Ruanne is a lawyer with more than 20 years’ experience in health law. Ruanne currently works as a senior legal advisor in Avant’s Advocacy, Education and Research team. She creates and delivers medico legal education for members and doctors, and researches and contributes to submissions and other material as part of Avant’s advocacy and education strategies. Ruanne also regularly writes for internal and external organisations and publications, and is on the editorial panel of the Australian Health Law Bulletin.

Dr Jamie Orchard has specialised in regulatory law and dispute resolution throughout his 35 year career as a lawyer. He has held senior executive positions in regulators and dispute resolution bodies in Australia and overseas including as Director of Enforcement at ASIC, Managing Director of Enforcement at the Dubai Financial Services Authority, COO at the Qatar Financial Centre and Executive General Manager at the Financial Ombudsman Service. Jamie is currently General Counsel of the Australia Health Practitioner Regulation Agency. In that role he leads Ahpra’s National Legal Practice, an inhouse legal practice of almost 100 lawyers and support staff operating in all states and territories across Australia. The practice handles all regulatory litigation on behalf of the various health practitioner boards, the criminal prosecution of individuals under the National Law and ensures the general governance and legislative compliance of the National Registration and Accreditation Scheme. Jamie holds a Doctor of Juridical Science in the field of natural justice in dispute resolution.

Dr Ankur Gupta is a psychiatrist and has led large public mental health services as a clinical director in Scotland and Australia for over a decade. He is passionate about healthcare law, risk management and patient engagement. His MBA thesis was on the topic of co-production in health. Having been involved in managing complaints against doctors and providing evidence in medical negligence cases, Ankur firmly believes that most complaints occur because of inadequate patient engagement. He has seen how minor complaints can impact clinicians’ well-being and reputation. He has also seen the financial impact of payouts on healthcare services. He has created NEEJE, which means personal in his native Hindi, to reduce this wastage with the quadruple aim of improving health outcomes, reducing cost, enhancing the patient experience and improving patient satisfaction.

Seun Idowu is a Partner at Hall & Wilcox, Sydney office.  She specialises in most facets of health, care and community services including investigating and defending medical negligence claims, coronial inquests arising from health treatment, custodial health and death in custody investigations, ageing and disability matters, disciplinary and regulatory matters for health practitioners and organisations including AHPRA, HCCC, professional councils, and investigations run by the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission and Aged Care Quality Safety Commission.