about coaching because he appreciates that people can make the world a better place ‘one conversation at a time.’ |