Appendix 2 - Witnesses who appeared before the Committee at public hearings
Friday, 20 October 2006
Parliament
House, Canberra
Committee Members in
attendance
Senator Humphries
(Chair)
Senator Moore (Deputy Chair)
Senator Adams
Senator Barnett
Senator Bartlett
Senator Boswell
Senator Carol Brown
Senator Fielding
Senator Fierravanti-Wells
Senator Hogg
Senator Nettle
Senator Patterson
Senator Polley
Senator Stephens
Senator Webber
Witnesses:
Lockhart Review Members
Associate Professor Ian Kerridge
Professor Peter Schofield
Professor Loane Skene
National Health and Medical Research Council
Professor Warwick Anderson, Chief Executive Officer
Dr Peter McCullagh
Professor Peter Silburn
Australian Academy of Science
Professor Robert Williamson, Chair, National Committee for
Medicine
Professor Philip Kuchel, Secretary, Science Policy
Professor Marilyn Renfree
Federation of Australian Scientific and Technological
Societies
Mr Bradley Smith, Executive Director
Australian Catholic Bishops Conference
Bishop Anthony Fisher
Southern Cross Bioethics Institute
Dr Gregory Pike, Director
Monday, 23 October 2006
Mercure Sydney Hotel, George St, Sydney
Committee Members in
attendance
Senator Humphries
(Chair)
Senator Moore (Deputy Chair)
Senator Adams
Senator Barnett
Senator Carol Brown
Senator Ferris
Senator Fierravanti-Wells
Senator Hogg
Senator Nettle
Senator Patterson
Senator Polley
Senator Stephens
Senator Stott Despoja
Senator Webber
Witnesses:
Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney, Life Office
Dr Brigid Vout, Executive Officer
Catholic Health Australia
Mr Francis Sullivan, Chief Executive Officer
Don't Cross the Line
Mr Rocco Mimmo, Convenor
Anglican Diocese of Sydney Social
Issues Executive
Dr Megan Best, Member, Social Issues Committee
Coalition for the Advancement of Medical Research in Australia
Ms Joanna Knott, Convenor
Dr Kuldip Sidhu, Manager, Embryonic Stem Cell Group, Diabetes
Transplant Unit, Prince of Wales Hospital
SpinalCure Australia
Mr Robert Turner, Chief Executive Officer
Motor Neurone Disease Association of Australia
Mr Graham Opie, NSW Chief Executive Officer
Dr Paul Brock
Sydney IVF Ltd
Professor Robert Jansen, Managing Director
ACCESS Australia
Ms Sandra Dill, Chief Executive Officer
Fertility Society of Australia
Dr Adrianne Pope, President
Professor Alan Mackay-Sim, Eskitis Institute for Cell
and Molecular Therapies, Griffith University & Director, National Adult
Stem Cell Centre
Dr Barry Wilkins, Senior Staff Intensive
Care Physician, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Sydney
Professor Bernard Tuch, Director,
Diabetes Transplant Unit, Prince of Wales Hospital
Professor Phil
Waite, Head, Neural Injury Research Unit and Chair of
Research Committee, Medical Sciences, University of New South Wales
Australian Society for Medical Research
Professor Levon Khachigian, President
Tuesday, 24 October 2006
St
James Court Conference Centre, Melbourne
Committee Members in
attendance
Senator Humphries
(Chair)
Senator Moore (Deputy Chair)
Senator Carol Brown
Senator Ferris
Senator Fielding
Senator Fierravanti-Wells
Senator Hogg
Senator Nettle
Senator Patterson
Senator Polley
Senator Stephens
Senator Stott Despoja
Senator Webber
Witnesses
Australian Stem Cell Centre
Professor Stephen Livesey, Chief Scientific Officer
Professor Paul Simmons
Professor Martin Pera, Center
for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, University of Southern California USA
– via teleconference
Professor John
McNeil, Head of Department of Epidemiology and Preventive
Medicine, Monash University
Stem Cell Sciences Ltd
Mr David Newton, General Manager
Dr Megan Munsie, Scientific
Development Manager
Emeritus Professor John
Martin, Emeritus Professor of Medicine, University of Melbourne
– via teleconference
Professor James Sherley, Biological
Engineering Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
USA – via teleconference
Women's Forum Australia
Ms Katrina George
Monash Immunology and Stem Cell Laboratories Senior
Researchers
Professor Graham Jenkin, Associate Director
Associate Professor Andrew Elefanty, Senior Scientist and
Laboratory Head
Dr Edouard Stanley, Senior Research Fellow
The Hon John Brumby,
Treasurer, Minister for Innovation and Minister for State and Regional
Development, Victorian Government
Feminist International Network of Resistance to
Reproductive and Genetic Enginerring (FINRRAGE)
Dr Renate Klein, Coordinator
Queensland Bioethics Centre and Catholic Archdiocese
of Brisbane
Mr Raymond Campbell, Director, Queensland Bioethics Centre
Do No Harm – Australians for Ethical Stem Cell Research
Dr David van Gend, National Director
Mr Richard Egan, Campaign Director
Dr Eloise Piercy
GeneEthics
Mr Bob Phelps, Executive Director
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