RCHF 2008 Year in Review

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A message from The Foundation Hands up for our future The Foundation for excellence Partners in excellence The Foundation family Financial report The Foundation for the Future Fund The future starts here Hands up for our new hospital Major donors Bequests Trusts & foundations In honour Board of Governors & Committees Contact us

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A message from The Foundation The great children’s hospitals around the world face the same reality; their dependence on philanthropy.

The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne is no exception and is generously supported by a broad range of donors who understand that governments alone are not able to supply all that is required.

It is only through this generosity that our Children’s Hospital is able to attract and retain the best medical talent, to invest in research that improves children’s health, and to have available the latest technology and access to the best teaching and training.

This generosity comes from many quarters; individuals and organisations via the Good Friday Appeal, from the hard working Auxiliaries, from bequests, from Trusts and Foundations, and from individuals and corporations who support major projects undertaken by The Hospital.

As custodian of these funds The Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation is committed to ensuring that these funds are invested in the appropriate areas and that fundraising costs are kept to a minimum (approx. 10%).

As you turn these pages you will see that our emphasis is the funding of excellence embodied in projects, scholarship and intellectual capital that will make a real difference to the health outcomes of the thousands of sick children who are treated each year at our Hospital.

For the entire Hospital family these are exciting times. The advent of the new hospital in 2011 and the accompanying need to expand our investment in talent, technology, research and training, requires our every attention.

thank you Mr Julian Clarke Chairman, Board of Governors The Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation Limited

To those who have supported The Hospital we sincerely thank you, and for those who may be considering support we encourage you.

For all of us there can be no better cause than sick children.

Chelsea, 9 months

Front cover: Jenny, 6 years

Mr Brian Mallon Executive Director The Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation Limited

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hands up for our future The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne has been caring for sick children since it first opened its doors as the Free Hospital for Sick Children in 1870. Over the years, many things have changed – from the building, technology and facilities, to the people who make it all possible, but the philosophy behind the Hospital has remained the same; world class health care should be available for every child who needs it.

The decision by the Victorian Government to make a $1billion investment in a new home for the iconic Royal Children’s Hospital is of great significance for all Victorians and for children’s health on a much wider front. The new building design will provide the best possible physical environment that will enable us to move forward to a level of treatment, care, training and research befitting a world class hospital.

Tara, 3 years

What makes a hospital great?

The new building will provide a world class physical environment but we must also ensure that we can provide the means by which the physical space is matched by excellent care, treatment, training and research.

This excellence comes from a complementary investment in outstanding researchers, teachers, medical and nursing talent, the latest equipment and technology and the resources to follow through on bestpractice clinical care. An investment in extraordinary care!

For The Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation, this is our shared responsibility, our exciting mission and our uncompromising commitment.

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the foundation for excellence There are four key elements to all the great children’s hospitals of the world; outstanding doctors, nurses, and health specialists; strong links to a university; dedicated in-hospital research facilities; and an active and substantial fundraising organisation.

Our Royal Children’s Hospital qualifies on all four of these indices.

Victoria has a rich history of philanthropy – there have been many great achievements born of the generosity and passion of business owners, trusts, foundations and the wider Victorian community. Indeed, it was because of the strength of philanthropy in our community that The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne was able to open its doors offering free care to sick children in 1870.

The importance of philanthropy and fundraising in the achievements of The Hospital led to the establishment of The Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation, Melbourne in 1989. It has grown to be the largest Foundation attached to a children’s hospital in Australia.

The Foundation works to support The Hospital; to enable The Hospital to provide the very best care for children from Victoria and beyond. Through Foundation appeals and programs, the family and friends of this great Hospital have contributed more than $329 million over the past 20 years.

Your generosity has helped The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne establish a world-class reputation for leadership and excellence in many areas of child health.

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partners in excellence We invite you to meet the leaders of The Hospital, the MCRI and The University of Melbourne, Department of Paediatrics whose individual and collective resolve ensures that our children and their families receive the very best of care and treatment.

Christine Kilpatrick ‘State of the art facilities and equipment, outstanding clinical staff and active research and education programs are integral to the delivery of high quality clinical care in a hospital such as The Royal Children’s Hospital. There is good evidence that research-led and informed, and education-driven health services improve patient outcomes.

The Royal Children’s Hospital is privileged to have the support of The Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation, providing funds for the purchase of medical equipment and to support research and education programs across the campus. The Foundation’s work ensures the best clinical outcomes for our children.’

– Assoc Professor Christine Kilpatrick

This commitment to excellence is unwavering and ongoing. To stand still is to lose momentum.

Emmet, 8 years

Associate Professor Christine Kilpatrick Chief Executive Officer The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne

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8 Professor Terry Dwyer am Director Murdoch Childrens Research Institute

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Terry Dwyer Along with his role as Director of the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute (MCRI), Prof Terry Dwyer has a distinguished career in research.

Terry led the team that conducted the first prospective study on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) which identified that putting babies to sleep on their fronts greatly increased risk of SIDS. Advice to parents to place babies on their backs has reduced the incidence of SIDS in Australia from approximately 500 per year to less than 100.

Terry cites the SIDS discovery as one of his most important successes as a researcher. He explains that, ‘when you’re involved in research that really does have an impact, you start to think that this is something you should be able to achieve in your research. You set the bar higher.’

One of Terry’s current projects is a global prospective study with the aim of identifying both environmental and genetic causes of cancer in children.

This study will involve a million mothers and babies and is being supported by the National Institutes of Health in the US – the world’s largest funder of medical research.

Terry believes that one of the key roles of the MCRI is to facilitate mentoring and nurturing of research and clinical staff. He feels that it is highly important to ensure that staff members and students, particularly graduates and PhD students, are in a setting where they have access to other people who really want to find answers to children’s health problems, believe they can, and know how to go about it.

The money raised by The Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation and the MCRI’s own fundraising activities is spent on what Terry calls ‘investments: funding of promising early stage research, important team members and critical equipment so we are in a position to do research that would otherwise not be possible’.

Professor Paul Monagle Stevenson Professor of Paediatrics and Head of Department of Paediatrics The University of Melbourne

Paul Monagle ‘We cannot medically treat children the same way we treat adults. That is why the research that happens here at The Royal Children’s Hospital is so important.’

– Professor Paul Monagle Initially, Paul was interested in treatment protocols for children with blood clots. He soon realised that he could not research these effectively because the physiology of children was not yet fully understood – most of the research only related to adults.

Children with clotting disorders usually have an underlying illness – the clots arise as a complication of another disease. Until recently, children with these underlying illnesses rarely survived. With improved treatment survival rates are increasing. While this is very positive, it means post-illness complications including clotting, have also increased.

Paul, a pioneering researcher in this field says ‘it is heart breaking to see children cured of other diseases only for them to have long term problems from clotting’. Paul and his team aim to see every child leave The Hospital completely healthy, without the risk of further complications.

Paul is Head of Haematology at The Royal Children’s Hospital. There are four partners that make his work possible: The Hospital, The University of Melbourne, the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute and The Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation. His work could not function without any one of these partners.

The Foundation has a commitment to support excellence in leadership and scholarship and has supported Paul in the past through an Uncle Bob’s Travelling Scholarship, a career grant administered through the MCRI plus ongoing research support.

