Contents
Welcome from the Convenors 3 Academic Program 4 Social Media 5 Breakout Sessions 6 Saturday Night Social Event 8 The Where and How 10 Public Transport 11 Parking 12 Extras 13 Speaker Profiles 14 Get involved with DEA 31
2 Welcome from the Convenors
Welcome to iDEA17, the national educational conference of Doctors for the Environment Australia (DEA). This weekend we will be exploring the glo al problems and local solutio s that relate to climate change and human health. As juniors in the medical field, we are equal parts alarmed by the threats to health and inspired by what we can do by protecting our environment. We hope that iDEA17 will be a forum to learn about the relevance of climate change to medicine and how medical professionals can advocate for a healthy planet and healthy people. So we invite you to settle in, make some new friends and start thinking about what you can do in your own life and practice of medicine.
Dr Laura Beaton Jessica Shipley Convenor Co-Convenor
3 Academic Program
4 Be part of the conversation
WANT TO ASK A QUESTION? iDEA17 will be using Socrative to manage audience questions during question time. Simply download the app Socrative Student on your mobile device or go to https://b.socrative.com/login/ student/ and enter Room IDEA2017 to participate. Do t have portable electronics with you? We will have volunteers with roving microphones as well.
FOLLOW ALONG ON SOCIAL MEDIA
Join the conversation on Twitter with #iDEAConf.
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5 Breakout Sessions
WHAT ARE BREAKOUTS? Our breakout sessions are interactive sessions where delegates will participate in a guided discussion about a topic on the forefront of the health and environment agenda. Our breakout session facilitators are passionate leaders in their fields and will assist delegates to develop actions that address key issues on the topic. On return to the plenary theatre, we will hear a quick example of the actions each group arrived at.
WHAT DO I BRING? Other than your energetic self and brilliant ideas, we encourage you to bring a USB to the breakout session in order to save any materials that may be available.
HOW DO I REGISTER? You have been emailed a Google Sheet to digitally sign up to your preferred session prior to the conference. You will also be able to register into a breakout session during the general registration on Saturday or Sunday morning. A team of volunteers will help you register into your preferred breakout on a first-come, first-served basis.
6 Breakout Sessions
Greening Healthcare: Improving Environmental Practices of Health Providers Dr Forbes McGain (Anaesthetist) and Dr Eugenie Kayak (Anaesthetist)
Planting a Seed: Teaching Sustainability in Medical Education Dr Janie Maxwell (GP)
Do or Die(t): Dietary Change for Health and Sustainability Mark Pershin (Less Meat Less Heat) and Dr Leah Watts (GP Registrar)
Divestment and Healthcare: Putting our Money Where our Mouth is Pablo Brait (MarketForces) and Dr Helen Redmond (Physician)
War on Climate: Climate Change and Conflict Dr Jenny Grounds (MAPW)
The Importance of Public Presentations and Different Ways to Get our Voices Heard Dr Eleanor Evans (GP)
Coming Together: Community Organising for Climate Change Dr Sujata Allan (GP)
Environmental Sustainability in a Rural General Practice Dr Gerard Brownstein (GP)
Air Pollution and Health Dr Benjamin Ewald (GP)
Active Transport for the Planet and your Health Dr Alice McGushin (Resident)
Climate Change and Mental Health A/Professor Grant Blashki (GP)
Climate Change and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ Health Larissa Baldwin (Seed)
7 Saturday Night Social Event
Saturday night will be cocktails, comedy and conversation. Join us at The Leveson for a wonderful evening where you will have the opportunity to engage with like-minded delegates and speakers and be entertained by the ever brilliant Dr Pam Rana. Dr Pam Rana has been entertaining the masses for some time, and now she is bringing her hot-headed brand of comedic environ- mentalism to us!
DETAILS Saturday 01 April 19:30 onward The Leveson, 46 Leveson St, North Melbourne, 3051 Smart Dress Tickets - $30 per head through https://www.trybooking.com/PBGA
8 9 The Where and How
LOCATION
198 Berkeley Street – the Spot The conference is being held in the Copeland Theatre (Room B01) inside the Spot on the corner of Berkeley St and Pelham St, Parkville. Please see the map below for further direction.
