QLD: Advances in healthcare

WEBINAR
Was open to all Fellows and guests

Advances in healthcare
Wednesday 3 February 2020
4.30pm-6.00pm AEST

HOST
Professor Ronald Quinn AM FTSE

SPEAKERS
Dr Dimity Dornan FTSE
Founder and Board Chair of Bionics
Bionics and the future of healthcare

Prof Chwee Teck Lim
NUSS Chair Professor and Director of Institute for Health Innovation & Technology, National University of Singapore
Advancing health through technological innovation

Each speaker had 30 minutes to speak followed by a 10-min Q&A session.

The facilitator for this webinar was Professor Ronald Quinn AM FTSE.

Dr Dimity Dornan

Founder and Executive Director, Hear and Say
Founder and Chair of Bionics Queensland

Dr Dornan is a qualified speech pathologist, Founder and Executive Director of Hear and Say, and Founder and Chair of Bionics Queensland. Dimity is Adjunct Professor at UQ, Adjunct Associate Professor Griffith University and QUT, receiving significant awards including: McCullough Robertson Life Sciences Queensland Industry Excellence Award (2015); Awarded a ‘Legend of Brisbane’ by Lord Mayor Graeme Quirk (2015); Fellow of Academy of Technology and Science (2016); QUT Business Leaders Hall of Fame (2017); Senior Australian of the Year for Queensland (2018); Australia Not For Profit Technology Awards 2018 Lifetime Achievement award; Member of Chief Executive Women (2019).

Professor Chwee Teck Lim

NUSS Chair Professor and Director of Institute for Health Innovation & Technology, National University of Singapore

Professor Chwee Teck Lim is a researcher, inventor and entrepreneur. He is the NUSS chair Professor and heads the Institute for Health Innovation and Technology at the National University of Singapore. He conducts research in human diseases and develops medical technologies for better disease diagnosis and therapy. He has over 430 scientific publications and over 50 filed and granted patents. He cofounded six startups to commercialise technologies developed in his laboratory. He and his team has garnered over 100 research awards and honours including elected fellowships in IAMBE, AIMBE, Academy of Engineering, Singapore and Singapore National Academy of Science.

Professor Ronald Quinn AM FTSE

Professor of Griffith Institute for Drug Delivery

Professor Ronald Quinn obtained his PhD from the University of New South Wales (1970), followed by postdoctoral work at Arizona State University, University of Hawaii and the Australian National University. He joined the Roche Research Institute of Marine Pharmacology in Sydney (1974). He joined Griffith University (1982) and was appointed Professor (1994). Professor Quinn was appointed Director, Eskitis Institute for Cell and Molecular Therapies (2003) and he is currently Professor of Griffith Institute for Drug Delivery. He was elected Fellow of the Australia Academy of Technological Sciences & Engineering (2003) and received the RACI Adrien Albert Award (2004).

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1 hour 28 minutes

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