Australian Government - Department of Health and Ageing

Medical Services Advisory Committee (MSAC)

Reference 36

Selective dorsal rhizotomy, pulmonary thromboendarterectomy and peritonectomy. Review of paediatric liver transplantation and Review of paediatric heart transplantation

Selective dorsal rhizotomy, pulmonary thromboendarterectomy and peritonectomy. Review of paediatric liver transplantation and Review of paediatric heart transplantation

Reference No

Ref 36

Reference Name(1) Assessment of selective dorsal rhizotomy, pulmonary thromboendarterectomy and peritonectomy

(2) Review of paediatric liver transplantation

(3) Review of paediatric heart transplantation
Advisory Panel (1 & 2)The following people are on each one of the four Advisory Panels:
Dr Stephen Blamey
(MSAC member)
Dr Mary Turner
(MSAC member)
Dr Brian Richards
(Principal Medical Advisor, Department of Health and Ageing)
Ms Barb Renton
(NFC reference group representative)

The following clinical experts are on the Advisory Panels as follows:

Selective dorsal rhizotomy:

Dr Andrew Sutherland
(Memorial Medical Centre, Adelaide)
Dr Stephen O'Flaherty
(Rehabilitation Department, Children's Hospital, Westmead)

Pulmonary thromboendarterectomy:

Dr James RM Edwards
(Cardiac Surgery Unit, Royal Adelaide Hospital)
Associate Professor Trevor Williams
(Department of Medicine, Alfred Hospital, Prahan)

Peritonectomy:

Associate Professor Bruce Mann
(Department of Surgery, Royal Melbourne Hospital)
Advisory Panel (3) Dr Stephen Blamey
(MSAC member)
Professor Brendon Kearney
(MSAC member)
Dr Keith McNeill
(Royal Brisbane & Women’s hospital)
Dr Malcolm Richardson
(Women’s & Children’s Hospital)
Dr Nick Pigott
(Sydney Children’s Hospital)
Dr Brian Richards
(Principal Medical Advisor, Department of Health and Ageing)
Dr Simon Towler
(NFC reference group representative)
Ms Kathy Meleady
(NFC reference group representative)
Ms Barb Renton
(NFC reference group representative)
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