Appendices
- Early release
- 1 September 2013
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.
Sue Phillips made the following disclosure:
Silvio Garattini explained the Mario Negri Policy on Independence, which includes:
Barbara Mintzes made the following disclosures:
Paul Komesaroff made the following disclosures:
Ian Kerridge made the following disclosures:
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 |
The following list of background references was provided to Independence Forum participants.
Independence: what’s the point? ISDB General Assembly. Melbourne; 14 September 2005. [cited 2013 Aug 12]
Gale EA. Conflicts of interest in guideline panel members. BMJ 2011;343:d5728.
Ioannidis JPA. Why most published research findings are false. PLoS Med 2005;2:e124.
Mintzes B. New UK guidance on industry-health professional collaboration. BMJ 2012;344:e3952.
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