Queensland Integrity in Health podcast 2020
Each year the Office of the Integrity Commissioner, together with its supporting partners—Health Ethics and Law Queensland, among others—arranges an Integrity in Health Series.
This year’s topic is Mandatory reporting for Health Professionals: What are the ethical and legal ramifications?
This year as a result of a global pandemic which is presently underway, we are convening this series as a podcast and today I am delighted to be sharing our Integrity in Health journey with our partners:
- the Office of the Health Ombudsman
- Doctors’ Health In Queensland
- Avant
- HEAL (which is the Qld chapter of the Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law).
Listen to the speaker's podcast and read their biography.

Andrew Brown
“How mandatory notifications are managed in Queensland”
Andrew Brown

Andrew was appointed as the Health Ombudsman in May 2018 having acted in the role since November 2017. Andrew has more than 28 years’ experience in the public sector, primarily in the areas of legal services, regulatory oversight and complaints management. Prior to his appointment, Andrew was the Deputy Ombudsman at the Queensland Ombudsman’s Office. He has also worked at Queensland Corrective Services in numerous roles including the Chief Inspector of Prisons and Director of Legal Services. He holds a Bachelor of Arts/Law and a Master of Public Administration and is admitted as a solicitor.
CloseDr Margaret Kay

Margaret is the Medical Director with Doctors’ Health in Queensland. She works part-time as a General Practitioner with clinical and research expertise in Physician Health and Refugee Health. She is a Senior Lecturer with the Faculty of Medicine, at the University of Queensland. Her PhD focused on "Understanding the Health Access Behaviours of Doctors Seeking Medical Care for Themselves” and so she is an expert in the area we are discussing today.
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Professor Malcolm Parker
“Professional conduct and the culture of medicine”
Professor Malcolm Parker

Malcolm graduated in medicine from UQ in 1975. After internship in Qld hospitals, he worked in general practice in the UK, and then in Queensland, for 33 years.
Overlapping with this clinical role was an academic one, joining the UQ medical school in 1994, where he developed the Ethics, Personal and Professional Development Domain for the new Graduate Medical Course. Over the next two decades he developed and implemented the curriculum for Ethics, Law and Professional Practice. He was the inaugural Head of the Discipline of Medical Ethics, the first such formally constituted and recognised discipline in Australia. One of the academic staff members of the discipline was the current Integrity Commissioner.
In parallel with these teaching achievements, Malcolm has had a strong research career, and was instrumental in steering UQ in its first ERA submission in Applied Ethics to a rank of 4 (above world standard). He has published nationally and internationally in philosophy of medicine, bioethics, medical ethics, health law, and medical education.
Malcolm was active in the professional bioethics and health law associations of Australasia from 1991. He is the inaugural and immediate past president of the Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law. He was also a member of the health and performance committees of the Medical Board of Queensland and the Medical Board of Australia, a long-serving director of the Postgraduate Medical Council of Queensland, and member and Chair of UQ’s senior Research Ethics Committee, the Human Experimentation Ethical Review Committee.
He is currently Emeritus Professor of Medical Ethics at UQ, and adjunct Professor with the Health Law Research Centre at QUT.
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Dr Alex Markwell
“Leadership and its role in doctors’ health”
Dr Alex Markwell

Alex is an Emergency Physician at the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital and Chair of the Queensland Clinical Senate. She is a Senior Lecturer with the University of Queensland and Chair of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine Continuing Professional Development Committee.
Alex is passionate about doctors' health, wellbeing, and work-life flexibility and is founding member of Wellness Resilience and Performance in Emergency Medicine.
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Dr Mellissa Naidoo
“Medical leadership and culture in doctor’s health”
Dr Mellissa Naidoo

Mellissa is a values-driven leader with 17-years experience in clinical and medical leadership roles across both the public and private sectors. She is currently Group Chief Medical Officer for nib health funds.
She is passionate about innovation in healthcare and systems improvement to support person-centred care and health promotion, prevention and wellbeing. Mellissa is a certified health informatician and clinical reference lead for the Australian digital health agency.
Mellissa is an experienced board director and serves on several medical professional and health committees aligning with her interests in standards of care, clinical engagement and professionalism. She holds a Masters in Health Management and fellowships with the Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators and Australasian College of Health Service Management as well as Associate Professorships with the University of Queensland and Bond University Medical Schools.
A firm believer in the benefits of inclusion and diversity in leadership and decision-making, Mellissa is the recipient of a Joint government/Australian institute of Company Directors Board Scholarship and has undertaken the prestigious Harvard Executive Women in Health Care program in Boston. She is an advocate for intrapreneurial leadership, doctor health and wellbeing and flexible work and training.
She is married to a Geordie and is mum to two primary school age daughters and a rescue greyhound.
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