| Presenter | Session |
| Lorraine Anderson | Importance of community education in disaster management |
| Tudor Codreanu | The delusions of certainty - COVID-19 predictors on vessels and the implication for the WA rural health system |
| Marisa Gilles | Non COVID-19 consequences |
| Wei-Sen Lam | Teleoncology and overcoming the barriers |
| Michaela Lucas | Antibiotic allergies in children |
| Ngaire McCallum | Obstetrics in the rural setting |
| Kylie Mcculough | Rural and remote nursing - same scope of practice or different? |
| Fiona Murray | Gut health, nutrition and chronic disease |
Adjunct Professor Ruth Stewart
MBBS (Uni Melb 1985), PhD (Flin), FACRRM, DRANZCOGadv
For 22 years Ruth and Anthony were General Practitioners in private practice in Camperdown in south west Victoria where they had Visiting Medical Officer status in the local public hospital. In 2008 Ruth was employed as the inaugural Director of Clinical Training Rural with the then new medical school of Deakin University. Her role was to establish the rural program. She created a network of 12 growing to 18 Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship placements for third year medical students from Deakin University to spend the whole of their core clinical year in rural practice.
In 2012, Ruth moved to north Queensland to become Associate Professor of Rural Medicine, Director Rural Clinical Training with James Cook University. In this role she oversaw the doubling of rural clinical placements for the medical school and worked clinically as a Senior Medical Officer at Mareeba Hospital. Ruth is the immediate Past President of the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine and was on the College’s board from 2002-2020 in various roles. She was on the board of the Torres and Cape Hospital and Health Service for 6 years, the Cape York Hospital Board for two years and has been on the board of several Regional Training Providers/Organisations for General Practice Training, on the board of the Rural Doctors Association of Australia for two years and the Tropical Australian Academic Health Centre board. For three years. She has held a number of representative and medico political roles including on the Distribution Advisory Group, and the Health Innovation Advisory Committee for the National Health and Medical Research Authority.
Ruth received a PhD from Flinders University in 2014. Her thesis examined the lessons learnt from a Managed Clinical Network of rural maternity services in South West Victoria. She has an abiding interest in quality of rural maternity services and sustainable models of rural health care.
Fire and Emergency Services Commissioner
Commissioner Darren Klemm AFSM has more than 29 years of experience in fire and emergency services, having served three years with the South Australian Metropolitan Fire Service before joining the WA Fire Brigades Board in 1993.
Commissioner Klemm has been one of Western Australia's rising stars in public administration and management, since joining the Fire Brigades’ Board in 1993. He is the only firefighter to be promoted six ranks in three successive promotions.
Since becoming the Commissioner, the Department has experienced transformation in operations that have strengthened community centred service delivery and its connection and respect for volunteers.
Commissioner Klemm has successfully reformed the agency to create a Rural Fire Division that decentralises and improves bushfire management. He has been the driving force behind unprecedented investment in mitigation, improved relationships with volunteers and stakeholders, and greater interagency collaboration.
In 2017, Commissioner Klemm was invited by the Premier of Western Australia to be a member of the inaugural Public Sector Leadership Council to drive reform across the public sector. In June 2019, he was awarded the Leader of the Year Award by the Institute of Public Administration Australia.
Commissioner Klemm is the DFES ‘Male Champion of Change’, a role he has held since the inception of the Fire and Emergency Services Male Champions of Change group in April 2017. The group includes Chief Executives and Commissioners who lead 30+ agencies responsible for fire, emergency and land management services across Australia and New Zealand. Their objective is to advance gender equity, inclusive cultures and achieve significant and sustainable improvements in the representation of women at all organisational levels throughout their workplaces and volunteer organisations.
He has been involved in strategic operations at State and Incident Controller level during significant emergencies such as the Waroona, O’Sullivan and Toodyay bushfires and Tropical Cyclones Olwyn and Veronica.
Commissioner Klemm is a member of a number of national committees concerned with emergency management in Australia, and holds a Graduate Certificate in Management from the Australian Institute of Management.
Rabia Siddique is an Australian criminal and human rights lawyer, retired British Army officer, former terrorism and war crimes prosecutor, international humanitarian, hostage survivor, professional speaker, advocate and published author.
Rabia has undertaken human rights and community aid work in the Middle East, South America, the United Kingdom and Australia, receiving numerous awards including a Queen’s commendation in 2006 for her work in Iraq. She has been runner up for Australian Woman of the Year UK in 2009, Australian Business Woman of the Year Finalist and named one of Australia’s Top 100 Women of Influence.
Rabia was also selected as a State Finalist in the 2016 Australian of the Year Awards and has been appointed as a Director of the International Foundation for Non-Violence and the Museum of Freedom and Tolerance WA.
Rabia’s best selling memoir, Equal Justice, was published in Australia and New Zealand in 2013 and is now in its tenth reprint. Her book will soon be published in North America and Europe and a feature film based on Rabia’s incredible life is currently being developed.
Leading with professionalism, integrity, ethics and compassion, Rabia, who speaks English, French, Spanish and Arabic, is committed to peace, diversity, inclusion and education. This is evidenced in her philanthropic work and dedication to inspiring others to find their voice and embrace their capacity to create ripples of change.
Rabia has run the London marathon and a double marathon for Australia for charity. She is a mother to young triplet boys, her biggest and most rewarding challenge yet.