Executive Committee (Board)

The Executive Committee (Board) approves strategic directions, organisation structure, policies and implementation processes. Board members observe corporate governance principles and a code of conduct in keeping with those of the Australian Securities Exchange.

All other committees support and report to the Board. It meets regularly and reports to Council, on whose behalf it makes decisions. The CEO is appointed by and reports to the Board.

(See our glossary of medical and professional acronyms for details of qualifications).

 Board Members

Dr Stewart A HartDr Stewart A Hart, Chair 
MBBS, FRACS

Stewart Hart is a Surgical Oncologist in private practice specialising in breast disease. He is Head of the Breast Surgical Service at Monash Medical Centre, Southern Health, Director of the Monash BreastScreen program, and Consultant Surgeon to the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre Breast Service. He has been an Executive Committee Member since 2003, and is appointed by the Medical and Scientific Committee. He is also on the Board of the Victorian Breast Cancer Research Consortium.

 

Professor Richard Fox, AMProfessor Richard (Dick) Fox AM, President
BSc (med), MBBS, FRACP, PhD

A University of Sydney graduate, Professor Fox was Deputy Director of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital from 1977 to 1984. He was then Director of the Department of Clinical Haematology and Medical Oncology at the Royal Melbourne Hospital from 1985 to 2006. His main clinical interests have been clinical trials in cancer therapy. In 2007 he was appointed Director of Research at St Vincents Hospital in Melbourne. Professor Fox is Chair of the Board of Directors of the Cooperative Research Centre for Cancer Therapeutics. He is a past President of the Clinical Oncology Society of Australia and the Australian Cancer Society (now Cancer Council Australia). He was awarded Member of the Order of Australia in 2007.

 

Professor Margaret Hamilton, AOProfessor Margaret Hamilton, AO, Vice President
BA, DipSocStuds (Melb), MSW (Mich)

Margaret Hamilton holds a professorial appointment at the School of Public Health, the University of Melbourne; is Chairperson of the Multiple and Complex Needs Panel, a Victorian statutory body; and is Co-deputy Chairperson of the Australian National Council on Drugs. She has been an Executive Committee member since 1998, and is a member of the Board of the Victorian Breast Cancer Research Consortium.

 

Dr Michael DallyDr Michael Dally
MBChB, BSc, FRANZCR

Michael Dally is a principal specialist and honorary senior lecturer in radiation oncology at The Alfred and Monash University. He is the Head of the Stereotactic Radiosurgery Service at the William Buckland Radiotherapy Centre and is an examiner for the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists. He joined the Executive Committee in 2005. He has served on various committees under the auspices of the Cancer Council, including the Victorian Cooperative Oncology Group and its gynaecological and neuro-oncology cancer committees.  

 

Glenys FraserMs Glenys Fraser
LLB (Hons), BA (Mon), GradDip (Com Law) (Mon), GradDip Biotech Life (Mon) Diploma Holistic Counselling Practice

Glenys has a legal background specialising in intellectual property, competition, and consumer protection law.

She was formerly a partner of the law firm, Minter Ellison and a Research Fellow at the Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia at the University of Melbourne, and a past member of the Intellectual Property Committee of the Law Institute of Victoria and the Trade Practices Committee of the Law Council of Australia.

In 2008 Glenys was appointed as a sessional member of the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal. She is a trained counsellor with LifeCircle Australia, a not-for-profit provider of counselling to those with life threatening illness and their carers, and mentoring support to people with loved ones dying at home. She was appointed as a member of the Executive Committee in 2011. She is also on the Board of the Victorian Breast Cancer Research Consortium.

 

Professor Peter FullerProfessor Peter Fuller
MBBS, BMedSc (Hons), PhD, FRACP

Peter Fuller is a National Health and Medical Research Council Senior Principal Research Fellow and Associate Director at Prince Henry's Institute of Medical Research, Director of the Endocrinology Unit at the Monash Medical Centre / Southern Health, and an Honorary Professor in Medicine and Biochemistry at Monash University. He has been an Executive Committee Member since 2003, and is appointed by the Medical and Scientific Committee.

