Annual Report 2017-18 | Monash Health

Dr Misty Jenkins
BSc (Hons), PhD, MAICD
• Member, Quality Committee
• Member, Aboriginal Health Strategic
Partnership Committee
Term of appointment:
November 2016 - current.
Dr Misty Jenkins is a NHMRC fellow,
biomedical scientist and laboratory
head at Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
for Medical Research, where she
researches cellular immunology
and new immunotherapies for
cancer. Dr Jenkins has previously
held postdoctoral positions at The
Universities of Cambridge and Oxford,
and The Peter MacCallum Cancer
Centre in Melbourne. Dr Jenkins was
awarded the L’Oreal for Women in
Science Fellowship (2013), was Tall
Poppy of the year (2015) and won the
Westpac/Australian Financial Review
Top100 Women of Influence award
(2016). In addition to her research
career, Dr Jenkins brings experience in
governance as a Director and Deputy
Chair of The National Centre for
Indigenous Genomics at ANU, previous
Director of the Aurora Education
Foundation, Ambassador for the
Poche Centre for Indigenous Health
and Chair of NHMRC Project Grant
Review Panels.
Ms Sarah Ralph
BA, LLB, LLM
• Member, Audit Committee
• Member, Primary Care and
Population Health Advisory
Committee
Term of appointment:
November 2016 - current.
Ms Sarah Ralph is a partner of global
law firm, Norton Rose Fulbright. Ms
Ralph has practiced in employment
and labour law for over 20 years and
leads the firm’s national government
practice. Ms Ralph regularly acts for
public and private sector employers
in complex employment matters
including in the health sector. Ms
Ralph’s experience includes working
in government and the private sector
in strategic and legal roles. Ms Ralph
is a volunteer member of the Youth
Support and Advocacy Service (YSAS)
Risk and Audit Committee. Ms Ralph
brings her experience in people
management, corporate governance,
and risk management to the Board.
Emeritus Professor Hatem
Salem AM
MB, ChB (Mosul, Iraq), FRACP,
FRCPA, MRCP (UK) MD (Monash),
LRCP, MRCS.
• Chair, Quality Committee
Term of appointment:
1 August 2017 - current.
Hatem Salem is an Emeritus Professor
at Monash University. Prior to this,
Professor Salem was the Head of the
Academic Department of Clinical
Haematology at Monash University
and the Head of Clinical Haematology
at the Alfred Hospital. He served as
President of Asia Pacific Society of
Thrombosis and Haemostasis and past
president and Executive Director of the
Australasian Society of Thrombosis
and Hemostasis. He is a senior
Counsellor of the International Society
of Thrombosis and Haemostasis.
In 2005, his vision and ability to
develop leading clinical and research
programs was recognised by the
Victorian Government’s Public
Healthcare Award, where he
was the recipient of the Health
Minister’s Award for Outstanding
Individual Achievement.
In 2010, Professor Hatem Salem was
awarded the Member of the Order of
Australia (AM) for service to medicine
in the field of haematology as a
clinician, educator and researcher and
also through the establishment of the
Australian Centre for Blood Diseases.
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