Host: Professor Stephen Guinea, Faculty of Health Sciences, Australian Catholic University

Professor Stephen Guinea is a registered nurse and the Associate Dean, Learning, Teaching and Professional Experience for the Faculty of Health Sciences at Australian Catholic University (ACU). For more than 20 years, he has held leadership roles in healthcare simulation education and research. Stephen established digital health at ACU, leading the development of the ACU Master of Digital Health, and initiated the embedding of digital health in all undergraduate health degrees at ACU. He has led the development of the first Australian commercialised academic electronic medical record, Skybox EMR. Stephen is an executive member of the Australian Council of Senior Academic Leaders in Digital Health, and co-Chair of the Council’s Education and Workforce Committee. He is co-lead of the accredited Australian International Classification of Nursing Practice Research and Development Centre, a partnership between ACU, Monash Health and the Australian College of Nursing.

Panel member: Professor Kerryn Butler-Henderson, Faculty of Science and Health, Charles Sturt University

Professor Butler-Henderson has committed more than 20 years' experience working in health and higher education. She is known for her passion and dedication to digital health and digital pedagogy. Kerryn has experience in industry partnerships, with more than $16 million in research funding, including the Global Specialist Digital Health Workforce Census and the Global Atlas of Literacies for Health (GALH), and more than 200 research outputs. As a Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Digital Health, Kerryn was recognised as a 2021 HIMSS Future50 Health IT Leader and 2022 Telstra Health Brilliant Women of Digital Health. An advocate for female leadership in higher education, Kerryn is well known for her collaborative and compassionate leadership style. She is an executive member of the Australian Council of Senior Academic Leaders in Digital Health, and co-Chair of the Council's Education and Workforce Committee

Panel member: Dr Brandon Cheong, Faculty of Health Sciences, Australian Catholic University

Dr. Cheong is a Senior Academic in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Australian Catholic University, where he leads the Master of Digital Health, and the design and development of digital health curricula and staff development for the Faculty of Health Sciences. He also oversees a range of coursework programs and research initiatives aimed at advancing the field of digital health in Australia.

Dr. Cheong holds a PhD in engineering from Monash University and is a qualified scientist. With more than 15 years' experience spanning across health informatics, mathematics, engineering, data science and higher education, he is committed to advancing digital health education and research, with a focus on preparing health professionals for technology-enabled healthcare environments.

Dr. Cheong is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a member of the Australasian Institute of Digital Health and serves on the Education and Workforce and Research and Development committees of the Australian Council of Senior Academic Leaders in Digital Health. He actively supervises PhD, masters, and honours students, fostering research that bridges clinicians and technology to deliver real-world impact in healthcare.

Panel member: Janette Gogler, Deputy Chief Nursing and Midwifery Information Officer, Monash Health

Janette's extensive career has focussed on providing clinical and informatics leadership to and for nursing staff. She is internationally recognised for her leadership in the development of standards and rules for nursing terminology, workflows and practices, and provides clinical leadership in the design, integration, evaluation and implementation of systems and structures of clinical systems. Through collaboration with clinical advisory groups, she has led the design and review of clinical information systems with an emphasis on information requirements for clinical and patient outcomes. Janette is the founding member of the Chief Nursing and Midwifery Information Officers Faculty, and Chair of the Australian College of Nursing Standardise Nursing Terminology Working Group, a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Digital Health, co-Chair of the IMIA-NI Practice Advisory Panel and is a co-lead of the accredited Australian International Classification of Nursing Practice Research and Development Centre.