Governance

Dr Pippa Blackburn

Palliative Care Clinical Services Manager, ISLHD Palliative Care Service

Pippa is the Palliative Care Clinical Services Manager for Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District and a co-founder and Chair of Palliative Care Social Work Australia. Pippa has a PhD in bereavement; a Masters in Palliative Care; and post-graduate qualifications in Grief and Palliative Care Counselling. Pippa has worked in palliative care and bereavement for 20 years and has been a Peer Mentor with the National Standards Assessment Program, Palliative Care Australia and worked as a Quality Improvement Facilitator with Palliative Care Outcomes Collaboration. Throughout her career Pippa has provided tertiary and workplace education, consultation, project management, service development, policy and model of care development and implementation. Pippa sits on a range of committees, contributing to the development of policy, models of care and other initiatives in palliative care.

Dr Annie Dullow

Annie is on Palliative Care Australia’s National Register of Palliative Care Consumers and Carers.

With extensive experience working in health as a paediatric nurse, researcher and in policy Annie is interested in sharing her knowledge of palliative care as a carer/consumer. Annie is motivated to contribute to conversations and research about improving access to and increasing the community’s understanding of palliative care in regional, rural and remote settings. In particular, how best to support non-specialist palliative care providers in primary care, aged care and disability services.

Professor Tammy Hoffmann OAM, FAHMS, PhD

Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Institute for Evidence-Based Healthcare, Bond University

Tammy is Professor of Clinical Epidemiology and NHMRC Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Evidence-Based Health Care, Bond University. Her research spans many aspects of evidence-based practice, shared decision making, and maximising the translation of evidence into practice to assist clinicians, patients, and the public to make informed health decisions. One of her current areas is devoted to more closely integrating shared decision making and evidence-based practice so that evidence is translated into practice better, in a more patient-centred way, and in a way that considers the sustainability of health systems.

She is also Director of the Australasian EQUATOR Centre and involved in the development of various reporting guidelines, including the TIDieR (Template for Intervention Description and Replication) checklist and PRISMA 2020. Tammy has over 300 publications, including many in leading journals such as JAMA, BMJ, JAMA Internal Medicine, PLOS Medicine, and BMC Medicine. She is the lead author of a widely used interdisciplinary evidence-based practice book (Evidence-Based Practice across the Health Professions, 4th edition 2023).

Dr Lisa Kruesi

Council of Australian Librarians (CAUL) and Monash University

After completing a PhD with the Department of Human-Centred Computing, at Monash University in 2021, Lisa has held invited researcher roles at Monash University in the fields of information management, data management, digital health, and digital transformation. She is a Board Director for Therapeutic Guidelines Ltd and a Co-founder and Co-convenor for the Australian Evidence-Based Practice Librarians' Institute established in 2011. She has extensive experience as a senior health sciences library manager having worked at three Australian research-intensive universities and CSIRO. Lisa has published and presented her research at key forums on digital health, open science, evidence-based practice, and knowledge management.

Professor Trish Williams

Cisco Chair and Professor of Digital Health Systems - Flinders University

Professor Trish Williams is a leader in research and innovation in digital health. Trish is Cisco Chair and Professor of Digital Health Systems at Flinders University, Director of Flinders Digital Health Research Centre, and Director of Cisco-Flinders Digital Health Design Lab and Digital Health IOT Laboratory. Internationally recognised in her field, Trish applies 30 years’ experience in healthcare computing to research and practical outcomes in cybersecurity, health IoT, mobile health, medical devices, governance, patient safety, and health software safety. A passionate contributor and advocate for digital health informatics standards, Trish is co-chair HL7 International Security Workgroup and national expert on health informatics, security and medical device ISO standards. She has authored over 130 medical information security and safety publications.