Paul is a member of The Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation Board of Governors and its Executive and Finance Committee.

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10 Ms Christine Unsworth Executive Director The Good Friday Appeal

the foundation family Fundraising is a family affair for The Foundation, with donated funds coming in from a wide variety of sources. In addition to our team of 12 people who work with donors to maximise fundraising results and provide administrative support, our large and extended family is at the core of what we do. Without their support and commitment, and the millions of dollars they raise collectively each year, the level of funds The Foundation has available for distribution to The Hospital would not be as great.

The following are but a few examples of the people and organisations who comprise this wonderful close knit Foundation family.

Good Friday Appeal It wouldn’t be Good Friday without turning on the television and seeing many wonderful people contributing their time, money and sheer good will to support The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne. The rattle of tins on Victorian streets is the soundtrack to the day. The overwhelming generosity of the community resulted in another resoundingly successful year for the 2008 Good Friday Appeal: a record amount of $12.48 million was raised, including $1.76 million from the tireless efforts of the 80 Royal Children’s Hospital Auxiliaries.

The ongoing success of the Good Friday Appeal is the result of a huge team effort and myriad activities: the involvement of thousands of volunteer groups, service clubs, sporting clubs and many individuals, the compassion and generosity of the general public, and the trust and high regard that The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne and the Good Friday Appeal enjoy within the community.

The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne is indebted to everyone who donated their time, money and resources for the ongoing contribution made to the health and wellbeing of the young patients at The Hospital. The Good Friday Appeal team is grateful to all who support the Appeal.

The involvement and support of our media partners is invaluable and a pivotal factor in the year’s success.

The Herald and Weekly Times Limited, Channel Seven Melbourne, radio stations 3AW 693 and Magic 1278 and Prime Television each provide the vehicle to ensure the community is aware of why their support is needed and how it will assist in the care of our sick children.

Melbourne gets moving Over 25,000 people took part in the 2008 Herald Sun/City Link Run for the Kids. Fun runners literally stopped traffic to raise a stunning $738,941 for the Good Friday Appeal.

The Herald Sun/City Link Run for the Kids is only three years old, but it has fast become an important partner in providing much needed funding for equipment for The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne.

Mrs Carole Lowen President The Royal Children’s Hospital Auxiliaries

Auxiliaries Auxiliaries are friendly, fun and caring.

We are the Young Set, the Baby Boomers, parents and friends. You can see us at the Flower Show, at the Good Friday Appeal, at the Baby Expo, the Royal Melbourne Show, at shopping centres and markets and we sell Tote Bags.

Our 1,500 dedicated Royal Children’s Hospital Auxiliaries members are having a gala ball, a tennis tournament, raffles, an art show, golf days, stalls, a fun run, cocktail parties, a dog show, concerts, bus trips, polo matches, trivia nights, card days and we go to Oaks Day. We have fashion parades, shopping tours and Cuppa for Kids; we work in the Gift Shop and we sell lots of Tote Bags.

We have Luv a Bub baby wear, smocks and socks for Kindy Kids, trendy homewares for all, and we sell lots and lots of Tote Bags.

You can find us on the web and you can buy online.

We raised $1,760,236 for research, the purchase of major equipment, nursing scholarships and camps last year.

We are mums and dads, grandparents, new friends, old friends, sisters, brothers, nieces, nephews, cousins and neighbours.

We are doing it for the kids, you can too – give us a call!

Have you bought a Tote Bag yet?

Thelma’s story For 71 years, Thelma Hudson dedicated her time, energy and love to the work of the Lord Somers Auxiliary and The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne.

When she was 17 years old, her mother became a founding member of the Lord Somers Auxiliary. Many great achievements dot the history of the Auxiliary; from the supply of beds, mattresses and linen during WW2 and the polio epidemic, to the many years of stalls dedicated to raising money for The Hospital. Throughout it all, Thelma was there.

In 1982, when the Auxiliary was 50 years old and under threat of closure, Thelma kept the Auxiliary going on her own, working in the gift shop at weekends and running stalls whenever possible. Through her sole efforts this amazing woman raised a total of $178,860.

Sadly, Thelma passed away in August 2007. Thelma generously left her entire estate to The Hospital that she loved and served for so many years. Her legacy of love and compassion for sick children will endure for many years to come and we are forever grateful.

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12 Mrs Lillian Frank am mbe Chairman, Special Events Committee The Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation Limited

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Mr Efrem Goldhammer Founder and Chairman, RCH1000 The Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation Limited

Fabulous events

RCH1000

Lillian Frank believes that everyone in the community has a duty to protect, nurture and guide our children.

The major challenge facing The Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation is to develop various fundraising programs and activities that will provide the means for The Hospital to continue to provide international leadership in paediatric health care, education and research.

Lillian works unfailingly year-in and year-out to create and host some of the most memorable and successful Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation fundraising events. Between February and November last year Lilian and her team raised $700,000. Her amazing ability to pull together different groups of people, from chefs to designers, is matched only by her absolute passion for the importance philanthropy plays in the wider community.

Lillian’s work in collaboration with The Foundation is now focused on providing funding for the new Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne.

The idea behind RCH1000 is simple and powerful. Business people commit to donate $1,000 each to The Foundation each and every year.

Corporate memberships are available for $10,000 per annum.

RCH1000, the brainchild of its Founder and Chairman, Efrem Goldhammer, has raised over $2million since its inception in September 2001. Morry Fraid, Chairman of Spotlight, is its patron.

RCH1000 aims to provide more than $1million per annum every year for research programs to be conducted

by The Royal Children’s Hospital and its research partners the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute and The University of Melbourne.

Our community needs a hospital without walls, a knowledge based institution with the necessary resources to offer the very best treatment to children throughout Australia, the Asia Pacific region and, indeed, the world.

The funds raised by RCH1000 are applied toward vital research to ensure the complete physical, mental and social wellbeing of our most important asset – the next generation.

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foundation income Other Public Donations 14%

Investment Income 11%

Estates, Trusts and Foundations 36%

Good Friday Appeal 39%

Good Friday Appeal Estates, Trusts and Foundations Other Public Donations Investment Income

$12,482,380 $11,330,191 $4,394,957 $3,315,968

39% 36% 14% 11%

Total Income FY08

$31,523,496

100%

Fundraising Costs FY08 9%

Future Fund Allocation 15%

Fundraising Costs FY08 Future Fund Allocation Funds Distributed FY08 & Forward Commitments

$2,949,514 $4,652,558

9% 15%

$23,921,424

76%

Total Distributions FY08

$31,523,496

100%

The Foundation for the Future Fund

One of the challenges for The Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation is to build its capacity to provide funding and resources for The Royal Children’s Hospital, both now and into the future.

The Foundation for the Future Fund is designed to build a sustainable level of income to support excellence in technology, talent and research at The Royal Children’s Hospital on a continuing basis.

foundation distributions Funds Distributed FY08 & Forward Commitments 76%

future fund There are several prudent reasons for which we need The Foundation for the Future Fund: • To provide security for the future and allow The Foundation to make funding commitments to The Hospital over the short or long term and to make commitments that, because of their scope and magnitude, are beyond our capacity to fund from annual donation income • To make The Foundation less vulnerable to annual fluctuations in fundraising success • To provide a means for donors to make a permanent and lasting commitment to The Hospital and to contribute not just to the present Hospital but also to its future It is The Foundation’s plan to set aside some percentage of donated funds annually for this purpose and donors will also be given the opportunity to contribute to this Fund should they so wish. The investment capital will be managed by The Foundation’s Investment Committee with ‘interest only’ distributions going to fund The Hospital.

the future starts here Talent, technology and research

The following gatefold features artists’ impressions of the new Royal Children Hospital, highlighting the state of the art facilities it will provide for children and their families.

