VHA 2025 Conference

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The VHA acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of unceded lands throughout Australia.
We recognise their continuing connection to land, waters and culture, and we pay our respects to their Elders past and present.
Our offices are located on the lands of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people.

Session 6: Opening and keynote

Session

8:45 am

29 October 2025

Grand Ballroom

Themes

Presentation

Session Program

8:45 am

Day 2 Opening

Opening: Dr Leigh Clarke, CEO Victorian Healthcare Association

9:00 am

Panel: Consumer voice

Kym Arthur - Executive Director of Population, Women’s Health and Strategy - Victorian Government Department of Health, Lisa Robins - Chief Executive Officer - Patients Australia, Mackala Ines-Rose Cornelius - Lived Experience Panellist , Natasha Chandler - Lived Experience Panellist

Lived experience of medical misogyny in healthcare

9:30 am

Keynote address

Dr Helen Bevan OBE - Professor of Practice in Health and Care Improvement - University of Warwick

Lighting the way: leadership in health reform