Hypothetical - Wednesday 23 June 2010 at 11am
 Dr Robert Bellis a Psychiatrist and Addictions Physician who has worked across the Government, non-Government and private sectors in alcohol and drug treatment. He is also committed to education in addictions at a local and national level and is a senior lecturer at the University of Queensland. His main interest is in Dual Diagnosis.
BITTOUN, Assoc Prof Renee -
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Tobacco Plenary Presentation - Tuesday 22 June 2010 at 10am
Renee has worked in Smoking Cessation for more than 25 years and is an inaugural member of the international SRNT (international Society for Research in Nicotine and Tobacco). She started one of the world’s first Smokers’ Clinics in Sydney, Australia in 1979 at St. Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney. Currently she is Director of the Smokers’ Clinics in the SW Sydney Area Health Service and Associate Professor, Head of the Smoking Cessation Unit in the Faculty of Medicine, Brain Mind Institute, at the University of Sydney. She is the author of several books on smoking and quitting both for the public and as text books for practitioners. She has published many research articles on smoking and cessation. She has conducted clinical trials of many treatments for smoking cessation, both pharmacotherapies and behavioural interventions. She established and continues to teach the first University course on Nicotine Addiction and Smoking Cessation in any Australian University at University of Sydney, and is President of AASCP, The Australian Association of Smoking Cessation Professionals. She is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of a new international peer-reviewed Journal of Smoking Cessation and received the 2009 TSANZ President’s Award for the promotion of respiratory health, particularly in tobacco control.
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Tobacco Plenary Presentation - Tuesday 22 June 2010 at 10am
 Ron Borland PhD is the Nigel Gray Distinguished Fellow in Cancer Prevention, The Cancer Council Victoria, Australia. He is also a Professorial Fellow in the School of Population Health and Department of Information Systems, The University of Melbourne. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed papers, mostly related to aspects of tobacco control. He is one of the Principal Investigators of the International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project: an international collaboration currently active in 20 countries. His work is designed to understand the impact on smokers of tobacco control policies, help design better systems for regulating tobacco, understanding what is needed for optimum community-wide tobacco control, and identify barriers to stronger governmental tobacco control initiatives. He is also concerned with the different strategies required to maintain, as distinct from initiate, attempts to change behaviour, and has developed and evaluated personalise, tailored mass disseminable cessation aids that are sensitive to the changing needs of smokers. He is the senior editor on the IARC Handbook Measuring the effectiveness of tobacco control policies. He has presented at major international conferences on visions for the future of tobacco control.. He has presented at major international conferences on visions for the future of tobacco control.
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Does work with Canadian indigenous populations inform practice in Australia? - Monday 21 June 2010.
Maggie Brady is a social anthropologist who has worked in many regions of Australia on drug and alcohol issues among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. She has also worked for the Northern Land Council and AIATSIS; she was a researcher for Maralinga Tjarutja at the Royal Commission into British Nuclear Tests, and has been an adviser to WHO. She has published ethnographic studies and policy analyses for academic audiences, but also creates accessible and practical resources such as "The Grog Book and Giving Away the Grog", for a wider audience. In 2008 the AER Foundation published her set of small books on the social history of alcohol: "First Taste. How Indigenous Australilans Learned About Grog". Maggie is an ARC fellow at the Australian National University.
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COTTERELL Simon -
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National Drug Strategy - Future Directions - Wednesday 23 June 2010
Simon Cotterell has been the Assistant Secretuary of the Drug Strategy Branch in the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing since March, 2009. The Drug Strategy Branch is responsible for policy and programs in the areas of alcohol, tobacco, illicit drugs, pharmaceutical misuse and indigenous tobacco and chronic disease. Simon has over 20 years' experience as a Commonwealth and State public servant, with strong experience in the social policy, health, international relations and law enforcement arenas.
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Services on the front line - Wednesday 23 June 2010
 B.Sc., M.B.Ch.B., M.R.C.Psych., M.D.