The greatest advances in child health will be brought about by men and women of great foresight, diligence and commitment who will discover new ways of understanding, treating and preventing childhood illnesses and conditions. That is why The Foundation invests in talent, technology and research – therein lies the future of child health.

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Image courtesy of Corbis Australia

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For the kids • 80% of rooms with parkland views • 85% single rooms

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• Great use of colour, artwork and design to create a comforting and stimulating environment • Lots of interactive indoor and outdoor play areas • A state-of-the-art entertainment system included at each patient bed • Kid friendly window height • Two storey aquarium • Beanbag theatre

For the families • Improved accommodation and facilities for parents in the patient room • A bigger and better Family Resource Centre • Improved retail services • A multi-faith centre • Single rooms allow greater privacy for families • Outpatient services will be easy for families to find at the new RCH • All consulting clinics and support services will be located within close proximity to each other

Opens 2011

For everyone

At the RCH, we are entering an exciting stage in our history with the Victorian Government building a brand new hospital, right next door to our current site in Parkville.

The new hospital is well underway with an estimated completion date of end 2011. The new RCH will provide wonderful, world class facilities for patients, families and staff and makes the most of the unique parkland setting of Royal Park, Melbourne.

• Patient centred and family friendly • Integrated into the parkland setting with lots of natural light • Designed in consultation with clinicians, families, patients and community • Aiming for 5 star Green Star status • Separate patient treatment rooms in each unit so medical procedures are conducted away from the child’s room and bed • Interactive play areas will help keep patients and siblings occupied • Medical equipment presence will be minimised by large-scale themes and colour where possible • More parking

Images courtesy of Billard Leece Bates Smart Renders created by Scharp Design

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Santhuri, 7 years Mr Geoff Harris & Mrs Sue Harris

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Dr Ian McKenzie Director Department of Anaesthesia and Pain Management The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne

Philanthropy = excellence!

Sue and Geoff Harris’ decision to donate $1.1million to The Royal Children’s Hospital was driven by their desire to do something that would really benefit our future generation.

Geoff’s comment that ‘Sue and I would like to do something that will make a real difference to their lives and their future’ says it all. This $1.1million donation went to purchase 10 MRI compatible state of the art anaesthetic units.

Dr Ian McKenzie, Director, Department of Anaesthesia and Pain Management at The Hospital had this to say about these units: ‘The words ‘anaesthesia machine’ perhaps conjure up an image of a device that delivers anaesthetic gas and that’s about it. In reality the modern anaesthetic machine is much much more. Think ‘life support machine’, ‘patient monitoring system’, ‘machine monitoring’, ‘automated safety checks and alert systems’, ‘data management software’ with ability to analyse patient and machine parameters real time and in retrospect …and more. Yes, modern anaesthetic machines can deliver anaesthesia gases and vapours but they are a far cry from earlier technology’.

‘Strangely, these days an anaesthetist would not be too stressed anaesthetising a patient without using any anaesthesia gases or vapours, but they would insist on having the machine to support them when giving the anaesthetic.

Why is that? We can give anaesthesia drugs intravenously (without using the machine), but to care for the patient appropriately we rely on the modern anaesthesia machine’s life support capacity, monitoring and other features to provide the best care.’

‘Where the early machines were little more than a shelf and a gas delivery system, the modern machine is like a mobile intensive care with the capacity to deliver anaesthesia as well as having more built in safety features than a luxury car with a 5 star safety rating!’

Advanced brain imaging Every little bit helps Young patients with a broad range of conditions, including epilepsy, stroke, brain tumours and brain injuries now benefit from the latest technology to assist in diagnosis and treatment thanks to the Bennelong Foundation and its generous support through The Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation.

The Bennelong Foundation’s grant enabled the purchase of a head coil for The Hospital’s existing Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machine.

This new head coil is a specialised instrument, made to order at Duke University in the United States. It enables more detailed imaging of a child’s brain than has been previously available, and is unique in Australia to The Royal Children’s Hospital’s MRI Centre.

This highly sophisticated imaging capability means that small changes or abnormalities in the brain can be detected early with more effective clinical treatment as a result.

This coil is also used in research which will provide imaging and biochemical models of patients with leukodystrophy (a disorder of the central nervous system), leading to better prognostic and treatment intervention plans.

What difference can the cost of one cup of coffee a week make to The Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation?

Quite simply, a lot.

Workplace giving is an effective way of donating, where employees can nominate an amount that is directly deducted from their pre-tax salary.

No matter how small the donation, it all adds up to make a significant contribution to The Hospital. For example, in the past year, combined Workplace Giving income has funded new patient transferring technology – improving the safety and comfort of lateral patient transfers, assisting in the movement of heavy beds and increasing the comfort of patients who need to be seated while showering.

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20 Professor Julie Bines Victor and Loti Smorgon Professor of Paediatrics Department of Paediatrics, The University of Melbourne

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Protecting our children There are around 10,000 admissions of children with rotavirus gastroenteritis each year in Australia. While very few children die in Australia, globally the virus causes over 500,000 deaths of children under five years old each year.

The challenge is to protect all children from this virus and reduce the death toll in areas such as sub-Saharan Africa and India.

The virus was initially discovered by Professor Ruth Bishop at The Royal Children’s Hospital and Dr Ian Holmes at The University of Melbourne in 1973. Professor Bishop and Professor Graeme Barnes, the past Director of Gastroenterology at The Royal Children’s Hospital, have devoted three decades of study to improve the knowledge of rotavirus gastroenteritis in children and to develop a vaccine to prevent rotavirus disease from birth.

This critical work continues today under the leadership of Julie Bines, the Victor and Loti Smorgon Professor of Paediatrics at The University of Melbourne.

The generous, ongoing funding support that The Foundation has received over many years from the Victor and Loti Smorgon Charitable Fund has been extraordinary and has contributed significantly to this internationally acclaimed project and other important research and clinical initiatives.

Julie is a world-leading paediatric gastroenterologist and Deputy Head of The University of Melbourne’s Department of Paediatrics at The Royal Children’s Hospital. She heads the Intestinal Failure and Clinical Nutrition research group at the MCRI. Luckily for children in Australia, rotavirus vaccines are now available to be given after six weeks of age.

However, there are huge economic and practical challenges that prevent these vaccines reaching children in places where most of the deaths due to rotavirus infection currently occur.

Julie’s objective is to develop a new low cost vaccine that can be given to new-born babies at birth. This will be the key to protecting babies in the world’s poorest countries from this devastating but preventable disease.

The success of this internationally acclaimed research can be directly linked to the collaborative input of the four campus partners: The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, The University of Melbourne, the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute (MCRI) and The Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation.

