IMPACCT honorary appointees are eminent professionals who have made a special contribution to UTS: IMPACCT and have a continuing involvement in a range of research, academic programs and professional leadership activities.
Dr Caitlin Sheehan, Clinical Fellow and IMPACCT Rapid Program Chair
Adjunct Professors
Associate Professor Richard Chye
Associate Professor, Palliative Care, St Vincent’s Private Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales
Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President (Research and Sustainable Futures), University of Wollongong
Dean, Professor of Nursing, John Hopkins School of Nursing, Baltimore, Maryland, US
Pro Vice-Chancellor (Health - Sydney campuses), University of Wollongong
Professor of Palliative Medicine, Director of the Wolfson Palliative Care Research Centre, Hull York Medicine School, United Kingdom
Professor Elizabeth (Liz) Lobb
Professor of Palliative Care, Deputy Chair, Calvary Palliative and End of Life Care Research Institute, Calvary Health Care, Kogarah, New South Wales
Senior Staff Specialist, Palliative Care, HammondCare, Greenwich Hospital, New South Wales
Dr Sandra Lynch
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Dr Abdullah Omari
Executive Clinical Director, St Vincent’s Health Network, Sydney, New South Wales
Chair of Palliative Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Melbourne, St Vincent’s Hospital and Victorian Comprehensive Centre, Melbourne, Victoria
Emerita Professor Jane Phillips
Head of School, School of Nursing, Faculty of Health, Queensland University of Technology
Adjunct Associate Professors
Dr Jodie Ellis
Department Head Nutrition and Dietetics, Speech Pathology and Psychology, Calvary Health Care, Kogarah, New South Wales
Senior Research Fellow, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Western Sydney University, Sydney, New South Wales
Director, Palliative Care, St Vincent’s Private Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland
Associate Professor, School of Medicine, University of Queensland
Precinct Director of Palliative Care, The Royal Melbourne Hospital and Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
Adjunct Fellows
Associate Professor (Prostate Cancer Partnerships), Centre for Health Research (Operations), University of Southern Queensland
Assistant Research Professor in Health Economics, Centre for Health Policy and Management, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Research Fellow, Research and Sustainable Futures, office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President (Research and Sustainable Futures), University of Wollongong
Dr Fiona Maccallum
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Associate Professor Hiromichi Matsuoka
Associate Professor, Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, Palliative Care Center, Kinki University Faculty of Medicine, Osaka, Japan
Senior Research Fellow, School of Nursing, Faculty of Health, Queensland University of Technology
Honorary Associates
Dr Ross Drake
Clinical Lead, Paediatric Palliative Care and Complex Pain Services, Starship Children's Hospital, Auckland
Research Fellow/Program Co-ordinator, NSW Collaborative: ImPACCT, and
South Western Sydney Clinical School, School of Medicine, UNSW, Kensington, New South Wales
CONCERT Co-Deputy Director (Policy & Practice), Conjoint Senior Lecturer Univeristy of New South Wales, Sydney
Leading fellow (Senior researcher) at Leiden University, Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
Heart Foundation Post-doctoral Fellow, Senior Lecturer, University of New South Wales Sydney Australia
Clinical Fellows
Kimberley Bardsley
Nurse Practitioner, Chronic and Complex Care, Heart Failure Service, St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales
Georgia Ellis
Acting Nurse Unit Manager/Transitional Nurse Practitioner - The Geriatric Flying Squad, War Memorial Hospital/Uniting, NSW Health
National Project Officer, IMPACCT Trials Coordination Centre (ITCC), University of Technology Sydney
Mary Roberts
Clinical Nurse Consultant in Respiratory Medicine, Westmead Hospital
Dr Caitlin Sheehan
Staff Specialist Palliative Care, St George and Calvary Hospitals (NSW)
Industry Fellows
Bereavement Counsellor, Supportive and Palliative Care, NSW Health
Dr Andrew Donkor
Research Fellow, Greenwich Hospital, Greenwich - HammondCare
Misbah Faiz
Senior Multicultural Health Advisor, South Western Sydney Local Health District
Merrilee Kessler
Project Officer, Clinical Trials, Maridulu Budyara Gumal, Sydney Partnership for Health, Education, Research and Enterprise (SPHERE)
Clinical Senior Lecturer, Palliative Medicine, University of Otago, New Zealand
Clinical Nurse Specialist (Clinical Trials), Research Department, Calvary Hospital
Visiting Fellows
Senior Research Fellow (Prostate Cancer Partnerships), Centre for Health Research, University of Southern Queensland
Dr Davinia Seah
Palliative Medicine Specilist, St. Vincent's Hospital, Sydney