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Information about the Professional Development and Standards Board (PDSB).

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The Professional Development and Standard Board (PDSB) is responsible to Council for providing the policy framework to:

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  • provision of high quality surgical care to patients.

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

The Committees and groups below report to the Professional Development and Standards Board.

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Dr Sally Langley - Chair
Professor Andrew Hill, Chair - Professional Standards
Mr Lawrie Malisano, Chair - Professional Development
Ms Ruth Bollard, Chair - Fellowship Services
Professor Mark Frydenberg, Chair - Research and Audit
Professor John Crozier, Chair - Surgical Audit
Professor Owen Ung - ASC Planning and Review Committee
Associate Professor Phill Carson - Censor in Chief

Specialty society representatives

Mr Russell Taylor, Australian and New Zealand Association of Paediatric Surgeons
Dr Roxanne Wu, Australian and New Zealand Society of Vascular Surgery
Associate Professor Susan Liew, Australian Orthopaedic Association
Dr Emily Granger, Australasian and New Zealand Society of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgeons
Dr Fiona Whelan, Australian Society of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery
Professor David Fletcher, General Surgeons Australia
Dr Nicola Hill, New Zealand Society of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery
Dr Alexandra Turner, Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons
Mr Simon Bann / Mr Andrew Moot, New Zealand Association of General Surgeons
Mr Gary Duncan, New Zealand Association of Plastic Surgeons
Mr Edward Yee, New Zealand Orthopaedic Association
Mr Erica Jacobson, Neurosurgical Society of Australasia
Professor Mark Frydenberg, Urological Society of Australia and New Zealand

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Dr John Quinn, Executive Director of Surgical Affairs (Australia)
Mr Richard Lander, Executive Director of Surgical Affairs (New Zealand)

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