Life Governors
Kerrie Shaw
2021
Kerrie Shaw
2021
Kerrie Shaw Life Governor Citation 2021
Throughout her career, Kerrie Shaw has made a significant contribution to the elimination of TB and the promotion of respiratory health, through the delivery of high quality clinical care, the provision of education and training to support capacity building, and ensuring community access to evidence based, best practice care and treatment.
Kerrie is a Registered Nurse obtaining her qualifications in 1986. Following her initial training Kerrie went on to obtain qualifications in Renal Nursing in 1988 and worked in the area for five years. In 1992 Kerrie entered the speciality area of Respiratory Health and TB Prevention and Control. Since this time Kerrie’s achievements and contribution are numerous through her employment in the following roles:
· 2013 to Current - TB Coordinator/Clinical Nurse Consultant South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (Northern Sector)
· 2009 – 2013 Executive Officer of ARC
· 1998 – 2009 Manager of Department of Respiratory Medicine Wollongong Chest Clinic, TB Coordinator/TB and Respiratory Clinical Nurse Consultant South Eastern Sydney and Illawarra Area Health Service
· 1998 – 1992 Asthma Coordinator and TB Clinical Nurse Specialist South Eastern Sydney and Illawarra Area Health Service (Southern Sector).
In recognition of Kerrie’s contribution to, and expertise in the fields of respiratory health and TB Prevention and Control, Kerrie has held the following appointments:
· 2015 to Current – Member, TB Nurse Education National Reference Group and Steering Committee, Developing an Education Pathway for TB Nurses in Australia
· 2013 to Current – Appointed to ARC’s Board of Directors
· 2017 to 2019 & 2007 to 2009 Elected Member of the NSW Ministry of Health TB Advisory Committee
· 2011 – Appointed a Life Member of the Asthma Association
· 2009 to Current – Chair of ARC’s Project Advisory Group
· 2009 to Current – Founding Member of ARC Nurse Consultants Group
· 2009 to 2013 – Elected as the Chair and Program Secretary, Nurses and Allied Health Subsection of the International Union Against TB and Lung Disease
· 2006 - Appointed to the Board of the Australian Asthma and Respiratory Educators Association
· 2006 – Appointed to the National Asthma Expert Advisory Group
· 1992 – Appointed to the Board Asthma Educators Association (NSW).
During her employment as the Executive Officer of ARC, Kerrie implemented a number of activities that contribute the success of the organisation today. These initiatives include undertaking a review of ARC’s fundraising activities, expanding ARC’s training programs and project portfolio within the Indo-Pacific Region, building on relationships with key partners and stakeholders to increase the impact and reach
of the organisation, building community awareness through advocacy and co-hosting parliamentary TB awareness activities. Kerrie was instrumental in ARC being appointed as the host of the 5th Asia-Pacific Region Conference of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, held in Sydney in 2015. Kerrie through her appointment as a Director of ARC and Chair of the Projects Group continues to make a significant contribution to the work and activities of the ARC.
Kerrie is seen as an innovative nursing leader and has contributed significantly to the development of her nursing colleagues and peers. Kerrie was a member of the group that developed and implemented the Core Competencies for Asthma Education in Australia. Kerrie also led the development of the national clinical skill sets and competency standards for Australian TB Nurses and has contributed to the development of policy and practice guidelines that underpin the work of her nursing colleagues.
Kerrie has contributed to training, education and capacity building activities for nurses and outreach workers in TB Programs within Australia and the Indo-Pacific Region through her work with the ARC Nurse Consultants Group and during her employment as the Executive Officer of ARC.
Kerrie has worked in collaboration with ARC, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the US Centers for Disease Control to build skills, knowledge and capacity for her colleagues and peers. This has been achieved through activities such as development and delivery of the annual US Affiliated Pacific Islands TB Controllers Association training activity, support for the monthly US Affiliated Pacific island TB Nurses Network Meetings, the provision of technical advice and mentoring for regional TB Programs, the delivery of training at the WHO Stop TB Meetings, and the development of training materials and resources to support community and professional education.
Over the past twelve months Kerrie has worked with ARC and the Western Sydney University School of Nursing and Midwifery to develop the Graduate Diploma/Master of Nursing (TB Management). The development of the three speciality units of study within this course: the Clinical Management of TB, the Public Health Management of TB and Care and Treatment of People with TB has been led and undertaken by Kerrie, with support from the ARC Nurse Consultants Group. This course, the first of its kind internationally is an important contribution to workforce development globally and an important legacy for Kerrie and ARC.