ARRIVAL As detailed in the Academic Program, registration will take place between 08:30 and 09:00 on both Saturday and Sunday of the conference weekend. Conference sessions will strictly start at 09:00.
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Public Transport
TRAMS AND BUSES This map from the Public Transport Victoria (PTV) website shows buses and trams that stop around the University of Melbourne. Tram numbers 55, 59 and 19 from the city will stop at Haymarket (circled in blue). For Melbourne public transport, an active Myki card is required. Myki cards can be purchased from train stations and 7-Eleven stores throughout the city.
11 Parking
BIKE PARKING Bike parking is located at the entrance of the Spot on the corner of Berkeley St and Pelham St. Additional bike space is located between the Spot and adjacent FBE building.
CAR PARKING Parking near the Spot is available with the closest two car parks being the University Square Car Park and Royal Parade Car Park. Please see below for further information on these two facilities. Street parking around the precinct is also available.
Further information on parking can be found through the University of Melbourne website.
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Extras Extras
FOOD Catering is being provided through Vegilicious. Vegilicious - home grown in Melbourne - pride themselves on producing gourmet and wholesome vegetarian soul food. We encourage delegates to bring their own reusable coffee cup.
YOGA Sunday mornings are traditionally for relaxing, right? Well here at iDEA17 e e got that covered. Come along to our morning yoga starting at 08:00 and finishing prior to our first speakers of the day. The yoga session will be aimed at relaxing the mind and body in order to allow greater focus for the day of learning ahead, with all levels encouraged to join. Limited yoga mats will be available to borrow, but bring your own if you wish and please arrive in a timely manner in order to limit disruptions to the session. Weather permitting, the session will be held outside next to the conference venue in University Square. We will confirm the venue on Saturday afternoon and make announcements on the conference event page on Facebook. Short sessions of seated yoga will also be held throughout the conference.
13 A/Professor Grant Blashki
Grant Blashki is a practicing GP, an Associate Professor at the Nossal Institute for Global Health, University of Melbourne, and Honorary Professor at Shenzhen Luohu Hospital Group in China. His three themes of research are 1)) Mental Health 2) Environmental Health and 3) Global Health.
He has co-authored over 100 peer reviewed publications, 4 books, over 30 peer reviewed conference abstracts, more than 20 government/policy reports. He is the lead editor of the text book General Practice Psychiatry which has been translated into Italian and Mandarin.
He has been a chief investigator on numerous reseach projects and he was the lead developer of the Monash University/ University of Melbourne Masters of General Practice Psychiatry that trained over 150 doctors by distance education and for which he received a Monash University Silver Jubilee Prize for Teaching. In 2012, he was invited to give the Inaugural Eric Dark Memorial Lecture.
He has been actively engaged with community work including as The Chair of the Environmental Working Party of the World Organisation of Family Doctors, as a Board Director of the Australian Conservation Foundation, a clinical advisor to beyondblue, as a mentor in the Al Gore Climate Leadership Project, as a cofounder of Doctors for the Environment Australia, as Member of the Strategic Advisory Group of the Climate Institute, and he was a participant in the Australia 2020 summit participant. In 2008, he was a co-recipient of the Fundraisers Institute of Australia s Major Grants fundraising award for philanthropic work. In 2009 he was co recipient of an Australian Evaluation Society Award for Excellence in Evaluation in relation to evaluation of major primary health care reforms in Australia.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners and has served as an examiner for the fellowship. He is a a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. In 2012, he successfully graduated from the Asia Link Leadership program.
Grant is a frequent public speaker and has given formal addresses to non government and corporate organisations.
