X Fiona Stanley Hospital Appointments: Dr Gavin Coppinger is Medical Co-Director Service 2; Dr John Keenan is Deputy Director Clinical Services ; Dr Matthew Wright is Head of Haematology; Prof John Olynyk is Head of Gastroenterology; Prof David Fletcher is Head of General Surgery; Dr Annette McWilliams is Head of Respiratory Medicine; Dr Stephen Fenner is Head of Psychiatry; Dr Mark Monaghan is Head of Emergency; Dr Janine Spencer is Head of Paediatric Medicine; Dr Gargeswari Sunanda is Head of Obstetrics and Gynaecology; Dr Alex Swann is Head of Anaesthetics; Prof Gareth Prosser and Prof Piers Yates are co-heads of Orthopaedic Surgery; Prof Michael Stacey is Head of Vascular Surgery; Dr Stephen Wright is Head of General Medicine. X Dr Danel Conradie and Dr Victor Tan are new associate members of the WA Faculty board of the RACGP. Danel is an IMG representative and Victor a Registrar representative. Prof Tom Brett, Dr Jamil Khan, Dr Kiran Puttappa and Dr Mahinda Yogam retired from the board at the last FGM. The research focus is on the killers – CVD and breast and prostate cancer, though we are slowly moving into poorer prognostic cancers such as head and neck cancers where breakthroughs could be meaningful globally.” To be meaningful locally, Peter says it’s a fairly simple answer – integration. “If you have a health system that doesn’t have a rich integration of clinical trials in the hospital sector, you end up with a place that lacks vitality with lacklustre doctors and consultants. Standards drop and you become a place young doctors want to leave.” “Similarly, if you don’t have rich integration of discovery, you get second class researchers and the whole system suffers. We could import all the technology and have no research and in 15 years’ time the entire system – the innovation and clinical sectors and health delivery sector – will be much worse off and we will all pay as patients.” “That’s the answer to the naysayers. It’s as simple as that.” O
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X Prof Neil Drew is the new Director of Edith Cowan University’s Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet. He replaces Prof Neil Thomson. X Anti-tobacco and alcohol campaigner Prof Mike Daube, Brightwater CEO Dr Penny Flett, sustainability expert Prof Peter Newman and founder of the Derbarl Yerrigan Health Service A/Prof Edward Wilkes, were made officers of the Order of Australia (OA) in the Australia Day Honours List. Epidemiologist Prof D’Arcy Holman, inaugural Commissioner of Health and GP Dr Bill Roberts, Medical Director of the Child Protection Unit and GP Dr Peter Winterton were made members of the Order of Australia (AM). Medical recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) were Albany physician Dr John Lindsey, and posthumously Toodyay GP Dr Richard Walkey. Public Service Medals (PSM) were awarded to former CEO of WACHS now Chief Executive of SMHS, Mr Ian Smith. X Kinetic Health, a subsidiary of Sonic Healthcare, will change its name to Sonic HealthPlus on March 31.
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