Meet our Keynote Speaker

A/Prof Janelle Brennan graduated with a MBBS (Hons) from the University of Melbourne in 1997 and then went on to do further post-graduate surgical training at St. Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne, completing her fellowship in general surgery in 2003.  She then became a fully qualified urological surgeon in February 2009, with a further fellowship year at North Shore Hospital, Auckland, in 2010. Janelle is currently based at Bendigo, Victoria and is Head of the Urology Unit at Bendigo Health, as well as working at St. John of God private hospital in Bendigo.  She also operates monthly at St. Vincent’s Private Hospital, Melbourne, in order to deliver robotic surgery, and provides an outreach service to Swan Hill where she consults and operates on a monthly basis.  Janelle has supervised the training of two nurse practitioners in uro-oncology and FPMRS, respectively, and is also actively involved in research with special interests in female pelvic medicine and reconstructive surgery, benign prostatic disease and health service delivery.

In addition to her role at Bendigo Health, she is Director of the Northwest Regional Training Hub at Monash School of Rural Health with a focus on improving training and service delivery in rural and regional Australia.  She has also been appointed as the USANZ representative on the RACS Rural Health Equity Advisory and Reference Group.  When not working she tries to play golf, enjoy good food and wine, tinker with Lego and spend time with her dog ‘Dusty’ (Go Tiges!).