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Speakers

The JBI 2009 International Convention will bring together some of the world’s most respected leaders in the evidence-based health care movement and will be a must attend event.

The following is a list of Keynote Speakers who will be making presentations at this year’s Convention.

Sir Muir Gray

Sir Muir Gray has worked in public health for 35 years. He helped pioneer Britain's breast and cervical cancer screening programmes and was knighted in 2005 for the development of the foetal, maternal and child screening programme and the creation of the National Library for Health.

He is currently Director of the National Knowledge Service. The National Library for Health, a core service of the National Knowledge Service, will organise the best current knowledge and the National Knowledge service will deliver it to staff and patients wherever and whenever they need it. He has recently been given the role of Chief Knowledge Officer for the NHS and is closely involved in the provision of knowledge not only to clinicians but also to patients and those who manage healthcare.

In his previous post as Director of Research and Development for Anglia and Oxford Region, he was in a position to support the UK Cochrane Centre in its early days, and to set up the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine. For ten years he was Programmes Director for the UK National Screening Committee.

Sir Muir Gray is the author of Evidence-Based Healthcare , of which a third edition is in preparation, and joint author of The Oxford Handbook of Public Health Practice. His most recent books are The Resourceful Patient, Evidence-Based Surgery and How To Get Better Value Healthcare.

Dr Jeremy Wyatt

DM(Oxon) FRCP(London) FACMI

Professor of Health Informatics & Director, eHealth research Group & Health Informatics Centre, University of Dundee.

Jeremy was the UK’s first ACMI Fellow and is the third most cited researcher in his field. He trained as a physician in Oxford and London then in health informatics and clinical epidemiology in Stanford and Amsterdam. Before moving to Dundee he worked at the National Institute for Clinical Excellence, the Centre for EBM in Oxford and was academic adviser for knowledge management to the NHS. Jeremy’s research focuses on managing clinical knowledge to innovate in practice. He helped found the Cochrane Collaboration in 1992 and the Effective Practice and Organisation of Care review group in 1994. He has written a handbook on linking clinical knowledge and practice (RSM Press, 2001), the BMJ ABC of Health Informatics (Blackwells, 2006) and a textbook on evaluation (Springer, 2005). In spare time he makes jewellery from titanium and precious metals.

Professor Jos Kleijnen

MD, PhD, is a physician (Maastricht University, Netherlands),

Specialised as a clinical epidemiologist. Currently, he is director of Kleijnen Systematic Reviews Ltd, an independent company based in York, UK. Previously, he was professor and director of the Centre for Reviews and Dissemination at the University of York; and director of the Dutch Cochrane Centre. His interests include: methodology of patient related research, placebo effects in randomised trials, diagnostic and screening procedures, prognostic methodology, dissemination and implementation of research-based evidence, evidence-based medicine, systematic reviews, health technology assessments, guideline development, and reimbursement / fourth hurdle processes.

Nick Royle, The Cochrane Collaboration

Nick is the CEO of The Cochrane Collaboration. He graduated BSc in Mining Engineering from Leeds University in 1983, and was awarded an MBA by Edinburgh University Management School in 1997. Previously Nick worked in the mining and computer industries and served as an officer in the armed forces. Most recently he was Head of Drug and Alcohol Strategy at the Scottish Prison Service. Nick has served on Government advisory committees on drug and alcohol misuse and chaired a UK security agencies committee on drug detection technology. He serves as an advisor to the linked evidence-based organisation The Campbell Collaboration whose priorities include, though are not confined to, education, social welfare, and crime and justice.

Paul Glasziou

Paul Glasziou is currently the Director of the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, and Professor of Evidence-Based Medicine in the department of Primary Care at the University of Oxford, and also continues work as a part-time General Practitioner. The author of over 150 peer-reviewed publications, in medical decision making, clinical trials, systematic reviews and evidence-based medicine. He is editor of the BMJs journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, and the author of six books related to evidence based practice. In 2008 he was awarded an NHMRC Australia Fellowship.

Kate Flemming

Kate is a Research Fellow in the Department of Health Sciences, The University of York, UK. Kate has a background in palliative care nursing. Kate’s research interests are in evidence synthesis and include: methodological innovation for the synthesis of qualitative and quantitative research; the synthesis of qualitative research; and systematic reviews of effectiveness. Kate is a reviewer with the Cochrane Wounds Group. Kate’s teaching commitments include modules in palliative and end of life care and in research methods. Kate is also an associate editor for the Evidence Based Nursing Journal, a reviewer for Qualitative Health Research and is on the Board of Trustees for the local hospice in York.

