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Lillian Leigh

BSc LLB LLM GCHP GAICD

Board Director /

Membership & Advocacy Chair /

Advocate

Lillian Leigh is an Australian lawyer and a patient research advocate.

Lillian is an Australian lawyer with professional experience in social justice and financial dispute resolution. She is a non-executive director of Cancer Institute NSW, an executive of Cancer Voices NSW, and Legal Counsel of the Australian Financial Complaints Authority. Formerly an appointed member of the Australian Health Ethics Committee and Cancer Australia’s Advisory Council, Lillian has had over 15 years of experience as a consumer advocate on a variety of government, industry, and not-for-profit advisory boards spanning the financial services, dispute resolution, and health and medical research sectors.

She contributes to global lung cancer advocacy as a member of the IASLC’s Global Policy and Partnerships Committee and a mentor of the IASLC’s Supportive Training for Advocates in Research and Science (STARS) program. In 2023 and 2024, she co-chaired the patient advocacy track of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer’s (IASLC) World Conference on Lung Cancer.

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Chair

Prof

Nick Pavlakis

BSc MBBS MMEd (Clin Epi) PhD FRACP
Deputy Chair

Prof

Emily Stone

MBBS MMed PhD FRACP
Educational Chair

A/Prof

Melissa Moore

BA BSc MBBS (Hons) PhD FRACP
Finance Chair

Catherine Sim

LLB BEc FCPA MAICD
Communications & Grants Chair

Prof

Shalini Vinod

MBBS MD FRANZCR
Philanthropy Chair

A/Prof

Phillip Antippa

MBBS, FRACS, OAM
Governance Chair

Evan Dukas

B Bus (Acc Mar) MAICD ACPA
Scientific Chair

Prof

Ben Solomon

MBBS FRACP PhD