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Felicity Barr (Chair)
Felicity Barr's interest in the issues of ageing developed during her service with the Commonwealth Department of Veterans' Affairs, including five years as Deputy Commissioner in NSW. She has completed master's studies in gerontology and is now working towards her doctorate in the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney. She chairs the NSW Ministerial Advisory Committee on Ageing, is also Chair of the Board of the War Widows' Guild (NSW), Honorary Governor of the Ageing & Alzheimer's Research Foundation, and President (NSW) of the Australian Association of Gerontology.
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Danny O’Connor (Deputy Chair)
Danny O'Connor is the present General Manager, Concord Repatriation General Hospital. His previous experience includes working as a clinician with the Community Drug Advisory Service in Surry Hills, Sydney, a research officer with the New South Wales Drug and Alcohol Authority and then State Coordinator for methadone treatment in New South Wales. He worked in the public health division of the NSW Health Department as a senior policy analyst before becoming Director of Drug Health Services in Central Sydney Area Health Service. He later moved into hospital management with Central Sydney Area Health Service as General Manager, Sydney Dental Hospital and Oral Health Services. He currently serves on various committees as Deputy Chair, ANZAC Health and Medical Research Foundation, as a Member of Ministerial Asbestos Diseases Advisory Committee and sits on the Sydney Institutes of Health & Medical Research Board.
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Eve Bosak
Professional career in accounting, finance and business strategy for almost thirty years in the public, private, academic and global development sectors. International experience as CFO, South Asia region, World Bank and senior positions with major public and private sector international corporations. Serving on many public and private sector Boards in Australia including CPA Australia and NSW War Widows’ Guild. She is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia, a Fellow of CPA Australia, and an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators in Australia.
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Professor David Cook
Professor David Cook currently holds the Chair of Cellular Physiology at The University of Sydney. He was awarded an MD in 1995, the Gottschalk Medal of the Australian Academy of Science in 1996 and became University of Sydney Medical Foundation Fellow of the Faculty of Medicine in 1997 when he was also promoted to professor. His research interests are in the role of ion channels and other transporters in the cell membrane and how control membrane transport activity. In addition to his research and teaching within the Department of Physiology, he serves as Deputy Chair of the Central Sydney Area Health Service Human Ethics Committee and chairs the Clinical Trials Subcommittee at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital.
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Professor David Handelsman
Professor Handelsman has been Director of the ANZAC Research Institute since its inception in 1998. He is an international expert in Andrology, the study of male reproductive health, medicine and biology. While studying for his PhD, he established the first clinical Andrology centre in Australia that has eventually become the first Hospital Andrology department in the country. He has served as adviser to the WHO Human Reproduction Programme, Secretary of the International Society of Andrology and President of the Endocrine Society of Australia. He was awarded the Susman Prize from the Royal Australasian College of Physicians in 1994 and the inaugural AMA Men’s Health Award in 2003. He was promoted to a Personal Chair at the University of Sydney in 1996 to become the first Professor in Andrology in Australia.
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Emeritus Professor Kerry Goulston
Kerry Goulston is Emeritus Professor of the University of Sydney. Previous experience includes being Associate Dean of the Northern Clinical School of the Sydney Medical School and Chair of the NSW Greater Metropolitan Clinical taskforce (GMCT). He has been a practising Gastroenterologist for many years and has a longstanding record in research and teaching. Currently Deputy Chair of the Australia Vietnam Medical Foundation (Hocmai).
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Brian Lee
Brian Lee spent his career in the medical supply industry and retired as the Area Managing Director (Australia and New Zealand) for Baxter Healthcare. He was the past National President of the Leukemia Foundation of Australia and former director of Medical Specialities Australia. Brian has been a long-time advocate and supporter of ANZAC Health and Medical Research Foundation and currently chairs the Fundraising Subcommittee on the current Board.
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Dr Charles Pawsey
After Charles Pawsey graduated from the University of Adelaide in 1967, he spent three years at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Adelaide. Later at Greenslopes Hospital in Brisbane he worked as a National Heart Foundation Research Assistant undertaking research into the Renin-Angiotensin system and hypertension. He undertook his physician traineeship at Sydney Hospital in 1972-73 and his Cardiology training at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in 1974-75 and at Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1976. Since 1977, he has been a Staff Cardiologist at Concord Repatriation General Hospital.
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Godfrey (Rusty) Priest AM
Rusty Priest was an inaugural member of the ANZAC Health & Medical Research Foundation serving as its Deputy Chair from 1995 to 2003. Rusty enlisted in the 2nd AIF in June 1945, serving in Japan with British Commonwealth Occupation Forces from April 1946 to December 1948, the Australian Regular Army from 1946 to 1967 and the Emergency Reserve until 1975. Then he undertook a management position at the University of Sydney, retiring in 1990. He is a Past President of the Returned and Services League of Australia (NSW Branch), having held office between 1993 and 2002. He is extensively involved in all matters affecting the welfare of veterans and their dependants. He serves currently as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Kokoda Track Memorial Walkway Ltd.
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Professor Bruce Robinson
Professor Robinson was appointed Dean, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney, in May 2007. He is an Endocrinologist and Head of the Cancer Genetic Laboratory in the Kolling Institute. While undertaking studies for a Masters of Science degree he undertook molecular research work at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School from 1986-1989 and was awarded a Doctorate of Medicine from the University of Sydney in 1990. He has developed and led the Cancer Genetics’ Laboratory since 1990 and has supervised over 20 doctoral and masters students working on the genetic basis for tumour formation and gene therapy. In 2003 Professor Robinson was warded the Daiichi Prize by the Asia and Oceania Thyroid Association for this work on the pathogenesis of thyroid cancer.
Professor Robinson has a strong interest in furthering relations between Australia and Asia and he is the Founding Chairman of Hoc Mai, the Australia Vietnam Medical Foundation, which sponsors and supports medical nursing, allied health and scientific exchanges between Australia and Vietnam. He is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
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Professor Robert Lusby
Professor Robert Lusby is the head of the University of Sydney Clinical School at Concord Hospital and an Associate Dean of the Faculty of Medicine. He is a Vascular Surgeon and heads the vascular surgical department of Concord Hospital. He has been president of the International Cardiovascular Society Australian and New Zealand Society. Professor Lusby has served with the Australian Army Medical Corp with deployments to Rwanda with the United Nations, Bougainville and East Timor with Interfet. Colonel Lusby has been Consultant Surgeon to the Australian Army and the Australian defence Force. Professor Lusby was a Board member of Macquarie and Northern Area Health Services, a councillor of the NSW branch of the Australian Medical Association and chairman of its Ethics committee. He was a foundation member of the Post Graduate Medical Council.
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Clinical Assoc Professor Kerry Russell
Clinical Assoc Professor Kerry Russell is the Area Director of Nursing & Midwifery Services at Sydney South West Area Health Service. She has held a wide range of clinical and management positions and has a keen interest in workforce, particularly staffing and recruitment, continuing education for nurses and midwives and the development of partnerships to achieve mutual benefits.
Over a period of 4 years, Kerry successfully coordinated the overseas recruitment programs for NSW Health. She has undertaken a number of nursing reviews both in NSW and interstate. Kerry is a Board Member of the College of Nursing and is a Surveyor with the ACHS. In 2008, with a colleague, Kerry completed a whole of workforce review in the Greater Western Area Health Service and the North Coast Area Health Service as well as a Nursing Workforce Review for the Fiji Ministry of Health.
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