Co-Chairs

Peta Titter

Peta is the Founder and CEO of the Women’s Health Education Network. Peta has over 20 years experience working in nursing and health education, including antenatal, postnatal, continence and intensive care.Peta also currently sits on the Foundation’s Quality and Clinical Governance Subcommittee, where her vital experience provides invaluable advice to the Board. She also sits in the Tasmanian Health Senate, providing leadership and independent advice on system-wide healthcare planning and delivery to the Tasmania Department of Health.She is presently undertaking research as a PhD Candidate at the University of Tasmania in postnatal women’s health

Dr Liza Lau

Liza is a Geriatrician with appointments at Austin Health and Eastern Health, and she is a consultant for the Continence Clinics in both health services.  She has a substantial role with the Austin Residential InReach team, helping to deliver acute medical care to residents living in aged care facilities.  She is a Geriatrician in the Urology clinic at Box hill hospital, collaborating with surgeons to provide comprehensive care to older adults.  She has a special interest is neurourology and has expertise in performing urodynamics, which has helped guide treatment choices for countless patients.Liza is currently the chairperson of the Victorian education committee of the Continence Foundation of Australia.  Her passion is in raising awareness for people living with bladder and bowel issues, and empower everybody to get the care and support they need.  She has previously presented webinars and lectures to medical, nursing, and physio students.  She is keen to share continence knowledge with all stakeholders, including the education for carers and the person who is living with continence issues.

Committee

• Aniruddh Deshpande: A fulltime practising paediatric urologist with clinical appointment as the Head, department of Surgery at the Children’s Hospital at Westmead in Sydney along with academic affiliations with the University of Sydney and the University of Newcastle, Australia. I hold a PhD on bladder dysfunction in children at the University of Sydney.  My clinical interests are management of functional lower urinary tract disorders in children, management of urinary incontinence, urethral strictures and chronic UTIs in addition to hypospadias surgery. I have more than 90 peer reviewed publications and approximately 2 million $ in research funding. I have contributed as a leader to the development of clinical and research programs in the management of paediatric incontinence. . 
  
  
• Margaret Sherburn:Margaret is currently a Senior Fellow in the Physiotherapy Department, in the School of Health Sciences at the University of Melbourne, and a clinician in private practice. Her main areas of research and clinical practice are the conservative management of pelvic floor dysfunction in women with pelvic pain, prolapse or incontinence, the use of real-time ultrasound as a rehabilitation and measurement tool, and the role of exercise for women’s health. Until three years ago, she headed up the Postgraduate Certificate in Pelvic Floor Rehabilitation in the Department of Physiotherapy, University of Melbourne. She is a Continence and Women’s Health Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist, a Fellow of the Australian College of Physiotherapists, and is former Head of Physiotherapy department at the Royal Women’s Hospital. She is also a past Editor of the Australian and New Zealand Continence Journal and is currently a reviewer for the Journal. 
  
  
• Irmina Nahon: Irmina graduated as a physiotherapist from the University of Sydney in 1991. After working in Australia and the UK as a musc physio, she returned to study to become a continence physiotherapist. She completed her PhD on the assessment and management of Male Urinary Incontinence in 2011. She then took up a new challenge as Associate Professor and the professional practice convenor at The University of Canberra, Australia in 2012. She is an active member of the International Continence Society, the Continence Foundation of Australia, and the Australian Physiotherapy Association's Continence and Women's Health group. Irmina is still active clinically as well as doing research. Her research areas are all things pelvic floor and continence as well as clinical education.  She is also an internationally recognised pelvic health educator. 
  
  
• Lesley Barton:Lesley has a had a vast experience within the healthcare sector. With over 40 years’ experience within, Emergency, Intensive Care, Antenatal, Post natal, Aged Care and Rehabilitation, Continence, and community care. The past 10 years have included working with an International Nurses Team on clinical practice, research, and product development.Lesley chairs the Continence Foundation’s Quality and Clinical Governance Subcommittee, currently sits on the Continence Foundation’s Financial and Risk Management Subcommittee and the Model of Continence Care Subcommittee.

• Tom Jarvis