Keynote Speakers
We are pleased to confirm the following keynote speakers.
PATRICIA BLUTEAU (UK)
Patricia Bluteau is Associate Director for the Centre of Interprofessional elearning within the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences at Coventry University, UK. Patricia has a
background in interprofessional education, mental health nursing and counselling. She continues to practice part time as a counsellor in independent practice. Research interests include, managing curriculum change against the backdrop of the challenges of delivering interprofessional education, the influence of gender on interprofessional teams, communication between students in interprofessional groups in an online environment. Patricia has recently co-edited a book with Ann Jackson, Interprofessional
Education – Making it Happen.
MARK CORMARK (Australia)
Mark Cormack was appointed as the first Chief Executive Officer of Health Workforce Australia (HWA) in January 2010. HWA is Commonwealth statutory authority, enacted in 2009 following the COAG decision to establish a new national authority to plan, fund, research and deliver programs for the enhancement and development of Australia’s health workforce. HWA is accountable through its Board to all Australian Health Ministers and is established under the Health Workforce Australia Act (2009).
Prior to this Mark was Chief Executive of ACT Health from July 2006 to January 2010. ACT Health is the ACT Government agency responsible for the provision of public health, hospital and healthcare services to the ACT and region.
Mark has also filled a number of national roles in the public health care system
• Australian Health Ministers Advisory Council (AHMAC) – member
• Australian Aged Care Ministers Advisory Council - member
• Chair of the Health Policy Priorities Principal Committee (HPPPC), the national health policy standing committee of the Australian Health Ministers Advisory Council (AHMAC).
• Board member of the National E Health Transition Authority (NEHTA)
JANE DRUMMOND (Canada)
Dr Drummond is the Vice-Provost (Health Sciences Council) at the University of Alberta and is the academic lead of key health science interdisciplinary and nterprofessional initiatives, including the Edmonton Clinic (North). The Health Sciences Council has been in existence for over fifteen years. It has representation from the eight health sciences faculties (Medicine and Dentistry, Nursing, Rehabilitation Medicine, Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Physical Education and Recreation, Agriculture, Forestry and Home Economics, School of Public Health, Augustana Faculty), the Vice President Research, and Capital Health. As Vice-Provost, Dr Drummond works with the council members and a core team to provide academic leadership, strategic direction, administrative management, and facilitation of partnering between the health science faculties and public, government and private entities to promote interdisciplinary health science learning, discovery, and citizenship at the University of Alberta.
Dr Drummond has been a nurse scholar for over 30 years. In her nursing practice she champions a capacity orientation where the strengths of children and families
are emphasized and enhanced.
MARLENE DRYSDALE (Australia)
Marlene is Head of the Indigenous Health Unit, Monash University Department of Rural and Indigenous Health.
As an Indigenous Australian, Marlene’s career has been devoted to working for her people. Marlene was Chief Investigator for a National project titled Footprints Forwards “Better strategies for the recruitment, retention and support of Indigenous medical students”. She is currently involved with a number of committees and professional associations.
In her current position she is involved in the recruitment of medical, nursing and allied health Indigenous students as well as research.
Marlene was a recipient of the 2007 LIMELight (Leaders In Indigenous Medical Education) Leadership Award for Outstanding Leadership by an Individual.
DES GORMAN (New Zealand)
Des is Head of the University of Auckland’s School of Medicine and Professorial Chair in Medicine. Professor Gorman has a strong interest in the development and
maintenance of an effective health workforce. He holds dual Australian and New Zealand citizenship and is of both European and New Zealand Mâori (Ngapuhi iwi) ethnicity. In part because of personal experience, he is very committed to promoting indigenous peoples’ health. His clinical interests are in brain injuries, toxicology and occupational medicine. He also has a special interest in the health of divers and mariners having served in Royal Australian Navy and Royal New Zealand Navy.
During service in the former, trained as a Submarine Officer in the United Kingdom and as a Clearance Diving Officer in Australia and North America.