Senior Lecturer in Addiction Psychiatry
University of Queensland &
Director of Addiction Psychiatry
Royal Brisbane & Women's Hospital
Dr. Daglish graduated in Medicine from the University of Edinburgh. He completed his basic Psychiatry training in South East Scotland. He moved to Bristol in 1998 where he became a Lecturer in the Psychopharmacology Unit of Bristol University working for Prof. David Nutt. Dr. Daglish emigrated to Brisbane in 2007 to take up the post of Senior Lecturer in Addiction Psychiatry and Director of the Alcohol & Drug Service, Royal Brisbane & Women's Hospital.
Dr. Daglish has had a professional interest in Drugs & Alcohol since his undergraduate years, when he undertook an elective in a detoxification unit in West Berlin. His research interests are centred on functional neuroimaging of the neurobiology of Drug & Alcohol addiction.
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HAMILTON, Professor Margaret AO -
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Dealing with complex needs - Monday 21st June 2010
 Chair, Multiple and Complex Needs Panel, Victoria (2004-2009). Margaret has worked for many years (39) in the alcohol and drug field in a mix of clinical, programme develoment, management, research, teaching and training, policy development/advice and general public educaiton especially associated with alcohol and drug issues.
Served on a number of national, Victorian and some international advisory bodies; worked on various enquiries and committees in drug and alcohol areas, research ethics committees and Boards. Former Founding Director, Turning Point Alcohol and Drug Centre (Vic).
Additional Current appointments/roles:
Professorial Associate, The university of Melbourne, School of Pop. Health.
Executive member of the Australian National Council on Drugs.
Chair, Board, Cancer Council Victoria.
Life Member/Governor, Australian Drug Foundation & Patron, ANEX.
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Facts and Myths on Pharmacotherapy in AOD - Tuesday 22 June 2010
 After a degree in law, Jeremy trained in general medicine and gastroenterology in London, completing an MD on the effects of NSAIDs on the gut. He spent 10 years at Mt Isa Hospital as Director of Medical Services and general physician. In 2002 he moved to Brisbane and did a full time course in professional photography. Since September 2004 he has been Clinical Director of the Alcohol and Drug Service, Metro North Health Service District. He is an Associate Professor with the School of Medicine at University of Queensland (UQ). His interests include opioid treatment and the growing prevalence of pharmaceutical opioid related dependence.
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Breakfast Speaker & Half Day Workshop - Tuesday 22 June, 2010
 Bob Jacobs has worked in youth advocacy for over 25 years in the United States and in Australia. He began his career as a teacher and coach, and went on to earn two masters degrees, a doctoral degree in psychology and a juris doctor degree in law. Bob is a registered clinical psychologist, a registered family dispute resolution practitioner, and a solicitor. During the late 1990’s Bob was host of the government-access television show “Parenting with Dr. Bob” which won a National Association of Counties award for “Innovation in County Government”. Bob has written and spoken extensively in the U.S. and in Australia on the issue of the overuse of psychiatric diagnoses and prescription drugs with children and young people. In 2003 he was a keynote speaker at the Queensland State Youth Conference in Mackay, and in August of 2005 Bob was invited to present on this issue to the Australian Senate Subcommittee on Mental Health in Canberra. Bob spent over a decade on the Advisory Board of the International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology (ICSPP) since 1993 and served a term (2002-2004) on the National Steering Committee for the Children’s Rights Network of Amnesty International USA. In May of 2007 he was a keynote speaker at the Australian National Youth Conference in Melbourne. In December of 2008 Bob migrated permanently to Australia where he works with Youth Affairs Network of Queensland (the state’s peak youth body) and runs The Parenting Centre. He continues to speak extensively on issues of parenting and children’s advocacy, and in September of 2009 was a keynote speaker for the Australasian Therapeutic Communities Association national conference in Canberra.
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Bio & Abstract for workshop.
Mindfulness and Addictions: A Buddhist Perspective - Tuesday 22 June 2010
 Chris has worked as a clinical occupational therapist in a variety of settings in Singapore and Australia. He has over two decades of training in Buddhist philosophy and meditation with teachers from Sri Lanka, India and Tibet. He is Honorary Research Advisor in Buddhist Studies at The University of Quensland, leads mindfulness retreats and groups, and coaches health professionals in the context, theory and applications of mindfulness.
