Appendix 2

Witnesses who appeared before the Committee at public hearings

Thursday, 31 March 2005
Georgiana Conference Room, Mercure Hotel, 10 Irwin Street, Perth

Department of Health WA
Dr Neale Fong, Acting Director General
Professor Christobel Saunders, Chair of WA Cancer Services Taskforce
Mr Kingsley Burton, Project Director, Health Reform Implementation Taskforce
Ms Liza Houghton, Senior Project Officer, Health Reform Implementation Taskforce
Dr Tim Threlfall, Principal Medical Officer, WA Cancer Registry

Cancer Council of WA
Ms Susan Rooney, Chief Executive Officer
Mr Paul Katris, Executive Officer, Western Australian Clinical Oncology Group
Ms Amanda Leigh, Director, Cancer Services
Ms Pat Booth, Consumer
Ms Ann Revell, Consumer

Balya Cancer Self Help and Wellness Inc
Dr Jason Han, Honorary Chief Executive Officer
Dr Ivy Bullen, Honorary Chief Executive Officer

Cancer Support Association of WA
Dr Peter Daale, Chief Executive Officer

Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Brownes Cancer Support Centre
Mr David Oliver, Coordinator

Ms Betsy Bush

Mr Clive Deverall

Ms Sonja Hall, University of WA

Dr Lorna Rosenwax, University of WA

Dr William Barnes

 

Monday, 18 April 2005
St James Court Conference Centre, 12 Batman Street, Melbourne

Victorian Department of Human Services
Professor Dick Smallwood, Chair, Ministerial Taskforce for Cancer
Dr Mary Turner, Senior Medical Adviser, Metropolitan Health and Aged Care Services
Professor Bob Thomas, Director, Surgical Oncology, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
Ms Leonie Scott, A/Manager, Cancer Coordination Unit

Cancer Council Victoria
Professor David Hill, AM PhD, Director, The Cancer Council Victoria
Dr Raymond Snyder, Chair, Victorian Cooperative Oncology Group, The Cancer Council Victoria and Medical Oncologist, St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne
Associate Professor Richard Bell, Snr Clinical Consultant, The Cancer Council Victoria and Medical Oncologist and Director of the Andrew Love Cancer Centre, Geelong
Ms Karen Kelly, Consumer Representative/Cancer Patient

Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
Professor John Zalcberg, Director, Division of Haematology and Medical Oncology
Professor Sanchia Aranda, Director, Cancer Nursing Research

Breast Cancer Network Australia
Ms Lyn Swinburne, Chief Executive Officer
Ms Sue Timbs, Policy Manager

Breast Cancer Action Group
Ms Sue Lockwood, Chair
Ms Rosetta Manaszewiz, Steering Committee member

The Gawler Foundation
Dr Ian Gawler, Founder and Therapeutic Director
Dr Craig Hassed, GP and Senior Lecturer, Monash Medical School and Sessional Group Leader
Prof Avni Sali, Foundation Head of the Graduate School of Integrative Medicine, Swinburne University of Technology, Gawler Foundation board member
Ms Barb Glaser
Mr Peter McGowan
Mr Scott Stephens

Australasian College of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine
Mr Daan Spijer, Chief Executive Officer
Dr Peter Eng, Fellow and medical practitioner

Australian Psychological Society
Mr David Stokes, Manager Professional Issues
Dr Helen Lindner, School of Psychological Science, La Trobe University, Chair Australian Psychological Society Victorian State Committee and Member, National Executive, APS College of Health Psychologists

Professor Sidney Bloch, Dept of Psychiatry and Centre of Study of Health and Society, University of Melbourne

Oncology Social Work Australia
Mr Ivan Hochberg, Social Worker, The Alfred
Ms Karen Todd, Social Worker cancer services, Geelong Hospital
Ms Nicole Tokatlian, Senior Clinician/Team Leader, Haematology and Oncology Social Work Team, Royal Children's Hospital
Ms Cynthia Holland, Social worker, Gynaecology Unit, Royal Women's Hospital

 

Tuesday, 19 April 2005
Commonwealth Parliamentary Offices, 8th Floor Charterbridge House, 70 Phillip Street, Sydney

