Osteoarthritis Clinical Care Standard

Osteoarthritis Clinical Care Standard

Topic Working Group

The role of the Osteoarthritis Clinical Care Standard Topic Working Group is to provide expert advice on the development of the Osteoarthritis Clinical Care Standard.

The main roles of members are to:

a)  advise the Commission on the scope and key components of care to be the focus of the Osteoarthritis Clinical Care Standard.

b)  advise the Commission on the key sources of evidence to inform the development of the Osteoarthritis Clinical Care Standard. This might include clinical practice guidelines, clinical standards, systematic reviews and meta-analyses.

c)  advise on the formulation of quality statements and supporting indicators.

d)  recommend to the Commission strategies to support the implementation of the Osteoarthritis Clinical Care Standard.

e)  actively support the promotion of the Osteoarthritis Clinical Care Standard.

Membership

Name / Representing / State / Current Position /
Professor Rachelle Buchbinder
(Chair) / Australian Rheumatology Association (ARA) / VIC / Rheumatologist and Clinical Epidemiologist;
Director, Monash Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Cabrini Institute and Department of Epidemiology and Preventative Medicine, Monash University
Associate Professor Michael Yelland
(Deputy Chair) / Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) / QLD / General and musculoskeletal practitioner, Griffith University and Arana Hills Medical Centre
Associate Professor Ilana Ackerman / Individual Expert / VIC / Musculoskeletal Researcher, Department of Epidemiology, Preventive Medicine, Monash University; Orthopaedic Physiotherapist
Professor Milton Cohen / Faculty of Pain Medicine, Australian & New Zealand College of Anaesthetists
(FPMANZCA) / NSW / Rheumatologist and Pain Specialist, St Vincent’s Clinic, Sydney
Ms Jessica Danko / Australian Primary Health Care Nurses Association
(APNA) / VIC / Primary Health Care Nurse Consultant
Mr Jeff Elliott / NPS MedicineWise / NSW / Clinical Program Lead
Ms Wendy Favorito / Arthritis Australia / NSW / Director; Consumer Representative
Dr Howard Galloway / Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Radiologists (RANZCR) / ACT / Consultant Radiologist, Insight Radiology
Dr David Hale / Australian Orthopedic Association (AOA) / NSW / Orthopaedic Surgeon,
The Sydney Adventist Hospital
Dr Anthony Hobbs / Australian Government Department of Health / ACT / Principal Medical Advisor
Dr Lawrence Malisano / Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS) / QLD / Orthopaedic Surgeon, Brisbane Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Centre
Professor Lyn March / Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) / NSW / Senior Staff Specialist in Rheumatology at Royal North Shore Hospital;
Professor of Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Epidemiology Medicine, University of Sydney
Mr Tim Noblet / Australian Physiotherapy Association (APA) / NSW / Lead Clinical Advisor and Consultant Physiotherapist, APA
Dr John North / Individual Expert; and
-  Past President, Australian Orthopaedic Association (AOA)
-  Past Senior Examiner (orthopaedics) Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACS) / QLD / Orthopaedic Surgeon;
Clinical Director - Queensland and Northern Territory Audit of Surgical Mortality (QASM and NTASM) projects
Adjunct Associate Professor John Orchard / Australasian College of Sports and Exercise Physicians (ACSEP) / NSW / Sports and Exercise Medicine Physician
Ms Joy Pettingell / Consumers Health Forum of Australia (CHF) / ACT / Consumer Representative
Ms Lesley Thomas / Australian & New Zealand Orthopaedic Nurses Association (ANZONA) / SA / Orthopaedic Nurse Practitioner
Queen Elizabeth Hospital
Dr David Samra
(proxy for Professor John Orchard) / Australasian College of Sports and Exercise Physicians (ACSEP) / NSW / Sports Medicine Registrar , The Sports Clinic, University of Sydney
Dr James Linklater (proxy for Dr Howard Galloway) / NSW / Radiologist, Castlereagh Imaging

Disclosure of Interests

All members of the Osteoarthritis Clinical Care Standard Topic Working Group are required to disclose financial, personal and professional interests that could, or could be perceived to, influence a decision made, or advice given to the Commission. Disclosures are updated prior to each meeting and managed in line with the Commission’s Policy on Disclosure of Interests.