Professor Andrew Sinclair Director, Early Development & Disease Theme Murdoch Childrens Research Institute

A revolution in understanding and treating sex disorders Professor Andrew Sinclair is an NHMRC Principal Research Fellow, University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics, and Director of the Early Development and Disease Theme at Murdoch Childrens Research Institute.

He has been conducting revolutionary research into the understanding Disorders of Sex Development (DSD) in children since 1990.

These disorders often result in ambiguous genitalia, leading to uncertainty as to the child’s gender at birth. Not surprisingly, gender uncertainty has traumatic physical, psychological and reproductive ramifications for the children and families concerned. DSD are not as rare as most people imagine, around one in 4,500 births will give rise to such a condition, making it a major paediatric issue.

The cause of these problems is most often a failure in the complex network of genes that regulate proper development of the testes and ovaries. The Murdoch Childrens Research Institute and The Royal Children’s Hospital are world leaders in this field. We have already discovered several genes, that when defective, account for up to 20% of patients with DSD. The challenge is to find those genes responsible for the remaining 80% of cases.

Professor Sinclair’s research uses breakthrough human gene chip technology to help pinpoint the cause of testes or ovary failure in the remaining 80% of patients. This research project is one of the first in the world to use this powerful technology and promises improved diagnosis and clinical outcomes for these patients.

At The Foundation’s initiative, funding was secured for the human gene chips through a $100,000 grant from the Helen Macpherson Smith Trust.

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Professor Susan Sawyer Director, Centre for Adolescent Health The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne

Centre for Adolescent Health Over the past two decades, the Centre for Adolescent Health at The Royal Children’s Hospital, in association with the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute and The University of Melbourne, has developed an international reputation for its research of the implications of adolescent health for later life.

The Centre is currently exploring the correlation between the health and happiness of babies and the lifestyles of their parents during adolescence and young adulthood, in order to ensure that Victorian children are given the best possible start to life.

The Victorian Government has asked the Centre to assist in the development of a state-wide map of the health and wellbeing of Victorian adolescents. This survey of over 10,000 adolescents will build our understanding of the health and wellbeing of young Victorians, their families and communities, and allow the government to provide more focused attention on illness prevention and treatment, early intervention and health services.

This research will have far reaching effects – already the work is informing the practices of the World Health Organisation and beyond.

The work of the Centre has been supported by The Foundation and generous ongoing financial support from Mr Geoff Handbury ao.

Professor George Patton Director of Adolescent Health Research The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne

World leading research A first in home monitoring Why do children suffer strokes?

What are their needs and abilities one year after suffering a stroke? Is there anything that can be done initially to reduce the long term implications? And importantly, is it likely to happen again?

Anne Gordon, a leading Occupational Therapist with The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, is seeking answers to these questions.

The Hospital sees, on average, one child a week who has suffered a stroke. Anne and the team are currently working with a very courageous 15-year-old girl who was perfectly healthy until she had the stroke, and a precious five-week-old baby with underlying cardiac illness.

Anne is also researching the long-term outcomes of strokes in children. The study aims to identify the physical, sensory and functional abilities of children immediately after a stroke and regularly throughout the first year following a stroke, in order to identify what community care is required and what the child’s needs are. This is the first time such a study has been conducted anywhere in the world, and global demand for the data from hospitals is huge.

Anne assisted a committed group of parents in starting a support group called Strokidz for families affected by child-stroke, in order to minimise the isolation felt by families as a result of the general perception that children simply do not suffer strokes.

Anne has been awarded a Melbourne University PhD scholarship, and receives funding from MCRI for her research and from The RCH Foundation for her work on the Stroke Program.

One of the most difficult things for sick children and their families can be the stress of regularly visiting a hospital.

Dr Anthea Greenway, a Consultant Haematologist with The Hospital, has been awarded a Doctorate of Medicine scholarship and is currently a recipient of the Uncle Bob’s Travelling Scholarship which will enable her to attend the Duke University Medical Centre in the U.S. gaining further clinical experience in her field. The Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation contributes funds towards both scholarships.

Anthea is currently researching how to best assess, treat and monitor bleeding and clotting disorders in children, and the effectiveness of home monitoring systems for children who are taking blood-thinning medication.

An effective home monitoring system would mean that children and their families would need to come into hospital less frequently. That is less stress for the children and their families.

The results of this ground-breaking research will greatly improve the lifestyles of children with these conditions.

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24 Dr Rod Hunt Neonatologist, Neonatal Unit The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne

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The smallest patients As the Deputy Director of the Department of Neonatal Medicine, Dr Rod Hunt works with some of the smallest patients at The Royal Children’s Hospital. He and his colleagues are responsible for the care of babies, many under four weeks old, in the Neonatal Unit and are carrying out research into brain injury and subsequent brain development – some of this work being part of the Victorian Infant Brain Study Group based at the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute. Rod’s research is supported by The Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation through the recent award of a prestigious career grant administered by the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute.

The developing brain is very vulnerable and is susceptible to both oxygen deprivation and inflammation. Insults like this may lead to subtle injury. The use of bedside EEG (electroencephalography) and MRI enables medical staff to monitor how the brain is functioning and allows detection of brain injury. By detecting and quantifying this injury, Rod is hoping to establish ways of protecting the neonatal brain and thus prevent subsequent abnormal brain development.

Rod works alongside an expert team of experienced Neonatologists, Surgeons and specialised nursing staff and collectively the team report some of the best survival rates in the world for certain neonatal conditions, such as congenital diaphragmatic hernia. It’s a team that inspires Rod each and every day – ‘I’m very proud to work amongst a team of health care professionals who provide such a high level of care to these families in crisis. All of the staff here go above and beyond their duty of care to ensure the best outcomes for the babies and their families.’

Professor H. Kerr Graham Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery The University of Melbourne The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne

‘Happy Feet’ at the Gait Lab Thanks to a generous bequest received

by The Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation from the late Kathleen Dorothy Collins, the advanced technology used to create the realistic dance movements in the film ‘Happy Feet’ has become available to The Hospital’s Hugh Williamson Gait Laboratory.

This amazing technology enables doctors and physiotherapists to plot like never before, the precise skeletal movements of a child walking.

The focus of this work is children suffering from cerebral palsy. As a result of this technology, better treatment can be planned in terms of splints, injections, physiotherapy or surgery.

This new equipment also supports world-class research undertaken by the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute and positions The Royal Children’s Hospital as one of the most advanced authorities of paediatric gait analysis in the world.

Taking the lead

Saved by technology

H. Kerr Graham MD, FRCS (Ed), FRACS, Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, The University of Melbourne at The Royal Children’s Hospital was instrumental in the establishment of the Hugh Williamson Gait Laboratory in 1995 and has played an integral role in the use of technology in gait analysis.

Rapid advances in medical technology and the increasing use of state of the art equipment in the care and treatment of sick children requires appropriate high level funding support.

Professor Graham’s seminal paper on the use of botulinum toxin (botox) for patients with cerebral palsy was published in 1994, and this intervention is now considered to be a standard treatment for this condition throughout the developed world.

In September 2008, he led a specialist study day ‘lower limb surgery for children with cerebral palsy’ at the American Academy of Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine Annual Meeting in Los Angeles.

Professor Graham was Visiting Professor at the Children’s Hospital Boston in October 2008.

