ShareLife benefits from the expertise of medical professionals who donate their time, including professors and doctors specializing in areas like gynecology, lung transplantation, health management, and hepatology. The medical professionals contribute to ShareLife's goal of implementing leading organ donation practices in Australia.

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OUR TEAM
ShareLife Australia was formed in 2006 by a group of eminent Australians with the goal of finding
effective solutions to reform Australia's low rates of organ donation for transplantation. Today,
ShareLife has expanded to include a larger group of experts from across a broad range of
disciplines. Hundreds of highly capable Australians have, and continue to contribute time and
expertise to ShareLife on a pro-bono basis to achieve success in finding and implementing a
solution.

2. BOARD
The ShareLife Board comprises professionals from a range of disciplines including healthcare,
business, communications, marketing, innovation, project management, accounting and law as well
organ donation recipients and family members of donors. Together, they work to build effective
partnerships to implement organ donation leading practice in Australia.
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MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS
ShareLife is fortunate to benefit from the expertise of a range of clinicians and medical
professionals who donate their time to help us work towards implementing organ donation leading
practice in Australia.
Read the biographies of our medical professionals...
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What is ShareLife?
- Promoting leading practice implementation
- Who are we?
Leading Practice in Organ Donation
- The Organ Donation Process
Organ Donation in Australia
- Get the Facts
- Organ Donation Performance
- Quarterly Scorecard
- Leading Practice & Global Comparison
Information Resources
- Hospital Policy
- Articles & Links
Donation Stories & Experiences

3. Organ Donation Myths & Facts
- FAQs
News & Updates
Australia one step closer to world-class organ donation rates 05-Feb-2016
- if Government delivers on review response After extensive analysis of the Department of Healt..
Struggles with kidney failure, like Jonah Lomu's, are preventable 24-Nov-2015
Robert Little As published in the Sydney Morning Herald (http://www.smh.com.au/comment/struggl..
ShareLife thanks donor families this inaugural Thank You Day 22-Nov-2015
This inaugural Thank You Day, ShareLife says a very big thank you to all deceased and living don..
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for the greater good. Our purpose is to ensure that Australia has optimal solutions to problems that
impact on the entire community directly, or indirectly.
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SHARELIFE MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS
ShareLife is fortunate to benefit from the expertise of a range of clinicians and medical
professionals who donate their time to help us work towards implementing organ donation leading
practice in Australia.
PROFESSOR GABRIELLE CASPER BSc(Hons) MBBS FRANZCOG
Professor Casper is a Sydney Gynaecologist with a special interest in women’s health and human
rights. She is a Director of Outcomes Australia, Past President of the Australian Federation of
Medical Women and Past President of Medical Women’s International Association (MWIA). She
has represented MWIA at the World Health Organisation and United Nations meetings. She is
Head of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, School of Medicine, Sydney, The
University of Notre Dame Australia and Chairman of the NSW State Committee of the Royal
Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RANZCOG).
Professor Casper is Past President of the Australian Women’s Coalition composed of 18 member
organisations collectively representing as many as 3 million women in Australia. She received the
2004 Australian Medical Association (AMA) Women’s Health Award and the 2004 AMA
Women in Medicine Award. Professor Casper enjoys working as a gynaecologist and cares for her

6. patients with compassion and understanding while lobbying to improve women’s health in
Australia and overseas.
PROFESSOR ALLAN GLANVILLE
Professor Glanville trained in Sydney, gaining his FRACP in 1985 before undertaking further
education at the Brompton Hospital in London and Stanford University, California, USA. At
Stanford University 1986-7, he performed studies in the new discipline of human heart-lung
transplantation, which led to the award of a MD in 1990.
Allan works as a specialist in Lung Transplantation at St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney where he is
Director of the Department of Thoracic Medicine and Medical Director of Lung Transplantation.
Since 1989 he has regularly performed outreach clinics in other states to foster a mantle of care for
lung transplant patients and provide equity of access to these services to all Australians. He has
been actively involved in the training of other clinicians who now service the interstate units.
Allan is also Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at The University of New South Wales. He is
actively involved with international trials and is Chair of the European and Australian
Investigators in Lung Transplantation. Dr Glanville is a foundation Director of LARA and Chair
of the International LAM Treatment Alliance Liaison Group. He has authored over 130
publications. He is also the President of the International Society for Heart and Lung
Transplantation 2013 - 2014 and is a foundation Director of Outcomes Australia.
DOCTOR MARIA GOMEZ
Dr Gomez is a medical doctor specialising in health management programs and organ donation for
transplant. Dr Gomez has 15 years of experience leading change processes in the health systems
around the world. She has a Master Degree in Donation and Transplant of Organ, Tissue and Cells
from Barcelona University.
Dr Gomez is currently the CEO of Outcomes Australia and medical coordinator of the
International Registry for Organ Donation and Transplantation, Barcelona, a member of The
Transplantation Society (TTS), The International Society for Organ Donation and Procurement
(ISODP), The European Donation and Transplant Coordination Organisation (EDTCO), member
of the NSW Implementation Advisory Group for Increasing Organ Donation, and The Organ
Donation for Transplantation Committee of The Sydney Local Health District, is a presenter on
leading practice for organ donation.
In her role as a Medical Director at the Donation and Transplantation Institute from Spain 2008 to

