ANNUAL REPORT - Northern Health
ANNUAL REPORT - Northern Health
ANNUAL REPORT - Northern Health
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The <strong>Northern</strong> <strong>Health</strong> Board<br />
<strong>Northern</strong> <strong>Health</strong> Directors, 2009/10<br />
(Back Row) Brian Joyce; Stephen Black; Steve Hay; Professor Vin Massaro.<br />
(Front Row) Sue Renkin; Dr Sandra Hacker (Chair); Sabine Phillips; Marilyn Beaumont.<br />
Absent: Ray Judd<br />
Dr Sandra Hacker, AO<br />
Dr Sandra Hacker, AO chairs the Board of <strong>Northern</strong><br />
<strong>Health</strong> and sits on its Finance, Audit & Risk, Quality and<br />
Remuneration and Appointments Committees.<br />
Prior to her <strong>Northern</strong> <strong>Health</strong> appointment, she served on<br />
the Eastern <strong>Health</strong> Board, as Chair of the Primary Care &<br />
Population <strong>Health</strong> Committee and the Quality Committee,<br />
and as a member of the Finance Committee.<br />
Dr Hacker is a psychiatrist in private practice, who also works<br />
as a liaison psychiatrist at the Alfred Hospital Heart/Lung<br />
Transplant Unit. Her prime area of clinical interest is in severe<br />
trauma and her clinical work involves mostly long-term<br />
psychotherapy with adult victims of severe childhood sexual<br />
assault.<br />
She is Chair of the Mental <strong>Health</strong> Research Institute and<br />
Deputy Chair of the Human Genetics Advisory Committee. In<br />
September 2009, Dr Hacker was appointed to the position<br />
of Chair of the Australian <strong>Health</strong> Ethics Committee. She is<br />
Deputy Chair of the Human Genetics Advisory Committee,<br />
a principal committee of the National <strong>Health</strong> & Medical<br />
Research Council, and was a member of the National <strong>Health</strong><br />
and Medical Research Council and of the NHMRC <strong>Health</strong><br />
Privacy Working Party.<br />
She chairs the Cunningham Dax collection of Psychiatric<br />
Art advisory committee and is a member of the Victorian<br />
Medical Benevolent Association. She is chairperson of<br />
the Inner Suburban subdivision of AMA Victoria and is a<br />
councillor of AMA Victoria. She sits on the health panel in<br />
Victoria for the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust.<br />
Dr Hacker is a former chair of the Australian Institute of<br />
<strong>Health</strong> & Welfare, is a past president of the AMA Victoria<br />
and a former federal vice-president of the AMA. She was<br />
secretary of the Royal Australian & New Zealand College of<br />
Psychiatrists, and a former College Censor.<br />
Dr Hacker was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia<br />
(AO) in the Australia Day Honours List of 2005 for services to<br />
the medical profession. Her major non-professional interests<br />
are her family, opera and classical orchestral music, foreign<br />
film and literature.<br />
6 09/10 <strong>Northern</strong> <strong>Health</strong> Annual Report