ANZASM Steering Committee

The ANZASM has been formed to engage and progress the audit implementation in all regions. It provides a forum to support and guide the development of the audit in all states and New Zealand to ensure that both consistency and high standards are met.

The Chair, Professor Guy Maddern, is a senior College Councillor and a strong advocate of surgical audits. The General Manager is Associate Professor Wendy Babidge.

The RACS Council in 2004 endorsed coordinating the bi-national roll out of Audits of Surgical Mortality. To ensure appropriate governance, standardisation and consistency between the audits a bi-national approach needs to be adopted. In line with this, an Australasian Audit of Surgical Mortality Steering Committee will manage and coordinate the roll-out and maintenance of the audits. The board is accountable directly to Council for fulfilment of the responsibilities outlined in its Terms of Reference (PDF 72.4KB).

Professor Guy Madden, Chair, ANZASM Steering Committee

Members

Dr John Crozier, Chair, Surgical Audit Committee
Dr Sivakumar Gananadha, ACTASM Clinical Director
Dr David Robinson, CHASM Clinical Director
A/Professor Tony Pohl, SAASM Clinical Director
Mr James Aitken, WAASM Clinical Director
Mr Rob Bohmer, TASM Clinical Director
Dr John North, QASM/ NTASM Clinical Director
Dr Sabu Thomas, NTASM Chair
A/Professor Philip McCahy, VASM Clinical Director
Dr Maxine Ronald, POMRC (NZ) Representative
Dr Susan Valmadre, RANZCOG National Representative
TBA, ANZCA National Representative
Mr Graham Beaumont, HealthCare Representative
A/Professor Lourens Bester, RANZCR Representative

In attendance

Dr John Quinn, EDSA, Australia
Mr Richard Lander, EDSA, NZ
Dr Siva Senthuran, ICU Representative
A/Professor Wendy Babidge, General Manager, RAAS
Dr Helena Kopunic, Surgical Audit Manager, RAAS
Dr Nathan Procter, ACTASM/SAASM Project Lead
Mrs Jenny Allen, QASM/NTASM Project Manager
Ms Lisa Lynch, TASM Project Manager
Dr Franca Itotoh, WAASM Project Manager
Ms Lisa Ochiel, CHASM Project Manager
Mr Andrew Chen, Acting VASM Project Manager

To be advised.

All general enquiries can be directed to:

Surgical Audits Manager - Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
Research, Audit and Academic Surgery Division
24 King William Street
Kent Town SA 5067, Australia
Telephone: +61 08 82190937
Email: Helena.Kopunic@surgeons.org