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Professor Ross Stewart Kalucy A.M
MB.BS, FRACP, FRANZCP, FRCPSYCH (London), FACHAM, FACRM, MRACP (London), Director-Emergency Mental Health, Head-Department of Psychiatry
Academic Psychiatry and Mental Health Services:
Foundation Professor at Flinders University since 1977. Professor Kalucy established the Department of Psychiatry at Flinders University and within Flinders Medical Centre and the Southern Region of Adelaide. This integrates clinical service with teaching and research.
In particular, he established focus on Adolescent Mental Health and Weight Disorders and developed the State Service for conditions such as Anorexia Nervosa. Most recently he has become the Director of Emergency Psychiatry in a large Emergency Department in Flinders Medical Centre. He was Director (since 1991) of the Regional Mental Health Services; of the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services and of the South Australian Rural & Remote Mental Health Services. From 1999, he was Advisor to the Minister of Health on Mental Health matters.
Royal Australian and New Zealand college of psychiatrists:
Contributed to education, training and maintenance of standards of Specialist and Consultant Psychiatrists through his roles as first, a Member of the Board of Censors (1980) – 1985), then Censor-in-Chief (1984 – 1985), then Chief Examiner on the Committee for Examinations (1985 – 1990).
National Health and Medical Research Council (NH&MRC):
Served on a range of committees including being Chairman of many Grants
Committees; Chairman of Special Purposes and Priorities Committee; A member of the Medical Research Committee; an inaugural Member of the Public Health Research and Development Committee; Chairman of the Medical Research Ethics Committee and Deputy Chair of the Australian Health Ethics Committee.
Within the role of Chairperson of the Ethics Committee for Medical Research, main contributions included the development of National Privacy Guidelines. Within the role of Chairperson of the Ethics Committee for Medical Research, main contributions included the development of National Privacy Guidelines for data protection and research activities; the development of guidelines for Aboriginal Health Research; and the development of a national framework for research in Reproductive Science. He also chaired the National Health and Medical Research Committee, the Editorial Committee in the development of Safe Drinking Guidelines.
Medical Profession Regulation:
Member (since 1984) and President (since 1989) Medical Board of South Australia. As President, Professor Kalucy introduced some key reforms including the Impaired Doctor’s Committee; the linking with the Australian Medical Association to establish the Doctor’sHealth Advisory Committee; the Board’s new role to act as negotiator for settlement of disputes between professional medical groups and leading a review of the conditions for Intern Training. Member (since 1990) and later Vice – President Australian Medical Council. Stepped Down from the Council in 1997. Chairman of the Council’s Uniformity Committee, which played a role in the creation of the current system of mutual recognition of doctor’s registered in the states and territories of Australia.
Awards:
Awarded the AM principally for contributions in Mental Health and National Ethical Guidelines. South Australian Award for outstanding contributions to Medicine in South Australia (2003). Frequent awards for outstanding teaching performances and voted for through the Burns Alpers Awards for Student Teaching.
Professor Fred Mendelsohn
AO, MD, PhD, FRACP, FAA, Director, Howard Florey Institute of Experimental, Physiology & Medicine, RD Wright Professor of Experimental Physiology & Medicine
Professor Frederick Mendelsohn is Director of the Howard Florey Institute and R Douglas Wright Professor of Experimental Physiology and Medicine at the University of Melbourne. He held a Personal Chair in Medicine at the University of Melbourne until 1996 and was Senior Physician at the Austin & Repatriation Medical Centre.
The Howard Florey Institute is now the major medical research institute focussing on neuroscience, including its molecular and cellular aspects as well as human studies in functional brain imaging. The Institute’s research is devoted to improved understanding of normal brain function, as well as neurological and psychiatric disorders including developmental disorders, stroke, neurodegenerative disorders, addiction, epilepsy and multiple sclerosis.
His research focuses on neuropeptides and their receptors. He initiated studies on the localisation of angiotensin receptor subtypes in the brain that triggered a large body of work in his own laboratory, and by groups around the world, on the local actions of these peptides in the brain. More recently his group discovered that the AT4 receptor is a transmembrane spanning enzyme that has prominent effects in memory and learning.
He was a Chairman of the Angiotensin Gordon Conference USA (1998), Member of the Wills Committee on Health and Medical Research Strategic Review (1998-2000) and was the Eccles Lecturer to the Australian Neuroscience Society (2001). He was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 2003 and is a Past President of the Australian Neuroscience Society. He received the Order of Australia, Officer in the General Division in 2004.
Professor Richard Smallwood
AO, MD, FRACP, FRCP, FACP (Hon) Emeritus Professor of Medicine, University of Melbourne
Professor Richard Smallwood is an Emeritus Professor of Medicine, University of Melbourne.
As Professor of Medicine with the University of Melbourne, Professor Smallwood was Head of the Department of Medicine and Chairman of the Division of Medicine at the Austin and Repatriation Medical Centre. He was also Director of Gastroenterology at the centre, and has had over 30 years involvement in the teaching of undergraduates and postgraduates. He has published over 250 clinical and scientific papers, primarily in the field of the liver and its diseases. He was President of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians from 1996 to 1998.
In addition to his extensive Australian and international clinical and research experience, Professor Smallwood had a long standing association with the National Health and Medical Research Council. He was chair of the council from 1994 to 1997 and has been member or chair of several committees. He was a member of the Australian Health Ministers Advisory Council from 1993 to 1997.
In November 1999 he was seconded to Canberra as Australia’s Chief Medical Officer, a position he held until July 2003. In this role, Professor Smallwood provided support to the Minister and the Dept. of Health and Ageing across the full range of professional health issues, including health and medical research, public health, medical workforce, quality of care, evidence-based medicine and an outcomes-focused health system. He was Chair of the National Health Information Management Advisory Council and the National Health Priority Action Council. He also provided consultation and advice on international aspects of health, and in 2000 was a Vice President of the World Health Assembly in Geneva.
His present appointments include Chair of the National Blood Authority, Chair of the Ministerial Taskforce for Cancer in Victoria, Deputy President of the Australian Medical Council and Chair of its Specialist Education Accreditation Committee and Member of the Board of VicHealth.
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