Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee

PBAC Membership

The following page lists current members of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee (PBAC)

Emeritus Professor Lloyd Sansom AO (Chair) is the former Head of School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences at the University of South Australia. He has been Chair of the PBAC since 2001.

Dr Jim Buttery is Research Development Director, NHMRC Centre for Clinical Research Excellence in Child and Adolescent Immunisation and a consultant paediatrician and Infectious disease physician at the Royal Children’s Hospital, Victoria.

Professor Terry Campbell is Professor of Medicine at University of New South Wales and Head of the Department of Medicine, St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney.

Professor Jennifer Doust is Professor of Public Health at Bond University and Fellow of The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP). She is a general practitioner.

Professor Albert Frauman is the Professor of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics at the University of Melbourne and Director of the Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics at Austin Health. He is an endocrinologist and clinical pharmacologist.

Adjunct Professor Michael Frommer is Adjunct Professor at the School of Public Health, The University of Sydney and Director of the Sydney Health Projects Group.

Professor David Isaacs is Clinical Professor at the University of Sydney. He is a paediatrician at the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, based at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead in Sydney.

Professor Claire Jackson is Professor in General Practice & Primary Health Care at the University of Queensland and Director, Mater Centre for Integrated Health Care and General Practice, Mater Hospital, South Brisbane.

Professor David G LeCouteur is a geriatrician, clinical pharmacologist and general physician. He is Professor of Geriatric Medicine at the University of Sydney, Director of the Centre for Education and Research on Ageing (CERA), Director of the Biogerontology Laboratory of the ANZAC Research Institute and Senior Staff Specialist Physician at the Concord RG Hospital in Sydney.

Associate Professor Geoff McColl is a rheumatologist and Clinical Dean at the Royal Melbourne Hospital/Western Hospital Clinical School and Senior Lecturer, University of Melbourne Department of Medicine.

Mr Mitchell Messer is the consumer representative on the PBAC and a long term advocate of consumer health issues. He is the immediate past-Chair of the Consumers' Health Forum of Australia Inc.

Dr Karen Peachey is a community pharmacist from Queensland with an interest in pharmacoepidemiology and aged care.

Dr Andrew Roberts is a practising Clinical Haematologist and medical researcher. Dr Roberts is an NHMRC Practitioner Fellow, Div of Cancer and Haematology at The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research.

Dr Rashmi Sharma is a general practitioner and President of the ACT Division of General Practice.

Associate Professor Rosalie Viney is a health economist at the Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation, University of Technology, Sydney. She is Chair of the PBAC Economics Sub-Committee.

Professor Robyn Ward is Professor of Medicine at Prince of Wales Clinical School, UNSW, and Senior Staff Specialist in Medical Oncology and Family Cancer Services at St Vincent’s Hospital.

Dr Frances Wilson is Senior Staff Specialist in Psychiatry and Clinical Director, Adult Psychiatry Unit, at Westmead Hospital.