ANNUAL REPORT - Northern Health

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