Dr. Bronwyn Williams

 

I received my MBBS from the University of Queensland and went on to study Paediatrics and Haematology. In 1993 I completed combined FRACP/FRCPA training in Haematology. I have subsequently worked in laboratory Haematology at the Mater Misercordiae and Queensland Medical Laboratory in Brisbane. Since May 2000 I have been employed by QHPSS, Royal Brisbane Hospital Complex. Whilst my major work commitments are related to paediatric haematology – both laboratory and clinical, I also provide laboratory haematology support for the Royal Brisbane Hospital and the Royal Womens Hospital. Bronwyn is currently the Chair of the RCPA Transfusion Quality Assurance Program.
 

 

Dr. John Rowell

 

Currently Director of Haematology at Queensland Health Pathology Service – Royal Brisbane Hospital Campus and Director of Queensland Haemophilia Centre at the Royal Brisbane Hospital. He has interests in Haemostasis and Haemophilia, Transfusion and molecular genetics of inheretid diseases. Dr. Rowell has been on the panel of Haematology RCPA examiners for the last six years and is also a member of Council of the Australasian Society of Blood Transfusion.
 

 

Mr. Arthur Joyce B.App.Sc. (MLS), MPH

 

Arthur has worked in the fields of Haematology and Immunohaematology since joining Mater Pathology in 1974. He served his cadetship working in all areas of Haematology and Immunohaematology. Between 1980 and 1988, Arthur worked in private pathology laboratories in Cairns and Mackay (North Queensland) and supervised the Haematology/Blood Bank sections of these laboratories. In 1988 he moved to the Royal Brisbane Hospital to take up a position in the Coagulation section of the Haematology Laboratory.He returned to the Mater in 1990 to take up his present position of Chief Scientist in the Blood Bank. He has had a continuing interest in the area of obstetric immunohaematology in particular Rh disease and its prevention, in co-operation with the Maternal Fetal Medicine unit at the Mater Mothers Hospital. During 1998, Arthur was a member of the ASBT Scientific subcommittee which reviewed and established guidelines for Obstetric and Post-natal Immunohaematology testing. He is a NATA assessor and former Queensland Branch chair of AIMS (Australian Institute of Medical Scientists).
 

 

Mr. John Galetto

 

John graduated with a Bachelor of Applied Science (MLS) from the QUT Brisbane in 1967. The four years following graduation were spent gaining experience in all disciplines of pathologywhile working for Drs. N & B Gutteridge (now QML) both in the Brisbane and country laboratories.

In 1971 John went to London to work in the Haematology/Blood Bank laboratory at The Hammersmith Hospital. After the first year he took up a position in Dr. Daniel Catovsky`s laboratory in the MRC Leukaemia Research Unit whilst continuing with normal Blood Bank on call duties.

He returned to Australia in 1974 to take up a position in Haematology at the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane and moved to the Blood Bank section in 1978 where he is the current Supervising Scientist.

John is a NATA assessor and has been a member of the RCPA QAP Transfusion  committee since 1991.
 

 

Mr. Neville Herrmann

 

I graduated from the QUT Brisbane in 1967 with a Bachelor of Applied Science (MLS). My introduction to blood banking came when I was drafted to Vietnam in 1969 in charge of the laboratory at Vung Tau. I then returned to Queensland Medical Laboratory where, in 1974 I moved into the position of laboratory head of haematology. From 1985 to 1989 I worked as head of Haematology/Blood Bank at a private laboratory in Cairns and then joined the public hospital system to take up positions at the Innisfail Hospital and then the Royal Brisbane Hospital. In 1994 I took up the manager`s position of QML`s Rockhampton Branch. Since the end of 1999 I have been Scientist-in-charge of the Process Control Laboratory at the Red Cross Blood Service based in Brisbane a position that I operate conjointly with my role as co-ordinator of the RCPA Transfusion  QAP.