Staff 2008
Director
Professor Peter McIntyre MB BS,
PhD, FRACP, FAFPHM
Head of Clinical Research
Professor Robert Booy MB BS (Hons),
MSc, MD, FRACP, FRCPCH
Senior Principal Research Fellow
Professor Raina MacIntyre MB BS
(Hons I), MAppEpid, PhD, FRACP, FAFPHM
Senior Research Fellows
Assoc Professor Glenda Lawrence BSc
(Hons), PhD, MPH (Hons), MAppEpid
Dr Nicholas Wood MB BS, DCH, FRACP
Dr Kristine Macartney BMedSci, MB
BS, Dip Paeds, MD
Dr Helen Quinn BSc (Hons),
PhD, MAppEpid
Dr Julie Leask DipAppSc, RM (midwifery),
MPH, PhD
Clinical Research Fellows
Dr Clayton Chiu MBBS, MRCP(UK), MPH&TM,
GradDipAppEpi, FAFPHM
Epidemiologists
Dr Aditi Dey MBBS, DTM&H, GradDipApplSc(HIM),
MPH, PhD
Mr Brynley Hull BSc (Hons.), MPH
Mr Robert Menzies BAppSc (Applied Bio),
MPH
Immunisation Research Medical Officer
Dr Leon Heron
Research Fellows
Dr Spring Cooper PhD
Manager, Policy Support
Dr Jane Jelfs PTC, PTHC, B AppSc (Med
Lab Sci), PhD MASM
National Indigenous Immunisation Coordinator
Ms Telphia Joseph
Statistician
Ms Han Wang MStats
Project Officers
Mr Ralf Itzwerth Dipl.Soz. [Hamburg
/ Germany], ACS, APIC
Dr Sanjay Jayasinghe MBBS, MSc
Senior Project Administration Officer
Ms Lyn Benfield
Research Officers
Dr Kevin Jiehui YIN MPH(Hons);
MBBS
Dr Deepika Mahajan PhD (Parasitic
Immunology)
Research Assistant
Ms Amanda Edkins
Dr Swati Ghotane MB
Ms Anita Heywood MPH
Clinical Nurse Consultant
Ms Mary-Ellen Byrne
Research Nurses
Ms Edwina Jacobs RN
Ms Rosemary Joyce RN
Ms Laura Rost RN
Ms Carol Shineberg RN
Ms Pamela Cheung RN
Ms Jennifer Murphy RN
Ms Elizabeth Clarke RN CM
Ms Camille Lang RN
Business Manager
Ms Karyn Phillips BAppSc(HIM)
Information Manager
Ms Catherine King BA GradDip (IM
- Librarianship) MAppSci (LIM) AALIA
Assistant Librarian
Mr Edward Jacyna BAppSc, GradCert
(DrugDev) GradDip (Info & LibStudies)
Editing and Publications Officer
Ms Donna Armstrong BAppSc (Biomedical
Science)
Personal Assistant
Ms Lynda Beaumont
Personal Assistant
Ms Nicole Jacobs
Personal Assistant
Ms Danielle Marchant
Senior Administration Officers
Ms Joanne Perkins
Senior Scientific Officer (Laboratory Studies)
Founding Director (1997-2003)
Professor Margaret Burgess MD BS,
FRACP, FAFPHM
Postgraduate Students
PHD Students
Dr Melanie
Wong MB BS, FRACP, FRCPA
Dr Julia Brotherton BMed (Hons), MPH
(Hons), GradDipAppEpi, FAFPHM
Governance Committee
Chair
Dr Tony Penna, CEO, The Children's Hospital at Westmead
Committee
Professor Peter McIntyre, Director, NCIRS
Professor Robert Booy, Head, Clinical Research, NCIRS
Professor Kathryn North, Douglas Burrows Professor,
Associate Dean and Head Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty
of Medicine, University of Sydney
The Children's Hospital at Westmead
A/Professor Chris Cowell, Chair, Division of Research, The Children's
Hospital at Westmead
Mr Robert Menzies, Acting Deputy Director, Surveillance
Dr Kristine Macartney, Deputy Director, Policy Support
Secretary
Ms Karyn Phillips, Business Manager, NCIRS
Scientific Advisory Committee
Chair
A/Professor Lyn Gilbert, Director, Centre for Infectious Diseases and
Microbiology, Institute of Clinical Pathology and Medical Research, Westmead
Hospital, Sydney
Deputy Chair
A/Professor Heath Kelly, Head Epidemiology Unit, Victorian Infectious
Diseases Reference Laboratory, Victoria
Committee
Professor Jonathan Carapetis, Director, Menzies School of Health Research,
Northern Territory
Dr Mike Gold, Senior Lecturer, University Department of Paediatrics and
the South Australian Immunisation Coordination Unit, Women’s and
Children’s Hospital, Adelaide
Dr Yasmine Gray, Director, Vaccine Preventable Disease Surveillance, Office
of Health Protection, Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing,