14 Dr Karl Braganza
Karl Braganza is the Head of Climate Monitoring at the Bureau of Meteorology. The Climate Monitoring Section is responsible for the preparation and analysis of Australia s instrumental climate record. It is also responsible for the official reporting of observed climate variability and change in Australia and in collaboration with international agencies. Karl Braganza received his PhD from the School of Mathematics at Monash University. His research work has centred on understanding and attributing climate variability and change, using numerical modelling, instrumental observations and past climate evidence. He has been a lead author for State of the Climate publications and the Climate Change in Australia Technical Reports. Dr Helen Szoke
Dr Helen Szoke is Chief Executive of Oxfam Australia and a leading thinker and advocate for foreign aid and international development, human rights, gender and race discrimination. Helen joined Oxfam in 2013. Prior to this appointment, she served as Australia s Federal Race Discrimination Commissioner and as the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commissioner. Helen is both a board member of the Australian Council for International Development (ACFID), and the ACFID Humanitarian Reference Group (HRG) Champion, representing the work of the HRG which provides a mechanism for Australian agencies engaged in humanitarian assistance work to share information, strengthen coordination, and drive policy dialogue and development for the improvement of humanitarian relief work. Helen was a member of the Royal College of Surgeons Expert Advisory Committee examining bullying, harassment and sexual harassment. In addition, she sits on the Australia Federal Police Future Directions Advisory Committee. She received an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from Deakin University in October 2015 for her contribution to Human Rights. In 2011, Helen was awarded the La Institute of Victoria Paul Baker A ard for her contribution to human rights and in 2014 she received the U i ersity of Melbourne Alumni A ard for leadership. She is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and a fellow of the Institute of Public Administration.
15 Professor Lynne Madden
Ly e s current roles are: the Associate Dean, Learning and Teaching at the School of Medicine, Sydney, The University of Notre Dame Australia (UNDA); the President of the Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine; and Trustee of the Lizard Island Reef Research Foundation of the Australian Museum. Prior to commencing at UNDA 4 years ago she was the manager of Population Health Training and Workforce at the NSW Ministry of Health for 18 years where, in addition to running several advanced professional training programs in public health, she was also the Editor of the NSW Public Health Bulletin. Lynne has extensive knowledge and experience of the delivery of public health and health services in Australia having prepared public health practitioners for working in senior levels in government within public health and policy contexts.
Professor John Middleton
John Middleton is President of the UK Faculty of Public Health and Honorary Professor of Public Health at Wolverhampton University. He was Director of Public Health for Sandwell for 26 years. His main interests are environmental health and sustainable development, evidence-based social policy, reducing health inequalities and violence prevention.
16 Dr Scott Ma
Dr Scott Ma is consultant paediatric anaesthetist at the Wo e s and Childre s Hospital, Adelaide. He was previously staff specialist at the Flinders Medical Centre where he was the Paediatric Anaesthesia Specialised Study Unit Supervisor. Dr Ma has graduated with a Bachelor of Medical Science, Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery from Flinders University. He completed his anaesthesia training in Adelaide and Melbourne, where he was a fellow in paediatric anaesthesia at the Royal Childre s Hospital in 2012. He was a Co-Convenor for the 2015 New Fellows Conference. His clinical interests include acute pain medicine, thoracic anaesthesia and neuroanaesthesia. He is an instructor for Advanced Paediatric Life Support
Dr Simon Judkins
Dr Simon Judkins has been a doctor for over twenty years, and has worked as an Emergency Physician for fifteen of those. He has worked in Emergency Departments across Melbourne and regional Victoria, holds numerous positions with the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine and the Australian Medical Association, and is a regular contributor to public discussions on issues relating to public hospitals and public health. Dr Judkins is President of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine.
