14th Greek/Australian International Legal & Medical Conference

conference speakersDr Bob AdlerIs a child and adolescentpsychiatrist with a particularinterest in forensicaspects of child and adolescentpsychiatry in mattersrelating to parentingarrangements and familylaw.Hon Austin AscheA.C. QCWas the first Judge appointedto the FamilyCourt of Australia priorto moving to the NorthernTerritory, and servedas Administrator of theNorthern Territory andChancellor of the NorthernTerritory University.He is married to DrValerie Asche AM andtogether they have beenregular attendees of ourConferencesProfessor John HN BettGraduated in Melbournein 1960. He worked as acardiologist in the MonashDepartment of Medicinebefore moving to Brisbanein 1973. He has been theDirector of Cardiology atthe Royal Brisbane Hospitaland at the PrinceCharles Hospital where heis now Clinical Professorand a Senior Cardiologist.Professor PeterBrooksIs Director of the AustralianHealth WorkforceInstitute. He has held previousposts as Professor ofMedicine at St. Vincent'sHospital (University ofNew South Wales) andProfessor of Rheumatologyat the Royal NorthShore Hospital in Sydney.He has published widelyin the area of treatmentoutcomes in arthritis andalso has an interest inpsychological aspects ofrheumatology.Mr Anthony JBuzzardIs a regular attendee atthe Greek/AustralianInternational Legal andMedical Conferences. Heis an Associate Professorof Anatomy and Surgeryat Monash University.. Hehas a large medico-legalpractice and has for manyyears been teaching lawyersabout medicine.Professor DonChalmerIis Professor of the LawSchool at the Universityof Tasmania. He is aFoundation Fellow of theAustralian Academy ofLaw. He is Adjunct Professorof Law at UniversitiKebangsaan Malaysia. Heholds office on NationalHealth and Medical ResearchCouncil (NHMRC)Committees.The Hon StephenCharles QCPractised as a barrister inMelbourne, taking silk in1975. A former Chairmanof the Victorian Bar, andPresident of the AustralianBar Association, hebecame a Judge of Appealof the Supreme Court ofVictoria in 1995, retiringin 2006. Since retiringfrom the bench, he hastaught at both Melbourneand Monash Universities.The Hon TerenceCole AO RFD QCWas a barrister and then,Queens Counsel beforeappointment as judgeof the NSW SupremeCourt. He also served inthe Navy achieving therank of Commodore andDeputy Judge AdvocateGeneral of the AustralianDefence Forces. Sinceretiring from the Court ofAppeal, he has conductedtwo Royal Commissionsand the investigation intothe wreck of HMAS Sydney. In 2005, he was appointedan Officer of theOrder of AustraliaProfessor SuzanneCroweIs a physician scientist.Amongst her achievementsshe is the Head ofthe Centre for Virology,Burnet Institute, NHMRCPrincipal Research Fellow,Specialist in InfectiousDiseases at the AlfredHospital and holds a personalchair as Professor ofMedicine and InfectiousDiseases at Monash University.Professor KingsleyFaulkner AMIs currently Director ofClinical teaching at theSchool of Medicine, Universityof Notre Dame,Australia. His numerousinvolvements have includedHead of Surgeryat Sir Charles GardnerHospital in WA, Chairmanof the AustralianCouncil on Smoking andHealth, and President ofthe Royal Australian Collegeof Surgeons. In 2006his service to medicinewere recognized with anOrder of Australia.Professor IanFrazerInitially trained as a renalphysician in Edinburgh.After, migrating to Australiahe worked at theWalter and Eliza HallInstitute in Melbourne,before moving to theUniversity of Queenslandand is Director of theDiamantina Institute ofCancer Immunology andMolecular Medicine andPresident of The CancerCouncil Australia. In 2006he was named Australianof the Year.Dr DanielleFreemanIs the Winner of the2011 Professor AnastasiosDontas Travelling Fellowship– Medical. Daniellecompleted her medicalqualification at The Universityof Melbourne, andhas completed her Fellowshipof the AustralasianCollege of Physicians, inPediatrics. She is currentlycompleting a GraduateDiploma in Health andMedical Law and practicingat The Mercy Hospitalfor Women.Mr GeorgeGolvan QCIs a barrister and QueensCounsel, with a practiceis primarily in the areasof Building and ConstructionLaw, CommercialArbitration, CommercialTenancy, Banking andInsurance, and GeneralCommercial and CorporateLaw and has beeninvolved in numerouscourt referred complexcommercial engineeringand construction disputes.Mr Piers GoodingIs the Winner of the 2011John Harber Phillips -Dontas Family TravellingFellowships – Legal. Heis currently employed asa Project Officer for theVictorian Mental HealthCarers Network, and heis working towards a Masterof Philosophy degreewithin the Faculty of Lawat Monash University, asa part of the ‘RethinkingMental Health Laws’project.Professor IanGust AOCurrently a ProfessorialFellow at the Universityof Melbourne, is an internationallyrenownedvirologist who has beeninvolved in the developmentand deployment ofseveral important vaccines.He has held seniorroles in the public andprivate sector includingthe Burnet Institute, andCSL Ltd. He has also beenan advisor to Government,Industry and InternationalOrganisationsMs Mary AnneHartley SCIs a member of the VictorianBar practicingprincipally in the areaof medical negligence.Before joining the Bar,Mary Anne was a partnerat Phillips Fox, whereshe acted initially formarine insurers and laterfor professional indemnityinsurers and health providers.She is a directorof Melbourne Water andChairman of Trustees ofthe Law Aid Trust.Dr Susan IeraciIs a specialist in emergencymedicine with extensiveexperience in the publichospital system. In additionto clinical work, shehas been active in policydevelopment at both Stateand Federal levels. As along-term member of theNSW Medical Board (nowa branch of the MedicalBoard of Australia), Sue isinterested in the interfacebetween medicine and thelaw.Dr M R (Taffy)Jones AMHas extensive experiencein Hospital Governanceand Administration havingserved as Director ofMedical Services at the AlfredHospital and the AustinHospital in Melbourne.He has been a surveyor forthe Australian Council onHealthcare Standards andhas done consultancy workthroughout Australia andin developing countries6