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Associate Professor Philip McCahy, Clinical Director, Chair, Victorian Audit of Surgical Mortality

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Michelle Wolthuizen, Director, Health and Safety Insights, Safer Care Victoria
Dr Shirin Anil, Manager, Consultative Council Unit, Safer Care Victoria
Prof David Scott, Chair, Victorian Perioperative Consultative Council, Safer Care Victoria
Adina Hamilton, Acting Executive General Manager, Victorian Agency for Health Information
Dr Wai-Ting Choi, Representative, Plastic Surgery
Dr Ian Faragher, Representative, General Surgery
Dr Debjyoti Karmakar, Representative, Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
Dr Andrea Kattula, Chair, Representative, Victorian Consultative Council on Anaesthetic Mortality and Morbidity
Dr Patrick Lo, Representative, Neurosurgical Society of Australasia
Dr Amiria Lynch, Representative, Australasian Association of Paediatric Surgery
Dr Theodoros Partsalis, Representative, Australian Orthopaedic Association
A/Prof Jocelyn Shand, Representative, Dental Practice Board
Denice Spence, Consumer representative
Dr Mariolyn Raj, Representative, Urological Society of Australia and New Zealand
Dr Timothy Wagner, Representative, Australian and New Zealand Society of Vascular Surgery
Dr Katherine Worsley, Representative, Royal Australian College of Medical Administrators
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r Adam Zimmet, Representative, Cardiothoracic Craft Group

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Dr Helena Kopunic, Surgical Audits Manager, Research, Audit and Academic Surgery
Dr Nathan Procter, Project Manager, Victorian Audit of Surgical Mortality
Andrew Chen, Senior Project Officer, Victorian Audit of Surgical Mortality
Jessele Vinluan, Senior Project Officer, Victorian Audit of Surgical Mortality

Meeting dates

VASM Management Committee meetings listed below. Venue will be advised closer to the time.

  • Wednesday 15 March 2023 at 6.00pm
  • Wednesday 19 July 2023 at 6.00pm
  • Wednesday 15 November 2023 at 6.00pm

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VASM - Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
GPO Box 2821
Melbourne VIC 3001 Australia

Telephone: +61 3 9249 1153
Email:[email protected]

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