17 Dr Kym Jenkins
Dr Kym Jenkins graduated from the University of Manchester (UK) in 1980with a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MB ChB) and initially specialised in General Practice. After moving from the United Kingdom to Australia in 1986 she worked in General Practice before commencing psychiatry training and completed her Fellowship with the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatry (RANZCP) in 1998. In addition to the Masters of Psychological Medicine, Dr Jenkins pursued further studies in medical education gaining a Masters of Education degree in 2008. Dr Jenkins has held a range of roles as a Consultant Psychiatrist in both the public and private sectors. She is currently Medical Director/Senior Clinician of the Victorian Doctors Health Program; runs a small private practice and is an adjunct Senior Lecturer at Monash University. Dr Jenkins has had extensive involvement in psychiatry-related medical education, both within the RANZCP and externally. She has had roles within the College as an accredited examiner, trainer and assessor and has served as the Chair of the Committee for Examinations; Chair of the Fellowships Attainment Committee and the Deputy Chair of the Board of Education. She has also been involved in the planning and development of the (competency-based) Fellowship program since its inception and has chaired several of its working parties. Dr Jenkins was a member of General Council from 2005- 2010. She was elected to the College s inaugural Board in 2013 for a three-year term, during which period she was the inaugural Chair of the Membership Engagement Committee, and became President Elect in 2015. She will be President of the College from May 2017 – April 2019.
18 Dr AlessandroSpeaker Demaio Profiles
Dr Demaio trained and worked as a medical doctor at The Alfred Hospital in Australia. While practising as a doctor he completed a Masters in Public Health including fieldwork in Cambodia to develop and evaluate a community-based, culturally appropriate health intervention for non-communicable diseases, particular- lydiabetes.
In 2010, Alessandro relocated to Denmark where he completed a PhD with the University of Copenhagen, focusing on noncommunicable diseases. His doctoral research was based in Mongolia, working with the Ministry of Health. He designed, led and reported a national epidemiological survey, sampling more than 3500 households to better understand national knowledge, attitudes and practices on noncommunicable diseases and risk factors and provide policy recommendations to address them.
Alessandro held a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Harvard Medical School from 2013 to 2015, and was assistant professor and course director in global health at the Copenhagen School of Global Health, in Denmark. He has established and led the PLOS blog Translational Global Health, and has served on the Advisory Board of the EAT Initiative: the global, multi-stakeholder platform for food, health and environmental sustainability. To date, he has authored over 20 scientific publications and more than 80 blog articles.
In his pro bono work, Dr Demaio co-founded NCDFREE, a global social movement against noncommunicable diseases using social media, short film and leadership events – reaching more than 2.5 million people in its first 18 months. Then, in 2015, he founded festival21, assembling and leading a team of knowledge leaders in staging a massive and unprecedented, free celebration of community, food, culture and future in his hometown Melbourne. This all-day event saw more than 5000 people attend, 7.8 million Twitter impressions and was trending #6 in social media across Australia.
In November 2015, Alessandro joined the Department of Nutrition for Health and Development at the World Health Organization (Geneva), as Medical Officer for non-communicable conditions and nutrition.
19 Dr Bastian Seidel
Dr Seidel is the President of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners. He has over 10 years' clinical experience and is a partner and co-owner of a rural general practice in the Huon Valley in southern Tasmania. He studied medicine in Germany and South Africa completing his vocational training as a GP in the United Kingdom in 2006. He holds a doctorate in paediatric immunology.
Mark Pershin
Mark Pershin is the founder and CEO of start-up non-profit, Less Meat Less Heat. Coming from a background in advertising and marketing, Mark brings a unique and fresh perspective to solving the climate crisis. Mark cut his teeth as an activist campaigning with local and global climate action groups Beyond Zero Emission and 350.org. His postgraduate environmental studies and experiences as a delegate at the UN COP21 climate talks drove home both the gravity of the climate crisis and the political gridlock in our global attempts to solve it. Always a systems- thinker and pragmatist, Mark knew there had to be another way.
20 Dinah Arndt
Dinah Arndt is a reformed journalist with 13 years' experience in the Australian media industry. Most recently, as chief political reporter and columnist at Tasmania's daily Northern newspaper The Examiner. Since joining the not-for-profit sector she has leant on that experience in managing the day-to-day media, communications and advocacy affairs of both large and small enterprises. In 2015, she joined the Climate Council to set up an entirely new project called the Climate Media Centre. The Centre localises and personalises climate change impacts and solutions for Australians by connecting journalists to powerful stories about people and places effected now, as well as inspiring tales of those taking action.
