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John
McNeil AM, Chair of the The Alfred Ethics Committee, graduated in medicine from the University of Adelaide
in 1971 and undertook his medical specialist training at the
Royal Adelaide and Austin Hospitals. He subsequently completed
his PhD in clinical pharmacology at the University of Melbourne
and an MSc in epidemiology at the University of London. After
spending ten years in Clinical Pharmacology at the Austin
Hospital he was appointed to the head of the Department of
Social and Preventive Medicine (later renamed Epidemiology &
Preventive Medicine) at Monash in 1986. His principal interests
include cardiovascular epidemiology, drug safety and toxicology.
He retains a clinical involvement as a vascular physician on the
Vascular Medicine Unit at the Monash Medical Centre. |
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Colin Johnston AO,
Chair of the Research Review Committee, is currently a Senior
Principal Research Fellow at the Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute,
Honorary Professor of Medicine at Monash University and an
Emeritus Professor of the University of Melbourne. Since 2006 he
also has been Director of Research Strategy and Chairman of the
Research Advisory Council at Southern Health which includes the
Monash Medical Centre. He is member of the Board of Directors of
Austin Health and Chairman of the trustees of the Foundation for
High Blood Pressure Research. His major research and clinical
interest is in hypertension and cardiology. |
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Stephen
Duffy is Chair of the Health and Social Sciences Ethics
Committee. He is Head of Cardiology General Services at The Alfred and an Honorary
Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health
Sciences at Monash University. His research interests include
vascular endothelial function, oxidative stress, coronary
physiology, vulnerable plaque and interventional cardiology. Stephen joined the
Ethics Committee in 2002. |
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Rowan
Frew is Ethics Manager of the Alfred Research & Ethics Unit
and secretary of the Ethics Committee. She has a background in
physics and computing and moved into bioethics in the
mid-nineties, completing a Masters of Bioethics at Monash
University. Before joining The Alfred in 1994, she was a
laywoman on The Alfred Ethics Committee. |
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Marta
Ago is a lawyer who has practised in the areas of mental health
law, criminal law, anti-discrimination law and the law relating
to children and young persons. She has been a legal member of the Committee since 1994. |
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Mari Botti
is a professor
in the School of Nursing, Deakin University. She is Chair of
Nursing, Epworth Healthcare and Director of the Alfred/Deakin
Nursing Research Centre. She has held academic positions at La Trobe University and Deakin University since 1983. Her nursing
career over the past 20 years has combined nursing education,
clinical practice in acute cardiac nursing and clinical research.
She completed her PhD at the University of Melbourne. Her research
program is in acute and critical care nursing with a specific
focus on outcome measurement and pain management. Mari joined the
Ethics Committee in 2006. |
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Fiona
Ellis was a researcher for and Associate to a senior Judge
of the County Court in the criminal jurisdiction prior to
becoming a member of the Victorian Bar in 1997. Between 1981 and
1996, Fiona trained and then worked as a division 1 registered
nurse. At the Bar, she has practised extensively in criminal
law, coronial enquiries, licensing and disciplinary tribunals,
administrative law (Judicial Review) and administrative law
(Merits Review). |
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Judy
Frayne is Head of the Alfred Stroke Unit and has had
extensive experience in stroke trials. She undertook her
graduate and postgraduate training at The Alfred and has been a
consultant here since 1987. Judy has been a member of the Ethics
Committee since 1999. |
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Richard
Gerraty is a neurologist at The Alfred hospital. He has a
clinical research interest in cerebrovascular disease and has a
long experience with investigator-initiated and pharma-sponsored
clinical trials. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of
Medicine at Monash University and he is on a number of state and
national committees working towards improvements in stroke care.
He was formerly a member of the ethics committee and the quality
committee at St Vincent’s Hospital where he ran the stroke unit
for several years. He is currently Victorian Chairman of the
Australian and New Zealand Association of Neurologists, and the
Australasian Stroke Unit Network. He is a member of the board of
the Brain Foundation, Victoria. |
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Marilyn
Hope
(B Theol, Clinical Supervisor ASPEA Inc) is the Pastoral Care Coordinator, and
comes to the Committee with a background in nursing and, more
recently, in Chaplaincy and Chaplaincy training. |
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David Hunt is a semi-retired cardiologist. He became a
cardiologist at the Royal Melbourne Hospital in 1971 and was
Director of the Department between 1980 and 1993 and is currently
a Consultant Cardiologist there. His main interests have been in
coronary artery disease and the conduct of large international
randomised clinical trials of medical therapy for acute coronary
syndromes, diabetes and stroke - he has been on the management
committees of many such trials and indeed still is involved. He
has been the Chairman of the Senior Medical Staff at the Royal
Melbourne Hospital, President of the Cardiac Society of Australia
and New Zealand and has been heavily involved with the National
Heart Foundation. He is now writing his family history and that of
the Cardiology Department at the RMH. He has been a member of the
Ethics Committee since 2003. |
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Michael Hurley is a general practitioner
practising in Toorak. Prior to this, he worked in rural general
practice in North East Victoria. His interests include medical
education as well as forensic medicine. |
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Andrew
Kauler is a lay member of The Alfred Ethics Committee.