Clinical Oncological Society of Australia, Cancer Council Australia, National Cancer Control Initiative and National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation
Professor Alan Coates, Chief Executive Officer, Cancer Council Australia
Professor David Currow, Vice-President, Clinical Oncological Society of Australia
Professor Mark Elwood, Director, National Cancer Control Initiative
Ms Cheryl Myers

Cancer Nurses Society of Australia
Ms Tish Lancaster, Deputy Chair

Associate Professor William Kricker & Associate Professor Martin Berry

National Breast Cancer Centre
Dr Helen Zorbas, Director

Breast Cancer Action Group NSW and Cancer Voices
Ms Sally Crossing, Chair

Cancer Institute NSW
Prof Jim Bishop, Chief Cancer Officer NSW and Chief Executive Officer

Centre for Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders
Dr Tracey O'Brien, Head, Stem Cell Transplant Program
Ms Anne Senner, Clinical Nurse Consultant

CanTeen Australia
Mr Andrew Young, Chief Executive Officer
Ms Dayna Swiatek, National President
Ms Lauren Michels, Patient Member of CanTeen
Medical Oncology Group of Australia
Ms Franca Marine, Executive Officer

Rural Doctors Association of Australia
Dr Sue Page, President
Ms Susan Stratigos, Policy Advisor

Australian Traditional-Medicine Society
Mr Raymond Khoury, Head of the Herbal Medicine Department

 

Wednesday, 20 April 2005
Parliament House, Canberra

Royal College of Nursing Australia
Ms Elizabeth Foley, Director of Policy
Ms Laurie Grealish, Fellow

Australian Council of Community Nursing Services
Ms Margaret Dane, Clinical Nurse Consultant Palliative Care – Greater Southern Area Health Service

Bloomhill Cancer Help (via teleconference)
Mr Patrick Buick, General Manager
Ms Margaret Gargan, Founder
Mr Geoff Morton, Secretary
Ms Sarah Burns

Brain Tumour Australia
Mr Denis Strangman, Foundation Chair
Ms Clare Vivian, Executive Committee Member
Ms Susan Pitt, Executive Committee Member
Mr Matthew Pitt
Mr John Paice
Ms Sue Paice

Mr Dennis Argall

Australian Natural Therapists Association
Mr Stefan Talmatzky, Director and Natural Therapies Practitioner

National Rural Health Alliance
Mr Gordon Gregory Executive Director
Anita Phillips, Manager Policy Development

Pharmacy Guild of Australia
Mr Harvey Cuthill, National Councillor
Mr Lance Emerson, Director Professional Development
Ms Khin Win May, Policy Officer

Cancer Alliance Network
Mr Russell McGowan, Chair Cancer Alliance Network Board
Mr Don Baumber, Director

Department of Health and Ageing
Mr Philip Davies, Deputy Secretary
Professor John Horvath, Chief Medical Officer
A/Professor Rosemary Knight
Dr Leonie Hunt, A/G Principal Medical Adviser Dr Jane Cook, Senior Medical Adviser, Medicare Benefits Branch
Dr Ruth Lopert, Senior Medical Adviser, Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Dr Ching Choi, Head of the Health Division
Mr John Harding, Head of Health Registers and Cancer Monitoring Unit

National Health and Medical Research Council
Ms Cathy Clutton, A/g Executive Director, Centre for Health Advice Policy and Ethics

 

Wednesday, 11 May 2005
Parliament House, Canberra – Teleconference

Professor Jane Maher
Chief Medical Officer and consultant clinical oncologist, Mount Vernon Cancer Centre
London UK

Dr Michelle Kohn
Macmillan Cancer Relief's Complementary and Alternative Medicine adviser
London UK

 

Wednesday, 12 May 2005
Parliament House, Canberra – Teleconference

Mr Doug Ulman
Director of Survivorship, Lance Armstrong Foundation
Texas USA

Dr Barrie Cassileth
Chief, Integrative Medicine Service, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre
New York USA

Mr Michael Lerner
Author of 'Choices in Healing: Integrating the best of conventional and complementary approaches to cancer' and President Commonweal
California USA

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