Page 14 - FSANZ UPDATE Spring 2022

Celebrating achievements of six new
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Phill’s achievements during this time included:
• committee positions with the British Andrology Society, including the role of Treasurer and member of the education sub-committee;
• foundation Chairman of the Association of Clinical Embryologists (ACE), the UK’s equivalent of SIRT;
• establishment of the UKNEQAS Andrology External Quality Assurance Program; and
• Honorary Life Membership of ACE.
In 1995, Phill moved back to Perth occupying positions in a number of ART clinics in WA along with heading the Reproductive Biology Unit at the Perth Zoo.
Since returning to Australia Phill has:
• chaired SIRT and edited its newsletter;
• been a Council member of our Society representing SIRT and the Reproductive Technology Accreditation Committee (RTAC);
• been a member of the NHMRC Embryo Research Licencing Committee;
• set up a national Australian Andrology External Quality Assurance Program;
• conducted numerous semen analysis workshops nationally; and
• become a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists (FRCPath).
He has served with distinction on RTAC and chaired the committee through challenging times including revisions of the local and international Code of Practice.
Phill is a highly respected reproductive biologist who in 2017 became Professor of Human Reproduction in the School of Medical and Health Sciences at Edith Cowan University. He has been a prolific investigator with outstanding contributions including about 200 peer reviewed publications, 50 presentations at scientific meetings, around 100 posters at scientific meetings, and he has supervised or co-supervised 13 postgraduate students to completion.
David Molloy
Dr David Molloy received his medical education in Queensland with a final year as Senior Registrar at the Royal Women’s Hospital in Melbourne. In that year, he was also a Visiting Fellow at the St. Vincent’s Microsurgical Centre.
He was awarded the Best Clinical Presentation Prize at the 1985 FSA Annual Scientific Meeting and the Australian Gynaecological Endoscopy & Surgery (AGES) Scientific Prize in 1993. David was the local organising committee chairman of the 1994 AGES meeting in Brisbane and the 2002 FSA meeting and Serono Symposium on the Gold Coast.
After entering private practice with Queensland Fertility Group in 1986, David introduced laparoscopic GIFT and ultrasound guided EPU to Queensland. He developed a relationship with
David Molloy
the Princess Alexandra Hospital spinal injuries unit to help patients achieve their own genetic families. For a quarter of a century, he has organised surgical workshops focusing on endometriosis.
David has held executive positions on AGES, and he has contributed greatly to the FSANZ’s IVF Directors’ Group serving as Chair between 1997 and 2003, Vice- Chair from 2003 to 2013, and again as Chair from 2013 to 2022. He supported and assisted the formation of ACCESS and promoted clinic enrolment of patients with ACCESS. Politically he has:
• designed and negotiated the introduction of a range of ART-specific item numbers starting with ICSI and TESA, and extending to paediatric oncology and the management of endometriosis;
• negotiated termination of the Medicare six-cycle limit working closely with ACCESS;
• negotiated successfully against planned MBS rebate reductions;
• represented the profession in the review of Victorian ART regulations, the introduction of surrogacy to Queensland and the review of surrogacy laws in South Australia; and
• established and maintained relationships with relevant personnel in successive Federal and State Governments of all political persuasions.
David has made a substantial contribution to the FSANZ and its activities, to infertility diagnosis and treatment, and to the welfare of patients. His academic contributions include 35 publications and over 100 invited plenary presentations at national and international conferences.
David’s political skills enabled him to provide sustained leadership of the IVF Directors’ Group and to consistently represent the profession and its patients successfully to all levels of government.
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