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MENDOZA Prof John
Hypothetical Panel - Wednesday 23 June 2010
 John recently established ConNetica Consulting after a career that has seen him hold several executive positions including Chief Executive Officer of the Mental Health Council of Australia and Chief Executive of the Australian Sports Drug Agency.
John is also currently a lead presenter in the Australian Mental Health Leadership Program (ausMHLP) through the Centre for International Mental Health at the University of Melbourne and a member of the Steering Committee for the International Observatory on Mental Health Systems launched in February 2009. Both of these roles focus on policy and service delivery in mental health.
As CEO of the MHCA, John played a lead role in the development and execution of the political strategy to engage all levels of Australian governments to commit to the reform of mental health service resulting in a $4 billion National Mental Health Action Plan. John has authored or co-authored a number of major reports and submissions to public inquiries.
Previously in his roles at the Australian Sports Drug Agency he played key roles in the Australian Government’s anti-doping strategy for the Sydney Olympics and the establishment of the World Anti-Doping Code and World Anti-Doping Agency in Montreal.
PALMER Michael John Palmer, AO APM
Hypothetical Panel - Wednesday 23 June 2010
 Michael John (Mick) Palmer is a 33 year career police officer with extensive experience in police leadership and reform in community, national and international policing. He has served in both the State/Territory ad Federal areas of policing in Australia.
As Commissioner of the AFP he was responsible and accountable to the Federal Government for the effective administration and the operations of the Commonwealth Government's principal law enforcement agency with a mandate to investigate serious, organised and transnational crime and offences against the Commonwealth. During a break from policing Mick qualified and was admitted to practice as a barrister at law in Queensland, in 1982, practicing at the private bar during 1982 and 1983.
Since retiring from policing in 2001 he has conducted a range of Government inquiries including the inquiry into the immigration detention of Cornelia Rau.
PURSSEY Dr Robert MBBS FRANZCP -
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ACT and Mindfulness - Tuesday 22 June 2010
 Rob completed over a decade of conventional training in psychiatry. Since 2005 he has trained and specialised in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT pronounced as one word, not ay-cee-tee), the clinical application of contemporary Contextual Behavioral Science. ACT shifts from over-reliance on a biomedical model to a contextual framework for understanding and treating human suffering in all its forms. Already proven in many substance areas, ongoing active research worldwide is growing the database.
Science, compassion, mindfulness, acceptance, values, and community inspire Rob’s life and work. He is a Clinical Senior Lecture in Psychiatry at the University of Queensland, actively facilitates ACT interest groups, and teaches ACT to health practitioners and other fellow humans.
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Too many clients and too few resources; can case management assist the practitioner? - Wednesday 23 June 2010, Half Day Workshop Wednesday.
 Scott has a background in law, accounting, health care and currently completing his PhD thesis. He is presently coordinator of mental health education for the Remote Area Mental Health Service which delivers services throughout Cape York and Torres Strait. A particular passion is for the social and emotional well being of the indigenous peoples of Australia which grew out of his previous involvement in the delivery of primary health services in the Far North of South Australia.
Scott is currently the Chair of the Case Management Society of Australia (CMSA) and Treasurer. Further he is the Secretary for Queensland branch and Member of Finance and Audit Committee of the Australia College of Mental Health Nurses (ACMHN). He has written extensively about the issue of case management and presented at conferences and conducted workshops on various issues such as the legal responsibilities, financial issues and ethical dilemmas involved in case management.
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WODAK, Dr Alex -
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Oration - What happens when the irresistible force of short-termism meets the immovable mountain of evidence? - Monday 21st June 2010
Dr Alex Wodak is a physician and has been Director of the Alcohol and Drug Service, St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney since 1982. Major interests include prevention of HIV among injecting drug users, brief interventions for problem drinkers, prevention of alcohol problems, treatment of drug users and drug policy reform. Dr Wodak is President of the Australian Drug Law Reform Foundation and was President of the International Harm Reduction Association (1996-2004). He helped establish the first needle syringe programme and injecting centre in Australia, both pre-legal, and often works in developing countries on HIV control among injecting drug users.
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