Melissa Davey
Melissa has strong medical reporting experience, having completed further studies in epidemiology and biostatistics. She previously worked as a news reporter for Fairfax, including the Sydney Morning Herald and Sun Herald.
21 Emily Rice
Emily Rice is an award-winning senior journalist and presenter with 18 years experience across Australia and internationally.
She can be seen most days broadcasting on National Nine News - delivering stories and live reports on breaking news, and more specifically health issues in her role as Medical Reporter.
E ily s ork i the health sphere has just ee re og ised ith a highly commended award in the Dietitians Association of Australia s Nutritio Jour alis A ard 7.
In 2016 she was named a finalist in the prestigious Melbourne Press Club Quill Awards for her breaking news reporting.
Emily had also presented the weekend weather in a back up role for Nine News Melbourne in recent years.
She has reported and presented on the Today Show, Network Te s The Proje t a d Meet The Press.
While at Network Ten Emily had the role of commercial tele isio s o ly Net ork E iro e t Reporter, deli eri g the latest in ecological and climate change news from around the globe. She has also worked as United States Correspondent.
Emily has an outstanding grasp of current, health and corporate affairs.
She has hosted several national industry events at Parliament House Canberra and several functions in Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide.
22 Marie McInerney
Marie McInerney is a freelance journalist and a regular editor at Croakey. She has worked for Australian Associated Press and Reuters, and been published as a freelancer by a range of media outlets, including the BBC, Guardian Australia and the Saturday Paper. She has also worked in communications for not-for-profits in health and social policy.
Jo Chandler
Jo Chandler is a freelance journalist who has reported extensively on health, science and social issues. She has won numerous awards including a Walkley Award (Commentary, Opinion and Analysis), the George Munster Award for Independent Journalism 2013, the Australian Council for International Development Media Award 2013, and the University of NSW Bragg Prize for Science Journalism 2012. She is also a patient advocate on TB, having contracted MDR-TB while working in PNG.
23 Dr Ken Winkel
Dr Winkel, a University of Queensland medical graduate (MBBS 1991), has long been interested in the intersection of nature and medicine. Whilst a medical student, and inspired by a trip to Heron Island, he wrote his first paper on the diet of the little known Australian marsupial mole (in 1988). Thanks to a chance discussion with a UQ biochemist turned conservationist, Dr Keith Scott, in 1986 he also joined the Rainforest Conservation Society of Queensland (now the Australian Rainforest Conservation Society).
Following the links between tropical biodiversity and disease, he spent a year researching malaria immunity (BMedSci 1991), and, in 1990, travelled to Brazil to research cutaneous leishmanias. After internship he completed his immunology PhD at The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, including collaborative research at the Ontario Cancer Institute in Canada, and then moved to become Director of the Australian Venom Research Unit (AVRU) at the University of Melbourne (1998- 2015). He is also an alumnus (1997) of the Swiss Tropical Institute (Basel, Switzerland) and is both a Fellow and Past President of the Australasian College of Tropical Medicine. Extending his interest in biodiversity and health, Dr Winkel is now a Senior Research Fellow in the Indigenous Health Equity Unit of the Centre for Health Equity within the School of Population and Global Health at the University of Melbourne and is a member of the Doctors for the Environment Australia Biodiversity Committee.
