About ACP-i 2025

i-Conference statement of purpose

Advance Care Planning Australia is excited to welcome you to Yugambeh Country on the Gold Coast, Australia, for the 9th Advance Care Planning International Conference – 24-26th September 2025.

Advance Care Planning is a crucial starting point in the journey towards person and family-centred care. The conference theme ‘Are we there yet?’ aims to embrace these journeys by interweaving advance care planning best practices and research through cultural, personal, organisational, system, and societal lenses.

It promises to stimulate insightful discussion and healthy debate, providing grassroots perspectives from consumers and health professionals. This will include sharing stories and diverse lived experiences, exploring approaches to advance care planning in a culturally safe and inclusive environment, with attention to Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and global First Nations communities.

The conference’s call to action is to inspire new ways of thinking, and approach advance care planning in a way that positively shapes the outcomes that matter most to individuals, families and communities.

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Conference objectives

Showcasing developments in policy, health systems organisation and technology that advance the practice of advance care planning.
Informing on emerging trends, opportunities and challenges that impact the practice of advance care planning and generate discussion on how our systems and practitioners can respond.
Sharing stories and diverse lived experiences, exploring approaches to advance care planning in a culturally safe and inclusive environment, with attention to Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and global First Nations communities.
Enabling productive engagements and the sharing of best practices and ideas across countries, sectors, and roles.

Key dates

23 October 2024

Call for Abstracts

January 2025

Registrations open

Applications open for
Funded Delegate Program (FDP)

25 March 2025

Abstract submissions close

15 June 2025

Early bird registrations close

Abstract speakers
registration deadline

Conference Organising Committee

Dr Greg Parker – Co Chair | Director, Advance Care Planning Australia, Director, Brisbane South Palliative Care Collaborative, Metro South Health
Dr Craig Sinclair – Co Chair | Senior Research Fellow, School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Conjoint Senior Research Scientist, Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA), Senior Research Fellow, HammondCare, Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Rural Clinical School of Western Australia
Dr Catherine Joyce | National Manager, Advance Care Planning Australia
Ms Claire Gunton – Secretariat | Director Support Officer, Brisbane South Palliative Care Collaborative (BSPCC), Metro South Health (Secretariat)
Mr John Haberecht | President, Australasian Palliative Link International
Dr Jillann Farmer | CEO, A Better Culture
Ms Jane Goodwin | Senior Project Manager, Advance Care Planning, Health Quality & Safety Commission NZ
Ms Cindy Paardekooper | Aboriginal Consultant for Palliative Care Education, South Australian Representative, National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Palliative Care Advisory Group

Scientific Subcommittee

Dr Craig Sinclair – Chair | Senior Research Fellow, School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Conjoint Senior Research Scientist, Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA), Senior Research Fellow, HammondCare, Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Rural Clinical School of Western Australia
Ms Claire Gunton – Secretariat | Director Support Officer, Brisbane South Palliative Care Collaborative (BSPCC), Metro South Health (Secretariat)
Prof Ben White | Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Australian Centre for Health Law Research, QLD University of Technology
Prof Jen Tieman | Director, Research Centre for Palliative Care Death and Dying, College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Flinders University
Prof Josephine (Joey) Clayton | Director of Palliative Care Research & Learning, The Palliative Centre, HammondCare, Senior Staff Specialist Physician in Palliative Medicine, HammondCare, Greenwich Hospital, Sydney, Professor of Palliative Care, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Director, The Advance Project, Enabling better aged and primary care through team-based initiation of advance care planning and palliative care
Assoc. Prof Joel Rhee | Head of Discipline of General Practice at the School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health, UNSW Sydney
Dr Marcus Sellars | Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Quality and Patient Safety Research (QPS) School of Nursing and Midwifery, Deakin University
Assoc. Prof Phillip Good | Director of St Vincent's Private Hospital Palliative Care Unit in Brisbane
Assoc. Prof Stuart Ekberg | College of Nursing and Health Science, Flinders University

Practice and Lived Experience Subcommittee

Mr John Haberecht – Chair | President, Australasian Palliative Link International
Dr Craig Sinclair – Senior Research Fellow, School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Conjoint Senior Research Scientist, Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA), Senior Research Fellow, HammondCare, Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Rural Clinical School of Western Australia
Ms Claire Gunton – Secretariat | Director Support Officer, Brisbane South Palliative Care Collaborative (BSPCC), Metro South Health (Secretariat)
Ms Jane Goodwin | Senior Project Manager, Advance Care Planning, Health Quality & Safety Commission NZ
Ms Maree White | Advance Care Planning Coordinator, Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District
Assoc. Prof Jason Mills | Research Centre for Palliative Care, Death & Dying, Flinders University
Mr Peter Jenkin | Canberra Health Services ACT Government, Dept of Health and Family Services
Ms Sophia Petrov | National Manager, Policy and Engagement, COTA
Dr Kerrie Noonan | Death Literacy Institute
Ms Niirrany Walker | Research Associate, Viral Immunology Systems Program, Kirby Institute