7th International Conference on Medical Regulation November 2006 Wellington, New Zealand SPEAKER PROFILES in order of programme

Professor A John Campbell
Since 1976, Professor Campbell has been a consultant physician and physician in geriatric medicine. He was appointed Professor of Geriatric Medicine with the University of Otago in 1984. He became head of the Department of Medicine in 1988 and from 1995 to 2004 he was the Dean of Otago University's Faculty of Medicine. Professor Campbell joined the Medical Council of New Zealand in 2001 and is the current Chairperson. He has numerous professional affiliations and was a member of the National Advisory Committee on Health and Disability. Professor Campbell has convened or been a member of government committees on services for elderly people, medical workforce and training.


Professor Thanyani Mariba
Professor Thanyani Jonas Mariba is a Cardiologist and became a Senior Lecturer and Senior Specialist Cardiologist at MEDUNSA, until 1990. Since then he has held positions at the Ernest Oppenheimer Hospital in Welkom in the Free State and at the Department of Health in Venda. Between 1988 and 1991 he was a member of the Council of the University of Venda and became Chairman of the Council in 1991, a position that he held until 1993. In 1995 he became Deputy Director General of Health in the then Northern Province until 1998.

In 1998, Professor Mariba was appointed Vice-Principal: Satellite Campuses of MEDUNSA and held this position until he was appointed as Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences of the University of Pretoria in July 2001. He has served as chairperson and member of various committees and professional institutions.

Between 1995 and 2001 he was a member of the Board of the Medical Research Council of South Africa, Deputy Director General: Health in the Northern Province, Chairperson of the Welfare and Health Education Consortium and Chairperson of the MEDUNSA and Northern Province Department of Health and Welfare Executive Committee, and has held numerous other committee posts. He was President of the HPCSA from 2002-2004 and President of the Association of Medical Councils of Southern Africa from 2002-2004.

Professor Mariba is currently the Chairman of the Medical and Dental Professions Board, (HPCSA) and a member of the Executive Committee of the Senate of the University of Pretoria as well as the College Council of the SG Lourens Nursing College. He is the chairman of the Committee of Deans of the Faculties of Health Sciences in South Africa. He was elected President of the International Association of Medical Regulatory Authority in April 2004 in Dublin.


Professor Mason Durie
Professor Mason Durie is a member of the Rangitane, Ngati Kauwhata, and Ngati Raukawa tribes. He graduated in medicine in 1963 and completed a psychiatric residency at McGill University, Montreal in 1970. He was subsequently appointed Director of Psychiatry at the Palmerston North Hospital and from 1986-1988 was a Commissioner on New Zealand's Royal Commission on Social Policy.

Since 1988 he has been at Massey University, initially in Māori Studies and currently as Professor of Māori Research and Development and Assistant Vice-Chancellor (Māori). His research interests include cross-cultural and inter-cultural transactions and the interface between science and other bodies of knowledge.


Dr Manuel Dayrit
Dr Manual M Dayrit started as a community physician organising village health programmes in the Southern Philippines, he has served as a epidemiologist, civil servant, private sector executive, and member of the Cabinet. He was Minister of Health in the Philippines from 2001 to 2005. Coverage, quality and public perception of public health services improved under his leadership. He was awarded an Honorary Fellowship by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine from which he had obtained a Master of Science degree with distinction in 1982. As Director of the Department of Human Resources for Health of the World Health Organisation, Dr Dayrit seeks new opportunities to work in greater partnership with others who share the passion to improve the health of people everywhere.


Dr Jaime Tan
Dr Jaime Z Galvez Tan has the rare combination of the following expertise: solid grassroots community work in far remote doctorless rural areas; national and international health planning and programming, and work at the development of health policy level. He has worked with NGOs, international development agencies, the academics and government agencies.

Dr Tan is a Professor of the University of the Philippines College of Medicine; and the President of Health Futures Foundation, Inc. He has been Vice Chancellor for Research of the University of the Philippines Manila and Executive Director of the National Institutes of Health Philippines 2002-2005. He served as Regional Adviser in Health and Nutrition for East Asia and the Pacific Region of UNICEF in Bangkok in 1996. He served the Philippine Department of Health as Secretary in 1995 and as Undersecretary and Chief of Staff from 1992-94.

