SPEAKERS
Fay Jackson
Fay Jackson is the Founder of Vision In Mind which is a mental health and wellbeing consultancy and training service. She is also the General Manager of Inclusion at Flourish Australia which is a large not for profit service supporting people with MH issues. Fay was the Inaugural Deputy Commissioner with the NSW Mental Health Commission and is one of the National Mental Health Commissions Leaders in Mental Health. She is a member of the National Consumer and Carer Leaders Register and sat on the Agency for Clinical Innovation and Clinical Excellence Commission Councils.
Ruth Stewart
Adjunct Professor Ruth Stewart was appointed as the second National Rural Health Commissioner for Australia in July 2020. She brings to this role nearly 30 years of work as a Rural Generalist doctor with the advanced skills of a GP obstetrician. Ruth and her husband Anthony Brown now live and work on Thursday Island in the Torres Strait.
For 22 years Ruth and Anthony were General Practitioners in private practice in Camperdown in south west Victoria where they had Visiting Medical Officer status in the local public hospital. In 2008 Ruth was employed as the inaugural Director of Clinical Training Rural with the then new medical school of Deakin University. Her role was to establish the rural program. She created a network of 12 growing to 18 Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship placements for third year medical students from Deakin University to spend the whole of their core clinical year in rural practice.