COMMITTEE & STAFF
Governing Committee
Professor Markus Seibel AM, Chairperson
Professor Markus Seibel is an Endocrinologist at the University of Sydney and heads the Department of Endocrinology & Metabolism at Concord Hospital, Sydney. He is an active clinician in the field of bone and mineral metabolism and passionate about improving fracture prevention for all Australians. Markus has many years of experience in running and analysing secondary fracture prevention programs.
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Member Organisation: The ANZAC Institute
Professor Tania Winzenberg, Vice-Chairperson
Professor Tania Winzenberg is an academic, general practitioner and epidemiologist with a longstanding research focus on the betterment of bone health, particularly in younger women and in children. She is a member of the Australian New Zealand Bone and Mineral Society, the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research and of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners. Through the RACGP, she has been involved in writing both preventive guidelines and treatment guidelines for osteoporosis. Tania was also osteoporosis editor of the Cochrane Musculoskeletal Group for the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews for over a decade
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Member Organisation: Royal Australian College of General Practitioners
Ms Audrey Sulley, Treasurer
Ms Audrey Sulley is a member of the CWA of WA and was a Board member of the Association from 2021-2023. She have held the leadership positions of President, Treasurer, Project Manager for a building upgrade and am currently on the Steering Committee for the construction of a new CWA Branch building. Her work background is in Education and taught for 43 years. She trained as a Primary Teacher during which time she acted as Deputy Principal of a District High School. She has completed a Bachelor of Education in Early Childhood. She believes osteoporosis is a major issue in our times and is interested in advancing the cause to improve outcomes for both women and men.
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Member Organisation: Country Women's Association of WA
Ms Kerri-Ann Arnott, Secretary
Kerri-Ann graduated from University of Sydney in 1982 with a Bachelor of Pharmacy and has worked across the globe for a range of companies including Ciba-Geigy pharmaceuticals, 3M Pharmaceuticals, Johnson & Johnson, and Janssen Australia and New Zealand before retiring in 2021. She joined the CWA of NSW/ACT in 2019 and is currently the Vice-President of the Monaro Group and the Branch Secretary of the Adaminaby Branch. Kerri-Ann is passionate about improving peoples lives through education and empowerment especially women and health care equity in rural, regional, and remote areas
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Member Organisation: Country Women's Association of NSW
Professor Kim Delbaere
Professor Kim Delbaere is the Senior Principal Research Scientist, Director of Innovation and Translation of the Falls,Balance and Injury Research Centre at NeuRA. With a background in physiotherapy, she has dedicated her research career to falls prevention, exercise interventions and the use of innovative health technology. Her overarching vision is for older Australians to understand and navigate better health trajectories through self-management. She currently serves as the President of the Australia and New Zealand Falls Prevention Society and Treasurer of the World Falls Prevention Society.
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Member Organisation: Australia & New Zealand Fall Prevention Society
Professor Mark Kotowicz
Professor Kotowicz is an endocrinologist and clinical investigator whose research activities have focused on the pathophysiology, epidemiology and treatment of osteoporosis. He was among the first to recognise that a fragility fracture increased the risk of subsequent fracture and reported this relationship between vertebral and hip fracture. He is Director of the Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes at the University Hospital Geelong, Professor of Endocrinology and Diabetes at Deakin University, a Principal Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne Medical School-Western Campus and a former Chair of the Therapeutics Committee of the Australian and New Zealand Bone and Mineral Society.
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Member Organisation: Endocrine Society of Australia
Professor Belinda Beck
Professor Belinda Beck is an international leader in the effects of mechanical loading on bone health. Dr Beck graduated from The University of Queensland (BHMS[Ed]) and the University of Oregon (MSc and PhD) and completed a postdoctoral research fellowship in the Stanford University School of Medicine (California, USA.) She is a Professor of Exercise Science at Griffith University Gold Coast campus, where she has led the Bone Densitometry Research Laboratory since 2004.
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Appointed Member
Professor Ruurd 'Rudi' Jaarsma
Professor Ruurd 'Rudi' Jaarsma is an orthopaedic surgeon at the Flinders University and the clinical and academic head of the Department of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery at Flinders Medical Centre, Adelaide. He is an active orthopaedic trauma surgeon treating significant numbers of potentially preventable fractures. His passion is hip and femur fractures and he has a PhD in rotational malalignment after femur fractures. His academic team has many international collaborations, including multiple double degree PhD students, of (osteoporotic) fracture surgery.
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Appointed Member
Dr Lauren Nacey
Dr Lauren Nacey is a Geriatrician in Victoria and is the physician lead for the Orthogeriatrics Service for Western Health. Lauren is the local principal investigator for the Australia and New Zealand Hip Fracture Registry as well as a co-investigator for the Australia and New Zealand Fragility Fracture Registry at Western. Through her work at Western, Lauren works closely with endocrinologists producing local guidelines to improve osteoporosis treatments for people living in Western Melbourne. She is passionate about fracture reduction in elderly people and minimising the harm associated with such injuries in this population.
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Appointed Member
Mrs Beryl Logie
​Beryl Logie was diagnosed with osteoporosis in 1995. With the support of Arthritis/Osteoporosis Victoria, she started the Melbourne Osteoporosis Support Group Inc. in 1996 and held the position of President from then until 2021. She has been a community speaker on the subject of osteoporosis for over 20 years.
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Consumer Representative
Staff
James Ansell, Executive Officer
Mr James Ansell is the Executive Officer of the SOS Fracture Alliance. James' background is mainly in the area of Science Communication, he obtained a B.Sci (Hons) degree at the Australian National University and is a PhD Candidate with the Australian Centre for the Public Awareness of Science. From his previous and current work he has ample and relevant experience in the development of the Alliance's strategic vision.
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Correspondence and enquiries for the SOS Fracture Alliance and its Committee Members can be sent to James at james.ansell@sosfraturealliance.org.au.
Advisors
Professor Bruce Armstrong
Professor Bruce Armstrong is a retired public health physician and public health academic with experience in health service management and operations, and good connections in the NSW Ministry of Health and WA Health Department. He has substantial epidemiological and health services research experience and is contributing to the design of the national secondary fracture prevention program and to establishing what key areas of government are likely to give their support.
Paul Mitchell
Paul Mitchell has spent the last two decades working on programs to improve fragility fracture care and prevention throughout the world. Paul has served as an advisor to government organisations in New Zealand and the UK. Paul is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Osteoporosis New Zealand, an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at the University of Notre Dame Australia and Managing Director of Synthesis Medical NZ Ltd.
Professor Kerrie Sanders
Professor Kerrie Sanders has been working in clinical research of osteoporosis for more than 20 years and combines this experience with her interest in health economics. In collaboration with Jenny Watts and Julie Abimanyi-Ochom, Kerrie has produced Australian and individual state reports on Burden of Disease analyses for osteoporosis and related fracture 2012 to 2022. Kerrie is a member of several editorial boards and national and international scientific advisory committees including Osteoporosis Australia and the International Osteoporosis Foundation.