The funding of technology is an important priority for The Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation and more than $4 million has been allocated to fund equipment needs within The Hospital during the past year. Examples include: High tech patient monitors at the bedside that allow information to be readily available so that intervention can occur earlier.

Sophisticated portable drug delivery systems that have simplified on-going drug therapy, allowing treatment to continue for patients at home.

Specially designed anaesthetic machines that work with Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) procedures to enable more accurate imaging of restless and anxious infants.

The latest technology in blood gas analysis gives an excellent assessment of patients’ physiological condition during operations and result in improved record accuracy and patient safety.

An ACCRUS® surgical system for more delicate surgical procedures to the eye has resulted in improved sight for many young patients.

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Dr Hugo Gold, Clinical Director and Associate Professor Lynn Gillam, Academic Director Children’s Bioethics Centre The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne

A first for Australia In August 2008, The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne opened Australia’s first Children’s Bioethics Centre (CBC), made possible with a grant of approx. $1million over three years provided by The Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation.

The CBC was established by Dr Hugo Gold, Clinical Director of the Centre, to promote and advocate for children’s interests, rights and welfare in healthcare by providing health professionals with the understanding and skills required to deal with ethical issues at the bedside. This will be achieved through the Centre’s three areas of activity: research, education and the Clinical Ethics Service. The CBC will be run in partnership with Murdoch Childrens Research Institute and The University of Melbourne.

The location of the CBC at The Royal Children’s Hospital places the Centre at the international cutting edge of developments in paediatric ethics, and highlights the Centre as a world leader in research, education and policy in children’s bioethics. Assoc Prof Lynn Gillam, a leading University of Melbourne bioethicist, has been appointed as the Centre’s first Academic Director.

This very important area of child health that crosses all areas of care and treatment here at The Children’s, is one of a number of funding opportunities The Foundation has to offer prospective donors.

Our target is raise in excess of $1million to fund the Centre for the next three years. The CBC is also an opportunity for a donor to be publicly associated with the Centre with naming rights in return for full sponsorship. If you would like to know more about this, please contact The Foundation.

There are many other opportunities for donors to support innovative clinical programs and research projects here at The Royal Children’s Hospital that are at the forefront of paediatric medicine, not just in Australia but in the world.

Members of The Foundation staff are always available to discuss these opportunities with donors who would like to direct their support to specific areas.

26 Professor Frank Oberklaid oam Director, Centre for Community Child Health at The University of Melbourne The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne

Frank Oberklaid The Royal Children’s Hospital is one of the world’s leading children’s hospitals, and has long held a well earned reputation for its outstanding clinical care. Caring and compassionate treatment, informed by ongoing research, ensures a world class standard of care for children.

In recent years The Hospital’s mission has expanded beyond the care of sick children to a broader role in preventing illness and promoting the optimal health of all children. These efforts have been led by Professor Frank Oberklaid and his team at the Centre for Community Child Health. As an integrated multi-disciplinary academic centre with a strong research focus, the Centre has been at the cutting edge of policy development at a state and national level and its researchbased service delivery models have attracted international interest.

The Centre’s research and innovative clinical approaches have helped change the way common developmental and behavioural problems in children are managed.

Crying and irritability in babies, language delay, challenging toddler and preschool behaviour, school problems and learning difficulties, ADHD and mental health conditions are all better managed as a result of the Centre’s work.

Frank’s Centre receives substantial ongoing funding support through The RCH Foundation.

One of its key roles is sharing The Hospital’s expertise with community based professionals and with parents.

The Centre has established and manages a series of national education programs for professionals who work with children, as well as an award winning parenting website.

The Hospital’s high public profile and position of trust with the community has enabled it to develop strong relationships with community agencies.

It demonstrates how a children’s hospital can lead the way in expanding its traditional role and advocate for the health of all children.

Frank is a member of The Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation’s Board of Governors.

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28 Ms Wendy Bunston Senior Social Worker and Family Therapist Integrated Mental Health Program The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne

Infants are hardwired!

Infants are hardwired to communicate with their environment from birth. It’s no surprise that they are incredibly aware of what’s going on around them.

It is their early environment that builds the foundation for how they come to understand themselves and their world. Sadly, when that environment is compromised by family violence, so too is the infant’s development.

The ‘Peek a Boo’ Club is a therapeutic assessment and group work intervention for infants up to 36 months of age and their mothers affected by family violence. This ‘infant led’ initiative uses an experiential, activity based and interactive format that creates a therapeutic arena for the infant and mother to form and consolidate healthy attachments as well as better understand and become attuned to the ‘world’ of the infant and its needs.

Wendy Bunston, senior social worker and family therapist, and her team at the Integrated Mental Health Service at The Royal Children’s Hospital developed this ‘cutting edge’ initiative from the ground up, informed by their own expertise for over a decade in working with primary aged children who had been adversely affected by their exposure to family violence. It has been further informed by a groundswell of scientific research regarding the impact of relational trauma on the developing brain. This demonstrates that infants and children who remain exposed to and untreated in relation to the effects of domestic violence have an increased risk of behavioural and learning difficulties, as well as lasting mental health problems.

Wendy’s work and research in this field has been supported by The Foundation which secured grants from The Sidney Myer Fund, The Victorian Women’s Trust, ANZ Trustees, The Alannah and Madeline Foundation and Melbourne Community Foundation.

The work performed by the club informs the training of other health and welfare professionals, including Victoria Police and staff from all four of Melbourne’s Regional Magistrates Court.

Dr Matt Sabin The RCH Foundation Fellow Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne

Professor George Werther Director Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne

The ticking time bomb Dr Matt Sabin and Professor George Werther are making significant progress in the research and clinical treatment of diabetes and obesity in children.

Both represent an outstanding investment in intellectual capital for The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne.

Matt Sabin joined The Royal Children’s Hospital almost three years ago and is now funded through a scholarship provided entirely by The Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation. Prior to joining The Hospital, Matt completed a PhD on the role of dietary fats in the metabolic complications of obesity in children in the UK, and established a highly successful, internationally recognised weight management clinic.

Matt’s research is focused on childhood obesity and Type 2 diabetes.

He sees childhood obesity as a ‘ticking time bomb’. One in four Australian children is overweight or obese. A significant proportion of these children are destined to suffer from Type 2 diabetes, heart disease, stroke or other debilitating illness in adulthood – all of which may be preventable.

In a collaboration with colleagues at The Royal Children’s Hospital, The Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, The University of Melbourne and Monash University, Matt is exploring the interplay between genetic and lifestyle factors on the causes of childhood obesity and the subsequent risk of disease.

One of the key initiatives he is involved in is the development of a ‘bio-bank’ or bio-repository, which allows the collection and analysis of genetic and environmental data in order to understand how they come together to lead to obesity-related disease.

Professor George Werther is the Director of the Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes and holds a Professorial Fellowship at The University of Melbourne. Throughout his 25-year tenure at The Royal Children’s Hospital, The Foundation has provided significant support for research and clinical care projects led by George.

George believes optimal outcomes come with combining clinical and laboratory research – ‘bench to clinic or clinic to bench research’. He and Associate Professor Fergus Cameron, who heads The RCH Diabetes Service, are passionate about establishing ‘optimal blood glucose control’ in children with Type I diabetes. They recognise that ‘while ideally a cure will be found, in the meantime we need to control it to prevent the damaging physical, social and emotional complications – and that’s what we are working on.’

