Invited Speakers
Dr Subha Ramani
Subha Ramani, MBBS, MPH, MMEd (Dundee), PhD (Maastricht), FAMEE
Subha Ramani is a general internist, who graduated from Stanley Medical College, University of Madras with MBBS in 1986 and completed Internal Medicine residencies at the Postgraduate Institute for Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India as well as James H. Quillen College of Medicine, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN, USA. She went on to do a Fellowship in General Internal Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine, completing a Masters in Public Health at the Boston University School of Public Health in 1998. In 2005, she graduated with a Masters in Medical Education from the University of Dundee in Scotland and successfully defended her PhD at Maastricht University in the Netherlands in 2018. She served as the 2022 Ronald Harden Visiting Professor at International Medical University.
She is Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA; Adjunct Professor at Massachusetts General Hospital Institute for Health Professions Education; Honorary Professor of Medical Education at the University of Manchester, UK; and External faculty at School of Health Professions Education (SHE), Maastricht University. At Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), she has the following leadership roles: Director of evaluation for Internal Medicine residency programme; Director for the Scholars in Medical Education residency pathway; Director of the Program for research, innovation and scholarship in medical education (PRISE) for the Department of Medicine; Assistant Director for global perspectives and community for the Brigham Education Institute. Dr. Ramani is a senior core faculty at the Harvard Macy Institute.
Dr. Ramani has been a longstanding member of AMEE, completing two terms of three years each on the Executive board, chaired the Fellowship Committee for 4 years and served on the AMEE Postgraduate Education committee for 3 years.
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Prof Shaun Ewen
Professor Shaun Ewen is the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Education) at Griffith University, a role he commenced in January 2022.
Prior to joining Griffith, Professor Ewen was Pro Vice-Chancellor (Place and Indigenous) (2017-2022) and Foundation Director of the Melbourne Poche Centre for Indigenous Health, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, (2015-2022) at the University of Melbourne. In 2020 Professor Ewen was visiting Professor of Indigenous Health and Leadership in the School of Global Affairs, King’s College London.
Shaun has degrees in Applied Science (Physiotherapy) and International Studies from the University of South Australia, and a Doctorate of Education focussing on medical education, from the University of Melbourne. He practiced as a physio for around a decade, in remote, regional and urban Australia, the United Kingdom, and South Africa.
Shaun’s research interests are in Indigenous health workforce development, and health professional education. He has provided the academic and Indigenous leadership for the Leaders in Indigenous Medical Education (LIME) project, a bi-national project bringing together all medical schools across Australia and New Zealand.
Shaun is a Board Member of Queensland Museum Network, Director of the Australian Medical Council (and Chair of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Committee), and Board Member of the Menzies Australia Institute, King’s College London.
Shaun is passionate about the importance of diversity and inclusion as a precondition for excellence in higher education.
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Gillian Mason
With the Australian Department of Health, Gillian is the Deputy Chair of the Health Technology Assessment Consumer Consultative Committee, and a member of the Medical Service Advisory Committee. She is a Director of the Australasian Institute of Digital Health and is working with stakeholders across the health sector to develop an interdisciplinary Clinical Informatics Fellowship program for clinicians.
At Hunter Medical Research Institute (Awabakal Land, Newcastle NSW), as Consumer and Community Involvement Lead, she manages the Research Volunteer and Stroke Research Registers and provides strategic advice, education, training and mentorship around consumer and community involvement in all stages of the research process to research teams, educators and students.
She is passionate about improving access, inclusion and equity in healthcare for consumers and workforce. In 2021 she was one of 25 Australian women to be awarded the inaugural Brilliant Women in Digital Health Award for transforming the ways that people’s lived experience is valued and included in the design of human-centred, digitally enabled, accessible health systems.
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Dr Mike Todorovic
He has won multiple awards for his teaching and engagement, including a citation for outstanding innovation and scholarship, and the Pro-Vice Chancellors Staff Excellence Award for Engagement.
He has been awarded over $1.3 million in research funding and published over 25 peer reviewed articles and textbook chapters.