2026 LMICS Annual Forum — What is Equity to You?
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LMICS invites you to attend the 2026 LMICS Annual Forum: What is Equity to You?, to be held on Wednesday 26 August 2026.This year’s forum, From Awareness to Action: Reducing Inequity in Regional Cancer Care, will explore how inequity shows up in everyday cancer care across regional and rural settings — and what we as clinicians, services and system partners can do differently.
Our guiding question is: What can we do differently to reduce inequity in regional cancer care?
The forum will bring together regional perspectives on cultural safety for First Nations Peoples, geography and system design, CALD and refugee experiences, financial toxicity, survivorship and clinical practice. Through short presentations and an integrated panel discussion, participants will be invited to reflect on practical actions that can strengthen equitable, human-centred cancer care across the Loddon Mallee Region.
Meet our panel members for the LMICS Annual Forum:
Dr Sam Harris (Facilitator), LMICS Co-Clinical Director, Medical Oncologist at Bendigo Health, Clinical Lead for the Oncology Trials Unit, and the Bendigo Health representative for the Regional Trials Network – Victoria.
Associate Professor Brett Gordon, internationally recognised Exercise Physiologist and Researcher.
Dr Vitor Rocha, Member of the Victorian Department of Health Multicultural Health Advisory Committee and General Practice Engagement Manager at Murray Primary Health Network.
Merinda Slater, Aboriginal Health Liaison Officer at Echuca Regional Health, and a proud Yorta Yorta, Kamilaroi and Wiradjuri woman with strong connections to Cummeragunja Mission and the surrounding communities of Yorta Yorta Country.
Dominique Trickey, Town Planner and LMICS Lived and Living Experience Partner.
Audience: clinicians, GPs, nurses, allied health, cancer service staff, regional health workers, consumer representatives and system partners.
Date
Wednesday 26 August 2026 12:15 PM - 1:45 PM (UTC+10)Location
Concert Hall, Bendigo Health
100 Barnard Street, Bendigo Victoria 3552
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2026 LMICS Annual Forum — What is Equity to You?
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