Dr Theresa Wiseman

Dr Theresa Wiseman is Lead for Health Service Research, Nursing, Rehabilitation and Quality, at The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, London UK.
Dr Wiseman was a lead investigator on the internationally acclaimed work on Evidence Based Co-Design, an innovative and uniquely patient-centred approach to improving UK health services provision. She has recently completed an analysis of the UK Patient Experience Survey and has experience and expertise in developing interventions and care pathways to respond to patient experience. Dr Wiseman has an impressive conference presentation and publication profile and was responsible for developing the 10 Top Tips as part of the Macmillan National Cancer Survivorship Initiative funded Consequences of Cancer and Treatment Collaborative, which is distributed widely throughout the UK.

Associate Professor Gail Garvey

Associate Professor Gail Garvey, a Kamilaroi woman from New South Wales and Senior Research Fellow at Menzies School of Health Research has 25 years experience working in Indigenous education and health research. She plays a leadership role in Indigenous cancer research, advocates involving Indigenous stakeholders and clinicians to achieve maximum impact from research and has an impressive record in research capacity-building.

A/Prof Garvey leads two national grants: DISCOVER-TT, a Centre of Research Excellence in Indigenous Cancer and a Cancer Council NSW Strategic Research Partnership Grant. These programs investigate system approaches to service delivery and interventions to improve cancer outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

A/Prof Garvey helped establish the National Indigenous Cancer Network (NICaN) in partnership with Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet, Cancer Council Australia and The Lowitja Institute. NICaN aims to encourage and support collaboration around research and services for Indigenous people with cancer, their carers and families. 

Professor Grant McArthur

Professor Claire Rickard

Professor Claire Rickard is from the NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence in Nursing at the Griffith Health Institute, Griffith University. She believes a randomised controlled trial is a thing of beauty and its joys last forever. Rickard attempts to apply that beauty and joy to improve the care of the 70-90% of all hospital patients who need an intravascular access device for treatment. Rickard is Director of the Australian Vascular Access Teaching and Research (AVATAR) Group, a group of more than 100 clinical and academic researchers working towards making intravascular device complications history. The National Health and Medical Research Council have funded her work with more than $6 million. With over 100 published papers, including in The Lancet, her work has significantly advanced global recommendations including the safety of removing peripheral intravenous catheters based on clinically-based rather than time-based criteria. Prof Rickard was inducted into the prestigious STTI International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame in 2012 in Prague.

Adj Assoc Prof Kim Ryan

Adjunct Associate Professor Kim Ryan, Credentialed Mental Health Nurse and CEO, Australian College of Mental Health Nurses

Adjunct Associate Professor Ryan was the first salaried Chief Executive Officer of the Australian College of Mental Health Nurses, commencing in the position in 2004. The ACMHN is the peak professional mental health nursing organisation and the recognised Credentialing body for mental health nurses in Australia. She is passionate about mental health and mental health nursing holding a more prominent position on health agendas at local, state, national and international levels and believes this can only be achieved with a strong, united, professional voice.

She is a Board member of the Mental Health Professionals Network (MHPN), a member of the governing council of the Coalition of National Nursing Organisations.  She was awarded the position of Adjunct Associate Professor by Sydney University in 2009 in recognition of her contribution to the nursing profession. 

Associate Professor Karin Thursky

Associate Professor Karin Thursky is an Infectious Diseases physician with appointments at Royal Melbourne Hospital and Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and is an honorary fellow with the University of Melbourne Medical School. She is actively involved in the area of quality and safety  and has a national profile in  antimicrobial stewardship, and development and implementation of consensus guidelines for the prevention and treatment of infections in the cancer patient. Her research area is broad with interests such as clinical epidemiology of infections in the immunocompromised host, health economics, computerised decision support, natural language processing and surveillance.