Museum Host: Dr. Jacqueline Healy
Director, Museums
Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences

Dr Jacqueline Healy BA(Hons), MBA, PhD is director, MDHS Faculty Museums, University of Melbourne. She was inaugural director of Bundoora Homestead (the public art gallery of the City of Darebin), director of the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, and director of public programs at the National Gallery of Victoria.

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Museum Host: Dr. Jeremy Graham
Committee member, Henry Forman Atkinson Museum
Senior Lecturer, Department of Dentistry and Oral Health, La Trobe University

Dr Rita Hardiman (BSc(Hons) 1998, PhD (2010), GCertUniTeaching (2018))

Senior Lecturer in Oro-Facial Anatomy
Melbourne Dental School

Dr Rita Hardiman is the Division Lead for Basic and Clinical Oral Sciences at the Melbourne Dental School. As a former curator of the Harry Brookes Allen Museum of Anatomy and Pathology, she has a keen interest in anatomical sciences and object-based learning. Her research interests are in mineralised tissues, particularly in the effects of life events on the structure of human bone, tooth enamel, and dental calculus.

Professor Peter Choong AO (MB BS 1984, MD 1993)

Associate Dean, Innovation and Enterprise
Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences

Peter is the Associate Dean Innovation & Enterprise at the Faculty of Medicine Dentistry and Health Sciences, the Head of the Department of Surgery of the Melbourne Medical School and Sir Hugh Devine Professor of Surgery at St. Vincent’s Hospital. He recently stepped down as the Chair of the Bone and Soft Tissue Sarcoma Service at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and Director of Orthopaedics at St. Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne after almost 25 years.

Peter has also held other leadership roles including President of the Australian Orthopaedic Association, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Chair of the Board of Orthopaedics, and Chief Medical Officer of St. Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne.

Peter is an academic with 30 years researching arthritis surgery, bone and soft tissue cancers and advanced limb reconstruction. He has published almost 500 peer-reviewed articles and leads the NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence into Total Joint Replacement, is the Principle Clinical Lead in the Innovative Manufacturing Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) and leads the Advanced Limb Reconstruction Research Programme at St. Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne. He is an NHMRC Practitioner Fellow.

His most prestigious awards include receiving a Queen’s Birthday Honour as an Officer (AO) in the General Division of the Order of Australia for distinguished service to orthopaedic medicine, research, tertiary medical education and to professional associations, the John Mitchell Crouch Fellowship (2008) the most prestigious academic award from the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, the Mayo Clinic Coventry Award (2014) for achievements to global orthopaedics, the City of Melbourne Award (2015) for reputation, and the NHMRC Award for Research Excellence (2019).

Peter has developed many connections with industry, government, universities, health institutions, international learned societies and community advocacy groups over his career and these serve to frame and focus his academic and clinical efforts towards innovative value-based care.