Chair
Professor Anne Simmons AM is Provost and Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). She has previously been Head of University of New South Wales School of Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering and Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering. Her research involves developing biomaterials for implantable medical devices and analysis of blood flow in diseased vessels. Professor Simmons is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering, a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia and was awarded an Order of Australia (AM) for services to biomedical engineering. She sits on committees for a range of government departments. Professor Simmons provides expertise in the field of biomedical engineering or biomaterials.
Members
Dr William Boyd is a Specialist Obstetrician and Gynaecologist with over 40 years' experience in clinical services. He has been involved in the management of health services and chaired medical advisory committees. He has offered specialist obstetric and gynaecological services through private practice for over 30 years. Dr Boyd has been a long standing board member on the council and the board of the Australian Medical Association, Queensland. Dr William Boyd provides expertise in the fields of obstetrics and gynaecology.
Dr Amanda Buttery leads the National Heart Foundation of Australia's clinical evidence agenda. She has 25 years of international health care experience and has PhD in Gerontology from King's College London. Dr Buttery has held previous roles as an Innovation Fellow in the Academic Health Science Network in London and Cambridge and as a Guest Scientist at the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin. She has led and collaborated on multidisciplinary health and technology research and large-scale health transformation including the uptake of digital technologies. She is currently a member of the Australian Living Guidelines Consortium Research Methods Group and the Guidelines International Network ANZ Regional Steering Committee. Dr Buttery provides expertise in the fields of cardiovascular disease, neurological and musculoskeletal conditions, epidemiology and biostatistics, public health and wearable technologies.
Professor Terence Campbell AM is the Director of Research and Staff Specialist in Cardiology, St Vincent's Hospital Network, Sydney. He is also an Emeritus Professor of Medicine at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). His research interests are basic cardiac electrophysiology and pharmacology. Professor Campbell is the Chair of the Prostheses List Advisory Committee, and was a member of the previous TGA Australian Drug Evaluation Committee and Member of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee. He has 30 years of experience in lecturing and tutoring in physiology, pharmacology, therapeutics and clinical medicine. Professor Campbell provides expertise in the field of cardiology.
Associate Professor Robyn Clay-Williams is an academic who leads the Human Factors and Resilience research stream at the Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University. Her expertise, in human factors and resilience engineering, entails developing cross-industry theoretical frameworks to describe system level behaviour, and advancing new human factors contributions to safety in complex socio-technical systems. Prior to her work in health services research, Dr Clay-Williams was a military test pilot, and electronics engineer. She was a member of the previous TGA Advisory Committee for the Safety of Medical Devices. Dr Clay-Williams provides expertise in the field of human factors analysis.
Professor Mark Edwards is a Consultant Cardiothoracic surgeon in full time practice, both public and private. He is a past Councillor of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, was the inaugural Chairman of Board of Surgical Education and Training, Chairman of the Court of Examiners and Censor in Chief. Professor Edwards is a member of the Medical Board of Australia (Western Australia branch), and has a special interest in clinical governance and surgical education and training. Professor Edwards provides expertise in the field of cardiothoracic surgery.
Associate Professor Gillian Farrell is a plastic surgeon with a particular interest in plastic surgery of the breast including reconstruction after mastectomy and correction of developmental asymmetry. She works with a number of breast surgeons performing immediate reconstructions in patients undergoing mastectomy and oncoplastic surgery following wide local excision for breast cancer. She is currently a member of the TGA Breast Implant Associated Anaplastic Large-cell Lymphoma (BIA-ALCL) Expert Working Group. She is also Clinical Lead of the Australian Breast Device Registry and a Senior Oncological Surgeon at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre. Dr Farrell provides expertise in the field of plastic and reconstructive surgery.
Dr Charles Fisher has been a Consultant Vascular Surgeon for almost thirty years. He has a Bachelor's degree in research of Neurophysiology and Masters degrees in both Health Management and Clinical Epidemiology. In addition to vascular surgery, his particular clinical interests include vascular ultrasound, vascular medicines, venous thrombosis, renal transplantation and evidence-based clinical practice. Dr Fisher provide expertise in the field of vascular medicine.
