Angela Alessandri is a clinician and academic who hails from Perth, Western Australia. She completed her medical degree at the University of Western Australia before training in general paediatrics and then paediatric haematology and oncology. The final 4 years of Angela’s training were undertaken in Vancouver, Canada and while there, she completed a Masters in Bioethics from Monash University. She continues to work as a consultant in the Department of Clinical Paediatric & Adolescent Haematology/Oncology and Blood and Marrow Transplantation at Princess Margaret Hospital where she has previously been Head of Department. In addition, Angela is the Associate Professor Professionalism and Clinical Governance at the School of Medicine, Notre Dame University, Fremantle. Angela was the cofounder of the Princess Margaret Hospital Clinical Ethics Service and remains actively involved in it's operation. Her other vocational passions include the promotion of doctors’ health and wellness, educating the future generations of the medical profession and providing the best possible care for children with cancer and their families.

Dr Melissa Bloomer has more than 20 years experience as a registered nurse and academic. What started as a desire to improve care of the dying in intensive care, led to a path in research. Melissa's research focuses on end-of-life care across the lifespan with a particular focus on patient care and decision making, care of the family before and after patient death, and the registered nurse’s educational and emotional preparedness for death, dying and end-of-life care. Utilising qualitative and mixed methods approaches, Melissa’s end-of-life care research spans neonatal, paediatric and adult ICU, as well as a significant amount of work conducted across acute care and rehabilitation settings. Her research has resulted more than 50 publications and an international profile in end-of-life care.

Wendy graduated in 2002 with First Class Honours in Law and also obtained a Masters in Medical Law and Ethics from Kings College London. Prior to studying law, Wendy was a registered nurse, midwife and healthcare educator and has held senior management positions in health care organisations in the UK, USA, Vietnam and Australia. In 2010 and 2011 Wendy was a Court Appointed Child Advocate for Abused Children in Houston, Texas. She was also a member of the Institutional Ethics Committee at Memorial Hermann Health System in Houston, Texas, where she was involved in issues, among others, involving capacity to give or withhold consent, withdrawal of treatment and end-of-life decision making. Wendy is a current member of the SMHS Human Research Ethics Committee. Wendy practices in professional indemnity, medical treatment liability and public and product liability in court proceedings, coronial inquests and disciplinary proceedings. She also advises on health care policy formation and risk management. She commenced working at Panetta McGrath in 2012. She acts on behalf of insurers, public and private hospitals, regulatory boards, medical defence organisations and government departments and regularly provides lectures and seminars to health care professionals.

Dr. Anne-Sylvie Ramelet (RN, PhD) is Professor of Nursing Science and Director of the Institute of Higher Education and Research in Healthcare of the Faculty of Biology and Medicine at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. She is also Co-President of the Nursing Directorate Research and Development Commission and Paediatric Nursing Research Consultant at the Teaching Hospital of the canton of Vaud-CHUV, Switzerland. Her research programme has focused on pain in non-verbal children in intensive care, and family support in paediatric and neonatal critical care as well as in general paediatrics, including chronically ill children. Anne-Sylvie Ramelet received her hospital-trained nursing diploma and intensive care certificate in Lausanne and her Bachelor of Nursing (Hon) and PhD in nursing sciences from the School of Nursing at Curtin University, Australia. Prior to her academic career, she worked as a registered nurse in neonatal, paediatric and adult intensive care for more than 15 years.

Dr Shemie’s area of interest is organ replacement during critical illness. He is a pediatric critical care physician, ECMO specialist and trauma team leader at the Montreal Children’s Hospital, McGill University Health Centre. He is a Professor of Pediatrics at the Montreal Children’s Hospital, McGill University and honourary staff in the Department of Critical Care Medicine, Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto. His academic focus is advancing the science and practice of deceased organ donation. His research interests include the clinical and policy impact of organ failure support technologies, the development and implementation of national ICU-based leading practices in organ donation and research at the intersection of end-of-life care, death determination and deceased donation.