Speakers

Sheryl Batchelor

CEO, Yiliyapinya Indigenous Corporation

Sheryl Batchelor is a proud Kunja woman with close to 30 years of teaching, training and leadership experience in a variety of educational, community and health settings. She works with communities to break the cycle of intergenerational disadvantage through using scientifically validated neuroplasticity programs aimed to improve the brain health of all individuals in a culturally responsive way. Sheryl is the Founder/Director of Yiliyapinya Indigenous Corporation, a not-for-profit, registered charity and NDIS provider. Yiliyapinya aims to improve Brain Health by closing the gap in learning and earning outcomes of people who have experienced adverse life circumstances or toxic stress in a culturally responsive and contextualised manner.

Harris Eyre

Harris Eyre, M.D., Ph.D., has worked as a physician, scientist, entrepreneur, executive services provider, author, new economic and finance thinker, and neuroscience communicator. Currently, he is a Harry Z. Yan and Weiman Gao Senior Fellow at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy and the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute. He leads the Brain Capital Alliance and has adjunct roles with UCSF and Baylor College of Medicine and Deakin University and has advisory roles with UC Berkeley, Stanford, MD Anderson Cancer Center and The University of Sydney. Eyre is the lead editor of the book Convergence Mental Health (Oxford University Press).

Harris is a brain capital builder working to boost global brain health and brain skills. Harris believes the world increasingly relies on brain capital, where a premium is put on brain skills and health (e.g., an individual’s cognitive, emotional, and social brain resources). Investing in building brain capital is fundamental to meet modern societal challenges and drive innovation. He leads the development of the brain capital field and seeks to place it at the centre of economics, policy, finance, and technology.

Quazi Haque

Chief Medical Officer and Executive Operational Director, Elysium Healthcare & Global Mental Health & Brain Science CoP Lead, Ramsay Healthcare

Professor Quazi Haque is Chief Medical Officer and co-founder of Elysium Healthcare, part of the Ramsay Healthcare Group.

Quazi trained in medicine at King’s College in London and completed his LLM with distinction. Having initially trained to specialize in neurology, he was drawn toward forensic psychiatry following influential placements at the Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard, Maudsley Hospital and Institute of Psychiatry, and Broadmoor Hospital. Over the years he has held senior academic positions at the Institute of Psychiatry and currently the University of London. Quazi is a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and chaired the Royal College of Psychiatrists Quality Network for six years. He is the current President/CEO of the International Association of Forensic Mental Health Services, a leading global academic health network. He is an award-winning researcher and author. His academic interests have typically centred around quality improvement and risk assessment, being fortunate to collaborate with valued experts and friends across many countries. He is passionate about improving healthcare services, from an international perspective, across a range of physical & mental health specialties.

As a founding director of Elysium Healthcare, he has worked alongside CEO, Joy Chamberlain, to establish Elysium as a leading collaborative partner to the NHS in the field of mental health and neurological services.

He currently chairs the Ramsay Global Mental Health Community of Practice spearheading innovation in psychiatry and neuroscience. Quazi has extensive experience of digitally led care and is passionate about ensuring innovation in this sector is accessible and equitable to all patients and their families.

Michael Hogan

Convenor, Thriving Qld Kids Partnership

Michael Hogan is the Convenor of the Thriving Qld Kids Partnership initiative(TQKP), hosted by ARACY. He is an Industry Fellow at the Queensland Brain Institute at the University of Queensland, and an Adjunct Professor at QUT. TQKP has partnered with QBI and others to deliver the Thriving Kids Brain Builders Initiative. Michael is a member of the Board of the Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service and of the Board of the Torres Health Indigenous Corporation. He is also a member of the Centre for Policy Development’s Early Childhood Development Council. He was formerly a Paul Ramsay Foundation Fellow, a Director-General in the Qld Government and CEO of the Public Interest Advocacy Centre.

Jo-An Occhipinti

Associate Professor, Brain and Mind Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney
Co-Director, Mental Wealth Initiative

Associate Professor Jo-An Occhipinti is an esteemed epidemiologist and systems scientist whose pioneering work has established her as a leader in addressing public health and social policy issues and safeguarding the future of work amidst complex global challenges that threaten the Mental Wealth of nations. As a Principal Research Fellow, she is Head of Systems Modelling, Simulation & Data Science and Co-Director of the Mental Wealth Initiative at the University of Sydney’s Brain and Mind Centre and is the Managing Director of Computer Simulation & Advanced Research Technologies (CSART).

Dr Michelle Tempest

Partner, Candesic

Dr Michelle Tempest worked as a hospital doctor (psychiatrist) for over a decade. She is partner in a strategy consultancy company, Candesic, who deliver R&D level insight with CEO level clarity in specialist sectors – life sciences, healthcare, digital, medtech and education. She edited a book called ‘The Future of the NHS’ and is author of ‘Big Brain Revolution: Artificial Intelligence – Spy or Saviour’. She is a Cambridge Angel investor, mentors behavioural health and drug discovery start-ups, is on the digital council at the Royal Society of Medicine and is NED at Psyomics (mental health triage platform).