Chair
Professor Anne Simmons AM is Provost and Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). She has previously been Head of UNSW School of Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering and Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering. Her research involves developing biomaterials for implantable medical devices and analysis of blood flow in diseased vessels.
Professor Simmons is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering, a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia and was awarded an Order of Australia (AM) for services to biomedical engineering. She sits on committees for a range of government departments. Professor Simmons provides expertise in the field of biomedical engineering or biomaterials.
Members
Professor Hamed Asadi is a clinician scientist, dual-trained in Interventional Radiology (IR) and Neurointerventional Radiology (INR). He has multiple quaternary public hospital appointments, as well as university affiliations. Professor Asadi also possesses a strong technical background in electronics, computer sciences, and medical informatics stemming from previous professional experience in electrical engineering, advanced network design, and computer programming. He has focussed recently on advanced modelling and the analysis of clinical data supervising multiple projects in the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, and machine learning to optimise resource allocation for IR and INR services. Professor Asadi provides expertise in a number of different fields.
Mrs Brydget Barker-Hudson has scientific, legal background, mediation, arbitration and tribunal membership experience. She worked with traditional communities in PNG as a researcher for the Institute of Medical Research, then as an environmental scientist. After graduating in law, she developed legislation and intellectual property protection in agriculture in the NT. Mrs Barker-Hudson also provides a community / consumer perspective to the AHPRA Dental Board, and sits on the Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Community Advisory Group. Mrs Barker-Hudson provides expertise in consumer health issues.
Dr William Boyd is a Specialist Obstetrician and Gynaecologist with over 40 years' experience in clinical services. He has also worked in histopathology and general practice. Dr Boyd is the Acting Clinical Director of Women’s Health Services for the Mackay region. He has previously held the positions of Chair, President, and Vice President of AMA Queensland. Dr Boyd provides expertise in the fields of obstetrics and gynaecology.
Professor Terence Campbell AM is the Director of Research and Staff Specialist in Cardiology, St Vincent's Hospital Network, Sydney. He is also an Emeritus Professor of Medicine at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). His research interests are basic cardiac electrophysiology and pharmacology. Professor Campbell is the Chair of the Prostheses List Advisory Committee and was a member of the previous TGA Australian Drug Evaluation Committee and Member of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee. He has 30 years of experience in lecturing and tutoring in physiology, pharmacology, therapeutics, and clinical medicine. Professor Campbell provides expertise in the field of cardiology.
Associate Professor Robyn Clay-Williams is an academic who leads the Human Factors and Resilience research stream at the Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University. Her expertise, in human factors and resilience engineering, entails developing cross-industry theoretical frameworks to describe system level behaviour and advancing new human factors contributions to safety in complex socio-technical systems. Prior to her work in health services research, Dr Clay-Williams was a military test pilot, and electronics engineer. Associate Professor Clay-Williams provides expertise in the field of human factors analysis.
Associate Professor Peter Cundy is an experienced clinician/surgeon in Orthopaedic Surgery based at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Adelaide, and private practice. He is a past senior examiner on Orthopaedic Surgery for the Australasia College of Surgeons. Associate Professor Cundy provides expertise in orthopaedics, biomedical engineering or biomaterials, epidemiology or biostatistics, human factors analysis and the manufacture of medical devices.
Professor Nehmat Houssami is a Public Health Physician, clinician and researcher focused on evidence-based practice and evaluation of diagnostics in breast cancer. She is Professor of Public Health at the University of Sydney, and the National Breast Cancer Foundation’s inaugural Chair in Breast Cancer Prevention. She is the lead of the Breast Cancer Clinical and Population Health Research team at the Daffodil Centre and is a visiting Medical Officer at the Royal Hospital for Women’s Breast Centre. She has 30 years' experience with breast cancer screening, diagnosis and pre-operative assessment, and has expertise in evaluation of new technologies including artificial intelligence. Professor Houssami provides expertise in the fields of public health and breast oncology.
Dr Caitlin Keighley is a microbiologist and infectious diseases physician, with interest in genomics, mycology, antimicrobial resistance and management. She has laboratory-base experience with in-vitro diagnostic devices (IVD) and manages infections related to prosthetic devices including prosthetic heart valves, prosthetics joints and grafts. She is a member of the RPCA microbiology advisory committee. Dr Keighley provides expertise in microbiology, infectious diseases, and pathology.
Professor Dinesh Kumar is Professor of Biomedical Engineering at RMIT, Melbourne. He leads research in bio signal analysis and has extensive experience in research, development, and validation of affordable medical devices. His specialty is the development of software based medical devices for assisting in the diagnosis and monitoring of neurological disease. Professor Kumar provides expertise in biomedical engineering or biomaterials, human factors analysis and medical devices software engineering.
Professor Peter Lee is a mechanical engineer and Director of the ARC Training Centre for Medical Implant Technologies. He specialises in biomechanics for lower limb prostheses and orthoses and other research focuses on biomechanics of the human body, organs, tissues, and cells, contributing to a wide range of interdisciplinary research fields in biomedical engineering. Professor Lee provides expertise in orthopaedics, biomedical engineering or biomaterials, medical devices software engineering, manufacture of medical devices and dentistry.
Professor Guy Ludbrook is Professor of Anaesthesia at the University of Adelaide and Royal Adelaide Hospital. He continues to practice as anaesthetist, as a pre- and post-operative care specialist, in the public and private sectors with an interest in neuroanaesthesia. His research interests are in pharmacology, and increasingly in optimising health services delivery. Professor Ludbrook provides expertise in the field of anaesthetics.
Professor Guy Maddern is the RP Jepson Professor of Surgery at the University of Adelaide and Director of Research at the Basil Hetzel Institute for Translational Health research at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital. He has been involved in the assessment of new technology in surgery for the past 24 years as Surgical Director of the Australian Safety and Efficacy Register of New Interventional Procedures – Surgical, with the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. He is currently Chair of the Health Technology Assessment International Asia Policy Forum. Professor Maddern provides expertise in the fields of surgery and gastroenterology.
Dr Simon Moten is a specialist cardiothoracic surgeon with a full-time clinical practice in private and public institutes in Melbourne. He has held previous positions with the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Surgical Science and Examinations Committee, and on the Board of Directors for the International Society of Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery. His interests are in the safe, effective, and efficient delivery of new technologies for advanced healthcare with a special interest in minimally invasive and robotic cardiac surgery. Dr Moten provides expertise in the field of cardiothoracic surgery.
Associate Professor Payal Mukherjee is an Adult and Paediatric Ears Nose and Throat Surgeon subspecialising in Ear Surgery, Cochlear Implantation, and Lateral Skull Base Surgery. She is the chair of Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS) NSW state committee, deputy chair of the Collaborative Hospital Audit of Statewide Mortality NSW, an executive member of the Section of Academic Surgery of RACS, a committee member of the Research and Evaluation of Australian Safety and Efficacy Register of New Interventional Procedures in Surgery and the Surgical Innovation Lead of the Royal Prince Alfred Institute of Academic Surgery. Dr Mukherjee provides expertise in the field of ears, nose, and throat.
Dr Bruce Seidel is a qualified engineer and an intensive care medicine specialist. He has experience in large multinational companies, and has worked in a variety of hospital and pre-hospital environments, including the aviation industry. Dr Seidel’s daily use of medicines and medical devices for diverse patient conditions equips him with a broad skill set and extensive experience. Dr Seidel provides expertise in medical, surgical, clinical, and technical fields relevant to the committee’s functions.