He is a qualified Community Development Worker (Diploma
in Community Services, Barton Institute 1998) and Social Worker
(Bachelor of Social Work, RMIT University 1998). |
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Victor
Kalff is Deputy Director of Nuclear Medicine at
The Alfred
and is a
nuclear
medicine physician both at
The Alfred and at
Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute. He worked in the United States
soon after graduating and has since been involved in research as
well as clinical practice. |
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Magda Karagiannakis is a
Barrister [BEc, LLB, LLM (Monash), LLM Public International Law,
Cum Laude, University of Leiden, Netherlands]. She has practised
law in Australia and internationally since 1992. Internationally
she has been a war crimes prosecutor and terrorism investigator
and legal advisor, as well as a human rights consultant. She has
also appeared as counsel before the International Court of
Justice. She became a barrister in 2005 and practices in the areas
of administrative law and criminal law, and specialises in human
rights. |
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Paul Komesaroff is a physician,
medical researcher and philosopher at the Department of Medicine,
Monash University. He is also the Director of the Monash Centre
for the Study of Ethics in Medicine and Society, located at
The
Alfred hospital. Paul is Ethics Convener of the Royal Australasian
College of Physicians and a former president of the Australian
Bioethics Association. |
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Henry Krum is a physician at
The Alfred hospital and heads Clinical Pharmacology at Monash
University and The Alfred. He has extensive research experience in
cardiovascular diseases and clinical pharmacology. His interests
lie with heart failure and hypertension, and his work spans the
fields of both basic and applied sciences. Professor Krum has been
a member of numerous International Steering and Executive
Committees for major clinical trials in the area of cardiovascular
pharmacotherapy. He is currently Principal Investigator of a
number of multicentre investigator-initiated trials testing
cardiovascular therapeutic strategies. |
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Maria McKenzie is a newly
appointed member of the Ethics Committee. She has a Bachelor of
Behavioural Science with Honours from La Trobe University and has
had considerable research experience managing a number of
psychological / psychiatric trials. Over the last decade, Maria
has worked mainly in Palliative Care at the University of
Melbourne Centre for Palliative Care, conducting research with
terminal cancer patients and their families and, more recently,
has worked at the Cancer Council of Victoria as a Research and
Evaluation Coordinator. She is a member of the Victorian
Cooperative Oncology Group's Psycho-Oncology Advisory Committee. |
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Stephen Moloney (BA, LLB) is a
practising Barrister, and has been a member of the Victorian Bar
since 1991. Prior to that time he was an Associate to a Supreme
Court Judge. He practises as a commercial, equity and public
lawyer throughout the Commonwealth and also specialises in the
regulation of the health care profession both at a Commonwealth
and State level. He is currently the Chair of the Australian
Institute of Administrative Law (Victorian Chapter), the
Vice-President (Legal) of the Medico-Legal Society of Victoria and
a member of the Victorian Bar’s Professional Standards Education
Committee. |
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Roy Olliff has an engineering
background with a technical speciality in the biological and
chemical treatment of water and wastewater. His experience covers
the full range from research to construction of small to billion
dollar projects. Roy has carried out several emergency assignments
with the UNHCR. His interests include sport (excessive), music
(singing), writing (social issues), gardening (environmental). |
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Fran Westmore
is a lay member of the Ethics Committee. With a background in
corporate organizational change and systems integration, she is
now the is the Executive Officer of a philanthropic trust, and is
undertaking her Masters degree in Applied Ethics. |
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Frances Wise, MBBS, FAFRM (RACP),
currently works as a rehabilitation physician at Caulfield
Hospital. She has recently completed a PhD examining longer
term social outcomes in stroke. Her clinical interests include
cardiac rehabilitation, neurological rehabilitation, and falls and
balance. Frances's research interests include outcome measurement
in rehabilitation, social integration post-stroke, and patient
adherence to cardiac rehabilitation. |
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Robyn Wright |
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Gersh Zylberman serves at
Temple Beth Israel, a Progressive Jewish Synagogue in St Kilda. He
was ordained at the US-based Hebrew Union College – Jewish
Institute of Religion in May, 2005. Growing up in Melbourne, Rabbi
Dr Zylberman attended Melbourne High School and Monash University
where he obtained his Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery
(Hons) in 1995. He worked as an intern and resident medical
officer at The Alfred from 1996-1999 before moving into the
rabbinate. Rabbi Zylberman has particular interests in pastoral
counselling, medical ethics and liturgical music and is married to
Rabbi Rayna Gevurtz. They are blessed with two young daughters,
Adira and Noa. |
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Peter Gallagher consults on
international trade and public policy to firms, to governments in
Australia and around the world and to international organisations.
He works at the interface between governments and private
interests trying, among other things, to improve the use of
information services in support of economic development
strategies. His career has included appointments in the diplomatic
service, the University of Melbourne Graduate Business School, a
national food industry organisation and as a director of an
e-commerce company. He has qualifications in public law,
philosophy and economics. |