Canberra (from 2008)
Professor John Kaldor, Deputy Director and Professor of Epidemiology,
National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research, University
of New South Wales, Sydney
Dr John Litt, Senior Lecturer, Department of General Practice, Flinders
University, South Australia
Dr Jodie McVernon, NHMRC Postdoctoral Training Fellow, Senior Research
Fellow, Vaccine and Immunisation Research Group, MCRI and School of Population
Health
University of Melbourne, Victoria (from 2008)
Dr Paul Magnus, Medical Advisor, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare,
Canberra (to 2007)
Professor Terry Nolan, Head, School of Population Health, University of
Melbourne, Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne
Peter Richmond, Vaccine Trials Group, Telethon Institute for Child Health
Research, Subiaco, Western Australia (from 2007)
Dr Leslee Roberts, medical Epidemiologist Australian Government Department
of Health and Ageing, Canberra (from 2008)
Dr Paul Roche, Surveillance and Management Section, Communicable Diseases
and Surveillance Branch, Australian Government Department of Health and
Ageing, Canberra (to 2007)
Professor Tania Sorrell, Professor and Director, Centre for Infectious
Diseases and Microbiology, University of Sydney at Westmead; Head, Centre
for Clinical Research Excellence in Infections and Bioethics in Haematological
Malignancies, Sydney
Dr Lyndal Trevena, Researcher, Sydney Health Decision Group, General Practitioner,
University of Sydney, NSW (from 2008)
Professor Nicholas Zwar, Professor of General Practice, School of Public
Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney (from
2008)
Professor Peter McIntyre, Director, NCIRS
Professor Robert Booy, Head Clinical Research, NCIRS
Professor Raina MacIntyre, Senior Principal Research Fellow, NCIRS
Secretariat
Dr Leon Heron, Senior Clinical Research Fellow, NCIRS (from 2007)
NCIRS Advisory Board
Chair
Dr Tony Penna, CEO, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead
Committee
Ms Sue Campbell-Lloyd, Manager, Immunisation Unit, AIDS/Infectious Diseases
Branch, NSW Department of Health, Sydney
Ms Jenny Bourne, Assistant Secretary, Targeted Prevention Programs Branch,
Population Health Division, Australian Government Department of Health
and Ageing, Canberra (from 2007)
A/Professor Chris Cowell, Chair, Division of Research, The Children's
Hospital at Westmead
A/Professor Lyn Gilbert, Director, Centre for Infectious Diseases and
Microbiology, Institute of Clinical Pathology and Medical Research, Westmead
Hospital, Sydney
Professor Vance Gledhill, Business representative
Ms Susan Killion, Senior Executive, Health and Functioning Group, Australian
Institute of Health and Welfare, Canberra
Professor Kathryn North, Douglas Burrows Professor, Associate Dean and
Head, Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Medicine,
University of Sydney, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead
Professor Sally Redman, Chief Executive Officer, The SAX Institute, Sydney
(from 2008)
Professor Don Roberton, Pro Vice Chancellor, Division of Health Sciences,
Dean, Faculty of Medicine, University of Otago, Division of Health Sciences,
Dunedin, New Zealand (from 2008)
Professor Peter McIntyre, Director, NCIRS
Professor Robert Booy, Head Clinical Research, NCIRS
Professor Graham Brown, James Stewart Professor of Medicine, University
of Melbourne, Department of Medicine (RMH/WH), Royal Melbourne Hospital,
Melbourne (resigned in 2008)
Secretariat
Ms Karyn Phillips, Business Manager, NCIRS
The Children’s Hospital at Westmead
Observers
Dr Kristine Macartney, Deputy Director, Policy, NCIRS
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