Global Speakers

Dr Stan Goldstein is a Conjoint Assoc Professor in the School of Public Health at University of NSW, an Advisor to the NSW Minister for Health as well as a consultant to NSW Health in health services planning and funding. With extensive experience in health services management and design, Stan has advised the Commonwealth on Medical Devices, spurred innovation in health service delivery and design, and has led numerous initiatives to evaluate and improve health outcomes across a range of medical fields from mental health to cancer, paediatrics to end-of-life care.

His background includes senior clinical management roles in some of Australia’s largest teaching and tertiary referral hospitals (Westmead, Prince of Wales, Prince Henry, Sydney Children’s, Royal for Women), health services planning and funding, chronic disease management, health outcomes and program evaluation, and health technology assessment. He has also played active roles in medical education and public health, and worked with a variety of non-government health bodies to improve population health.

Angus is an Executive Director in Ernst & Young’s Asia-Pacific Advisory Centre and works with clients throughout the Asia-Pacific region to develop and deliver leading Digital Transformation Strategies.  With over 25 years’ industry experience in eCommerce, Digital, CRM and Direct Marketing, Angus has managed the development of industry leading eCommerce and Mobile capabilities for a major Australian Health Insurer, including the creation of the first global Health Insurance Mobile App. Angus has worked with brands such as Budget Direct Insurance, Firstmac, loans.com.au the ANZ & Commonwealth Banks, Telecom New Zealand, Turners & Growers and NIB Health Funds, AXA, Fonterra, HannoverRe, State and Federal Govt.

Dr Fiona Kerr combines a half time academic role with Adelaide University as their Systems and Neural Complexity Specialist, with public speaking and consulting. Her work includes examining the dynamics of both human and technology-based interaction. At the university, she is researching ‘The neurophysiology of human touch and eye gaze and effects on therapeutic relationships and healing”. As the co-founder of human-e (along with biomedical engineer Dr Jordan Nguyen), she investigates the effects of interaction between humans and multiple types of technology so that our future use and practice is fully informed.

Anna Shepherd is the CEO of Regal Home Health and an Adj Assoc Professor at the University of Sydney Nursing School. In 2015, Anna was recognized for her contribution to the health industry in the Australian Financial Review/Westpac 100 Women of Influence. She was the only Australian woman to graduate from Harvard Business School’s Global Entrepreneur Owner/President Management Program in 2010 and a finalist in the Telstra Businesswoman of the Year 2011. As a serial disruptor, Anna was a key driver for the Community and Primary Healthcare industry in securing Australian Council on Healthcare Standards (ACHS) accreditation for Regal Home Health in 1994 as the first private provider to be accredited.

Marcus has a keen interest in health, innovation and science as CEO and Board Member of multiple health groups. As a data informatics specialist, he had developed many key Australian Health Information Systems. He was also a pioneer of the Internet in Australia from 1994-2000, establishing communications strategies and websites for the Prime Minister and high profile portfolios such as Defence, DVA, ATSIC, NHMRC, AIHW and the Electoral Commission. After developing and selling his successful internet agency to CSC, Marcus worked as their National Solutions Manager until 2007 where he was pivotal in establishing the Australian health systems consulting business. He developed the chronic disease register for ACT Health tracking the care of 20,000 patients. His latest startup, Health Horizon, is a global gathering of innovations and smart technology improvements in the healthcare industry, as part of his initiatives to improve the healthcare processes and services.

Chris Guest is the ICT Strategic Manager for the Victorian Institute of Forensic Mental Health, known as Forensicare. Chris has specialised in the visualisation and development of software solutions to common business problems for over 30 years. For the past 15 years his specialty has been in the delivery of Mental Health solutions for the public and private sector.

Dr Dirk also holds positions as Adjunct Assistant Professor at Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore and Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands. His implementation, research and teaching focuses on the diffusion of quality and patient safety innovations and include business process and systems redesign, human factors and ergonomics, and performance benchmarking. Dirk holds an MSc in Health Policy and Management from Erasmus University Rotterdam and a PhD in Public Health from University of Amsterdam.

Mr Paul S D’Urso is a consultant neurosurgeon at the Epworth Hospital in Melbourne Australia. Mr D’Urso has extensive experience in research, clinical teaching, and medico-legal opinion. He is internationally recognized as a leading Australian neurosurgeon, scientist, and innovator. He invented the technology of BioModelling with groundbreaking PhD research and moved on to join Anatomics, one of the world’s most innovative medical device companies.

Mr D’Urso completed a fellowship at the Cambridge University Neurosurgery unit and a clerkship at Harvard University. Mr D’Urso has published and presented over 120 scientific papers and holds multiple international patents. He has won over 25 prestigious research awards and prizes.

