About Us

Continuing Professional Education has been running conferences for 15 years. The Principal is Lorenzo Boccabella, Barrister-at-law, who is in private practice at Level 19, Inns of Court, 107 North Quay, Brisbane, Queensland, 4000 AUSTRALIA.

Lorenzo Boccabella was admitted in 1980 and practices also in NSW & Vic. He is also a registered mediator and case appraiser of the Queensland Supreme Court.

Conference Manager is Rosana Farfaglia, a vivacious Italian origin troubleshooter. If Rosana can not provide an answer to your query, then no answer is possible.

Conference staff members are Sue Wieland (Accountant), Rebel Adsett, Jessica Connell and Christina Ragni (Conference consultants), who can provide you with conference information.

Sarah Clare manages the marketing of the business, providing our delegates and customers with information about upcoming conferences, accommodation deals, activity offerings and travel specials, as well as latest news and feedback from the conferences as they happen. Sarah’s experience in marketing and tourism from Australia and overseas makes her a great asset to our team and she is always happy to assist with any query or receive feedback from our customers to further improve our services.

We’ve now run close to 100 of these conferences world wide in the last 15 years.  In Italy, there have been 15 in Cortina D’Ampezzo, 6 at Lake Como, 6 in Venice, 6 in Rome & 5 in Cervinia, 6 in Florence, & 4 in Positano. We have also run 5 conferences in Dublin, 4 at Stratford-upon-Avon, UK, 2 in New York & one at, Kyber Pass Pakistan, Jerusalem & Shanghai-Beijing.

In Australia there have been 12 conferences at Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef and 12 conferences on the Australian snowfields (Mt Hotham, Mt Buller, Perisher and Thredbo (three times), plus weekend events at the Gold Coast and Noosa.

We would like to say three things about our conferences. Firstly, people from all over the world have attended, including professionals from Hong Kong, Austria, Canada, China, Cambodia, the Philippines, Indonesia, Burma, Switzerland, Italy, the UK, USA, Mongolia, Israel, Sweden, Luxembourg, New Zealand and of course Australia.

Secondly, many delegates have returned again and again and have commented on how they found the conference papers to be in-depth and informative. Our conferences offer a large variety of topics giving delegates a broader insight into the Medical & Legal worlds.