JMVH Editorial Board
Dr Andy Robertson - Royal Australian Navy
CAPT Andrew (Andy) Robertson, CSC, MB BS, Grad. Dip. OHS, MPH, MHSM, FAFPHM, FRACMA, served as a full-time medical officer with the Royal Australian Navy from 1984 until 2003.
A public health physician and medical administrator, he has served in various ships and establishments in Australia and overseas. He completed three tours to Iraq with OPERATION BLAZER, including three months as the Chief Inspector of the Biological Weapons Monitoring Group in 1996.
In October 2003, he took up the position of the Director, Disaster Preparedness and Management in WA Health, a position that was integrated into his Divisional Director’s role prior to his current role. In December 2004, he led the Australian Medical Relief team into the Maldives post tsunami, and has subsequently managed WA Health’s response to the 2005 Bali Bombing, its early preparations for a potential influenza pandemic and led the WA Health team into Indonesia after the Yogyakarta earthquakes in June 2006.
CAPT Robertson RANR is currently the Director, Disaster Management, Regulation and Planning within the Public Health Division in WA Health. He was previously the Divisional Director, Health Protection Group and Chief Health Officer within WA Health from July 2005 until February 2008. He is also the Director Naval Health Reserves – WA.
Dr Graeme Cannell - Centre for Military and Veterans Health
Graeme Cannell holds an adjunct appointment at the Centre of Military and Veterans’ Health and is an active reservist posted as SO1 Research in Defence Health Capability and Development in Campbell Park. The Defence commitment covers development and review of policy related to research, review of health related research proposals and development of electronic protocol submissions including review of ethics requirements to NHMRC standards. Within CMVH his role has varied from business analysis to advice related to research projects. His civilian career has focussed on research in pharmacology, toxicology, mathematical modelling, drug metabolism and drug bioequivalence whereas external interests include company directorships and sport.
Dr Keith Horsley - Department of Veterans’ Affairs
Dr Keith Horsley is a medical practitioner currently working at the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. He has research the health problems of Vietnam veterans, Korean War veteran, Gulf war veterans, participants in the British nuclear tests and various occupational exposures in defence personnel. Recently, he has worked in pandemic influenza and other aspects of disaster medicine.
Assoc. Prof. Scott Kitchener - Australian Military Medicine Association
Scott Kitchener joined the ADF in 1985, deployed on ten occasions with Navy and Army and is currently a Reserve medical officer who parades at the Army Aviation Centre, Oakey and is attached as a Reader, University of Queensland Centre for Military and Veterans Health. As a civilian he is a Public Health Physician acting as the Director of Medical Services on the District Health Executive for the Darling Downs, based in Toowoomba, Queensland. He has been a member of AMMA since inception, currently serving on the Editorial Board of the JMVH.
Dr Peter Leggat - Australian Defence Health Services
Peter joined the Australian Regular Army in 1987. He was posted to various units, including the historic 2 Field Ambulance in Townsville. Lieutenant Colonel Leggat is currently serving with the Defence Health Service, Army Reserve, Queensland, and is the nominee of the Head, Defence Health Service, on the Board of the Journal of Military and Veterans' Health (formerly Australian Military Medicine). He also is also a reviewer for Military Medicine and ADF Health and holds Editorial Board appointments on several other journals, including Industrial Health (Editor) and Archives of Environmental and Occupational Health (Consulting Editor). His day jobs are Professor and Deputy Head (Campus Head) of the School of Public Health, Tropical Medicine and Rehabilitation Sciences, and Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Molecular Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville. Over the past 20 years, he has also been a Visiting Medical Officer for various military units, including Lavarack Barracks Medical Centre and 5 Aviation Regiment. He is also Honorary Treasurer and a Past-President of The Australasian College of Tropical Medicine, as well as State Professional Officer and Director of Training, St John Ambulance Australia, Queensland. He has published more than 400 papers in professional journals and presented more than 300 papers at national and international meetings.
Prof Malcolm Sim - Monash University
Malcolm is an occupational physician, who is Director of the Monash Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health (MonCOEH) in the Department of Epidemiology & Preventive Medicine at Monash University, Australia. His research program comprises studies of the role of workplace and environmental chemical and other hazards in chronic diseases, such as cancer and respiratory disease. He is the Chief Investigator for several epidemiological studies, including the post-deployment studies of Australian Gulf War and Korean War veterans. Malcolm is an Associate Editor for the journals Occupational and Environmental Medicine and the Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health and is an elected member of the Management Group of the Scientific Committee for Occupational Epidemiology of the International Commission of Occupational Health. He is a member of several research committees, including the Research Committee of the Sir Edward Dunlop foundation , as well as the Advisory Committee of the Australian Office of Chemical Safety and the Human Research Ethics Committee of the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.
Associate Professor Darryl Tong – University of Otago and NZDF
Darryl is a Consultant Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon for the Southern District Health Board and Associate Professor at the University of Otago, Dunedin. Qualified in both dentistry and medicine from the University of Otago, he completed his speciality training in oral and maxillofacial surgery at the University of Washington, Seattle and holds Fellowships from the Royal College of Surgeons of England and Ireland and from the American College of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons. His clinical and research interests include trauma medicine, maxillofacial trauma and reconstructive surgery with a particular interest in ballistic injuries to the face and jaws, veterans' health and military medicine and history. He is part of a collaborative research group between the University of Otago, the Centre of Military and Veterans' Health and the NZDF. Darryl is a Lieutenant Colonel in the NZ Army Reserve and is the Consultant Maxillofacial surgeon for the NZ Defence Force. He has deployed to Kandahar as the sole maxillofacial surgeon for Southern Afghanistan based at the NATO Role 3 Multinational Medical Unit and is currently the Senior Surgeon for the 2nd Health Support Battalion (NZ). Darryl is happily married with four children.