He acquired his Bachelor of Science at the University of the Philippines Diliman in 1970; his Doctor of Medicine, as one of ten most outstanding clinical clerks, University of the Philippines College of Medicine in 1974 and internship at the Philippine General Hospital in 1975 as one of ten most outstanding interns. He earned his Masters in Public Health with a Letter of Excellence, at the Prince Leopold Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, Belgium in 1984 & Fellowship 2000 at Bill and Melinda Gates Institute of Leadership and Management at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Maryland, USA.

After graduating Dr Tan began the community based health programmes in Leyte and Samar with the Rural Missionaries of the Philippines. He was Assistant Professor of the UP School of Health Sciences in Leyte, pioneering the stepladder curriculum for health sciences education. As National Training Director of AKAP, and an NGO, Dr Tan was involved in community based tuberculosis control in Cordilleras, Samar-Leyte, Davao, and Cavite. He has worked with the UNICEF Manila National Programme Officer for urban basic services, nutrition and children.

Dr Tan is co-writer of two books: and he has also authored 40 published papers on diverse subjects in medicine, health and development. He is a consultant to WHO, UNICEF, UNDP, UNFPA, ILO, World Bank, Asian Development Bank, AUSAID, JICA and USAID.



Dr Martin Bojar
Dr Bojar is currently Head of the Department of Neurology, 2nd Medical School, Charles University in Prague.

He is a member of many committees and Boards including the Committee of the Czech Bioethical Society, the Czech Gene and Cell Therapy Society, the Scientific Board of the 2nd Medical School Charles University Praha, the Scientific Board of the School of Humanistic Studies and the Advisory Board of the Ministry of Health. He is a Member of the Committee of the Inco Forum, Member of Neurological, Psychiatric, Neurophysiology and Pain Society of the Czech Medical Association, a Member of European Neurological Society, and a member of several Editorial Boards.


Professor Arjuna Aluwihare
Dr Aluwihare graduated from Cambridge in 1963 MBBChir (Cantab) and gained his fellowship, FRCS(Eng) in 1966, His academic qualifications include MChir (Cantab) 1970, MA (Cantab) FICS, FCS(SL), FRCS(E), FRCS(G), (FCPS(BD), FNatAcadSci(SL)

He is the author of many articles on surgery, university matters, and medical education and was Professor of Surgery 1985-2002 at the University of Peradeniya.

He has held clinical posts in Britain and Kuwait. One time Hunterian Professor RCS, England, Vice Chancellor Peradeniya, University Grants Commission Chairman Sri Lanka, WFME Executive Committee and Acting President SEARAME, SEAR and Global Advisory Committee of Health Research of WHO, Commissioner Human Rights Sri Lanka.


Dr Vinod Singh
Dr Singh graduated from Fiji School of Medicine in 1977. He worked in Fiji for about eight years before moving to New Zealand for postgraduate studies and later settling here.

He currently works as senior lecturer in Medicine for University of Auckland and as Specialist Physician in stroke and general medicine in North Shore Hospital, Auckland.

He has a strong interest in teaching at graduate and postgraduate levels and other than the Medical School appointments in Fiji and New Zealand he holds the position of Clinical Tutor Specialist for Overseas Trained Doctors for Waitemata District Health Board for the last three years. This involves extra coaching of overseas trained doctors in employment with the Health Board to help them integrate into the workforce.

He is an examiner for overseas doctors taking New Zealand registration examinations by the Medical Council of New Zealand.


Dr James Hallock
Dr Hallock is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG®).

Before joining ECFMG in February 2001, Dr Hallock served as the Dean of East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine since 1988 and as Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences since 1990. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Paediatrics and a member of the USMLE Composite Committee, the National Board of Medical Examiners and the Advisory Committee of the Institute for International Medical Education.