Professor Chris Baggoley

Professor Chris Baggoley was appointed as Chief Executive of the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care on 21 December 2007. Prior to this appointment he was Chief Medical Officer in the South Australian Department of Health. Professor Baggoley is a highly experienced clinician and has devoted much of his career to emergency medicine, becoming Professor of Emergency Medicine at Adelaide University in 2003.

His other medical positions were Director of Emergency Medicine at Royal Adelaide Hospital, Executive Director, Medical Services and Director of Emergency Services at ACHA Health SA and Director of Emergency Medicine at Flinders Medical Centre in Adelaide.

Professor Baggoley’s other key roles in health have been President of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine, Chair of the Committee of Presidents of Medical Colleges, and Chair of the Board of the National Institute of Clinical Studies. His background as a veterinary surgeon and training as a social worker have been useful and steadying influences in his medical career!

Steven Wayling

Steven Wayling has spent almost two decades with the Research Capability Strengthening programme area of the WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR). Steven has supported capacity utilization within disease endemic countries by promoting research grants for institutional strengthening, through numerous activities aimed at human resource empowerment and most recently through the promotion of regional and global research networks. He has published on capacity building and empowerment in developing countries and sits on the advisory and review committees of other foundations. In 2008, he obtained a multi-million dollar grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to scale up clinical trials capacity in the developing countries for the testing of new diagnostics, drugs and vaccines against neglected infectious diseases.

Associate Professor Mellick Chehade

PhD, MBBS, FRACS, FAOrthA

Prof Chehade is an orthopaedic surgeon, with a degree in medicine and a PhD in biomechanics from the University of Adelaide in Australia. He specialises in trauma surgery and is the current President of the Australasian Orthopaedic Trauma Society. In addition to multiple research awards he is a recipient of the prestigious ABC (American British Canadian) travelling fellowship and has strong interests in both research and teaching. He initiated and directs the National Musculoskeletal Core Competencies Project and co-ordinates medical student and specialist training in South Australia. He sits on several national and international committees including the Scientific and Medical advisory board for Osteoporosis Australia, the Osteosynthesis and Trauma Care (OTC) foundation South Pacific (current president), Orthopaedic Hyperguide (Asia) and the International Surgical Wound Management Board. His research interests are in biomechanics, bone repair, wound management, ‘secondary fracture prevention,’ and the in vivo assessment of fracture mechanics.

Kit Sinclair, OTR, PhD

World Federation of Occupational Therapists

Kit Sinclair is an international education consultant in the areas of occupational therapy service and curriculum development with a particular emphasis on her research area in applied learning.

As a founding faculty member of the OT education programme at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University she has played an active role in its professional development in both Hong Kong and internationally, and has continued in senior academic and research posts for over 30 years. A leader in the field, Kit has been invited to give over 50 guest lectures around the world and has been instrumental in policy development in relation to disability in collaboration with WHO and national governments. Kit continues to reside in Hong Kong and support the development of rehabilitation education in mainland China.

Eamonn Noonan

Eamonn Noonan is the director of the Campbell Collaboration, an international research network devoted to evidence based social policy and practice. The organisation is currently based in Oslo, hosted by the Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services. He holds a doctorate in history from the European University Institute, Florence and is a graduate of University College Cork/National University of Ireland. He has a long career in international affairs and human rights, and has previously worked inter alia as Director of Norway’s Liaison Committee for Immigrants (KIM); Principal Administrator, European Parliament Foreign Affairs Secretariat; and Chargé d’affaires, later Deputy Head of Mission, Embassy of Ireland, Norway.

Professor Robin Watts

PhD(Colorado) MHSc (McMaster) BA (WAIT) Dip NEd (CoN, Aust), FRCNA, RN
Foundation Professor of Nursing at Curtin

Director of WA Centre for Evidenced Based Nursing and Midwifery (a Collaborating Centre of the Joanna Briggs Institute, Adelaide) Professor Robin Watts has worked as a nurse educator in Honduras for several years and then she was part of the great change in nursing education in Australia; serving for nine years as the RCNA nominee on the Australian Health Ethics Committee of NHMRC plus 2 other NHMRC committees as the AHEC representative; and chairing the NBWA’s Clinical Education for the Future Committee 2003-2006.

