Doctor Joanna Flynn AM
MBBS, MPH, FRACGP, DRANZCOGChair and a practitioner member from Victoria  Dr Flynn is a general practitioner. For the past 20 years, she has worked in a West Brunswick practice, where she is a partner in the practice. She has also worked as a GP in North Queensland, Tasmania and rural Victoria. For 10 years until 1998, she was the State Director of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners Training Program in Victoria.
In June 2009, Dr Flynn was appointed Chair of the Board of Eastern Health, one of Melbourne’s largest metropolitan health services, and in August 2009, was appointed the Inaugural Chair of the Medical Board of Australia. From 2000-2008, she was President of the Medical Practitioners Board of Victoria, and also President of the Australian Medical Council from 2003-2008.
Dr Flynn was a member of the Board of the Postgraduate Medical Council of Victoria for 8 years and chair in 2007. She chaired the Australian Medical Council working party that developed Good Medical Practice: A Code of Conduct for Doctors in Australia. She was first appointed to the Victorian Medical Board in 1989.
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Professor Belinda Bennett
BEc/LLB (Hons), LLM, SJD, GAICDCommunity member  Prof Bennett is Professor of Health and Medical Law at the University of Sydney and was Director of the Faculty of Law’s Centre for Health Governance, Law and Ethics from 2005-2009. She was a founding Board Member of the Australian Institute for Health Law and Ethics (AIHLE). She is the Deputy Editor of the Journal of Law and Medicine and a member of the International Editorial Board of the International Journal of Law in Context.
Prof Bennett is a member of the NSW Medical Board and was appointed to the Medical Board of Australia in 2009. She is also a member of the Embryo Research Licensing Committee of the NHMRC, a member of the Collaborating Hospitals’ Audit of Surgical Mortality (CHASM) in NSW, and a member of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians Ethics Expert Advisory Group.
Prof Bennett has published extensively on a wide range of issues relating to health and medical law. Her research includes work on legal issues relating to new technologies and health care, and she is currently working on a project on legal and ethical preparedness for pandemic influenza.
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Doctor Stephen Bradshaw
MBBS FRACSPractitioner member from the ACT  Dr Bradshaw is a practising Vascular Surgeon in full time practice in the ACT. He is in private practice and attends the Canberra Hospital as a Visiting Medical Officer.
Dr Bradshaw has lived in Canberra for the last 18 years having trained in surgery in Sydney and the United Kingdom. In Canberra, he has been involved in the administration of surgery as a previous Director of the Division of Surgery, and is the current head of the Vascular Surgery Unit, a position he has held for the past 10 years. Dr Bradshaw has been involved with the John James Memorial Hospital in the past, as Director of Medical Services and Chairman of the Board. For the past 10 years, he has been on the ACT Medical Board, and as President of the Board since 2006. |
Doctor Erica (Mary) Cohn
MBBS, Master of Family MedicinePractitioner member from Queensland  Dr Cohn is a general practitioner with over 30 years experience. A medical graduate of the University of Queensland in 1968, Dr Cohn also has completed a Master of Family Medicine at Monash University.
Dr Cohn has been a member of the Medical Board of Queensland since April 1998. She is currently the Chair of the Queensland Board, a position that she has held since 2004. Previously, she chaired the Health Assessment and Monitoring Committee of the Queensland Board. In 1998, she was awarded the Fellowship of the Australian Medical Association. In 2007, she received the Citation of the Queensland Branch of the Australian Medical Association. Dr Cohn has been a Director of the Australian Medical Council, a Director of Australian General Practice Accreditation Ltd, a member of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee, and has been a Deputy Director of the Professional Services Review Committee since 1997. |
Ms Prudence FordCommunity member  Ms Ford is an independent consultant who undertakes a range of reviews, inquiries and projects for both government and non-government sectors.
Ms Ford has 30 years experience in the public service at Commonwealth and State levels, holding senior executive positions in Commonwealth Departments of Community Services and Health, Finance, Attorney General, and the Western Australian Departments of Health, Premier and Cabinet. Ms Ford has been a community member of the Medical Board of Western Australia since December 2007, and is also a member of the Health Consumers Council of WA. In the past, she has been a member of the National Health and Medical Council, and an inaugural member of the National Blood Authority. |
Doctor Fiona Joske
MBBS, DRANZCOG, FRACGPPractitioner member from Tasmania  Dr Joske is a general practitioner and a principal in a rural group practice in Longford, Tasmania, where she has worked since 1999. Her previous practice was at Smithton in North West Tasmania. The current practice is a teaching practice which hosts medical students, nursing students, GP registrars, and pre-vocational Resident Medical Officers. The practice also provides an orientation program for international medical graduates.
Dr Joske was appointed to the Medical Board of Australia in August 2009 and has been a member of the Medical Council of Tasmania since 2000. She has been a National Examination Coordinator for the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners. She is currently a member of the Medical Schools Accreditation Committee of the Australian Medical Council and a Council Member of the University of Tasmania.
