Brighter Beginnings First 2000 Days Summit
Speakers
DAY 1
Monday 31 October
Karen Forde
Project Coordinator, Telethon Kids Institute
Professor Sharon Goldfeld
Paediatrician
and Director at the Royal Children’s Hospital’s Centre for Community Child
Health
Theme Director for Population Health at the Murdoch Children’s Research institute
Professor Catherine Monk
Professor
of Women’s Mental Health & Professor
of Medical Psychology at Columbia University
Research Scientist VI at the New York State Psychiatric Institute.
Associate Professor Cathrine Neilsen Hewett
Academic
Director of the Early Years, University of Wollongong
Dr Marc de Rosnay
Professor of Child Development and Academic Director at Early Start, University of Wollongong.
Associate Professor Rebecca Giallo
Psychologist at Deakin University’s Centre for Social and Early Emotional Development
Child and family health researcher
Professor Valsamma Eapen
Chair
of Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at UNSW Sydney
Assoc. Professor Yasmin Harman-Smith
Head of Early Years
Systems Evidence at Telethon Kids Institute
Dr Catherine Wade
Principal Research
Specialist at the Parenting Research Centre
Dr Tim Moore
Senior Research Fellow at
the Centre for Community Child Health (CCCH) at the Murdoch Children’s Research
Institute
DAY 2
Tuesday 1 November
Teisha Schirmer
Healthy Children’s Coordinator for the MNCLHD Health Promotion team
Clare Placek
Clinical Nurse Consultant for the Illawarra Shoalhaven Child and Family Health service
Clinical Nurse Specialist in the Illawarra Shoalhaven Sustaining NSW Families team
Jenny Claridge
Co-Director for the Division of Kids & Families in the Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District
Georgia Frolich
Clinical Nurse Educator for Sydney Local Health Districts, Croydon child and family health nursing team
Director
of Clinical Services and Director Professional Development and Research
Children and Communities Place Based Coordinator for the South Eastern Sydney Local Health District
Melanie Hughes
Executive Project Officer at Karitane
Professor Karen Zwi
Consultant Community Paediatrician at Sydney Children’s Hospital
Conjoint Professor at the University of NSW
Department Head of Community Child Health
Clinical Director for Priority Populations at Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network
Naomi Strout
Project Manager for UNSW Microbiome Research Centre’s MothersBabies Study
Dietitian and Program Manager at Hunter New England Population Health
NHMRC Medical Research Future Fund Research Fellow
Tammy O'Connor
Senior Manager for Paediatrics, Child and Family Wellness for Western NSW LHD
Project Co-ordinator for the Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network
SCHN Project Lead for
the KEYS Network
Helen Rogers
Early Parenting Program Coordinator with South Eastern Sydney Local Health District
Sara Tulk
Registered Nurse and Midwife at Karitane
Tania Rimes
Strategic Program Coordinator with South Eastern Sydney Local Health District
Senior Research
Associate with the UNSW Population Child Health Research Group
Associate Clinical Professor at The University of Sydney
Head of the Child Development Unit at The Children’s Hospital Westmead
Prof Adam Guastella
Clinical psychologist Sydney
Children's Hospital at Westmead
Clinical psychologist at the Brain and Mind Centre, University of Sydney
Teresa Winata
Senior Research and Evaluation Officer in South Western Sydney Local Health District
Conjoint Associate Lecturer for the Discipline of Psychiatry and Mental Health at UNSW Medicine & Health
NSW Health acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land across NSW, whose cultures and customs have nurtured and continue to nurture this land.
We would like to pay our respects to the Elders past, present and emerging, for they hold the memories, the traditions, the culture and the hopes of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples across the state.