Professor Jeremy Chapman OAM - Chairman
Network Director, Acute Interventional Medicine, Western Sydney Area Health Service, Professor Chapman is the Director of Renal Medicine at Westmead Hospital and Chair of the Westmead Research Hub Executive. He has guided the NSW Tissue Typing Laboratory at the Australian Red Cross Blood Service, developed the Centre for Organ and Tissue Donation, NSW/ACT, at the Australian Red Cross Blood Service and chaired the creation of the Australian Bone Marrow Donor Registry. Jeremy’s current interests involve researching and teaching at the University of Sydney; developing the Australian National Cord Blood Collection Network as well as developing transplantation globally as Vice President of The Transplantation Society and President of the World Marrow Donor Association.
Professor Frank Christiansen
Frank Christiansen is currently appointed as Site Director of PathWest Laboratory Medicine, Royal Perth Hospital and Professor, School of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Western Australia. He is also the Head, Department of Clinical Immunology and Immunogenetics, PathWest Laboratory Medicine, Royal Perth Hospital. He has been appointed as the Australasian and South East Asia Tissue Typing Association (ASEATTA) representative on the National Management Board of the Australian Bone Marrow Donor Registry (ABMDR)in September 2008. He has been active in the area of Immunogenetics of disease and transplantation for more than 20 years and has made a continuous and productive research contribution in this area, reflected in over 200 publications. He has been a guest lecturer and invited presenter at numerous national and international meetings
Mr Brian Farmer
Brian is a bone marrow donor (donating in 1993) and is a member of the ABMDR's Ethics Committee. Brian is an engineer by training and a project manager by profession. He is a Churchill Fellow, has been Chairman of the Sydney University International House Council and Chairman of Standards Australia's Contracts Committee which produced the AS2124/AS4000 suites of contracts. He is Managing Director of Capital Insight Pty Ltd.
Ms Anne Fletcher
Dr Fletcher's qualifications include MSc and PhD degrees from the University of Sydney. With over thirty years experience in the blood banking, health and university sectors, she has expertise in immunology, biochemistry, haematology, blood transfusion science, molecular biology and virology. Dr Fletcher has taught at the University of Technology and the University of Sydney, published widely and been an invited speaker at numerous scientific meetings. She has worked in management research at the Macquarie Graduate School of Management and has a special interest in organisational development, innovation, research commercialisation, stakeholder management, public sector and not-for-profit management. Anne is on the Board of the Australian Red Cross Blood Service and chairs the Major Building sub-committee. She is the Executive Director and Principal Consultant of Growing Your Knowledge (GYK) and joined the ABMDR National Management Board in March 2010.
Dr Anthony Keller
Tony Keller is the current chair of the Donor Centre Advisory Committee of the ABMDR. He qualified in medicine at Sydney University in 1967. After training in internal medicine in Sydney, he spent seven years in Edinburgh, initially doing research in endocrine immunology and immunodeficiency, and then moving into the transfusion service to continue training in immunohaematology and transfusion medicine. He has Fellowships from the Royal Australian College of Physicians and the Royal College of Physicians (Edinburgh) and is a member of the Royal College of Pathologists (London). He was Director of the Hunter Region Blood Transfusion Service in Australia in the early 1980s, and moved to Perth as Director of the Western Australian Blood Transfusion Service in 1984, and continued in this role during the change to the Australian Red Cross Blood Service (with responsibility for both WA and NT). Since 2003, he has held the position of National Donor and Product Safety Manager for the Australian Red Cross Blood Service. He is also a member of the NHMRC Special Expert Committee on Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies, and an external expert on the Council of Europe’s Committee of Experts on Quality Assurance in Blood Transfusion Services.
Ms Sally Gordon
Sally Gordon has worked in the area of organ and tissue donation for over 20 years. A registered nurse, she worked as one of two state organ transplant coordinators at the Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service. In 1995 she was seconded part time to the NSW Department of Health on a project to investigate the possibility of a NSW tissue banking service and is currently full time Executive Officer of the Australian Bone Marrow Donor Registry
Professor Jeff Szer
Jeff Szer is currently appointed as Professor/ Director of the the Department of Clinical Haematology and Bone Marrow Transplant Service of the Royal Melbourne Hospital and the University of Melbourne, Department of Medicine. He is President of the Bone Marrow Transplant Society of Australia and New Zealand and is a member of the steering committee of the Australasian Bone Marrow Transplant Recipient Register. He is the Vice President responsible for Australia, Africa and Asia for the Centre for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research and co-chairs the Chronic Leukaemia Committee of that organization. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Internal Medicine Journal and is a member of editorial boards of Bone Marrow Transplantation and Blood Reviews. He has published more than 150 scientific papers in the field of marrow transplantation and blood disorders.
Associate Professor Marcus Vowels AM
Marcus Vowels is Director of the Australian Cord Blood Bank at the Sydney Children's Hospital, Randwick. He recently retired as head of the Bone Marrow Transplant Program, which he directed from its inception in May 1975. He received an Order of Australia for his work in the field in 1993.
Ms Leonie Walsh
Leonie Walsh has an MBA from the Australian Graduate School of Management, an MSc from Swinburne University in Melbourne and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Ms Walsh's expertise includes wide-ranging experience in developing, leading and commercializing technology across diverse markets and industries. Her experience includes both technology and commercial responsibility across diverse areas including research and development, marketing and innovation, sales, supply chain and manufacturing throughout Australasia, North America, Europe and the Pacific. She has more than 20 years of experience in technology leadership including strategic planning, leading new product development teams and providing support to technology based start-ups. Leonie has been a Board member of the Fight Cancer Foundation and Bone Marrow Donor Institute since 2009 and joined the ABMDR National Management Board in March 2010. She is the Business Improvement Director ofr Productive Management Solutions Pty Ltd.