Investigators
Details to be updated (20th March 2006)
Chief Investigators
Professor Tania C Sorrell
Tania Sorrell is Professor of Clinical Infectious Diseases at the University of Sydney, Director of the Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology at Westmead and an Infectious Diseases physician with a special interest in mycoses and infections in immunocompromised hosts. She graduated in Medicine and obtained an MD in Clinical Immunology at the University of Adelaide. Her post-doctoral training at the University of California, Los Angeles, stimulated long-standing interests in Clinical Infectious Diseases, basic and applied research in mycology and professional and research training. She has published over 140 basic and clinical research articles and written 20 book chapters and several reviews. She is a member of the Research Committee and the Health Ethics Committee of the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia and serves or has served on several national and NSW advisory committees on Infectious Diseases and drug evaluation.
A/Professor Kenneth F Bradstock
A/Professor Ian Kerridge
Ian Kerridge is Associate Professor of Bioethics at the Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine at the University of Sydney and a Haematologist/Bone Marrow Transplant physician at Westmead Hospital, Sydney. He is the author of 3 textbooks and over 70 papers on bioethics, clinical ethics and medical philosophy. His current research interests in haematology include transplantation in multiple myeloma, adoptive immunotherapy, infectious complications of transplantation, genetic susceptibility to haematological malignancy, and in ethics include advance care planning, quality of survival following bone marrow transplantation, moral reasoning, complementary medicine, the active management of dying and the relationship between the medical profession and the pharmaceutical industry.
Professor Gwendolyn Gilbert
Lyn Gilbert is Director of Laboratory Services at the Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, ICPMR (which includes the major NSW public health microbiology reference services) and Clinical Professor in Medicine and Infectious Diseases at the University of Sydney. She has recently completed a Master of Bioethics (Monash) degree. Her major clinical and research interests are in the diagnosis, surveillance, prevention and molecular epidemiology of communicable diseases, especially those with significant public health impact – including infections in pregnancy and the newborn; healthcare-associated infections, respiratory, foodborne and vaccine preventable diseases. She also has research interests and current grants involving a) the use of informatics tools to generate information for clinical and public health action from laboratory and clinical surveillance data and b) public health ethics, especially relating to healthcare associated infections.
A/Professor David Gottlieb
David Gottlieb is a clinical haematologist, Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Sydney and a member of the Blood and Marrow Transplant Unit at Westmead Hospital. He is director of the Sydney Cellular Therapies Laboratory at Westmead Hospital. He obtained a doctorate in medicine in 1990 after working with Malcolm Brenner and Grant Prentice at the Royal Free Hospital in London. His research work in clinical and laboratory haematology focuses on cellular therapy for opportunistic infections and immunotherapy of leukaemia in patients following blood or marrow transplantation.
A/Professor Raina MacIntyre
Raina MacIntyre is a physician and medical epidemiologist involved in research and postgraduate teaching at the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance of Vaccine Preventable Diseases. Her interests include infectious diseases, epidemiology, tuberculosis (the subject of her PhD thesis), health economics, evidence-based medicine, public health and preventive medicine, adult immunisation and health services research.
She is a current editor of Epidemiology and Infection (Cambridge University Press). She leads an NHMRC Capacity Building Grant in mathematical modelling of infectious diseases, an NHMRC project grant looking at pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in geriatric patients, and is also involved in vaccination research in haemtatology patients in the NHMRC Centre for Clinical Research Excellence in Infection and Bioethics in Haematology at Westmead Hospital. She is also involved in an ARC Linkage grant of oseltamivir use in aged care facilities. She currently supervises 4 PhD students and 4 honours students, and teaches in the Master of Public Health and the University of Sydney Medical program. She has 78 publications in peer-reviewed journals.
Dr Dominic E Dwyer
Dominic E Dwyer is Senior Medical Virologist with Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Laboratory Services (CIDMLS). He has fostered the development of an antiviral drug and vaccine clinical trials unit at Westmead Hospital, and has participated as a principal or associate investigator, or protocol virologist, in over 35 trials in the last 10 years. Dr Dwyer is involved in the supervision of students (PhD, BSc Hons, BSc Masters), Public health Officer and RACP trainees in areas of HIV drug resistance and quantitation, respiratory viruses and blood-borne viruses in transplantation, influenza, arboviruses and other viruses of public health significance. His expertise will be applied to the research themes of developing innovative laboratory methods for detecting and quantifying viral diseases in transplantation, and monitoring therapeutic interventions targeting viral illnesses in immunocompromised patients.
Dr Rachel Ankeny
Rachel Ankeny is Senior Lecturer and a faculty associate of the Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine (VELIM). Rachel holds Master's degrees in Medical Ethics and Philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh. Her PhD, also from Pittsburgh, was in the History and Philosophy of Science. Rachel has published numerous articles and several co-edited books, including The Ethics of Inheritable Genetic Modification: A Dividing Line? (Cambridge University Press, 2006) and Philosophy and the Life Sciences: A Reader (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2006, forthcoming). Her research interests include the history and philosophy of the biomedical sciences, particularly epistemological and ethical issues; the philosophy of medicine; the public understanding of biomedical sciences; and ethical issues associated with transplantation, genetics, reproductive technologies, and pharmaceuticals. She currently serves as editor for bioethics and philosophy of medicine for the international journal Metascience; advisory board member and membership secretary for the International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (FAB); secretary of the Ethical and Social Issues Committee of the Human Genetics Society of Australia; a member of the Genetic Technology Ethics Committee (GTEC) of the Commonwealth Office of the Gene Technology Regulator; and a member of Ethics of the Clinical Practice Subcommittee of the Ethics Committee, Central Sydney Area Health Service.
Associate Investigators
- Dr Nicole Gilroy
- Dr Adrienne Torda
- Michael J Selgelid
- Associate Professor Tony Dodds
- Mr Stephen Corbett
- Professor Judy Lumby
- Dr Vitali Sintchenko
- A/Prof. Jon Iredell
- Dr Christopher Jordens
- Dr Pamela Palasanthiran
- Dr Tracey O’Brien
- A/Prof Patricia Davidson
- Dr Peter Shaw
- Dr Karen Byth
Fellows
- Dr Christopher Jordens
