MIN SYMPOSIUM 2025 DINNER
Date: TUESDAY 2 September 2025
Location: THE LONG HALL, PENTRIDGE PRISON
Dinner is included in your registration.
Step into history and elegance at the MIN Symposium 2025 Dinner, hosted in the iconic Long Hall at Pentridge Prison.
Join us for an unforgettable evening at the historic Long Hall in Pentridge Prison, Coburg — a venue that blends rich heritage with striking atmosphere. This year’s MIN Symposium Dinner promises to offer a unique setting for networking, reflection, and celebration.
Professor Stephen Tong
Professor Tong is a clinician scientist - an obstetrician keenly focussed on developing diagnostics and therapeutics for major pregnancy complications. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences.
Stephen is involved in many cohort studies and clinical trials running across low, and middle-income countries. he has led research spanning the entire translational spectrum - from papers reporting important translational laboratory findings, ‘first in pregnant women’ phase I trials, to large randomised, multi-centre trials.
He has co-authored over 250 papers. Since 2020 he has published (co)-senior author papers or invited editorials in Lancet, BMJ, Nature Communications, Nature Medicine, JAMA Paediatrics, JAMA Psychiatry, Lancet Global Health, JAMA Network, BMC Medicine and others.
A strong advocate for mentorship he has supervised, by far, the most obstetric clinicians undertaking PhDs in Australia over the past 15 years. Many of his mentees are racing up the academic ladder. Among them are many senior lecturers, Associate Professors and young Professors.
He holds an NHMRC Fellowship (L2) and a Synergy Grant (as CIA). He is co-director of Mercy Perinatal, Director of Research at Mercy Health and Director of Research at Mercy Health & Chair of the advisory board of The Robinson Research Institute.
THE LONG HALL
Once a maximum-security prison dating back to 1851, Pentridge has been reimagined as a cultural and events precinct while preserving its striking bluestone architecture and storied past. The Long Hall, originally part of the South Wing, has been beautifully restored to offer a dramatic yet refined setting. This atmospheric space offers a rare opportunity to dine within the walls of one of Victoria’s most significant heritage sites — a place that once housed infamous figures and now hosts unforgettable events.