Kerrie through her work and activities embodies ARC’s objectives to improve lung health for vulnerable communities in Australia and the Region, with the aim of creating a world free of tuberculosis and lung disease.
Throughout her career, Kerrie Shaw has made a significant contribution to the elimination of TB and the promotion of respiratory health, through the delivery of high quality clinical care, the provision of education and training to support capacity building, and ensuring community access to evidence based, best practice care and treatment.
Kerrie is a Registered Nurse obtaining her qualifications in 1986. Following her initial training Kerrie went on to obtain qualifications in Renal Nursing in 1988 and worked in the area for five years. In 1992 Kerrie entered the speciality area of Respiratory Health and TB Prevention and Control. Since this time Kerrie’s achievements and contribution are numerous through her employment in the following roles:
· 2013 to Current - TB Coordinator/Clinical Nurse Consultant South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (Northern Sector)
· 2009 – 2013 Executive Officer of ARC
· 1998 – 2009 Manager of Department of Respiratory Medicine Wollongong Chest Clinic, TB Coordinator/TB and Respiratory Clinical Nurse Consultant South Eastern Sydney and Illawarra Area Health Service
· 1998 – 1992 Asthma Coordinator and TB Clinical Nurse Specialist South Eastern Sydney and Illawarra Area Health Service (Southern Sector).
In recognition of Kerrie’s contribution to, and expertise in the fields of respiratory health and TB Prevention and Control, Kerrie has held the following appointments:
· 2015 to Current – Member, TB Nurse Education National Reference Group and Steering Committee, Developing an Education Pathway for TB Nurses in Australia
· 2013 to Current – Appointed to ARC’s Board of Directors
· 2017 to 2019 & 2007 to 2009 Elected Member of the NSW Ministry of Health TB Advisory Committee
· 2011 – Appointed a Life Member of the Asthma Association
· 2009 to Current – Chair of ARC’s Project Advisory Group
· 2009 to Current – Founding Member of ARC Nurse Consultants Group
· 2009 to 2013 – Elected as the Chair and Program Secretary, Nurses and Allied Health Subsection of the International Union Against TB and Lung Disease
· 2006 - Appointed to the Board of the Australian Asthma and Respiratory Educators Association
· 2006 – Appointed to the National Asthma Expert Advisory Group
· 1992 – Appointed to the Board Asthma Educators Association (NSW).
During her employment as the Executive Officer of ARC, Kerrie implemented a number of activities that contribute the success of the organisation today. These initiatives include undertaking a review of ARC’s fundraising activities, expanding ARC’s training programs and project portfolio within the Indo-Pacific Region, building on relationships with key partners and stakeholders to increase the impact and reach
of the organisation, building community awareness through advocacy and co-hosting parliamentary TB awareness activities. Kerrie was instrumental in ARC being appointed as the host of the 5th Asia-Pacific Region Conference of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, held in Sydney in 2015. Kerrie through her appointment as a Director of ARC and Chair of the Projects Group continues to make a significant contribution to the work and activities of the ARC.
Kerrie is seen as an innovative nursing leader and has contributed significantly to the development of her nursing colleagues and peers. Kerrie was a member of the group that developed and implemented the Core Competencies for Asthma Education in Australia. Kerrie also led the development of the national clinical skill sets and competency standards for Australian TB Nurses and has contributed to the development of policy and practice guidelines that underpin the work of her nursing colleagues.
Kerrie has contributed to training, education and capacity building activities for nurses and outreach workers in TB Programs within Australia and the Indo-Pacific Region through her work with the ARC Nurse Consultants Group and during her employment as the Executive Officer of ARC.
Kerrie has worked in collaboration with ARC, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the US Centers for Disease Control to build skills, knowledge and capacity for her colleagues and peers. This has been achieved through activities such as development and delivery of the annual US Affiliated Pacific Islands TB Controllers Association training activity, support for the monthly US Affiliated Pacific island TB Nurses Network Meetings, the provision of technical advice and mentoring for regional TB Programs, the delivery of training at the WHO Stop TB Meetings, and the development of training materials and resources to support community and professional education.
Over the past twelve months Kerrie has worked with ARC and the Western Sydney University School of Nursing and Midwifery to develop the Graduate Diploma/Master of Nursing (TB Management). The development of the three speciality units of study within this course: the Clinical Management of TB, the Public Health Management of TB and Care and Treatment of People with TB has been led and undertaken by Kerrie, with support from the ARC Nurse Consultants Group. This course, the first of its kind internationally is an important contribution to workforce development globally and an important legacy for Kerrie and ARC.
