Governance

Current Advisory Board Members

The ANZIC-RC is administered by an Advisory Board. The current ANZIC-RC Advisory Board Members are:

Professor Jamie Cooper
NHMRC Enabling Grant Co-Investigator

Professor Cooper is the Director of the ANZIC-RC, and Deputy Director of Intensive Care at The Alfred Hospital. He was the inaugural Chair of the ANZIC-RC and one of the Enabling Grant Chief Investigators. Professor Cooper was Chief Investigator on a multi-centre randomised clinical trial of 229 patients over 5 years published in JAMA; was involved in the design and execution of a large randomised trial published in NEJM; and is currently Chief Investigator on a 4 year tri-national ICU and neurosurgical randomised single blind surgical trial including 16 sites and 210 patients. He has established research collaborations, and is a member of the International Executive Committees for current randomised trials with critical care trialists in both Western and Eastern Canada (VASST, LOVS and PROTECT). He has received more than $15 million in research grant funding.

Professor Rinaldo Bellomo
NHMRC Enabling Grant Co-Investigator

Professor Bellomo is the Co-Director of the ANZIC-RC and the Director of Intensive Care Research at Austin Health. He is an Enabling Grant Chief Investigator and was Foundation Chair of the ANZICS CTG. He has published more than 300 papers, written more than 60 book chapters and edited 5 books in the field of intensive care medicine. He has been Chief Investigator in many successful grant applications. Over the past 8 years, he has been heavily involved in the design, execution, supervision and publication of 3 large randomised controlled trials published in the Lancet and the NEJM for a total of close to 8,000 ICU patients randomised. Professor Bellomo is currently in the management committee of a fourth ICU trial that will take that number to 12,000 ICU patients.

Professor John McNeil
Head, Monash University Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine

Professor McNeil is the Head of the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine at Monash University. He graduated in medicine from the University of Adelaide in 1971 and undertook his medical specialist training at the Royal Adelaide and Austin Hospitals. He subsequently completed his PhD in clinical pharmacology at the University of Melbourne and an MSc in epidemiology at the University of London. After spending ten years in Clinical Pharmacology at the Austin Hospital he was appointed to the Head of the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine (later renamed Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine) at Monash in 1986. His principal interests include cardiovascular epidemiology, drug safety and toxicology. He retains a clinical involvement as a vascular physician on the Vascular Medicine Unit at the Monash Medical Centre.

Dr Timothy Sutton
Community Representative

Dr Sutton is the community representative on the ANZIC-RC Advisory Board. He trained at Monash University, graduating in 1975, and was an Obstetrician and Gynaecologist (O&G) in Northern Tasmania since 1984. In conjunction with Sydney IVF, he started an IVF program at Launceston in 1996. Dr Sutton has had a special interest in laparoscopic gynaecological surgery from its inception in 1991. In 1999, he retired from active O&G practice due to a lymphoma and its complications. In the meantime, he returned to University and completed an Arts Degree with Honours in Philosophy. Dr Sutton's special interests are in the Philosophy of Language, Ontology, and Ethics. He is currently a student at the Melbourne University School of Philosophy.

Dr Bala Venkatesh
College of Intensive Care Medicine (CICM) Representative

Dr Colin McArthur
Representative from the New Zealand intensive care research community.

Dr Graeme Hart
Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Centre for Outcome and Resource Evaluation (ANZICS CORE)

Dr Michael O'Leary
Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society (ANZICS) Representative

Dr Steve Webb
Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Clinical Trials Group (ANZICS CTG) Representative

Past Advisory Board Members

The ANZIC-RC would like to thank all of its past Advisory Board Members for their valuable contribution. Past ANZIC-RC Advisory Board Members include:

• Professor John Myburgh
• Dr Peter Hicks
• Associate Professor Sandra Peake
• Professor Simon Finfer

Scientific Review Committee

The ANZIC-RC's Scientific Review Committee independently reviews the quality and appropriateness of research proposals submitted to the ANZIC-RC. The ANZIC-RC's current Scientific Review Committee is:

• A/Professor Tony Bell
• Dr David Blythe
• Dr Andrew Davies
• Dr Anthony Delaney
• Dr Gordon Doig
• A/Prof Christopher Joyce
• Professor Jeffrey Lipman
• Dr Steven Webb
• Dr Colin McArthur
• Dr Michael Reade
• Michael O’Leary
• Stephen Streat
• Sharon McKinley

Terms of Reference

The ANZIC-RC is governed by its Terms of Reference (PDF - 362 KB).