Dr Keith was a Director of Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Manufacturing in 2014 leading more than 400 scientists from chemical, biomedical and advanced manufacturing. Between 2006 and 2014, Keith was a Research Director for Biomedical Materials and Devices managing a multi-disciplinary team of materials scientists and biologists to develop biomaterials for tissue engineering, stem cell propagation and implantable devices.

He was also a team member of the implantable contact lens project in the VisionCRC which designed a polymer, surface and surgical methods for an implantable contact lens application and won the 2004 Royal Societies of Australia Eureka Award for Interdisciplinary Research and the 2009 CSIRO Medal for Research Achievement. He is a Past President of the Australasian Society for Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Inc. and was appointed Secretary of the International Union of Societies for Biomaterials Science and Engineering in 2012.

Professor Jeffrey V. Rosenfeld AM, OBE, the Foundation Director of Monash Institute of Medical Engineering (MIME), is an internationally recognized neurosurgeon and military surgeon. He is the Senior Neurosurgeon at Alfred Hospital, Adjunct Professor in Surgery at the F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of The Health Sciences (USUHS), Bethesda, MD, USA, and Honorary Professor in Neurosurgery, University of Papua New Guinea (PNG). His main research interests are traumatic brain injury and direct-to brain bionic vision device development.

Jeffrey is a Principal Investigator with the Monash Bionic Vision Group. He is a Major General in the Australian Defence Force (ADF) and was the Surgeon General, ADF-Reserves 2009-2011. He has published 280 peer reviewed articles (including Lancet, Lancet Neurology and NEJM), 40 book chapters and 2 books.

Marcel Dinger is the Director of the Kinghorn Centre for Clinical Genomics (KCCG) at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney and conjoint Associate Professor at UNSW Australia. KCCG was one of the first sites in the world to implement the HiSeq X Ten genome sequencing platform, which has capacity to sequence 18,000 whole human genomes per year. The aims of the Centre are to establish genomic medicine in routine healthcare and to leverage clinical genomic data for research. In addition to his role as Director of KCCG, A/Prof Dinger heads a research lab that aims to unlock the clinical value of non-coding regions of the genome. A/Prof Dinger has worked in informatics and genomics since 1998 in both commercial and academic capacities.

Paul is currently the Deputy Chief Medical Officer and Medical Director of Quality Improvement and Innovation at Austin Health, a public tertiary teaching hospital in Melbourne. He has led the successful implementation of numerous digital healthcare innovations as well as overcome challenges in change management and the engagement of medical staff.

Paul has worked in medical management roles at Epworth HealthCare, and clinical roles at Medibank Health Solutions and St. Vincents Health. He is also a Board member of the Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators and has filled several roles within medico-politics at the state and federal level. Paul is currently an educational facilitator for MDA National and the Ledman Institute with over 10 years’ experience in delivering professional development training to medical students, junior and senior doctors.

Dr Chris Farmer is a recognized authority on patient safety and clinical data governance for improvement with international experience in teaching, presenting and the practical implementation of working solutions. Chris is currently the Medical Director at St Andrews Private Hospital and Clinical Director at Metrixcare, a health analytics provider with a particular focus on “Value”.

Chris has been a key driver of information-driven collaborative approaches to improvement receiving various clinical excellence and innovation awards including the Baxter Healthcare Award and more recently the ACHS Quality Improvement Award for healthcare measurement.

Thomas Dijohn is the current Vice-President Asia pacific of Dacadoo, a leading Swiss technology company that has developed a unique digital health and lifestyle platform. The core of the Platform is the dacadoo Health Score which has been developed and refined by a team of technologists, clinicians and mathematicians for over 5 years based on more than 70M man-years of clinical studies.

In 2015, Thomas has spent 12 months of secondment to Sanofi, the world’s 5th largest pharmaceutical company, as an Intrapreneur-in-Residence. Besides working with universities and healthcare professionals, Thomas has also helped to develop and implement a clinical behavioral diagnostic tool for the management of people with chronic conditions and for prevention in general.

Dr Tracey holds a Doctorate in Health Services Management, MBA and BH&PE. For the past 20 years, Tracey has worked across the health, aged care and human services sector in Senior Management and Executive Positions for Infinite Aged Care, RSL Care, UnitingCare Ageing NSW/ACT, NSW Department or Community Services and Queensland Health.

Tracey has attended the 8th World Congress on Active Ageing in Glasgow, Scotland and has completed extensive research into evidence based practice models throughout the UK, New Zealand, Canada and the USA on a Churchill Fellowship to explore consumer directed and enablement models in aged care and. Tracey has continued to explore innovation concepts to support the ageing population into the future from a customer lens.