Kerrie through her work and activities embodies ARC’s objectives to improve lung health for vulnerable communities in Australia and the Region, with the aim of creating a world free of tuberculosis and lung disease.
Clinical Associate Professor Peter Gianoutsos
2012
MB CHB FRACP FACCP
Medicine, Central Clinical School, University of Sydney
Throughout his career in Respiratory Medicine, Peter Gianoutsos has made a significant contribution to the field of respiratory health in Australia, through the promotion of high quality clinical care, education, research and community access to best practice respiratory medicine.
He was the Senior Respiratory Physician at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital (RPAH), Sydney from 1971 to 2008.Throughout this period, Peter was closely involved with the development of the profession through the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand (TSANZ). His leadership skills were called upon by the TSANZ, NSW State Branch where he was both Treasurer and President. Here he oversaw saw important developments, such as continuing education. His interest in education was extended over the Torres Strait, where he was engaged as a visiting professor at the University of Papua New Guinea.
Peter has cultivated a broad professional network through his association with a variety of organisations. These include the American Thoracic Society, the American College of Chest Physicians and the British Thoracic Society, on which he served as Governor for Australia. He was engaged by the Medical Defence Union, where he served as Chairman of the Claims Committee and State Advisory Committee.
In addition to his service to professional associations, Peter served on the Boards of a number of related organisations. These include his Chairmanship of the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital Medical Board and United Medical Protection Limited’s, Medical Experts Panel and membership of the Medical Board of NSW and the United Medical Protection Limited’s Board of Directors.
Peter was instrumental in the establishment of the Australian Lung Foundation, a charitable body that provides funds for research and community support and went on to play a significant role in its success and expansion.
As an active lobbyist for lung health, Peter has utilised this professional network to promote activities in the community’s interest, such as the, Tobacco Plain Packaging Bill 2011.
In recognition of his contribution to development of the profession, Peter was appointed Clinical Associate Professor by the University of Sydney in 2006.
On retiring from his senior role at RPAH, Peter retained a consultant position at the hospital along with his academic post at the University of Sydney. He currently offers his services as a Respiratory Physician to the Medical Specialist Outreach Assistance Program (MSOAP), Coffs Harbour, Mid North Coast, New South Wales. MSOAP is a not-for-profit organisation, set up to provide rural communities with access to specialists, locally.
Peter was appointed to the Board of the Australian Respiratory Council (ARC) in 2006 and elected Vice President soon after, in 2008. Since that time, Peter has represented ARC on an annual basis at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the TSANZ and at other national/ international forums. ARC is proud of its partnership with the Cambodian Anti-Tuberculosis Association and in 2010. Peter was instrumental in negotiating a partnership between the TSANZ and ARC to co-fund the Cambodian TB Project. This partnership continues in 2012. Through his ongoing participation on ARC’s Board of Directors and Finance Committee, Peter continues to live his commitment to respiratory health, in the service of ARC’s mission.
Amanda Christensen AM
2011
Dip Nursing
NSW TB Program Manager, NSW Health Department
Amanda Christensen is the TB Program Manager, appointed to the position at New South Wales Health Department in 1997. Prior to this, Amanda held various positions in public health as a Clinical Nurse Consultant in a variety of settings including Corrections Health, Sexual Health and Family Planning. As TB Program Manager, NSW Health, Amanda was appointed to the Australian National Tuberculosis Advisory Committee in 1997.
Amanda obtained her Diploma of Nursing in 1983 and undertook further studies to achieve qualifications in Sexual Health and Family Planning. She was appointed to the Board of the Australian Respiratory Council (ARC) in 2001 and has been instrumental in developing the role of tuberculosis (TB) nurses and related workers in the Western Pacific Region. These contributions include: the facilitation of TB nurse training in Kiribati in 2005; the commencement of annual training workshops for nurses and related workers in the US Affiliated Pacific Islands (USAPIs) in 2006; the initiation of monthly case conference meetings for TB program teams in USAPIs and negotiated the first TB Nurses Workshop held at the Pacific Stop TB meeting in Fiji, 2010.
In 2008, Amanda led a team of ARC consultants in developing a training manual for TB Nurses in the Pacific.
In addition to this, Amanda has represented ARC at the annual meetings of the International Union of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (IUATLD) and biennial meetings of the IUATLD – Asia Pacific Region.