7. 2013, Dr Gomez was responsible for designing, leading, and coordinating the implementation of
leading practices in organ donation in the Middle East, the Caribbean and European Countries.
She was also a contributor in the internationally recognised Barcelona University “Transplant
Procurement Management” training program.
Dr Gomez was an observer member of the Council of Europe for Organ Donation 2012 and 2013
and coordinator of European Projects in Organ Donation from 2011 to 2013. Her contribution in
Europe, supported the improvement of the current models that now achieve high performance, for
example, through the ODEQUS Project (Organ Donation European Quality System) it was
possible to develop quality indicators in organ donation with 13 European countries, and the Black
Sea Area Project which resulted in improved recommendations for Turkey and Romania.
Dr Gomez was National Transplant Co-ordinator in Colombia from 2005 to 2008, where she lead
and managed the transformation of the National Organ Donation and Transplant System. Under
her leadership, the Columbian level of deceased organ donation increased by 60% in a two year
time frame.
PROFESSOR GEOFF McCAUGHAN
Professor McCaughan graduated in Medicine from the University of Sydney with Hons 1 in 1975.
He obtained his FRACP in 1980 specialising in Gastroenterology and Liver diseases. He
completed a PHD and was a C.J.Martin NHMRC fellow at the Sir William Dunn School of
Pathology, Oxford University from 1984-1986. During this time he cloned the Human CD200
gene.
Professor McCaughan returned to Australia in 1986 to take up a position as Staff Specialist in
Hepatology and Director of Liver Transplant Hepatology at the Australian National Liver
Transplant Unit at Royal Prince Alfred.
He was appointed as Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Sydney in 1992 and as
Professor of Medicine and Director at University of Sydney and Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in
1998. He has been Director of The Australian Liver Transplant Unit at RPAH and the University
of Sydney from 2001-2003 and from 2004-present. He has been Group Head of the Liver
Immunobiology Laboratory at the Centenary Research Institute for Cancer and Cell biology since
1996 and was appointed Assistant Director of the Institute in 2008. Professor McCaughan is also a
Director of Outcomes Australia.
He has an international profile via the publication of over 300 papers in the International literature
and over 90 International invitations to speak at recognised International meetings.

8. HOLLY NORTHAM
Holly Northam is Assistant Professor in Critical Care Nursing at the University of Canberra,
teaching at both postgraduate and undergraduate levels. She is a Registered Nurse and Midwife
with many years of experience in critical care environments, and is currently a doctoral scholar
investigating “The factors that influence families who decline organ donation”.
Holly is a visiting scholar at the Regulatory Institutions Network (RegNet) at the Australian
National University. Holly is a founding member of Donor Families Australia; is a member of the
Australian College of Critical Care Nurses Organ Donation Advisory Committee and Director of
ShareLife.
Holly was an organ donor coordinator and manager for the ACT Organ and Tissue Donation
Agency, now known as DonateLife ACT. Holly represented the ACT on national committees
reviewing organ and tissue donation and served as a member of the Advisory Committee for the
National Organ Donation Collaborative.
Holly is a 2006 Churchill Fellow, which enabled her to study organ donation in the United
Kingdom, Spain and the United States.
PROFESSOR VLADO PERKOVIC
Professor Perkovic is the Executive Director of The George Institute for Global Health, Australia,
as well as George Clinical, the clinical trials arm of The George Institute. He is a Staff Specialist
in Nephrology at the Royal North Shore Hospital, and Professor of Medicine at the University of
Sydney and Director of ShareLife. His research focus is in clinical trials and epidemiology, in
particular in understanding both the cardiovascular risk associated with kidney disease and the
impact of interventions that might mitigate this risk.
Professor Perkovic is a member of the National Health and Medical Research Council Academy;
is Chair of the Scientific Committee of the Australasian Kidney Trials Network; and is a Fellow of
the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and of the American Society of Nephrology.
PROFESSOR CAROL POLLOCK
Professor Pollock trained as a specialist in Renal Medicine, and gained her PhD in renal
physiology in 1992. She was appointed to the Professorial Chair of Medicine, University of
Sydney, Royal North Shore Hospital in 2000. Professor Pollock is inaugural Chairman of the
Board of the Northern Sydney Local Health District, which has oversight of 6 hospitals and the
health of 1.7 million people in New South Wales. She is immediate past Chair, and currently

