Bill Madden is a lawyer (special counsel) with Carroll & O'Dea Lawyers and an Adjunct Professor with the Australian Centre for Health Law Research at the Queensland University of Technology. He is also a Senior Fellow in the Melbourne Law Masters program with the University of Melbourne. Bill writes a blog on medical and health law issues (billmaddens.wordpress.com) and is a co-author of 'Australian Medical Liability' 5th edn, Lexis Nexis (2024).  

Professor Tina Cockburn TEP, is a Professor of Law in the School of Law, Faculty of Business and Law at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Director of the Australian Centre for Health Law Research (ACHLR), co-lead of the ACHLR Planning for Healthy Ageing program, sessional member of the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal (QCAT) and member of the Queensland Law Society Health and Disability Law Committee. Prior to joining QUT she was employed as a solicitor with Feez Ruthning (now Allens Linklaters). Tina’s health law research focuses on access to justice and compensation by vulnerable members of society in three broad contexts: patient safety and compensation law; compensation and redress for the institutional abuse of children; and elder, disability, estate planning and succession law. She has over 180 publications, including peer reviewed articles in quality national and international journals and high impact professional journals, four co-authored books and an edited book. Her research has been supported by national and international competitive grants, including the Economic & Social Research Council (UK) and the World Health Organisation (WHO), industry funding and not for profits. She is regularly invited to deliver lectures and continuing professional education programs for the legal and medical professions.