2025 Les Leckie Award for Lived Experience Leadership winner Lisa Briggs will speak on how influence, identity and impact can intersect to ensure the patient voice is at the centre of everything we do. Lisa’s advocacy has always been grounded in compassion, inclusion, and action.
Speaker
Lisa Briggs
Founder and Chair of TRACKER Consumer Committee
Lisa is a nationally recognised advocate for people living with ALK-positive lung cancer. Some of the recognition that she has received for her work includes the top 4 finalist for Victorian Local Hero in the 2020 Australian of the Year Awards, the 2025 Jeannie Ferris Awardee from Cancer Australia and the VCCC Alliance’s Les Leckie Award for Lived Experience Leadership.
Lisa’s been privileged to serve in leadership roles with Lung Foundation Australia, Rare Cancers Australia, the Thoracic Oncology Group of Australasia (TOGA), and the ALK Positive Australia. She’s also worked to ensure the patient voice is at the centre of national research efforts, which includes the liquid biopsy clinical trials DYNAMALK and ASPiRATION-2L as well as the TRACKER Lung Cancer Biobank.
Who should attend
Clinicians (medical specialists, nurses, allied health), researchers, people with lived experience