Dr Hallock serves as Chair of the Board of Directors of the Foundation for Advancement of International Medical Education and Research (FAIMER®), which is a separate non-profit foundation of the ECFMG.


Dr Anne Kolbe
Dr Kolbe, was until recently President of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, and is well known throughout the College for her commitment.

In 1990 she took up the position of Deputy Chairman, Board of Paediatric Surgery, then in 1993 moved to the position of Chairman of that Board. During 1996 Dr Kolbe was elected Councillor of the College. Subsequently, in 1998 she was elected Censor-in-Chief and in 2001 Vice President. Dr Kolbe has been a member of the Trauma Committee, the Court of Examiners and an EMST Instructor and Director.

She is a member of the RACS Council Committee on Women in Surgery, and serves on the Australian Medical Council’s Specialist Education Accreditation Committee, the Australian Federal Joint Working Group on Overseas Trained Specialists and is a Vice President of the Australian Committee of Presidents of Medical Colleges.

Dr Kolbe is a member of the New Zealand Department of Health Elective Services Prioritisation Steering Group and the New Zealand Health Workforce Advisory Committee’s Medical Specialist Reference Group.

On graduating from the University of Queensland she spent her intern year at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, South Australia and completed her training through the RACS Northern Regional Training Scheme in Auckland, New Zealand. During 1983 she joined Princess Mary Hospital as a Senior Paediatric Surgical Registrar, moving to the USA in 1984 to hold the position of Clinical Fellow, Paediatric Surgery and Assistant Professor of Paediatric Surgery at the Universities of Maryland & Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. On returning to New Zealand, she took up the position of Specialist Paediatric Surgeon and Director of the Trauma Service at the Starship, where she worked until 2001. Dr Kolbe operates a large and committed paediatric surgical practice in Auckland.

Dr Kolbe is an Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, Department of Paediatrics, University of Auckland, School of Medicine; and is the Deputy Chief Medical Officer at Waitemata District Health in Auckland.


Professor Pauline McAvoy
Professor McAvoy is the Associate Director (Assessment Development) at the National Clinical Assessment Service (NCAS) and a consultant to the General Medical Council (GMC) on performance assessment and the training of assessors. She has held senior management posts in the NHS, including Medical Director of Newcastle City Health NHS Trust, Chief Executive of Gateshead and South Tyneside Health Authority and Associate Postgraduate Dean at the University of Newcastle.

Professor McAvoy trained as a GP in Glasgow and, following a Teaching Fellowship in Canada, joined an inner city practice in Leicester and was appointed as Lecturer at the Medical School. Between 1989 and 1994 she lived in New Zealand and was Senior Lecturer in Primary Care at Auckland Medical School, and subsequently the Academic Dean, responsible for teaching, curriculum and assessment.

Professor McAvoy has a long term interest in the assessment of clinical competence, and has worked on a number of national initiatives including the Workplace Based Assessment subcommittee of the Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board (PMETB) and the development of the assessment framework for trainee doctors in the new Foundation Programme.

Contributing widely to literature Professor McAvoy was most recently co-editor of a book ‘Understanding Doctors’ Performance’ and is involved with international collaborations in the assessment of clinicians in practice.


Dr Tiina Kaigas
Dr Kaigas is both an experienced clinician and medical administrator, having served as Associate Registrar for the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario for almost a decade. Her interest areas are medical education and the assessment and remediation of practising physicians. She has lectured widely on these subjects and conducted and participated in numerous workshops on physician performance assessment.

Dr Kaigas has held numerous administrative positions with regulatory organisations and public hospitals. She is currently the Chief of Medical Staff at the Bermuda Hospitals Board and is also Director of Medical Quality Associates (a consulting firm providing expertise and solutions for physician quality and performance concerns) and Chair of the International Physician Assessment Coalition (IPAC).


Dr Murray Kopelow
Dr Kopelow is the Chief Executive and Secretary of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (www.accme.org), which has its offices in Chicago.

