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Our Speakers

Michelle Smith
Michelle Smith

Director – Operational Policy and Implementation Management (Assessment and Home Care Transition Branch)

Australian Government’s Department of Health, Disability and Ageing

Meredith Coote
Meredith Coote

Co-Chair, Department of Social Services

National Carer Strategy Advisory Committee

Analou Cariaga
Analou Cariaga

General Manager – Quality, Safety & Risk

Anglicare

Victoria Traynor
Victoria Traynor

Professor of Dementia Care; Professor of Healthy Ageing

Warrigal; University of the Sunshine Coast

Michelle Treasure
Michelle Treasure

Member

OPAN National Older Persons Reference Group

Alice Hay
Alice Hay

Executive Manager

Feros Care

Lexie Dennis
Lexie Dennis

General Manager

Hazel Home Care

Claire Lancashire
Claire Lancashire

Director – Engagement and Implementation Readiness (Assessment and Home Care Transition Branch)

Australian Government’s Department of Health, Disability and Ageing

Juliette Spurrett
Juliette Spurrett

Executive Director

Community Services #1

Fonda Voukelatos
Fonda Voukelatos

Deputy Chief Executive

Uniting AgeWell

Garry Lloyd
Garry Lloyd

Chief Executive Officer

Kurrajong Nursing Home

Sandra South
Sandra South

Research Director; Chair

Perspicacious; OPAN’s Supported Decision Making Working Group

Johanna Heaven
Johanna Heaven

Associate

Russell Kennedy Lawyers

Phillip Mellas
Phillip Mellas

Work & Healthy Safety Manager

Aeralife

Geoff Rowe
Geoff Rowe

Chief Executive Officer

Aged & Disability Advocacy Australia

Rameez Hassan
Rameez Hassan

Chief Nursing Officer

Regis Aged Care

Lahn Straney
Lahn Straney

Chief Scientific Officer

MOA

Judith Lovegrove
Judith Lovegrove

Chairperson of the Board Management

Aboriginal Community Services

Cassara Hardie
Cassara Hardie

Acting Chief Executive Officer

NATSIAAC

Jennifer Knox
Jennifer Knox

Head of Quality and Safeguarding

HomeMade

Theresa Flavin
Theresa Flavin

Human Rights Advisor

Dementia Alliance International

Heather Hollingworth
Heather Hollingworth

Chief Executive Officer

BCD Community Care

Julia Lawrence
Julia Lawrence

Executive General Manager, Service Delivery

St Vincent’s Care Services

Debra Burden
Debra Burden

Chief Executive Officer

Selectability

Shawnee Van Poeteren
Shawnee Van Poeteren

Program Manager – Advocacy

Advocare

Kaele Stokes
Kaele Stokes

Executive Director, Services, Advocacy and Research

Dementia Australia

Helen Connolly
Helen Connolly

Senior Director

ACT Government & Work with Aged Care, Disability & Carer Advocacy

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