In 2008 Amanda was appointed Executive Director of ARC for a period of twelve months and became Chair of ARC’s Project Committee in 2009.
Professor Gavin Frost
2011
MB BS MPH FRACMA FAFPHM FHKCCM (Hon)
Acting Dean of Medicine, Sydney
Professor Frost is the Executive Dean of the School of Medicine at the Notre Dame School of Medicine, Fremantle and acting Dean of the School of Medicine, Sydney. Prior to this, he was an Associate Professor and Domain Head in Population and Public Health in the new Notre Dame University School of Medicine Sydney. Before his appointment to the Sydney campus he was General Manager (Business Development) with Aus Health International in NSW, developing overseas health projects including innovative community participation and community development models. Prior to this he was the Chief Medical Officer with MBF Australia, the nation’s largest private health insurance company for seven years.
Professor Frost is a medical graduate of Sydney University and the Sydney Hospital Clinical School, and holds a Masters degree in Public Health. He is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators, was its Censor-in-Chief from 1999 until 2005 and was recently President of the College. He is also a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. He was recently presented with an honorary fellowship of the Hong Kong College of Community Medicine for his work in developing administrative medicine training in Hong Kong.
In 1997-98 he was the CEO of Royal North Shore Hospital, a 750 bed teaching hospital of Sydney University.
For 2 ½ years prior to that he was the Senior Medical Advisor in the AIDS and Communicable Diseases branch of the Australian Commonwealth Department of Health. Before this secondment, he was the Deputy Chief Health Officer in the NSW Health Department for four years, acting as Chief Health Officer for part of that time.
He has also served as senior medical advisor in the office of the NSW Minister of Health, and as Director of Community Medicine at Sydney Hospital.
He has undertaken locums with the Royal Flying Doctor Service in Broken Hill and in remote centres in Australia.
In his Government roles, he has made numerous visits to China, and to Indonesia. He has also undertaken consultancies in Papua New Guinea, Romania, Qatar, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Libya and the Indian Ocean Territories of Cocos (Keeling) Islands, and Christmas Island.
Professor Frost was appointed to the Board of the Australian Respiratory Council (ARC) in 1980 and served as a Director till 2005. During this time, he was Director of Preventive Medicine and Director of the Health Information and Screening Service at Sydney Hospital. The ARC, in conjunction with the Sydney Hospital’s Health Information and Screening Service maintained a health screening programme targeting the workforce in and around the Sydney metropolitan area. The partnership commenced in 1978, continuing until 1992 and focused on detection of certain disorders requiring treatment, eg high blood pressure, elevated cholesterol and bowel cancer.
David Hugh Macintosh AM
2009
David Macintosh has devoted an enormous amount of time, energy and resources into ARC and other charitable bodies, which are dedicated to improving respiratory health of communities and promoting research in respiratory disease.
He has served on the Council of the Australian Lung Foundation for over a decade and he has been a member of the Board of the Australian Respiratory Council (ARC) since 1995 and he has been our ARC President since 2000. He is also a Governor of the Woolcock Institute of Medical Research (which is a charitable respiratory research institute) and he has chaired its Finance Committee since 2006.
He joined the Board at the time it was called Community Health & Anti-TB Association (CHATA). He was instrumental in moving CHATA from being a somewhat financially stagnant body to being an extremely progressive organization, with substantial financial returns from its invested funds. These funds were able to support important projects and research to improve respiratory health in underprivileged communities.
With his professional experience in property development and management, he was able to direct CHATA through its re-location from a quiet suburban location to a high profile CBD address. This has been a major step in the progress of the ARC to achieve its objectives as a major player in the field of respiratory charitable bodies.
In addition to his role in ARC, he has established and personally funded the Macintosh Foundation which provides the funding of the Macintosh Chair of Paediatric Respiratory Medicine at the Children’s Hospital Westmead. This is a magnificent example of his dedication to promoting respiratory health in the community and the humane care of patients with respiratory illness.
He has chaired the Board of ARC (formerly CHATA) since 2000. During this time he has used his finely tuned leadership, financial and management skills to expand the reach of the ARC to beyond a national role to be influential in respiratory care in the Western Pacific and in Papua New Guinea.
Emeritus Charles Baldwin Kerr
2006
Charles Baldwin Kerr is Emeritus Professor of Preventive and Social Medicine, University of Sydney. He was educated at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, the University of Sydney and Oxford and holds a Bachelor of Medicine and a Bachelor of Surgery, and a Doctor of Philosophy. He is a fellow of the Royal Australian College of Physicians and a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine. He is a member of the Human Genetics Association of Australasia, the Australian Public Health Association, the Australian Faculty of Public Health Physicians and the Doctors Reform Society.