Professor Bill Runciman

Bill Runciman is currently the Professorial Research Fellow, Human Factors and Change Management in Healthcare at the Joanna Briggs Institute. Bill has been President of the Australian Patient Safety Foundation since its inception in 1988 and is also a Visiting Professor at the Centre for Clinical Governance Research of the University of New South Wales and Adjunct Professor at the Psychology Institute of the University of South Australia. He is coordinator of working groups of the World Alliance for Patient Safety of the World Health Organisation which are developing the International Classification for Patient Safety and Research Methods. Bill has received several distinguished awards in recognition of his significant contribution, has published over 200 scientific papers and chapters and has given over 500 lectures by invitation.

Professor Alison Kitson

Alison Kitson RN, BSc(Hons), DPhil, FRCN
Professor and Head of Discipline of Nursing University of Adelaide
Supernumerary Fellow, Green Templeton College, University of Oxford.

Alison Kitson took up the post of Professor of Nursing and Head of Discipline at the University of Adelaide at the beginning of 2009. Prior to this she was the Royal Adelaide Hospital Nursing Education Fund Inaugural Fellow and has worked closely with interdisciplinary teams around improving the fundamentals of care for older people going through the acute hospital setting.

She has a long career in nursing and her research interests include getting evidence and innovations into everyday practice. Effective leadership is a key part of this.

Professor Judy Lumby

Professor Judy Lumby AM, RN PhD, Director Joanna Briggs Foundation Inc,
Emeritus Professor University of Technology Sydney, Adjunct Professor
University of Adelaide, Adjunct Professor University of Sydney

Professor Judy Lumby began her professional career as a registered nurse working mainly in intensive care before moving into the higher education sector. Her doctoral and post doctoral work focused on patients’ experiences of our health care system believing that unless we listen to and involve patients in their care we run the risk of failing them as healthcare professionals. Her book ‘Who Cares’ records the changing face of healthcare over 40 years.

Her clinical chair between Concord Hospital and The University of Sydney led her to become involved in the NSW study which demonstrated that Nurse Practitioners delivered safe high quality care. She continued her work with and for the establishment and accreditation of nurse practitioners nationally during her 9 years as the Executive Director of The College of Nursing.

Judy’s contribution to journals texts and conferences over her career is prolific and in 2007 her latest book The Gift was published.

In 2008 Judy was awarded an AM for her service to nursing education, professional organisations and to the community through contributions to improving safety and quality in health care services She is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Technology Sydney and an Adjunct Professor at both the University of Sydney and the University of Adelaide.

Margaret Cargo

Margaret Cargo is Senior Lecturer in the School of Health Sciences, University of South Australia and the convenor of the Campbell Collaboration’s Implementation Process Methods Subgroup. She holds adjunct appointments at McGill University in the Department of Psychiatry and at the Douglas Mental Health University Institute. Her expertise is in implementation science, specifically the process evaluation of complex interventions and integrating implementation and process assessment in systematic reviews. Her understanding of complex interventions has been informed from collaborative work with Aboriginal communities, non-profit organisations, health organisations and decision-makers spanning the last two decades. Her research aims to strengthen causal inferences in real world program evaluation and systematic reviews of social, educational and health programs.

Dr. Norman Swan

Host of the Health Report, on ABC Radio National, presenter of Health Minutes on ABC News Radio, health commentator, speaker and facilitator, Dr Norman Swan is a multi-award winning broadcaster and journalist. He is in great demand as a speaker, facilitator, panel chair and creator of hypotheticals.

One of the first medically qualified journalists in Australia, Norman was born in Scotland, graduated in medicine from the University of Aberdeen and later obtained his postgraduate qualifications in Paediatrics.

In addition to the Health Report and Health Minutes, Norman edits his own newsletter, The Choice Health Reader, which is published in partnership with CHOICE.

Dr 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 chaired a meeting of the world’s Health Ministers in West Africa which aimed to pursue the goal of making health policy evidence-based.

Mark Robertson

Mark’s career began at Academic Press in London 30 years ago, before moving on to Thomas Nelson in Melbourne. In 1982 he set up the Blackwell Science Australian office and led the company’s expansion into Asia with the subsequent opening of an office in Japan and then in China. Mark was appointed President of Blackwell Publishing Asia shortly after the 2001 merger of Blackwell Science and Blackwell Publishers, before the merger with Wiley in November 2006 when he took up the position of Publishing Director, Asia Pacific for Wiley-Blackwell.