Dr Kopelow is a graduate of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba and certified in as a specialist in Paediatrics by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and participates in the Royal College’s maintenance of certification program. Prior to coming to the ACCME he was in critical care, emergency and general paediatric practice in the Department of Paediatrics, as well as Associate Dean for Continuing Medical Education, in the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.

He has been active in the development of programmes to assess individual’s professional competence and has worked on developing standardised-patient examinations and evaluation tools for medical schools and credentialling organisations in both Canada and the United States.

Dr Kopelow is a graduate from the Communication Systems Master’s degree program within the School of Speech at Northwestern University. He participated in the 2002 Kellogg Management Institute at Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management and through 2002 and 2003 was a participant in the Conflict Management Certificate Programme at the Graham School of General Studies, University of Chicago.

In 2003, Dr Kopelow was appointed to the academic staff of the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Chicago Pritzker School Of Medicine.



Ms Rae Lamb
Ms Lamb is Deputy Health and Disability Commissioner, Complaints Resolution.
She was appointed to this position in August 2005 under changes to the Health and Disability Consumer Act, and manages the teams responsible for the whole complaints resolutions process, including the triage and assessment of complaints, referrals to advocacy, providers or other agencies, and investigations.

Prior to this, she was Radio New Zealand's health correspondent, and in 2001-02 undertook research into the disclosure of medical errors in the United States at the Harvard School of Public Health and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in Boston.


Ms Liz Hird
Ms Hird has been a barrister since 1987 and has a wide-ranging commercial and administrative law practice.

Ms Hird has had a long involvement in community health beginning with the founding of the Otaki Women’s Health Group in 1987. She was also an initial member of the Otaki Community Health Committee of the Area Health Board and founding trustee and chair of the Otaki Community Health Trust. Recently Ms Hird has been a member of the Otaki Community PHO Steering Committee.

Ms Hird is also national legal adviser to Health Care Aotearoa (Inc), a network of community primary health providers and PHO’s. In 2002, Ms Hird was appointed a District Inspector of Mental Health Services for MidCentral DHB.


Mr Ron Paterson
Mr Paterson was appointed New Zealand Health and Disability Commissioner in March 2000. He has law degrees from Auckland and Oxford Universities. He has played a key role in the development of the New Zealand Code of Patients’ Rights in 1996; as well as lecturing on and publishing a wide range of topics in health law, ethics and policy.

Mr Paterson gave evidence on ‘Safeguarding Patients’ as an expert witness before the Shipman Inquiry in England in 2004, and in 2004-05 chaired two major health system reviews in Australia: the Review of the Assessment of Overseas Trained Surgeons, and the Review of National Arrangements for Safety and Quality of Health Care in Australia.


Dr David Collins QC
Dr Collins practises law as a Queen's Counsel in Wellington. He is Chairperson of the Medical Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal, the Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribinal and the Accident Compensation Corporation. Dr Collins is an Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Law at Victoria University, Wellington.



Dr Joanna Flynn
Dr Joanna Flynn is currently the President, Australian Medical Council and Medical Practitioners Board of Victoria.

Appointed to the Medical Practitioners Board of Victoria in 1989, Dr Flynn became the State’s first female President of the Board in July 2000. She became the Board's nominee on the Australian Medical Council in 2001. Dr Flynn has been the President of the Australian Medical Council since November 2003. Membership of AMC committees has included the Medical School Accreditation Committee and AMC accreditation teams reviewing both basic medical courses and specialist medical training programmes.

A general practitioner with extensive rural and urban experience, Dr Flynn works in general practice in West Brunswick. She is also an experienced medical educator and was for eight years the Director of The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners’ Training Programme in Victoria.


Dr John Norcini
Dr Norcini has been President and CEO of the Foundation for Advancement of International Medical Education and Research (FAIMER®) since May 2002. The Foundation’s mission is to improve international medical education. FAIMER has a database of recognised medical schools around the world, an active research program on international medical graduates, and fellowship programs designed for mid-level faculty from medical schools in developing countries.

For the 25 years before joining the Foundation, Dr Norcini held a number of senior positions at the American Board of Internal Medicine. Dr Norcini’s principal academic interest is in the area of the assessment of physician performance. He is on the editorial Boards of six peer reviewed journals in educational measurement and medical education and has published extensively.


