The American College of Legal Medicine invited the Australasian College of Legal Medicine to provide three guest speakers for their 2023 Annual Conference. Their 63rd Annual Conference is being delivered in association with our own Australasian ACLM.

After calling for expressions of interest from our members, Professor Albert Lee, Professor Mike O'Connor, and Dr Sanjay Pooran are confirmed as representing our College at the upcoming meeting on 24-26 February 2023 in Orlando, Florida. The conference theme is Step into the Future: Advancing Legal Medicine in an Era of Change.

We wish our speakers all the very best for this exciting event!

Professor Albert Lee

Emeritus Professor of Public Health and Primary Care and Founding Director of Centre for Health Education and Health Promotion, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Medico-legal Consultant and Consultant in Family Medicine, FACLM

Topic: Rights to have good start in life by setting-based approach to address the legal determinants of health


Professor Mike O'Connor

Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Western Sydney
FACLM, Council Member, Vice President Administration

Topic: Calming down the Diagnosis of Multiple Infanticide


Dr Sanjay Pooran

Chief Scientific Adviser and Public Health Law Lead , Bloomsbury Primary Care Trust and Bloomsbury Global Solutions /
Fellow - Global Health and Security - Geneva Centre for Security Policy, FACLM

Topic: The need for effective and actionable global health legislation as a bare minimum towards enhanced and sustainable global health security provisions in the face of emerging biological and zoonotic aggressions