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Professional Standards and Fellowship Services Committee

About the Professional Standards and Fellowship Services Committee  [PSFSC].

Overview

The Professional Standards and Fellowship Services Committee  [PSFSC] is responsible to Council for providing the policy framework to:

  • ensure maintenance of competence of Fellows
  • provision of high-quality surgical care to patients.

The PSFSC meets in February, June and October each year.

The Committees and groups below report to the  PSFSC.

Membership

Dr Christine Lai
  • Dr Christine Lai, Chair- Professionals Standards and Fellowship Services 
  • Professor Henry Woo , Chair - Professional Standards
  • Professor Mark Ashton, Chair - Fellowship Services  
  •  Dr Nicola Hill , Chair - Research and Academic Surgery
  • Professor Deborah Bailey, Chair - ASC Conference and Events
  • Dr Adrian Anthony - Censor in Chief

Specialty society representatives

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  • Dr Mark Jackson, Australian and New Zealand Society of Vascular Surgery Associate Professor
  • Associate Professor Susan Liew, Australian Orthopaedic Association
  • Dr Marco Larobina, Australasian and New Zealand Society of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgeons
  • Professor Eng Ooi, Australian Society of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery
  • Dr Greg Keogh, General Surgeons Australia
  • Dr Rachel Care, New Zealand Society of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery
  • Dr Yvonne Chow, Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons
  • Dr Simon Bann, New Zealand Association of General Surgeons
  • Dr Sandhya Deo, New Zealand Association of Plastic Surgeons
  • Dr Michael Flint, New Zealand Orthopaedic Association
  • Associate Professor Amal Abou-Hamden, Neurosurgical Society of Australasia
  • Associate Professor Prem Rashid Urological Society of Australia and New Zealand

Co-opted members

  • Dr John Quinn, Executive Director of Surgical Affairs (Australia)
  • Dr Sarah Rennie - Surgical Advisor AoNZ
  • ASC Planning & Review Committee
  • Fellowship Services Committee
  • Professional Standards Committee
  • Research, Audit & Academic Surgery Committee
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