Dr Hans Karle
Dr Karle has qualifications including: MD, Faculty of Medicine, University of Copenhagen 1962. DM.Sc. (Thesis), University of Copenhagen 1972 and a specialist diploma in Internal Medicine 1974 and specialist diploma in Haematology 1983.

He is a member of several Boards and Medical Societies including the Danish Society of Internal Medicine, Danish Society of Haematology and Danish Medical Society and is a Member of the Board and President of the Medical Society of Copenhagen.

Dr Karle’s other professional positions have included External Examiner, Universities in Denmark; Chairman, Danish Board of Medical Specialities; Member of the Board and President of the Nordic Federation for Medical Education; Member and President of the Advisory Committee on Medical Training, European Commission; Advisor to the Minister of Education and Minister of Health; Member of the Faculty Council, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen; President, World Federation for Medical Education (WFME) and Chairman, Curriculum Planning Committee, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen.

Dr Karle has taken part in extensive research activities and published many articles.


Mr Finlay Scott
Originally from Greenock, Mr Scott’s early career was in the civil service. Before joining the GMC, he was a senior civil servant in the Department for Education. Between 1990-94 he was on loan to the Universities Funding Council and then to the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), as Deputy Chief Executive. Among other things, Mr Scott set up HEFCE’s Quality Assessment Division.

Mr Scott has been the Chief Executive of the General Medical Council since 1994. Mr Scott is a governor of the London Metropolitan University. He is also a member of the Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board, an independent statutory body created in 2002 to supervise postgraduate medical education and training.

Mr Scott has been closely involved in the development of the International Association of Medical Regulatory Authorities (IAMRA), comprising organisations from across the globe. He is a member of IAMRA’s Management Committee.


Dr Steven Lillis
Dr Lillis received his medical degree from Auckland medical school and gained postgraduate qualifications in both general practice and sports medicine. He completed a Masters degree in 2001 and is currently enrolled in a Doctorate of Education.

He has been involved in both undergraduate and postgraduate teaching for many years and has been involved in the construction of postgraduate examinations since 1997. He is currently the Censor Examinations for the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners and the Examinations Director for the Medical Council of New Zealand.


Dr Mark O'Brien
Dr O’Brien is the Founder and Medical Director of the Cognitive Institute – the Commonwealth’s largest training organisation in Clinical Communication Skills and Risk Management. The Cognitive Institute delivers communication skills and risk management courses to Doctors, Nurses and Allied Health Professionals for Medical Defense Organisations, Royal Colleges, Hospitals, and governments in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and the United Kingdom. In 2005, over 10,000 clinicians undertook training with the Cognitive Institute throughout the world.

Based in Brisbane, the Cognitive Institute hosts visitors and clients from all over Australia and the Commonwealth.

Dr O’Brien is a regular national and international speaker on risk management, managing adverse outcomes and the relationship between litigation and interpersonal skills. He regularly undertakes consultancy work on risk management both within Australia and internationally for healthcare organisations where cultural change and training to address quality issues is required.

Dr O’Brien graduated from the University of Queensland in 1984 and was initially a rural General Practitioner and had a strong involvement in General Practitioner Education first as a Regional Coordinator/Medical Educator and then as a National Education Policy Consultant to the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners.

He is a published author and consults to Australian and international healthcare organisations on change management, improving culture and patient experience.


Dr Kerry Breen
Dr Kerry Breen has served as the Chair of the Australian Health Ethics Committee of the National Health and Medical Research Council from 2000-2006. As former Head of the Gastroenterology Department at St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne, he now works as a consultant physician in private practice.

He has served as President of the Medical Practitioners Board of Victoria and has been President of the Australian Medical Council. During those years he was actively involved in the development of IAMRA.

He has a special interest in undergraduate and postgraduate medical education in ethical and medicolegal issues pertaining to everyday medical practice. He is co-author of Ethics, Law and Medical Practice published in 1997.


 

Workshop Speakers
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