Appendices

Appendix 1 - Speaker profiles

Mr Richard Kneebone

Richard Kneebone is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Therapeutic Guidelines Limited. He is a qualified lawyer and consultant on corporate governance and compliance and was formerly employed as Company Secretary for Orica Ltd, Company Secretary for BHP Billiton and subsidiaries, General Counsel and Company Secretary for Australian National Line, and Legal Advisor for Hong Kong Mass Transit Railway Corporation. Before that he was in private practice.

Dr Sue Phillips

Sue Phillips is the Chief Executive Officer of Therapeutic Guidelines Limited. She was awarded a Doctorate of Philosophy by the University of Oxford in 1985 for her research on cellular immune responses to developmental tumours. She was formerly employed as Director and Interim Executive Director at the National Health and Medical Research Council’s National Institute of Clinical Studies, Senior Policy Analyst at the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, Director in various health policy positions within the Australian Government’s Department of Health and Ageing, and Post Doctoral Research Fellow at the Australian National University John Curtin School of Medicine and Monash University Biochemistry Department. In 2008, Sue was awarded an Australia Day Achievement Medallion for services that have made a significant contribution to the nation. Sue is a member of the Guidelines International Network Board of Trustees.

Professor Silvio Garattini

Silvio Garattini qualified in medicine in 1954. He was appointed as lecturer in chemotherapy and pharmacology.

He was the founder of the Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research and was its director when it opened in 1961. The Institute now has a staff of more than 850 people in three locations and in its 50 years has published more than 12 000 scientific papers and more than 250 books, on topics such as cancer and its treatment, tumour immunology, neuropsychopharmacology, and cardiovascular and renal pharmacology.

Professor Garattini was a member of Commissione Unica del Farmaco (the Italian organisation that decides on the reimbursement of drugs) from 1993 to 1997, member of Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (European Medicines Agency) from 1997 to 2004, Chairman of the Committee for Clinical Research (Agenzia Italiana del Farmaco) from 2005 to 2010, and is currently a member of the National Committee on Bioethics. He was also a founder of the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer. He has received many awards for his work, including the French Legion d’Honneur for Scientific Merit, and the Grande Ufficiale della Repubblica Italiana, the Medaglia d’Oro al Merito della Sanità Pubblica granted by the Italian Ministry of Health.

Assistant Professor Barbara Mintzes

Barbara Mintzes is an Assistant Professor with the School of Population and Public Health at the University of British Columbia. The main focus of her research is on pharmaceutical policy, including the effects of direct-to-consumer advertising and physician-directed promotion on prescribing and medicine use decisions. She also carries out systematic reviews of the effectiveness and safety of new drugs with the university’s Therapeutics Initiative. These reviews are used as background information for provincial reimbursement decisions. Dr Mintzes has a PhD in Health Care and Epidemiology from the University of British Columbia, and holds a Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Scholar Award.

Professor Paul Komesaroff

Paul Komesaroff is a physician, medical researcher and philosopher at Monash University in Melbourne, where he is Professor of Medicine and Director of the Centre for Ethics in Medicine and Society.

He is a practising clinician, specialising in the field of endocrinology; his scientific research work focuses on the effects of hormones on the cardiovascular system and the development of noninvasive techniques for assessment of cardiovascular risk.

Paul is the Director of the Clinical Ethics Service at the Alfred Hospital, Ethics Convener of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and Chair of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians Expert Advisory Group on Ethics, Executive Director of Global Reconciliation and Chair of the International Health Workforce Society of Australasia.

Paul has been actively involved in numerous committees, including the Victorian Justice Health Advisory Committee, the Victorian Department of Human Service Genetics Advisory Committee, Australians Donate, the ethics committees of the US Endocrine Society and Australian Medical Association, and the Australasian Bioethics Association.

Associate Professor Ian Kerridge

Ian Kerridge is Director and Associate Professor in Bioethics at the Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine at the University of Sydney, and Staff Haematologist/Bone Marrow Transplant physician at Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney. He is the author of over 150 papers in peer-reviewed journals and five textbooks of ethics, most recently Ethics and Law for the Health Professions (Federation Press). He is a member of the Australian Health Ethics Committee, Chair of the Australian Bone Marrow Donor Registry Research Committee, and a member of the NSW Health Department’s Clinical Ethics Advisory Panel. His current research interests in ethics include public health ethics, the philosophy of medicine, stem cells, prescription drug policy, end-of-life care, synthetic biology, and organ donation and transplantation.

Appendix 2 - Speaker disclosures

Sue Phillips made the following disclosure:

Guidelines International Network board member and contributing author to the paper she quoted in her presentation: Qaseem A, Forland F, Macbeth F, Ollenschlager G, Phillips S, van der Wees P. Guidelines International Network: toward international standards for clinical practice guidelines. Ann Intern Med 2012;156:525-31.

Silvio Garattini explained the Mario Negri Policy on Independence, which includes:

Independence from politics, industry, finance and ideology or religion
The Institute has many funding streams with no more than 10% of the total budget from a single source
No patent applications
Allow collaboration with industry but require ownership of data until publication
Insist on freedom of expression in all publications.