Emeritus Professor Kerr was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 2004 for service to medicine in the fields of public health and human genetics, and to education.
Professor Kerr was a director of the Anti-Tuberculosis Association of NSW (and later Community Health and Anti-Tuberculosis Association) for 26 years between 1972 and 1998. He made a special contribution as chair of the planning and development committee until 1988. This committee instigated and managed the mobile Health Information and Screening Service that began in association with Sydney Hospital.
In his long and distinguished career at the University of Sydney, Professor Kerr trained a large cohort of medical graduates who were made aware of the consideration of public health issues in their practice of medicine. He carried this public health perspective through all his professional endeavours, including his directorship of what is now, the Australian Respiratory Council.
Emeritus Professor John Paul Seale AM
2006
John Paul Seale is Professor of Clinical Pharmacology at the University of Sydney. He was educated at the University of Sydney and the University of London. He holds a Bachelor of Medicine, a Bachelor of Surgery and a Doctor of Philosophy in Clinical Pharmacology.
Upon graduating from the Faculty of Medicine in the University of Sydney, Paul Seale undertook his residency at Sydney Hospital and was later a registrar post at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. After completing his postgraduate training, obtaining a membership and later Fellowship of the Royal Australian College of Physicians, Paul travelled to London to pursue his doctorate in Clinical Pharmacology. Returning to Australia in 1979 he was appointed Senior Lecturer in the Department of Pharmacology, held an advisory position with the pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim and was made a Consultant Physician in the Department of Respiratory Medicine at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital.
Professor Seale has made an outstanding contribution to the advancement of respiratory health in Australia and overseas. He is past President of the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand; past Council Member, Australian Lung Foundation; Council Member, Asian Pacific Society of Respirology; Congress President, 5th APSR Congress, Sydney 1998; Past Associate Editor, Respirology.
As well as Professor of Clinical Pharmacology at the University of Sydney, he is an Honorary Consultant Physician Respiratory Medicine, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and Research Leader, Clinical Trials Unit and Deputy Director, Woolcock Institute of Medical Research.
Professor Seale has published widely and is a much-in-demand figure to lecture to both national and international respiratory meetings. He continues to perform research particularly in the area of determining the efficiency, risks and benefit ratios of new drug treatment in asthma.
Professor Seale was elected to the board of Australian Respiratory Council in 1997 and continues to make a significant contribution to the mission and objectives of the Australian Respiratory Council. He has been a Vice-President since 2001.
Emeritus Professor Noel Martin AM
2003
Presented in recognition of his long-standing and distinguished contribution to Community Health and Tuberculosis Australia as a member since 1960 and as a Director since 1961. He was elected President of the Anti-Tuberculosis Association of New South Wales in 1967 and remained so until 1973 when the name of the organisation changed to the Community Health and Anti-Tuberculosis Association. He was President of that organisation from 1973 to 1994. He was appointed a Vice-President in 1995 and an Emeritus Vice-President in 1999.
He has been a leading advocate for community health over many years. His leadership during his Presidency provided Community Health and Tuberculosis Australia with the opportunity to make a significant contribution to public health in New South Wales.
Emeritus Professor Ian Webster AO
2003
Presented in recognition of his contribution to community health as a distinguished academic particularly, as Professor of Community Medicine from 1975 to 1989 and Professor of Public Health from 1990 to 2001 at the University of New South Wales.
He has been involved in a wide range of organisations and public affairs related to community health, especially those assisting the socially disadvantaged. One of these organisations has been Community Health and Tuberculosis Australia. He became consultant physician to the Community Health and Anti-Tuberculosis Association in 1973, a Director in 1976 and served as President in 1994-1995. During 2002-2003 he chaired Community Health and Tuberculosis Australia’s history working group where he provided valuable insight into many of the issues and events raised during historical research.
Clinical Professor Iven Young AM
2003
Professor Iven Young, Professor Iven Young is Head of the Department of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital.
He has a particular interest in lung function testing, the pulmonary mechanisms of respiratory failure, and the management of chronic lung diseases including COPD.
He has authored and co- authored many publications on respiratory health over many years.
Presented in recognition of his contribution to Community Health and Tuberculosis Australia since his appointment as a Director, particularly as chair of the Research Committee. He became a member and Director in 1998.