He has featured in various television programs and documentaries, including David Atte orough s BBC series A i al Crime Scene I estigatio (2006). In 2005 he was awarded the Vita Lampada Medal for Excellence in Medical and Health Education, from the Royal Childre s Hospital and Health Service District, Brisbane, Queensland. He is also an Honorary Senior Fellow in the University of Mel our e s Medical History Museum where he has co-curated a e o ous exhibition and catalogue: http://medicalhistorymuseum.mdhs.unimelb.edu.au/ exhibitions/online-exhibitions
24 A/Professor Marion Carey
Marion Carey is a public health physician with an interest in environmental health. She has a broad range of experience in health program and policy development, research and medical editing, after working in general practice and then public health - for three state governments, the RACGP, and the MJA. She developed her passion for social and environmental health working in remote Indigenous communities in northern WA. When working as Senior Medical Adviser in Environmental Health to the Victorian government, she saw first-hand the health impacts of the 2009 Melbourne heatwave and the Black Saturday bushfires, and helped lead development of climate change and health policy there. As a VicHealth Fellow at Monash University and adjunct associate professor (research), she pursued interests in the health impacts of climate change and biodiversity loss. She is a Fellow of the Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine, the Royal Society for Public Health (UK), and the Public Health Association of Australia and is an adjunct associate professor at the School of Medicine,University of Notre Dame, Sydney. Marion is a member of the management committee of DEA and its unconventional gas and biodiversity committees. Her career has been formed by a belief in the importance of healthy planet, healthy people . She finds inspiration in the wild places ofthe earth and in working with like-minded people in DEA and other organizations focused on the greater good. A/Professor Linda Selvey
Associate Professor Linda Selvey is a public health physician and environmental activist. She held senior positions at Queensland Health for 13 years including most recently as Executive Director of Population Health Queensland. After leaving Queensland Health she took on the position of CEO Greenpeace Australia Pacific. She is also president-elect of the Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine and is Convenor of The Wilderness Society Ltd. Currently, she is Associate Professor in Public Health at University of Queensland.
25 Tim Buckley
Tim has over 25 years financial markets experience, mainly in Australia, but also with time covering global and Asian equity markets. Tim provides financial analysis in the seaborne coal and electricity sectors for IEEFA, studying renewable energy, energy efficiency across Australia, China and India, and the resulting risk of stranded fossil fuel assets in Australia.
Tim has published numerous financial papers, including Re ote Prospects: A Financial Analysis of Ada i s coal gamble in Australia s Galilee Basi in November 2013, Peak Thermal Coal Demand by 2016 in conjunction with the Carbon Tracker Initiative in September 2014, E ergy Markets in Tra sitio in January 2015, I dia Electricity Sector Tra sfor atio in August 2015 and I dia Electricity Sector Transformation: Capacity Buildi g in November 2015.
Tim was co-founder of Arkx Investment Management, an investor in global listed clean energy companies (2009-2013) that invested in the opportunities of energy market transitions. Westpac Banking Group was a cornerstone investor and client.
From 1998 to 2007 Tim held the position of Managing Director at Citigroup, and was Head of Australasian Equity Research from 2001. Tim was Head of Research for Deutsche Bank based in Singapore for 1996-1998. Tim was a highly rated conglomerates equity analyst for a decade prior to Singapore, culminating in being rated Australia s top Industrial Analyst.
26 Dr Roger Dargaville
Dr Roger Dargaville is the Deputy Director of the Melbourne Energy Institute. He is an expert in energy systems and climate change. Roger specialises in large-scale energy system transition optimisation, and novel energy storage technologies such as seawater pumped hydro and liquid air energy storage. He has conducted research in global carbon cycle science, simulating the emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil fuel and exchanges between the atmosphere, land and oceans as well as stratospheric ozone depletion. Roger leads a research group of PhD and Masters students working on a diverse range of energy related topics including disruptive business models, EROI, transmission systems, bioenergy, wave energy and high penetration rooftop photovoltaics systems. He coordinates the subjects Renewable Energy and Climate Modelling as part of the University of Mel our e s Master of Energy Systems degree. Roger completed his undergraduate and PhD at the University of Melbourne, as well as a Graduate Certificate in University Teaching. He has worked at Monash University, the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, the National Center for Atmospheric Research (USA) and at the Centre nationale de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) at UNESCO and the International Energy Agency. Meg Argyriou
Meg has been an integral part of the ClimateWorks team since 2010. She leads the Engagement Team, providing strategic oversight for ClimateWorks stakeholder management, leading the orga isatio s communication strategies to advance progress on climate change and catalyse tangible action by business and government, and overseeing the philanthropy fundraising program. Meg is leading the orga isatio s efforts to ai strea Australia s zero net emissions future across business and the community. She is also playing a key role in exploring the potential to expand ClimateWorks reach and impact into the Asia Pacific region.
