Overcoming cancer through leadership
Following our inaugural Leadership Academy Excellence Program in October 2023, we are pleased to welcome current and future leaders to our next two-day residential intensive on 28 – 29 February 2024. Once again, we will get together at the beautiful Balgownie Estate in Yarra Valley, to further build on our strengths, shape the culture of the Alliance, our strategy and service delivery.
Strengthening collective leadership is central to achieving our mission: to position VCCC Alliance as a trailblazer in research-led, consumer engaged cancer education, prevention, detection, treatment and care. The ability to harness our partners’ capabilities to do so is determined by the way we work, how we come together to make decisions, and develop our people.
Utilising validated frameworks, evidence-based methodology and an opportunity to learn from leaders across the network, participants will experience the following sessions:
The program will also include:
We look forward to seeing you there.
$500 for consumers
$550 for nurses, allied health and researchers
$600 for doctors
(not inclusive of GST)
Leah Sertori
The University of Melbourne
Jason Micallef
The University of Melbourne
Prof Sanchia Aranda AM is regarded as one of the world’s pre-eminent experts in cancer control. With more than four decades’ experience as a clinician, researcher, educator and administrator, she has served as CEO of Cancer Council Australia, President of the Union for International Cancer Control and President of the International Society of Nurses in Cancer Care.
Prof Aranda is the inaugural Board Chair for the City Cancer Challenge Foundation and served on the Advisory Council for Cancer Australia for eight years until 2015. She also holds a part-time appointment as a Professor of Health Services Research at the University of Melbourne and Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre. She has been widely published in Australian and international health literature.
Jo is an original member and deputy chair of the CCAC, as well as a current member of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute (WEHI) Consumer Research Program. She was also a member of the Peter McCallum Cancer Centre Consumer Advisory Committee for seven years, and the WEHI Consumer Advisory Panel for four years.
Jo’s working life includes many years as a senior teacher of mathematics and several years as a school counsellor. Shes has also worked as the Hunter Breast Cancer Education Officer for Breast Cancer Trials in Newcastle, where she also trained as a Genetic Counsellor with Hunter Genetics.
Jo is passionate about supporting cancer research and equitable cancer care, following her own lived experience with breast cancer, as both a carer and patient. She strongly believes that consumers can provide valuable input into decisions about cancer research, policies and practice, and can play an important role in improving cancer health outcomes for all.