$58,000 for vital screening program Kerrie and Ross Beauglehall know more than anyone the importance of The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne. When their daughter Carla was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes, the care and support they received at The Hospital was second to none. Since then, they have become the driving force behind the Inverloch Diabetic Unit Auxiliary.

Carla is now grown up, but Kerry and Ross and their supporting team continue to work tirelessly to ensure that children learning to live with diabetes have the best chance of maintaining good health.

The Auxiliary holds one major annual event and funds raised go towards a diabetes screening program through the Centre for Hormone Research at The Royal Children’s Hospital.

1,400 children pass through this screening program each year which checks for heart, kidney, vascular and eye complications. Early detection has reduced the incidence of complications from 30% of children tested to just 1% since screening commenced.

The screening program is vital – without it, children with insulindependent diabetes would be at risk of complications such as blindness, heart attack, kidney failure or limb amputation during their teenage years.

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The Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation is ever-grateful to all its donors, big and small. To those who have given gifts under $2,000 we thank you. Special thanks to our major donors who have contributed more than $2,000 – they are listed below.

major donors

bequests

$12million+

$200,000+

$100,000+

$50,000+

$25,000+

$1million+

$50,000+

$10,000+

$5,000+

$2,000+

Good Friday Appeal

Handbury ao, Geoff KOALA Foundation Leukaemia Research Fund

BIG W BIG Heart Campaign Coles Supermarkets Australia Pty Ltd ISTH 2005 Ltd

Challenge – Supporting Kids With Cancer Donaldson, H E My Room Inc Respond For The Kids The Alfred Hospital The Royal Australasian College of Physicians Toccolan Club Inc Victorian Medical Insurance Agency Limited

Children’s National Medical Centre Convic (Australia) Pty Ltd Dulux Australia Flight Centre Ltd Frusher, Donald Grantali Pty Ltd Kafig Kids Cancer Research Trust MBF Orica Australia Pty Ltd RACV Ltd

Moss, Harry Lyon Whalan, Thomas Gregory

Aitken, Marjorie Collis, Ellen Mitchell Freshman, Cecilia Latta, Vera Elizabeth Maitland, William Arthur Osborne, Jeanie McFarlane O’Shea, Raymond Hurley Pitts, Edna May Sheers, Douglas James

Aitken, Keith Anderson, Edward Halsall Breen, David Rowland Brown, Ernest Claverhouse-Dundee, Jean Aenea Fleming, John William Forbes, Dorothy Jean Franklin, Rohona Constance Grant Bequest Jew, Isabella Jean Keith Goods Memorial Trust Macrow, William McCoy, Peggy Sinclair McTaggart, Edith McWilliams, Horatio R C Peter James Provelson Trust Fund The Frank & Sybil Richardson Charitable Trust Wells, Arthur Donald Winder, Emily Vera Wright, J F

Badham, A S Collins, Kathleen Dorothy John William & Anna Maria Ford Memorial Fund Joyce Adelaide Healey Charitable Trust Fund Millen, Shirley Mabel Morgan, D M Murdoch, John S Thompson, Flora Louisa William & Eileen Walsh Trust

Bateman, F H Bingham, Michael Augustine Burnett, Jessie Carnegie Cochrane, Ethel M A Cowell, Kevin Stewart Drew, Ruth Irene Godfree, George Lawrence Grimwade, A M John Anderson Trust Joseph & Kate Levi Charitable Trust Kowadlo, Belle Margaret Jean Sutton Charitable Trust Marshall, Charlotte Marshall, W Mitchell, Lorna Mary Maltravers Nanson, Katharine St. Clair Norris, Edna Lydia Price, Leigh & May Taylor, M R The William & Mary Ievers & Sons Maintenance Fund Tweddle, Joseph Thornton Warwick, Dorothy Anne

$300,000+ RCH1000 members

$200,000+ Burnett, Frederick Charles Dyer, James Howard Lineham, Robert Benjamin Redfearn, William Trew, Kevin Francis

$100,000+ $10,000+

$5,000+

Actonvale Pty Ltd Australian Children’s Healthcare Beck am, Max Bluescope Steel Workplace Giving Children’s Hospital Foundations Australia Collins, John Domain Charter Group Pty Ltd Gardendale Pty Ltd Glas, Robert Heggie, Andrew Klemke, Les Meehan, Terry Melbourne Magistrates’ Court of Victoria Michael’s IGA Supermarket Network Appliance (Australia) Pty Ltd Origin Training Solutions Pty Ltd Poppins, Ernest Port, Ian & Judy Seek Limited Workplace Giving Shand, Jocelyn M Sunshine Magistrates’ Court of Victoria Talent2 Pty Ltd The IN Group Tricox Holdings Pty Ltd

ADP Workplace Giving Aminate Pty Ltd Armstrong, Robert T Atkinson, Peter Australian Leisure & Hospitality Group Bain & Company Workplace Giving BDO Kendalls Administration (VIC) Pty Ltd Boatmans Chambers, Kevin Christopoulos, Mary Coca Cola Amatil Workplace Giving Commonwealth Bank of Australia Creative Memories CSR Building Products Workplace Giving Dinron Pty Ltd Donaldson, J G Dyer, George Fenton, Kathleen Fire Protection Association Australia Freemasons Victoria Gyzen, Maurice Haig, Jennifer A Hawley, Barry & Jan Hickory Developments Pty Ltd Hourn, Eric Icon Construction Australia Pty Ltd John Selwyn Investments Pty Ltd Kilwinning Nominees Pty Ltd Koadlow, David & Leonie Lauletta, Stefani Leslie, Norma Lowe Lippmann Manzoli, Benito Marathon Food Industries Pty Ltd

Master Plumbers’ & Mechanical Services Association of Aust MLC Ltd Moore Stephens Melbourne Pty Ltd Murdoch, AC DBE, Dame Elisabeth Nelson Alexander Pty Ltd Ness, Robert Novo Nordisk Pharmaceuticals Pty Ltd Nurses First Poseidon Oysters & Seafood Supplies (Vic) Pty Ltd R W E Pty Ltd Reece Pty Ltd Reid, Ian A Rellim Holdings No 2 Pty Ltd Robertson, Helen Schneider, Paul Slumbercare Bedding (Aust) Pty Ltd Sonenberg, D H & E A St Faith’s Kindergarten Stragan & Tedesco Partners Pty Ltd Team West The Australian Chamber of Commerce Vietnam The Palais Bingo Centre Pty Ltd TKMN Lu Trust White, Graeme N

$2,000+ Ace Insurance Ltd Allens Arthur Robinson Workplace Giving Aquamax Pty Ltd Australian International Academy BMX Victoria Inc Bovis Lend Lease Pty Ltd Brennan, Mary CAF Community Fund Casper, M & C Cassons Pty Ltd Cerebral Palsy Support Network Consulate of The Netherlands Coulsell, Gary Cubby Enterprise Pty Ltd Dandenong Magistrates’ Court of Victoria Davies, J W Downing, Ian Drapers Civil Contracting Elton, D & Z Erth Hydraulics Pty Ltd Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries Gibb, Russell & Michelle Glas, Michael Goldberg, Mark Andrew Hamton Pty Ltd Harrison, Steve Henkell Brothers Australia Pty Ltd Hetherington Family Hexion Specialty Chemicals Pty Ltd Hitachi Data Systems Australia Pty Ltd Institute of Drug Technology Australia Ltd Jenkins, Shane Johnston, Kathryn Josefberg, G

