Dr John Ward

John Ward is a semi-retired geriatrician. Prior to entering Geriatric Medicine in 1985, John was in public health administration,including Aboriginal Health, Deputy Director of the Southern Metropolitan Health Region and Director of NSW Prison Medical Service. John worked as geriatrician in Eastern Sydney prior to moving to the Hunter in 2000.His major interests are the…

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Brendan Worne

Brendan Worne has dual professional background in physiotherapy and exercise science, with over 10 years of experience in assistive technology (AT) to support people with a disability. He is a clinician and manager of the Assistive Technology Hub at the Ingham Institute for Applied Medical Research. The Assistive Technology Hub’s goal is to drive AT…

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Lachlan Wright

Lachlan Wright is a proud Dunghutti man from Bellbrook, Kempsey on the mid north coast of NSW. Lachlan is currently the Operations Manager at Tharawal Aboriginal Corporation. Tharawal is an Aboriginal community controlled organisation based in the suburb of Airds in the South West Sydney area of NSW, Australia. Tharawal is a leader in the…

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Associate Professor Mei Ling Yap

Associate Professor Mei Ling Yap MBBS BSc PhD FRANZCR is a Senior Staff Specialist Radiation Oncologist based in South-Western Sydney Local Health District and Conjoint Associate Professor at the Sydney South-West Clinical School, UNSW and School of Medicine, WSU. She is the Lead of the Collaboration for Cancer Outcomes, Research and Evaluation (CCORE), a health…

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Adjunct Professor Jean-Frédéric Levesque

Adjunct Professor Jean-Frédéric Levesque, MD PHD FRCP Dr Jean-Frédéric Levesque is the Deputy Secretary, Clinical Innovation and Research and Chief Executive, Agency for Clinical Innovation at NSW Health. He is an Adjunct Professor at the Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity at the University of New South Wales. He has authored more than 150…

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