9. serves on the Boards of the NSW Clinical Excellence Commission and the NSW Agency for
Clinical Innovation. She has published over 220 papers in the scientific literature.
Professor Pollock was twice awarded the Australian and New Zealand Society of Nephrology
(ANZSN) Young Investigator Award and in 2001 was awarded the highest scientific recognition
of the ANZSN, the TJ Neale award. She has previously been a member of the NSW Ministerial
Advisory Council for Science and Medical Research and regularly serves on the National Health
and Medical Research Council Committees, both as a member and panel Chairman. Professor
Pollock has been a member of the Executive Committee of the International Society of
Nephrology and is the Scientific Chairman of the World Congress of Nephrology meeting to be
held in Hong Kong in 2013. She serves on the Board of several not‐for‐profit organisations in the
Health and Medical Research sector.
PROFESSOR BRUCE PUSSELL MB BS PhD FRACP
Professor Pussell trained in renal medicine in Sydney, obtaining Fellowship of the Royal
Australasian College of Physicians in 1978 and then went to London where he obtained his PhD in
immunology from the Royal Postgraduate Medical School at the University of London in 1982.
After 40 years in the practice of kidney disease, he retired in 2014.
Professor Pussell was head of the Transplant Service at the Prince of Wales Hospital from 1998 to
2013. In 2007 he established the East Coast Renal Transplant Service that operates on the Prince
of Wales Campus and incorporates the Prince of Wales, Sydney Children’s, St George, St
Vincent’s and Wollongong Hospitals. He has held positions as Chairman of Medicine and
Director of Nephrology at POW Hospital, Area Director of Medicine and Nephrology for the
South Eastern Sydney and Illawarra Area Health Service and was a member and then Chairman of
the NSW Health Transplant Advisory Committee (TAC). He holds a conjoint appointment as
Professor of Medicine at the Prince of Wales Clinical School, University of NSW. Professor
Pussell is a member of Australian & New Zealand, American, European and International
Transplantation Societies.
DOCTOR AMANDA RISCHBIETH
Dr Rischbieth has over thirty years' experience in health in senior management, research and
directorship roles. With significant experience in numerous road, helicopter and fixed-wing
retrieval and international repatriation of critically ill patients, Dr Rischbieth led the commission

10. and management of an intensive care unit for over ten years. She then moved into clinical
research, established a cancer clinical trials unit, and held subsequent executive positions and
directorships.
The current Chief Executive of the Heart Foundation in South Australia and Associate Professor at
the University of Adelaide, Dr Rischbieth holds directorships on the South Australian Motorsport
Board (Clipsal 500 Adelaide), SA Public Health Council, Outcomes Australia and Better Off
Australia. Past directorships include National President of the Australian College of Critical Care,
Leaders Institute of South Australia and its Alumni Chair, and National Heart Foundation of
Australia.
Dr Rischbieth was awarded an Australian Post-graduate Award scholarship completing her PhD in
2006. She is a Governor’s Leadership Foundation Fellow and a Fellow of the Australian Institute
of Company Directors.
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Home
What is ShareLife?
- Promoting leading practice implementation
- Who are we?
Leading Practice in Organ Donation
- The Organ Donation Process
Organ Donation in Australia
- Get the Facts
- Organ Donation Performance
- Quarterly Scorecard
- Leading Practice & Global Comparison
Information Resources
- Hospital Policy
- Articles & Links
Donation Stories & Experiences
Organ Donation Myths & Facts
- FAQs
News & Updates

11. Australia one step closer to world-class organ donation rates 05-Feb-2016
- if Government delivers on review response After extensive analysis of the Department of Healt..
Struggles with kidney failure, like Jonah Lomu's, are preventable 24-Nov-2015
Robert Little As published in the Sydney Morning Herald (http://www.smh.com.au/comment/struggl..
ShareLife thanks donor families this inaugural Thank You Day 22-Nov-2015
This inaugural Thank You Day, ShareLife says a very big thank you to all deceased and living don..
Register your support
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GO
ShareLife is an
Outcomes Australia Project
Outcomes Australia is a not-for-profit organisation for change. It is a collaboration of
eminent Australians who are dedicating time and expertise on a pro-bono basis to deliver solutions
for the greater good. Our purpose is to ensure that Australia has optimal solutions to problems that
impact on the entire community directly, or indirectly.
Outcomes Projects
• ShareLife
• SoilsforLife
• BetterOff
Site Info
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Site Map
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• About ShareLife
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• Our Team

12. • Board Members
• Medical Professionals
• Organ Donation in Australia
• Organ Donation Leading Practice
• Myths & Facts
• FAQs
• Contact Us
Organ Donation in Australia
• Organ Donation Performance
• Leading Practice/Global Comparison
• Organ Donation Policy
• Articles & Links
• Stories & Experiences
Contact Us
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