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EXECUTIVE PROFILE Steven Nailer was born in Launceston, Tasmania in 1958, and is married with 3 adult children. Steven is employed by the Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science and has been for the past 15 years. During this time Steven has worked in many divisions and in many disciplines of laboratory science including Microbiology, Haematology, Haemostasis, Clinical Chemistry, Anatomical Pathology, Blood and Bone Banking. Steven is currently manager of both the South Australian Tissue Bank and the Royal Adelaide Hospital mortuary, with 5 years experience in the Bone Banking sector. Steven is a member of the South Australian Transplant & Organ Donor Advisory Council and he has worked with the Community Services & Health Industry Skills Council’s Industry Reference Group, to establish TAFE training to diploma level for mortuary technicians and tissue bankers. He has been requested to advise the South Australian Department of Health in matters pertaining to the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) and tissue donation, and he hopes to maintain this close liaison. Prior to this, Steven had 10 years of military service with the Australian Department of Defence, Royal Australian Army Medical Corp (RAAMC). During this time he was stationed mostly in Sydney, Brisbane and Townsville units of the RAAMC working in the field, bush settings, and the hospital environments of the military and general community, graduating from the Queensland University of Technology with an Associate Diploma in Clinical Laboratory Techniques. ANNE COWIE – Musculoskeletal Banking Representative, Treasurer Anne Cowie is currently the Managing Director of the Perth Bone & Tissue Bank, an organisation which she established in 1993, which has now grown to employ 11 staff. Anne is responsible for the co-ordination of the functions of the Bank, as well as holding financial responsibility for the Bank’s operations. Over the years since completing training to become a registered nurse with an orthopaedic operating theatre background, Anne has completed numerous courses in management and tissue banking, including being the first Certified Tissue Banking Specialist in Australia by successfully completing the American Association of Tissue Banks (AATB) Specialist Certification Examination in 1995. Anne is heavily involved in liaison with DonateWest, the Western Australian state donation agency, which has assisted greatly with the tissue donation focus in WA. Anne is a professional member of a number of transplant focused organisations, including AATB, ATCA, and TSANZ, and has an active role in the Australian Tissue Sector Steering Committee of Australians Donate. Anne is married and has a 16 year old son. She is also actively involved in parent activities at her son’s school, including fundraising and voluntary work. LISA SPARKS – Stakeholder representative (ATCA) Lisa Sparks holds a Bachelor of Applied Science (Medical Laboratory Science) and a Certificate in Workplace Leadership. Lisa started working at the Queensland Heart Valve Bank (QHVB) in May 1999 with a goal to get back to 100 heart tissue donor consents per year. The QHVB achieved this target two years running, in 2003 and 2004. Lisa has previously worked as a sales representative, a quality manager, and also a red cell serology scientist. Lisa is a member of the Australian Institute of Medical Scientists, ATCA/TSANZ and is the ATCA representative on the Executive Committee of the ATBF. She recently took part in procuring kangaroo heart valves for a collaborative research project with a group in Belgium, resulting in a published article (Artificial Organs 30(6):432-439 Hydrodynamic evaluation of kangaroo aortic valve matrices for tissue valve engineering). DR LINDA MANNING – Cardiac Banking Representative Dr Linda Manning (BA – Microbiology, PhD – Microbiology/Immunology) arrived in Perth, WA on that fateful day in 1983 that Australia first won the Americas Cup. Being from Kansas, USA she didn’t really understand what all the fuss was about, but it was a great introduction to the country. Linda was employed as a Senior Research Officer in Immunology at Royal Perth Hospital (RPH) studying immunological alterations associated with myasthenia gravis, and with HIV/AIDS. After 3 years she moved to the University Department of Medicine at QEII where her research interests focused on the development of human and murine mesothelium cell lines for testing the efficacy of various immuno-therapies in vitro (eg: IL-2; LAK cells; IFNα…), some of which subsequently progressed to clinical trials for the treatment of this malignancy. In 1991 Linda became the Scientist in Charge of the Research Unit at Fremantle Hospital, managing the labs and animal facility, and supervising Honours and medical students investigating the efficacy of immuno-, chemo- & radio-therapies for the treatment of diseases as diverse as multiple myeloma to malaria. She again developed cell lines (murine myeloma cell lines) and both these and the mesothelioma cell lines are still being used by research groups throughout the world for a variety of studies. In 1996, Linda returned to RPH as the medical scientist in charge of the research centre labs & animal facility. It was at this time that the RPH Heart Valve Bank became TGA-licensed and Linda became the Production Manager