27 Larissa Baldwin
Larissa is a young woman from the Widjabul clan of the Bundjalung nation and is the National Co-Director for Seed. Larissa leads Seed's campaigns and strategy nationally ensuring that Seed works in partnership with frontline Indigenous communities and supports young people to be empowered and create change in their communities. Prior to moving to Seed, Larissa was the Queensland Campaigner for the Australian Youth Climate Coalition working across on the Reef and Galilee campaign.
Dr Stephen Parnis
Dr Parnis is a Consultant Emergency Physician at St Vi e t s Hospital and John Fawkner Private Hospital in Melbourne. He graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1992, and obtained his Fellowship of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine in 2007. Dr Parnis served as the President of AMA Victoria from 2012-14, the Chair of the AMA Council of Salaried Doctors from 2011-14, and was a member of the AMA Federal Council from 2011 to 2016. Dr Parnis was the Vice President of the Australian Medical Association from 2014 to 2016. In that capacity, Dr Parnis played a prominent role in leading the debate on public health matters in Australia.Following more than a decade in leadership roles for the profession, Dr Parnis was honoured with Fellowship of the AMA at the 2014 National Conference.
28 Dr Maria Neira
Dr Maria P. Neira was appointed Director of the Department of Public Health, Environmental and Social Determinants of Health at the World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland in September 2005. Prior to that, she was Vice-Minister of Health and President of the Spanish Food Safety Agency. She had previously held several senior positions in WHO. Dr Neira began her career as a medical coordinator working with refugees in the Salvador and Honduras for Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders).Dr Neira is a Spanish national, and a medical doctor by training. She specialized in Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases; and Public Health. Dr Neira has been awarded the Médaille de l Ordre national du Mérité by the Government of France and is a member of the Academy of Medicine, Asturias, Spain.
29 Dr Kate Auty
Dr Kate Auty is the ACT Commissioner for Sustainability and the Environment. She holds post graduate qualifications in law, history and environmental science.
Kate is a member of the Victorian Bar. She has held appointments as a magistrate and coroner (Victoria and Western Australia). She has also held appointments as a WA mining warden and industrial magistrate. Kate was instrumental in establishing Aboriginal sentencing courts in both Victoria and Western Australia (2000-2009). Subsequent to those appointments she was the Victorian Commissioner for Environmental Sustainability from 2009-2014 and she continues as a Vice Cha ellor s Fellow with University of Melbourne through to 2017.
Current boards and advisory roles include - director on the McPherson Smith Rural Foundation, member of the Advisory Board to AURIN and member with the MDBA ACSEES.
Kate was until very recently a City of Melbourne Ambassador in the development of the Future Melbourne Plan 2026 with a portfolio responsibility in climate change.
In accepting the ACT Commissioner role Kate relinquished advisory roles with La Trobe University in Research Focus Areas involving sustainability, transformation of cities and in respect of water and agriculture. She also relinquished the role as chair of the advisory board to NeCTAR and, morerecently she stepped down as chair of the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute (University of Melbourne).
30 Get involved with DEA
ENTHUSED BY IDEA17? EXCITED TO WORK ON SOME LOCAL SOLUTIONS? Get in touch with your local DEA contact for opportunities to get involved.
Tasmania Dr Kristine Barnden [email protected] Victoria Dr John Iser [email protected] Queensland Dr David King [email protected] New South Wales Dr John Van Der Kallen [email protected] Western Australia Dr Alice McGushin [email protected] Northern Territory Dr Rosalie Schultz [email protected]
Medical students are encouraged to join their local University DEA groups. Contact [email protected] to find out how! If you are t a member of DEA, join at: www.dea.org.au/become-a-member/
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