Invited international Speakers

Professor Kathy Rowan
Intensive Care National Audit & Research Centre (ICNARC), UK

Kathy is a health services researcher who, in 1994 as a result of her Ph.D at the University of Oxford, established a charity (not-for-profit organisation) called the Intensive Care National Audit & Research Centre (ICNARC).  Kathy established ICNARC (www.icnarc.org) as a sister, but independent, organisation to the Intensive Care Society (the professional organisation for clinicians working in UK critical care). 
ICNARC’s aim is to facilitate improvements in the organisation and practice of critical care (intensive and high dependency care) to improve patient care and outcomes through a broad programme of comparative audit, methodological and evaluative research.  ICNARC currently has a £5 million research portfolio including three randomised and two non-randomised studies, plus one methodological study. Kathy co-directs ICNARC, leading on strategy and science, and works with a team of 25 audit, research, IT and administrative staff. 
In 2004, Kathy was awarded the Humphry Davy Medal by the Royal College of Anaesthetists in the UK as a mark of distinction for her significant contribution to the College and to critical care.  Kathy completed a year’s Harkness Fellowship in Health Care Policy in the USA between November 2004 and October 2005. Kathy is an Honorary Professor in the Department of Public Health and Policy at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Kathy regularly plays 5-a-side football and is, most importantly, a Liverpool Football Club supporter!

Associate Professor Ville Pettilä
Finnish Consortium of Intensive Care Data, Finland

Associate Professor Ville Pettilä MD, PhD, EDICM is the Head of Intensive Care Units in Helsinki University Hospital. In 2009 he has Senior Research Fellowship in ANZIC-RC. He has been involved in critical care research since 1995, focusing mainly on acute kidney injury, severe sepsis, and long-term outcome after critical illness. He has been one of the two chief investigators of Finnish nationwide projects (FINNSEPSIS and FINNALI) and the supervisor for six dissertations in critical care field. Publications include 81 original papers in international journals. 

Invited Local Speakers

Prof Chris Baggoley
Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care

Prof Doug Elliot
Professor of Nursing and Director of Research, University of Technology, Sydney

Dr Graeme Hart
Austin Centre for Applied Clinical Informatics Austin Health, Victoria
Chair ANZICS CORE Management Committee

Prof Wendy Chaboyer
Griffith University

Dr Tony Burrell
Intensive Care Coordination and Monitoring Unit (ICCMU)

Karena Hewson
NSW Intensive Care Coordination & Monitoring Unit (ICCMU)

Dr Gopal Taori
Monash Medical Centre, Victoria

Alison McMillan
Statewide Quality Branch, DHS, Victoria

Megan Bohensky
Centre for Research Excellence in Patient Safety

Niki Murphy
Gold Coast Hospital

Mr Eamon Merrick
University of Technology, Sydney