Barbara Mintzes made the following disclosures:

No conflicts of interest to declare
Associated with the Therapeutics Initiative, which hosts the Cochrane Hypertension review group
Publicly funded (Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Michael Smith Health Research Foundation, British Columbia Ministry of Health)

Paul Komesaroff made the following disclosures:

Clinician and researcher
Professor of Medicine, Monash University
Director of Centre for Ethics
Engaged in research into menopause and the cardiovascular effects of steroid hormones
Collaborative relationships in research projects, past and present, with pharmaceutical companies
Ethics convener of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians
Principal author of Royal Australasian College of Physicians ‘Guidance for Ethical Relationships Between the Medical Profession and Industry’ and other documents
Member or Chair of various ethics committees
Executive Director, Global Reconciliation

Ian Kerridge made the following disclosures:

Not employed (or reimbursed) by the pharmaceutical industry
Not a member of advisory group or engaged as a consultant for the pharmaceutical industry
Receives no travel or academic support from the pharmaceutical industry
Not a shareholder of any pharmaceutical industry
Contributes to enrolling patients into clinical trials sponsored by Roche, Pfizer, Cellgene, CSL, Onyx and Amgen
Chair of HPC Transplant Group and member of Haematology Group for NSW Cancer Institute
Member of Royal Australasian College of Physicians Ethics Committee and the Australian Health Ethics Committee

