Invited Speakers

Prof Susan Branford

Head of the Leukaemia Laboratory, Department of Genetics and Molecular Pathology, SA Pathology and the Centre for Cancer Biology, SA; an NHMRC Research Fellow and Fellow of the Faculty of Science, Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia.

A/Prof Kathryn Burdon

Senior Research Fellow / Principal Research Fellow Cancer, Genetics and Immunology, Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania, TAS.

Prof Phyllis Butow

Emeritus Professor, and NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellow in the School of Psychology at the University of Sydney. She founded the Australian Psycho-Oncology Co-operative Research Group (PoCoG) and the Centre for Medical Psychology and Evidence-based Decision-making (CeMPED). 

Prof Jamie Craig

Consultant Ophthalmologist; NHMRC Practitioner-Fellow; Professor of Ophthalmology; Director of the Flinders Centre for Ophthalmology, Eye and Vision Research; Chair and Academic Head of the Department of Ophthalmology, Flinders University College of Medicine and Public Health, SA.

Prof Anne Cust

Deputy Director, The Daffodil Centre,Stream lead, Melanoma and Skin Cancer; Professor of Cancer Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine and Health; NHMRC Career Development Fellow Faculty, Melanoma Institute Australia (MIA), Sydney, NSW.

Prof Jozef Gecz

National Health and Medical Research Council Senior Principal Research Fellow; Channel 7 Inaugural Chair for the Prevention of Childhood Disability, University of Adelaide and South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, Adelaide, SA. 

Dr Steven Harrison

Associate Director of the Clinical Research Sequencing Platform (CRSP) at the Broad Institute of Harvard/MIT and an Instructor in Pathology at Harvard Medical School, USA.

A/Prof Michael Inouye

Munz Chair of Cardiovascular Prediction and Prevention at the Baker Institute (Melbourne VIC); An investigator at Health Data Research UK (Cambridge Site); Turing Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute (London UK).

Dr Chris Jacobs

UK Registered Genetic Counsellor and Registered Nurse; Senior Lecturer in Genetic Counselling at University of Technology Sydney (UTS), NSW.

Dr Robert Kuhn

Associate Director, Genome Browser, University of California, Santa Cruz, California, USA.

Dr Alan Ma

Clinical Geneticist, Children's Hospital Westmead and Nepean Hospitals, Sydney; Lecturer, Discipline of Genetic Medicine, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, NSW.

Dr Kym Mina

Director of Genomics, Pathology Division, Healius Limited, Sydney,NSW.

Dr Emmanuelle Souzeau

Research Fellow and Genetic Counsellor, Department of Ophthalmology, Flinders University, Flinders Medical Centre, SA.

Prof Paul Thomas

Director, Genome Editing Laboratory, University of Adelaide, SA; Professor, Adelaide Medical School, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Adelaide, SA.

Ms Vanessa Tyrell

Zero Childhood Cancer Personalised Medicine Program Leader, Children's Cancer Institute, Sydney NSW; President, Human Genetics Society of Australasia. 

Dr Andrea Vincent

Associate Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, New Zealand National Eye Centre, University of Auckland; Consultant Ophthalmologist, Auckland District Health Board, Auckland NZ. 

Ms Tatiane Yanes

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dermatology Research Centre, Diamantina Institute, University of Queensland; Genetic Counsellor, Genetic Health Queensland, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, Brisbane, QLD.

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