Bronwyn Le Grice
Managing Director | CEO
ANDHEALTH
Dr Olga Kokshagina, PhD
VC Research Fellow in Innovation and Entrepreneurship
RMIT University
Keynote
Bronwyn is the co-founder of ANDHealth and the chief architect of the ANDHealth+ program, Australia's first and only accelerator program dedicated to supporting the international growth strategies mid-stage digital health companies. ANDHealth is also the only female founded, female managed and majority female governed accelerator in Australia and the organisation is a strong advocate for gender diversity in science, technology and finance.
Chief architect of the ANDHealth+ program, which is provides critical support to Australian mid-stage digital health companies to enable them to meet key investor, partner and customer requirements in relation to both clinical and commercial validation.
Moderator
Dr Olga Kokshagina is an Innovation practitioner, researcher and advocate for open science and entrepreneurship. Olga leads the ISPIM (International Society for Professional Innovation Management) special interest group on Innovation Management Methods for Industry and acts as a Scientific coordinator for ISPIM.
She is also the leader of Melbourne hub, OneHealthTech grassroots community that aims for a better inclusion in healthtech.
Panellists
PROFESSOR DOROTA GERTIG
MEDICAL DIRECTOR FOR THE NATIONAL CANCER SCREENING REGISTER (NCSR)
TELSTRA HEALTH
Since July 2016, Dorota has been the Medical Director of the NCSR, playing a key role in implementation of the Register. She is a public health physician and senior epidemiologist who completed her medical training at Monash University and has a Doctorate in Epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health.
Professor Gertig was the Medical Director of the Victorian Cervical Cytology Registry for more than 10 years and was responsible for the implementation of the National HPV Vaccination Register (NHVPR) and was the inaugural Medical Director of NHVPR until 2010.
RALLAS BUTTRISS
EXECUTIVE CONSULTANT | HEAD OF HEALTH
DB RESULTS
Rallas acts within the health portfolio to drive the increased use of Digital Business and Innovative IT Strategies to improve the ability of healthcare professionals and provide the best outcomes for patients.
By adopting "patient centric" design principles and applying innovative, cutting lead technologies DB Results is leading the implementation of HELPful solutions across Australasia.
RENEE NEWMAN KNAKE
FULBRIGHT DISTINGUISHED CHAIR IN INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP, RMIT UNIVERSITY
DOHERTY CHAIR IN LEGAL ETHICS, UNIV. OF HOUSTON
Renee currently holds the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University for 2019.
She also is a Professor of Law at the University of Houston Law Center, where she holds the Doherty Chair in Legal Ethics.
DAVID STEPHENS
CHIEF DATA OFFICER
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (DHHS)
David is currently Chief Data Officer at the Dept of Health and Human Services.
He previously worked for 10 years in the Queensland departments of Communities, Disability Services and Health in range of roles including Director Strategy, Investment & Architecture; Director Information Management; Assistant Director Investment Office and Manager Online Information Management.