Catherine is a lawyer specialising in workplace and public health and safety, investigations, inquests and inquiries. She is a partner at Maddocks Lawyers and has experience acting in many of Victoria’s most significant safety matters, inquisitorial hearings and Royal Commissions. She advises on all aspects of safety regulation and in responding to workplace incidents and criminal prosecutions.

Catherine works with clients in the public sector, emergency services, police, defence, health, education, and not-for-profit sectors. She proactively works with her clients to address safety risks and respond ton incidents. She has particular expertise in addressing psychosocial hazards and sensitive bullying and sexual harassment matters.

She is ranked as a Best Lawyer and a Leading Lawyer in Doyle’s Guide.

Catherine is a Senior Fellow at the University of Melbourne, teaching Workplace Health and Safety Law in the Masters program. She is a Board member at Maddocks and a Board member and Vice President of OzChild.

Tony has more than 40 years’ experience in the health and community sectors, and has worked in non-government organisations, local and Federal Governments and a university.

He is currently the Chair of Your Community Health, and a Director of the Victorian Healthcare Association, and the spokesperson for the Victorian Oral Health Alliance. He is a past CEO of Victorian consumer advocacy and research organisation, the Health Issues Centre.

Dr Clarice Tang is the Professor of Physiotherapy at Victoria University. As a registered physiotherapist, Clarice has had extensive clinical experience working across a variety of health institutions in Victoria.

Clarice identifies as a migrant and conducts research in the area of improving health outcomes for people with chronic diseases from culturally and linguistically diverse background.

Combining her skills in research, education and health, she is passionate about improving processes to enhance health experiences for consumers from multicultural communities in Victoria. 

Kelly is a Partner in the Disputes and Investigations team of Gadens, a leading national law firm. She is the leader of Gadens’ Healthcare and Life Sciences sector team. Kelly has specialist expertise in relation to healthcare regulatory issues, investigations and litigation. This includes acting for the Australian Healthcare Practitioners Regulation Agency. Kelly is ranked in Best Lawyers in the category of Litigation.

Prior to joining Gadens, Kelly served as both Chief Legal Counsel and Head of Government Affairs and Policy for one of the world’s largest biopharmaceutical companies. 

Kelly is the legal expert for LexisNexis in relation to its training modules and compliance solutions on therapeutic goods regulation. Kelly is the legal expert for Legal500 in relation to Life Sciences in Australia. Kelly is a member of the Regulatory Affairs Working Group of the Consumer Healthcare Products Association.

Kelly is an experienced company director in the healthcare industry, including a Victorian public hospital, by Ministerial appointment, the Australasian Sonographers Association and the Melanoma Patients Association.   She is a member of the Human Research Ethics Committee of both the Royal Children’s Hospital and the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. She is a member of the Firefighters Presumptive Rights Advisory Council, by Ministerial appointment.  

Director of Integrated Care, Your Community of Health

Kerry May is an experienced health care executive with over 25 years’ experience across public and private health care and is currently the CEO of Frances Perry House. Kerry seeks to work with organisations that align with her strongly held leadership values of kindness and accountability.

Kerry considers it a privilege every day to care for her community and deliver the best possible patient and family experience - supported by an amazing staff experience. Finding and growing the health care leaders of tomorrow is of key importance and drives Kerry in her work every day.

B.Pod, Grad. Dip. VET, M.Gerontology, Executive MBA

Professor Lisa McKenna has been Dean in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia since January 2017. She is a Registered Nurse and Midwife, and holds postgraduate qualifications in business administration, education and history. Lisa is a Fellow of the Australian College of Nursing and a Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Health Professional Education.

Lisa has extensive experience in teaching undergraduate and postgraduate health professionals and conducts research focusing on various aspects of nursing, midwifery and health professional education, with a particular focus on health workforce, professional practice and patient safety. Lisa was inducted into the Sigma International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame in 2022. From January 2024, Lisa has also been Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Clinical Simulation in Nursing. 

 BEdSt, GradDipHAd&IS, GDLFAH, MEdSt, MBA, PhD