Institution: University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia

Specialty: Consultant in Patient Blood Management

Academic Affiliations:

• Adjunct Research Fellow, CTEC School of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Western Australia
• Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Population Health Research, Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University, Western Australia

Brief Resume:

• co-founder with Mr Mel Jeisman of  Australia’s first comprehensive blood conservation program in 1990 at Fremantle Kaleeya Hospital, Western Australia
• Coordinator, Blood Conservation Program in Medicine and Surgery, Fremantle Kaleeya Hospital
• inaugural Executive Secretary of the Australasian Association for Blood Conservation (AABC), a Board Member, and appointed to the AABC Scientific Committee
• Board of Directors of the international Medical Society for Blood Management from 2005
• founding Member of the Society for the Advancement of Blood Management, SABM Education Committee 2003-2007
• consultant to the Western Australia Department of Health, 2007-2013
• consultant to the Beijing Municipal Public Health Bureau and the Chinese Medical Association on the establishment of blood conservation programs in the People’s Republic of China, 2005
• consultant to Departments of Health in South Australia, New South Wales and Queensland on the development of Patient Blood Management and Patient Blood Management Programs.
• co-authored the book Your Body, Your Choice - The layman’s complete guide to bloodless medicine and surgery. Singapore: Media Masters; 2000. Also published in Korean in 2005 and Russian in 2012)

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