AADPA’s 6th Annual Conference “From Science To Solutions”

Stephen P. Hinshaw is Distinguished Professor of Psychology at UC Berkeley and a Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at UC San Francisco. He also co-directs the UCSF-UC Berkeley Schwab Dyslexia and Cognitive Diversity Center and the UCSF Child, Teen, and Family Center.

Prof. Hinshaw researches developmental psychopathology, ADHD in youth and young adults, sex and gender differences, risk for self-harm, and clinical trials to understand mechanisms underlying success in treatments, both pharmacologic and psychosocial. He also investigates mental illness stigma and the means of reducing it. He has authored over 410 articles, chapters, and commentaries plus 13 books. His latest book is Straight Talk about Girls with ADHD (Guilford, 2022).

Dr Margaret Sibley is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington School of Medicine and a clinical psychologist at Seattle Children’s Hospital. She has authored over 100 scholarly publications on ADHD in adolescence and adulthood with research funded by the National Institute of Mental Health and the Institute of Education Sciences.

Dr Sibley is the Secretary of the American Professional Society for ADHD and Related Disorders (APSARD) and a Professional Advisory Board Member for Children and Adults with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (CHADD).

Christine Imms (BAppSc(OT), MSc, PhD, Fellow OTARA) is the Apex Australia Foundation Chair of Neurodevelopment and Disability at the University of Melbourne. She is an occupational therapist, academic and researcher who focuses on collaborative approaches that lead to improved participation outcomes for those with child-onset neuro-disability and their families.

Dr Imms’ research track record includes 159 peer-reviewed publications, more than $22 million (AUD) in grant income, and supervision of 43 research students to completion. In 2021, Christine became Founding Director of Healthy Trajectories: A child and youth disability research hub on the Melbourne Children’s Campus.

As the Minister in charge of the NDIS, Bill Shorten is overseeing a systematic review of the NDIS and will implement a $720m spending program to reign in costs and growth in order to deliver better experiences and outcomes for NDIS participants. The minister has outlined six key reforms including increasing the National Disability Insurance Agency workforce, addressing spiralling costs, introducing long-term plans, reviewing supported independent living arrangements, better workforce participation and targeting criminal syndicates rorting the system.

The Hon. Greg Hunt served as Australia’s Minister for the Environment, Innovation and Health across three major portfolios over almost nine years. As Minister for Health (2017 – 2022), he oversaw Australia’s response to COVID-19, established telehealth as a permanent and universal centrepiece of Medicare, reformed private health and established long-term plans for mental health, aged care, medical research and primary care and listed over 2,000 new and amended medicines for public access. He is a Hon. Enterprise Professor at Melbourne University and the inaugural Chair of the Advisory Council for the Turner Institute at Monash University.

Prof. Julianne (Juli) Coffin is an Aboriginal Western Australian who has traditional ties to her grandparents’ country in the Pilbara region (Nyangumarta).  Juli is a prominent Aboriginal researcher with research expertise in cultural security, education and research across a diverse range of chronic diseases, nutrition, contextualising bullying, and health promotion.

With a keen interest in Aboriginal languages and ways of learning, Juli combines her education and cultural learning to deliver the outstanding translation of research into practice that is always of an impeccable standard.

Lucinda is the Clinical Director, and overall lead for Oranga Hinengaro (Maori Health Authority) including mental health, addiction and suicide pre/postvention.

Lucinda’s vast experience as a clinician with a background of working in the social services and mental health sector for many years is something she is passionate about.

Lucinda brings a desire for driving kaupapa (policy) that enhances Hauora (health) Maori. This includes working alongside whanau in spaces and places where Maori are overrepresented and seen as high risk.

Carlee is an experienced registered nurse with a background in adult and child and adolescent mental health services in specialist/secondary care and NGO services.

Carlee was previously Head of School – Maori within the nursing department at Te Pukenga/Wintec and has recently completed a master’s degree in Professional Practice.

Carlee is excited to be part of an organisation that drives innovation to reduce inequities for Maori and to ensure that services are accessible and conducive to Maori wellbeing.