The 2023 Health Research Symposium will host three keynote speakers from each of our Broome, Fremantle and Sydney campuses. We are excited to announce our 2023 Keynotes are Associate Professor Steve Kinnane (Broome), Professor Lisa Wood (Fremantle) and Professor Rathan Subramaniam (Sydney).
BROOME CAMPUS KEYNOTE
Associate Professor Steve Kinnane, Nulungu Research Institute
Steve has been an active researcher and writer for more than 20 years as well as lecturing and working on community cultural heritage and development projects. His interests are diverse encompassing Aboriginal history, creative documentary (both visual and literary), and tensions surrounding the ideals of sustainability and the relationships between individuality, community, country, economy and human development. Steve is a Marda Marda from Mirrowoong country in the East Kimberley.
Steve co-wrote and produced The Coolbaroo Club (1996) an ABC TV documentary, awarded the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Human Rights Award for the Arts, and collaborated with Lauren Marsh and Alice Nannup on the completion of When the Pelican Laughed, (1992) the story of Mrs Alice Nannup (Fremantle Arts Centre Press). His book, Shadow Lines was awarded the WA Premier’s Award for Non-Fiction 2004, the Federation of Australian Writer’s Award for Non-Fiction 2004, The Stanner Award 2004, and was short-listed for the Queensland, South Australian Premier’s Awards. Recent publications include the chapter ‘Indigenous Australia’ (in collaboration with Anna Haebich) for the Cambridge History of Australia, the chapter ‘Blood History’ for the First Australians book accompanying the First Australians Television Series, and reports and chapters examining sustainable livelihoods and how communities are changing the future by confronting systemic impediments, addressing priorities and developing regionally relevant solutions.
FREMANTLE CAMPUS KEYNOTE
Professor Lisa Wood, Institute for Health Research
Lisa is a tireless advocate for research being relevant and useful to the real world, and the need for academia to go beyond the ‘ivory tower’. She is passionate in both her professional and personal commitment to preventing and reducing health disparities, particularly among some of the most vulnerable people in our society. Across Lisa’s two-decade academic career, she has led a broad range of research, spanning tobacco control, family and domestic violence prevention, the benefits of pets on connecting communities, and closing the Aboriginal health gap.
For the past eight years Lisa has been a national leader in the homelessness and health field. Her research in this space has not only led to extensive media coverage and being called as a witness in front of two Senate Committee Hearings, but has directly contributed to policy change, funding of much needed services, and has transformed the lives of many people experiencing homelessness.
SYDNEY CAMPUS KEYNOTE
Professor Rathan M. Subramaniam
Rathan Subramaniam’s academic focus is oncologic imaging and therapy with radiopharmaceuticals and cancer care disparities. His medical education interest is teaching anatomy and clinical medicine through imaging and molecular therapies. He has published over 270 peer reviewed articles, 9 books, and 15 book chapters and delivered more than 150 CME lectures and over twenty visiting professorships and named lectures. He co-chairs multiple multicenter international cancer clinical trials sponsored by the National Cancer Institute/NIH and Canadian Institute of Health Research.
Rathan’s international committee experiences include a consultant to international atomic energy agency (IAEA), Chair of WHO committee, a member of the medical school accreditation committee of the Australian Medical Council, a member of the National Cancer Institute/NIH steering committee on Head and Neck cancer, President of the PET Center of Excellence of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, and a past President of the American College of Nuclear Medicine.
Rathan has received numerous international awards, including a Fulbright travel award to the United States, Leadership and Innovation award from the Radiology Research Alliance, Honored Educator Award from the Radiological Society of North America and Lifetime Achievement Award from the American College of Nuclear Medicine. He is the Executive Dean, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing, Midwifery and Health Sciences at the University of Notre Dame Australia, Professor of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine and a consultant radiologist and nuclear medicine physician. He is also the immediate past Dean of the University of Otago Medical School, New Zealand.
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