Working party members and contributors

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Surveillance Colonoscopy Guidelines Working Party members and contributors

Please see the Administrative report for information on the process and criteria for selecting members.

Management committee

Name	Affiliation
Dr Cameron Bell (Chair)	Gastroenterologist, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney; Senior Lecturer, Sydney Medicine, University of Sydney
Professor Timothy Price	Chair, Management Committee and Colorectal Cancer Guidelines Revision Working Party Medical Oncologist, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Adelaide
Professor Sanchia Aranda	CEO, Cancer Council Australia
Professor Finlay Macrae AO	Gastroenterologist, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne
Professor James St John AO	Emeritus Consultant Gastroenterologist, The Royal Melbourne Hospital; Honorary Senior Associate, Cancer Council Victoria; Honorary Clinical Professorial Fellow, The University of Melbourne
Dr Bernie Towler	Department of Health representative; Principal Medical Advisor, Population Health Division, Department of Health, Canberra
Jutta Thwaites	Head, Clinical Guidelines Network (maternity leave from November 2016 - November 2017)

Note: Please see below for relevant management committee members involved in the revision of this guidelines.

Working party

Relevant management committee members
Name	Affiliation
Dr Cameron Bell (Chair)	Chair, Colonoscopy Surveillance Guidelines Revision Working Party; Deputy Chair, Management Committee; Gastroenterologist, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney
Prof Timothy Price	Chair, Management Committee and Colorectal Cancer Guidelines Revision Working Party; Medical Oncologist, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Adelaide
Prof Finlay Macrae AO	Gastroenterologist, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne
Prof James St John AO	Gastroenterologist, Honorary Senior Associate, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne
Jutta Thwaites	Head, Clinical Guidelines Network (maternity leave from November 2016 - November 2017)
Guideline section leaders
Name	Specialty	Section
A/Prof Gregor Brown	Gastroenterology	Advances in colonoscopy, CT colonography and other methods
Dr Karen Barclay	Colorectal surgery	Colonoscopic surveillance after polypectomy
Dr James Moore	Colorectal surgery	The role of surveillance colonoscopy after curative resection for colorectal cancer (co-lead)
Dr Tarik Sammour	Colorectal surgery	The role of surveillance colonoscopy after curative resection for colorectal cancer (co-lead)
Prof Rupert Leong	Gastroenterology	Colonoscopic surveillance and management of dysplasia in inflammatory bowel disease
Prof Afaf Girgis	Psycho-oncology	Anxiety in colonoscopy
Dr Anne Duggan	Gastroenterology	Socioeconomic factors
Additional working party members
Name	Specialty
Prof Anthony Gill	Pathology representative
Prof Andrew Clouston	Pathology representative
Prof Jon Emery	General practice representative
Jeff Cuff	Consumer representative
Jillian Arnott	Consumer representative
Prof Karen Canfell	Director, Cancer Research Division, Cancer Council NSW (Epidemiology expert)
Prof Dianne O'Connell	Senior Epidemiologist, Manager, Cancer Research Division, Cancer Council NSW (Epidemiology expert)

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Cancer Council Australia project team contributions

Name	Affiliation
Laura Wuellner	Project Manager, Clinical Guidelines Network (until November 2016), Acting Head, Clinical Guidelines Network, Cancer Council Australia (from November 2016 - January 2018)
Tamsin Curtis	Project Manager, Clinical Guidelines Network (from March 2018), Cancer Council Australia
Katrina Anderson	Project Manager, Clinical Guidelines Network (from November 2016 - December 2017)
Dr Albert Chetcuti	Senior Systematic Reviewer, Systematic Literature Reviews, Clinical Guidelines Network
Victoria Freeman	Research Assistant, Systematic Literature Reviews, Clinical Guidelines Network
Ben Lee-Bates	Research Assistant, Systematic Literature Reviews, Clinical Guidelines Network

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Guideline section details

*Denotes section lead author

Advances in colonoscopy, CT colonography and other methods

Name	Affiliation
A/Prof Gregor Brown*	Head of Endoscopy, The Alfred Hospital; Gastroenterologist at a private Gastroenterology practice in inner Melbourne.
Dr Joshua Butt	Head of endoscopy, Northern Health; Gastroenterologist, Royal Melbourne Hospital and Albury Wodonga Health
A/Prof David Hewett	Director Endoscopy, Mater Health, Mater Misericordiae Ltd, Brisbane; Associate Professor, School of Medicine, The University of Queensland; Gastroenterologist & Therapeutic colonoscopist, Brisbane Colonoscopy
Dr Spiro Raftopoulos	Gastroenterologist, Hollywood Private Hospital; Gastroenterologist, Peel Health Campus; Gastroenterologist, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital
Dr Mark Appleyard	Director of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital
A/Prof Rajvinder Singh	Director of Gastroenterology at the Lyell McEwin and Modbury Hospitals, South Australia; Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, the University of Adelaide
Dr Tom Sutherland	Abdominal Radiologist, St Vincent's Hospital

Colonoscopic surveillance after polypectomy

Name	Affiliation
Dr Karen Barclay*	Colorectal surgeon, The Northern Hospital
Prof Barbara Leggett	Gastroenterologist, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital; Professor of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Queensland; Honorary Group Leader, Queensland Institute of Medical Research Berghofer
Prof Finlay Macrae AO	Gastroenterologist, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne
Prof Michael Bourke	Professor of Medicine, University of Sydney; Director Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, Westmead Hospital
Dr Hooi Ee	Gastroenterologist, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth

The role of surveillance colonoscopy after curative resection for colorectal cancer

Name	Affiliation
Dr James Moore*	Clinical Director, General Surgery; Surgical Directorate, Royal Adelaide Hospital
Dr Tarik Sammour*	Associate Professor, Discipline of Surgery, University of Adelaide; Colorectal Surgeon, Department of Surgery, Royal Adelaide Hospital
Dr Andrew Luck	Colorectal surgeon, Lyell McEwin Hospital

Colonoscopic surveillance and management of dysplasia in inflammatory bowel disease

Name	Affiliation
Prof Rupert Leong*	Senior Staff Specialist Gasteroenterologist and Director of Endoscopy, Concord Hospital, Sydney; Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of Sydney and Macquarie University, Sydney; Conjoint Professor of Medicine, University of NSW.
Dr Crispin Corte	Gastroenterologist, Royal Prince Alfred Medical Centre, Macquarie University Clinic, Concord Hospital and Concord Medical Centre
Dr Cherry Koh	Colorectal Surgeon, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
Dr Betty Wu	Gastroenterology Fellow, St George Hospital
Dr Viraj Kariyawasam	Gastroenterologist, University of Western Sydney, Blacktown and Mount Druitt Hospital and GastroHealth Australia

Anxiety in colonoscopy

Name	Affiliation
Prof Afaf Girgis*	Director, Psycho-oncology Research Group, Centre for Oncology Education and Research Translation (CONCERT), Ingham Institute for Applied Medical Research, South Western Sydney Clinical School, UNSW Medicine; Conjoint Professor, UWS, UQ and Griffith University.
Prof Phyllis Butow AM	Professor, School of Psychology; Co-Director, Centre for Medical Psychology and Evidence-based Decision-making (CeMPED); NHMRC Principal Research Fellow, The University of Sydney; Chair, Psycho-oncology Co-operative Research Group

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Socio-economic factors

Name	Affiliation
Dr Anne Duggan*	Senior Medical Advisor, Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care

*Section lead author

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