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Sorted alphabetically by last name.
Katarzyna (Kate) Tognarini is a Melbourne-based pharmacist with over 25 years of experience spanning community, hospital, education, and industry settings. She holds Mental Health First Aid certification (Adult and Youth) and collaborates closely with general practitioners and specialists in ADHD to develop educational materials. Kate is passionate about empowering both community and hospital pharmacists to improve ADHD care and medication safety. As a Board Member of the Australasian ADHD Professionals Association (AADPA) and co-lead author of the AADPA ADHD Prescribing Guide, she is committed to advancing pharmacist-led ADHD education and strengthening interprofessional collaboration to enhance patient outcomes.
Laura is an Infectious Diseases and Antimicrobial Stewardship Advanced Training Resident Pharmacist currently working at The Canberra Hospital. With 7 years of experience at The Canberra Hospital, Laura has worked in Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infectious Diseases for 3 years. In 2022 Laura completed her Foundational residency project with her major project investigating the potential causes and possible solutions for pharmacy technician burnout.
Aaron is a senior clinical informatics consultant within the Cyber Security Program in eHealth Queensland, with over 10 years’ experience in robotic process automation, medication safety, data analytics and digital transformation.
Over this time, he has committed to improving pharmacy worker capability in the digital landscape by focusing on the development of automation tools that help to reduce cognitive burden, enhances the electronic medication management experience and ‘automates the boring stuff’.
In his spare time, Aaron is a consultant on digital health projects with groups such as NSWTAG, offering design services for the creation of data capture tools and web database software.
Associate Professor Michael Woodward is Director of Aged Care Research and the lead clinician at the Memory Clinic at Austin Health in Melbourne, Victoria. He is a specialist in geriatric medicine with major interests in the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and other dementias. He is Principal Investigator for numerous research trials of new therapies for AD and related disorders. He is Board member of the national Dementia Australia Research Foundation, as well as one of the 4 Honorary Medical Advisors to Dementia Australia.
He was awarded his MD on the overlap between the dementia syndromes and how memory clinic data bases contribute to our understanding of the dementias. More recent research interests have focussed on characterizing the frontal (dysexecutive) variant of Alzheimer’s Disease.
Rachael Worthington is a clinical pharmacist with >30 years’ experience in Hospital Pharmacy and clinical education across all settings, including significant experience in a tertiary paediatric setting and digital health. Her areas of specialisation include paediatrics, cystic fibrosis, intensive care, clinical education and training and, more recently, medication and patient safety, electronic medication management, change management and benefits realisation. Rachael has reviewed, trended and analysed local and state-wide medication/IV fluid incident data, used to drive quality improvement. As Change and Adoption Manager for the SCHN MEMORY Project, she thrived on identification and resolution of issues and risks within medication management processes across the organisation prior to the implementation of eMeds.
Carol Wylie is the Director of the Queensland Poisons Information Centre, one of four centres across Australia, located at the Queensland Children’s Hospital, Brisbane.
Pharmacy trained, Carol’s early career focussed on paediatrics at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne, before moving to the Queensland Children’s Hospital in Brisbane as a clinical pharmacist. She developed a keen interest in the field of poisoning and toxicology while working in the Queensland Poisons Information Centre. Carol is passionate about training and provides regular education in poisoning to members of the public, pharmacy and other health professionals. She provides input into the national network of poison centres in Australia and various state and national organisations and publications.
Carol and the staff of the Queensland Poison Centre play an active role in toxicovigilance and other research activities. Data collected by the centre is soon to be available more broadly across the nation, with the establishment of a National poisoning dataset known as the Australian Poisoning Surveillance Initiative (APSI).