nominee for this Bank. In 2003 she became the Acting Principal Scientist of the Research Centre and was also elected as the Heart Valve Bank representative on the ATBF Executive Committee. In 2004 Linda was appointed as the Quality Manager nominee for the Cellular & Tissue Therapies Facility of WA (CTTWA), which is responsible for the manufacture of all therapeutic products for RPH (eg: currently heart valves and skin with cord blood, serum eye drops, and haematopoietic stem cells coming on line). In summary, Linda’s background is medical research, human and animal ethics, and more recently, tissue banking and associated regulations, which has been an interesting journey and continues to be a challenging one. KELLIE HAMILTON – Skin Banking Representative, Secretary Kellie Hamilton graduated from Monash University with a Bachelor of Science in 1994. Following completion of her basic degree, Kellie sought an Honours project associated with anatomy. It was through the university affiliation with the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine (VIFM) that Kellie was offered a project on establishing methodology to demineralise human bone for transplantation for the Donor Tissue Bank of Victoria (DTBV) with Lyn Ireland as her mentor. Following successful completion of this project in 1995, Kellie was offered a full time role with the Bank as a scientist, where for many years she actively participated in retrieval, processing, storage and dispatch of musculoskeletal, cardiac and skin tissue. In 2001 Kellie became Senior Scientist at the Bank, managing the team of scientists and technicians, and continuing research validation studies into demineralisation and freeze drying techniques. Kellie has gained valuable experience working with the regulator (TGA) to register demineralised bone matrix as a device, the first such license in Australia. She returned to distance education study in 2003/2004 completing medical microbiology subjects as an associate student at Charles Sturt University. More recently, Kellie’s role at the DTBV has changed so that she is now responsible for new product development. Kellie has been involved with the ATBF as a staff member of a member bank since its inception, and she greatly values the collaborative nature of the organisation and enjoys the interaction with her colleagues around Australia. Kellie is married, lives in Melbourne, and enjoys playing sport, particularly A-grade netball and she is a passionate supporter of the Sydney Swans! She is a member of the AATB and the ANZFSS. JANE BEARD – Consumer Representative Jane Beard was born in and grew up in New Zealand, where she qualified as a registered nurse. After her training she travelled overseas for 3 years working as a nurse in England and Norway. During this time she met her Australian husband and after a short return to New Zealand, moved to Melbourne in January 1980 and married in July of the same year. Over the past 26 years Jane has gained further qualifications – Intensive Care Certificate, Bachelor of Nursing, Graduate Diploma of Education (Clinical Instruction) and she is currently undertaking a Graduate Certificate in Mental Health Nursing. Jane has largely worked in acute care/intensive care settings and in tissue banking. She has extensive experience around families experiencing sudden death, and coordinated responses to families around media coverage of past autopsy practices. Jane is involved in volunteer work as a community visitor for the Office of the Advocate, which involves representing community expectations and advocating for vulnerable residents in care facilities. RON SIMARD – Musculoskeletal Banking Representative Ron Simard has a diverse technical, managerial and senior executive background in a health care career which began in 1964. Ron was Certified and Registered as a Medical Laboratory Technologist in 1965, progressing from a technical level to the senior non-medical Head of the Department of Laboratory Medicine of a 1000 bed tertiary Hospital in 1976. In 1983 Ron became the Chief Executive Officer of an acute care hospital in Canada, in 1990 relocated to Australia to the senior management position of an aged care organisation in Australia, and in 1994 went to Western Australia as Manager of a Pilot Multi Purpose Service (MPS). In 1996 Ron accepted the position as the Manager of the Queensland Amputee Limb Service, a role he carried for five years and then completed a project as the District Implementation Manager for Lattice and ESP (Rostering & Payroll system) at a major tertiary Hospital prior to joining the Queensland Bone Bank in late 2002 as the Manager. Ron has a history of success in both private and public environments in acute care, aged care and community based service. Ron enjoys an environment where challenge and change are the norm. ALLAN TURNER - Community Representative
Allan is founder of Zaidee’s
Rainbow Foundation, formed in honour of his daughter Zaidee who suddenly died in
December 2004 at the age of 7 years and 22 days from a burst blood vessel in her
brain. Zaidee was the only child under the age of 16 years to be an organ and
tissue donor in the state of
Allan has promoted organ and
tissue awareness with the national media organizations such as The Gift, Enough
Rope with Andrew Denton in his quest to increase the organ and tissue donation
rate in
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