 

Mr Peter Griffin, PresidentMr Peter Griffin, Immediate past President
BCom (Melb), ASIA

Peter Griffin is a Director of Rothschild Australia Limited, Global Mining Investments Limited, the Murdoch Children's Research Institute, the Melbourne Community Foundation and the Victorian Breast Cancer Research Consortium. He has been a Member of the Executive Committee and Finance Committee since 1993.

 

Mr Peter InghamMr Peter Ingham, Chair, Finance Committee
BCom (Hons), MBA (Melb)

Peter Ingham is a retired businessman, formerly Chief Executive and Proprietor of The Craftsman Press Pty Ltd. He has been an Executive Committee Member since 2001.

 

Mrs Avis MacpheeMrs Avis Macphee
AAIMS

Avis Macphee, a retired medical scientist, is the Founder and Coordinator of the Breast Cancer Support Group of the Bone Marrow Donor Institute Ltd. Her current appointments include membership of the Scientific Committee, Vice Presidency of the Victorian Breast Cancer Research Consortium and membership of the Victorian Cancer Biobank Committee and Access Committee. She also represents the Breast Cancer Network Australia and the Breast Cancer Action Group on several committees. Member since 2006.

 

Ms Louise Milne-RochMs Louise Milne-Roch
RN (Div 1), BA, BBus, PGDE, MAICD, MRCNA, MANZCMHN, AFCHSE

Louise Milne-Roch has worked across a number of health and other commercial settings in the areas of acquisition, divestment and insolvency. She has a particular interest in corporate governance, and, as a Director, chairs two such committees on other Boards. She has been an Executive Committee Member since 2004.

 

Mr A Sandy MurdochMr A Sandy Murdoch, Chair, Appeals Committee
BEcon, DDA, SIA, ASA

Sandy Murdoch is a businessman and is director of a number of private companies. He has been an Executive Committee member since 2004.

 

Mr Michael O'BryanMr Michael O'Bryan
LLB (Hons), BSc (Melb)

Michael O'Bryan is a barrister at the Victorian Bar, practising in the areas of corporate and commercial law, trade practices law and administrative law, and is a member and past chairman of the Trade Practices Committee of the Law Council of Australia. He has been an Executive Committee member since 2003.

 

Associate Professor Andrew RobertsAssociate Professor Andrew Roberts
MBBS, FRACP, FRCPA, PhD

Andrew Roberts is a Clinical Haematologist at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, National Health and Medical Research Council Practitioner Fellow at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, and Principal Fellow, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences at The University of Melbourne. He has been an Executive Committee Member since 2004 and is appointed by the Medical and Scientific Committee.

 

Professor Joe TrapaniProfessor Joe Trapani
MBBS, FRACP, PhD

Joe Trapani is Head of the Cancer Immunology Program at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne. He is a Professorial Fellow in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at The University of Melbourne and in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Monash University. He is also a Senior Principal Research Fellow of the National Health and Medical Research Council. He has been an Executive Committee Member since 2007 and is appointed by the Medical and Scientific Committee.

 

Ms Onella StagollMs Onella Stagoll OAM
BA DipSocStuds (Melb) MSW (Columbia)

Onella Stagoll was inaugural CEO of BreastScreen Victoria and held that post from 1992 until 2002. As CEO she successfully brought together private and public health providers in a robust and publicly accountable women's health program. Onella Stagoll has had a long standing and successful career in the health field. With a strong interest in public sector service provision, women's health and consumer participation in decision-making, her experience has spanned federal and state governments, the not-for-profit and private sectors and community development organisations.

 

Maria TrinciMaria Trinci
BComm, BA, CA

Maria Trinci is a senior manager at KPMG specialising in providing audit and advisory services to the financial services sector. She has over 10 years experience in auditing, focusing particularly in the banking sector. She has extensive project management experience and has worked internationally on banking clients with a focus on investment banking. Maria provides accounting advice in the area of deal structuring, funding and hedging to a number of industries. She has been an Executive Committee member since 2010, and is a member of the Finance Committee.

 

Mr Bruce WardBruce Ward
BSc App (Ind Chem), BE (Chem) 

Bruce Ward is a retired company executive with a background in manufacturing in the paper, packaging and wood products industries. He is closely involved with the Cancer Council's Relay for Life program and is Chair of its Advisory Committee.

 

Back to top

for
Donate to Cancer Council Victoria
Cancer Council Helpline 13 11 20