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ANZUP ANNUAL REPORT 2021
RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS
Research Highlights
Research Highlights Scientific Advisory Committee: Ian Davis and Scott Williams The ANZUP Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) was established and is constituted to ensure ANZUP receives strategic guidance from a broad and diverse range of disciplines, crafts, and individuals. The SAC oversees the scientific direction of ANZUP, provides the Board with strategic advice, and contributes practical input at the level of the committees, workshops, and specific protocols and concepts. The SAC executive comprises the ANZUP Board chair, Board deputy chair, SAC chair, subcommittee and Consumer Advisory panel chairs, ANZUP CEO, and ANZUP clinical trials project manager. The SAC executive provides for rapid and effective responses when decisions need to be made quickly and without the opportunity for consultation with the full SAC. Decisions by the SAC executive are discussed and ratified at the next full SAC meeting. The SAC has evolved its agenda over time to allow it to spend more time on strategic matters and less on operational or trial-specific issues. This has allowed ideas to flow more freely and be taken up in our structures and processes. An example this year was a decision to recommend appointment of a new SAC member representing nuclear medicine, and we are grateful that Prof Andrew Scott has accepted the Board’s
CHAIR, IAN DAVIS
DEPUTY CHAIR, SCOTT WILLIAMS
nomination into this role. ANZUP also welcomes Prof Lisa Butler as the scientific representative replacing Prof Pam Russell, who retired from the SAC early in 2020. Prof Martin Stockler stood down from his role as deputy chair of the SAC, with thanks for his contributions; Martin’s SAC membership continues as clinical epidemiology representative, and we welcome Prof Scott Williams as the new deputy chair. The membership of the SAC is reviewed by the Board annually. Meetings of the SAC were held virtually during 2020. The planned face-to-face open meeting, usually held at the Annual Scientific Meeting, was unable to proceed. SAC functions effectively with the virtual format but face to face interactions are of great value, and we look forward to resuming these in 2021 when it is possible and safe to do so. ANZUP welcomes and invites all its members to become involved in its scientific processes, including participation in its committees, workshops, educational and training events, career development initiatives, and the Annual Scientific Meeting. We look for opportunities to increase engagement of our members and we encourage ideas about how to do so more effectively.
