Madeleine is the Information Services Librarian at Monash Health Library. Focusing on research support and information literacy. She supports access to and understanding of high quality health information for patient care and research. She also promotes the library services and resources within the hospital and on social media to improve digital and health awareness.

Fiona Doukas is a highly motivated and passionate pharmacist who works in the Clinical Care Standards team at the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care. Fiona is interested in training, education, the quality use of medicines and antimicrobial stewardship. Fiona is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Sydney.

Wendy Ewing is the Deputy Director of Pharmacy – Quality at Monash Health, Victoria.  In this role Wendy oversees medication safety and medication stewardship services across Monash Health, the largest public health service in Victoria and is responsible for the quality and safety activities of the Pharmacy Department. Wendy chairs the Victorian Therapeutics Advisory Group (VicTAG) Quality Use of Medicines Group and is a member of the VicTAG Management Committee. She is a founding member of the Advanced Pharmacy Australia (AdPha) Medication Safety Leadership Committee and passionately advocates for patient safety through collaboration, leadership and continuous improvement.  Wendy’s professional interests other than medication safety include critical care, pharmacy technician development, interprofessional education and workforce wellbeing.

Claire FitzGerald is the Head of Quality and Medication Safety at Slade Pharmacy, bringing over 20 years of experience in hospital pharmacy across both public and private sectors. Her expertise spans operational management, clinical research, medication safety, quality improvement, education and training, compounding, stewardship, clinical trials, oncology, and clinical pharmacy services.

Claire leads the Quality and Medication Safety Unit (QMSU), which oversees clinical governance and medication safety across more than 70 sites within Icon Group. The QMSU also supports hospital partners in achieving NSQHS accreditation and advancing medication safety practices.

She is an active contributor to the profession, currently serving on two Advanced Pharmacy Australia (AdPha) Specialty Practice Leadership Committees—Medication Safety and Leadership & Management (Chair).

Claire is deeply passionate about medication and patient safety, advocating for the evolving role of pharmacists in hospital and community settings. She champions the quality use of medicines and supports extended scope roles for pharmacists to enhance patient outcomes.

Sarah Glewis is a Senior Clinical Pharmacogenomics Pharmacist at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and a PhD Candidate at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Her current research efforts focus on clinical Pharmacogenomics (PGx) and Therapeutic Drug Monitoring (TDM) for the treatment and supportive care of cancer. She is the principal investigator for the first PGx multisite clinical trial in Australia (PACIFIC-PGx) and program manager for the follow-on trial with expanded PGx testing and TDM (PRECISION). She was awarded a research grant from ISOPP to support her PGx research work extending to regional areas in Australia and her work in PGx has been recognised in the Victorian HealthCare Award in Australia.

Linda is proud to say she has been a hospital pharmacist for forty years, and involved in the professional body, AdPha/SHPA, over that time. Linda became a SHPA Fellow and am currently a member of the AdPha Medication Safety Leadership Committee and responsible for editing the Medication Safety series in GRIT. During her time at Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney, Linda worked in oncology, clinical trials, medicines information, and haematology.  Linda established the first pharmacy service to the POWH Emergency Department. Resulting from funded research with Dr Madlen Gazarian into medication errors in paediatrics, a QUM position at Sydney Children’s Hospital was established.  For most of the last 16 years in Melbourne Linda has been leading the Alfred Health Medication Safety program and the network ADR Review Committee.  Linda's most recent interest is promoting medication safety globally, and specifically along with her Latvian pharmacy colleagues.

Toni is the Medication Safety and Strategy Pharmacist at St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne and also works for the Australian Council on Healthcare Standards as an Assessor. Toni is the Chair of the AdPha Medication Safety Leadership Committee, gives some university lectures to Pharmacy Students, and occasionally provides medication safety consulting services. 

She has held a number of clinical and management positions in Australia in both public and private hospital, including as a Director of Pharmacy, been employed on secondment to the Victorian Department of Health, and has worked overseas as a primary health care pharmacist in Botswana. She has received several awards for medication safety, including the Melbourne Health Celebrating Excellence: Quality and Safety Award and the St Vincent’s Health Australia Innovation and Excellence Award for Person Centred Care. 

Toni has been a member of AdPha for longer than her youthful bio photo suggests, but she can’t update the photo because of a long-standing joke with a pharmacist friend from university. 

Alison is a clinical pharmacist with over 15 years of Victorian public hospital experience, with the last 8 years dedicated to cancer services. Alison has a Masters in Clinical Pharmacy and Specialist Certificate in Cancer Sciences, and is a current member of the AdPha Oncology Haematology Leadership Committee. According to ChatGPT, her mission statement is: "To improve patient outcomes through expert medication management, innovative clinical practices, and dedicated education in Oncology and Haematology. She is committed to advancing cancer care, fostering interdisciplinary collaboration, and empowering others through knowledge and leadership."

Rachael is an antimicrobial stewardship pharmacist and the sepsis pharmacist at Alfred Health. She ensures the delivery of patient-centred sepsis management, and provides leadership, support and guidance in the evaluation of sepsis performance through regular auditing and feedback. To complement Rachael's sepsis work, she also leads the National Sepsis Community of Practice where sepsis co-ordinators around the country are able to discuss and share learnings from their respective sepsis programs.

Adam is a cardiac pharmacist and research in applied cardiovascular biostatistics and epidemiology. He was one of the authors of the recent National Heart Foundation of Australia and Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand Acute Coronary Syndrome Guidelines. This pre-conference seminar combines his two passions of research translation and cardiology practice.