Introducing our Keynote speakers

• A/Professor Campbell Paul
  Infant and Child Psychiatrist Consultant, Royal Children's Hospital
  and Honorary Principal Fellow, University of Melbourne

• Dr Joseph A. Carpini
  Senior Lecturer, Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour,
  University of Western Australia

• Professor Steve Webb
  Intensive Care Specialist, Professor of Critical Care Research, Monash University
  Director of Research, St John of God Healthcare 

Register now for the 2024 Child Health Research Symposium

Register now for our workshops

• Lived Experience with Shannon Calvert - Tuesday 5 November 10:00
• Project Management with Melanie Wright - Wednesday 6 November 10:00
• Grant Writing with Sharma Deepa, Emma Hall, Claire McIlroy, Dr Tegan McNab
  and Dr Erika Sutanto - Wednesday 6 November 14:00

A/Prof Campbell Paul is a Consultant Infant Psychiatrist at the Royal Children’s and Royal Women’s Hospitals Melbourne and Honorary Principal Fellow in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Melbourne. With colleagues at the University of Melbourne he has delivered postgraduate courses in Infant and Parent Mental Health since 1992.  These courses developed out of longstanding experience in paediatric consultation-liaison psychiatry and infant-parent psychotherapy. He has a special interest in the understanding of the inner world of the baby, particularly as it informs therapeutic work with infants and their parents.  With colleagues, he has developed models of working in therapeutic groups with troubled parents and infants.

He has established the Australian training centre for the Newborn Behavioural Observation at the Royal Women’s Hospital Melbourne. Through engaging the baby, the NBO provides a powerful intervention to support the developing infant -parent relationship.

Dr Joseph A. Carpini is a Senior Lecturer of Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour in the Management and Organisations Department at the University of Western Australia Business School. His research rests at the intersection of workplace performance, mental health, and diversity. Joseph has published over 40 academic entries including in some of the most prestigious in the field of management and applied psychology (e.g., Academy of Management Annals, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and Human Resource Management). Joseph has received a number of awards including the UWA Business School Early Career Research Award, the UWA Excellence in Teaching Award, the Taylor-Hammond Research Scholarship (RANZCOG) and the Lim Kim San Fellowship (Singapore Management University, LKCSB). His research has attracted over $1 million in competitive and industry-sponsored research.

Joseph has a special interest in healthcare where he has leveraged his expertise to enhance hospital staff engagement and patient quality and safety indicators. In collaboration with Fiona Stanley, King Edward Memorial, and Fremantle Hospitals, Joseph led a project implementing ‘multidisciplinary team briefings’which have become the “gold standard”. He has collaborated with international healthcare providers including the National University Hospital (Singapore) and the McGill University Health Centre (Canada).  

Dr Steve Webb is an Intensive Care specialist, a Professor of Critical Care Research at Monash University, Director of Research for St John of God Healthcare,and immediate past Chair of the Australian Clinical Trials Alliance. He is a past-Chair of the ANZICS Clinical Trials Group and previously Co-chair of the federal Government’s Clinical Trials Collaborative Forum. In 2014, when the federal Government established the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences, he was one of 14 fellows who were selected to establish the Academy.

He has been an investigator on trials with an accumulated sample size of more than 60,000 patients, is a named investigator on more than $165 M of competitive research funding and has published more than 250 manuscripts, including multiple manuscripts in NEJM (11) and JAMA (12), that have been cited more than 65,000 times.  He has experience with Bayesian adaptive platform trials and other innovative designs such as cluster cross-over trials.  He was the global leader of the REMAP-CAP platform trial that reported the treatment effect of 18 different interventions for patients with severe COVID-19 infection.  Results from his trials have been incorporated rapidly into international guidelines and implemented into clinical practice saving many lives.

His vision is that research will be purpose driven for impact, focusing on generating and implementing evidence that will improve patient outcomes and performance of the healthcare sector.