• Contents
• Letter of transmittal
• User guide
• Part 1: Overview
• Part 2: Highlights of 2010–2011
• Part 3: Performance
• Part 4: Horizon scanning
• Part 5: Corporate governance
• Part 6: Financial management and accountability
• Appendices
  • A1 The National Blood Agreement: objectives of governments
  • A2 Blood sector stakeholders and governance
  • A3 National Blood Authority agency resource statement
  • A4 Biographies of NBA Board members
  • A5 Fresh blood components supplied under contract by the Blood Service in 2010–11
  • A6 Plasma and recombinant products supplied under contract in 2010–11
  • A7 Units of red cells, platelets and IVIg issued per 1000 head of population 203 by state and territory 2007–08 to 2010–11
  • A8 Biographies of NBA senior managers
  • A9 Responsibilities and composition of NBA governance committees
  • A10 Mandatory reporting:
  • A11 Errata
  • A12 Glossary of terms and acronyms
  • A13 List of requirements

appendicies

APPENDIX 8. BIOGRAPHIES OF NBA SENIOR MANAGERS

Dr Alison Turner, BVs, MSc, FAICD, General Manager and Chief Executive Officer

Dr Alison Turner was appointed General Manager and Chief Executive Officer of the NBA in August 2003. From 1997 to 2003 she was Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority. Before that she had held a number of senior government positions in the health and primary industries sectors and had represented Australia internationally. Dr Turner has been a director of government and not-for-profit organisations and is currently a councillor of the Australian Institute of Public Administration (ACT).

Ms Stephanie Gunn, BA(Hons), Deputy General Manager, Sector Coordination, Systems and Corporate

Ms Stephanie Gunn is the NBA’s Sector Coordination, Systems and Corporate Deputy General Manager. She has qualifications in economics and 25 years of experience in the public service in areas ranging from industry taxation and regional economic and community development. Ms Gunn joined the Department of Health and Ageing in 1996, working in the Minister’s office. She then moved to senior management roles in Ageing and Community Care and Corporate Management, focusing on corporate governance, procurement and planning.

Since joining the NBA in November 2003, Ms Gunn has been continuously responsible for corporate and compliance activities. At various times she has been responsible for the relationship with the Blood Service, the clinical development program, and most recently our data and information activities.

Mr Andrew Mead, DipAppSc (Nursing), BHlthSc, MHlthServMgt, Deputy General Manager, Fresh Blood and Clinical Development

Mr Andrew Mead is the NBA’s Deputy General Manager for Supply Management (Fresh Blood) and Blood Sector Clinical Development. He has qualifications in health services management and nursing.

Before joining the NBA, he was responsible for risk management and audit at the Australian National University. He has also held positions as General Manager of Griffith Base Hospital and Albury Base Hospital. Over the past 27 years, Mr Mead has worked in various administrative and clinical roles in the acute health care setting, including in tertiary referral and regional and rural hospitals. He has also held academic appointments at Charles Stuart University in health management and paediatrics. He has been involved in the delivery of health service management development programs in Indonesia.

Mr Mead joined the NBA in July 2008.

Mr Michael Stone, BEc, LlB, Grad. Dip. Legal Practice General Counsel and Deputy General Manager, Commercial Contracts

Since January 2010, Mr Michael Stone has been the NBA Deputy General Manager responsible for the establishment and management of commercial product supply contracts, associated supply planning and management and relationship management with the NBA’s commercial suppliers. He is also the NBA’s General Counsel and has worked on all major blood supply tendering and contracting processes conducted by the NBA since its establishment in 2003.

Mr Stone is admitted to legal practice and has extensive experience in providing legal advice and services for a wide range of Australian Government agencies in the fields of commercial and public law, agency governance and accountability, and the development and implementation of legislation and administrative schemes. He has previously had substantial legal experience with the Australian Government Solicitor and worked on the development of the National Blood Agreement and establishment of the NBA in the Legal Services Branch of the Australian Government.

Mr Stone has worked with the NBA since its inception in 2003.

Dr Chris Hogan MB, BS, BSc(Hons), FRCPA, Principal Medical Officer

Dr Hogan is a consultant haematologist. He brings to the NBA role of Principal Medical Officer a long-term sub-specialist expertise and experience in transfusion medicine, from both a clinical and laboratory perspective. Dr Hogan provides expert medical advice across the breadth of NBA projects and responsibilities.He also has a key role in championing improvements in the appropriate use of blood and blood products for the sector. Dr Hogan continues his part-time position as consultant haematologist at the Royal Melbourne Hospital where he pursues his special interest in ABO-mismatched organ transplantation and in teaching.

Dr Hogan also sits on the Blood Matters Advisory Committee and is a member of the Royal Melbourne Hospital Blood Transfusion and Trauma Advisory Committees. He is chair of the Australian National Haemovigilance Advisory Committee and is the Australian representative on the International Haemovigilance Network. Dr Hogan is a member of the Australian Red Cross Blood Service Research Advisory Committee, the Victorian Blood User Group and IVIg User Group and the National Blood Transfusion Committee. He is a member of the Clinical Reference Groups for the Critical Bleeding, Perioperative and Medical modules of the new Patient Blood Management Guidelines. He is a member of the Education Committee of the Australian & New Zealand Society of Blood Transfusion, a NATA assessor and is an examiner in haematology for the RCPA.

Dr Hogan became the NBA’s first Principal Medical Officer in 2008.