Dr Joske’s past positions include Chair of General Practice Workforce Tasmania, Medical Advisor to Rural Workforce Support, Tasmania, Chair of the Tasmania Faculty of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, and GP Consultant to the Health Insurance Commission. |
Doctor Charles Kilburn
MB BS FRACPPractitioner member from the Northern Territory  Dr Kilburn is a Paediatrician and is currently Medical Director of the Division of Maternal and Child Health at Royal Darwin Hospital. He worked in private Paediatric practice in Darwin for over ten years before moving to a full-time hospital position. He has a full-time clinical commitment and is actively involved in specialist paediatric outreach clinics to remote Aboriginal communities. He is a national examiner in Paediatrics with the Royal Australasian College of Physicians.
Since 2002, Dr Kilburn has served as Chair of the Medical Board of the Northern Territory, and was the inaugural Chair of the Health Advisory Council of the Northern Territory. He is currently a member of the Northern Territory Post Graduate Medical council.
Dr Kilburn enjoys the clinical challenges, the opportunities and the lifestyle of the Northern Territory, but misses the surf.
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Mr Paul Laris
Masters of Public Health, Bachelor of Arts Social WorkCommunity member  Mr Laris is a consultant who has worked in evaluating and planning for human services and the environment for the past 12 years. He has worked as a social worker in community health services, a manager of community health centres, and a health services planner.
Mr Laris was appointed to the Board of Directors of the North West Area Health Service (The Queen Elizabeth Hospital and Lyell McEwin Hospitals) in 2002. In 2003, he was appointed to the Board of the Conservation Council of SA, and was elected Vice-President in 2004. Since 2005, Mr Laris has been a community member of the Medical Board of SA. |
Professor (Ken) Mark McKenna
MBBS FRANZCOGPractitioner member from Western Australia  Prof McKenna is an Obstetrician Gynaecologist with subspecialty training and experience in reproductive endocrinology and infertility. His current clinical work is predominantly in private obstetric practice in southern metropolitan Perth, Western Australia.
Prof McKenna has also worked as an academic in various roles with the Universities of Melbourne, Western Australia, and Notre Dame Australia. He is currently the Deputy Vice Chancellor and Provost of the Fremantle Campus of the University of Notre Dame Australia. Prof McKenna has served on the Western Australian Reproductive Technology Council in roles including deputy chair. He has been a member of the (then) Royal Australian College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RACOG) Board of Examiners executive, and a member of the RACOG council. He serves on a number of Medical Quality Committees and has been a sessional member of the Western Australian State Administrative Tribunal. In 2009, he was appointed to the Western Australian Medical Board, and is currently a board member of MercyCare (WA). |
Doctor Trevor Mudge
MBBS, DA (RCP&S), FRCOG, FRANZCOGPractitioner member from South Australia Dr Mudge is an Obstetrician and Gynaecologist with an interest in infertility. He has worked in public, private and academic sectors. He cofounded South Autralia’s first successful IVF unit and delivered its first baby in 1982. He has been chairman and joint owner of Repromed, South Australia’s larget fertility unit.
Dr Mudge has held a number of medico-political appointments with the National Association of Specialist Obstetricians & Gynaecologists (NASOG) and the Australian Medical Association, and has been State President and Federal Vice President of the AMA.
In 2005, Dr Mudge was appointed President of the Medical Board of South Australia, and was appointed to the Medical Board of Australia in August 2009. |
Ms Sophia Panagiotidis
BA, Dip Social Studies, Dip Community Development, Dip EdCommunity member  Ms Panagiotidis has a background in law, welfare, community work, community health, and has extensive experience working with Boards and Tribunals. She has taught for many years in the School of Social Sciences at Swinburne University of Technology, and on a sessional basis at La Trobe University School of Social Work and Social Policy.
Ms Panagiotidis was appointed to the Medical Practitioners Board of Victoria in 2007, and has worked with committees on matters such as Registration, Professional Standards, Advertising, Communications, and the Community Consultative Committee. She has worked with the Department of Human Services, Victoria Legal Aid, and community legal centres. She is also a former Commissioner of the Legal Aid Commission of Victoria and a Member of the Refugee Review Tribunal. Ms Panagiotidis is currently a Member of the Social Security Appeals Tribunal and the Victorian Institute of Teaching Disciplinary Panel. She has recently been appointed to the Victorian Law Foundation and is the current Chairperson of the Mental Health Community Legal Centre. |
Associate Professor Peter Procopis AM,
MB, BS, FRACPPractitioner member from New South Wales  Assoc Prof Procopis is a Paediatric Neurologist at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead in Sydney. He has been a member of the New South Wales Medical Board since 1999 and was Chair of its Conduct Committee until appointed President in 2005. In August 2009, he was appointed to the Medical Board of Australia.
Since 2005, Assoc Prof Procopis has been a member of the Australian Medical Council and became a Director of the Council in 2008. He was Chair of the Joint Medical Boards Advisory Committee from 2008-2010. As President of the Australian College of Paediatrics from 1993-1995, he has been active in College affairs. Assoc Prof Procopis has also held many offices in the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, including Chair of the Committee for Examinations and Chair of the Board of Continuing Professional Development. |