Dr Kerry Hancock
Dr Kerry Hancick has been principal for 24 years of a self established group general practice in the southern suburbs of Adelaide, South Australia.
She is the Current Chair GP Asthma Group of NAC and GP Advisory Group of Australian Lung Foundation. Sje is also a Member of Medical and Scientific Committee Asthma Foundation of SA (previous Chair, Principal Medical Officer and Board Member 2001 – 2005)
Kerry is Senior Lecturer, Primary Care Respiratory Research Unit, Dept General Practice, a the University of Adelaide and Supervisor for GP registrars and post grad medical students and (general practice based) interns.
Mr Tony Healy
Tony Healy commenced the role of National Coordinator for the Asthma Friendly Schools program in September 2005. This position is based in SA and involves working with the Asthma Foundations and their Asthma Friendly Schools Coordinators in each state and territory of Australia to manage the national roll-out of the program.
Tony's working background is predominantly in the education sector including teaching in SA and the UK, and 2 years as a Curriculum Officer for the Education Department of SA. Following this he worked as a Senior Policy Officer for the Department of Human Services managing a youth development program for the Office for Youth.
Tony was a small business operator prior to commencing his role as National Coordinator for the Asthma Foundations.
Associate Professor Adam Jaffé
Associate Professor Adam Jaffé is the Director of Respiratory Medicine at Sydney Children's Hospital, Randwick. He chairs the Aiming for Asthma Improvement in Children in South East Sydney and Illawarra Area Health Service. He trained in Sydney and London. He was head of respiratory medicine research at Great Ormond Street hospital for Children in London for 5 years before seeing the light and moving to Sydney in 2006.
His research interests include difficult asthma, inflammation and cystic fibrosis. He has over 70 publications and raised more than $1.5 million in grant money.
Ms Tracey Marshall
The focus of my work as Clinical Nurse Consultant is to provide specialist advice on asthma education and smoking cessation for parents, carers, children, adolescents and health professionals. To develop, facilitate implementation and evaluation of Asthma Management and Education Programs in health promotion and health professional training and education at CHW, Sydney West Area Health Service (SWAHS), Community Organisations and other Health Area Services.
The development of educational and management resources such as practice guidelines for health professionals, in order to enhance clinical practice by health professionals for children and their families with asthma and the provision of clinical leadership support to nursing staff at CHW. I have an active role in the strategic, quality improvement and clinical services planning for the Asthma Education Service, Respiratory Function Unit within the Department of Respiratory Medicine.
Ms Toni Riley
Toni Riley is a community pharmacist with 30 years' experience, currently practising in Bendigo, Victoria. A major focus in her current pharmacy is the provision of pharmacy services to residential care facilities, as well as involvement in opiate replacement programs and the delivery of primary health care services to the patients in her pharmacy.
Toni's interests lie in advancing the services of pharmacists and improving the working relationships between doctors and pharmacists. She is a member of the Pharmacist Action Group of the National Asthma Council and also the Pharmacy Review Group of the National Prescribing Service.
She encourages all pharmacists to actively participate in professional programs, such as Home Medicines Review, Dose Administration Aids, Patient Medication Profiles, Diabetes Medication Assistance Service and, of course, opiate replacement programs. She is also a strong advocate of improving the services and technologies available to rural pharmacies and the status of women within pharmacy.
Toni is an active member of the Pharmacy Guild of Australia and is the Vice President and (re)elected representative for Central Victoria on the Victorian Branch Committee. She is also on the Guild's National Council. Toni was amongst the leaders of pharmacy that negotiated the Fourth Community Pharmacy Agreement with the Federal Government - and is now involved in the ongoing management of the Agreement as a member of the Agreement Consultative Committee and Pharmacy Professional Services Advisory Committee. Toni was recently appointed the Chair of the Guild's Health Economics Committee - and as such will play a pivotal role, representing community pharmacy, in discussions about a Fifth Agreement.
Toni believes the future of community pharmacists is ever-changing and extremely exciting, with: the ageing of our population; the increasing complexity of medicines; and the immense demands on all health professionals. The Health Minister's leadership in development of a team approach to healthcare offers pharmacy and pharmacists an amazing opportunity to use all the skills and knowledge we have for the community's benefit.
Dr Norman Swan (Chair)
Dr Norman Swan regularly presents Rural Health Education Foundation satellite broadcasts.
He is best-known for his wide broadcasting experience, including the award-winning Health Report, which he produces and presents for ABC Radio National - as well as his other ABC Radio and Television program hosting.
Dr Swan trained in Medicine in Scotland and in Paediatrics in London and Sydney. A broadcaster and journalist with the ABC's Science Unit since 1982, he has been Australian Producer of the Year and was awarded a Gold Citation in the United Nations Media Peace Prizes.
In 2004 Dr Swan was honoured by the Australian Academy of Science, which presented him with an Academy Medal, only the third time such an award has been made. The Academy gave it for his outstanding contributions to science in the public domain. Around the same time, the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow made him a Fellow.
He has won an Australian Writers' Guild Award, three Walkley National Awards for Journalism and the Michael Daley Award for Science Journalism on two occasions.
In addition to his broadcasting, he edits his own newsletter, The Health Reader, published in association with Choice magazine, and has been the Australian correspondent for the Journal of the American Medical Association and the BMJ. He has also consulted to the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Geneva.