Lander & Rogers Lawyers Leung, Stephen Llewelyn, Scott & Nicole Marcellin College Matters, Barry & Lindy McDonald, Monica Metro Diamonds Australia Mets Transport MFB Cycling Club Inc Nexa Group Pty Ltd Pawlow, Anna Penleigh & Essendon Grammar School Project Better World – Shell employees Real Entertainment & Collectables Pty Ltd Rene Hartnett Stall for Cancer Research Rotary Club of Brighton Rotary Club of Brighton North Inc Rotary Club of Hawthorn Inc Rotary Club of Moonee Valley Rotary Club of Moorleigh Moorabbin Inc Savage, Phil Spicer, Roberta Starcevic, John & Neda Swart, Ricci Tenix Foundation Pty Ltd Three Crestmont Court Nominees Pty Ltd Tomson, Rob & Wooden, Emily VAFA Umpires Association Veneto Club Melbourne Walker, Ian Ward Family Werribee Magistrates’ Court of Victoria Westpac Matching Gifts Program Wodonga Livestock Network P/L

Dorothy Isabel Stirling Charitable Trust Norman, Mavis & Graham Waters Charitable Trust Winkler, Branimir

$20,000+ Dawson, Elizabeth Margaret E C Blackwood Charitable Trust Gale, Grace Catherine Harry Tootal & Eva Broadhurst Memorial Trust Henry B Smith Charitable Trust Lionel R V Spencer Trust Fund Pattison, Ethel Mary Prosser, Gladys Jean Shepherd, Frederick B Skoglund, Gordon Hjalmar Smith, Heather Sybil Walker, J H

trusts & foundations $1million+

$20,000+

$10,000+

$5,000+

$2,000+

The Atlantic Philanthropies (USA) Incorporated The Harris Family Foundation

Fred P Archer Charitable Trust The Neville & Di Bertalli & Family Clinical Neurosurgical Fellowship William & Vera Houston Memorial Trust The Kimberley Foundation Nominees Pty Ltd George T Locker Potter Charitable Trust The Lord Mayor’s Charitable Fund The Orloff Family Charitable Trust Leslie Eric Paddle Trust Fund Isabella Agnes Pritchard Trust Scanlon Foundation Kenneth & Myrtle Topliss Charitable Foundation Ltd Victorian Women’s Trust Ltd Syd & Ann Wellard Perpetual Trust

The William Angliss (Victoria) Charitable Fund The Andrews Foundation Bagot Gjergja Foundation The Bell Charitable Fund Marjorie Hayes & Olivia Cock Memorial Trust The Danks Trust Gandel Charitable Trust Herbert William Hampton The Amelia Eliza Holland Trust H V McKay Charitable Trust

The Alannah & Madeline Foundation The Bachrach Charitable Trust William Henry Pawsey Trust Lynne Beatrice Quayle Trust Alf & Meg Steel Fund Debbie Stach Memorial Trust

Arthur & Anne Barry Trust Peter & Alexandra Hill Fund Rhys Jones Charitable Gift Fund Macquarie Group Foundation Ltd Marin Charitable Trust The Money Managers Charitable Trust William Arthur Shipperlee Trust Sunshine Foundation Arthur A Thomas Trust Gary Thomson Foundation

$100,000+ Jack & Ethel Goldin Foundation The Myer Foundation Telstra Foundation Ltd

$50,000+ Muriel & Les Batten Foundation The Ella & Mitchell Brazier Fund The Butterfly Foundation Sporting Chance Cancer Foundation Ltd The Collier Charitable Fund The Dyson Bequest

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The Foundation receives many donations in loving memory of children, friends and relatives, and in celebration of important life events such as Bar Mitzvahs, Bat Mitzvahs, special birthdays and weddings. Those honoured in this way are listed below.

Abraham, Simon & Walton, Skye Abrahams, Douglas Accurso, Vincenzo Ades, Anthony Albon, Baby Joshua James Appadoo, Jarryd Armstrong, Baby Jacob Aden Nigel Ashford, Ailsa Bacon, Mark Robert Baker, Thomas Baldock, Barbara Balster, Joshua Barbara, Kaysi Barry, Nate Bates, Wayne & Elisha Beaumont, Marjorie Becroft, Lara Belcher, Anthony & Emma Bhasin, Miheer & Ghai, Aaditya Bianchi, Jill Margaret Biviano, Maria Bloom, Barry Blumenthal, Sharni Bombadier, Harley Booth, Shirley Bosher, David Botoulas, Baby Eric Bourke, John Charles Brain-Doherty, Declan Brennan, Tom Briant, Nancy Brouard, Jean Gaetar Bugeja, George Bullen, Elke Bulmer, Maddison Paige Burman, Romi Burne, Aiden & Rory Burrage, Donald Campbell, Maja Campbell, Patricia Carnevale, Mario Carstelius, Louise Carter, Joel Carter-Pownall, Joel Caruso, Domenico Carver, Susan Chan, Sau Ying Cicerale, Sara Cicero, Candeloro Cini, Simon & Natalie Clark, Tristam & Lee, Karen Connell, Arthur Corcoran, Walter Crew, Owen Paul Dance, Colin Ure Davidson, Phyllis Davies, Cara Davies, Jed Arthur Day, Rohan De la Piedad, Maia Clisby Denning, Kathleen Ann Dernee, Joey DeVries, Greda Di Domenicantonio, Concetta

Di Mauro, Agata Diamond, Baby Distiller, Ronnie Dramalis, L & Peristeris, E Duffus, Andrew Duggan, Joan Eda Duong, Tan Nhu Dyer, Paul Edtmaier, Andrew Edwards, Shirley Ehrenberg, Wolfgang Ekberg, Jaime Elder, James & Kate Epps, Brendan William Factor, Alexandra Fairbanks, Albert Falcone, Lucan James Falla, Millie Farrelly, Terrance Felmy-Glas, Noah Ferrely, Terry Fink, Charlie Flynn, William Foley, Jack Matthew Fonti, Caterina Ford, John William Foster, Arnold Fox, Timothy Frank, Tommy Fraser, Charlotte French, Raymond Friad, Shimona Fried, Les Funcke, Madeleine Gabb, Charlie Galea, Charles Garcia, Alessio Garrasi, Paolo Garrigan, David Georgakakis, Chris Giannaris, Ekaterina Giuliano, John Glenton, Joel Lucas Goh, Peter Gold, Miya Goldman, Asher Goninon, Mitchell Goodall, Ali Goodall, Mark Gordon, Rohan Gorr, Stan Goumas, Kosta Grace, Isla Grant, Isabella Greenberg, Baby Ethan Greenshields, Jodhi Griffin, Norma Griffiths, Zoe Grimall, Juan Antonio Grimau, Jack Gringlas, Steven Gruppetta, Harry Haddad, Eliza Harris, George

