Better emergency care/acute care
Acute care is a high cost service that will face strong growth in demand. This stream is about identifying and evaluating better models of care in the acute setting. Innovations that lead to lower cost outcomes while maintaining quality, or even improving quality will be demonstrated and disseminated.
Stream Leaders

Mr Luke Worth
Executive Director
Organisational Development
Strategy and Implementation: Metro North Hospital and Health Service

Professor William Parsonage
Eminent Staff Cardiologist
Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital Professor and Clinical Director
Australian Centre for Health Services Innovation
Queensland University of Technology

Professor Leonard Gray
Masonic Chair in Geriatric Medicine, UQ
Director, Centre for Health Services Research Faculty of Medicine, UQ
Director, Centre for Research in Geriatric Medicine, UQ
Director, Centre for Online Health, UQ
Consultant Geriatrician, PAH

Professor Emma Duncan
Professor of Biomedical Science
Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation
Translational Research Institute (TRI)
Queensland University of Technology Eminent Staff Specialist and Consultant Endocrinologist
Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital