Nutritional Physiology Research Centre Advisory Committee
External Members
Dr Geoffrey Annison
(Chair)
Deputy Chief Executive
Australian Food and Grocery Council
Dr Geoffrey Annison joined the AFGC in October 2007. He has wide
experience in food regulation and innovation, having held a number
of senior technical and management roles in industry in Australia
and overseas, in academia, and in public policy.
His career has spanned a number of sectors including the FMCG sector
with Goodman Fielder and the AFGC, the rural sector with
organisations such as Australian Pork Ltd and AWB Ltd. and research
providers such as Massey University in New Zealand and the CSIRO,
providing him with an extensive knowledge of current industry
issues, particularly in the technical arena.
Dr Annison has a Bachelor of Science in Food Technology and a PhD in
Microbiology from the University of New South Wales.
Adjunct Professor Katrine Baghurst
Consultant
Government and
Nutrition Industry
Professor
Katrine Baghurst has had an extensive research career with
the CSIRO in the Human Nutrition Division and
has had leading roles in public health
nutrition research and nutrition policy development over a 30
year period. She was a member for six years of NHMRC's
Health Advisory Committee and for three years of the National
Health Committee, and is currently a
board member of Food Standards Australia New Zealand,
a Fellow of the Nutrition Society of Australia
Emeritus Professor Ruth Grant
Consultant
Foundation Pro Vice
Chancellor of Health Sciences, UniSA
In a career spanning three continents, Emeritus Professor Ruth Grant held academic and professional practice appointments in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom.
Prior to her retirement in 2002, Professor Grant was Pro Vice Chancellor, Division of Health Sciences and Vice President, Health Sciences at the University of South Australia, with academic leadership and strategic management responsibilities for a very large multidisciplinary health sciences faculty. She is a Professor Emeritus of that University. She maintains her association through various professional and consultancy roles. She was instrumental in enabling the establishment of the NPRC and has a continuing interest in its progress.
Professor Grant now works primarily as a Consultant. She has considerable experience in accreditation in the health sciences. Her accreditation experience includes discipline reviews in the health professions, accreditation of flexibly delivered postgraduate general practice medical programs for the US DETC Accrediting Commission (Washington DC) and of private higher education providers in South Australia through her role on the Higher Education Registration and Accreditation Board of the SA Department of Further Education, Employment, Science and Training (DFEEST).
Professor Grant is an Auditor for the Australian Universities Quality Agency (AUQA). In 2010, she will chair the AUQA audit panel for the Cycle 2 Audits of three Government Accreditation Authorities. She is an external reviewer for the Oman Accreditation Council and for the Bahrain Quality Assurance Authority.
Wes
Banttams
Wes Battams has been Director of the South Australian Sports
Institute (SASI) since 1998. He has been a key state based leader in
Australia's national high performance sport system through his
involvement with the National Elite Sports Council (NESC) since the
mid 1990's.
Wes was a Director of a Sport Science and Research Centre at
Cumberland College of Health Sciences prior to moving to the NSW
Government in 1991 to head its elite sport initiatives. Wes played a
critical role in the planning and establishment of the NSW Institute
of Sport in 1995.
He has been extensively involved in national working parties, and
high performance joint management committees across a range of
national sports programs.
Wes was Chairman of the NESC from 2005-2009 and served as the
Oceania Vice President of the International Association of High
Performance Sport Training Centres from 2007-2009.
Wes holds a Bachelors Degree from the former Adelaide College of
Advanced Education and a Masters Degree from the University of
British Columbia, Canada.
Internal
Members
Professor Allan Evans
Pro Vice Chancellor
Division of Health Sciences
Professor Roger Eston
Head of School
School of Health Sciences
Associate Professor Pat Buckley
Dean, Research & Research Education
Division of Health Sciences
Professor Kerin O'Dea
Director, Sansom
Institute
Division of Health Sciences