Harvey, Jordan Hatton, Yvonne Head, Sylvia May Heathcote, Sophie Hewat, Bev Heywood, Evelyn Elsie Hickman, Paul Hine, Helena Hogg, Rebecca Hooke, Peta Hourn, Eric Hrobaric, Ashley Hudson, Thelma Hull, Eric Humphrey, Ruby, Keeley & Cooper Hutchinson, Wendy Colleen Idris Bekri, Mohammed Ilner, Mia Audrey Janezic, Jacob Boris Jasmine, Anouk Joel, Brandon Joel, Nicholas Jones, Xander Irwin Jugnu Kagiaros, Constantine Kamino, Fletcher Kapust, Walter Katsianis, Stamatia Keena, Kathleen Kelly-Foran, Aislinn Kitchen, Karen Ann Klooger, Nathan & Rose Koupanis, Angelo Kurc, Lani Kurc, Michael La Marchesina, Adrian Lachlan, Angus Laino, Giovanna Lam, Julie Lees, Betty May Leia Leventer, Rick & Silverman, Rebecca Lewis, Edith Lewis, Preston Licandro, Brennan Link, Jasmine Loughman, Steven Lu Doensen, Zachariah Lupsom, Kenneth Mackay, Taylin Amily Maitino, Raffaela Mangione, Caterina Manriquez, Marcela Manuel, Gwenyth Manzoli, Benito Marchionda, Nina & Comerford, Silvia Marcolin, Giorgio Marcou, Elaine Marget, Harry & Vivian Martin, Helen Maslen, Danielle Mason

in honour Materia, Carolyn Suzanne McAuliffe, Fredderick McGregor, Alexander (Cobber) McInnes, Margaret McKeown, Dylan McMonnies, Geoff & Rosanne McNaughton, Heather Joy Meerkin, Joti & Tayla Melich, Anna & Krstin, Micki Milburn, Baby Billie Miller, Jessica Garrett Miller, Saul & Rozanne Mills, Jean Milner, Mia Miraglia, Alessio Dante Miraglia, Luca Boris Mitchell, Milaya Healey Morgan, Daniel Muraca, Antonio Murphy, Connor & Logan Myall, Elsie Edith Narciso, Tony Neal, Lauren Nelson, Mark Nguyen, Anthony John Paul Nicolaci, Antonio Nicolosi, Francesco Niolakis, Niki Notarfrancesco, Giuseppina Nyssen, Celine Palmer, Karl Anthony Pamamull, Sharon Pappalardo, Rosa Payne, Tahlia Perri, Angelina Peterson, Kathleen Margaret Pierri, Matthew Pietzsch, Brody Pignatta, Maria Pittock, David Pizmony, Nathaniel Polites, Geoff Ponce, Althea Potts, Kristen Lee Pozzuto, Pasqualina Projekt, Matty Rajan, Ethan Rambaldi, Laura Grace Rankin, Gisela & Kenneth Rasanayagam, Delphine Reynolds, Anne Rikki, Britney Robbins, Alli Dene Roberts, Lilian Robertson, Guy Robertson, Glenn & Mellon, Jill Robinson, Christopher William Robles, Eugene Rodgers, Alfred Noel Rohweder, Baby Will Lachlan Ronalds, Arabella Roth, Jaime Russell, Lorna Ryan, Eileen

Ryan, Leo Sanghvi, Rajanikanth Sartori, Alan Sasse, Hugo Schwarz, Harry Segal, Yoni Seivers, Allan Selwyn, Susan Sesto, Matthew Simmons, Alexander Sinclair, Zoe Slonim, Maeve Smith, Irene Smith, Mary Smith, Noel Smorgon, Ann Sophie Spinner, Paige Spiroff, George Steinke, Audrey Stergiadis, Daniel Stern, Nerada Swayn (Sandhu), Kyan Sweeney, John Charles (Jack) Syaranamual, Shane Tabassi, Ahmad Tarlamis, Con Taylor, Isaiah John Thomas, Andrew & Gillies, Leah Thomson, Esther Rose Thorogood, Bruce Thorogood, Patricia Tilley, Cody Torey, William Tristram, Michael Turner, Lola Tuthill, Austin Unsworth, Phyllis Van Rossum, Heath Veronese, Pietro Waislitz, Heloise & Alex Wane, Val Warburton, Margaret Ward, Chloe Ward, Michael Watt, Chris Watt, Kaye Weisz, Tibor Wexler, Geoffrey White, Edward (Ted) Wilcock, Robin Wilkinson, Violet Williams, Christopher Williams, Cody Joshua Williams, Florence Olive Wilson, Isobel Winterburn, Willem & Thomas Wise, Isaac Wood, Kenneth Harold Wood, Zoe Woore, Alfred Wyer, Thomas Yadav, Jiarah Zelman, David

board of governors committees Chairman

Executive and Finance

Mr Julian Clarke Director of The Herald and Weekly Times Pty Ltd and The Royal Children’s Hospital

Mr Julian Clarke (Chair) Assoc Prof Christine Kilpatrick Mr Richard Leder Professor Paul Monagle

Deputy Chairman

Audit and Risk Management

Mr Richard Leder Partner, Corrs Chambers Westgarth Mr Tony Beddison ao Chairman, Beddison Group and Chairman, The Royal Children’s Hospital Dr Hugo Gold General Medical Consultant The Royal Children’s Hospital Mr Geoffrey J Henke ao Former Vice-President Australian Olympic Committee Mr David Huggins Assistant Director of Student Services Catholic Education Office, Melbourne Mr Ian Johnson Chairman, Channel Seven Melbourne Mr Leon Kempler oam Chairman, Digital Harbour Holdings Healthlogix and Tescom Australia Assoc Prof Christine Kilpatrick CEO, The Royal Children’s Hospital Mrs Carole Lowen President The Royal Children’s Hospital Auxiliaries Professor Paul Monagle Stevenson Professor and Head of the Department of Paediatrics The University of Melbourne Professor Frank Oberklaid oam Director Centre for Community Child Health at The University of Melbourne The Royal Children’s Hospital Mr Peter Wilson Yates Chairman, Peony Capital General Partnership, the Royal Institution of Australia, the Australian Science Media Centre and Graduate School of Management The University of Melbourne

contact us For more information about The Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation and its fundraising activities, please contact:

The Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation

Mr Leon Kempler (Chair) Mr David Huggins Mr Richard Leder Mr Dale McKee (external member)

50 Flemington Road, Parkville VIC 3052 Phone + 61 3 9345 5037 Fax + 61 3 9345 6900 Email rch.foundation@rch.org.au www.rchfoundation.org.au abn 15 007 143 142

Investment

RCH1000

Mr Peter Yates (Chair) Mr Stefan Hnativ Mr Richard Leder Mr Brian Mallon Mr Andrew Shelton (external member) Mr Ray King, of Sovereign Investments has assisted the committee as an independent advisor.

Phone +61 3 9345 5143 www.rch1000.org.au

Remuneration Mr Julian Clarke (Chair) Mr Richard Leder

Executive Director Mr Brian Mallon

The Royal Children’s Hospital Auxiliaries Phone +61 3 9345 5188 www.rch.org/rchaux

Good Friday Appeal Phone +61 3 9292 1166 www.goodfridayappeal.com.au

Volunteers Phone +61 3 9345 5880 www.rch.org.au/volunteers

The Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne Phone +61 3 9345 5522 www.rch.org.au Thanks to Photography: Igor Sapina Photography Print: Sands Print Group