Appendix 3 - Participants

Name	Role	Organisation	Location
Ms Jo Allardice	Editor	Therapeutic Guidelines Limited	Melbourne
Professor Chris Baggoley	Chief Medical Officer	Department of Health and Ageing	Canberra
Mr Martin Basedow	Lecturer, Health Care Management	Flinders University	Adelaide
Dr Margaret Beavis	General practitioner		Melbourne
Dr Phil Bergen	Lecturer	Centre for Medicine Use and Safety, Monash University	Melbourne
Ms Marion Berry	Manager, Melbourne Office	NHMRC	Melbourne
Ms Alice Bhasale	Consumer Team Leader	NPS MedicineWise	Sydney
Professor Frank Bowden	Principal Medical Advisor	ACT Health Directorate	Canberra
Professor Jo-anne Brien	Professor of Clinical Pharmacy	St Vincent’s Hospital, University of Sydney	Sydney
Ms Siobhan Brophy	Communications Manager	National Asthma Council Australia
Dr Heather Buchan	Director, Implementation Support	Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care	Sydney
Professor Rachelle Buchbinder	Director	Monash Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Cabrini Hospital	Melbourne
	Professor and NHMRC Practitioner Fellow	Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University
	Joint Coordinating Editor	Cochrane Musculoskeletal Group
Ms Nicki Burridge	Publications Pharmacist	Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia	Melbourne
Professor Terry Campbell	Senior Associate Dean	Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales	Sydney
Dr Shane Carney	Physician	John Hunter Hospital	Newcastle, New South Wales
Professor John Condon	Professor of Psychiatry	Flinders University, Daw Park Repatriation Hospital	Adelaide
Mr Glen Cormick	Manager, Business Development	Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute	Melbourne
Ms Karen Crawford	Health Professional Training Coordinator	Diabetes Australia
Dr Marilyn Cruickshank	Healthcare Associated Infection Program Manager	Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care	Sydney
Dr Sladjana Cvetkovic	Medicines Information Manager	NPS MedicineWise	Sydney
Dr Jonathan Dartnell	Executive Manager, Innovation and Learning	NPS MedicineWise	Melbourne
Ms Susan Daskalakis	Editor	Therapeutic Guidelines Limited	Melbourne
Dr Janice Davies	Consultant	Whole Systems Work	Melbourne
Ms Janette Donovan	Consumer representative		Melbourne
Dr John Dowden	Medical Editor	Australian Prescriber	Canberra
Mr Geraint Duggan	Assistant Director, Guidelines Program	National Health and Medical Research Council	Melbourne
Ms Leia Earnshaw	Acting Assistant Director	National Blood Authority
Mr Peter Francis	Lawyer	Maddocks	Melbourne
Professor Silvio Garattini	Director	Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research	Milan, Italy
Professor Alastair Goss	Professor, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery	University of Adelaide	Adelaide
Professor Lindsay Grayson	Professor/Director, Infectious Diseases	Austin Health and University of Melbourne	Melbourne
Dr Peter Greenberg	Physician	Department of General Medicine, Royal Melbourne Hospital	Melbourne
Dr Robert Grenfell	National Director, Cardiovascular Health	Heart Foundation	Melbourne
Mr Stephan Groombridge	Program Manager	Royal Australian College of General Practitioners	Melbourne
Ms Natalie Hannaford	Research Fellow	University of South Australia	Adelaide
Dr Ken Harvey			Melbourne
Dr James Hayes	Emergency Physician	Northern Hospital	Melbourne
Ms Mary Hemming	Consultant	Therapeutic Guidelines Limited	Melbourne
Mr Kelvin Hill	National Program Manager, Clinical Issues	National Stroke Foundation	Sydney
Dr Suzanne Hill	Chair, Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee	Department of Health and Ageing	Canberra
Dr Ingrid Hopper	Clinical Pharmacologist	Alfred Hospital	Melbourne
Ms Susan Huckson	Manager, Centre for Outcome and Research Evaluation	Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society	Melbourne
Professor Alan Husband	Health Professional Team Leader, Medicines Information	NPS MedicineWise	Sydney
Professor Garry Jennings	Director	Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute	Melbourne
Ms Melanie Jeyasingham	Editor	Therapeutic Guidelines Limited	Melbourne
Dr Jane Johnson	Research Fellow, Department of Philosophy	Macquarie University	Sydney
Mrs Jenny Johnstone	Editorial Director	Therapeutic Guidelines Limited	Melbourne
Dr Sarina Kempe	Clinical Pharmacology Registrar	Alfred Hospital	Melbourne
Associate Professor Ian Kerridge	Director	Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine, University of Sydney	Sydney
Ms Benafsha Khariwala	Editor	Therapeutic Guidelines Limited	Melbourne
Miss Carol-Anne Kilkenny	Medical Writer	NPS MedicineWise	Sydney
Ms Georgina Kilroy	Editor	Therapeutic Guidelines Limited	Melbourne
Mr Richard Kneebone	Chair, Board of Directors	Therapeutic Guidelines Limited	Melbourne
Professor Paul Komesaroff	Director	Monash Centre for the Study of Ethics in Medicine and Society	Melbourne
Ms Catherine Lavars	Assistant Director, Clinical Adviser	Department of Health and Ageing	Canberra
Ms Kerry Lavery	Project Officer	Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society	Melbourne
Ms Rebecca Lee	Project Officer	Heart Foundation	Melbourne
Ms Anne Leversha	Senior Lecturer	Monash University	Melbourne
Ms Emma Lourey	Senior Program Officer, Health Professional Learning	NPS MedicineWise	Melbourne
Dr Liz Marles	President	Royal Australian College of General Practitioners	Sydney
Ms Catherine Marshall	Independent Guideline Adviser and Health Consultant		New Zealand
Professor Christine McDonald	Director	Department of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, Austin Hospital	Melbourne
Dr Aidan McElduff	Endocrinologist	Northern Sydney Endocrine Centre	Sydney
Ms Angela Melder	Clinical Effectiveness Senior Consultant and Manager	Quality Unit, Monash Medical Centre	Melbourne
Associate Professor David Menkes	Associate Professor of Psychiatry	University of Auckland	New Zealand
Assistant Professor Barbara Mintzes	Assistant Professor	School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia	Vancouver, Canada
Ms Deborah Monk	Director, Innovation and Industry Policy	Medicines Australia	Canberra
Ms Georgia Morris	Senior Policy Advisor	Australian Medical Association	Sydney
Professor Rob Moulds	Medical Advisor	Therapeutic Guidelines Limited	Melbourne
Ms Carol Norquay	Electronic Production Editor	Therapeutic Guidelines Limited	Melbourne
Mr Mark Olszewski	Communications Project Officer	National Asthma Council Australia	Melbourne
Ms Ali Patterson	Publishing Director	Therapeutic Guidelines Limited	Melbourne
Associate Professor Christopher Pearce	Clinical Design Lead	National E-Health Transition Authority	Sydney
Dr Sue Phillips	Chief Executive Officer	Therapeutic Guidelines Limited	Melbourne
Dr Jane Robertson	Senior Lecturer, Clinical Pharmacology	University of Newcastle	Newcastle, New South Wales
Dr Susie Rogers	Editor	Therapeutic Guidelines Limited	Melbourne
Dr Philipa Rothfield	Senior Lecturer, Philosophy Program	La Trobe University	Melbourne
Ms Sandy Scholes	Pharmacist		Melbourne
Dr Ian Scott	Director	Internal Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology, Princess Alexandra Hospital	Brisbane
Ms Vanessa Simpson	Medical Writer	NPS MedicineWise	Sydney
Ms Lishia Singh	Coordinator, Business Development	Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute	Melbourne
Associate Professor Jane Smith	Associate Professor of General Practice	Bond University Medical School	Gold Coast, Queensland
Dr Kay Sorimachi	Director, Policy and Regulatory Affairs	Pharmaceutical Society of Australia	Melbourne
Ms Janet Struber	Coordinating Editor	Centre for Remote Health	Alice Springs, Northern Territory
Professor Martin Tattersall	Professor of Cancer Medicine	Department of Medicine, Central Clinical School, University of Sydney	Sydney
Professor John Tiller	Director	Therapeutic Guidelines Limited	Melbourne
Dr Janet Wale	Consumer representative		Melbourne
Dr Judith Walker	Senior Policy Officer, Policy and Advocacy Unit	The Royal Australasian College of Physicians	Sydney
Dr John Waterston	Consultant Neurologist	Alfred Hospital and Cabrini Medical Centre	Melbourne