INTERPROFESSIONAL STUDENT GROUP
Students are the future of our professions and they will practice in times we cannot envisage. Join a diverse group of students from across the globe as they explore the
interprofessional opportunities in their respective areas, their vision for future development, their roles as change agents and advocates for the health and wellbeing of future generations, and the resources that we will all need to develop together. The keynote will be lead by student representatives from associations including the Australian National Rural Health Students Network, the Canadian National Health Science Students Association, The Student Interprofessional Society Medical University of South Carolina, The International Medical Equality Student Society, and the CAIPE Student Network. They will represent the views of students both present at the conference and contributing from a distance from universities and practice fields throughout the world. They look forward to engaging, challenging and sharing their aspirations for a more collaborative future.
ANN JACKSON (UK)
Ann Jackson is Associate Professor of interprofessional education within the Institute of Clinical Education at Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, UK. Ann has a background in interprofessional education, nursing, midwifery and health visiting. She was awarded the Butterworth memorial teaching excellence award in 2008 for her work in interprofessional education. Her research interests include the service user participation in interprofessional education, the development of service user multi media narratives, student and facilitator perspectives of interprofessional education. Ann has recently co-edited a book with Patricia Bluteau, Interprofessional Education – Making it Happen.
LORELEI LINGARD (Canada)
Lorelei Lingard is a leading researcher in the study of communication and collaboration on healthcare teams. She is a Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Western Ontario (UWO), and the inaugural Director of the Centre for Education Research & Innovation at the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry at UWO. Lorelei received her PhD in Rhetoric from Simon Fraser University in 1998. Her research investigates the nature of communication on interprofessional
healthcare teams in a variety of clinical settings, including the operating room, the intensive care unit, the internal medicine ward, the adult rehabilitation unit, and the family health centre. She is particularly interested in how communication patterns influence patient safety, and how learning to talk in sanctioned ways shapes the professional
identity of novices. Lorelei’s research program is funded by CIHR, SSHRC, Health Canada, MOHLTC, the RCPSC and other agencies. She has been the recipient of numerous awards for her research, including a Canadian Institutes of Health Research New Investigator award (2003-2008).
RATIE MPOFU (South Africa)
A Zimbabwean, permanent resident in the Republic of South Africa. She is Dean of the Faculty of Community and Health Sciences, University of the Western Cape, presiding over the following Schools: Public Health; Natural Medicine; and Nursing; and Departments: Psychology, Social Work; Sports Recreation and Exercise Science; Physiotherapy; Occupational Therapy; and Human Ecology and Dietetics. Ratie has administration and academic experience in Physiotherapy and health sciences in UK, Zimbabwe and South Africa. She has lead collaborative research projects in CBE, youth wellness and sports science for development. Ratie is a member of the
Collaboration for Health Equity through Education and Research (CHEER) involving 9 health sciences faculties in South Africa with special focus on educating health
personnel for rural practice. Her particular interest is in interprofessional learning and practice in partnership with service providers and community members.
NORMAN SWAN (Australia)
Host of the Health Report, on ABC Radio National, presenter of Health Minutes on ABC NewsRadio and health commentator on ABC Television’s Catalyst, Dr Norman Swan, is a multi-award winning broadcaster and journalist. In addition, he is the medical host in the 2010 season of Biggest Loser on Channel 10.
On television, in addition to Catalyst, Dr Swan hosted its predecessor, Quantum, and has been a reporter on Four Corners. He hosted Health Dimensions on ABC Television, and created, wrote and narrated a four part series on disease and civilisation, “Invisible Enemies”, made for Channel 4(UK) and SBS Television. This has been shown in twenty seven countries. He also co-wrote and narrated “The Opposite Sex”, a four part series for ABC Television.
Norman Swan has been the Australian correspondent for the Journal of the American Medical Association and the British Medical Journal and consults for the World Health Organisation in Geneva. In late 2008 Norman co-chaired a global meeting of Health Ministers in West Africa which pursued the goal of making health policy evidence-based and is facilitating a follow up meeting in Singapore in October 2009.
JILL THISTLETHWAITE (UK)
Professor Jill Thistlethwaite is Director of the Institute of Clinical Education at Warwick Medical School and President of InterEd. She continues to practise for one day
per week as a general practitioner and has a long standing interest in interprofessional education and collaborative practice. Jill is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Interprofessional Care and of the Clinical Teacher, and holds the position of Adjunct Professor in IPECP at Auckland University of Technology. Prior to her move back
to the UK in 2008, she was a co-investigator with L-TIPP (Aus) – Learning and Teaching for Interprofessional Practice (Australia) based in Sydney.
