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Chairperson
Professor RJA (Ron) Trent
Professor Ron Trent is Professor of Molecular Genetics at the University of Sydney and Head of the Department of Molecular & Clinical Genetics at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. His involvement in molecular genetics includes research into gene environment interactions in complex traits and the provision of a State-wide based DNA diagnostic service. Professor Trent is the Executive Director of SUPAMAC, the University of Sydney's molecular analysis service. Professor Trent has been Chair of the NHMRC Gene and related Therapies Research Advisory Panel (1994-2006), and a member of the NHMRC Research Committee (1997-2006). Since 1998 Professor Trent has been on the Board of Directors for the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney.
Members
Reverend Martin Robinson
Reverend Robinson is Rector of St Martin's Anglican Church, Killara, in Sydney, and a former Chairman of Anglicare (Diocese of Sydney). He also Chairs the Council of The King's School, Parramatta.
Dr Rosanna Capolingua
Dr Capolingua is Chair of the Australian Medical Association's Ethics and Medico-legal Committee. She has been a member of the Federal Executive of the AMA for the past five years and is currently the Federal Treasurer.
Dr Capolingua has been a General Practioner for 20 years, and maintains a special interest in youth health, preventative medicine and care of families. For the past 10 years Dr Capolingua has been the Medical Director of the AMA (WA) Youth Foundation where together with Medical Students a program is delivered to high schools helping adolescents deal with life issues.
Dr Capolingua is a member of the Medical Advisory Committees of Mercy Hospital and St John of God Hospital Subiaco, and the Director of General Practice Liaison at SJOG. She is a member of the Board of Governors of the University of Notre Dame Australia, the Medical Board of Western Australia and the Board of MercyCare. Dr Capolingua has recently been elected to the Council of Medical Defence Association - National.
Dr Sandra Hacker AO
Dr Hacker is the current Chair of the Northern Health Service Board (Victoria), and a member of the Australian Health Ethics Committee (2000-2006). She has been involved in the delivery of health care since 1975, initially in practice as a Psychiatrist. Her subsequent appointments included Honorary Federal Secretary of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) and later in relation to general medical services at both State and Federal levels in positions including President of the Australian Medical Association (AMA) Victoria and later as AMA Federal Vice President. Dr Hacker was also Chair of the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2000-2004). She has a long association with the Alfred Hospital where she is the Liaison Psychiatrist to the Heart-Lung Transplant Unit. She has conducted a private practice in psychotherapy and psychiatry for 30 years.
Associate Professor Kristine Barlow-Stewart
Dr Barlow-Stewart, a genetic counsellor, is the Foundation Director of the Centre for Genetics Education of the NSW Genetics Service. Her research has concentrated on genetics education for health professionals, the community and the impacts of genetics technologies on Australian society including issues of privacy and discrimination.
Emeritus Professor Jack Martin AO FAA FRS
Professor Martin is Emeritus Professor of Medicine at the University of Melbourne, and a John Holt Fellow at St Vincent's Institute of Medical Research. He was the Foundation Professor of Medicine for the University of Melbourne at the Repatriation General Hospital (1977-1987), the University's Professor of Medicine at St Vincent's Hospital from 1987 to 1998 and Director of the St Vincent's Institute of Medical Research (1988-2002). Professor Martin has received many awards and honours throughout his career including the Eric Susman Prize from the Royal Australasian College of Physicians for the most significant contribution to medical research.
Professor Don Chalmers
Professor Chalmers is the Dean of Law, University of Tasmania. He is also Director of the Centre of Law and Genetics at the Universities of Tasmania and Melbourne that undertakes research, particularly on the regulatory and commercial aspects of human genetic research. He is Chair of the Gene Technology Ethics Committee established under the Gene Technology Act, a member of the Board of the Australian Institute of Family Studies, a member of the CSIRO Health Advisory Council, and Deputy Chair of the NHMRC Embryo Research Licensing Committee. He was Chair of the Australian Health Ethics Committee from 1993-2000 and Panel Member, International Science Review Committee Genome Canada 2004 and 2005.
Professor David Weisbrot AM
Professor Weisbrot has been President of the Law Reform Commission since 1999, and chaired the inquiries into the protection of human genetic information (Essentially Yours) and gene patenting and human health (Genes and Ingenuity). He is an Honorary Professor in the Institute for Molecular Bioscience at the University of Queensland, an elected member of the Human Genome Organisation (HUGO), a Foundation Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law, and an Associate Member of the International Academy of Comparative Law. Professor Weisbrot is also a member of the federal Administrative Review Council, and a member of the Australian Institute of Sport's steering committee on the Ethical Use of Genetic Information in Sport.
Professor Siaw-Teng Liaw
Professor Liaw is the Chair of Rural Health at the University of Melbourne and Head of the University Department of Rural Health program. He has a clinical background in rural medicine and academic general practice and has extensive expertise and experience with quantitative and qualitative research methodologies as applied to health services, systems and informatics research and education. Professor Liaw advises the Victorian and Australian governments on a number of health informatics, primary care and health terminology issues.
Associate Professor Jane Halliday
Associate Professor Halliday is head of Public Health Genetics at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute, the current President of the Australian Epidemiological Association and Epidemiologist in charge of Birth Defects Register at the Victorian Department of Human Services. She is a member of the Laboratory and Community Genetics Advisory Group at the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, the Victorian Cerebral Palsy Register Committee, the Australian Birth Defects Society, and the Human Genetics Society of Australasia-Prenatal Diagnosis and Maternal Serum Screening Committee. Associate Professor Halliday is a Board member of the Spina Bifida Foundation Victoria.
Ms Belinda Hope
In her role as health journalist Ms Hope has sourced, researched, written and presented a large number of health and medical related stories for Channel 9 News and Sky News over a number of years. Ms Hope has won numerous awards, including the Premier of Victoria's media award 2001 and the Research Australia, Research in the Media Award 2004. Ms Hope has written, produced and presented two medical documentaries for the Nine Network. The first, titled Jordyn, It's Magic, documented the story of a child liver transplant, which at the time was a medical world first for Australian surgeons. The second, titled Genetics: Date with Destiny, documented advances in genetics focussed on ethical dilemmas associated with genetic testing. In 2001 Ms Hope rejoined Channel 9 news as health journalist.
Ms Hope has been a member of AHEC (Australian Health Ethics Committee) of the NHRMC (National Health and Medical Research Council) since 2001. In 2002 Ms Hope was appointed a Trustee of the Eye Research Foundation, a responsibility she continues to fulfil, and during 2003 and 2004 Belinda was a member of the advisory board to the School of Journalism at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.
Mr David Shaw
Mr David Shaw is the Occupational Health Safety and Compensation Manager of the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI). Before joining ACCI, David had a long career with Ford Australia, where he held a range of senior human relations (HR) positions at both the operational and corporate policy level. In addition, David has been a Member of the Business Council Working Party/Task Force on Retirement Incomes Policy and Strategy, and Interim Board member and then Director of the ACCI (WorkCare) Board.
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