Palliative & End-of-Life Care Symposium

Jane is an experienced health service leader, facilitator and meditation teacher. As MC for the Education Day on June 14, she brings deep experience in exploring and improving the experience of palliative and end of life care for patients, families and health service professionals. Jane has 30 years’ experience in senior executive leadership, strategy, facilitation and communications. Jane is a Non-Executive Director on Boards in the health, education and charitable sectors. She also provides training and facilitation to private, government and not for profit clients. She is a practitioner and teacher of mindfulness and meditation.

Along with our presenters, Jane will help participants contemplate what matters as we near the end of our lives, and explore local services that can enhance that experience for the patients and families we care for.

Liz has been a palliative care physician for 20 years. Over ten years she established Queensland’s largest multidisciplinary specialist palliative care service in Metro South Health. Attached to that service, she developed the Brisbane South Palliative Care Collaborative, the research and service development arm of the clinical service. Currently, the Collaborative is running two national palliative care grants: caring@home and Advance Care Planning Australia. She is currently Director of Queensland Voluntary Assisted Dying Support and Pharmacy Service.

Liz will be providing a keynote presentation on home based palliative care at the General Practitioner dinner as well as speaking to national initiatives and participating in panel discussions at the Education Day.