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President
Philip Tehan DO, Dip Physio, MHSc
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Philip Tehan was appointed
as Vice President of the inaugural Board in 1997 and has been President
since 2000. He was the elected osteopathic member of the Chiropractors
and Osteopaths Registration Board of Victoria between 1984 and 1990.
Philip is a past president of the Australian Osteopathic Association
and has been in clinical practice at a multi-disciplinary health
clinic in Blackburn since 1975.
He has been involved
at many levels of both the RMIT University and Victoria University
osteopathic programs since the inception of both courses. He also
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Board Member
Brett Vaughan BSc, MHlthSc(Osteo) |
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Brett Vaughan joined the Board on 1 July 2008. Brett graduated from the osteopathy programme at Victoria University in 2002 and is currently in practicing in Doncaster East. He also teaches part-time into the osteopathy programme at Victoria University as well as being actively involved in research projects undertaken . Brett's professional interests are osteopathic education and the medicolegal aspects of osteopathic practice.
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Board Member
Jane Duffy, Board Member BSc (Optom), LLB(Hons) |
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Jane has been the Board's lawyer member since
1997. She is the Executive Officer of the Optometry Council -
an organisation responsible for assessing overseas-trained optometrists,
and for accrediting optometry training in Australia and New Zealand.
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Board
member Jonathan Pitcher DO |
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Jon is an osteopath who has been in private practice for twenty five years having worked both here in Melbourne and in the UK. He has been involved almost continually for the past twenty two years in teaching Osteopathy first at Phillip Institute and for the last twelve years in both lecturing and clinical tutoring at Victoria University. He was appionted to the Osteopaths' Registration Board last year.
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Board Member
Kevin Ryan |
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Kevin Ryan is a graduate of the Southern School of Natural Therapies in Melbourne in Osteopathy and Naturopathy and an honours graduate of Deakin University, Geelong in Biological Health Science. He has been in private practice as an Osteopath and Natural Therapist in Geelong, Victoria since 1974. His complementary medicine practice includes homœopathic and botanic medicine. He has also practiced acupuncture since 1975. He has particular interests in the interface between osteopathy and traditional chinese medicine and in treatment regimes for children and the disabled. He has lectured in osteopathic technique at RMIT University and in Homœopathy at the Southern School of Natural Therapies. He has been a member of the Complementary Medicines Evaluation Committee of the Therapeutic Goods Administration since 1999.
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Board Member
Robyne Schwarz MSW, BSW, Dip Physio |
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Robyne joined
the Board in July 2003. She has both Physiotherapy and Social
Work qualifications and has recently retired from the Royal Children's
Hospital (RCH) after 15 years as a senior practitioner. Her main
focus at RCH was on service innovation and developing clinical
governance systems for service quality and consumer and community
participation. Robyne established a new statewide system of home
and community based care for children with ongoing and complex
medical conditions. Children who previously were unable to leave
hospital now live safely at home and attend school despite the
severity and complexity of their medical conditions.
Robyne has
been a National Director and State President of the Australian
Association of Social Workers and has lectured in Social Work
at the University of Melbourne. She is currently Vice President
of Jewish Care which is a large aged and community services organisation.
Robyne brings
to the Board extensive experience as a health services practitioner,
along with knowledge of and commitment to quality management,
community participation and clinical governance system development.
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Board Member Suzanne Evans BEc, Dip ED |
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Suzanne Evans joined the Board on 1 July 2007. Suzanne is a Director of a number of Government Boards. Up until recently she was General Manager Customer and Community Relations at Western Water a position she has held for 8 years. Her role included the responsibility for the customer call center, metering, billing and account collection, the management of outstanding debt, property services, complaints, information technology, business innovation, communication, public relations and community profile.
Previously she held a number of senior positions within the Victorian Public sector including the Department of Sustainability and Environment and the Department of Treasury and Small Business Development Corporation. Suzanne is also a director of North East Water. She is on the Consultative Committee to the Medical Practitioners Board and sits on Hearing panels for registered health professionals. Suzanne is also a partner in a horticultural business in Central Victoria. Suzanne holds a Bachelor of Economics, Diploma in Education and is a Fellow of both the Institute of Company Directors and the society of Certified Practicing Accountants.
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Board Member Suzie Linden |
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Suzie Linden joined the Board in July 2008. She has practised in the field of health law and bioethics for most of her professional career, dealing with complex health law, medico-legal, regulatory and ethical issues, including consent and informed decision-making, end of life decision-making, mental health, privacy and confidentiality, infection control, the regulation of human research and conduct of clinical trials, risk management, legal compliance and governance obligations.
Suzie was the founder and continues to be the Editor of the Australian Health Law Bulletin, which she established in 1992. She has been a member of numerous Federal and State Government advisory bodies, and currently sits as a member of the Human Research Ethics Committee of the Department of Human Services (Vic). She also teaches Clinical Ethics and Law, in the Faculty of Medicine, Monash University, and is also a lecturer in the Faculty of Law, teaching in the LLM (Legal Practice) program.
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