Professor Nehmat Houssami is a Public Health Physician and a clinician and researcher focused on evidence-based practice and evaluation of diagnostics in breast cancer. She is Professor of Public Health at the University of Sydney, and National Breast Cancer Foundation inaugural Chair in Breast Cancer Prevention. She is the lead of the Breast Cancer Clinical and Population Health Research team at the Daffodil Centre, and is a visiting Medical Officer at the Royal Hospital for Women’s Breast Centre. She has approximately 30 years' experience with breast cancer screening, diagnosis and pre-operative assessment, and has expertise in evaluation of new technologies including artificial intelligence. Professor Houssami provides expertise in the fields of public health and breast oncology.
Professor Guy Ludbrook is Professor of Anaesthesia at the University of Adelaide and Royal Adelaide Hospital, South Australia and past Chair of the ACMD. He is a practicing Anaesthetist, with an interest in neuroanaesthesia and pre- and post-operative care. He has research interests in pharmacology, and increasingly in optimising health services delivery. Professor Ludbrook provides expertise in the field of anaesthetics.
Associate Professor Payal Mukherjee is an Adult and Paediatric Ears Nose and Throat Surgeon subspecialising in Ear Surgery, Cochlear Implantation, and Lateral Skull Base Surgery. She is the chair of Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS) NSW state committee, deputy chair of the Collaborative Hospital Audit of Statewide Mortality NSW, an executive member of the Section of Academic Surgery of RACS, a committee member of the Research and Evaluation of Australian Safety and Efficacy Register of New Interventional Procedures in Surgery and the Surgical Innovation Lead of the Royal Prince Alfred Institute of Academic Surgery. Her PhD is in personalised medicine in ear surgery, specialising in 3D printing and Bioprinting with a focus on global translation of Australian innovation in biotechnology. Dr Mukherjee provides expertise in the field of ears, nose and throat.
Dr Kyungho Park has extensive clinical experience working in both public and private laboratories as an Anatomical Pathologist. Currently, Dr Park is the Director of Histopathology at Capital Pathology with direct involvement in wide ranging issues across all fields of pathology. Dr Park currently serves on number of committees at Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia (RCPA) including the RCPA Board of Professional Practice and Quality, RCPA Anatomical Pathology Advisory Committee, and RCPAQAP committee for Cytology. Dr Park provides expertise in the field of pathology.
Professor Karen Reynolds has over 25 years experience as a biomedical engineer working in academia, she is the Director of the Medical Device Research Institute at Flinders University and Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor in Biomedical Engineering. She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering, and the Australian Academy of Health & Medical Sciences. Professor Reynolds is a past member of the Australian Medical Research Advisory Board and the ATSE Board. She has also been the past chair of the College of Biomedical Engineers. Professor Reynolds provides expertise in the field of biomedical engineering.
Associate Professor Fiona Stanaway has extensive expertise in the appraisal of scientific research evidence for risk of bias. She has more than 15 years of experience in teaching critical appraisal to clinicians, is an Associate Professor in Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Sydney. She is also a qualified medical practitioner with expertise in public health, ageing, and migrant health. Dr Stanaway provides expertise in the field of epidemiology and biostatistics.
Emeritus Professor John Thompson AO has been a general, vascular and transplant surgeon and surgical oncologist for over 40 years. During this time, he has been involved in the use of a wide range of extra-corporeal and implantable medical devices. As a surgical oncologist, he has had experience with the development and use of vascular access devices, implantable reservoirs for chemotherapy, devices for electrochemotherapy, and equipment for delivering regional chemotherapy to the liver and isolated limbs. He has wide-ranging experience in a number of fields of pre-clinical and clinical research. He is a strong advocate for evidence-based medicine and has a long and ongoing involvement in the development of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines. Professor Thompson provides expertise in the fields of general surgery, vascular surgery and oncology.