Annual Report 2015–2016

PART 6 APPENDICES
Tasmania
Professor Anthony Lawler
Professor Lawler is the Director,
Acute Planning and Strategy
and Principal Medical Advisor
(Conjoint) within the Department
of Health and Human Services.
He is also Professor in Health
Services at the University of Tasmania and a
member of the Australian Medical Council’s Special
Education Accreditation Committee. He was
previously the Medical Advisor to the Minister for
Health, Deputy Head of the Tasmanian School of
Medicine and President of the Tasmanian Branch of
the Australian Medical Association.
Anthony is a practising Specialist Emergency
Physician and President of the Australasian College
for Emergency Medicine. He is a Director of
HealthDirect Australia and the Postgraduate Medical
Education Council of Tasmania.
Queensland
Dr Jeannette Young PSM
Dr Young has been the
Queensland Chief Health Officer
since 2005. Previously she
worked in a range of positions
in Queensland and Sydney. She
has specialist qualifications as a
Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Medical
Administrators and as a Fellow by Distinction of
the Faculty of Public Health of the Royal College
of Physicians of the United Kingdom. She is an
Adjunct Professor in the Centre for Environment
and Population Health at Griffith University and an
Adjunct Professor in the School of Public Health
and Social Work at the Queensland University
of Technology.
Her role as Chief Health Officer and Deputy
Director-General includes: responsibility for health
disaster planning and response; aero-medical
retrieval services; licensing of private hospitals; and
policy regarding research; organ and tissue donation;
blood, poisons and medicines; cancer screening;
communicable diseases; environmental health;
preventive health; and medical workforce planning
and leadership.
Dr Young is a member of numerous committees and
boards including: QIMR Berghofer Medical Research
Institute; Australian Health Protection Principal
Committee; Jurisdictional Blood Committee; Organ
and Tissue Jurisdictional Advisory Committee;
National Screening Committee and the Queensland
Clinical Senate.
MEMBERS
Professor Sandra Eades
Member with expertise in the health needs of
Aboriginal persons and Torres Strait Islanders:
Professor Eades is the Domain Head of Aboriginal
Health at Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute.
Sandra is a Noongar woman from Mount Barker,
Western Australia, and is Australia’s first Aboriginal
medical doctor to be awarded a Doctorate of
Philosophy (2003). Sandra has recently been
appointed a founding Fellow of the new Australian
Academy of Health and Medical Sciences. Sandra’s
research career has focused on the epidemiology of
Indigenous child health in Australia. Over the past
decade, she has made substantial contributions
to the area of Aboriginal health and has provided
leadership at a national level in Aboriginal research.
Ms Karen Carey
Member with expertise in consumer issues
Ms Carey has represented consumers for more than
a decade across all levels of the healthcare system.
She is the chair of the NHMRC Community and
Consumer Advisory Group, the immediate past chair
of the Consumers Health Forum and former chair of
the Health Consumers Council of Western Australia.
Ms Carey’s focus is on building a healthcare
system that highly values prevention and in which
consumers can meaningfully partner with service
providers to deliver safe, effective and cost-effective
care, from individual patient episodes to systemwide
strategic planning and design.
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