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The Organising Committee for RSA 2010 is pleased to announce the following confirmed keynote and guest speakers: Keynote Speakers Lisa Burnapp
Professor Simon Stewart PHD, FCSANZ, NFESC, FAHA
Guest Speakers Julie Hartley-Jones
Dr. Carmel Hawley
Dr. Murty Mantha FRACP, MD
Stephen Oldham
Bev Hamerton
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Lisa Burnapp was appointed as a Consultant Nurse in Living Donor Renal Transplantation at Guy's & St. Thomas' NHS Trust following completion of her MA in Medical Law and Ethics in 2002. She has 24 years experience in renal nursing, and she has been involved with the living donor programme at Guy's & St. Thomas ' Hospitals since 1995. She is Consultant Nurse Advisor to NHS Blood & Transplant for their living donor kidney transplantation schemes, Co-Chair of the British Transplantation Society (BTS) Living Donor Transplantation Forum and served on the BTS Council from April 2004-2007. She is a member of the Human Tissue Authority Transplantation Working Group and was involved in training independent assessors and living donor transplant co-ordinators about the new arrangements under the Human Tissue Act. She has an active conference schedule, presenting at both national and international meetings. 
Prof. Simon Stewart is the Head of Preventative Health at the world-renowned Baker IDI Heart & Diabetes Institute in Melbourne, Australia (
Avril Henry established her management consulting business in 2003, focusing on leadership, change management, talent management, diversity, recruitment and retention strategies. In 2008 her business was one of the 5 finalists in the City of Sydney Business of the Year awards.
Dr Hoy is Professor of Medicine and Director of the Center for Chronic Disease at the University of Queensland. Her work on high risk populations in the USA and Australia has helped promote expansion of nephrology’s focus beyond ESRD to early markers of risk and disease, and their conceptual integration with other chronic diseases. Her research addresses the epidemiology of renal disease, hypertension, type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease, including intrauterine and early life events, and promotes multideterminant concepts of disease causation. It also addresses structural, ultrastructural and molecular markers of disease and disease susceptibility. It promotes primary and secondary prevention, outcomes research and cost-effectiveness evaluations. 
Coming from a career specialty background as a renal nurse, Julie Hartley-Jones has been a guest speaker at many national and international conferences on renal care. 
Dr. Carmel Hawley has been a full-time nephrologist at Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH) since 1989 and was Director of the Nephrology Department between 1997 and 2002. Her current roles include clinical manager of the Haemodialysis Service at PAH, Inaugural and Current Chair of the Operations Secretariat of the Australasian Kidney Trials Network and Associate Professor, Department of Population Health, University of Queensland. Other past roles include Chair of the Clinical Practice Improvement Centre in Queensland (Renal Collaborative), Board Member of Kidney Health Australia (5 years) and Co-Chair of the CARI Biochemical and Haematological Guidelines and Member of the CARI bone guidelines group. In addition to being a nephrologist she has a formal qualification in Medical Statistics. She has > 100 publications and is actively involved in diverse clinical research areas. She has been, or is on a number of Advisory Boards particularly those relating to her major clinical interests which include dialysis, renal anaemia and/or renal bone disease. 
Dr. Murty Mantha is a nephrologist and Director of Renal Medicine at Cairns Base Hospital.
Jason
Warnock was born in Babinda, north Queensland. He is an experienced podiatrist
working in Townsville for more than 28 years. Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander health and management of the diabetic foot have been a focus of
his professional interests. Jason has developed and manages the Indigenous
Diabetic Foot program. This program provides information, resources and
training for health workers and health professionals, to assist with the
management of the diabetic foot. In 2008, he was awarded a Churchill Fellowship
to study Indigenous diabetic foot programs in Canada and USA. In 2009, Jason
took on a new Queensland Health role as project manager of an allied health
Models of Care project. This project involved reviewing the evidence of
foot complications in renal clients and to trial podiatry involvement in
the renal services in Townsville. Jason is the Chairperson of the
Podiatry Board of Australia.
Stephen has been a Registered Nurse for thirty years. Training under the “old fashioned” hospital system in the north of England his career has twist and turned through Acute Hospitals, Hospices, Community Health, Residential Nursing Care and small country Hospital settings. He has held a wide range of leadership roles including Clinical Nurse Consultant, Nursing Unit Manager, Nurse Manager, Industrial Relations Professional, Deputy Director and Director of Nursing.
In
addition to being part of the teaching team for Remote Health Practice,
Bev has worked as a Remote Area Nurse on Murray Island in the Torres Strait
for the past six years. She is a graduate of the Remote Health Practice
program. Bev has a passionate commitment to the principles and implementation
of a Primary Health Care approach.