Mary E. Foley MS, RN

Mary E. Foley is the Associate Director in the Center for Nursing Research and Innovation at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) School of Nursing. Mary is a past president of the American Nurses Association from 2000-2002. She was employed for 19 years at Saint Francis Memorial Hospital in San Francisco. She was a medical-surgical staff nurse at Saint Francis for 17 years. In 1997, she became the Director of Nursing and Safety Officer.

A registered nurse for over 35 years, Foley has been active in the health care policy arena. She continues to write and lecture about health care policy, improving the workplace, promoting safe care for workers and patients nationally and internationally. As a representative of ANA, Mary had the privilege of representing the United States at the International Council of Nurses (ICN) meetings in 1997, 1999, and 2001. Mary was Vice President of the American Nurses Association/California until March 2009. She has been appointed to the Strategic Planning Committee of CGFNS through 2010. She served a six-year term as a member of the National Patient Safety Foundation Board of Directors and is an advisory member of the Partnership for Patient Safety (p4ps) and a member of the Governing Council for the Patient Safety Education Project. She also works with TDICT as a project consultant with expertise in safer needle device evaluation.

Nancy E. Donaldson

RN, DNSc, FAAN
UCSF School of Nursing

Nancy Donaldson is Clinical Professor and founding Director, Center for Nursing Research & Innovation UCSF School of Nursing. Since 1996, Donaldson has served as the Co-Principal Investigator for the Collaborative Alliance for Nursing Outcomes Project (CALNOC), nurse staffing and nursing quality measurement database project. Donaldson has been engaged in research translation capacity development for two decades.

Donaldson is a nationally recognised leader in nursing quality measurement, nurse staffing effectiveness and clinical patient safety; triple funded from 2001-2005 as a patient safety investigator. Donaldson was PI for the AHRQ Working Conditions Study “Unit Level Impacts of Nurse Staffing on Patient Safety” and the HRSA Interdisciplinary Patient Safety Education Project “UCSF Venous Access Patient Safety Interdisciplinary Education Project”. Donaldson is currently PI for the AHRQ “CalNOC Partners to Reduce Patient Falls Project”, the “UCSF RWJ RRT Initiative Evaluation Project” and the LPCH Medication Administration Accuracy Pre/Post EMR Implementation” Study.

Professor Heather Gibb

Heather Gibb is a registered nurse with special expertise in Aged Care, as well as a registered psychologist with specialist accreditation in Organisational Psychology. She has a PhD in Psychology from the University of Melbourne. During the course of her career she has held two appointments at the level of Professor of Nursing. The first of these was in Aged Care as a joint appointment between the University of Technology, Sydney and the South Eastern Sydney Area Health Service. The second appointment was in Rural and Remote Health (including Aboriginal Health) as a joint appointment between Charles Sturt University and three rural health services: Mid Western, Macquarie and Greater Murray Area Health Services. Currently she is employed part time in the acute sector (Southern Adelaide Health Service) as an Organisational Psychologist. She works with Joanna Briggs Institute the rest of her working week as the Director of the National Evidence Based Aged Care Unit.

Her research and consultancy interests focus predominantly on implementing evidence based aged care, as well as the organisational and workforce factors that impact on service delivery by leading practice standards.

Professor Beverly O’Connell

RN, MSci, PhD, FRCNA

Professor Beverly O’Connell is the Inaugural Chair in Nursing at Southern Health. She is also the Associate Dean (Research) Faculty of Health, Medicine, Nursing and Behavioural Sciences, Deakin University. She has more than 18 years experience teaching and researching in the areas of management of patients with delirium and Behaviours of Concern stroke care, aged care, continence care, risk management and carer needs. She is committed to improving patient care through the development of clinical evidence based practice leaders and evidence-based patient care.

Previously, she held the positions of Director of the Quality and Risk Management in Clinical and Aged Care research cluster at Deakin University, Chair in Nursing at Cabrini Health and Deakin University, Nursing Research Director at Sir Charles Gardiner hospital and has been the Director, Centre for Nursing Research and Development at Curtin University. She has extensive experience as chief investigator of multidisciplinary research projects, using both quantitative and qualitative methodologies.